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Oh dear.

Just reading the lyrics of "wasn't that a party" is giving me a bad bad flashback or two.

Listeners, why is that always on the short list of songs I sing, if I'm going to sing, while carousing?

Could've been the whiskey
Might've been the gin
Could've been the three or four six-packs

Oh my.

Love that song, dj. I saw Ray.

Hey, Bethie. Whiskey or gin will make you sin, gal <smile>

Still haven't seen Joaquin in "I Walk the Line". Love that guy as well.



From Johnny and my goodnight song, folks

Johnny Cash Song Lyrics ]

LIKE A SOLDIER

With the twilight colors falling And the evening laying shadows Hidden memories come stealing from my mind As I feel my own heart beating out The simple joy of living I wonder how I ever was that kind
But the wild road I was rambling Was always out there calling And they said a hundred times I should have died But now my present miracle Is that you're here beside me So, I believe they were roads that I was meant to ride
Like a soldier getting over the war Like a young man getting over his crazy days Like a bandit getting over his lawless ways Every day is better than before I'm like a soldier getting over the war
There were nights I don't remember And there's pain that I've forgotten Other things I choose not to recall There are faces that come to me In my darkest secret memory Faces that I wish would not come back at all
In my dreams parade of lovers From the other times and places There's not one that matters now, no matter who I'm just thankful for the journey And that I've survived the battles And that my spoils of victory are you

Goodnight, my friends

From Letty with love

Even Tho'
Webb Pierce

Well even tho' you took the sunshine out of my heaven
Even tho' you took the twinkle out of my eyes
Oh, I will always be in love with you my darling
Even tho' I sit and wonder if I'm wise

Now since the day that you first told me that you love me
I have been head over heels in love with you
But now you say our little romance has to end dear
So I walk the floor and wonder what I'll do


There was a time when in my heart I didn't doubt you
Now I'm never sure of what you say or do
'Cause every time I put my little arms around you
Something tells me that you're not the same ole you

Well even tho' you took the sunshine out of my heaven
Even tho' you took the twinkle out of my eyes
Oh, I will always be in love with you my darling
Even tho' I sit and wonder if I'm wise

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

Hey, edgar. Thanks for the Webb Pierce song, Texas, and here's a follow up by Coldplay because that is what it is here--cold.


Cold Play

Twisted Logic



Sunlight, opened up my eyes

To see for the first time

You'll open them up

And tonight, rivers will run dry

And not for the first time

Rivers will run



Hundreds of years in the future

It could be computers

Looking for life on earth



Don't fight for the wrong side

Say what you feel like

Say how you feel



You'll go backwards, but then

You'll go forwards again

You'll go backwards, but then

You'll go



Created, then drilled and invaded

If somebody made it

Someone will mess it up



And you are not wrong to

Ask who does this belong to

It belongs to all of us



You'll go backwards, but then

You'll go forwards again

You'll go backwards, but then

you'll go forwards



You'll go backwards, but then

you'll go forwards again

You'll go forwards again

You'll go forwards

John Carradine
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Birth name Richmond Reed Carradine

Born February 5, 1906
New York, New York, United States
Died November 27, 1988
Milan, Italy

Spouse(s) Ardanelle McCool Cosner
Sonia Sorel
Doris Rich
Emily Cisneros

John Carradine (February 5, 1906 - November 27, 1988) was an American actor, best known for his roles in horror films.

Carradine appeared in ten John Ford productions, including The Grapes of Wrath (1940), portrayed the Biblical hero Aaron in The Ten Commandments (1956), and also did considerable stage work, much of which provided his only opportunity to work in a classic drama context, and appeared on Broadway. He appeared in more than 225 movies sometimes playing eccentric, mad or diabolical characters, especially in the horror genre with which he had become identified as a "star" by the mid-1940s. He even sang the theme song to one film he appeared in briefly, Red Zone Cuba. He also made more than 100 television appearances, including recurring guest appearances as mortician Mr. Gateman on The Munsters. Carradine's last released film credit was Bikini Drive-In, released years after his death.

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, John Carradine has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6240 Hollywood Blvd. In 2003, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Carradine's idiosyncratic habit of strolling Hollywood streets while reciting Shakespearean soliloquies earned him the nickname "Bard of the Boardwalk".




Life and family

Born Richmond Reed Carradine in New York City, he began his career in show business as a Shakespearean dramatic actor and made his cinematic debut in 1930 under the name Peter Richmond. He adopted the stage name "John Carradine" in 1933, and took the name as his own two years later.

His four sons all became actors: David Carradine, Robert Carradine, Keith Carradine and Bruce Carradine. David's show, Kung Fu, featured his father John and brother Robert in the episode Dark Angel. John would appear as the same character in two more episodes: The Nature of Evil and Ambush.


Death

He died on a visit to Milan, Italy, at the age of 82.

Red Buttons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Birth name Aaron Chwatt

Born February 5, 1919
New York City, New York
Died July 13, 2006, age 87
Century City, Los Angeles, California

Academy Awards

Best Supporting Actor
1957 Sayonara

Red Buttons (February 5, 1919 - July 13, 2006) was the stage name of American comedian and actor Aaron Chwatt. He won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Airman Joe Kelly in Sayonara (1957), a rare dramatic role.




Biography

Early life

Chwatt was born in New York City to Jewish immigrants.[1] At sixteen years old, Chwatt got a job as an entertaining bellhop at Ryan's Tavern in City Island, Bronx. The combination of his red hair and the shiny buttoned bellhop uniform inspired orchestra leader Charles "Dinty" Moore to call him Red Buttons, the name under which he would later perform.

Later that same summer, Buttons worked on the Borscht Belt; his straight man was Robert Alda. In 1939, Buttons started working for Minsky's Burlesque; in 1941, José Ferrer chose Buttons to appear in a Broadway show The Admiral Had a Wife. The show was a farce set in Pearl Harbor, and it was due to open on December 8, 1941. It never did, as it was deemed inappropriate after the Japanese attack. In later years Buttons would joke that the Japanese only attacked Pearl Harbor to keep him off of Broadway.


Career

In September 1942, Buttons at last got his Broadway debut in Vickie with Ferrer and Uta Hagen. Later that year, he appeared in the Minsky's show Wine, Women and Song; this was the last Burlesque show in New York City history, as the Mayor La Guardia administration closed it down. Buttons was on stage when the show was raided.

1943 saw Buttons in the Army Air Corps. He was also chosen to appear in the Broadway show Winged Victory, as well as appearing in the Darryl F. Zanuck movie version. He later went on to join Mickey Rooney's outfit, and he entertained troops in the European Theater of operations.


After the war, Buttons continued to do Broadway shows. He also performed at Broadway movie houses with the Big Bands. In 1952, Buttons received his own variety series on television - The Red Buttons Show ran for three years, and achieved high levels of success. His catch phrase from the show, "strange things are happening," entered the national vocabulary briefly in the mid-1950s.

His role in Sayonara was a dramatic departure from his previous work. In that film, he played Joe Kelly, a American airman stationed in Kobe, Japan during the Korean War, who falls in love with Katsumi, a Japanese woman (played by Miyoshi Umeki), but is barred from marrying her by military rules intended to reassure the local populace that the U.S. presence is temporary. His portrayal of Kelly's calm resolve to not abandon the relationship and touching reassurance of Katsumi impressed audiences and critics alike; both he and Umeki won Academy Awards for the film. After his Oscar-winning role, Buttons performed in numerous feature films, including Hatari!, The Longest Day, Harlow, The Poseidon Adventure, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Pete's Dragon, and the memorable 18 Again! with George Burns. Buttons also made many memorable TV appearances on programs including It's Garry Shandling's Show, ER and Roseanne.

He became a nationally recognizable comedian, and his "Never Got A Dinner" sketch was a standard at the Dean Martin roasts for many years.

He is #71 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time.


Personal life

From 1947 to 1951, Buttons was married to actress Roxanne Arlen, who would have been only 16 if her year of birth (1931), given by some sources, is accurate. His next marriage was to Helayne McNorton, from December 8, 1949 until 1963. His last marriage was to Alicia Pratt, which lasted from January 27, 1964 until her death in March 2001. In 2000, Alicia Pratt was arrested for possession of marijuana in the company of another woman. Buttons had two children, daughter Amy Buttons Morgress and son Adam Buttons. He was the advertising spokesman for the Century Village, Florida retirement community.

Buttons died of vascular disease on July 13, 2006 at his home in the Century City area of Los Angeles. He was 87 years old. His spokesman said Buttons had been ill for some time and was with family members when he passed away. [1]

Tim Holt
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Tim Holt (February 5, 1919 - February 15, 1973) was an American film actor.

Born Charles John Holt III in Beverly Hills, California, he was the son of actor Jack Holt and his wife, Margaret Woods. He was sent to study at Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana from which he graduated in 1936 then immediately went to work in the Hollywood film business.

After five minor roles, in 1938, at the age of nineteen, Holt had a major role under star Harry Carey in The Law West of Tombstone. It would be the first of the many Western films he would make during the 1940s. At the same time, his sister, Jennifer Holt, would also become a leading star in the Western film genre.

Tim Holt had one of the leading roles in the Orson Welles 1942 drama, The Magnificent Ambersons but the following year he became a decorated combat veteran of World War II, flying in the Pacific theatre with the United States Army Air Forces as a B-29 bombardier. Tim Holt would return to filming after the war, appearing as "Virgil Earp" to Henry Fonda's, "Wyatt Earp" in director John Ford's Western, My Darling Clementine.

Holt would next be cast in the role that he is probably most remembered for and a film where his father appeared in a small part. Tim Holt portrayed "Bob Curtin" next to the Humphrey Bogart character of "Fred C. Dobbs" in John Huston's classic, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Made in 1946, Holt did another four Western films before "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" would be released in 1948. Tim Holt made two dozen more Western films until 1952 when the genre's popularity waned. He would be absent from the screen for five years until starring in a less than successful horror film in 1957 then appeared in only two more uninspiring motion pictures during the next fourteen years.

In 1973, at the age of fifty-four, Tim Holt died from bone cancer in Shawnee, Oklahoma where he had been managing a radio station. He was interred in the Memory Lane Cemetery in Harrah, Oklahoma.

In 1991, Tim Holt was inducted posthumously into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Barbara Hershey
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia




Biography

Born Barbara Lynn Herzstein on February 5, 1948 in Hollywood, California to an Irish American mother and a Jewish American father who was a horse-racing columnist, Hershey attended Hollywood High School. Her debut was guest starring in three episodes of Gidget in 1965, which she followed up by being cast in the television series The Monroes (1966). She found working on The Monroes to be such a dispiriting experience that she wrote pseudonymous letters to the producers asking that the show be cancelled. Her feature film debut was in the 1968 comedy - With Six You Get Eggroll - which also marked Doris Day's final screen appearance. This was followed by the 1969 Glenn Ford western Heaven with a Gun, where one of her co-stars was future Kung Fu star David Carradine. They became a romantic couple and a prominent symbol of the Hollywood counterculture, becoming parents to a child whom they named Free (who later changed his name to Tom).

Later that year came the drama Last Summer, based on the novel by Evan Hunter (better known for his police procedurals written under the pseudonym Ed McBain) and directed by future Mommie Dearest helmsman Frank Perry. The film received an X rating for a graphic rape scene and earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for co-star Cathy Burns. During the filming of a scene for Last Summer, a seagull was killed. Hershey felt a sense of personal responsibility for its death and went by the name of Barbara Seagull for several years in the early 1970s as a tribute to the creature.

Her 1970 film The Baby Maker explored the idea of surrogate motherhood many years before it became a mainstream reproductive option and reinforced her image as a free-spirited hippie.

This image helped secure her the starring role in the 1972 Roger Corman production Boxcar Bertha, which was being directed on a typically low Corman budget by a fresh-out-of-film-school Martin Scorsese. During filming, Hershey gave Scorsese a copy of her favorite book - Nikos Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation of Christ. Adapting that book into a film would become a 16-year labor of love for Scorsese, who would eventually cast Hershey as Mary Magdalene - though not before making her audition, to prove that she had earned it. Hershey's co-star in Boxcar Bertha was once again David Carradine. They would later recreate their love scene in a hay-filled boxcar for a Playboy magazine pictorial.

In 1976, she starred alongside Charlton Heston in The Last Hard Men. However, the hippie label soon became a career impediment and by the late 1970s she was appearing in made-for-TV movies like Flood! and Sunshine Christmas. But her work in Richard Rush's 1980 critical favorite The Stunt Man - her first big screen appearance in four years - began a gradual career renaissance.

Her appearance in the 1981 horror film The Entity - where she played a woman repeatedly raped by an unseen supernatural force - sufficiently impressed Michael Douglas to have him later fight to have her cast as his estranged wife in Falling Down.

Hershey's performance as a manipulative queen bee made a large impression on Woody Allen, who would later foster her mid-80s career revival by casting her in his greatest commercial success Hannah and Her Sisters. She gained increased visibility with performance as Glennis Yeager, wife of test pilot Chuck Yeager, in Philip Kaufman's 1983 film, The Right Stuff. In mid-decade, she followed the commercial success of Hannah and Her Sisters with unprecedented back-to-back wins for Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for Shy People and for A World Apart.

For her role in the 1988 Bette Midler melodrama Beaches, she injected collagen into her lips - an act that drew negative media coverage.[1]

In 1990, she won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Special for her turn as real-life murderer Candy Morrison in A Killing in a Small Town. Throughout the nineties, Hershey made more small independent films and television projects.

As Madame Merle in Jane Campion's 1996 adaptation of the Henry James novel The Portrait of a Lady, Hershey earned an Oscar nomination and won the Best Supporting Actress award from the National Society of Film Critics. In 1999, Hershey starred in Drowning on Dry Land with Naveen Andrews - with whom she entered into a romantic relationship. During a brief separation in 2005, Andrews fathered a child by another woman. He and Hershey have reportedly reconciled.

In 2001, Hershey was part of a largely Australian ensemble cast for the critically successful Australian film Lantana, which also starred Kerry Armstrong, Anthony LaPaglia and Geoffrey Rush playing a troubled psychiatrist. She appeared in 11:14 in 2003.

Her most recent screen credit was in the 2004 Stephen King adaptation Riding the Bullet.

Jennifer Jason Leigh
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Birth name Jennifer Lee Morrow

Born February 5, 1962
Hollywood, California

Height 5'3" (1.60 m)
Spouse(s) Noah Baumbach

Jennifer Jason Leigh (born February 5, 1962) is an American actress who has appeared in numerous films. Leigh's work has drawn high critical praise. Salon magazine praised her as "one of America's best actors", Paul Verhoeven, who directed her in Flesh & Blood, similarly claimed "There is no greater actress working in America", and in 1994 Vogue magazine claimed "Leigh sets a standard that all future film actresses must attempt to match… (She has) an extraordinary range and power. The proof is in her diverse, courageous and mesmerizing body of work". She has already received three separate career tributes - at the Telluride Film Festival in 1993, a special award for her contribution to independent cinema from the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2002, and a week-long retrospective showing of her film work held by the American Cinematheque at Los Angeles' Egyptian Theatre in June 2001. In addition to these achievements, Leigh was selected as one of "America's 10 Most Beautiful Women" by Harper's Bazaar magazine in 1989.




Biography

Early career

Born Jennifer Lee Morrow in Hollywood, California, she is the daughter of Blackboard Jungle actor Vic Morrow and Pollock screenwriter Barbara Turner, both of whom were Jewish, although Leigh was raised mostly without religion. Leigh changed her middle and last name, taking the middle name "Jason" in honor of family friend, the late actor, Jason Robards, Jr.

At the age of 14 she attended summer acting workshops given by Lee Strasberg and received her Screen Actors Guild membership in an episode of the TV show Baretta when she was 16. An episode of The Waltons and several TV movies followed, including an unusually powerful portrayal of an anorexic teenager in The Best Little Girl in the World, for which Leigh wasted away to a skeletal 86lbs under medical supervision. She made her screen debut as a blind, deaf and mute rape victim in the 1980 slasher flick Eyes of a Stranger. In 1982 she played a teenager who gets pregnant in Amy Heckerling's popular high-school comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which served as a launching pad for several then-unknown future stars besides Leigh, including Sean Penn, Nicolas Cage, Forest Whitaker, Eric Stoltz and Phoebe Cates.

Adult roles

As an adult, Leigh gravitated towards portraying fragile, damaged or neurotic characters. Her waify baby-doll looks soon got her cast in victim roles - she was a virginal princess kidnapped and raped by mercenaries in Verhoeven's medieval adventure Flesh & Blood (1985), an innocent waitress dismembered by a semi truck in The Hitcher (1986), and a young woman sinking into mental breakdown in a seedy nightclub inherited from her uncle in Heart of Midnight (1989). It wasn't until 1990 that Leigh made a significant career breakthrough when she was voted the year's Best Supporting Actress by both the New York Film Critics Circle and the Boston Society of Film Critics for her portrayals of two very different prostitutes: first as the tough, emotionally numb, self-destructive streetwalker Tralala - who instigates a gang-rape by drunkenly giving herself to all the men in a bar - in Last Exit to Brooklyn, and then as the sweet, braindead waif whose dreams of suburban bliss are shattered by psychopathic ex-con Alec Baldwin in Miami Blues. She followed up with another harrowing performance as an undercover narcotics cop who becomes a junkie in the line of duty in Rush (1991), and the role most filmgoers associate her with: Hedy, the psychopathic "roommate from hell" in the smash-hit thriller Single White Female (1992). Leigh was perfectly cast as the needy, frumpy emotional vampire intent on stealing Bridget Fonda's identity, in the process creating one of the screen's creepiest female psychopaths. She had a rare opportunity to showcase her dazzling comic timing as a fast-talking, hard-as-nails bitch reporter who has her heart melted by Tim Robbins in the Coen Brothers' surreal comic fantasy The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), and won a slew of awards for her eccentrically mannered portrayal of the depressed, alcoholic writer and poet Dorothy Parker in Alan Rudolph's Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994). Some criticized Leigh's decision to deliver dialogue in a slurring, lockjawed mumble, but her speech was an uncannily accurate impersonation of the real Dorothy Parker; she received a Golden Globe nomination and Best Actress awards from the National Society of Film Critics, Chicago Film Critics Association and Fort Lauderdale Film Critics.

Next up was the role that many critics, fans and even Leigh herself considers the greatest performance of her career: Sadie Flood, a passionate but talentless, angry, substance-addicted barroom rock singer living in the shadow of her successful older sister (played by Mare Winningham) in Georgia (1995). For this role Leigh dieted down to 90 pounds (40 kg) and performed all the songs live, including a painful 8½-minute version of Van Morrison's "Take Me Back". Critic Peter Travers of Rolling Stone felt that "(Leigh's) fierce, funny, exasperating and deeply affecting portrayal commands attention", James Berardinelli claimed "There are times when it's uncomfortable to watch this performance because it's so powerful", while Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times said "Leigh's exceptional performance tears you apart… we've never seen anything like it before". This time around she won Best Actress awards from the New York Film Critics Circle and Montreal World Film Festival, though not the expected Oscar nomination that still eludes her.


Other memorable Leigh roles of this era included a jaded phone sex operator who diapers her newborn baby while plying her trade in Robert Altman's Academy Award-nominated masterpiece Short Cuts (1993), Kathy Bates' tormented, pill-popping journalist daughter in the Stephen King chiller Dolores Claiborne (1995), a streetwise kidnapper in Altman's jazz tribute Kansas City (1996), a mousy 19th century spinster heiress courted by a gold-digger in Washington Square (1997), and a sexy/nerdy virtual-reality game designer hunted by anti-games terrorists in David Cronenberg's surreal eXistenZ (1999). In 2001 she joined forces with Scottish actor Alan Cumming to write, direct and produce a film together, shot in 19 days on digital video and starring real-life Hollywood friends like Kevin Kline, Phoebe Cates, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Beals, John C. Reilly and Parker Posey. The result was The Anniversary Party, a well-received ensemble comedy in the style of The Big Chill or Peter's Friends. Leigh and Cumming jointly received a citation for Excellence in Filmmaking from the National Board of Review, and were nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards for Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay.

More recently Leigh has been cast in smaller character roles: as gangster Tom Hanks' doomed wife in Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition (2002), as Meg Ryan's brutally murdered sister in Jane Campion's In the Cut (2003), and as Christian Bale's sympathetic hooker girlfriend in the dark thriller The Machinist (2004) (causing Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle to comment that, "As the downtrodden, sexy, trusting and quietly funny prostitute, Leigh is, of course, in her element"). Her performance as a manipulative stage mother in Childstar won her a Genie Award in 2005.

Also a stage actress, Leigh took on the singing, dancing lead role of Sally Bowles in the popular musical Cabaret on Broadway from August 4, 1998 to February 28, 1999, and took over from Mary-Louise Parker in Proof from September 13, 2001 to June 30, 2002. Other theatrical appearances include The Glass Menagerie, Man of Destiny, The Shadow Box, Picnic, Sunshine and Abigail's Party.

Trivia

Leigh's least favorite role was as a normal girlfriend in the popular 1991 firefighting drama Backdraft; Hollywood legend has it that Leigh told director Ron Howard, "The only role I want to play in this film is the fire".

She filmed a role for Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999), but when Kubrick wanted to do re-shoots, she was unavailable and her entire part was redone with another actress.

According to various magazine interviews and her 1999 guest slot on the TV show Inside the Actors Studio, Leigh is a fan of the photographer Nan Goldin, and the musicians Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Liz Phair and Ella Fitzgerald. Her favorite films include My Night at Maud's, Dog Day Afternoon, Forbidden Games (aka Jeux interdits), Naked, Sweetie, Born Free and The Fly.

In 1997, she was featured in Faith No More's music video for "Last Cup of Sorrow."

She turned down roles in sex, lies, and videotape (1989), Pretty Woman (1990) and A League of Their Own (1992), and narrowly missed out on Linda Hamilton's role in The Terminator (1984). She also turned down the role of Libby, which was eventually played by Cynthia Watros, on ABC's popular thriller series Lost. ([[1]])

Leigh is known for doing extensive method acting research in every role, including keeping diaries written in the character's voice, and in the past has interviewed psychiatrists, mental patients, drug addicts, sexual abuse survivors, prostitutes and phone sex workers to prepare for her roles. ([[2]])

Leigh's father Vic Morrow was decapitated by a helicopter blade while shooting Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983).


[edit] Personal life
Leigh and her boyfriend of four years, Academy Award-nominated independent film writer-director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale), were married on September 3, 2005. Baumbach is currently shooting Margot at the Wedding starring Leigh opposite Nicole Kidman and Jack Black, due for release in October 2007.

She has been best friends with her Fast Times at Ridgemont High/The Anniversary Party co-star Phoebe Cates for nearly 25 years. Other close friends include Mare Winningham, Jennifer Beals, Alan Cumming and John C. Reilly.

Your Culinary Skills Might Need a Little Help If:

* You consider it a culinary success if the Pop-Tart
stays in one piece.

* Your dog goes to the neighbors' to eat.

* Your family buys Alka-Seltzer and Kaopectate in bulk.

* When you barbecue, two of your kids holds water guns
and the third stands ready by the phone with 911 on
speed-dial.

* Your family automatically heads for the dinner table
every time they hear a fire truck siren.

* Your microwave display reads "TILT!"

* Your two best recipes are meat loaf and apple pie,
but your dinner guests can't tell which is which.

* Your pie filling bubbles over and eats the enamel
off the bottom of the oven.

* You've used three boxes of scouring pads and a
bottle of Drano and a crowbar, and that macaroni
and cheese still won't let go of the pan.

* Pest control companies keep pestering you for your
recipes.

* Your family prays AFTER they eat!

Well, folks, there's BioBob. Hey, hawkman, thanks once again for the great background on the celeb's, and we especially appreciate your funnies about the world's worst chefs. Especially like this one:

"Your family prays after they eat."

Hope our Raggedy will be along presently to do the photo thing, but until that moment, here's a song that Jennifer did.

This is getting old and so are you
Everything you know and never knew
Will run through your fingers just like sand
- Enjoy it while you can -
Like a snake between two stones
It itches, in your bones
Take a deep breath and swallow, your sorrow, tomorrow
Raise the cup and let's propose a toast
To the thing that hurts you most
It's your last cup of sorrow
What can you say?
Finish it today
It's your last cup of sorrow
So think of me
And get on your way
It won't begin until you make it end
Until you know the how the where and the when
With a new face you might surprise yourself
Like a snake between two stones
It itches, in your bones
Take a deeper breath and swallow, your sorrow, tomorrow
Raise the cup and let's propose a toast
To the thing that hurts you most
Is your last cup of sorrow
What can you say?
Finish it today
It's your last cup of sorrow
So think of me
And get on your way
You might surprise yourself [11 times]

Good afternoon.

My photo thing of five pictures just got wiped out, so one photo will just have to do.

We'll give it a try, Raggedy:

Loved the movie "Beaches", folks, and the song from that was awesome.

Barbara Hershey also was a villian in "The Natural" with Robert Redford.

Excellent, Letty.


It must have been cold there in my shadow,
to never have sunlight on your face.
You were content to let me shine, that's your way,
you always walked a step behind.

So I was the one with all the glory,
while you were the one with all the strength.
A beautiful face without a name -- for so long,
a beautiful smile to hide the pain.

CHORUS:
Did you ever know that you're my hero,
and ev'rything I would like to be?
I can fly higher than an eagle,
'cause you are the wind beneath my wings.

It might have appeared to go unnoticed,
but I've got it all here in my heart.
I want you to know I know the truth, of course I know it,
I would be nothing with out you.


Fly, fly, fly away,
you let me fly so high.
Oh, fly, fly,
so high against the sky, so high I almost touch the sky.
Thank you, thank you, thank God for you,
the wind beneath my wings.

Well, my goodness, Raggedy. We're still on the air.

Love that song, incidentally, PA.

This is just an old folk song, but I want to see if it will play:



The Last Game of the Season (The Blind Man in the Bleachers)
(Sterling Whipple)

He's just the blind man in the bleachers, to the local home town fans
And he sits beneath the speakers, way back in the stands
And he listens to the play-by-play, he's just waiting for one name
He wants to hear his son get in the game.

But the boy's not just a hero, he's strictly second team
Tho' he runs each night for touchdowns, in his father's sweetest dreams
He's gonna he a star someday, tho' you might never tell
But the blind man in the bleachers knows he will.

And the last game of the season is a Friday night at home
No one knows the reason, but the blind man didn't come
And his boy looks kinda nervous, sometimes turns around and stares
Just as tho' he sees the old man sittin' there.

The local boys are tryin', but they slowly lose their will
Another player's down and now he's carried from the field
At halftime in the locker room, the kid goes off alone
And no one sees him talkin' on the phone.

The game's already started, when he gets back to the team
And half the crowd can hear his coach yell, "Where the hell you been?"
"Just gettin' ready for the second half," is all he'll say
"'Cause now you're gonna let me in to play."

Without another word, he turns and runs into the game
And through the silence on the field, loudspeakers call his name
It'll make the local papers, how the team came from behind
When they saw him playin' his heart out to win.

And when the game was over, the coach asked him to tell
What was it he was thinkin' of that made him play so well
"You know my dad was blind," he said, "Tonight he passed Away"
"It's the first time that my father has seen me play."

Carioca
Enric Madriguera

[Words by Gus Kahn]
[Music by Vincent Youmans and Edward Eliscu]

Say, have you seen a Carioca
It's not a foxtrot or a polka
It has a little bit of new rhythm
A blue rhythm that sighs

It has a meter that is tricky
A bit of wicked wacky-wicky
But when you dance it with a new love
There's a true love in her eye

You dream of a new Carioca
Its theme is a kiss and a sigh
You dream of a new Carioca
When music and lights are gone we say goodbye

Two heads together, they say are better than one
Two heads together, that's how the dance is begun
Two arms around you and lips
That's why I'm yours and you are mine
And you are mine

Now that you've done the Carioca
You'll never care to do the Polka
And then you'll realize
The blue hula and bamboola are through

Tomorrow morning you'll discover
You're just a Carioca lover
And when you dance it with each new love
There'll be true love just for you

Now you'll dream of a new Carioca
Its theme is a kiss and a sigh
You'll dream of a new Carioca
When music and lights are gone
And we're saying goodbye
Goodbye

edgar, I am not certain what Gus (Kahn) had in mind when he wrote your carioca. Just wondering what kind of dance it is. I think this one is a tango by that group from your state, Brave Combo:

I touch your lips and all at once, the sparks go flying
Those devil lips that know so well when i am lying
And though i see the danger, still flames go higher
I know i must surrender to your kiss of fire
Just like a torch you set my soul within me burning
I must go on along the road, no returning
And though it burns me, it turns me into ashes
My whole world crashes, without your kiss of fire


I can't resist you, what good is there in trying
What good is there denying, you're all that i desire
Since first i kissed you, my heart was yours completely
If i'm a slave, then it's a slave, i want to be...

Don't pity me, don't pity me

Give me your lips, the lips you only let me borrow
Love me tonight, devil take tomorrow
I know that i must have your kiss although it kills me
Though it consumes me, your kiss of fire
I know that i must have your kiss although it kills me
Though it consumes me your kiss of fire.

Love the tango, Texas.

("bung, bung, bung, bung..........)

Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream (bung, bung, bung, bung)
Make him the cutest that I've ever seen (bung, bung, bung, bung)
Give him two lips like roses and clover (bung, bung, bung, bung)
Then tell him that his lonesome nights are over.
Sandman, I'm so alone
Don't have nobody to call my own
Please turn on your magic beam
Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream.

( "bung, bung, bung, bung.….)

Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream
Make him the cutest that I've ever seen
Give him the word that I'm not a rover
Then tell him that his lonesome nights are over.
Sandman, I'm so alone
Don't have nobody to call my own
Please turn on your magic beam
Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream.

( "bung, bung, bung, bung)

Mr. Sandman (male voice: "Yesss?) bring us a dream
Give him a pair of eyes with a "come-hither" gleam
Give him a lonely heart like Pagliacci
And lots of wavy hair like Liberace
Mr Sandman, someone to hold (someone to hold)
Would be so peachy before we're too old
So please turn on your magic beam
Mr Sandman, bring us, please, please, please
Mr Sandman, bring us a dream.

( "bung, bung, bung, bung….)


The Chordettes

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

Hey, edgar. Loved the way you sounded out those onomatopoeias. " bung, bung, bung?

Well, folks, here's a dedication song to Craven:

Kenny Rogers

On a warm summer's evenin' on a train bound for nowhere,
I met up with the gambler; we were both too tired to sleep.
So we took turns a starin' out the window at the darkness
'Til boredom overtook us, and he began to speak.

He said, "Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces,
And knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.
And if you don't mind my sayin', I can see you're out of aces.
For a taste of your whiskey I'll give you some advice."

So I handed him my bottle and he drank down my last swallow.
Then he bummed a cigarette and asked me for a light.
And the night got deathly quiet, and his face lost all expression.
Said, "If you're gonna play the game, boy, ya gotta learn to play it right.

You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when you're sittin' at the table.
There'll be time enough for countin' when the dealin's done.

Ev'ry gambler knows that the secret to survivin'
Is knowin' what to throw away and knowing what to keep.
'Cause ev'ry hand's a winner and ev'ry hand's a loser,
And the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep."

And when he'd finished speakin', he turned back towards the window,
Crushed out his cigarette and faded off to sleep.
And somewhere in the darkness the gambler, he broke even.
But in his final words I found an ace that I could keep.

You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when you're sittin' at the table.
There'll be time enough for countin' when the dealin's done.