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Tex Morton (born Robert William Lane in Nelson, New Zealand, August 30, 1916; died July 23, 1983) was a pioneer of Australian country music. At age 14 he left home to launch himself into show business. His first attempts to run away and join the circus ended in him being found busking by police and he was promptly returned home. About 1934, he recorded some "hillbilly" songs privately. He later claimed that these were played on New Zealand radio, though this is perhaps unlikely. Some of these recordings have recently come to light, though they have not been commercially reissued. About 1934 (the exact date is uncertain - Morton himself once claimed it was 1932), he emigrated to Australia, apparently intent on a recording career. On February 25, 1936, he recorded four songs for the Columbia Graphophone Company in Sydney, Australia.

Between 1936 and 1943, Morton recorded 93 78-rpm records of his songs (accompanying himself on an acoustic guitar for most tracks) for Columbia's Regal Zonophone label. On some later tracks, he was accompanied by his band, The Rough Riders, and a female singer 'Sister' Dorrie (real name Dorothy Carroll). In 1943, he left Columbia following a dispute with Arch Kerr, the Record Sales Manager, probably over the company's reluctance to use The Rough Riders. He was billed as 'The Yodelling Boundary Rider' on records, though he apparently didn't approve of the name.

In 1949 and 1950, he recorded more sides in Sydney and possibly New Zealand. These were released on the Rodeo and Tasman labels; some songs were probably recorded at the instigation of Ralph Peer, who visited Sydney in 1949 and met Morton.

Morton, in his career, capitalized on American cowboy and "Wild West" images, and was sometimes billed as "The Singing Cowboy Sensation," performing for rodeos, and singing in a yodeling style that drew heavily on those of American singers such as Jimmie Rodgers. His yodelling was influenced by Rodgers, Goebel Reeves and the British Alpine yodeller, Harry Torrani. Although Morton chose to sing in an American (rather than Australian) accent and sang many songs with American subject matter, several of his recorded songs (such as "The Ned Kelly Song," "Beautiful Queensland," and "Murrumbidgee Jack") feature Australian themes. ("Beautiful Queensland" was a simple re-write of W. Lee O'Daniel's "Beautiful Texas", however.)

During the 1930s and 1940s, he gradually 'Australian-ised' many of the songs he wrote. This approach was followed by other Australian country artists who followed in his footsteps, such as Buddy Williams and Slim Dusty, leading to a particular genre of country music - the Australian bush ballad, which was also influenced by the turn-of-the-century poetry of 'Banjo' Patterson and Henry Lawson.

From 1950 to 1959, Morton was in Canada and the United States. He toured with Pee Wee King in 1952 and recorded in Nashville in March 1953. He claimed to have toured for six months as an opening act for Hank Williams, but this is extremely unlikely, though he may have met Williams in late 1952 through Oscar Davis, who was Morton's manager and Williams's last manager.

Morton toured Canada and the United States as a stage hypnotist, memory expert, whip cracker and sharpshooter, and was associated for some time with the Canadian country singer, 'Dixie' Bill Hilton. He returned to Australia in 1959 with a Grand Ole Opry show, featuring Roy Acuff, the Wilburn Brothers and June Webb, but the show was not popular with Australian audiences and the tour had to be called off.

Morton continued to record during the 1960s and 1970s, but increasingly showed an interest in acting. He appeared in Australian television shows and feature movies (eg "We Of The Never Never"). He was the first inductee into Australia's country music Roll of Renown in 1976, recognising his pivotal role in the development of country music in Australia and New Zealand.

Morton died on July 23, 1983, after a short illness.


Sergeant Small
Tex Morton

I went broke in western Queensland in 1931,
Nobody would employ me so my swagging days begun
I headed out to Charleville, out to the western towns,
I was on my way to Roma, destination Darling Downs

And my pants were getting ragged, my shoes were getting thin,
When we stopped in Mitchell, a goods train shunted in,
The engine blew her whistle, I was looking up to see,
She was on her way to Roma, that was very plain to me.

I wished that I was 16 stone and only seven foot tall,
I'd go back to western Queensland, and beat up Sergeant Small.

As I sat and watched her, inspiration seemed to grow,
And I remembered the government slogan, It's a railway that you own
So by the time the sun was setting, and night was going nigh,
So I gathered my belongings and I caught her on the fly.

And as we came into Roma, I tucked my head down low,
And a voice said any room mate? and I answered, Plenty Beu
Then at this tip this noble man, the voice of Sergeant Small,
Said, I've trapped you very nicely, you're headed for a fall

I wished that I was 16 stone and only seven foot tall,
I'd go back to western Queensland, and beat up Sergeant Small.

(instrumental, then change key)

The Judge was very kind to me, he gave me thirty days,
He said, Maybe that would help to cure my rattler jumping ways
So if your down and outback, let me tell you what I think,
Just stay off the Queensland railways, it's a shortcut to the clink.

I wished that I was 16 stone and only seven foot tall,
I'd go back to western Queensland, and beat up Sergeant Small.
I'd go back to western Queensland, and beat up Sergeant Small.

Eddie Cantor, Tallulah Bankhead, Carol Channing, Mario Lanza, Joanne Dru and Jean Simmons

Took awhile, but I made it.

Hey, dj. Look up, Canada. There's our Raggedy with a trio, and they are either looking sexy or laughing.

Hey, PA. Welcome back. I think I see Eddie and Sylvia? and of course, laughing Carol.

Ok, now we can listen to dj's Tex Morton bio.

Great background, dj. Thanks for the info, cause I didn't know about that Aussie.

You see Sylvia, Letty?

WHO is Silvia? What is she?
That all our swains commend her?
Holy, fair, and wise is she;
The heaven such grace did lend her,
That she might admirèd be.

Is she kind as she is fair?
For beauty lives with kindness:
Love doth to her eyes repair,
To help him of his blindness;
And, being help'd, inhabits there.


Or is she, Talullah? and maybe, you're thinking of that Sydney lady?

Ah, Raggedy. I always know you will keep me straight. You are one amazing lady, PA.

That lovely poem by the Bard was a delightful way to let me know that I was wrong.



" Goodnight, parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say goodnight til it be morrow."

From Letty with love.

Afraid To Dream
Benny Goodman

Afraid to dream
Afraid that you may not be there
Afraid to dream
Without you it would seem so bare
With open arms I call to you
I want you, dear
Just as I reach for you
Why do you disappear
Afraid to dream
I'll see you there with someone new
Afraid to find another one caressing you
Although you promised me that this could never be
It's the thought of losing you
That makes me so afraid to dream

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

Hey, edgar. What a delightful dream song, Texas. I wasn't afraid to dream, but I am glad that I woke up this morning. We missed our Raggedy's extra photo's, too. Thanks again for Mario's collage, Joanne, and Jean, gal.

Well, folks, while we weren't looking, daylight savings time was moved to March. So, here is a morning song that is the antithesis of what legislatures do when our heads are turned:

Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year

Spring will be a little late this year
a little late arriving, in my lonely world over here
For you have left me and where is our April love old
Yes you have left me and winter continues cold
As if to say that spring will be a little slow to start
A little slow reviving that music it made in my heart
Cause time heals all things, so I needn't cling to this fear
It's merely that spring will be a little late this year
Yes time heals all things so I needn't cling to this fear
It's merely that spring will be a little late this year

Good afternoon, WA2K.

Remembering Clark Gable, ( Feb. 1, 1901 - 1960)

Stuart Whitman
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Stuart Whitman (born February 1, 1926 or, according to other sources 1928 or 1929) is an American actor arguably best known for playing Marshal Jim Crown in the western television series Cimarron Strip in 1967, co-starring with John Wayne in the Western film The Comancheros in 1961, and as the top-billed romantic lead in the extravagant aerial epic Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines in 1965.

Born in San Francisco, California, he graduated from high school in Los Angeles and spent three years in the Army Corps of Engineers, where he took up boxing. After leaving the army, he enrolled in Los Angeles City College and the Los Angeles Academy of Dramatic Art. He had a small part in When Worlds Collide, then took small roles in such films as The All American, Brigadoon, Ten North Frederick and The Sound and the Fury. In 1957, Whitman was seriously considered for the role of Bart Maverick in the television series Maverick when the studio realized that they needed another Maverick to rotate as the series lead with James Garner, who closely resembled Whitman, but Jack Kelly wound up with the part. Whitman's first starring role was in Murder, Inc. in 1960.

In 1961, Whitman was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as a child molester in The Mark. He has since appeared in starring and supporting roles in many films, including Francis of Assisi, The Fiercest Heart, The Comancheros (sharing leading man status with John Wayne), Convicts 4, The Day and the Hour, Signpost to Murder, Shock Treatment, Rio Conchos, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Sands of the Kalahari, An American Dream, The Last Escape, The Decks Ran Red, The Invincible Six, Night of the Lepus, Shatter, Tony Saitta, and Guyana: Crime of the Century. Whitman had a memorable foray into television for a single season in 1967 as heroic Marshal Jim Crown in the lavish and critically acclaimed 90-minute weekly western series Cimarron Strip, which was also widely noted for its thrilling theme music. He would later on play the role of Clark Kent's father Jonathan Kent on the popular TV series Superboy.

Lisa Marie Presley
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Born February 1, 1968
Memphis, Tennessee USA

Height 5'2" (1.57m)
Spouse(s) Danny Keough (1988-1994)
Michael Jackson (1994-1996)
Nicolas Cage (2000-2004)
Michael Lockwood (2006- Present)

Lisa Marie Presley (born February 1, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American singer, daughter of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley.

Lisa Marie is a close friend of her father's ex-girlfriend Linda Thompson. In 2003, after advice from Thompson's record producer and then-husband David Foster, she launched a career as a singer. Her debut album, To Whom It May Concern, reached #5 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and was certified gold. To promote it she presented a concert in the UK, something that her father never did. Presley released her second album, Now What, in 2005 and it reached #9 on the Billboard 200. It was certified gold in November 2005. Unlike her first album, Now What included a Parental Advisory sticker. Both albums as of 2007 have been certified Platinum.

Lisa Marie attended a variety of schools, mostly boarding schools, a few in Los Angeles County (among them the John Thomas Dye School[1]), and also in Ojai, Ventura County, California. She was expelled from at least one boarding school due to illegal drug abuse, especially cocaine. She was briefly a student at a Church of Scientology school in Los Angeles.




Presley heritage

As Elvis' only child, Lisa Marie eventually inherited his estate at the age of 30. In August 2005, she sold 85 percent of the estate's business holdings to CKX, Inc., excluding Graceland itself and the property within it.


Marriages and divorces

Presley married her first husband, musician Danny Keough, on October 3, 1988. They had two children together, Danielle Riley, born May 29, 1989 and Benjamin Storm, born October 21, 1992. Lisa Marie divorced Keough on grounds of irreconciliable differences on May 6, 1994 but they still remain friends.

Three weeks after her divorce became official, Lisa Marie married Michael Jackson on May 26, 1994 in the Dominican Republic. The marriage lasted 21 months. There was speculation that Jackson, who owned The Beatles catalog, wanted to buy Elvis Presley's catalog too-- although he already owned several Elvis Presley songs as part of his Sony/ATV Music Publishing company. There was also wide speculation that Jackson married Presley for various public relations purposes, and that she married him to recruit him into the Church of Scientology or to aid her in her bid to launch a music career. The two divorced on January 18, 1996 on grounds of irreconcilable differences.

On August 10, 2002, Presley married Academy Award-winner Nicolas Cage, someone well-known for his Elvis Presley obsession. Cage filed for divorce after just three months in November 2002 on grounds of irreconciliable differences, and their divorce became final on May 16, 2004.

On January 22, 2006, Presley married her guitarist and music producer, Michael Lockwood, in Kyoto, Japan. Keough served as best man at the couple's wedding.

The story of her parents' life together, and her birth and childhood until her father's passing away in 1977, was recounted in her mother's 1985 book, Elvis and Me.


Scientology

Presley and her mother were both introduced to the Church of Scientology by John Travolta. For two years prior to her marriage to Michael Jackson, Presley lived near the Scientology Celebrity Center in Clearwater, Florida while taking courses there with her children. She later sold her house in Clearwater to fellow Scientologist Kirstie Alley. Her first husband, Danny Keough, is an avid member of the Church of Scientology and they have raised and home-schooled their children in the religion.

In 2002, she and businessman Neil Bush (brother of President George W. Bush) testified together before a hearing of the United States Congress to speak out against medicating children for mental disorders, a practice which is forsworn by the Church of Scientology. [2]

In December 2005, Presley and her mother both appeared at the gala opening of Scientology's controversial "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death" Museum, which puts forth a conspiracy theory connecting Adolf Hitler to the psychiatric profession. [3]


Trivia

Her father, who called her Injun, Yisa, and Buttonhead, named one of his private aircraft, a converted CONVAIR 880 jet (original passenger capacity, 100), after her. The airplane "Lisa Marie" is currently on exhibit at the Graceland mansion museum of Elvis Presley in Memphis, Tennessee. The rock band Queen also used this for a flight, and Lisa gave Queen vocalist, Freddie Mercury, a scarf which belonged to her father.
She recently stated, on The Oprah Winfrey Show, that she is 5'2" tall. Lisa Marie Presley on Oprah
She has suffered from depression in the past.
She has a half brother, Navarone, from her mother's 22-year (ended in April 2006) relationship with Marco Garibaldi.
Comedian Dennis Miller cited Lisa Marie's wedding to Michael Jackson as conclusive evidence that Elvis was not alive, because were Elvis alive, he would have "put the kibosh on it".
She has a black belt in kung fu fighting.
She attended the 10th grade at an alternative boarding school in Ojai, California, called Happy Valley School

Charities

Lisa Marie Presley supports several charities, including:

Presley Place, which combats homelessness in Memphis.
CCHR, a Scientology-connected group that opposes psychiatry and psychiatrists.
LEAP, Literacy, Education and Abilities Program, a Scientology connected group affiliated with Applied Scholastics that promotes L. Ron Hubbard's studying techniques.

Well, folks, our hawkman didn't get to favor us with his joke of the day, but this will do.

From the Night of the Lepus



Thanks, Boston, for all the great bio's, and of course our Raggedy showed us Clark Gable who needs no identification. Thanks, PA.

The following song was supposedly written for Clark, and this version is by Anne Murray, strangely enough.

You Made Me Love You
You made me love you.
I didn't want to do it.
I didn't want to do it.
You made me want you.
And all the time you knew it.
I guess you always knew it.

You made me happy sometimes.
You made me glad.
But there were times, dear,
You made me feel so bad.

Chorus:
You made me sigh for.
I didn't wanna tell ya.
I didn't wanna tell ya.
I want some love that's true,
Yes I do,
Deed I do, you know I do.
Give me, give me, give me,
Give me what I cry for.
You know you've got
The kind of kisses that I'd die for.
You know you made me love you.

--- Instrumental ---

Chorus:
You made me sigh for.
I didn't wanna tell ya.
I didn't wanna tell ya.
I want some love that's true,
Yes I do,
Deed I do, you know I do.
Give me, give me, give me,
Give me what I cry for.
You know you've got
The kind of kisses that I'd die for.
You know you made me love you.

You know you made me love you...

Miss You
The Rolling Stones

I've been holding out so long
I've been sleeping all alone
Lord I miss you
I've been hanging on the phone
I've been sleeping all alone
I want to kiss you

Well, I've been haunted in my sleep
You've been staring in my dreams
Lord I miss you, child
I've been waiting in the hall
Been waiting on your call
When the phone rings
It's just some friends of mine that say
Hey, what's the matter man
We're gonna come around at twelve
With some Puerto Rican girls
That are just dyin' to meet you
We're gonna bring a case of wine
Hey, let's go mess and fool around
You know, like we used to

Oh, everybody waits so long
Oh, baby why'd you wait so long
Won't you come home
Come home

I've been walking Central Park
Singing after dark
People think I'm crazy
I've been stumbling on my feet
Shuffling through the street
Asking people, "What's the matter with you boy"

Sometimes I want to say to myself
Sometimes I say

I won't miss you child

I guess I'm lying to myself
It's just you and no one else
Lord, I won't miss you child

Hey, edgar. Welcome back, buddy. My word, Texas, The Stones have been doing stuff that is appealing for a long time. Thanks, for the reminder.

Somehow, this song is worth playing, because I heard it done last evening by some guitarist who had the most beautiful touch and chord changes that I have ever heard, and it was JUST the guitar and nothing more. Love that effect, folks:

When somebody loves you
It's no good unless they love you - all the way
Happy to be near you
When you need someone to cheer you - all the way.

Taller than the tallest tree is
That's how it's got to feel
Deeper than the deep blue sea is
That's how deep it goes - if it's real


When somebody needs you
It's no good unless they need you - all the way
Through the good or lean years
And for all the in between years - come what may

Who knows where the road will lead us
Only a fool would see
But if you'll let me love you
For sure I'm gonna love you - all the way,
All the way.

good evening all !
mild but blustery evening along the shores of lake ontario .
if we are lucky :wink: we might get a foot of snow - so made a big decision : we'll sleep in tomorrow morning !

a song to honour any and all lawyers :wink:
"the notary's song" by gilbert and sullivan :

About a century since,
The code of the duello
To sudden death
For want of breath
Sent many a strapping fellow.
The then presiding Prince
(Who useless bloodshed hated),
He passed an Act,
Short and compact,
Which may be briefly stated.
Unlike the complicated laws
A Parliamentary draftsman draws,
It may be briefly stated.

ALL:
We know that complicated laws,
Such as a legal draftsman draws,
Cannot be briefly stated.

NOT:
By this ingenious law,
If any two shall quarrel,
They may not fight
With falchions bright
(Which seemed to him immoral);
But each a card shall draw,
And he who draws the lowest
Shall (so 'twas said)
Be thenceforth dead--
In fact, a legal "ghoest"
(When exigence of rhyme compels,
Orthography forgoes her spells,
And "ghost" is written "ghoest").

ALL (aside):
With what an emphasis he dwells
Upon "orthography" and "spells"!
That kind of fun's the lowest.

NOT:
When off the loser's popped
(By pleasing legal fiction),
And friend and foe
Have wept their woe
In counterfeit affliction,
The winner must adopt
The loser's poor relations--
Discharge his debts,
Pay all his bets,
And take his obligations.

In short, to briefly sum the case,
The winner takes the loser's place,
With all its obligations.

ALL:
How neatly lawyers state a case!
The winner takes the loser's place,
With all its obligations

Great, hbg. I love the way Gilbert and Sullivan force the rhyme, and is it coincidence or synchronicity, Canada, that I was just getting ready to answer Ticomaya in the travelogue forum.

Think of saying, "parliamentary procedure" and keeping the right meter.

Listening To Coast To Coast
UFO Phil

Well I never knew I had martians in my garden
And I never knew there were aliens on my roof
I got shadow people, and they're living in my basement
Got a Funny feeling bigfoot gonna be here soon

I was so uninformed, I was so unaware
But now i swear I'm seeing sasquatch over there
And I turned on my radio, in the middle of the night
And I heard things I need to know, now I can see the light
And I also see a ghost, 'cause i'm listening to Coast to Coast

Well you never knew that your baby was a hybrid
But as he grew you began to see the clues
Now you know the signs, 'cause you learned it from George Noory
Even while you sleep you got martians watching you

I turned on my radio, in the middle of the night
And I heard things I need to know, now I can see the light
And I also see a ghost, 'cause i'm listening to Coast to Coast

Good morning, or good evening, wherever you may be
Whichever world you're living in, whatever century
Your voice is always welcome here on my radio
Call in with your space transmitter or your telephone

And I turned on my radio, in the middle of the night
And I heard things I need to know, now I can see the light
And I also see a ghost, 'cause i'm listening to Coast to Coast

'Cause i'm listening to Coast to Coast