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Missed your Richie Haven's song, dys, but as most of us know, jazz is the ONLY pure American music, and it all came from the slaves.

The original version by Peter, Paul, and Mary:



Motherless Child
(From the album "A SONG WILL RISE")

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
A long way from home, a long way from home.

Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone
Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone
Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone
A long way from home, a long way from home.

Sometimes I feel like a mournin' dove
Sometimes I feel like a mournin' dove
Sometimes I feel like a mournin' dove
A long way from home, a long way from home.

Sometimes I feel like an eagle in the air
Sometimes I feel like an eagle in the air
Sometimes I feel like an eagle in the air
A long way from home, a long way from home.

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
A long way from home, a long way from home.

I just learned from my friend in Northern Ireland that his wife's brother died today after being in a coma since last Christmas. You may remember him as smokingun, but this is for him and his wife, both devout Roman Catholics:

Christe Redemptor

DIALECT: Church Latin


Jesus dulcedo cordium,
Fons veri, lumen mentium,
Excedit omne gaudium
Et omne desiderium


Jesu, spes paenitentibus,
Quam pius es pententibus
Quam bonus te quaerentibus,
Sed quid invenientibus
Mane nobiscum, Domine,
Mane novum cum lumine,
Pulsa noctis caligine,
Mundum replens dulcedina


Jesus dulcedo cordium, (1st verse repeated)
Fons veri, lumen mentium,
Excedit omne gaudium
Et omne desiderium
Amen.



ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Jesus, thou Joy of loving hearts
Thou Fount of Life
Thou light of men
From the best bliss each earth imparts
We turn unfilled to thee again


Thy truth unchanged hath ever stood;
Thou savest those that on thee call
To them that seek thee, thou art good
To them that find thee, all in all


O Jesus, ever with us stay
Make all our moments calm and bright
Chase the dark of wrong away
shed o'er the world thy holy light.
Amen

I remember him. Sad to hear (or, read).

Jerry Lee Lewis - Honky Tonk Heaven


I've spent the best part of my life around neon lights
I've done taught myself how the men picked good fights
Over some ballroom queen that came to dance
While they're listening to some honky tonk band
I've gone out around from town to town
Whoa, I've seen the sun coming up face down
With my trusty guitar in my hand
Lord, I've always been a honky tonk man

Send me to honky tonk heaven when I die
Gonna be a big ole highway in the sky
With some honky tonk angels by my side
Send me to honky tonk heaven when I die

Send me to honky tonk heaven when I die
Gonna be a big ole highway in the sky
With some honky tonk angels by my side
Send me to honky tonk heaven when I die

Send me to honky tonk heaven when I die
Gonna be a big ole highway in the sky
With some honky tonk angels by my side
Send me to honky tonk heaven when I die

Hey, hey, hey! I'd like to see Elvis Presley and
Jerry Lee Lewis when they're about 25 years old

Send me to honky tonk heaven when I die
Whoa! Gonna be a big ole highway in the sky
With some honky tonk angels by my side
Send me to honky tonk heaven when I die

Send me to honky tonk heaven when I die
I'm gonna roll in some kind of big ole highway in the sky
With some honky tonk angels by my side
Send me to honky tonk heaven when I die

Dolly Parton version, edgar:

As I sit here tonight, the jukebox playin'
The tune about the wild side of life
As I listen to the words you are saying
It brings memories when I was a trusting wife
Chorus:

It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels
As you wrote in the words of your song
Too many times married men think they're still single
That has caused many a good girl to go wrong

It's a shame that all the blame is on us women
It's not true that only you men feel the same
From the start most every heart that's ever broken
Was because there always was a man to blame

Chorus:

It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels
Like you said in the words of your song
Too many times married men think they're still single
That has caused many a good girl to go wrong
That has caused many a good girl to go wrong

You Turn Me On, I'm A Radio
Joni Mitchell

If you're driving into town
With a dark cloud above you
Dial in the number
Who's bound to love you
Oh honey you turn me on
I'm a radio
I'm a country station
I'm a little bit corny
I'm a wildwood flower
Waving for you
Broadcasting tower
Waving for you
And I'm sending you out
This signal here
I hope you can pick it up
Loud and clear
I know you don't like weak women
You get bored so quick
And you don't like strong women
cause they're hip to your tricks
Its been dirty for dirty
Down the line
But you know
I come when you whistle
When you're loving and kind
But if you've got too many doubts
If theres no good reception for me
Then tune me out, cause honey
Who needs the static
It hurts the head
And you wind up cracking
And the day goes dismal
From breakfast barney
To the sign-off prayer
What a sorry face you get to wear
I'm going to tell you again now
If youre still listening there
If you're driving into town
With a dark cloud above you
Dial in the number
Who's bound to love you
If you're lying on the beach
With the transistor going
Kick off the sandflies honey
The loves still flowing
If your head says forget it
But your hearts still smoking
Call me at the station
The lines are open


Rainy Night House
Joni Mitchell

It was a rainy night
We took a taxi to your mothers home
She went to florida and left you
With your fathers gun, alone
Upon her small white bed
I fell into a dream
You sat up all the night and watched me
To see, who in the world I might be

I am from the sunday school
I sing soprano in the upstairs choir
You are a holy man
On the f.m. radio
I sat up all the night and watched thee
To see, who in the world you might be.

You called me beautiful
You called your mother-she was very tanned
So you packed your tent and you went
To live out in the arizona sand
You are a refugee
From a wealthy family
You gave up all the golden factories
To see, who in the world you might be


The Circle Game
Joni Mitchell

Yesterday a child came out to wonder
Caught a dragonfly inside a jar
Fearful when the sky was full of thunder
And tearful at the falling of a star
Then the child moved ten times round the seasons
Skated over ten clear frozen streams
Words like, when you're older, must appease him
And promises of someday make his dreams
And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game

Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now
Cartwheels turn to car wheels thru the town
And they tell him,
Take your time, it won't be long now
Till you drag your feet to slow the circles down
And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game

So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty
Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true
There'll be new dreams, maybe better dreams and plenty
Before the last revolving year is through
And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return, we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game

Ah, dj. You always play such delightful songs, Canada. That Radio song by Joni says it all about our cyber radio, I think.

We all love Rainy Night House and The Circle Game as well.

Time for me to say goodnight, and although I am no wee baby, I have always loved this lullaby:

Lullaby and good night, with roses bedight
With lilies o'er spread is baby's wee bed
Lay thee down now and rest, may thy slumber be blessed
Lay thee down now and rest, may thy slumber be blessed

Lullaby and good night, thy mother's delight
Bright angels beside my darling abide
They will guard thee at rest, thou shalt wake on my breast
They will guard thee at rest, thou shalt wake on my breast

(original German)
Guten Abend, gute Nacht, Mit Rosen bedacht,
Mit Naeglein besteckt, schlupf unter die Deck'
Morgen frueh, wenn Gott will, wirst du wieder geweckt
Morgen frueh, wenn Gott will, wirst du wieder geweckt

Guten Abend, gute Nacht, Von Englein bewacht
Die zeigen im Traum, dir Christkindleins Baum
Schlaf nun selig und suess, Schau im Traum's Paradies
Schlaf nun selig und suess, Schau im Traum's Paradies

From Letty with love.

It being my post #11111, i'd like to play this Cole Porter song:

As Dorothy Parker once said
To her boyfriend, "fare thee well"
As Columbus announced
When he knew he was bounced,
"It was swell, Isabel, swell"

As Abelard said to Eloise,
"Don't forget to drop a line to me, please"
As Juliet cried, in her Romeo's ear,
"Romeo, why not face the fact, my dear"

It was just one of those things
Just one of those crazy flings
One of those bells that now and then rings
Just one of those things

It was just one of those nights
Just one of those fabulous flights
A trip to the moon on gossamer wings
Just one of those things

If we'd thought a bit, of the end of it
When we started painting the town
We'd have been aware that our love affair
Was too hot, not to cool down

So good-bye, dear, and amen
Here's hoping we meet now and then
It was great fun
But it was just one of those things

If we'd thought a bit, of the end of it
When we started painting the town
We'd have been aware that our love affair
Was too hot, not to cool down

So good-bye, dear, and amen
Here's hoping we meet now and then
It was great fun
But it was just one of those things

Just one of those things

The Guests
Leonard Cohen

One by one, the guests arrive
The guests are coming through
The open-hearted many
The broken-hearted few

And no one knows where the night is going
And no one knows why the wine is flowing
Oh love I need you
I need you
I need you
I need you
Oh . . . I need you now

And those who dance, begin to dance
Those who weep begin
And welcome, welcome cries a voice
Let all my guests come in.

And no one knows where the night is going ...

And all go stumbling through that house
In lonely secrecy
Saying do reveal yourself
Or why has thou forsaken me?

And no one knows where the night is going ...

All at once the torches flare
The inner door flies open
One by one they enter there
In every style of passion

And no one knows where the night is going ...

And here they take their sweet repast
While house and grounds dissolve
And one by one the guests are cast
Beyond the garden wall

And no one knows where the night is going ...

Those who dance, begin to dance
Those who weep begin
Those who earnestly are lost
Are lost and lost again

And no one knows where the night is going ...

One by the guests arrive
The guests are coming through
The broken-hearted many
The open-hearted few

And no one knows where the night is going ...

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

Wow! Mr. Turtle. Congratulations on having arrived at five one's posts.

Just ONE of those things, M.D.? A great song for the proper arrival.

edgar, as usual, Mr. Cohen reminds us just how important "need" is in this world. Thanks, Texas.

To begin the day, here's one by Van Morrison:


If I Ever Needed Someone

Lord if I ever needed someone I need you
Lord if I ever needed someone I need you

To see me through the daytime
And through the long lonely night
To lead me through the darkness
And on into the light
To stand with me when I'm troubled
And help me through my strife
When times get so uncertain to turn to
To you in my young life

Lord if I ever needed someone I need you
Lord if I ever needed someone I need you

Someone to hold onto
And keep me from all fear
Someone to be my guiding light
And keep me ever dear
To keep me from my selfishness
To keep me from my sorrow
To lead me on to givingness
So I can see a new tomorrow

Lord if I ever needed someone I need you
Lord if I ever needed someone I need you

Someone to walk with
Someone to hold by the hand
Someone to talk with
Someone to understand
To call on when I need you
And I need you very much
To open up my arms to you
And feel your tender touch
To feel it and to keep it
Just right here in my soul
And care for it and keep it with me
Never to grow old

Lord if I ever needed someone I need you
Lord if I ever needed someone I need you
Etc.

Ansel Adams
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Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 - April 22, 1984) was an American photographer, best known for his black and white photographs of California's Yosemite Valley.

Adams also authored numerous books about photography, including his trilogy of technical instruction manuals (The Camera, The Negative and The Print); co-founded Group f/64 along with other masters like Edward Weston, Willard Van Dyke, and Imogen Cunningham; and created, with Fred Archer the zone system. The zone system is a technique which allows photographers to translate the light they see into specific densities on negatives and paper, thus giving them better control over finished photographs. Adams also pioneered the idea of visualization (which he often called 'previsualization', though he later acknowledged that term to be a redundancy) of the finished print based upon the measured light values in the scene being photographed.




Life

Youth

Adams was born in San Francisco, California in an upper-class family. When he was four years old, he was tossed face-first into a garden wall in an aftershock from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, breaking his nose. His nose was never repaired and appeared crooked for his entire life [1].

Adams disliked the uniformity of the education system and left school in 1915, at the age of 12 to to be educated by private tutors. His original passion was to become a concert pianist, but Adams became interested in photography after seeing Paul Strand's negatives. Adams long alternated between a career as a concert pianist and one as a photographer. He met his future wife, the camera-shy Virginia Best, in Yosemite.

At age 17, Adams joined the Sierra Club, a group dedicated to preserving the natural world's wonders and resources. He remained a member throughout his lifetime and served as a director, as did his wife, Virginia. Adams was an avid mountaineer in his youth and participated in the club's annual "high trips", and was later responsible for several first ascents in the Sierra Nevada. It was at Half Dome in 1927 that he first found that he could make photographs that were, in his own words, "...an austere and blazing poetry of the real". Adams became an environmentalist, and his photographs are a record of what many of these national parks were like before human intervention and travel. His work promoted many of the goals of the Sierra Club and brought environmental issues to light.

Career

In the 1930s, Adams created a limited-edition book of his photography, Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail, as part of the Sierra Club's efforts to secure the designation of Sequoia and Kings Canyon as national parks. This book and his testimony before Congress, played a vital role in the success of the effort, and Congress designated the area as a National Park in 1940.

In 1932, Adams had a one-man show at the M. H. de Young Museum in San Francisco, in which he displayed 80 photographs in three galleries. In the same year, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston and Adams created the Group f/64, a group which was based around a loyalty to "straight photography", or unaltered prints, in reaction against pictorialism.

During World War Two Adams worked on creating epic photographic murals for the Department of the Interior. Adams was distressed by the Japanese American Internment that occurred after the Pearl Harbor attack. He requested permission to visit the Manzanar War Relocation Center in the Owens Valley, at the foot of Mount Williamson. The resulting photo-essay first appeared in a Museum of Modern Art exhibit, and later was published as Born Free and Equal: Photographs of the loyal Japanese-Americans at Manzanar Relocation Center, Inyo County, California.

In 1952 Adams was one of the founders of the magazine Aperture.

In March 1963, Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall accepted a commission from Clark Kerr, the President of the University of California, to produce a series of photographs of the University's campuses to commemorate its centennial celebration. The collection, titled "Fiat Lux" after the University's motto, was published in 1967 and now resides in the Museum of Photography at the University of California, Riverside.

Adams was the recipient of three Guggenheim fellowships during his career. He was elected in 1966 a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1980 Jimmy Carter awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.


Death
Ansel Adams died on April 22, 1984 from heart failure aggravated by cancer. When he died he left behind his wife, two children (Michael born August 1933, Anne born 1935) and five grandchildren.

Publishing rights for the Adams' photographs are handled by the trustees of The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.

The Minarets Wilderness in the Inyo National Forest was renamed the Ansel Adams Wilderness in 1984 in his honor. Mount Ansel Adams, an 11,760 ft. peak in the Sierra Nevada, was named for him in 1985.

The full archive of Ansel Adams' work is located at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Sidney Poitier
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Birth name Sidney Poitier
Born February 20, 1927 (age 79)
at sea, recorded in Miami, Florida

Notable roles In the Heat of the Night
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Lilies of the Field

Sir Sidney Poitier KBE, (IPA pronunciation: ['pwɑtiˌeɪ]) (born February 20, 1927), is an Academy Award-winning Bahamian actor, film director, and activist. He has been hailed as a breakthrough star thanks to his acclaimed performances in American films and plays, which, by consciously defying racial stereotyping, gave a new dramatic credibility for black actors to mainstream film audiences in the Western world.





Early life and acting career

Sidney Poitier was born on the high seas en route to Miami, Florida, where his farmer parents, a Bahamian father of Haitian descent and a Bahamian mother, traveled to sell tomatoes and other produce from their farm on tiny Cat Island in The Bahamas. Poitier was born prematurely and was not originally expected to survive the boat ride; his birth was recorded in Miami, as the vessel was already closer to Florida. He spent his early years on the remote island, which had a population of 1,500 and no electricity.

During his early teenage years, Poitier traveled to Nassau with his family. As he got older he displayed an increasing inclination toward juvenile delinquency. At the age of 16 his parents shipped him off to Miami to live with his older brother. At age 17, Poitier moved to New York City and underwent a brief stint in the U.S. Army and a string of menial jobs. During his time of menial jobs he was arrested for vagrancy after being thrown out of his housing complex for not paying rent. Then he decided to join the army. He then tried his hand at the theater, where he was handily rejected by audiences. Determined to refine his acting skills and rid himself of his noticeable Bahamian accent, he spent the next 6 months dedicating himself to achieving theatrical success. On his second attempt at the theater, he was noticed and given a leading role in the Broadway production "Lysistrata", for which he got excellent reviews. By the end of 1949, he was having to choose between leading roles on stage and an offer to work for Darryl F. Zanuck in the film No Way Out (1950). His performance in No Way Out as a doctor treating a white bigot got him plenty of notice and led to more roles, each considerably more interesting and prominent than most black actors of the time were getting, though still less interesting and prominent than those white actors routinely obtained.

In Hollywood, Poitier made many memorable movies. His breakout role was as a member of an incorrigible high school class in the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle (although, like most of the actors in the film, he was not a teenager, and was in fact aged 27).

He was the first male black actor to be nominated for a competitive Academy Award (for The Defiant Ones, 1958), and also the first to win the Academy Award for Best Actor (for Lilies of the Field in 1963). (Note that James Baskett was the first to receive an Oscar, but it was an Honorary Academy Award for his performance as Uncle Remus in the Walt Disney production of Song of the South in 1948; Poitier was the first black male to win, or even be nominated, in a competitive category. Hattie McDaniel had been the first actor to break the race barrier in 1939 when she won Best Supporting Actress for Gone With the Wind).

He acted in the first production of A Raisin in the Sun on Broadway in 1959, and later starred in the film version that was released in 1961. He also had gave a memorable performances in The Bedford Incident (1965), A Patch of Blue (1965) co-starring Elizabeth Hartman and Shelley Winters; Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (1967); and To Sir, with Love (1967). To many audiences, however, Poitier will forever be remembered as the unintimidable Virgil Tibbs, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania detective in the hit 1967 movie In the Heat of the Night and its two sequels: They Call Me Mister Tibbs (1970) and The Organization (1971).


Directorial career

Poitier has directed several films, the most successful being the Richard Pryor-Gene Wilder comedy Stir Crazy, which for years was the highest grossing film directed by a person of African descent. His feature film directorial debut was the western Buck and the Preacher in which Poitier also starred in alongside Harry Belafonte. Poitier replaced original director Joseph Sargent. The trio of Poitier, Cosby, and Belafonte reunited again (with Poitier again directing) in Uptown Saturday Night. Poitier also directed (with Cosby starring in) Let's Do It Again, A Piece of the Action, and Ghost Dad. He appeared on Oprah Winfrey's 20th Anniversary show with a speech about Oprah.


Honors

Poitier was appointed a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) in 1974. Being a citizen of the Bahamas, a Commonwealth Realm that uses the British Honours System, this is a substantive knighthood which entitles him to use the title "Sir", though he chooses not to do so. Poitier also has served as non-resident Bahamian ambassador to Japan (since April 1997), and to the United Nations (UN) Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). In these diplomatic roles, the Bahamian Ministry of Foreign Affairs refers to him as "His Excellency Sir Sidney Poitier" [1].

In 2000 he received the Life Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), and in 2002 he received an Honorary Academy Award for his lifetime achievement in the film industry from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

In June 2006, the AFI released its list of the 100 Most Inspiring Movies. Poitier was the only actor to have five of his films appear on the list (The Defiant Ones, A Raisin in the Sun, Lilies of the Field, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and In the Heat of the Night).


Personal life

Poitier was first married to Juanita Hardy from April 29, 1950 until 1965. He has been married to Joanna Shimkus, a Canadian-born former actress of Lithuanian descent, since January 23, 1976. He has four children by his first marriage and two children by his second marriage. His fifth daughter is actress Sydney Tamiia Poitier.

He has written two autobiographical books, This Life (1980) and The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography (2000). In January 2007, the latter became an Oprah's Book Club selection.


Miscellany

In 1983, unbeknownst to Poitier, impostor David Hampton spent several months in New York City posing as "David Poitier", Sidney Poitier's nonexistent son. By the time of Hampton's exposure and arrest, he had used this ruse to gain access to private clubs, as well as hospitality and money from the rich, privileged, and famous of New York City. Poitier is therefore mentioned extensively in John Guare's play Six Degrees of Separation (later filmed) which dramatized this incident.
Poitier reluctantly agreed to star in Otto Preminger's 1959 film version of George Gershwin's musical Porgy and Bess. His voice was dubbed by opera singer Robert McFerrin, Sr., father of Bobby McFerrin.
A version of Poitier was in South Park in the episode Mecha-Streisand.
In the British television show The Office, main character David Brent claims Sidney Poitier is his favorite actor of all time

Amanda Blake
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Amanda Blake (February 20, 1929 - August 16, 1989), was an American actress best known for the role of the red-haired "Miss Kitty" on the longest-running television drama, CBS's Gunsmoke series (1955-1975).

Born Beverly Louise Neill in Buffalo, New York, she was a telephone operator before taking up acting. Nicknamed "The Young Greer Garson," she became best known for her 19-year stint as the fictitious "Kitty Russell". Miss Kitty was owner-operator of the Long Branch Saloon, from which she dispensed wisdom, whiskey, (and though not overtly) boarding room keys and "fancy" women. Like Perry Mason and his secretary Della Street, Kitty and Dodge City's U.S. Marshal, Matt Dillon (played by James Arness) seemingly carried on a cloaked relationship. Blake's Kitty presumably departed Dodge City at the close of the series' 19th season, sans an on-screen farewell. Character actress Fran Ryan (Hanna) assumed ownership of the Long Branch for the twentieth and final season, with little mentioned of Kitty. In the first of three CBS post-series movies ("Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge"), Kitty tells Hanna (Ryan) that she left Dodge to return to New Orleans, as she was no longer willing to watch Matt cheat death another time (Actually, a flashback was created by cleverly editing/integrating footage from a 1970 episode where Kitty left Matt/ Dodge but returned by the epilogue). In real life Blake left in 1974 as she wanted more free time, and missed her friend/costar Glenn Strange who played Kitty's barkeeper Sam. Gunsmoke continued for one more year before CBS cancelled it after its 20th season, much to the surprise of the entire cast, including Arness.

In 1968, Blake was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. This was six years before the legendary John Wayne was inducted in 1974 and more than a decade before co-stars Arness, Ken Curtis, Dennis Weaver, and Milburn Stone were inducted in 1981. Blake was the third performer welcomed into the Hall, after Tom Mix and Gary Cooper, who were inducted in 1958 and 1966 respectively.

After Gunsmoke, Blake went into semi-retirement at her home in Phoenix, Arizona, taking on only a few film and TV projects. A lover of animals, she joined with others to form the Arizona Animal Welfare League in 1971, today the oldest and largest "no-kill" animal shelter in the state. In 1980, Blake was diagnosed with a form of mouth cancer. In 1985, she helped finance the start-up of the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) and devoted a great deal of time and money in support of its efforts, including travels to Africa.

In the early 1980s, Amanda was diagnosed with AIDS. It is unclear how she contracted it, but reportedly she believed she was infected by her fifth husband, who was reportedly bisexual. He died of the disease shortly after their marriage. Blake died in Sacramento, California, at the age of 60 from a type of viral hepatitis brought on by AIDS. Her battle with cancer was in remission. The media was originally told her cause of death was cancer, but shortly after her passing it was revealed to have been AIDS.

In 1997, the Amanda Blake Memorial Wildlife Refuge opened at Rancho Seco Park in Herald, California. The refuge is a PAWS sanctuary for free-ranging African hoofed wildlife, most of whom were originally destined for exotic animal auctions or hunting ranches.

Because of her continuing role on Gunsmoke, Blake did not appear in many films. She did once manage to find time to appear in a comedy routine with the legendary CBS entertainer Red Skelton

She was also a panelist on the long-running Hollywood Squares and "Match Game '74"..

Nancy Wilson (singer)
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Background information

Birth name Nancy Sue Wilson
Born February 20, 1937
Origin Chillicothe, Ohio, United States
Genre(s) Jazz, Pop
Years active 1956 - present
Website [Miss Nancy Wilson]

Nancy Wilson (born February 20, 1937) is an American singer whose sixty-plus albums have blended jazz and pop music. She currently hosts Jazz Profiles, a jazz radio program on NPR.


Background

Wilson was born in Chillicothe, Ohio. At age 15, she won a local talent contest, the prize for which was her own television series, "Skyline Melodies," on a local station.

In 1956, she joined Rusty Bryant's Carolyn Club Band and made her first recording for Dot Records.

While performing in Columbus, Ohio, Wilson had an opportunity to sit in with Cannonball Adderley, who sensed her potential and helped her to get her a manager, John Levy. This led to the recording contract at Capitol Records.

At Capitol, Wilson's first recording was "Like In Love". She scored her first big hit in 1962 with Adderley and "Save Your Love For Me."

By the mid-1960s, Wilson had become one of the label's best-selling artists, second only to the Beatles. In 1964, she won a Grammy Award for "How Glad I Am" and an Emmy Award for her 1967-68 NBC series, The Nancy Wilson Show. She also made guest appearances on variety shows hosted by Ed Sullivan, Carol Burnett and Dean Martin.

In 1983, she won the Tokyo Song Festival and went on to cut five successful albums for Japanese labels.

Back in the United States, she began her association with Columbia Records in 1984, collaborating with such artists as Ramsey Lewis and working on an album of previously-unpublished Johnny Mercer lyrics set to the music by co-producer Barry Manilow, "With My Lover Beside Me." (1991).

In the 1990s, Wilson began acting on a regular basis, appearing on The Sinbad Show and The Bill Cosby Special on television and in such films as Robert Townsend's Meteor Man.

She was inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1999.

In 2001, she released her first Christmas recording, A Nancy Wilson Christmas, after moving to Manchester Craftsmen's Guild (MCG) Jazz. She won a Grammy for R.S.V.P. (Rare Songs, Very Personal) in 2005.

In 2007, Wilson received her third Grammy Award in the category of Best Jazz Vocal Album for Turned to Blue, a recording which saw release on August 22, 2006.

Richard Beymer
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Richard Beymer (born February 20, 1938, in Avoca, Iowa) is an American actor.

Beymer and his family moved to Los Angeles, California in 1940 where he began his acting career in 1949 in television. In the 1950s he began appearing in films and achieved success in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and West Side Story (1961) before sharing a 1962 Golden Globe award as "Most Promising Newcomer" with Bobby Darin and Warren Beatty.

In 1961 Beymer began a brief relationship with Sharon Tate, who was working as an extra on his film, Adventures of a Young Man. Beymer encouraged Tate to pursue an acting career, and after she was introduced to his agent, Tate signed a contract with Filmways. [1]

Beymer achieved a notable success in the film The Longest Day (1962) before his career went into decline. He returned to prominence with a featured role in the television series Twin Peaks in 1990. In addition to his work in films, Beymer has frequently appeared in guest roles in television series. These include three appearances on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Li Nalas in the episodes "The Homecoming", "The Circle," and "The Siege".

Beymer also appeared as Dr. Matthew Sheridan with Yasmine Bleeth in 1996 in the made-for-TV movie The Face, which was also known as A Face to Die For.

Buffy Sainte-Marie
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Buffy Sainte-Marie (born Beverly Sainte-Marie, February 20, 1941) is an Academy Award-winning Canadian First Nations musician, composer, visual artist, educator and social activist.

She was born on the Piapot Cree reserve in the Qu'Appelle valley, Saskatchewan. She was later adopted and grew up in Maine and Massachusetts. She went on to earn a Ph.D. in Fine Arts from the University of Massachusetts and also holds degrees in teaching and Oriental Philosophy[verification needed].





Early career

By 1962, in her early twenties, Sainte-Marie was touring alone, developing her craft and performing in various concert halls, folk festivals and Native reservations across the U.S, Canada and abroad. She spent a considerable amount of time in the coffeehouses of downtown Toronto's old Yorkville district, and New York City's Greenwich Village as part of the early to mid-1960s folk scene, often alongside other emerging Canadian contemporaries, such as Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young.

She quickly earned a reputation as a gifted songwriter, and many of her earliest songs, such as "Until It's Time For You To Go", were turned into hits by other artists, including Barbra Streisand, Elvis Presley, Sonny and Cher, Chet Atkins, Roberta Flack, Janis Joplin and Neil Diamond, among others.

Her debut album, It's My Way, was released on Vanguard Records in 1964, and she was subsequently named Billboard Magazine's Best New Artist. This album also contained the critically-acclaimed protest song "Universal Soldier" that later became a hit for Donovan.

In 1967, Sainte-Marie released the album Fire and Fleet and Candlelight, which contained what is probably the definitive interpretation of the traditional song "Lyke Wake Dirge" and the hit "Now that the Buffalo's Gone", a protest over broken treaties with First Nations people. Sainte-Marie's other well-known songs include "Mister Can't You See," (a Top 40 U.S. hit in 1972); "He's An Indian Cowboy In The Rodeo"; and the theme song of the popular movie "Soldier Blue".

In the late sixties, Saint-Marie used a Buchla synthesizer to record the album Illuminations, which did not receive much notice. "People were more in love with the Pocahontas-with-a-guitar image," she commented in a 1998 interview.

Sainte-Marie married musician Jack Nitzsche in 1969 and regularly appeared on the children's TV series Sesame Street over a five year period from 1976 - 1981, along with her son, Dakota Starblanket Wolfchild.

The song "Up Where We Belong" (which Sainte-Marie co-wrote with Will Jennings and Jack Nitzsche) was performed by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes for the film An Officer and A Gentleman. It received the Academy Award for Best Song in 1982.

In 1992, Sainte-Marie appeared in the television movie The Broken Chain with Pierce Brosnan.


Later Career

In 1992, after a sixteen-year recording hiatus, Sainte-Marie released the album Coincidence and Likely Stories. Recorded at home on her computer, the album included the politically-charged songs "The Big Ones Get Away" and "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee", both commenting on the ongoing plight of Native Americans. She followed up in 1996 with Up Where We Belong, an album on which she re-recorded a number of her greatest hits in more unplugged and acoustic versions, including "Universal Soldier".

A gifted digital artist, Sainte-Marie has exhibited her art at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Emily Carr Gallery in Vancouver and the American Indian Arts Museum in Santa Fe.

In 2004, a track written and performed by her and entitled "Lazarus" was sampled by Hip Hop producer Kanye West and performed by Cam'Ron and Jim Jones of The Diplomats. The track is called "Dead or Alive".

She is an active member of the Baha'i Faith.


Censorship

Sainte-Marie has claimed that she was blacklisted and that, along with other American Indians in the Red Power movements, was put out of business in the 1970s.

"I found out 10 years later, in the 1980s, that [President] Lyndon B. Johnson had been writing letters on White House stationery praising radio stations for suppressing my music," Sainte-Marie said in a 1999 interview with Indian Country Today at Dine' College... "In the 1970's, not only was the protest movement put out of business, but the Native American movement was attacked."

Additionally, she claims that in the United States, her records were disappearing. According to her, thousands of people at concerts wanted records, and although the distributor claimed that the records had been shipped, no one seemed to know where they were.

Said Sainte-Marie, "I was put out of business in the United States."


Awards and Honors

France named Buffy Sainte-Marie Best International Artist of 1993. That same year, she was selected by the United Nations to proclaim officially the International Year of Indigenous Peoples.

Sainte-Marie was inducted into the Juno Hall of Fame for her life-long contribution to music in 1995 and won a Gemini Award in 1997 for the Canadian TV special Buffy Sainte-Marie: Up Where We Belong. This also marked the first time she had performed her famous song to a live audience.

She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation in Canada in 1998, and was also made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

In 1999, she received a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.

Sandy Duncan
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Sandra Kay "Sandy" Duncan (born February 20, 1946) is an American singer and actress of stage and television. Her most notable trademarks are her pixie blonde hairdo and her perky demeanor. She was born in Henderson, Texas. Among her most prominent roles is playing Sandy Hogan on the sitcom The Hogan Family.

A brilliant dancer, she also captivated Broadway audiences with her engaging personality. In 1970, she was named one of the "most promising faces of tomorrow" by TIME magazine. In 1971, she starred in the television series Funny Face (later renamed The Sandy Duncan Show). Her performance as Missy Anne Reynolds in the miniseries Roots earned her an Emmy Award. In 1976, she was a guest star in an episode of the first season of The Muppet Show. It was then that she went back to Broadway for many years. Notable performances include her 1979 stint as the title role in Peter Pan, My One and Only, and Chicago.

She has also been nominated for a Tony Award three times: as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Musical), in 1969 for Canterbury Tales, and as Best Actress (Musical), in 1971 for a revival of The Boy Friend, and in 1980 for Peter Pan.

In the 1970s, she was treated for a tumor behind her left eye, which damaged the optic nerve. She lost the sight in the eye, but is still able to move it normally. She does not, despite rumors, have a glass eye.[1]

In 1987, she joined the cast of Valerie's Family (which was previously titled Valerie, and soon to be retitled The Hogan Family) after Valerie Harper left the show abruptly over financial matters (she was later vindicated in court). Sandy filled the role of mother as Sandy Hogan, the patriarch's sister.

In 1988, she did the first three Barney and the Backyard Gang videos as Michael and Amy's mother. She has been in many traveling stage productions, including The King and I.

She also appeared on Law & Order as a charming but dogged defense attorney, who personally delivers papers to Jack McCoy (Sam Waterston) because of "the cost of delivery service".

She also made a "guest appearance" in the popular cartoon series The New Scooby Doo Movies.

In the 1970s, she was a frequent guest on game shows, including The Hollywood Squares and What's My Line?

She also served as spokesperson for Nabisco's snack cracker brand Wheat Thins in many TV commercials throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

Jennifer O'Neill
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Jennifer O'NeillJennifer O'Neill (born February 20, 1948) is an American actress and author.

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the daughter of a Spanish-Irish businessman and his English wife. As a teenager, O'Neill worked as a fashion model and appeared in television commercials and on magazine covers. In 1968 she landed a small role in For the Love of Ivy. In 1970 she played one of the lead female roles in Rio Lobo starring John Wayne.

After her success in Summer of '42 in 1971, in which she plays the young widow of a soldier killed in the war, O'Neill became a well-known Hollywood actress, and continued acting for the next two decades, including singing in the Chrysler corporation commercial "change in Charger" that represented the death of the Dodge Charger in 1975. She also continued playing a grasping mistress in Luchino Visconti's final film, L'Innocente [1976]). She had more success in TV movies, including performances in Love's Savage Fury and in Bare Essence.

A self-described "romantic", O'Neill has been married and divorced nine times, and has a daughter by her first husband, and two sons from later marriages. A lifelong competitive rider, she has suffered serious back injuries due to falls, and on Oct 23, 1982 her name was in the news after she accidentally shot herself in the abdomen with a gun belonging to her then husband. The incident, which occurred at the Bedford (town), New York mansion she shared with her husband-manager, John Lederer. Local police ruled it an accident, and O'Neill said she was checking to see if the weapon was loaded.

Also in the mid-1980s, her television career was hit with tragedy. At the time, she played the leading female role on the CBS television series Cover Up. In 1984, Jon-Erik Hexum, the lead male actor, was killed on the studio playing with a blank (prop bullet in a gun). The series ended after just one season, with Antony Hamilton as the new male lead.

More recently, O'Neill has started to write, and has published From Fallen To Forgiven, a book of biographical notes and philosophical thoughts about life and existence.

The actress, who had an abortion at the age of nineteen has, in recent years, become a pro-life activist and speaks on abstinence to teens, and is now a Christian.

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