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When I awoke this a.m. at 5 it was 38 degress; now at 8:39 a.m. it is 28 degrees with wind.

Wow! Those are great lyrics, edgar.

Hey, cowboy, it seems that ......

Winter has tiptoed in with icy crown,
And sent the snow a-whirling everywhere.
She covered all bare trees with softest down,
And left icicles where she combed her hair.

That was the last verse to the poem that my sister and I wrote so long ago.

Here's one by Tori Amos:


She was a january girl
She never let on how insane it was
In that tiny kinda scary house
By the woods
By the woods
By the woods

Black-dove
Black-dove
You're not a helicopter
You're not a por out either
Black-dove
Black-dove
You don't need a pace ship
They don't know you've already lived
On the other side of the galaxy
The other side of the galaxy
The other side of teh galaxy

She had a january world
So many storms not right somehow
How a lion becomes a mouse
By the woods
By the woods
By the woods
By the woods
By the woods
By the woods
But I have to get to TEXAS
Said I have to get to TEXAS
And I'll give away my blue blue dress

Black-dove
Black-dove
You don't need a pace ship
They don't know you've already lived
On the other side of the galaxy
The other side of the galaxy
The other side of the galaxy

But I have to get to TEXAS
Said I have to get to TEXAS
And I'll give away my blue blue dress

She has a january girl
She never let on how insane it was
In that thing kinda scary house
By the woods
By the woods
By the woods
By the woods
By the woods
By the woods
By the woods
By the woods
By the woods
Black-dove

What's a por out?

When I was just a little girl
With long, silky curls
My mama told me, honey
You've got more that other girls

Now, you may not be good looking
But you'll soon wear diamond clips
And you'll never have to worry
Cause you've got lucky lips

Lucky lips are always kissing
Lucky lips are never blue
Lucky lips will always find
A pair of lips that will be true

I don't need a four leaf clover
Rabbits foot or good luck charm
With lucky lips I'll always have
A fellow in my arms

(With lucky lips I'll always have
A fellow in my arms)

I never get heartbroken
No, I'll never get the blues
And if I play that game of love
I know I just can't lose

When they spin that wheel of fortune
All I do is kiss my chips
And I know I picked a winner
Cause I've got lucky lips

Lucky lips are always kissing
Lucky lips are never blue
Lucky lips will always find
A pair of lips that will be true

I don't need a four leaf clover
Rabbits foot or good luck charm
With lucky lips I'll always have
A fellow in my arms

With lucky lips I'll always have
A fellow in my arms

Ruth Brown

Thanks, edgar for the "lucky lips" Never heard that one, Texas.

Rather concerned about our Raggedy. Hope all is well.







Father and son, folks.

From Jack:


There's a saying old says that love is blind
Still we're often told "seek and ye shall find"
So I'm going to seek a certain girl/lad I've had in mind
Looking everywhere, haven't found her yet
She's the big affair I cannot forget
Only girl/man I ever think of will regret

I'd like to add her/him initials to my monogram
Tell me where's the shepherd for this lost lamb

There's a somebody I'm longing to see
I hope that she/he turns out to be
Someone to watch over me

I'm a little lamb who's lost in a wood
I know I could always be good
To one who'll watch over me

Although I/he may not be the man some girls think of
As handsome to my heart
She/he carries the key

Won't you tell her/him please to put on some speed
Follow my lead, oh how I need
Someone to watch over me
Someone to watch over me

And from Allan





The Donkey Serenade

There's a song in the air,
But the fair senorita
doesn't seem to care
for the song in the air.
So I'll sing to the little donkey
if you're sure she won't think that
I am just a fool
serenading a donkey.


Amigo mio, does she not have a dainty bray?
She listens carefully to each little tune you play.
La bella Senorita?
Si, si, mi muchachito,
She's love to sing it too if only she knew the way.
But try as she may,
in her voice there's a flaw!
And all that the lady can say
is "E-E-AW!"
Senorita donkeysita, not so fleet as a mosquito,
but so sweet like my Chiquita,
you're the one for me.


There's a light in her eye,
Tho' she may try to hide it,
She cannot deny,
there's a light in her eye.
Oh! the charm of her smile
so beguiled Don Diego
that he rode a mile
for the charm of her smile.


Chorus II

Amigo mio, is she listening to my song?
No, no, mi muchachito, how can you be so wrong?
La bella Senorita?
Si, Si, la senorita,
She's love to sing it too if only she knew the way.
Her face is a dream
like an angel I saw!
But all that my darling can scream
is: "E-E-AW!"
Senorita donkeysita, not so fleet as a mosquito,
but so sweet like my Chiquita,
you're the one for me.
Ole!

Your kisses take me to shangri-la
Each kiss is magic
That makes my little world a Shangri-la
A land of bluebirds and fountains
And nothing to do
But cling to an angel that looks like you
And when you hold me
How warm you are
Be mine my darling
And spend your life with me in Shangri-la
For anywhere you are is Shangri-la

How warm you are
You make my little world a Shangri-la
For anywhere you are is Shangri-la

The Four Coins

Hmm. . . Sounds better than it reads.

You're right, edgar. Some lyrics need to be accompanied by melodies.

Your "coins" reminded me of this poem that I truly love:

Manhole Covers


The beauty of manhole covers--what of that?
Like medals struck by a great savage khan,
Like Mayan calendar stones, unliftable, indecipherable,
Not like the old electrum, chased and scored,
Mottoed and sculptured to a turn,
But notched and whelked and pocked and smashed
With the great company names
(Gentle Bethlehem, smiling United States).
This rustproof artifact of my street,
Long after roads are melted away will lie
Sidewise in the grave of the iron-old world,
Bitten at the edges,
Strong with its cryptic American,
Its dated beauty.

Karl Shapiro

Oh, In The Morning
Arlo Guthrie

Oh, in the morning
Feel like the sun
Coming up on daytime
Shine on every one
Coming up on darkness
Warm me in your arms
Let me know another lonely night
Has come and gone

Oh, happy river flowing
Gently unto me
Softly bring me music
Listen to you sing
Swiftly running river flowing
We'll at last be free
Oh, happy waterwheel
Roll gently over me

Oh in the evening
Feel alone at last
All of the things that the daytime brings
Roll gently in the past
There is nothing left to see
Except the stars and moon
To let me know another lonely day
Is coming soon

Oh, in the morning
Feel like the sun
Coming up on daytime
Shine on everyone
Coming up on darkness
Warm me in your arms
Let me know another lonely night
Has come and gone

Buffalo Skinners
Traditional, arranged
by Arlo Guthrie

Come all you old time cowboys
And listen to my song
Please do not grow weary
I'll not detain you long
Concerning some wild cowboys
Who did agree to go
And spend the summer pleasant
On the range of the buffalo.

Well I found myself in Griffin
In eighteen eighty-three
When a man by the name of Creagho
Come a'walkin' up to me
Sayin "How do you do young fella
And how'd you like to go
And spend the summer pleasant
On the range of the buffalo".

Well me being out of work right then
To that drover I did say
"My goin' out on the buffalo range
Depends upon the pay
But if you pay good wages,
Transportation to and fro
I think I might go with you
On the range of the Buffalo".

Well yes I pay good wages
And transportation too
If you'll agree to work for me
Until the season's through
But if you do get homesick
And you try and run away
You'll starve to death out on the trail
And you'll also lose your pay

Well with all the flatterin' talkin'
He signed up quite a train
Some ten or twelve in number
Of able bodied men
And our trip it was a pleasant one
Through all New Mexico
Until we crossed Pease River
On the range of the buffalo

It was there our pleasures ended
And our troubles all begun
A lightnin' storm come up on us
And made the cattle run
We got full of the stickers
On the cactus that did grow
And the outlaws waited to pick us off
In the hills of Mexico

Well the working season ended
But the drover would not pay
He said "You spent your money boys
You're all in debt to me".
But the cowboys never put much stock
In a thing like a bankrupt law
So we left the bastard's bones to bleach
On the range of the buffalo.

Lloyd Bridges
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr. (January 15, 1913 in San Leandro, California-March 10, 1998 in Los Angeles, California) was an American actor. Bridges had success as a star in television series, and appeared in more than 150 films.




Early life

Bridges was born in San Leandro, California to Lloyd Vernet Bridges, who was involved in the California hotel business and once owned a cinema, and Harriet Brown. He graduated from Eureka Senior High school in 1931. Bridges studied political science at UCLA, where he met his future wife, Dorothy Dean Simpson; the two married in 1939. they were married on St. Pete's Beach at sunrise.


Career

Bridges made his Broadway debut in 1939 in a production of Shakespeare's Othello. He was blacklisted briefly in the 1950s after he admitted to the House Un-American Activities Committee that he had once been a member of the Communist party. He resumed working after being cleared by the FBI, finding his greatest success in television.


Television

Bridges gained wide recognition as Mike Nelson, the star of the television series Sea Hunt, which ran from 1957 to 1961. Following that success, he starred in the eponymous anthology show The Lloyd Bridges Show, which included appearances by his sons Beau and Jeff. Additionally he was a regular cast member in the Rod Serling western series The Loner (which lasted one season from 1965 to 1966), in the two NBC failures San Francisco International Airport (1970/71) and Joe Forrester (1975/76). Later he tried it again with Paper Dolls (1984) and Capital News (1990), both for the ABC, and again with Harts of the West (1993), this time for the CBS.

He played significant roles in several popular mini-series, including Roots, How the West Was Won, and The Blue and the Grey.

For more than forty-five years, Bridges was a frequent guest star on television series. He earned two Emmy Award nominations four decades apart. The first came in 1957 for an episode of The Alcoa Hour. Then he was nominated again in 1998 for his role as Izzy Mandelbaum on Seinfeld.


Movies

Bridges appeared in more than 150 films. He started as a contract performer for Columbia Pictures, appearing in classics such as High Noon, Little Big Horn, and Sahara. By the end of his career, he was a staple of parody films such as Airplane!, Hot Shots!, and Jane Austen's Mafia!.


Private life

A world federalist, Bridges once said, "The devastation caused by war and the pollution of our environment knows no boundaries. Only an effective world government could provide sufficient law and have the power to control these destructive forces"[1]. He was also involved in several organizations including the American Oceans Campaign and Heal the Bay, a Los Angeles-based group.

Bridges is the father of actors Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges and the grandfather of Jordan Bridges.


Trivia

An episode of Seinfeld ("The Burning") is dedicated in memory of Lloyd Bridges. He played the character of Izzy Mandelbaum (see Minor characters in Seinfeld) in the episodes "The English Patient" and "The Blood".

Was offered the Role of Captain Kirk before the role went to William Shatner.

Maria Schell
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Maria Schell (born January 15, 1926 in Vienna; died April 26, 2005 in Preitenegg, Carinthia) was an Austrian actress. Born Margarete Schell to a Swiss author and an Austrian actress, she was the older sister of actor Maximilian Schell, and lesser-known actors Carl Schell, and Immy (Immaculata) Schell.

She starred in such films as The Heart of the Matter (1953), Gervaise (1956), Le Notti Bianche (1957), The Brothers Karamazov (1958) playing the role of Grushenka, The Hanging Tree (1959), Cimarron (1960), and Superman: The Movie (1978). She starred opposite everyone from Yul Brynner to Gary Cooper to Marlon Brando. She also had three guest appearances in the television series, Der Kommissar. Her final public appearance was at the premiere of Maximilian's 2002 documentary My Sister Maria.

Schell was married twice, first to Horst Hächler and later to Veit Relin. Her daughter by her second marriage, actress Marie Theres Kroetz-Relin (born 1966), who is married to Bavarian playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz, has recently made a media and Internet appearance as a spokeswoman for housewives (If Pigs Could Fly. Die Hausfrauenrevolution, 2004).


Burdened with old age and illness, Maria Schell lived as a recluse in Carinthia in the Austrian Alps until her death from pneumonia in Preitenegg, Austria on April 26, 2005. Upon her death, Maximilian released a statement saying in part: "Towards the end of her life, she suffered silently and I never heard her complain. I admire her for that. Her death might have been for her a salvation. But not for me. She is irreplaceable."

Phyllis Coates
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Phyllis Coates (born Gypsie Ann Evarts Stell on January 15, 1927 in Wichita Falls, Texas) is an American actress.

After finishing high school she went to Los Angeles to study at UCLA. However, a chance meeting with entertainner Ken Murray in a Hollywood restaurant resulted in her working in his vaudeville show as a chorus girl. She later performed as one of Earl Carroll's showgirls at his Earl Carroll Theatre. She went on to appear in various films and TV shows mostly during the 1950s.

She is best known for having played a strong-willed Lois Lane in the first 26 episodes of Adventures of Superman, wherein she was given equal billing with George Reeves, even for a few episodes in which she did not appear. Her powerful "damsel in distress" scream was used to good effect in several episodes.

Unlike Noel Neill, who played Lois Lane in serials as well as the TV series, and has traded on it since then extensively, Coates generally made an effort to distance herself from her connection with the Superman series. However, Coates did have a guest role as Lois Lane's mother, in the wedding episode of the 1990s TV series Lois and Clark.

Her best remembered screen role came in the campy horror film I Was a Teenage Frankenstein.

Her friends call her by her birth name, "Gypsie".

Margaret O'Brien
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Margaret O'Brien (born January 15, 1937 in San Diego, California) is an American film actress, and although her career was brief, was one of the most highly regarded child actors in cinema history.

Born Angela Maxine O'Brien, her father, a circus performer, died months after her birth; Margaret's mother, Gladys Flores, was a well-known flamenco dancer who often performed with her sister Marissa, also a dancer. Margaret is of half-Irish and half-Spanish ancestry.

She made her first film appearance in Babes on Broadway (1941) at the age of four, but it was the following year that her first major role brought her widespread attention. As a five year old in Journey for Margaret (1942), O'Brien won wide praise for her convincing acting style. By 1943, she was considered a big enough star to have a cameo appearance in the all-star military show finale of Thousands Cheer.

She played a young French girl, and spoke and sang all her dialogue with a French accent, in Jane Eyre (1944). Arguably her most memorable role was as "Tootie" in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), opposite Judy Garland. O'Brien had by this time added singing and dancing to her achievements and was rewarded with an Academy Juvenile Award the following year. Her other successes included The Canterville Ghost (1944), Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945), and the first sound version of The Secret Garden (1949), but she was unable to make the transition to adult roles.

A 1946 Looney Tunes short, Book Revue, placed a caricature of O'Brien in the role of Little Red Riding Hood.

Fans who remembered little Margaret were astonished to see her on the cover of Life Magazine in 1958, looking quite voluptuous. "The Girl's Grown" was the caption.

O'Brien's acting roles as an adult have been few and far between, mostly in small independent films. However, she does do occasional interviews, mostly for the Turner Classic Movies cable network. One rare television outing was as a guest star on the popular Marcus Welby, M.D. in the early 1970s, reuniting Margaret with her Journey for Margaret co-star Robert Young.

She has been married twice, to Harold Allen, Jr. (from 1959 to 1968), and later to Roy Thorsen (that marriage produced her only child, Mara Tolene Thorsen, born in 1977). Margaret is that rare child star who did not wind up fighting off poverty and addictions in later life. All her memories of her child star days are happy ones, except for working with the difficult Wallace Beery, who would pinch her to the point where crew members would have to protect her.

O'Brien has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures at 6608 Hollywood Boulevard, and for television at 1620 Vine St. In 2006, she was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the SunDeis Film Festival at Brandeis University.

An Amish boy and his father were visiting a mall. They were amazed by
almost everything they saw, but especially by two shiny, silver walls
that could move apart and back together again. The boy asked his father,

"What is this, Father?"

The father responded, "Son, I have never seen anything like this in my
life, I don't know what it is."

While the boy and his father were watching wide-eyed an old lady in a
wheel chair rolled up to the moving walls and pressed a button. The
walls opened and the lady rolled between them into a small room. The
walls closed and the boy and his father watched small circles of lights
w/numbers above the walls light up. They continued to watch the circles
light up in the reverse direction. The walls opened up again and a
beautiful 24 year old woman stepped out.

The father said to his son, "Go get your Mother."

Hey, BostonBob. Love that Amish joke, and it would seem that Mr. Otis had no regrets, nor did dear old Dad.

From the movie, Meet me in St. Louis, listeners:

Meet me in St. Louis, Louis.
Meet me at the fair.
Don't tell me the lights are shining
Any place but there.

We will dance the hoochie coochie.
I will be your tootsie wootsie
If you will meet me in St. Louis, Louis.
Meet me at the fair.

Thanks to Raggedy, we know what "hoochie coochie" means. That's a different kind of dancing, right? <SMILE>

One of the very best movies that I have seen, and perhaps Lloyd Bridges' last one, was "Blown Away."

Bridges also made Seahunt in Silver Springs, Florida.

More info about the movie, Blown Away:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109303/

A Sweet Old Fashioned Girl
Teresa Brewer

[Written by Bob Merrill]

Scoobley-doo-bee-doo
Be-doo-be-doo-be-doo-be-doo

Wouldn't anybody care to meet
A sweet old-fashioned girl
Scoobley-dah-doo-bee-dum
Doesn't anybody care about
A sweet old-fashioned pearl
Scoobley-doo-bee-dum

Who's a frantic little bopper
In some sloppy socks
Just a crazy rock'n'roller
Little Goldilocks
Wouldn't anybody care to meet
A sweet old-fashioned girl

Doesn't anybody care to hear
Some sweet old-fashioned talk
A-scoobley-doo-bee-dum
Wouldn't anybody like to take
A nice old-fashioned walk
Scoobley-doo-bee-dum

Take a walk around the corner
Where the cats all stop
Where you dig the juicy ribs
And then you'll dance that bop
Wouldn't anybody like to take
A nice old-fashioned walk

A-scooby-doo, a-scooby-doo
We can bop on a bicycle built for two
Scooby-die, a-scooby-die
You'll get all your kicks
If you'll give us a try

Wouldn't anybody care to meet
A sweet old-fashioned miss
Scoobley-doo-bee-dum
Wouldn't anybody like to kiss
A sweet old-fashioned kiss
Scoobley-doo-bee-dum

You'll just flip your little wig
Because we'll bet your socks
That you'll really dig the flavor
Of our bubble gum
Wouldn't anybody care to meet
A sweet old-fashioned girl

A-scooby-doo, a-scooby-doo
We went out to that house
Where the lights are blue
Scooby-die, a-scooby-die
Though we went waltzin' in
We went boppin' goodbye

Wouldn't anybody care to meet
Asweet old-fashioned girl
Scoobley-doo-bee-dum
Doesn't anybody care about
A sweet old-fashioned pearl
A-scoobley-doo-bee-dum

Who's a frantic little bopper
In some sloppy socks
Just a'-crazy rock'n'roller
Little Goldilocks
Wouldn't anybody care to meet
A sweet old-fashioned

Scoobledah-doo-bee-doo-be-doo-be-doo
AaaH

in honor of Dr. King, a song associated with the Civil Rights movement:

We shall overcome, we shall overcome,
We shall overcome someday;
Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe,
We shall overcome someday.

The Lord will see us through, The Lord will see us through,
The Lord will see us through someday;
Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe,
We shall overcome someday.

We're on to victory, We're on to victory,
We're on to victory someday;
Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe,
We're on to victory someday.

We'll walk hand in hand, we'll walk hand in hand,
We'll walk hand in hand someday;
Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe,
We'll walk hand in hand someday.

We are not afraid, we are not afraid,
We are not afraid today;
Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe,
We are not afraid today.

The truth shall make us free, the truth shall make us free,
The truth shall make us free someday;
Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe,
The truth shall make us free someday.

We shall live in peace, we shall live in peace,
We shall live in peace someday;
Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe,
We shall live in peace someday.