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Good morning, dj. Love your song, Canada. Paul Young does many oldies, no?

Here is an answer to the wandering soul in all of us:

Wanderlust

I want to see where the sirens sing
Hear how the wolves howl
Sail the dead calm waters of the Pacific

Dance in the fields of coral
Be blinded by the white
Discover the deepest jungle

I want to find The Secret Path
A bird delivered into my heart, so

It's not the end
Not the kingdom come
It is the journey that matters, the distant wanderer
Call of the wild
In me forever and ever and ever forever
Wanderlust

I want to love by the Blue Lagoon
Kiss under the waning moon
Straying, claiming my place in this mortal coil

Riding the dolphins
Asking the mountains
Dreaming Alaska
The Earth can have but Earth

I want to find...

It's not the end...

Look into my eyes and see the wanderer
See the mirrors of a wolf behold the pathfinder

this next song best describes the situation here

the temp is -1F but the wind makes it feel like -17F

Cold Cold Heart
Hank Williams

I tried so hard my dear to show that you're my every dream.
Yet you're afraid each thing I do is just some evil scheme
A memory from your lonesome past keeps us so far apart
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold cold heart

Another love before my time made your heart sad and blue
And so my heart is paying now for things I didn't do
In anger unkind words are said that make the teardrops start
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold cold heart

Youll never know how much it hurts to see you sit and cry
You know you need and want my love yet you're afraid to try
Why do you run and hide from lies, to try it just ain't smart
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold cold heart

There was a time when I believed that you belonged to me
But now I know your heart is shackled to a memory
The more I learn to care for you, the more we drift apart
Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold cold heart

Ida Lupino
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Born February 4, 1918
Camberwell, London, England
Died August 3, 1995
Los Angeles, California, USA

Ida Lupino (February 4, 1918 - August 3, 1995) was a film actress, director, and a pioneer in the field of women filmmakers.




Early life

She was born in Camberwell, London, England, (allegedly under a table during a World War I zeppelin raid), the daughter of actress Connie O'Shea (aka: Connie Emerald) and music hall entertainer, Stanley Lupino, whose distant Italian ancestry can be traced to 17th century Italian immigrants to England.


Career rise

Encouraged to enter show business by both her parents and an uncle, Lupino Lane, Ida Lupino made her first film appearance in 1931, in The Love Race and worked for several years playing unsubstantial roles.

It was after her appearance in The Light That Failed in 1939 that she was taken seriously as a dramatic actress.

Her parts improved during the 1940s and she began to describe herself as "the poor man's Bette Davis". While working for Warner Brothers, she would also refuse parts that Davis had rejected, and earned herself suspensions.

During this period she became known for her hard boiled roles and appeared in such films as They Drive by Night (1940) and High Sierra (1941). She acted regularly and was in demand throughout the '40s without becoming a major star.

In 1947, Lupino left Warner Brothers to become a freelance actress. Notable films around that time include Road House and On Dangerous Ground.


Directing

It was during a suspension in the late 1940s that she began studying the processes behind the camera. Her first directing job came when Elmer Clifton became ill during Not Wanted, a 1949 movie which she co-wrote.

Lupino often joked that if she had been the "poor man's Bette Davis" as an actress, then she had become the "poor man's Don Siegel" as a director. From the early '50s she began directing films, mostly melodramas and was one of the few women of her era to achieve success in this field.

She directed Outrage in 1950, and tackled the extremely controversial subject (at that time) of rape. In addition to acting in many films noir, she also directed The Hitch-Hiker (1953). The film was the first film noir directed by a woman.

She continued acting throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and her directing efforts during these years were almost exclusively television productions such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, The Donna Reed Show, Gilligan's Island, 77 Sunset Strip, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Rifleman, Bonanza, The Untouchables, The Fugitive, and Bewitched.

After guest starring in popular TV shows, she retired after making her final film appearance in 1978.


Awards

The second woman to be admitted to the Director's Guild (following Dorothy Arzner), Ida Lupino has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the fields of television and motion pictures. They are located at 1724 Vine Street and 6821 Hollywood Boulevard.


Personal life

Ida Lupino was born in 1918 (and not 1914 as other biographies have it) as per her birth reference.

She married and divorced three times:

Louis Hayward, actor (November 1938 - 11 May 1945)
Collier Young, producer (1948 London-1951)
Howard Duff, actor, (October 1951 - 1984)
one daughter, actress Bridget Duff (b. April 23, 1952)
Lupino was never a public figure, and kept her private affairs separate from her work.

Ida Lupino died from a stroke while undergoing treatment for colon cancer in Los Angeles, California. She is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

The face currently featured on the Columbia Pictures Statue of Liberty logo at the beginning of each of their movies for the past several years looks exactly like Lupino's, although the studio insists that it's a composite of several actresses. A model named Jenny Joseph posed for the body but a different face was substituted.

Gary Conway
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Gary Conway (born February 4, 1936) is an American actor. He was born Gareth Monello Carmody in Boston, Massachusetts.

Conway was the youngest artist to win a major prize at the LA County Art Exhibition and, before age sixteen, was awarded full scholarships to the three most prestigious art schools in the country. As well as being a recognized portrait painter at a very young age, Gary was preoccupied with music, performing as a violinist at the Hollywood Bowl and throughout California. But for this filmmaker and artist, the creative road began in earnest as an art student at the University of California at Los Angeles. While moonlighting at the UCLA drama department he was spotted by a scout and landed a contract with Warner Brothers. He was soon featured in Maverick and Sunset Strip and most of the other Warner shows of that era. Gary also starred in cult classic movies such as I was a Teenage Frankenstein and How to Make a Monster. During that period he also starred in regional theater and even on Broadway in productions of Beauty Part with Bert Lahr and Anita Loos' Happy Birthday.

It was in television where he became an instant worldwide celebrity, first with a starring role in the TV series Burke's Law. While on this classic series he had the rare opportunity to work with a grand array of legendary stars of the silver screen, from Mary Astor, to Bette Davis, to Gloria Swanson, to ZaZu Pitts.

He followed Burke's Law with Land of the Giants, considered the most successful program ever produced on a worldwide basis. Today, many years after its initial release on television, there are highly active clubs and societies around the world devoted to Gary and the series on a full time basis. His show has been seen in every nook and cranny that possesses a television set. Remarkably, Land of the Giants was the number one show recently on Channel Four in England. Gary participated in a satellite special on Channel Four commemorating the series' incredible accomplishment and fan following.

Besides starring in series and a multitude of episodic television shows, movies and pilots for all of the networks, he was very active in motion pictures. He went on to starring roles and even production credits in The Farmer, Black Gunn, Once is Not Enough, to name a few.

Gary also became very successful as the screen-writer for such popular films as Over the Top, as well as the highly successful American Ninja series. He also originated films scripts for such stars as Laurence Harvey, Catherine Dueneve and Eddie Murphy.

As active in films as he was, Gary's artistic pursuits did not languish, especially his architectural skills, also leading him into early success. He designed and constructed many exquisite homes in Southern California as well as a Design West awarded multi-family project in Universal City. His design work has been featured in several magazines, and a current landscape and architectural project will be highlighted in an upcoming issue of Country Living.

It was in the late 60s when Gary discovered and fell in love with a broken down ranch on 320 acres in the remote Westside of Paso Robles near San Simeon. Arriving-safely-via helicopter crash landing, Gary set foot in the midst of a stunning landscape, which would eventually take him on an extraordinary country sojourn. That story has been published by the prestigious Journey Editions of the Charles E. Tuttle Company. Besides authoring Art of the Vineyard, the book includes over a hundred of Gary's brilliant landscapes which are indicative of his outstanding reputation as an artist. Art of the Vineyard has received overwhelming praise from all quarters of the country. Connie Martinson on her television show Let's Talk Books, said, "Gary's Art of the Vineyard would be a wonderful book on its own let alone an extraordinary book of art." In a review in New Times and on PBS, his work was described as "magnificent, exhilarating, vibrating, and extraordinary." In the review in Booklist, perhaps the most significant in the publishing industry, his book and its art was referred to as "vivid, nearly neon color palette...the images demonstrate the human capacity to love, desire, create, and persevere...a rendering of Conway's passion."

This Jeffersonian odyssey also resulted in Gary's planting a 160-acre vineyard (on the ranch where he crash-landed) and designing and building a winery, which now produces the ultra-premium wines of Carmody McKnight (http://www.carmodymcknight.com/). His finely crafted wines are winning world class awards while setting new standards from California's Central Coast.

The SLO art critic, Glen Starkey, voiced the opinion shared by many others, when he commented in his review of Gary's art that "his work is heavily influenced by the landscapes of Richard Diebenkorn, although Gary's palette is much brighter. His vineyard series features verdant greens, wild magentas, shimmering yellows, rich blues, warm reds and oranges . . . even the palette of the French impressionists were perhaps not as bright as Conway's. His paintings are positively dazzling with color. And his compositions are simple yet effective." All of Gary Conway's art is now represented internationally for gallery showings, museum exhibitions, and limited edition publications.

Gary wrote and directed the film Woman's Story. Woman's Story is already being heralded as: an extraordinary film... a stunning filmmaking achievement... with such artistry that it becomes a genuine work of art. The look of the film is much like a great painting. For Gary the film is indeed an extension of his painting as well as articulating a vital social message. Woman's Story is a film which focuses most of his talents in one significant project. Woman's Story is about a breakup of a long and seemingly successful marriage, confronting basic issues that women face today in their most fundamental relationships.

Woman's Story is in a unique premiere release around the country where not only is the film reaching theatrical audiences usually unable to see such artistic films but also has been raising much-needed funds and awareness for major museums, schools, universities, and other organizations dedicated to the community's welfare. The film and the exciting premiere events - great cuisine & wine dinners and art & wine auctions -- following the screenings have had even the leaders of the communities calling the premiere events "amazing," "a shining moment," "tremendous," "awesome," "fantastic."

Gary's current work as a painter is being displayed on both coasts with a gallery in Georgetown, Washington D.C. which represents his work exclusively (Susan Calloway Gallery), and he is considered one of the foremost landscape painters in the U.S. He is developing a television show with a magazine and satellite radio counterpart which will encompass his vast experience as a Jeffersonian farmer and winemaker. He is also developing a motion picture to be filmed in the Central Coast that will also call upon his writing and directing talents.

Clint Black
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Clint Patrick Black (born February 4, 1962 in Long Branch, New Jersey, USA) is a neotraditional country music singer, songwriter, producer and occasional actor.





Biography

Growing up in Katy, Texas as the youngest of four brothers, Black took a passionate interest in music at age 13 teaching himself to play the harmonica and then guitar and bass. He dropped out of high school to play in his brother's band and played the local club circuit around Houston, Texas as he also ventured into songwriting. Soon, he and Hayden Nicholas began playing and writing songs together, soon signing with Bill Ham (manager of ZZ Top, among others) at RCA Records. To date Black has sold several million albums worldwide.

Clint's first single, "A Better Man", landed him a #1 country hit, as did the next three singles off his debut album, Killin' Time; the album itself was also #1 in album sales. He swept the Country Music Association's awards in 1989, winning in six different categories. Black's second album, Put Yourself In My Shoes, did not meet with as much critical acclaim as his debut, but nonetheless still included several hit singles. He began touring with Alabama and soon married actress Lisa Hartman. A royalty-lawsuit with Bill Ham was ongoing while Black recorded his third album, The Hard Way, which received mixed reviews but became almost as successful as the previous two. His next albums were popular within the country music scene, although his neo-trad approach to music would become less popular over time. Despite being one of the most popular acts of the 1990s, he would land only one Top 5 hit in the 2000s, a duet with his friend Steve Wariner.

After parting ways with longtime record label RCA, Clint started his own record label, Equity Music Group, in late 2003. Clint has released two mainstream records on his own label, as well a Christmas album. Besides Clint himself, four other acts are on the Equity label: Little Big Town, Carolina Rain, Kevin Fowler, and Laura Bryna.

Alongside his musical career, Clint has also tried his hand in acting. He has appeared in TV shows such as King of the Hill, Hope and Faith, and Hot Properties. He has also had roles in movies such as Maverick, Still Holding On: The Legend of Cadillac Jack, Going Home, and Anger Management.

A Japanese company (Toyota) and an American company (General Motors) decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River. Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race.
On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile. The Americans, very discouraged and depressed, decided to investigate the reason for the crushing defeat. A management team made up of senior management was formed to investigate and recommend appropriate action. Their conclusion was the Japanese had 8 people rowing and 1 person steering,
while the American team had 8 people steering and 1 person rowing. Feeling a deeper study was in order, American management hired a consulting company and paid them a large amount of money for a second opinion. They advised, of course, that too many people were steering the boat, while not enough people were rowing. Not sure of how to utilize that information, but wanting to prevent another loss to the Japanese, the rowing team's management structure was totally reorganized to 4 steering supervisors, 3 area steering superintendents and 1
assistant superintendent steering manager. They also implemented a new performance system that would give the 1 person rowing the boat greater incentive to work harder. It was called the "Rowing Team Quality First Program", with meetings, dinners and free pens for the rower. There was discussion of getting new paddles, canoes and other equipment, extra vacation days for practices and bonuses. The next year the Japanese won by two miles. Humiliated, the American management laid off the rower for poor performance, halted development of a new canoe, sold the paddles, and canceled all capital investments for new equipment. The money saved was distributed to the Senior Executives as bonuses and the next year's racing team was out-sourced to India.

Welcome back, hawkman. We knew you could still fly. Your humorous story reminds me of this origin:

Paddle Your Own Canoe - Sarah Bolton, 1851

Voyager upon life's sea,
To yourself be true,
And whatever your lot may be,
Paddle your own canoe.
Never, though the winds may rave,
Falter or look back;
But upon the darkest wave
Leave a shining track.
Paddle your own canoe.

Nobly dare the wildest storm,
Stem the hardest gale,
Brave of heart and strong of arm
You will never fail.
When the world is cold and dark,
Keep your aim in view;
And toward the beacon work,
Paddle your own canoe. ...

..Would you crush the giant wrong,
In the world's free fight?
With a spirit brave and strong,
Battle for the right.
And to break the chains that bind
The many to the few
To enfranchise slavish mind,-
Paddle your own canoe.

Nothing great is lightly won,
Nothing won is lost,
Every good deed, nobly done,
Will repay the cost.
Leave to Heaven, in humble trust,
All you will to do:
But if succeed, you must
Paddle your own canoe.

dj, your Hank song gave me some fond memories of an Irishman that I once knew. Thanks, Canada.

Once again we will wait for our Raggedy to put names to visages.

Good morning. 8 degrees in PA right now, real feel temperature minus 15--- and not climbing. And it's going to be that way all week with snow flurries. I hate the winter.

Faces to match:

I can only see Charley.

Aaah. That felt good to whine about the weather. May you all have a great day.

A Hundred Pounds Of Clay
Gene McDaniels

[Written by Bob Elgin, Luther Dixon and Kay Roger]

He took a hundred pounds of clay
And they He said "hey, listen"
"I'm gonna fix this-a world today"
"Because I know what's missin' "
Then he rolled his big sleeves up
And a brand-new world began
He created a woman and-a lots of lovin' for a man
Whoa-oh-oh, yes he did

With just a hundred pounds of clay
He made my life worth livin'
And I will thank him every day
For every kiss you're givin'
And I'll thank him every night
For the arms that are holdin' me tight
And he did it all with just a hundred pounds of clay
Yes, he did, whoa-oh, yes he did

Now can'tcha just see him a-walkin' 'round and 'round
Pickin' the clay uppa off the ground?
Doin' just what he should do
To make a livin' dream like you

He rolled His big sleeves up
And a brand-new world began
He created a woman and-a lots of lovin' for a man
Whoa-oh-oh, yes he did
With just a hundred pounds of clay

People, let me tall ya what he did
With just a hundred pounds of clay

Well, there's our shivering Raggedy with her visages, folks.

edgar I don't see the person next to Lucky Lindy, but I think the next one is Ida, and the guy next to her must be Gary Conway and finally a Richard Gere look alike, Clint Black.

Here to the Lone Eagle:

Lucky Lindy
(Recorded by Vernon Dalhart ca. 1929-1930)

From coast to coast, we all can boast and sing a toast to one
Who's made a name
By being game.
He was born with wings as great as any bird that flies
A lucky star
Led him afar!

cho: Lucky Lindy! Up in the sky
Fair or windy, he's flying high.
Peerless, fearless --- knows every cloud
The kind of a son makes a mother feel proud!
Lucky Lindy! Flies all alone
In a little plane all his own,
Lucky Lindy shows them the way
And he's the hero of the day.

Just like a child, he simply smiled while we went wild with fear
That Yankee lad!
The world went mad!
Everywhere we prayed for him to safely cross the sea
And he arrived
In gay Par-ee!

Oops, edgar missed your One Hundred pounds of Clay, Texas. I do wonder if that woman had one rib too many.

Need some help from you Canadians. I am looking for the words to the Calgary Stampede. The following keyboard shows what I think is the melody line in the key of C.




c d e e e
c d e e e
c d e e e bflat a g.

I think the words go something like this:

Oh we won't go home
Oh we won't go home
Oh we won't go home until morning.

yesterday afternoon thhe wind started blowing from the south-west - off lake ontario - and by 8 pm we had about a foot of snow on the ground .
so i went out to shovel the driveway ... and by 10 pm quiet a wind started to blow ... so i had the pleasure of shovelling again this morning :wink:
looking into the backyard it's like a christmas scene !
and quite cool too , daytime HIGH of minus 12 C , overnight it'll go down to minus 22 C - windchill about minus 30 C !
so , i've decided to 'warm things up a bit' and listen to the irish rovers .
they seem to have the right remedy .
hbg

Artist: IRISH ROVERS
Song: Wasn'T That A Party

Could've been the whiskey
Might've been the gin
Could've been the three or four six-packs,
I don't know, but look at the mess I'm in
My head is like a football
I think I'm going to die
Tell me, me oh, me oh my
Wasn't that a party

Someone took a grapefruit
Wore it like a hat
I saw someone under my kitchen table
Talking to my old tom cat
They were talking about hockey
The cat was talking back
Long about then every-thing went black
Wasn't that a party

I'm sure it's just my memory
Playing tricks on me
But I think I saw my buddy
Cutting down my neighbour's tree

Could've been the whiskey
Might've been the gin
Could've been the three or four six-packs,
I don't know, but look at the mess I'm in
My head is like a football
I think I'm going to die
Tell me, me oh, me oh my
Wasn't that a party

Billy, Joe and Tommy
Well they went a little far
They were sittin' in my back yard, blowing on a sireen
From somebody's police car

So you see, Your Honour
It was all in fun
The little bitty track meet down on main street
Was just to see if the cops could run
Well they run us in to see you
In an alcoholic haze
I sure can use those thirty days
To re-cover from the party

Could've been the whiskey
Might've been the gin
Could've been the three or four six-packs,
I don't know, but look at the mess I'm in
My head is like a football
I think I'm going to die
Tell me, me oh, me oh my
Wasn't that a party

letty :
couldn't find what you are looking for ... but found song lyrics by calgary's "calypso steel drum band" :wink:

those steel drums are probably in storage now , but will be busy when the calgary stampede is under way .
right now it's warmer in calgary than in eastern ontario ! (thanks to the warm 'chinook' winds coming in from the pacific)
hbg

CALGARY CALYPSO STEEL DRUM BAND

Hey, hbg. I love your Irish song, and I shall take a look at your link in a minute or two. Right now I am fascinated with your use of Chinook winds. Somewhere I read that calling you Canadians "Canucks" was a derogatory term because of that, but I can't understand why it would be

and, hamburger, while I wait for Walter to figure out my place in the travel forum, here's an old country folk song that you may enjoy:

Columbus Stockade Blues

Way down in Columbus, Georgia,
Want to go back to Tennessee.
Way down in Columbus Stockade,
My friends all turned their backs on me.

Chorus:
Well, you can go and leave if you want to.
Never let it cross your mind,
For in your heart you love another,
Leave, little darling I don't mind.

Last night as I lay sleeping,
I dreamed I held you in my arms,
When I woke, I was mistaken,
I was peeping through the bars.

Many hours with you I've rambled
Many nights with you I've spent alone,
Now you've gone, you've gone and left me,
And broken up our happy home.

Just checked out your song list, hbg, and found a song by Elvis. Amazing.

"Can't Help Falling in Love with you" Wow! This has been a strange day, folks.

watched a very good biographpy of ray charles tonight, and then a second viewing of "walk the line"

You Don't Know Me
Ray Charles

You give your hand to me
And then you say, "Hello."
And I can hardly speak,
My heart is beating so.
And anyone can tell
You think you know me well.
Well, you don't know me.
(no you don't know me)

No you don't know the one
Who dreams of you each night;
And longs to kiss your lips
And longs to hold you tight
To you I'm just a friend.
That's all I've ever been.
Cause you don't know me.
(no you don't know me)

For I never knew the art of making love,
Though my heart aches with love for you.
Afraid and shy, I let my chance go by.
A chance that you might love me too.
(love me too)

You give your hand to me,
And then you say, "Goodbye."
I watched you walk away,
Beside the lucky guy
I know you'll never ever know
The one who loved you so.
Well, you don't know me

(But I never knew the art of making love, )
(Though my heart aches with love for you. )
Afraid and shy, I let my chance go by.
A chance that you might love me too.
(love me too)

Oh, you give your hand to me,
And then you say, "Goodbye."
I watched you walk away,
Beside the lucky guy
Oh, you'll never ever know
The one who loved you so.
No, you don't know me
(you don't love me, you don't know me)