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Pat reached his peak with 'Speedy Gonzalez' then he jumped the shark.

Hey, hinge. Welcome to our little cyber studio. Speedy Gonzalez? Don't quite follow, buddy. Are you talking about that mouse that went around shouting unganay, or something like that?

Love it!

Well, all is silent downunder, so I guess I had better play my goodnight song.

Louis Armstrong

Pale moon shining on the fields below
Folks are crooning songs soft and low
Needn't tell me so because I know
It's sleepy time down south

Soft winds blowing through the pinewood trees
Folks down there like a life of ease
When old mammy falls upon her knees
It's sleepy time down south

Steamboats on the river a coming or a going
Splashing the night away
Hear those banjos ringing, the people are singing
They dance til the break of day, hey

Dear old southland with his dreamy songs
Takes me back there where I belong
How I'd love to be in my mammy's arms
When it's sleepy time way down south

Dear old southland with his dreamy songs
Take me back there where I belong
How I'd love to be in my mammy's arms
When it's sleepy time down south
Sleepy time down south.

From Letty with love.

Hi Letty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-WcZgISu-M will take you to a mix of a Fifty Cent track with the Pat Boone song I'm talking about - it kicks in at about the 50 second mark if you can stand the hip hop intro.

Here´s the lyrics:

It was a moonlit night in Old Mexico.
I walked alone between some old adobe haciendas.
Suddenly, I heard the plaintive cry of a young Mexican girl:

La la la, la la la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la, la la la la
la la la la.

You better come home Speedy Gonzales, away from tannery row.
Stop all of your drinking with that floosie named Flo!
Come on home to your adobe and slap some mud on the wall!
The roof is leaking like a strainer. There's loads of roaches in the
hall.
(La la la la)

Speedy Gonzales (Speedy Gonzales),
why don't you come home?
Speedy Gonzales (Speedy Gonzales),
how come you leave me all alone?

"He, Rosita, I have to go shopping downtown for my mother,
she needs some Tortillias and Chilli Pepper!"

La, la la la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la, la la la la la la
la la.

Your doggie's gonna have a puppy, and we're running out of Coke.
no enchiladas in the icebox, and the television's broke.
I saw some lipstick on your sweatshirt, I smell some perfume in your
ear.
Well, if you're gonna keep on messin', don't bring your business back
a-here.
(La la la la)

Mmm, Speedy Gonzales (Speedy Gonzales),
why don't you come home?
Speedy Gonzales (Speedy Gonzales),
how come you leave me all alone?

"He, Rosita, come quick!
Down at the cantina, they're giving green stamps with Tequila!"

La, la la la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la, la la la la la la
la la
La la la la, la la la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la, la la la
la la la la la.

Ralph Richardson
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Sir Ralph David Richardson (19 December 1902 - 10 October 1983) was an English actor, one of a group of theatrical knights of the mid-20th century who, though more closely associated with the stage, did their best to make the transition to film.


Background

Richardson was born in Cheltenham, and when he was a baby his mother, Lydia Russell, left his father and took him with her to Gloucester, where he was raised in Roman Catholic faith of his mother (his father and brothers were Quakers). His father supported them with a small allowance. Lydia Richardson wished Ralph to become a priest. Ralph was an altar boy in Brighton, England, and was educated by the Xaverian Brothers, but was never particularly religious.


Career

Stage

Richardson made his West End début in 1926. Thereafter he became one of the Old Vic's major stars, one of his early big roles being Caliban to the Prospero of John Gielgud, a professional association that lasted for four decades.

At Malvern in 1932, he played Face in Ben Jonson's The Alchemist. In 1933 he played the title role in W. Somerset Maugham's final play Sheppey at Wyndham's Theatre.

After active service in World War II, Richardson joined Laurence Olivier and the director John Burrell as co-director of the Old Vic, where his notable roles included Falstaff (to Olivier's Hal), Bluntschli in Arms and the Man (Olivier as Sergius), Cyrano in Cyrano de Bergerac (play), and Peer Gynt, in which Olivier took the cameo role of the Button Moulder. Richardson also appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-on-Avon. At the Bristol Old Vic, he appeared as Volpone to Anthony Quayle's "Mosca" in Ben Jonson's Volpone.

In 1969 he played in the original production of Joe Orton's controversial farce What The Butler Saw in the West End at the Queen's Theatre in 1969 with Stanley Baxter, Coral Browne, and Hayward Morse.

In the 1970s he appeared in the West End (for example in William Douglas-Home's play Lloyd George Knew My Father with Peggy Ashcroft), and with the National Theatre under Peter Hall's direction, where among the classics he played Firs in The Cherry Orchard and the title role in John Gabriel Borkman. He continued his long stage association with John Gielgud, appearing together in two new works, David Storey's Home and Harold Pinter's No Man's Land.


Radio and Television

From 1954 - 1955 he played the character of Dr. John Watson (mistakenly called 'James' in several episodes) in an American/BBC radio co-production of canonical Sherlock Holmes stories, which starred Gielgud as the famous consulting detective. In the 1960s he played Lord Emsworth on BBC television in dramatisations of P.G.Wodehouse's Blandings Castle stories, with his real-life wife Meriel Forbes playing his domineering sister Connie, and Stanley Holloway as his butler Beach.


Recordings

Richardson made several spoken word recordings for the Caedmon Audio label in the 1960's. He re-created his role as Cyrano de Bergerac opposite Anna Massey as Roxane, and played the title role in a complete recording of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (play), with a cast that included Anthony Quayle as Brutus, John Mills as Cassius, and Alan Bates as Marc Antony. He also recorded some English Romantic poetry, such as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, for the label.


Film

His film appearances included The Heiress (his first nomination for an Academy Award), Richard III (playing Buckingham to Olivier's Richard), Our Man in Havana (with Alec Guinness and Noel Coward), O Lucky Man!, Oh! What a Lovely War, Dragonslayer, Tales from the Crypt (as the Crypt Keeper himself) and Time Bandits. His final film appearance was as the sixth Earl of Greystoke in the 1983 movie Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, for which he was again nominated for an Academy Award.


Music

Richardson recorded the narration for Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, and the superscriptions for Vaughan Williams' Sinfonia Antartica - both with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Prokofiev conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent and the Vaughan Williams by André Previn.


Awards and honours

Richardson was knighted by King George VI in 1947. In 1963 he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for Long Day's Journey Into Night. He won the BAFTA Award for Best British Actor for The Sound Barrier (1952), and was nominated on another three occasions. He was also nominated for three Tony Awards for his work on the New York stage.


Family

He was a nephew of the mathematician Lewis Fry Richardson. He was married to the actress Meriel Forbes (a member of the theatrical Forbes-Robertson family).

Sir Ralph Richardson died of a stroke, aged 80, and was interred at Highgate Cemetery.


Trivia

Richardson habitually rode a motorbike even in his seventies. He rode a Norton Dominator and in his later years changed to a BMW.

Edmund Purdom
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Edmund Anthony Cutlar Purdom, known as Edmund Purdom is an English actor and voice actor. He was born on December 19, 1924 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England.


Life and career

He was educated by the Jesuits at St Ignatius' College and by the Benedictines.

He began his acting career in 1945 on the stage, appearing in productions which included Romeo and Juliet and Molière's The Imaginary Invalid.

In 1951-52, he appeared in small roles with the Laurence Olivier/Vivien Leigh company on Broadway in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra when his good looks brought him to the attention of Hollywood. His appearance in small roles in Titanic and Julius Caesar led to his being cast in the leading role opposite Ann Blyth in the MGM musical The Student Prince in 1954, a part originally intended for Mario Lanza who was deemed too corpulent for the role. Purdom lip-synched to Lanza's voice.

His best-remembered role was as the title character in The Egyptian, 20th Century-Fox's most-lavish production of 1954 for which Marlon Brando had originally been cast. In the same year, he appeared in another MGM musical, Athena, opposite Debbie Reynolds and Jane Powell. He then played the title role in the biblical epic The Prodigal, MGM's most-lavish production of 1955. He partnered Ann Blyth again in the swashbuckling adventure, The King's Thief (1955) which also co-starred David Niven and George Sanders.

Since then, his career as a major film star ran out of steam, with the exception of some rare cameo appearances, such as The Yellow Rolls-Royce in 1964.

Purdom relocated to Rome, Italy, where he first played parts in "sword and sandal" epics and has lived there ever since. He has continued to work extensively in Italian B-movies, on television and as a voice dubbing actor for many years (dubbing lines from Italian to English). In 1984, he directed his first and only film, Don't Open 'Til Christmas. Roman Catholic devotees will recognize his distinctive voice in the narration for a popular short documentary on the life of Padre Pio.

He has been married and divorced three times: his first wife, Anita Philips (or Phillips), the mother of his children; Linda Christian, ex-wife of Tyrone Power; and Alicia Darr, of Polish Jewish extraction.

Cicely Tyson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born December 19, 1933 (age 72)
Harlem, New York, USA
Spouse(s) Miles Davis 1981-1988
Notable roles Jane Pittman, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Rebecca Morgan, Sounder
Emmy Awards

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, 1994

Cicely Tyson (born December 19, 1933 in New York City) is an award-winning American actress.

Her devout Christian parents came from the island of Nevis (Saint Kitts and Nevis) in the West Indies, but Cicely was born and raised in Harlem, New York.


Career

She was discovered by a photographer for Ebony magazine, and became a popular fashion model. Her first film was an uncredited role in Carib Gold in 1957, but she went on to do television - the celebrated series East Side/West Side and the long-running soap opera The Guiding Light.

In 1967, she appeared in The Comedians, and the following year, had a featured role in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

In 1972, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the critically acclaimed Sounder. In 1974 she won two Emmy Awards for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Other acclaimed television roles included Roots, King (in which she portrayed Coretta Scott King), The Marva Collins Story, When No One Would Listen and Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (for which she won another Emmy).

In 2005, Tyson co-starred in the movies Because of Winn-Dixie and Diary of a Mad Black Woman. Also the same year she was honored by Oprah Winfrey at her Legends Ball.

Cicely Tyson co-founded the Dance Theatre of Harlem.

She was married in 1981 and divorced in 1988 from legendary trumpeter Miles Davis. He had three children, one daughter and two sons, by two other wives, but none with Tyson. [1]

Robert Urich
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Robert Urich (December 19, 1946 - April 16, 2002) was an Emmy-winning actor, best known for playing private investigators on the television series Spenser: For Hire (1985-1988) and Vega$ (1978-1981). He also starred in numerous other television series over the years including: SWAT (1975) and Soap (1977).


Early years

He was of Rusyn and Slovak extraction and raised Roman Catholic in the small town of Toronto, Ohio. Due to the similarity in names with Toronto, Ontario, many sources list him incorrectly as being a Canadian. Interestingly, his second wife, Heather, actually is a Canadian from the latter city.

Urich attended Florida State University on a football scholarship. In 1968, he earned a bachelor's degree in Radio and Television Communications. He went on to Michigan State University after working in Ohio to earn a master's degree in Broadcast Research and Management.

Urich was first married to actress Barbara Rucker (1968-74)[1]. He later married actress Heather Menzies [2] in 1975, and they remained married until his death in 2002. Heather Menzies Urich had played one of the von Trapp children in the film version of The Sound of Music with Julie Andrews. Urich and Menzies adopted three children. Like her husband, Menzies battled cancer; however she is a cancer survivor.


Acting career

Between 1973 and just prior to his death in 2002, Urich had lead or supporting roles in no less than 17 television series (including several documentary programs). He also regularly hosted National Geographic TV specials. In 1992, Urich hosted the CBS TV special The Bat, the Cat, and the Penguin, which was a behind-the-scenes look of the upcoming motion picture Batman Returns. Most of his TV series were short-lived, however several were successes, including Vega$ and Spenser: For Hire. In the 1990s, Urich reprised the role of Spenser in several made-for-TV films. He played a main character, Jake Spoon, in the acclaimed television miniseries Lonesome Dove, a notable role for which received many positive reviews.

In 1996, Urich announced that he had been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that attacks joints called synovial cell sarcoma. He ultimately died from this disease at the age of 55, although he continued to appear in film and TV during treatment. His final TV series role was in the short-lived sitcom Emeril (starring Emeril Lagasse) in 2001.

Jennifer Beals
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Born December 19, 1963
Chicago, Illinois
Height 5'8½" (1.74 m)
Spouse(s) Ken Dixon (1998-)
Alexandre Rockwell (1986-1996)
Notable roles Flashdance as Alexandra Owens;
The L Word as Bette Porter

Jennifer Beals (born December 19, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former teen model and American film actress who is best known for her role as Alexandra "Alex" Owens in the 1983 movie Flashdance and as Bette on the lesbian themed drama series The L Word

Beals was born to an African-American father (who died when she was ten), and an Irish-American mother. Beals is a graduate of Francis W. Parker School and Yale University, receiving a B.A. in American Literature. She has participated in more than fifty movies.

She was married to Alexandre Rockwell from 1986 to 1996. In 1998, she married Ken Dixon. She and Dixon had a daughter in October 2005, and Dixon has two children from a previous marriage.

Beals stars in Showtime Network's The L Word, where she plays Bette Porter, an Ivy League educated mixed race woman. She also had a role in the horror film The Grudge 2.

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

Well, our hawkman is not quite through with his celeb updates because he has not read us his usual jokes.

In the meantime, in between times, we'll have fun.

First, for our hinge:

Thanks, Aussie, for the clarification and the song. We learn something new every day, here at WA2K.

And, an answer from Hank Snow, The Singing Ranger:

MY ADOBE HACIENDA

Written by Lee Penny - Louise Massey
Recorded by Hank Snow

In my adobe hacienda there's a touch of Mexico
Cactus lovelier than orchids blooming in the patio
(Soft desert stars and the strum of guitars) makes every evening seem so sweet
In my adobe hacienda life and love are more complete
In my adobe hacienda nested in the western hills
Evening breezes softly murmur harmony with whippoorwills
(When setting sun says the long day is done) sweet music starts to fill the air
In my adobe hacienda harmony is everywhere.

Back later with a flashdance song.

Incidentally, all. Our Piffka is all right.

Who says religion can't be fun?

Jesus' Dad's Name
A Sunday school teacher asked her class, "What was Jesus' mother's
name?"
One child answered, "Mary."
The teacher then asked, "Who knows what Jesus' father's name was?"
A little kid said, "Verge."
Confused, the teacher asked, "Where did you get that?"

The kid said, "Well, you know they are always talking
about Verge n' Mary.
***********
KIDS IN CHURCH
3-year-old, Reese:
"Our Father, Who does art in
heaven, Harold is His name.
Amen."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A little boy was overheard praying:
"Lord, if you can't make me a better boy, don't worry about it.
I'm having a real good time like I am."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A. Sunday school class was studying the Ten Commandments.
They were ready to discuss the last one.
The teacher asked if anyone could tell her what it was.
Susie raised her hand, stood tall, and quoted,
"Thou shall not take the covers off the neighbor's wife."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
After the christening of his baby brother in church,
Jason sobbed all the way home in the back seat of the car.
His father asked him three times what was wrong.
Finally, the boy replied,
"That preacher said he wanted us brought up in a
Christian home, and I wanted to stay with you guys."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I had been teaching my three-year old daughter, Caitlin, the Lord's
prayer for several evenings at bedtime,
she would repeat after me the lines from the prayer.
Finally, she decided to go solo.
I listened with pride as she carefully enunciated
each word right up to the end of the prayer:
"Lead us not into temptation," she prayed,
"but deliver us some E-mail.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
One particular four-year-old prayed,
"And forgive us our trash baskets
as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A Sunday school teacher asked her children, as they were on the way to
church service,
"And why is it necessary to be quiet in church?"
One bright little girl replied,
"Because people are sleeping."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Six-year-old Angie and her four-year-old brother Joel were sitting
together in church.
Joel giggled, sang, and talked out loud.
Finally, his big sister had had enough.
"You're not supposed to talk out loud in church."
"Why? Who's going to stop me?" Joel asked.
Angie pointed to the back of the church and said,
"See those two men standing by the door?
They're hushers."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A mother was preparing pancakes for her sons, Kevin, 5 and Ryan 3.
The boys began to argue over who would get the first pancake.
Their mother saw the opportunity for a moral lesson.
"If Jesus were sitting here, He would say,
'Let my brother have the first pancake, I can wait.'"
Kevin turned to his younger brother and said, "Ryan, you be Jesus!"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A father was at the beach with his children
when the four-year-old son ran up to him,
grabbed his hand, and led him to the shore
where a seagull lay dead in the sand.
"Daddy, what happened to him?" the son asked.
"He died and went to Heaven," the Dad replied.
The boy thought a moment and then said,
"Did God throw him back down?"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A wife invited some people to dinner. At the table, she turned to their
six-year-old daughter and said, "Would you like to say the blessing?"
"I wouldn't know what to say," the girl replied.
"Just say what you hear Mommy say," the wife answered.
The daughter bowed her head and said, "Lord, why on earth did I invite
all these people to dinner?"

Love it, Bob. Aren't we glad that we brought our children up in the church? That is why they are such little angels today.

Now, folks, a song from...............



Movie: Flashdance
Artist: Joe Bean Esposito
Song: Lady, Lady, Lady

Frightened by a dream, you're not the only one
Running like the wind, thoughts can come undone
Dancing behind masks, just sort of pantomime
But images reveal whatever lonely hearts can hide

Lady, lady, lady, lady, don't walk this lonely avenue
Lady, lady, lady, lady, let me touch that part of you, you want me to

Lady, lady, lady, lady, I know it's in your heart to stay
Lady, lady, lady, lady, when will I ever hear you say, I love you

Time like silent stares, with no apology
Move towards the stars, and be my only one
Reach into the light, and feel love's gravity
That pulls you to my side, where you should always be

Lady, lady, lady, lady, don't walk this lonely avenue
Lady, lady, lady, lady, let me touch that part of you, you want me to



Lady, lady, lady, lady, I know it's in your heart to stay
Lady, lady, lady, lady

Karaoke tonight! Here is one of my favorite songs to sing.

Roger Whittaker

The Last Farewell

There's a ship lies rigged and ready in the harbour
Tomorrow for old England she sails
Far away from your land of endless sunshine
To my land full of rainy skies and gales
And I shall be aboard that ship tomorrow
Though my heart is full of tears at this farewell

refrain:
For you are beautiful
And I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
(repeat)

I heard there's a wicked war a blazing
And the taste of war I know so very well
Even now I see the foreign flag a raising
Their guns on fire as we sail into hell
I have no fear of death; it brings no sorrow
But how bitter will be this last farewell

refrain:
For you are beautiful
And I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
(repeat)

Though death and darkness gather all about me
And my ship be torn apart upon the seas
I shall smell again the fragrance of these islands
In the heaving waves that brought me once to thee
And should I return safe home again to England
I shall watch the English mist roll through the dell

refrain:
For you are beautiful
And I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
(repeat)

Ah, Bob.

A reunion in Toronto:



I bet you will sing it better than Roger.

Good afternoon.

The synchronicity at this station is eerie. I just, last evening, recorded Whittaker's "Last Farewell" onto a disc which is a compilation of favorite songs from various CDs.

Hey, Raggedy. Great photo's again, PA. You are right. There is more to life than just mere coincidence.. As a matter of "record", I was looking at a lovely abstract of an angel fish. Glad that I don't feel like carp.

There's Ralph, Edith, (somebody)Cecily, Robert and Jennifer.

From Edith:

Des yeux qui font baiser les miens,
Un rire qui se perd sur sa bouche,
Voila le portrait sans retouche
De l'homme auquel j'appartiens

Quand il me prend dans ses bras
Il me parle tout bas,
Je vois la vie en rose.

Il me dit des mots d'amour,
Des mots de tous les jours,
Et ca me fait quelque chose.

Il est entre dans mon coeur
Une part de bonheur
Dont je connais la cause.

C'est lui pour moi. Moi pour lui
Dans la vie,
Il me l'a dit, l'a jure pour la vie.

Et des que je l'apercois
Alors je sens en moi
Mon coeur qui bat

and from Louis, a translation:

Hold me close and hold me fast
The magic spell you cast
This is la vie en rose

When you kiss me heaven sighs
And tho I close my eyes
I see la vie en rose

When you press me to your heart
I'm in a world apart
A world where roses bloom

And when you speak...angels sing from above
Everyday words seem...to turn into love songs

Give your heart and soul to me
And life will always be
La vie en rose

good afternoon !
it's 4:15 pm on the shores of eastern lake ontario .
i can still see a bit of the sun colouring the clouds a nice pink .
two more days and days will be getting longer ! ... spring is coming ?
no snow on the ground and rather mild .
i wonder if lake ontario will freeze over this winter ; every year the lake freezes a little later ...
while the canadian coastguard cutter has already removed the navigation buoys from the lake , the seaway traffic has not stopped yet .
ocean-going ships don't like to get stuck in the upper lakes when the freeze-up starts , so they are moving downstream towards the eisenhower locks near montreal .
more ontario news later .
hbg

Hey, hamburger. It does sound nice in Ontario, buddy, but not warm enough for this group from your neck of the woods.



Bare Naked Ladies Lyrics - Same Thing

What does it mean to wake out of a dream and be
Wearing some else's shorts?
I've been around the block, at least on my bike
I was prepared for the news but not for
The Third World War

I found me an answer, in a grocery store
I found me an answer in the form of an old man with
a cardigan on, this guy's got thirty years on me but
he stops and smiles just to say "Hello,
didn't I see you on TV?"

Must've been the same thing
Must've been the same thing
Must've been the same thing
Charlie Brown went through

I'm in a comic store
Lookin' for some mistakenly priced comic I could make
A fortune on and in walks the Fantastic Four
I say "Don't go; That last issue was cool!"

Must've been the same thing
Must've been the same thing
Must've been the same

These things all end
Who asked you anyway?
You'll have to bend
Who asked you anyway?

I'm in a thunderstorm
Staying out from under trees never holding
Golf clubs, but still seem to be getting
Struck by lightning... must be
Something in my veins
My weathered veins

Must've been the same thing

Merry Christmas to you and your Mrs.

thanks , letty !
oh , yes , the barenaked ones ...
and 'the arrogant worms' ...
i guess oscar peterson didn't do much singing - but he does move his lipps when playing the pianner , i've noticed !

locally we have a band called "luther right and the wrongs" :wink:
making fine music .



we also have ...ABRAMS BROTHERS... . they are two young fellows ( about 12 and 15 !) who are not only famous locally , but who appear in nashville .
we've been to some of their concerts - great up and coming musicians !
hbg