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hope i'm not interrupting bob, but here's a great tune by one of his celebs (and a cool picture):

Whether I'm right or whether I'm wrong
Whether I find a place in this world or never belong
I gotta be me, I've gotta be me
What else can I be but what I am

I want to live, not merely survive
And I won't give up this dream
Of life that keeps me alive
I gotta be me, I gotta be me
The dream that I see makes me what I am

That far-away prize, a world of success
Is waiting for me if I heed the call
I won't settle down, won't settle for less
As long as there's a chance that I can have it all

I'll go it alone, that's how it must be
I can't be right for somebody else
If I'm not right for me
I gotta be free, I've gotta be free
Daring to try, to do it or die
I've gotta be me

I'll go it alone, that's how it must be
I can't be right for somebody else
If I'm not right for me
I gotta be free, I just gotta be free
Daring to try, to do it or die
I gotta be me

Gregg Allman
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Birth name Gregory Lenoir Allman
Born December 8, 1947
Origin Nashville, Tennessee

Gregory Lenoir Allman (born December 8, 1947 in Nashville, Tennessee), known as Gregg Allman (sometimes spelled Greg Allman), is a rock and blues singer, keyboardist, guitarist, and songwriter, best known as a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 with The Allman Brothers Band, and personally received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2006.



Early years

Raised in Daytona, Florida along with his older brother Duane Allman, Gregg took an interest in the guitar before Duane did. But while Duane would soon become the superior guitarist, Gregg focused more on vocals. Little Milton was one of his favorite singers to listen to.

Allman Joys and Hour Glass

In the mid- to late-1960s, the Allmans played in a series of bands including The Escorts and Allman Joys, mostly gigging around their native American Southeast. Toward the end of the decade, The Allman Joys relocated to Los Angeles, California, and were signed to Liberty Records, which renamed them the Hour Glass. Strongly controlled by the label, the group produced a pair of psychedelic blues albums. All the players were deeply dissatisfied with the results; Duane Allman in particular spoke bitterly of the Hour Glass's output.


Formation of The Allman Brothers Band

After its second album, Hour Glass broke up and Duane Allman returned to the South, playing sessions at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. In time, he would put together the group that would become The Allman Brothers Band - Duane and Dickey Betts on guitars, Berry Oakley on bass, and Butch Trucks and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson on drums. Liberty Records believed that Gregg Allman had potential as a solo act, and allowed the rest of the Hour Glass to leave on condition that Allman stay in California to record for them. Gregg quickly grew miserable with this arrangement, and when Duane called from Jacksonville, Florida in March 1969 to say that he had assembled a band that needed a singer, Gregg jumped at the opportunity. He had long wanted to play the Hammond Organ, and was given one immediately upon joining the band, which he had to learn to play in a hurry; the style he developed has been compared to that of Jimmy Smith. He has played the Hammond B-3 and handled much of the lead vocal and songwriting duties for the band (when it has been together), along with occasional piano and guitar contributions, ever since.


Influences

Blind Willie McTell - legendary Atlanta 12-string guitarist, author of Statesboro Blues also influenced Bob Dylan and Taj Majal

Solo efforts

His fame will always be primarily linked to The Allman Brothers Band, but beginning in the mid-1970s, Gregg Allman carved out a solo career. His first album, Laid Back, was released in 1973 to a positive critical reception.


It included a couple of reworked Allman Brothers songs, such as a horn-laden, swampy version of "Midnight Rider" (one of the band's most famous songs) that made it to #19 on the Billboard singles chart, and originals like "Queen of Hearts", which Allman and the band felt did not quite fit the Allman Brothers sound. There are also a few cover songs on the record, such as the traditional gospel number "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" and an acclaimed take on former California roommate Jackson Browne's morose classic "These Days".

Allman's solo career has continued intermittently throughout the subsequent decades, sometimes touring when the Allman Brothers Band is off the road. Generally, these solo efforts - first with the Gregg Allman Band, and later with Gregg Allman & Friends - eschew lengthy guitar solos and cast Allman more in the mode of his favorite soul singers. The bands often include a horn section and are more groove-oriented. The template of mixing originals with reworked Allman Brothers songs and covers of blues, R&B, and soul classics remains in place.

Allman's biggest hit single came in 1986 with "I'm No Angel", from the album of the same name. The song's production is overly slick, as befits the time it was recorded, but it is in a sense a more radio-friendly take on a prideful blues boast, which he has always done well. It fits with Allman's persona as a singer, although he did not write the song (other stand-outs on the album include "Can't Keep Running" and "Lead Me On").

Allman has also made guest appearances on albums by a wide variety of other artists, and even appeared on video in the concert DVD celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of The Radiators, playing Midnight Rider with that band.

As an actor, Allman had roles in the films Rush Week (1989) and Rush (1991). He also had a brief, speaking cameo in the Family Guy episode "Let's Go the Hop".

When Allman was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame on September 16, 2006, he was introduced by Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue, and received by multiple standing ovations as he played Georgia on My Mind and ended with Midnight Rider, an historical musical jam with R.E.M. at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.


Personal life

The blond, blue-eyed Allman struggled with drugs both legal and illegal, primarily cocaine, heroin, and alcohol, from the 1970s onward. But the 6"1' singer is sober as of the mid-1990s and has often spoken in interviews of being revitalized and enjoying life again. Not surprisingly, his output and the quality of his vocals have improved with sobriety. He continues to tour every year with both The Allman Brothers Band, which in 2003 released its first studio album in nearly a decade, "Hittin the Note".

Allman has been married at least six times, most infamously to singer/actress Cher from 1975 to 1979, a relationship that gave Gregg more general celebrity than he ever had as a musician. Together, they had a son, Elijah Blue Allman, who grew up to form his own band, Deadsy. Gregg and Cher even tried an unlikely musical collaboration, releasing the album Two the Hard Way (billed as Allman and Woman) in 1977. It was universally panned and has long since been out of print.

Gregg was linked to Shannon Wilsey (who was later to be known as porn actress Savannah) between 1986 to 1988, when he was 40 and she was 16, a relationship which apparently ended when she became pregnant at 18. (The pregnancy ended in a miscarriage.)

Gregg was married to wife Julie from 1979 to 1981; they had a daughter, Delilah Island Allman. Gregg's son Devon Allman, from his first marriage to wife Shelley, is also a musician. Devon leads the band Honeytribe, and has appeared with the Allman Brothers Band on a few occasions.

He married Stacey Fountain in 2001. They currently reside in Richmond Hill, Georgia.

Teri Hatcher
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Born December 8, 1964 (age 42)
Sunnyvale, California

Teri Lynn Hatcher (born December 8, 1964) is an Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress and author. Not to be confused with actress Teri Weigel. She gained attention for her role as Lois Lane in the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman co-starring with Dean Cain. (In the mid-1990s, a publicity photo of Hatcher wearing Superman's cape became the most downloaded image on America Online.) Hatcher has achieved her greatest fame to date starring in the show Desperate Housewives, as Susan Mayer, a charming, accident-prone divorcée.


Biography

Early life

Teri was born to parents Owen and Esther Hatcher in the San Jose suburb of Sunnyvale, CA. Her father is an electrical engineer and her mother is a computer scientist. An only child, she attended Mango Junior High (now Sunnyvale Middle School), Fremont High School in Sunnyvale and De Anza College in Cupertino.

In March 2006, Hatcher revealed to Vanity Fair that she was sexually abused from the age of 5 by her then uncle, Richard Hayes Stone (who was later divorced by Hatcher's aunt). Her parents, she said, were unaware of the abuse at the time. In 2002, she assisted Santa Clara County prosecutors in indicting Stone for a more recent molestation that led his female victim to commit suicide at the age of 14. Stone pleaded guilty to four counts of molestation and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.[1] In an interview appearing in Vanity Fair magazine, Hatcher said she told the prosecutors about her own abuse because she was haunted by thoughts of the 14-year-old girl who shot herself, and feared her uncle might escape conviction.


Career

Hatcher began her performing career as a young girl taking ballet lessons at the San Juan Girls' Ballet Studio in downtown Los Altos, California. She later studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater. One of her early jobs (in 1984) was as a cheerleader with the San Francisco 49ers. During this time she also appeared as one of the mermaids on the show The Love Boat in its final season.


While probably most noted for playing Lois Lane in the TV series Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Hatcher has also appeared in such feature films as Spy Kids (2001), the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, Dead in the Water (1991), 2 Days in the Valley (1996), and Heaven's Prisoners (1996). Hatcher has also made a guest appearance in Star Trek: The Next Generation and had a recurring role on MacGyver as Penny Parker, a naïve, high-strung, young woman who always seemed to get into trouble.

She also had a guest appearance in an episode of Seinfeld, in which her character, Sidra, broke up with Jerry because she found out Jerry was trying to have Elaine surreptitiously determine whether Sidra had breast implants. In one of the more memorable lines in the show, she declared, "Oh, and by the way: they're real, and they're spectacular."

Hatcher has also appeared in a series of popular Radio Shack television commercials alongside NFL Hall of Famer Howie Long. The pair remain very close friends, and together have bought farm land on the outside of Los Angeles, with the intent of eventually raising endangered species. Hatcher said her plan to do so came about after reading an article featuring the world's top 25 endangered species.

Teri hosted Saturday Night Live in 1996.

In 1997, Hatcher was voted "Sexiest Woman in the World" by the readers of FHM.

She now stars as the single mother Susan Mayer on ABC's Desperate Housewives, a role for which she won the Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Golden Globe Award in January 2005. In 2005, Hatcher also won the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) award in the same category. In July 2005, she was nominated for an Emmy Award as Best Actress in a Comedy Series for the same role, along with co-stars Marcia Cross and Felicity Huffman, who won the award.

As of April 2006, Hatcher is one of the highest paid television actresses in the United States. She reportedly earns $380,000 per episode of Desperate Housewives. In May 2006 Teri released her first book, Burnt Toast: And Other Philosophies of Life, described as a personal, heartfelt, and light-hearted manifesto on life, love, and happiness. In conjunction with the book, Teri has also launched a line of apparel and merchandise. Furthermore she is prominently featured in an international campaign for Repeat Cashmere.


Personal life

In 1988, Hatcher married Marcus Leithold, but they were divorced the following year. In 1994, she married actor Jon Tenney; they had a daughter, Emerson Rose, in November 1997, and divorced in March 2003. (She was reportedly forced to give Tenney half of her savings in the settlement.

It is said she also dated MacGyver and Stargate SG-1 star Richard Dean Anderson.

In January 2006, it was reported that Hatcher was romantically involved with actor George Clooney, but Hatcher said the two went out on only one date. She was recently quoted as saying that being sexually molested at such a young age has affected her relationships with men, and that she hopes to have healthier relationships in the future. In March 2006, she was photographed kissing American Idol host Ryan Seacrest, but told Access Hollywood that she was "not attached" and said "Well, I guess what's caught on film is caught on film, and it would be hard for me to stand here and say that it wasn't, you know me."[2] Hatcher later said on The Oprah Winfrey Show that she and Seacrest went out on three dates, but Seacrest didn't want to continue dating.[3]

A Russian couple was walking down the street in St. Petersburg the
other night, when the man felt a drop hit his nose. "I think it's
raining," he said to his wife.

"No, that felt more like snow to me," she replied. "No, I'm sure it was
just rain, he said." Well, as these things go, they were about to have
a major argument about whether it was raining or snowing. Just then
they saw a minor communist party official walking toward them. "Let's
not fight about it," the man said, "let's ask Comrade Rudolph whether
it's officially raining or snowing."

As the official approached, the man said, "Tell us, Comrade Rudolph, is
it officially raining or snowing?"

"It's raining, of course," he answered and walked on. But the woman
insisted: "I know that felt like snow!" To which the man quietly
replied: "Rudolph the Red knows rain, dear!"

Yitmail my friend I give you carte blanche to jump in whenever you like. I consider you one of the treasures of wa2k. I know our Letty holds back while I'm posting but she too and any afficianado of the site will receive no acrimony from me as this is the venue of all.

Bob of Boston. I read everyone of your bio's and was stunned at how much information therein lies. I had no idea that there was doubt about Jim Morrison. I am just sorry that I cannot comment on every one of them, hawkman. Loved your pun, buddy, and it fits right in with the season.

Like our Mr. Turtle, I adore Sammy Davis' voice and song, and he was dropped from the "Rat Pack" because of his drug habit.

Hey, M.D. This is MY telling song and you, hamburger and I share a commonality.



WHAT KIND OF FOOL AM I?
Sammy Davis, Jr.

What kind of fool am I
Who never fell in love
It seems that I'm the only one
that I have been thinking of

What kind of man is this?
An empty shell-
A lonely cell in which
an empty heart must dwell

What kind of lips are these
That lied with every kiss
That whispered empty words of love
that left me alone like this

Why can't I fall in love
Like any other man
And maybe then I'll know what kind of fool I am.

What kind of clown am I?
What do I know of life?
Why can't I cast away the mask of play
and live my life?

Why can't I fall in love
Till I don't give a damn
And maybe then I'll know what kind of fool I am

bob, you're too kind, but in this instance, i'm glad i didn't have to follow your Rudolph joke.

Well, folks. Like Greg Allman, I'm no angel, but with the help of A2K experts, I managed to change my avatar:

GREG ALLMAN » I'm No Angel Lyrics

No I`m no angel
No I`m no stranger to the street
I`ve got my label
So I won`t crumble at your feet
And I know baby
So I`ve got scars upon my cheek
And I`m half crazy
Come on and love me baby

So you find me hard to handle
Well, I`m easier to hold
So you like my spurs that jingle
And I never leave you cold
So I might steal your diamonds
I`ll bring you back some gold
I`m no angel.

No I`m no angel
No I`m no stranger to the dark
Let me rock your cradle
Let me start a fire with your spark
Oh come on baby
Come and let me show you my tattoo
Let me drive you crazy
Come on and love me baby

So you don`t give a darn about me
I never treat you bad
I won`t ever lift a hand to hurt you
and I`ll always leave you glad
So I might steal your diamonds
I`ll bring you back some gold
I`m no angel.

No I`m no angel
No I`m no stranger to the dark
Let me rock your cradle
Let me start a fire in your heart
Oh come on baby
Come and let me show you my tattoo
Let me drive you crazy
Come on and love me baby

Well come on baby.

Drive me crazy.

Drive me crazy.

Come on baby.

Come on baby.

Oh come on baby.

I see you made it this time.... :wink:

Thanks to someone I know in Canada, Reyn.

Any requests, dear?

You became June Allison, letty.

Yeah, hehehe, please don't change avatars any time soon.

I did, edgar? Well, Texas there's no accounting what Possums will say. :wink:

Here is something that our Reyn may be familiar with:


SASKIA



Saskia Munroe was born and raised in the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands. She immigrated to Canada in 1975 and moved with her family, to northern British Columbia where she explored her new environment and language before embarking upon a full time career in music.

Although Saskia's early musical career was influenced by contemporary folk artists such as Gordon Lightfoot, Emmy Lou Harris and Joan Baez, she realized that her real passion lay in writing original songs that melded the traditions of her European homeland with the frontier spirit of Northern British Columbia. This discovery led her to embark upon a musical career that would span 20 years and find her performing throughout Europe, Canada and the United States.

Saskia believes her music is best described as an effort to reconcile her experience as an immigrant coming from the rich historical mosaic that is Europe with the exuberant vitality of Canada's north country. She says. " Although I love everything about Canada deeply and consider it my home now, I find that I have to return periodically to Holland to reconnect with my roots and reassure myself it's all still there. My song"Two Countries"best describes how I feel when it says, two countries are pulling me ever so strong".

That could be for Dutchy as well.

Sorry, folks. I could not find one song by Saskia.

Not to worry, Reyn. Once was enough.

Aerosmith
» Once Is Enough

Been lucked out
Broke a woman's heart
With only myself to blame
Fate ran its course
I suffered a loss
I learned a lesso in pain

Cheated, lied
I took love for granted
Oh, I paid the price
I won't last a night
I won't make the same mistake twice

Once Is Enough, it's one time too many
The changes are rough, oh, Once Is Enough

Love went trough such sudden change
Taken a turn for the worst
The joy turned to fear
The pain got so severe
Lord, I thought I was cursed

Get what you give
It comes around full circle
Oh, I paid the price
Love so fast
I won't make the same mistake twice

Once Is Enough, it's one time too many
Changes are rough, oh, Once Is Enough
Changes are rough, oh, Once Is Enough

it is said that a picture is worth a thousand words

i'm not sure how many words are in these next songs, but here's what some artists had to say about photographs

Photograph
Nickelback

Look at this photograph
Every time I do it makes me laugh
How did our eyes get so red?
And what the hell is on Joey's head?

And this is where I grew up
I think the present owner fixed it up
I never knew we ever went without
The second floor is hard for sneakin' out

And this is where I went to school
Most of the time had better things to do
Criminal record says I broke in twice
I must've done it half a dozen times

I wonder if it's too late
Should I go back and try to graduate?
Life's better now than it was back then
If I was them, I wouldn't let me in
Oh oh oh
Oh god I, I

Every memory of looking out the back door
I had the photo album spread out on my bedroom floor
It's hard to say it
Time to say it
Goodbye, goodbye
Every memory of walking out the front door
I found the photo of the friend that I was looking for
It's hard to say it
Time to say it
Goodbye, goodbye

Goodbye

We used to listen to the radio
And sing along with every song we'd know
We said someday we'd find out how it feels
To sing to more than just the steering wheel

Kim's the first girl I kissed
I was so nervous that I nearly missed
She's had a couple of kids since then
I haven't seen her since God knows when
Oh oh oh
Oh god I, I

Every memory of looking out the back door
I had the photo album spread out on the bedroom floor
It's hard to say it
Time to say it
Goodbye, goodbye
Every memory of walking out the front door
I found the photo of the friend that I was looking for
It's hard to say it
Time to say it
Goodbye, goodbye

I miss that town
I miss the faces
You can't erase
You can't replace it

If I could relive those days
I know the one thing that would never change

Every memory of looking out the back door
I had the photo album spread out on my bedroom floor
It's hard to say it
Time to say it
Goodbye, goodbye
Every memory of walking out the front door
I found the photo of the friend that I was looking for
It's hard to say it
Time to say it
Goodbye, goodbye

Look at this photograph
Every time I do it makes me laugh
Every time I do it makes me...


Photograph
R.E.M.

I found this photograph,
Underneath the broken picture glass
Tender face of black and white,
Beautiful, a haunting sight
Looked into an angel's smile,
Captivated all the while
From the hair and clothes she wore,
I'd place her in between the wars

Was she willing when she sat
And posed the pretty photograph?
Save her flowering and fair,
The days to come, the days to share
A big smile for the camera,
How did she know?
The moment could be lost forever
Forever more

I found this photograph,
Stashed between the old joist walls,
In a place where time is lost,
Lost behind, where all things fall
Broken books and calendars,
Letters script in careful hand,
Music too, a standard tune by
Some forgotten big brass band

From the threshhold what's to see
Of our brave new century?
The television's just a dream,
The radio, the silver screen
A big smile for the camera,
How did she know?
The moment could be lost forever
Forever more

Was her childhood filled with rhymes,
Stolen looks, impassioned crimes?
Was she innocent or blind
To the cruelty of her time?
Was she fearful in her day,
Was she hopeful, did she pray?
Were there skeletons inside,
Family secrets, sworn to hide?
Did she feel the heat that stirs,
The fall from grace of wayward girls?
Was she tempted to pretend,
The love and laughter, 'til the end?


Picture in a Frame
Tom Waits and

Sun come up it was blue and gold
Sun come up it was blue and gold
Sun come up it was blue and gold
Ever since I put your picture
In a frame.

I come calling in my Sunday best
I come calling in my Sunday best
I come calling in my Sunday best
Every since I put your picture
In a frame

I'm gonna love you
Till the wheels come off
Oh yea

I love you baby and I always will
I love you baby and I always will
I love you baby and I always will
Ever since I put your picture
In a frame

dj, you are a discographer extraordinaire, buddy. Love all of those songs.

I guess it's that time of night, listeners:



I'll wake each morning and I'll promise to laugh
I'll say 'Good morning' to your old photograph
Then I'll speak to you, dear, just as though you were here
When purple shadows start to welcome the dark
I'll take the same old stroll we took through the park
And I'll cling to you, dear, just as though you were here
But I know so well that distance and time will finally tear us apart
The farther you go, the longer you stay, the deeper the doubts in my heart
Each night before I wander off into sleep
I'll bring to light the tears I've buried so deep
Then I'll kiss you, my dear, just as though you were here

And when I hear a lonesome train, I'm afraid
I'll think of all those trips we never quite made
Fragile dreams that we planned
Then I'll reach for your hand
Just as though, just as though you were here

Good Night Irene
by Huddie Ledbetter, aka Leadbelly

Irene good night, Irene good night,
Good night Irene, good night Irene,
I'll see you in my dreams.

Last Saturday night I got married,
Me and my wife settled down,
Now me and my wife we are parted,
I think I'll go out on the town.

Sometimes I live in the country,
Sometimes I live in town,
Sometimes I take a great notion
To jump in the river and drown.

I love Irene, God knows I do,
I'll love her 'til the seas run dry,
But if Irene should turn me down,
I'd take morphine and die.

Stop rambling, stop your gambling,
Stop staying out late at night,
Go home to your wife and your family,
Stay there by your fireside bright.