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Country singer Chris LeDoux dead at 56


CHEYENNE, Wyoming (AP) -- Chris LeDoux, a former world champion bareback rider who parlayed songs about the rodeo life into a successful country music career, died Wednesday from complications of liver cancer. He was 56.

edgar, although I am not familiar with Chris LeDoux, that is tragic news.

Here's a little something that's better.

For those of you here who remember HereComesEverybody from Abuzz and The Raven's Realm, and Beedle here on A2K, Here is his song that I really love:

The Cowboy from Boston.

He played an old fiddle made over in Europe,
recited the poets and quoted the bards.
He rode out of the east on a sway appaloosa
The cowboy from Boston with a sleeve full of cards.
With a hey diddle ho riding high in the saddle,
a pearl handled pistol and a masters degree.
Come three thousand miles to the streets of Seattle
to wet his fine whistle on some fresh chinese teas.
Sort of down East goes west to meet far east you see.

A good man or a bad depends on just who was talking
He bluffed like a champion or he lied like a snake.
The ladies all swooned when he twirled his mustaches
and they snuck out the back door to bring him some
cake.
With a hey diddle ho riding over the prairie
a fancy pants holster and real silver spurs.
The music he fiddled was so fine and airy.
Looking up in the sky he could name all the stars.
He knew all his history and the generals and wars.

He rode down the coast to the west texas border
to the Mexican desert where the summer was fierce.
He got all caught up in the good revolution
and he fought at the side of an old man named Bierce.
With a 'Viva Zapata!' he raised a loud holler
His Gentleman's clothing all spattered with mud.
He shot like a bandit but he talked like a scholar.
The cowboy from Boston all hell bent for blood.
The cowboy from Boston won't come to no good.

Not far from Houston he stopped a stray bullet
and the last words he said lifted right off the page.
It was something he'd read by the poet of Avon
how all men are players and life is a stage.
With a 'Viva la vida' that was how fate had planned
it.
There's no one can say once that hand rolls the bones.
He talked like a scholar but he shot like a bandit.
The cowboy from Boston laying under some stones.
The cowboy from Boston come a long way from home.
The cowboy from Boston come a long way from home.
-Elbert Lee/2001

Don't you feel that song, listeners?

That is a good one, letty.

Ain't it though, edgar? He is a very prolific writer and performer, and I do hope he has the time between recording and family to post some here on WA2K radio.

If any one among us has an original song or recording, please let us hear it, ok? I'll bet that our Panz does.

Greetings:

Today's Birthday celebs:

1888 Barry Fitzgerald, actor (Ireland; died 1961)
1891 Sam Jaffe New York NY, actor (Gunga Din, Dr Zorba-Ben Casey)died 1984)
1903 Claire Boothe Luce, playwright/politician (New York, NY; died 1987)
1903 Bix Beiderbecke jazz cornet player (In a Mist)(Davenport, Iowa; died 1931)
1940 Chuck Norris, actor (Ryan, OK)
David Rabe, playwright (Dubuque, IA)
1945 Katharine Houghton Hartford, actress (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
1958 Sharon Stone, actress (Meadville, PA)
1964 Jasmine Guy, actress (Boston, MA)
Prince Edward, youngest son of England's Queen Elizabeth II (London, England)
1966 Edie Brickell, singer (Oak Cliff, TX)

Thanks again, Raggedy.

Hey, Barry, you going my way?

Tooralooraloora,
Tooraloorali,
Tooralooraloora,
Hush now don't you cry.

Tooralooraloora,
Tooraloorali,
Tooralooraloora,
That's an Irish lullaby.

Another co-incidence, listeners. I do wonder what that long word means in Celtic.

Don't peek. Who was Eugene Dennis Mc Nulty?















Birth name
Eugene Dennis McNulty
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Spouse
Peggy (1948 - 22 June 1988) (his death) 9 children

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Trivia
Singer.

As Eugene McNulty, graduated from Manhattan College in 1938.

Brother-in-law of actress Ann Blyth.

In his senior year at college he was president of the college Glee Club

Sang in the choir at St. Patricks's Cathedral in New York

His debut on the Jack Benny was on October 8th 1939, he was 21 years old

Had two brothers and three sisters

His brother James was married to Ann Blyth

Was a tenor singer

Was Irish

Had ten children

Was associated to Jack Benny from 1939 to 1974 (Jack Benny's death)

Never sang professionaly before the Jack Benny Program

Was in the Navy during WWII in the years 1944-1946

He was voted one of the top five most popular tenors on radio during his first year on the Jack Benny Program (1939)

Had his own show, "A Day in the Life of Dennis Day", from 1946-1952

Started singing when he was a small boy

Was a Lieutenant (jg) in the Navy during WWII

Great fun, edgar. Hmmmm. I was going to say Dennis Day. Now I can't think of a single Irishman who fits the trivia.

Any other listener have a clue?

Bix Beiderbecke was a fine cornet player, but have you also heard him playing "In a Mist" on the piano? Genius.

McTag, I'm still trying to think of edgar's trivia quiz, but I will tell you that my brother-in-law knows all about Bix, because he has the most unbelievable record collection that you'll ever see anywhere. Frankly, I thought the man played trumpet, and now you say he played piano as well. I love the title, In a Mist. Does it have lyrics? Our listeners would like to hear them.

The man's stage name is near the end of the article.

edgar, I think I'm dense today. All those wonderful songs dedicated to me went to my head, and now it feels like a hangover.

Is McNulty the answer?

You must not be concentrating. It really is Dennis Day.

Good grief, edgar. When you said a day in the life of, I thought that was a red herring.

Here's one for you and all our listeners:

What Irishman wrote a beautiful poem to his wife who had smallpox?

Listeners, while we are waiting for an answer to that question, here's one for Francis:

Why is it that Dom Perignon has such an outstanding reputation?

Thomas Moore was the man who wrote the poem for his wife when she was scarred from smallpox. He wrote the music, too. I don't know whether this was mentioned in the movie "Those Endearing Young Charms" with Robert Young and Laraine Day, but it was played throughout.

Believe me, if all those endearing young charms,
Which I gaze on so fondly today,
Were to change by tomorrow, and fleet in my arms,
Like fairy-gifts fading away,
Thou wouldst still be adored, as this moment thou art,
Let thy loveliness fade as it will,
And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart
Would entwine itself verdantly still.

It is not while beauty and youth are thine own,
And thy cheeks unprofaned by a tear
That the fervor and faith of a soul can be known,
To which time will but make thee more dear;
No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets,
But as truly loves on to the close,
As the sunflower turns on her god, when he sets,
The same look which she turned when he rose.

Oh, that really is beautiful. I'm going to copy it and save it.

Raggedy, you are brilliant. That is absolutely correct.

Let's hear it for Raggedy, folks.

Listeners, I have a semi classical piece going round and round in my head, and I have no idea of its title or origin. I watched part of a concert on one of the arty channels the other night with a fantastic concert orchestra playing the song which sounded like a galloping horse. The audience obviously identified with it, because they stood and clapped in time with the melody.

The conductor was apparently from Italy because there was a segment showing him in a gondola in Venice.(he looked a lot like Christopher Lambert of the Highlander series)

If you need the melody line via piano notes, I can provide them. the violin section all did the pizzicato thing.

Should you call in the answer within the next twenty four hours, you will receive a free A2K hat (slightly used)

In a Mist is a lovely piano piece with no lyrics. I've heard it done in an arrangement with euphonium and clarinet...lovely

...and, while we are continuing to wait for Francis Rodin, here's a funny radio story from South Africa:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0308/p01s01-woaf.html

The American flag that was retrieved from the Pentagon after 9/11 has been put on ebay. Peter Jennings had the item about it as well as the new bankruptcy law just passed by Congress.

edgar, I do believe that Dennis Day starred in the TV series Mr. Ed, while Donald O'Connor was in the movie Francis the Talking Mule. Right?