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Just Like a Woman

Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain
Ev'rybody knows
That Baby's got new clothes
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls.
She takes just like a woman, yes, she does
She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl.

Queen Mary, she's my friend
Yes, I believe I'll go see her again
Nobody has to guess
That Baby can't be blessed
Till she sees finally that she's like all the rest
With her fog, her amphetamine and her pearls.
She takes just like a woman, yes, she does
She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl.

It was raining from the first
And I was dying there of thirst
So I came in here
And your long-time curse hurts
But what's worse
Is this pain in here
I can't stay in here
Ain't it clear that--

I just can't fit
Yes, I believe it's time for us to quit
When we meet again
Introduced as friends
Please don't let on that you knew me when
I was hungry and it was your world.
Ah, you fake just like a woman, yes, you do
You make love just like a woman, yes, you do
Then you ache just like a woman
But you break just like a little girl.

Bob Dylan

Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

When you're lost in the rain in Juarez
And it's Eastertime too
And your gravity fails
And negativity don't pull you through
Don't put on any airs
When you're down on Rue Morgue Avenue
They got some hungry women there
And they really make a mess outa you

Now if you see Saint Annie
Please tell her thanks a lot
I cannot move
My fingers are all in a knot
I don't have the strength
To get up and take another shot
And my best friend, my doctor
Won't even say what it is I've got

Sweet Melinda
The peasants call her the goddess of gloom
She speaks good English
And she invites you up into her room
And you're so kind
And careful not to go to her too soon
And she takes your voice
And leaves you howling at the moon

Up on Housing Project Hill
It's either fortune or fame
You must pick up one or the other
Though neither of them are to be what they claim
If you're lookin' to get silly
You better go back to from where you came
Because the cops don't need you
And man they expect the same

Now all the authorities
They just stand around and boast
How they blackmailed the sergeant-at-arms
Into leaving his post
And picking up Angel who
Just arrived here from the coast
Who looked so fine at first
But left looking just like a ghost

I started out on burgundy
But soon hit the harder stuff
Everybody said they'd stand behind me
When the game got rough
But the joke was on me
There was nobody even there to bluff
I'm going back to New York City
I do believe I've had enough




Bob Dylan

Papa Loves Mambo
Perry Como

Papa loves mambo
Mama loves mambo
Look at 'em sway with it
Gettin' so gay with it
Shoutin' "olay" with it, wow (huh)

Papa loves mambo
(Papa loves mambo)
Mama loves mambo
(Mama loves mambo)
Papa does great with it
Swings like a gate with it
He loses weight with it, now

He goes to, she goes fro
He goes fast, she goes slow
He goes left 'n' she goes right

(Papa's lookin' for Mama)
(But mama is nowhere in sight) (huh)

Papa loves mambo
Mama loves mambo
Havin' their fling again
Younger than spring again
Feelin' that zing again, wow (huh)

Papa loves mambo
(Papa loves mambo)
Mama loves mambo
(Mama loves mambo)
Don't let her rumba and don't let her samba
'Cause Papa loves Mama tonight (huh)

(Papa loves mambo)
(Mama loves mambo)

(Papa loves mambo)
(Mama loves mambo)

He goes to, she goes fro
He goes fast, she goes slow
He goes left 'n' she goes right
(Papa's lookin' for Mama)
(But Mama is nowhere in sight) (huh)

Papa loves mambo
(Papa loves mambo)
Mama loves mambo
(Mama loves mambo)
Havin' their fling again
Younger than Spring again
Feelin' that zing again, wow (huh)

(Papa loves mambo)
Mambo Papa
(Mama loves mambo)
Mambo Mama
(Don't let her rumba and don't let her samba)
'Cause Papa
Loves a mambo tonight

(Huh)

Blame

Sometimes we need someone
To blame for the tears that are cried
Someone to accuse for deceiving and lies
Someone to lay at their door all the troubles they devise
Well you can blame me

Blame me
For loving you too much
Blame me for a feeling you can't touch
For trying to make you see
Blame me
For not letting you take responsibility
I will take the blame for you baby

You can blame me

Sometimes our fears are too hard to face
And we need a place to find comfort in
A place to feel artificial belief
Like leaf on a great tree in the wind
By the rivers of hope

So if you can cope with what you need
And you can live and you must bleed
I am a friend who will lay down for a fool
'Till the raging is done
I will take the blame for you
So blame me

Blame me
For loving you too much
Blame me for a feeling you can't touch
For trying to make you see
Blame me
For not letting you take responsibility
I will take the blame for you baby

You can blame me

Sometimes we need someone to blame for all the tears that are cried
Someone to accuse for deceiving and lies
Someone to lay at their door all the troubles they devise

So if you can cope with what you need
And you can live and you must bleed
I am a friend who will lay down for a fool
'Till the raging is done
It's my fault,

Blame me, blame me, blame me, blame me...

RexRed
1/28/07

Acker Bilk
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Acker Bilk (born Bernard Stanley Bilk, 28 January 1929, in Pensford, Somerset, England), known more familiarly as Mr. Acker Bilk, has been one of the world's greatest clarinetists since the late 1950s. His trademark goatee, bowler hat, and striped waistcoat are almost as recognizable as his breathy, vibrato-rich, lower-register clarinet style.


Acker Bilk.Bilk earned the nickname Acker from the Somerset slang for friend or 'mate'. His parents tried to have him learn the piano, but Bilk as a boy found it restricting upon his love of outdoor activities including football (soccer). He also lost two front teeth in a school fight and half a finger in a sledging accident, both of which Bilk has claimed impacted his eventual clarinet style. He eventually learned the clarinet while serving in the British Army, and by the mid-1950s he was playing professionally.

Bilk was part of the boom in traditional jazz that swept the United Kingdom in the late 1950s and 1960s. He first joined Ken Colyer's band in 1954, and then after he formed his own ensemble in 1956. Four years later, his single "Summer Set" (a pun on his home county) hit the British charts and it began a run of eleven top 50 hit singles.

Bilk was not an international star until an experiment with a string ensemble and a composition of his own as its keynote piece made him one in 1962. He wrote "Stranger on the Shore" for a British television serial series, and recorded it as the title track of a new album in which his signature deep, quivering clarinet was backed by the Leon Young String Chorale. The single was not only a big hit in England but shot to the top of the American charts as well - at a time when the American pop charts and radio playlists were open to just about anything, in just about any style - making Bilk the first British musician ever to put a song in the number one position on the U.S. charts kept by Billboard. The album was also highlighted by a striking interpretation of Bunny Berigan's legendary hit "I Can't Get Started." At one point, at the height of his career, Bilk's public relations workers were known as the "Bilk Marketing Board", a play on the then Milk Marketing Board.

Bilk recorded a series of albums in England that were also released successfully in the United States (on the Atlantic Records subsidiary Atco), including a memorable collaboration (Together) with Danish jazz pianist-composer Bent Fabric ("The Alley Cat"). But his success tapered off when British rock and roll made its big international explosion beginning in 1964, and Bilk shifted direction to the cabaret circuit. He finally had another chart success in 1976, with "Aria," which went to number five in England. In the early 1980s, Bilk and his signature hit were newly familiar, thanks to "Stranger on the Shore" being used in the soundtrack to Sweet Dreams, the film biography of country music legend Patsy Cline.

Bilk has been described as "Great Master of the Clarinet" [1] and is often said to be the originator of 'Hyung-Tiger' playing, often copied by such artists as Johnny Range and Ted Morton. His clarinet sound and style was at least as singular as had been those of American jazzmen such as Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and Russell Procope, and "Stranger on the Shore" - which he was once quoted as calling "my old-age pension" - remains a beloved standard of jazz and popular music alike.

By 2000, Bilk was reportedly semi-retired and taking up painting as a hobby, but still appears with contemporaries, also born in 1930, Chris Barber and Kenny Ball as the 3B's. One of his best recordings is ironically with the Chris Barber band, sharing the clarinet spot with the band's regular reedsmen, John Crocker and Ian Wheeler.

Alan Alda
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Born January 28, 1936 (age 70)
New York City, New York

Alan Alda (born Alfonso Joseph D'Abruzzo on January 28, 1936) is an Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American actor, writer, director and sometime political activist.

He is most famous for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the television series M*A*S*H. In the 1970s and 1980s he was viewed as the archetypal "sensitive male," though in recent years he has appeared in roles which counter that image.




Family and early life

Alda was born in New York City. His Italian-American father, Robert Alda (born Alphonso Giuseppe Giovanni Roberto D'Abruzzo), was a successful actor, and his mother Joan Brown was crowned "Miss New York" in a beauty pageant. Their adopted surname "Alda" is a combination of "ALfonso" and "D'Abruzzo." Alda's half-brother, Anthony Alda, was christened Antonio D'Abruzzo on 9 December 1956.

When Alan Alda was growing up, his father ran a burlesque theatre. This led to his schizophrenic mother's suspicions of extra-marital affairs, and eventually her attempting to stab his father in the face. Later on, his parents divorced.

Alda contracted polio when he was seven years old, which kept him bedridden for two years as he received treatments.

He received his bachelor's degree from Fordham University in 1956. During his junior year, he studied in Europe where he acted in a play in Rome and performed with his father on television in Amsterdam. After graduation, he joined the U.S. Army Reserve and served a six-month tour of duty as a gunnery officer in Korea following the Korean War. A year after graduation, he married Arlene Weiss, with whom he has three daughters: Eve, Elizabeth, and Beatrice. He also has a grandson named Scott. Arlene Alda is a well known photographer, author, and clarinetist.

Raised as a devout Catholic, he continues to attend weekly Mass and celebrate religious holidays and events. His specific religious beliefs are difficult to define.

He is also an activist for feminist causes, and has been for many years.


Acting career, fame, and M*A*S*H

Alda began his career in the 1950s as a member of the Compass Players comedy revue.


In the 11 years he starred in M*A*S*H, he was nominated for 21 Emmy Awards, winning five. He wrote (or co-wrote) 20 episodes, and directed 30 episodes. When he won his first Emmy Award for writing, he was so happy that he performed a cartwheel before running up to the stage to accept the award. He also was the first person to win Emmy Awards for acting, writing, and directing for the same series. Interestingly enough, Richard Hooker, who wrote the novel on which M*A*S*H was based, did not like Alan Alda's portrayal of Hawkeye Pierce (Hooker, a Republican, had based Hawkeye on himself, whereas Alda took the character in a more left-wing direction). Alda also directed the show's 1983 2½ hour finale "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen" which remains the most watched episode of a TV series[citation needed].

As more and more of the original series writers left the series, Alda gained more control and by the final seasons he had become project and creative consultant. Under his watch, M*A*S*H more openly addressed political issues, often to the point of "preaching" to its audience. Some fans prefer the greater emotional and political depth explored in the later episodes to what they view as the more superficially comedic early years, while others have criticized Alda for taking more creative control of the series[citation needed], feeling that the political sympathies he imbued the show with got in the way of writing quality stories.

As a result, the 11 years of M*A*S*H are generally split into two eras: The Larry Gelbart/Gene Reynolds "comedy" years (1972-1977), and the Alan Alda "dramatic" years (1977-1983).

During this time, Alda frequently appeared as a panelist on the 1968 revival of What's My Line?. He also appeared as a panelist on I've Got a Secret during its 1972 syndication revival.


After M*A*S*H

Alda's prominence in the enormously successful M*A*S*H gave him a platform to speak out on political topics, and he has been a strong and vocal supporter of women's rights. In 1976, the Boston Globe dubbed him "the quintessential Honorary Woman: a feminist icon" for his activism on behalf of the Equal Rights Amendment. As such, he has been a target for some political and social conservatives.

He has also appeared in at least two TV commercials. Both of these were in the small-computer industry, first for Atari and later, with the rest of the M*A*S*H cast, for IBM's PS/2 product line with MicroChannel architecture.


Alan Alda has also played Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman in the play QED, which has only one other character. Although Peter Parnell wrote the play, Alda both produced and inspired it. Alda has also appeared frequently in the films of Woody Allen, and he has been a guest star five times on ER, playing Dr. Kerry Weaver's mentor, Dr. Gabriel Lawrence. During the later episodes, it was revealed that Dr. Lawrence was suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's or dementia. Alda also had a co-starring role as Dr. Robert Gallo in the controversial 1993 TV movie And The Band Played On.

During M*A*S*H's run and continuing through the 1980s, Alda embarked on a successful career as a writer and director, with the ensemble dramedy The Four Seasons being perhaps his most notable hit. 1990s Betsy's Wedding is his last directing credit to date. After M*A*S*H Alda took on a series of roles that either parodied or directly contradicted his "nice guy" image. His role as a pompous celebrity comedian in Crimes and Misdemeanors was widely seen as a self-parody, although Alda denied this.

In 1995 he briefly considered running for the United States Senate in New Jersey.

Beginning in 2004, Alda was a regular cast member on the NBC program The West Wing, portraying Republican U.S. Senator and presidential hopeful Arnold Vinick, until the show's conclusion in May 2006. He made his premiere in the sixth season's eighth episode, "In The Room," and was added to the opening credits with the thirteenth episode, "King Corn." In August 2006, Alda won an Emmy for his portrayal of Arnold Vinick in the final season of The West Wing.

Throughout his career, he has been nominated for the Emmy Award 31 times and the Tony Award twice, and has won seven People's Choice Awards, six Golden Globe awards, and three Director's Guild of America awards. However, it was not until 2004, after a long acting career, that Alda received his first nomination for an Academy Award for his supporting role as Senator Ralph Owen Brewster in Martin Scorsese's film The Aviator.

In the spring of 2005, Alda starred as Shelly Levene in the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, for which he received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play.

It has become quite common for Alda in his later roles to have some reference to his early work in M*A*S*H. In a line on ER, his character mentions that he uses a surgical technique he picked up in a "military hospital." Alda's West Wing character has also made at least one reference to Korea when he said, "I could take these people to the DMZ and it still wouldn't take their minds off ethanol and abortion."

In 2005, Alda published his first round of memoirs, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: and Other Things I've Learned, published by Random House (ISBN 1-4000-6409-0). Among other stories, he recalls his intestines becoming strangulated while on location in Chile for his PBS show Scientific American Frontiers. He also talks about his mother's battle with schizophrenia. The title comes from an incident in his childhood, when Alda was distraught about his dog dying and his well-meaning father had the animal stuffed. Alda was horrified by the results, and took from this that sometimes we have to accept things as they are, rather than desperately and fruitlessly trying to change them.

Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Mikhail Nikolaevitch Baryshnikov (Russian: Михаил Николаевич Барышников) (born January 27, 1948) is a Russian dancer, choreographer, and actor. He is often called the world's greatest living male ballet dancer. Critic Clive Barnes once called him "the most perfect dancer I have ever seen".

Baryshnikov, whose name is sometimes transliterated as Baryshinikov or Barishinikov, was born in Riga, in the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union to Russian parents. His father was an engineer and his mother a seamstress. His mother killed herself when he was twelve, leaving him to be raised by his father and his grandmother. Mikhail remembers his childhood as being a happy one, in which he attended the local public schools and was active in swimming, track, and soccer. He remembered having liked ballet, but thinking it was difficult to understand he paid no particular attention to it. His mother, however, was very fond of it, and when he was twelve she enrolled him in School of the Theatre Opera Ballet in Riga. He also engaged in academic pursuits there. He learned to speak French fluently and for a while aspired to be a concert pianist. In time, he became enamored with dance over piano, and, as a result of his own interest and his success in school presentations, he decided to follow a career as a dancer.

In 1963, during a visit to Leningrad, he applied to the famous Vaganova Ballet Academy. He was admitted and joined the class of Aleksandr Pushkin, who had earlier trained Rudolf Nureyev. Baryshnikov recalled later that Pushkin was "like a father" to him. [1] Upon completing his studies, in 1966, he joined Leningrad's Kirov Ballet. Despite tradition, he did not first serve as an apprentice in the corps de ballet, but made his professional debut as a soloist, in Giselle. That same year he won the very prestigious gold medal at the Varna, Bulgaria, international ballet competition. [1] Upon returning to Leningrad, he continued his pattern of success. After only two years as a professional, he was given his first leading role in Oleg Vinograd's Gorianka, a part written specifically for Baryshnikov. That same year, he received the gold medal at the first international ballet competition in Moscow and also the prestigious Nijinsky Award. He became the youngest dancer to receive the State Award for Merit of the U.S.S.R., While in Russia, he partnered with Irina Kolpakova, whom many considered the greatest living classical ballerina, in such ballets as Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Giselle, Coppélia, Flames of Paris, and Don Quixote, and he created roles in Vestris (1969), in which he portrayed Auguste Vestris, and Creation of the World (1971), a new satirical religious opera in which Baryshnikov played Adam to Kolpakova's Eve. However, at this time, his existing desire to work with more Western choreographers, as well as his concerns about what he saw as the decline of the Kirov Ballet, led to an increased restlessness in him.

While touring Canada with the Kirov Ballet in 1974, Baryshnikov defected, requesting political asylum in Toronto. He later stated that Christina Berlin, an American friend of his, helped engineer his defection during his 1970 tour of London. His first performance after coming out of temporary seclusion in Canada was with the National Ballet of Canada in a televised version of La Sylphide. He then went on to the United States. [2]

From 1974 to 1979, he was principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre (ABT), where he partnered with Gelsey Kirkland. He also worked with the New York City Ballet, with George Balanchine. He also toured with ballet and modern dance companies around the world for fifteen months. Several roles were created for him, including roles in Opus (1971) and The Dreamer (1979), by Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, Rhapsody (1980), by Balanchine and Frederick Ashton, and Other Dances (with Natalia Makarova) by Sir Antony Tudor. He returned to ABT in 1980 as dancer and artistic director, a position he held for a decade. On July 3, 1986, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. From 1990 to 2002, Baryshnikov was artistic director of the White Oak Dance Project, a touring company he co-founded with Mark Morris.

Baryshnikov was a unique dancer in many ways. He was short and thus had to work hard to prove his suitability for roles such as Siegfried in Swan Lake where a taller, more noble bearing was expected.[3] His dancing was renowned for its textbook form, technical brilliance, and emotional detachment.

He was a recipient of Kennedy Center Honors in 2000. As of 2004, he is actively involved in the establishment of the Baryshnikov Arts Center in a new performing arts complex in New York City.

At that time, he acknowledged his admiration for David Goodwin as the inspiration for his artistic success.

He has a daughter, Aleksandra Baryshnikov, with actress Jessica Lange and three younger children (Sofia, Anna, and Peter) with former ballerina Lisa Rinehart.


Film and television

He received an Oscar nomination for his first film role, in 1977's The Turning Point. He starred in the 1985 film White Nights, choreographed by Twyla Tharp, and the 1987 film Dancers. He played Carrie Bradshaw's (Sarah Jessica Parker) boyfriend, Aleksandr Petrovsky, in the last season of Sex and the City. He also brought his highly acclaimed production of Tchaikovsky's classic ballet The Nutcracker to television during the Christmas season of 1977, and it has remained to this day the most popular and most often shown television production of the work. Gelsey Kirkland, Alexander Minz and the American Ballet Theatre also starred. The production was videotaped in Canada and first shown on TV by CBS. It then began appearing on PBS, where it received annual television showings every Christmas season for many years. It is only one of two versions of "The Nutcracker" to be nominated for Emmy Awards, the other one being "The Hard Nut", Mark Morris's intentionally exaggerated and satirical version of the ballet. Afterwards, Baryshnikov appeared in two Emmy-winning television specials on ABC-TV, in which he danced to music from Broadway and Hollywood, respectively. During the 1970's, he appeared many times with American Ballet Theatre on Live from Lincoln Center. On May 11th, 2006, he received an Honorary Degree from New York University.

He is spending the summer of 2006 on tour with Hell's Kitchen Dance, which is sponsored by the Baryshnikov Arts Center (http://www.baryshnikovdancefoundation.org/schedules_hellskitchen.html). Featuring works by Baryshnikov Arts Center residents Azsure Barton and Benjamin Millipied, the company is touring the United States and Spain.

On November 2nd, 2006, Baryshnikov and chef Alice Waters were featured on an episode of the Sundance Channel's original series Iconoclasts. The two have a life-long friendship. They discuss their lifestyles, sources of inspiration, and social projects that make them unique. During the program, Alice Waters visit's Baryshnikov's Arts Center in New York City, then later the Hell's Kitchen Dance tour brings him to Berkeley to visit Alice Waters' restaurant Chez Panisse.

Sarah McLachlan
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Background information

Born January 28, 1968
Origin Halifax, Nova Scotia

Genre(s) Rock and Roll
Alternative
Occupation(s) Singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, painter, osteopath
Instrument(s) Vocals
Piano
Keyboard
Guitar
Harp[1]

Years active 1988 - present
Label(s) Arista
Nettwerk

Website www.sarahmclachlan.com

Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC (born January 28, 1968) is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. She founded Lilith Fair, a tour which showcased female musicians in the late 1990s.

Known for the emotional sound of her ballads, some of her popular songs include "Angel", "Building a Mystery", "Adia", "Possession", "I Will Remember You", "World on Fire", and "Into the Fire". Her best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won four Juno Awards.



Biography

Early life

Sarah McLachlan was born on January 28, 1968, and adopted in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As a child, she took voice lessons, along with studies in classical piano and guitar. When she was 17 years old, and still a student at Queen Elizabeth High School, she fronted a short-lived rock band called "The October Game". Her high school yearbook claimed that she was "destined to become a famous rock star."

Following The October Game's first concert at Dalhousie University opening for Moev, McLachlan was offered a recording contract with Vancouver based independent record label Nettwerk by Moev's Mark Jowett. McLachlan's parents convinced her to finish her studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design before embarking on a new life as a recording artist, and McLachlan finally signed to Nettwerk two years later before having written a single song.


Touch and Solace

The signing prompted McLachlan to move to Vancouver, British Columbia. There she recorded the first of her albums, Touch, in 1988, which received both critical and commercial success and included the hit song "Vox". During this period she also contributed to an album by Moev, and embarked on her first national concert tour as an opening act for The Grapes of Wrath.

Her 1991 album, Solace, was her mainstream breakthrough in Canada, spawning the hit singles "The Path of Thorns (Terms)" and "Into the Fire".


Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, Surfacing, and Lilith Fair

1993's Fumbling Towards Ecstasy was an immediate smash hit in Canada. From her Nettwerk connection, her piano version of the song "Possession" was included on the first Due South television series soundtrack in 1996. Over the next two years, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy quietly became McLachlan's international breakthrough as well, scaling the charts in a number of countries. Rolling Stone Magazine has listed it as one of the top 100 best albums of all-time and it set the stage for 1997's Surfacing, which debuted at the top of the charts amid the hype around Lilith Fair. The McLachlan-founded Lilith Fair tour brought together 2 million people over its three-year history and raised more than $7 million for charities. It was the most successful all-female music festival in history, one of the biggest music festivals of the 1990s, and helped launch the careers of several well-known female artists.

Hiatus

On February 7, 1997, she married Ashwin Sood, her long-time drummer, in Negril, Jamaica. In 1998, she performed three songs with rock band Phish at the annual Bridge School Benefit concert in California, hosted by Neil Young, after which McLachlan began an extended period away from recording or touring. However, she did release a live album in 1999, entitled Mirrorball, which produced the single "I Will Remember You." Also that year, McLachlan recorded the Randy Newman song "When She Loved Me" on the Toy Story 2 soundtrack. This song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song in 2000, and McLachlan performed it at the awards ceremony, but the award went to "You'll Be in My Heart" from Tarzan, written and recorded by Phil Collins.

In 2000, McLachlan co-wrote the Delerium song "Silence" and provided guest vocals. This song achieved a modest amount of top 40 airplay and was also part of the soundtrack for the movie Brokedown Palace. In 2001, McLachlan provided background vocals, guitar, and piano on the closing track "Love Is" from Stevie Nicks' eighth solo album, Trouble in Shangri-La, in addition to drawing the dragon used for the "S" in Stevie's name on the album cover. In May 2002, her duet with Bryan Adams was released on the Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron soundtrack. She sang harmonies and played the piano on the song "Don't Let Go" while Sood did the drum work.

McLachlan also participated in several concerts during her break, such as Sheryl Crow's Live from Central Park in 1999, the Arista Records 25th anniversary celebration in 2000, as well as the 2002 British Columbia Cancer Foundation Benefit Concert in memory of cancer victim Michele Bourbonnais. She participated along with four other Canadian artists: Bryan Adams, Jann Arden, Barenaked Ladies, and Chantal Kreviazuk.

McLachlan lost her mother to cancer in December 2001, while McLachlan herself was pregnant. McLachlan gave birth to a daughter named India Ann Sushil Sood on April 6, 2002, in Vancouver. By this time, McLachlan had already completed three-quarters of the production on her next record, Afterglow.


Mirrorball: The Complete Concert

On October 3, 2006, the live album Mirrorball was re-released as Mirrorball: The Complete Concert. This release contains 2 discs that span over 2 hours of a concert performed in Portland, Oregon, in April 1998.


Afterglow and associated philanthropy

Sarah McLachlan returned to public life and touring with her 2003 album release, Afterglow, which contained the singles "Fallen", "Stupid", and "World On Fire." Rather than shoot a conventional music video for "World On Fire", McLachlan donated all but $15 of the $150,000 budget to various charitable causes around the world and then used the video to explain how it benefited the communities that received the money.

Although she has returned to touring, she has no current plans to resurrect Lilith Fair. Another live album, Afterglow Live, was released in late 2004. The CD consisted of several tracks from a full-length concert which was included in its entirety on a DVD, as well as the three music videos from Afterglow.

In 2004, Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels, who credits McLachlan and her music for lifting him from a period of depression, invited her to join him on a track from his solo album. Although the album was not released until early 2006, remixes of the song "Just Like Me" were included on a number of compilations in 2005.

In early 2005 McLachlan took part in a star-studded tsunami disaster relief telethon on NBC. On January 29 McLachlan was a headliner for a benefit concert in Vancouver along with other Canadian superstars such as Avril Lavigne and Bryan Adams. The show also featured a performance by the Sarah McLachlan Musical Outreach Choir & Percussion Ensemble, a children's choir and percussion band from the aforementioned Vancouver outreach program. The concert was titled One World: The Concert for Tsunami Relief, and raised approximately $3.6 million for several Canadian aid agencies working in south and southeast Asia. The show was the brainchild of McLachlan's manager, Terry McBride, CEO of Nettwerk. It ran for four hours and aired live on CTV across Canada.

On July 2, 2005, McLachlan participated in the Philadelphia installment of the Live 8 concerts, where she performed her hit "Angel" with Josh Groban. These concerts, which were held simultaneously in nine major cities around the world, were intended to coincide with the G8 summit to put pressure on the leaders of the world's richest nations to fight poverty in Africa by cancelling debt.


Wintersong

McLachlan handwrote a letter, copies of which were sent to members of her fan club in late March 2006, stating that she was beginning work on a holiday album due to be released later that year.

On July 29th, a press release [1] announced Sarah would be releasing a new album October 17 titled Wintersong on Arista Records. The first new studio recording since the 2003 release of Afterglow, the album includes 11 new recordings, featuring covers of Joni Mitchell's "River" and John Lennon's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)", which she recorded with her outreach children and youth choir, and seasonal favorites interpreted by Sarah with her signature style: "Christmas Time Is Here," "O Little Town of Bethlehem," "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," "Silent Night," "The First Noel," and "Greensleeves (What Child Is This?)", among others. Included, also, is the title track, an original work of McLachlan's.

Wintersong debuted at No. 42 on the Billboard 200 album chart the week ending November 4, 2006. It has peaked at #7 and has sold 759,162 copies in the US to date. For the week of December 5, 2006, it was the #1 album on iTunes.


Ordinary Miracle

In November of 2006, McLachlan performed the song Ordinary Miracle for that year's feature film, Charlotte's Web. The song was written by Glen Ballard and David A. Stewart of The Eurythmics. McLachlan was receiving serious rumours of an Oscar nomination for the song, but in the end they did not follow through. She helped to promote the song and movie by performing it on The Oprah Winfrey Show as well as during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.


Future

Sarah McLachlan stated in an interview with Billboard on October 18, 2006, that she has written one song, and starting in the new year, she'll focus more on writing a new album.[2]


Awards and achievements

Sarah McLachlan has been nominated for nineteen Juno Awards and awarded eight. In 1992, her video for "Into The Fire" was selected as best music video. In 1998, she won Female Vocalist of the Year, Songwriter of the Year (along with Pierre Marchand), Single of the Year for "Building A Mystery", and Album of the Year for Surfacing. In 2000, she won an International Achievement award and in 2004, won Pop Album of the Year for Afterglow and again shared the Songwriter of the Year award with Pierre Marchand for the singles "Fallen", "World on Fire", and "Stupid."

She has also won three Grammy Awards. She was awarded Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1997 for "Building A Mystery" and again in 1999 for the live version of "I Will Remember You." She also scored Best Pop Instrumental Performance in 1997 for "Last Dance."

McLachlan has been extensively profiled by media including cover stories for Rolling Stone, Time magazine and Entertainment Weekly.

Through her career, she has also received many awards, primarily in recognition of her efforts in launching Lilith Fair. She was awarded the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Visionary Award in 1998 for advancing the careers of women in music. In 1999, she was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada by then-Governor General Adrienne Clarkson in recognition of her successful recording career, her role in Lilith Fair, and the charitable donations she made to women's shelters across Canada. McLachlan also funds an outreach program in Vancouver that provides music education for inner city children. In 2001, she was awarded the Order of British Columbia.


Trivia

On a number of occasions, McLachlan has also found herself in the news for other reasons:

In 1994, she was sued by Uwe Vandrei, an obsessed fan from Ottawa, Ontario, who alleged that his letters to her had been the basis of her hit single "Possession". This lawsuit never came to trial, however, as the plaintiff was found dead in an apparent suicide before the trial began. The lawsuit was also challenging for the Canadian legal system; because of Vandrei's psychological state, special precautions were planned to ensure McLachlan's safety if at any time she had to be in the same location as Vandrei. This topic was explored in length in Canadian author Judith Fitzgerald's book, Building A Mystery: The Story of Sarah McLachlan & Lilith Fair.
In 1998, the title of McLachlan's song "Do What You Have to Do" was cited in Kenneth Starr's report as the subject of a letter from Monica Lewinsky to Bill Clinton.
In 1998, The Song "Full of Grace" was used in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in the episode "Becoming Part 2". A second McLachlan song, "Prayer of St. Francis" was used in the 2002 Buffy episode "Grave."
In 1999, McLachlan and Nettwerk were sued by Darryl Neudorf, a Vancouver musician (and onetime member of 54-40) who alleged that he had made a significant and uncredited contribution to the song writing on Touch. The judge in this suit ultimately ruled in McLachlan's favor.
In 2001, McLachlan covered the Beatles song 'Blackbird' for the movie I Am Sam, starring Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer and Dakota Fanning.
In 2004, McLachlan's song "The Path of Thorns" was the 50 millionth song downloaded from Apple's iTunes Music Store. [2] Her song I Will Remember You has been widely used in North America as a graduation song. The song "Angel" has been used to remember the dead.
Many of McLachlan's songs have had a great deal of club play as remixes. Two albums consisting of popular remixes have been released, Remixed in 2001 (first limited to Canada, then released in the United States in 2003) and Bloom: Remix Album in 2005.
Rapper Darryl McDaniels, a.k.a. DMC from Run DMC, credits McLachlan with saving him from suicide after he heard the song 'Angel' and was able to reassess his life through listening to the album Surfacing. They appeared together on the track 'Just Like Me' in 2006.
As of 2006, McLachlan has sold over 30 million albums worldwide.
In 2006, McLachlan's "River" was featured at the end of a December holiday episode of ER, "City of Mercy."
In 1999 two of McLachlan's songs were featured in the TV program Roswell : "Fear" in "The Pilot" and "I love you" in "Leaving Normal"
The song "Ice Cream" was featured in an episode of the TV program Felicity

Elijah Wood
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Birth name Elijah Jordan Wood
Born January 28, 1981 (age 25)
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA

Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Other name(s) Lij, Eli, Elwood (nicknames)
Notable roles Michael Kaye in Avalon
Mikey Carver in The Ice Storm
Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings
Kevin in Sin City
Jonathan S. Foer in Everything Is Illuminated
Mumble in Happy Feet

Elijah Jordan Wood (born January 28, 1981) is an American actor and music executive. A professional actor since the age of nine, Wood is best known for the role of Frodo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

Making his film debut with a minor part in Back to the Future Part II (1989), Wood landed a succession of subsequent larger roles, and became a critically acclaimed child actor.

His role as Frodo in The Lord of the Rings made him a star, but he has resisted typecasting choosing varied roles in critically-acclaimed films such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sin City and Everything Is Illuminated. Most recently he starred in ensemble film Bobby and provided the voice of the main character in box office hit Happy Feet, both Golden Globe Award-nominated films. He also played an American tourist turned vampire in Paris, je t'aime. In 2005, he started his own record label.




Early life

Wood was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the middle of three children to Warren and Debbie Wood; he has English, Irish, German and Polish ancestry, and was raised a Catholic. As a child he took piano lessons from Marlene Loftsgaarden in Cedar Rapids. He took to the stage in his elementary school's staging of the play The Sound of Music. The following year, he graduated to the title character in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Wood also served as choir boy during the production of See How They Run, produced by the Marion Creative Council.

He was nicknamed Elijah 'Spark Plug' because he was a maniacally energetic child, and also 'Monkey' because he liked to climb things. He has a brother, Zachariah Nathanial Wood, a video game producer (born in 1974), as well as a sister, Hannah Blessing Wood (born in 1984) who is a poet and actress (and has had small roles in a number of Elijah Wood's films), his mother named all of her children with biblical names. Wood had moved from Iowa to L.A. with his family when his career began. But in 1996 his parents divorced and his father returned to Iowa. Elijah lived for a long time in Los Angeles, and later in New York, but currently resides in Venice Beach.


Career

1988-1998

Wood modeled, and did local commercials, before moving with his family to Los Angeles in 1988. It was there that Wood got his first break, a small role in a video by Paula Abdul, "Forever Your Girl," directed by David Fincher. Film work almost instantly followed, with a bit part in Back to the Future Part II (1989). It was Wood's role as Aidan Quinn's son in Barry Levinson's 1990 film Avalon (the third film in the Baltimore trilogy containing 1982's Diner and 1987's Tin Men) that first gave Wood attention, as the film received widespread critical acclaim and was nominated for four Academy Awards.

After a small part in the Richard Gere pot-boiler Internal Affairs (1990), Wood secured his first starring role in Paradise (1991), in which he played a young boy who brings estranged couple Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson back together. He received good reviews for his performance - some said it was one of the best things about the film - and from there, he went on to co-star with Mel Gibson and Jamie Lee Curtis in Forever Young and with Joseph Mazzello in Radio Flyer (both were released in 1992).


In 1993, Wood co-starred with Macaulay Culkin in The Good Son, in the same year he had the lead role in The Adventures of Huck Finn, In 1994 he starred inThe War (1994), with Kevin Costner. His performance in this movie gained him a nomination for a 'Young Star Award' (for which he was nominated four times, and won twice), and Roger Ebert said in his review of the film that:

"Elijah Wood has emerged, I believe, as the most talented actor in his age group, in Hollywood history".[1]
Also in 1994, Wood had the title role in North, a film remarkable for the volume of bad reviews and bad box office that it received, but also for the fact that practically every bad review contained a positive assessment of Wood's performance. In 1995 he appeared in the music video for The Cranberries's Ridiculous Thoughts. In the following year he got lead role in Flipper (1996), which did not get much success, but the subsequent critical and financial success of Ang Lee's The Ice Storm (1997) provided a positive development in the young actor's career. As the soulfully dazed and confused Mikey Carver, Wood gave a portrayal remarkable for its rendering of the thoughtfulness and exquisite hopelessness inherent in the character. Also in 1997 he starred in Oliver Twist, as The Artful Dodger. 1998's Deep Impact and The Faculty did not allow Wood the same degree of character development, but were great financial successes and further stepping stones in Wood's evolution from winsome child star to impressive young actor.


1999-2005

Following a brief turn as the boyfriend of a wannabe hip-hop groupie in James Toback's problematic Black and White (1999), Wood further evolved as an actor in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, the first installation of director Peter Jackson's adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's literary trilogy. His most hotly anticipated project, the 2001 film gave Wood top billing as Frodo Baggins, alongside a glittering cast that included Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett, Sean Bean, and Liv Tyler. When the cast were to leave New Zealand from The Lord of the Rings, Jackson gave Wood two gifts; one of the One Rings they used and Sting, Frodo's sword. That same year, the young actor could be seen in less mystical surroundings, courtesy of Ed Burns' Ash Wednesday, a crime drama that also featured Oliver Platt and Rosario Dawson.

In 2002, Wood lent his voice to Disney's straight-to-video release of The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina. Of course, his most substantial role of 2002 is inarguably his return to the role of hobbit Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

2003 proved to be a similar year for Wood - after two relatively small jobs (his role credited as 'The Guy' in Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over and his stint as First Assistant Director in Sean Astin's The Long and Short of It served purely as a break for Elijah), he starred in All I Want and once again resumed his role as Frodo Baggins for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the last chapter in Tolkien's trilogy.

Hot on the heels of the trilogy, Wood quickly appeared in his first post-Frodo role in the off-kilter but highly effective Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), playing an ethically challenged lab technician who helps erase heartbreaking memories' but then uses his knowledge of the past relationship of an unknowing former patient (played by Kate Winslet) to woo her.

He then had a chillingly silent turn as the cannibalistic, bespectacled serial killer Kevin in director Robert Rodriguez and writer-artist Frank Miller's visually arresting adaptation of Miller's crime noir comic book series Sin City (2005), appearing opposite Mickey Rourke in the segment "The Hard Goodbye". On May 12, 2005 , Wood hosted a program called MTV Presents: The Next Generation Xbox Revealed, when the new Xbox 360 was launched.[2]

Also in 2005, Wood starred in Everything Is Illuminated, in which he plays a young American Jewish man on a quest to find the woman who once saved his grandfather during the Second World War, and Green Street Hooligans, as an American college student who falls in with a violent English football firm, both had limited release, but were critically acclaimed.


2006-present

Wood shot a small part in Paris, je t'aime, which consists of eighteen 5-minute sections. Each section is directed by a different director. Wood's section, called Quartier de la Madeleine, was directed by Vincenzo Natali. The film opened on May 18 at 2006 Cannes Film Festival and was shown at 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. First Look Pictures has acquired the North American rights, and the film is set to open in the US in early 2007.[3]

His most recent films are Emilio Estevez's Bobby, which his character is marrying a girl to change his draft classification.[4] . It premiered at the Venice Film Festival and was released on November 17, 2006 in New York and Los Angeles, wide release followed on November 23, and Happy Feet,[5] which he provided the voice of Mumble, a penguin who can tap dance, but not sing. Happy Feet was released in November 17, 2006 and has grossed over $300 million dollars worldwide. The movie also received Golden Globe Award and Academy Award nominations.


Wood has finished filming Day Zero,[6] a drama about the draft, in which he portrays Aaron Feller. This movie is currently in post-production and will be released in 2007. On November 19, Wood hosted the special Saving a Species: The Great Penguin Rescue for Discovery Kids Channel [7]

On January 4, 2007 Wood joined Screen Actors Guild President Alan Rosenberg to announce the nominees for the 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®.[8]

Wood is currently filming The Oxford Murders, film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Guillermo Martínez, in which he plays a graduate student, who investigates a series of bizarre, mathematically-based murders in Oxford..[9] [10]

Wood also is set to star in The Passenger, a biopic about singer Iggy Pop as young man,[11]. He has finished recording voice work for Tim Burton's upcoming animated feature film version of the short film 9.[12] And despite rumors to the contrary, he will not star in a film adapted from a play written by Steve Martin, called Picasso at the Lapin Agile.[13], as there is no such film in the works.


Previous collaborations

During his career, Wood worked with directors including, David Fincher (in video clip), Robert Zemeckis, Barry Levinson, Richard Donner, Mike Figgis, Stephen Sommers, Ang Lee, Michel Gondry, Peter Jackson, Robert Rodriguez,Vincenzo Natali and George Miller, as well as actors-turned-directors Liev Schreiber, Emilio Estevez and Edward Burns. He also worked on movies produced by Steven Spielberg and Tim Burton.


Other Work

Elijah Wood is one of the biggest collectors of music of Hollywood and he studied music. In 2005 Wood started his own record label called Simian Records. On September 19, 2006 Wood announced that Simian had signed The Apples in Stereo as their first band, with their new album New Magnetic Wonder due out in February of 2007.[14] He also directed a video for the band "The Apples in Stereo"[15]. The other band signed to Simian thus far is Heloise and the Savoir Faire. Wood declared to be a great fan of these two bands.

Wood provides the voice of Spyro, in the new game The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning.[16] [17] and Mumble in Happy Feet (video game).[18] He also contributed his talents to fellow Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen's album pandemoniumfromamerica, singing and playing various instruments on the album. [19]


Personal life

Wood likes to keep his personal life away from the media spotlight, and is particularly private about his romantic relationships. However, it is known that in 2002 he dated the German actress Franka Potente, the relationship ending later that year. Wood blamed the separation on age difference and distance. He still wears a ring Potente gave him, which bears a Hebrew inscription meaning 'if not now, when?', a quote from Hillel the Elder. Wood was also rumored to have dated Bijou Phillips, his co-star in Black And White, but in September 2005, he told Howard Stern that the rumor was untrue. Currently, he is dating Gogol Bordello's backup dancer Pamela Racine; the relationship began sometime after they met on the set of Everything Is Illuminated in 2004.

Wood's favorite movie is Harvey. He is a music buff who admits to owning something in the range of 3,000 CDs, and once cited his favorite band as The Smashing Pumpkins. Wood is a keen fan of West Ham United, following the filming of Green Street.

In an interview about Everything Is Illuminated, director Liev Schreiber commented that Wood has a 'generosity of spirit' and a 'sincere goodness as a human being'.[21] He also has supported several campaigns for charity as Keep a Child Alive or ALDO/YouthAIDS

He has a tattoo of the Elvish word for nine, to commemorate playing a member of the Fellowship in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, just below his waist on the right side. In May 2006, Autograph Collector Magazine published its list of 10 Best & 10 Worst Hollywood Signers, Wood was ranked #7 on the list of Best Signers.[22]

Wood has, on occasion, been mistaken for Tobey Maguire and Daniel Radcliffe.[23] .[24] In 2003, his appendix burst, and he had to spend a week in the hospital to recover from its removal.

An urgent call comes into 911. . .

Due to a power outage at the time, only one paramedic
responded to the call. The house was very, very dark, so the paramedic
asked Katelyn, a 3-year old girl, to hold a flashlight high over her
mommy so he could see while he helped deliver the baby. Very
diligently, Katelyn did as she was asked.

Heidi pushed and pushed, and after a little while "Connor"
was born. The paramedic lifted him by his little feet and spanked him on
his bottom. Connor began to cry. The paramedic then thanked Katelyn for
her help and asked the wide-eyed 3-year old what she thought about what
she had just witnessed.

Katelyn was quick to respond. . .

"You should have smacked him twice! He shouldn't have crawled in there
in the first place!"

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

First allow me to acknowledge our Texas friend, edgar, for his delightful melodies and songs. Then we would like to congratulate Kris for becoming an auntie. A wonderful feeling to hold a new born. Also, folks, we welcome Rex back and always enjoy his lovely lyrics. Thanks, Maine.

John of Virginia, I spent most of the early morning trying to locate your song "Borderline" without much success, I'm afraid, but I enjoyed the research about Slade Cleaves. He is a fascinating man and perhaps someone here can do it for you.

Well, we know that our BioBob has completed his background on the celebs when he gives us a big smile. Love the things that three year olds can come up with, Boston. Yes, I can see why Connor would need a smack through the eyes of a child.

We, of course, will await our Raggedy with her face names, before commenting on the famous folks.

This morning I looked out my window and saw a bevy of robins. Unbelievable. They weren't crying, however, and that made me feel hopeful. <smile>

When the Red Red Robin
Comes Bob Bob Bobbin' Along, Along
There'll Be No More Sobbin'
When He Starts Throbbin'
His Old Sweet Song

Wake up, Wake Up You Sleepy Head
Get Up, Get Up Get Out of Bed
Cheer Up, Cheer Up the Sun is Red
Live, Love, Laugh and Be Happy

What if I've Been Blue
Now I'm Walkin' Through
Fields of Flowers
Rain May Glisten
But Still I Listen
For Hours and Hours

I'm Just a Kid Again
Doin' What I Did Again
Singing a Song
When the Red Red Robin
Comes Bob Bob Bobbin' Along

Good mornng WA2K.

Some faces to match Bob's bios:

Acker Bilk,( love his Stranger on the Shore); Alan Alda; Mikhail (love his dancing); Sarah McLachlan and Elijah Wood

Well, there's our Raggedy. Hey, PA, great photo's today.

We're looking at Acker Bilk. (stranger on the shore? Is that an instrumental? I thought it was done by a saxophonist) Alan Alda (everyone knows him, I think) Mikhail with whom Jessica Lang had two children, right Raggedy? Sarah and Elijah.

Great montage, gal.

Here's one from Sarah:

when somebody loved me
everything was beautiful
every hour spent together
lives winthin my heart and when she was sad
I was there to dry her tears
and when was happy
So was I
When she loved me through the summer and the fall
we had each other that was all
just she and I together
like it was meant to be and when she was lonely
I was there to comfort her
and I knew that she loved me so the years went by
I stayed the same
but she began to drift away
I was left alone
still I waited for the day
when she'd say "I will always love you" Lonely and forgotten
never thought she'd look my way
she smiled at me and held me just like she use to do
like she loved me
when she loved me when somebody loved me
everything was beautiful
every hour spent together
lives wintin my heart
when she loved me.

Raggedy, I had hoped that you could locate the lyrics to "Borderline" for John of Virginia.

Last night I saw John Wayne in Cahil, an oater I somehow missed before.

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John Wayne Is Big Leggy


Shotgun - gimme
gimme low down
fun boy - o.k. showdown

Shotgun - gimme
gimme low down
fun boy - o.k. showdown

Shotgun - gimme
gimme low down
fun boy - o.k. showdown
showdown.
Take me away
he's as big as a ranch.
Take me away
he's as tough as they come. J-J-J-J-J-John wayne
Take me away
he's so long.
Take me away
you know he's never wrong.
J-J-J-J-John Wayne.
He stands so high
it's enough to make any red skin cry.
He knows what's right and he knows that god is with him
'cos he is right - Big Leggy lives. J-J-J-J-T-John wayne.
John Wayne in lovers lane - making whoopee with his squaw.
But his bullet belt keeps a-gettin' in the way
It's making his life a bore.
So she says to him - Take off that thing . . .
It's getting right between us.
Now listen honey
I can't do that no even for you
my sweetness.
Now Big John
if that's a fact then how d'you propose we do our act?
If that's the way it's gonna be get the hell out of my tepee.
Now speckled hen
you stop your squawkin'
Big Bad Rooster's doin' the talking.
I know a trick we ought to try tune right over - you'll know why.
He stands so high
it's enough to make any red skin cry . . .
If you wonder why he stands so high
It's just the space between him and the sky.
If you wonder why he stands so high . . .
If you wonder why he stands so high . . .
If you wonder why he stands so high . . .
Take me away - John Wayne is big leggy
Take me away - John Wayne is big leggy
Take me away - John Wayne is big leggy
Take me away - John Wayne

He stands so high
it's enough to make any red skin cry '.
Shotgun - gimme
gimme low down fun boy - o.k. showdown.






HAYSI FANTAYZEE

edgar, the last movie that John Wayne made was True Grit, I think, and the first that I remember where he cursed. "Fill your hands you son of a bitch." He also won his first academy award for that movie, but I may be wrong.

From the movie:

Glen Campbell


One day, little girl, the sadness will leave your face
As soon as you've won the fight to get justice done
Someday little girl you'll wonder what life's about
But other's have known few battles are won alone
So, you'll look around to find
Someone who's kind, someone who is fearless like you
The pain of it will ease a bit When you find a man with true grit

One day you will rise and you won't believe your eyes
You'll wake up and see, A world that is fine and free
Though summer seems far away
You will find the sun one day

dixon)

I am the little red rooster
Too lazy to crow for day
I am the little red rooster
Too lazy to crow for day

Keep everything in the farm yard upset in every way

The dogs begin to bark and hounds begin to howl
Dogs begin to bark and hounds begin to howl
Watch out strange cat people
Little red roosters on the prowl

If you see my little red rooster
Please drive him home
If you see my little red rooster
Please drive him home
Aint had no peace in the farm yard
Since my little red roosters been gone

Letty: You are making me work today, aren't you?

Stranger on the Shore
The hit record of Stranger on the Shore on Columbia Records DB 4750"Stranger on the Shore" is a piece for clarinet written by Acker Bilk for his young daughter and originally named "Jenny" after her. It was subsequently used as the theme tune of a BBC TV drama serial for young people entitled Stranger on the Shore.[1]

The track, performed by Bilk (as "Mr. Acker Bilk") with backing by the Leon Young String Chorale, was released as a single on Columbia Records DB 4750 in October 1961, with the label of the single openly proclaiming "Theme from the BBC TV. Series". The B-side was "Take My Lips". The single became a phenomenal success, topping the NME singles chart and spending nearly a year on the Record Retailer Top 50. It is the UK's biggest-selling instrumental single of all time, and appears fifty-eighth in the official UK list of best-selling singles issued in 2002.

On May 26, 1962, "Stranger on the Shore" became the first British recording to reach number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, but it was quickly followed, on December 22, by The Tornados' "Telstar", another instrumental. After "Telstar", the first British performers topping the U.S. charts were The Beatles, with their first Capitol Records single "I Want to Hold Your Hand".

The composition has been covered by many other artists, most prominently a vocal version by Andy Williams and a soprano sax smooth jazz adaptation by Kenny G. It was also sampled (with a writer's credit for Bilk) on "A Melody From a Past Life Keeps Pulling Me Back" by The KLF on their album Chill Out, and on the track "Music For Libraries" by Way Out West.

John Wayne - only one Oscar as Best Actor in a Leading Role
for: True Grit (1969)
Last movie: The Shootist, 1965 - very sad movie - "A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity."

Aker Bilk's recording was also played in the movie, The Flamingo Kid" (Matt Dillon).

From IMDB: Jessica Lange has had long time relationship with actor Sam Shepard (1982-present).

Lange has three children - Alexandra, b. 1981 (whose father is Mikhail Baryshnikov), Hanna and Walker. (Your guess is better than mine.)

I have never heard "Bordertown".

It's In The Book
Johnny Standley

I have a message for you, a very sad message
My subject for this evening will be
Little Bo Peep
It says here, Little Bo Peep
Who was a little girl
Has lost her sheep
And doesn't know where to find them
Now that's reasonable, isn't it

It's, it's reasonable to assume
If Little Bo Peep had lost her sheep
It's only natural
That she wouldn't know where to find them
That, that basically is reasonable
But, uh, "leave them alone
Now that overwhelms me
Completely overwhelms me
The man said she lost her sheep
Turns right around and boldly states
"She doesn't know where to find them"
And then has the stupid audacity to say
"Leave them alone"
Now, now, now think for a moment, think
If the sheep were lost,
And you couldn't find them
You'd have to leave them alone, wouldn't you
So, leave them alone
Leave them alone
It's in the book

Leave them alone and they
They being the sheep, "they will come home"
Ah yes, they'll come home
Oh, there'll be a brighter day tomorrow
They will come home
It's in the book

They will come home a-waggin' their tails
Pray tell me what else could they wag
They will come home a-waggin' their tales
Behind them, behind them
Did we think they'd wag them in front
Of course, they might have come home in reverse
They could have done that, I really don't know
But, none the less
It's in the book

So now if you will, kindly pick up your books
And turn to page 222
We'll ask you all to sing
You'll find your books on the backs of your seats
Are we ready

Everyone, 222
Let's really enjoy ourselves
Let's live it up
All together

Do you remember grandma's lye soap
Good for everything in the home
And the secret was in the scrubbing
It wouldn't suds and couldn't foam

Then let us all sing right out of grandma's
Of grandma's lye soap
Used for, for everything
Everything on the place
For pots and kettles
The dirty dishes
And for your hands and for your face

Shall we now sing the second verse
Let's get it with great exuberance, let's live it up
It's not raining inside tonight
Everyone, let's have a happy time
Are we ready
All together, the second verse

Little Herman and brother Thurman
Had an aversion to washing their ears
Grandma scrubbed them with the lye soap
And they haven't heard a word in years

Then let us all sing right out of grandma's
Of grandma's lye soap
Sing all out, all over the place
The pots and kettles, the dirty dishes
And also hands and also f.....
(clapping fades)

Well, let's sing what's left of the last verse
Let's have a happy time, everyone
The last verse, al-l-l-l together
Ev-v-v-very one

Mm-m-m-m, thank you kindly, kindly
M-m-mrs, O'Malley, out in the valley
Suffered from ulcers, I understand
She swallowed a cake of grandma's lye soap
Has the cleanest ulcers in the land

Then let us all sing right out of grandma's
Of grandma's lye soap
Sing right out, all over the place
The pots and the pots and pans, oh dirty dishes
And the hands..

first, allow me to thank edgar for his rooster song. How timely, Texas since we are exploring Rooster Cogburn.

Raggedy, you are one amazing woman. I met Sam Shepherd and Jessica Lang some years back at Mountain Lake resort. He was shy (no kidding) and those kids of Jessica's were very well behaved and precious.

I recall The Shootist, because it was about that time that Wayne discovered that he had lung cancer.

As for Strangers on the Shore, I can hear what I think is the melody in my head right now. Wish someone could read musical notes, and I would take the time to show them here.

Thanks, PA.