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No, edgar. There was no fiat about the war zone. <smile> I just thought we had a theme going, buddy.

This may be the perfect time to announce that Urs and Big Dice are back home in Germany after a vacation in Florida.

Your song was fabulous, Texas, and I love the evolution of it.

Hey, Rex. I'll get back to your magazine after we fight the bloody British.

You know, I guess we are the ugly Americans after all.

This version by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

In 1814 we took a little trip,
Along with colonel jackson down the mighty mississip.
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans,
And we fought the bloody british in the town of new orleans.

We fired our guns and the british kept a comin',
There wasn't 'bout as many as there was awhile ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
On down the mississippi to the gulf of mexico.

Oh we looked down the river and we seen the british come.
There must have been a hundred of 'em beatin' on a drum.
They stepped so high and they made their bugles ring.
We stood behind our cotton bales and didn?t say a thing.

Old hickory said we could take 'em by surprise,
If we didn?t fire our muskets till we looked 'em in the eyes.
We held our fire till we seen their faces well,
Then we opened up our squirrel guns and gave 'em a little...well....we...

....fired our guns and the british kept a comin',
There wasn't 'bout as many as there was awhile ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
On down the mississippi to the gulf of mexico.

We fired our cannons till the barrels melted down,
Then we grabbed an alligator and we fired another round.
We filled his head with cannonballs and powdered his behind,
And when we touched the powder off, the gator lost his mind.

We fired our guns and the british kept a comin',
There wasn't 'bout as many as there was awhile ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
On down the mississippi to the gulf of mexico.

We fired our guns and the british kept a comin',
There wasn't 'bout as many as there was awhile ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
On down the mississippi to the gulf of mexico.

Indian Wars

Out in the desert where the wind never stops
A few simple people try to grow a few crops
Trying to maintain a life and a home
On land that was theirs before the Romans thought of Rome

A few dozen survivors, ragged but proud
With a few woolly sheep, under gathering cloud
It's never been easy, or free from strife
But the pulse of the land is the pulse of their life

You thought it was over but it's just like before
Will there never be an end to the Indian wars?

It's not breech-loading rifles and wholesale slaughter
It's kickbacks and thugs and diverted water
Treaties get signed and the papers change hands
But they might as well draft these agreements in sand

Noble Savage on the cinema screen
An Indian's good when he cannot be seen
And the so-called white so-called race
Digs for itself a pit of disgrace

You thought it was over but it's just like before
Will there never be an end to the Indian wars?

Rex, your song is quite sad, Maine, but the group Magazine fits right in because a magazine is where artillery is stored. Thanks, buddy.

edgar, I guess the American Indian is a war of another type and on both sides.

Indian Reservation
Words and Music by John D. Loudermilk
performed by Paul Revere and the Raiders


They took the whole Cherokee nation
Put us on this reservation
Took away our ways of life
The tomahawk and the bow and knife
Took away our native tongue
And taught their English to our young
And all the beads we made by hand
Are nowadays made in Japan

Cherokee people, Cherokee tribe
So proud to live, so proud to die

They took the whole Indian nation
Locked us on this reservation
Though I wear a shirt and tie
I'm still part redman deep inside

Cherokee people, Cherokee tribe
So proud to live, so proud to die

But maybe someday when they learn
Cherokee nation will return, will return, will return, will return,
will return

Fools Like You
Blue Rodeo

So good at doing
What you don't do
Just trying to protect yourself
And other fools like you
So well practised
In your deceit
Behind the high walls of stupidity
Your endless conceit
Behind the locked door
The sleeping dog you beat
I hope I see the day
She satisfies her teeth

Give back to the native
Their treaty land
What you preach you preach for others
Why don't you practice that firsthand

I just don't understand
This world of mine
I must be out of touch
Or out of my mind
And will the profits of destruction
Forever make your eyes blind
Do you bow to the corporations
'Cause they pay their bills on time

God bless Elijah
With the feather in his hand
Stop stealing the Indian land
Stop stealing the Indian land
Stop stealing the Indian land

Crusade Lyrics


It was the year 1095 in the heart of France
Summoned by the Papal Decree to the Holy Land
"Drive out the Infadel from the Realm of Promise!"
"Destroy the enemies of Our Lord and restore His kingdom!"
From a heart of darkness came a twisted faith
Reaching to the far east with a burning hate.
The thunder of the drums of war decended on the masses
The Great Commission, forged with steel would bring disaster

Religious lies had taken hold
A war of murder, rape and gold
Blood was flowing through the land
A gospel with an iron hand
A ministry death and hate
Millions chained to its carnal state
Mad with the power to control
This is a church with a dark crusade

Centuries have come and gone since the Crusades
But a brutal conquest has still remained
Oppression of humanity, conjured conviction
Religion and its tyranny will bring destruction
Just sign here on the dotted line
Do what we say and you'll be fine
Your blind devotion is the key
To save your soul eternally
In the bonds of a legalistic state
You'll find a heart in rusted chains
Mad with the power to control
This is a church with a dark crusade

Sound mind and reason have long been dead and crucified
Soul dead self righteous hypocrisy is justified
In the bowels of a prison
Where many souls are laid to waste
You'll find the heart of a church with a dark crusade

Hey, dj. In a way we are all fools, no? Thanks Canada. Later we will talk about Chief Joseph whom I admire so much but for now let's do a parody on edgar's Crusade.


Richard Coeur de Lion


Richard the First, Coeur-de-Lion,
Is a name that we speak of with pride,
Though he only lived six months in England
From his birth to the day that he died.

He spent all his time fighting battles,
Dressed up in most rigid attire,
For he had his suits made by the Blacksmith,
And his underwear knitted of wire.

He married a lady from Flanders,
Berengaria's what they called her;
She turned out a good wife to Richard,
In spite of a name like that there.

For when he came home from his fighting
She'd bandage the wounds in his sconce,
And every time a snake bit him
She'd suck out the poison at once.

In their 'ouse they'd a minstrel called Blondel
To amuse them at t'end of the day'
And the King had but one thing against him...
He had nobbut one tune he could play.

The Queen saw nowt wrong with the number
And would have it again and again,
And when Richard said: "Put a sock in it!"
She'd give 'im a look full of pain.

The King got fed up at the finish,
And were so sick of 'earing it played,
That he packed his spare suit on a wagon
And went off and joined the Crusade.

He got fighting the moment he landed,
And though Saracen lads did their best,
He cut off their heads in such numbers,
That the hatmakers lodged a protest.

The Sultan, whose name were Saladin,
Thought he'd best try this business to stem,
So he rode up to Richard and told him
He mustn't do that there to them.

Said Richard: "Oh! Who's going to stop me?"
Said Saladin: "I will-and quick!"
So the King poked his sword at the Sultan,
Who, in turn, swiped his skimpter at Dick.

They fought all that day without ceasing;
They fought till at last they both saw
That each was a match for the other,
So they chucked it and called it a draw.

As Richard rode home in the moonlight
He heard someone trying to croon,
And there by the roadside stood Blondel,
Still playing his signature tune.

He'd worked out his passage from England
In search of his Master and Lord,
And had swum the last part of the journey
'Cos his tune got 'im thrown overboard.

This meeting filled Richard with panic:
He rode off and never drew rein
Till he got past the Austrian border
And felt he could breathe once again.

He hid in a neighbouring Castle,
But he hadn't been there very long
When one night just outside his window
Stood Blondel, still singing his song.

This 'ere took the heart out of Richard;
He went home dejected and low,
And the very next fight he got into
He were killed without striking a blow.

Marriott Edgar

Hey, editor. Please change whom to who. Thanks. <smile>

Indigenous Peoples' Literature

Chief Joseph, Nez Perce (Nimiputimt)
(Nee-Mee-Poo/hinmatowyalßhtqit)


"I am tired of fighting.... from where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."


Chief Joseph, as Remembered by Ohiyesa (Charles A. Eastman)



Chief Joseph, known by his people as In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat (Thunder coming up over the land from the water), was best known for his resistance to the U.S. Government's attempts to force his tribe onto reservations. The Nez Perce were a peaceful nation spread from Idaho to Northern Washington. The tribe had maintained good relations with the whites after the Lewis and Clark expedition. Joseph spent much of his early childhood at a mission maintained by Christian missionaries.


In 1855 Chief Joseph's father, Old Joseph, signed a treaty with the U.S. that allowed his people to retain much of their traditional lands. In 1863 another treaty was created that severely reduced the amount of land, but Old Joseph maintained that this second treaty was never agreed to by his people.

A showdown over the second "non-treaty" came after Chief Joseph assumed his role as Chief in 1877.

After months of fighting and forced marches, many of the Nez Perce were sent to a reservation in what is now Oklahoma, where many died from malaria and starvation.

Chief Joseph tried every possible appeal to the federal authorities to return the Nez Perce to the land of their ancestors. In 1885, he was sent along with many of his band to a reservation in Washington where, according to the reservation doctor, he later died of a broken heart.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth album by the Beatles. It is often cited as their magnum opus and the most influential album of all time by prominent critics and publications, ranking #1 on Rolling Stone's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003.[1] It was recorded by the Beatles over a 129-day period beginning on December 6, 1966.[2] The album was released on June 1, 1967 in the United Kingdom and on June 2, 1967 in the United States.

Upon release the album was an immediate critical and popular sensation. Innovative in every sense, from structure to recording techniques to the cover artwork, the artistic effect was felt immediately.


Critical ReceptionTrack Listing

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was the first Beatles album to be released with identical track listings in the United Kingdom and the United States (although the American release did not contain the side two runout groove and inner groove sound effects). All songs written by Lennon-McCartney, except where noted.

Side one

1. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" - 2:02
2. "With a Little Help from My Friends" - 2:44
3. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" - 3:28
4. "Getting Better" - 2:47
5. "Fixing a Hole" - 2:36
6. "She's Leaving Home" - 3:35
7. "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" - 2:37

Side two

1. "Within You Without You" (Harrison) - 5:05
2. "When I'm Sixty-Four" - 2:37
3. "Lovely Rita" - 2:42
4. "Good Morning Good Morning" - 2:41
5. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)" - 1:18
6. "A Day in the Life" - 5:33

Side one (alternate)

The 1987 Compact Disc release for Sgt. Pepper includes additional notes mentioning an alternate track listing for the album's A side. The running order below is shown as the album was originally conceived.

1. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
2. "With a Little Help from My Friends"
3. "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"
4. "Fixing a Hole"
5. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
6. "Getting Better"
7. "She's Leaving Home"

By properly programming the running order of the CD version in a CD player or other appropriate device, one can hear the album as it was initially intended.


Works Directly Inspired By Sgt. Pepper

Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father



In 1988 the New Musical Express released an album called Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father, in aid of the charity Childline. It featured cover versions of all the Sgt. Pepper tracks by various artists. The track list was as follows:

1. Three Wize Men - "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
2. Wet Wet Wet - "With a Little Help from My Friends"
3. The Christians - "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
4. The Wedding Present with Amelia Fletcher - "Getting Better"
5. Hue and Cry - "Fixing a Hole"
6. Billy Bragg with Cara Tivey - "She's Leaving Home"
7. Frank Sidebottom - "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite"
8. Sonic Youth - "Within You Without You"
9. Courtney Pine - "When I'm Sixty-Four"
10. Michelle Shocked - "Lovely Rita"
11. The Triffids - "Good Morning Good Morning"
12. Three Wize Men - "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)"
13. The Fall - "A Day in the Life"

A double A-sided single featuring the Wet Wet Wet and Billy Bragg tracks was released and reached No. 1 in the UK charts.

Sgt. Pepper...With A Little Help From His Friends



Mojo Magazine included a track-for-track recording of Sgt. Pepper with its March 2007 tribute issue celebrating the 40th anniversary of the album's release that June. The recording features contemporary alternative rock artists.

1. Simple Kid - "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
2. Puerto Muerto - "With a Little Help from My Friends"
3. Circulus - "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
4. Fionn Regan - "Getting Better"
5. 747s - "Fixing a Hole"
6. Unkle Bob - "She's Leaving Home"
7. Bikeride - "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite"
8. Stephanie Dosen - "Within You Without You"
9. Chin Up Chin Up - "When I'm Sixty-Four"
10. Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power - "Lovely Rita"
11. The M's - "Good Morning Good Morning"
12. Simple Kid - "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)"
13. Captain - "A Day in the Life"
14. Echo & The Bunnymen - "All You Need Is Love" (Additional Track)

Hey, BioBob, I believe you have a rival, but a worthy one.

dj, that was one fabulous coverage of the FabFour, Canada. You touched on many things that our listeners need to know. It will take me a while to absorb your information, however.

Like this one, folks

(Lennon/McCartney)

I read the news today oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph
He blew his mind out in a car
He didn't notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They'd seen his face before
Nobody was really sure
If he was from the House of Lords
I saw a film today oh boy
The English Army had just won the war
A crowd of people turned away
But I just had to look
Having read the book
I'd love to turn you on

Woke up, fell out of bed
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup
And looking up I noticed I was late
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke
And somebody spoke and I went into a dream

I read the news today oh boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
I'd love to turn you on

No One But You
Queen

"A hand above the water, an angel reaching for the sky
Is it raining in heaven, do you want us to cry?
And everywhere the broken-hearted, On every lonely avenue
No-one could reach them, No-one but you

One by one
Only the good die young
They're only flying too close to the sun
And life goes on
Without you

Another tricky situation, I get to drowning in the blues
And I find myself thinking, well, what would you do?
Yes, it was such an operation, forever paying every due
Hell, you made a sensation (sensation)
You found a way through (found a way through)

One by one
Only the good die young
They're only flying too close to the sun
We'll remember
Forever

And now the party must be over, I guess we'll never understand
The sense of your leaving, was it the way it was planned?
So we grace another table, and raise our glasses one more time
There's a face at the window
And I ain't never, never saying goodbye

One by one
Only the good die young
They're only flying too close to the sun
Crying for nothing
Crying for no-one
No-one but you"

"In life, when you move through the world you are in a constant state of exchange with the molecules that surround you."

littlek uses this as part of her signature

it put me in mind of this poem

Keeping Things Whole

In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.

When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been.

We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.


Mark Strand (b. 1934)

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

First, we would like to thank TTH for the unusual Queen song and repeat the same for our dj whose poem was so true and a gentle reminder of my daughter's dog, Admiral Byrd whose molecules are a part of all of us.

A poem for the morning, folks.

It's always darkest before the dawn

when your world is weary,
when all is dark,
when dreams die and fade away,
and all of life is stark,
take heart in gentle love,
for she waits in the wings,
and where she walks,
fairies dance and angels sing,
though you cannot see her,
she weaves a silken touch,
leaving footprints in the sand,
sprinkling spells and such,
lighting the dampened corridors,
the dark corners of your mind,
leaving you breathless,
bewildered by her kind,
goodness glints in her eyes,
hope is in her arms,
and all you've ever dreamed of,
rests sweetly in her charms.
J. Blagojevic

Ed Begley
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Birth name Edward James Begley
Born March 25, 1901
Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Died April 28, 1970
Hollywood, California, United States

Edward James Begley (March 25, 1901 - April 28, 1970) was an Academy Award winning American film actor.


Early Life

Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Begley began his career as radio actor while in his teens, and then progressed to Broadway. His radio work included a stint as Charlie Chan and Stroke of Fate amongst other roles. In the late 1940s, he began appearing regularly in supporting roles in films. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962). Some of his other notable films include 12 Angry Men (1957) and The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964). He also worked extensively in television, appearing in guest roles in such popular programs as Bonanza.

He is the father of the actor and environmental advocate Ed Begley, Jr.

He died of a heart attack in Hollywood, California.

Simone Signoret
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Birth name Simone Henriette Charlotte Kaminker
Born March 25, 1921
Wiesbaden, Germany
Died September 30, 1985
Auteuil-Anthouillet, France
Academy Awards

Best Actress
1959 Room at the Top

Simone Signoret (March 25, 1921 - September 30, 1985), was an Academy Award-winning French actress.





Life and career

She was born Simone-Henriette-Charlotte Kaminker in Wiesbaden, Germany to Andre and Georgette (Signoret) Kaminker. She was the oldest child of three, with two younger brothers. Her father, a linguist who later worked in the United Nations, was a French-born Jewish army officer, who brought the family to Neuilly on the outskirts of Paris. Signoret grew up in Paris in an intellectual atmosphere and studied the English language in school, earning a teaching certificate. She tutored in English and Latin and briefly worked part-time as a typist for a French collaborationist newspaper, Le Nouveau Temps, run by Jean Luchaire.

During the German occupation of France, Signoret formed close bonds with an artistic group of writers and actors who met at a café in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés quarter, Café de Flore. By this time, she had developed an interest in acting and was encouraged by her friends, including her lover, Daniel Gélin, to follow her ambition. In 1942, she began appearing in bit parts and was able to earn enough money to support her mother and two brothers as her father, who was a French patriot, had fled the country in 1940 to join General De Gaulle in England. She took her mother's maiden name for the screen to help hide her Jewish roots.

Signoret's sensual features and earthy nature led to type-casting and she was often seen in prostitute roles. She won considerable attention in La Ronde (1950), a film which was banned briefly in New York state as being immoral. She won further raves, including an acting award from the British Film Academy, for her portrayal of yet another prostiute in Jacques Becker's Casque d'or (1951). She went on to appear in many notable films in France during the 1950s including Thérèse Raquin (1953), directed by Marcel Carné, Les Diaboliques (1954), and Les Sorcières de Salem (1957), based on Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

In 1958, Signoret went to England to film Room at the Top (1959), which won her numerous awards including the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was the first woman to win the award appearing in a foreign film. She was offered films in Hollywood but turned them down and continued to work in France and England. She played opposite Laurence Olivier in Term of Trial (1962). She did return to America for Ship of Fools (1965) which earned her another Oscar nomination and she went on to appear in several Hollywood films before returning to France in 1969.

Her one attempt at Shakespeare, playing Lady Macbeth opposite Alec Guinness at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1966 proved to be ill-advised, although some critics were harsher and one referred to her English as "impossibly Gallic".[1]

In her later years, she was often criticized for gaining weight and letting her looks go but Signoret, who was never concerned with glamour, ignored the insults and continued giving finely etched performances. She won more acclaim for her portrayal of a weary madam (Madame Rosa) in La Vie devant soi (1977) and as an unmarried sister who unknowingly falls in love with her paralyzed brother via anonymous correspondence in I Sent a Letter to my Love (1980).

Her memoirs, Nostalgia Isn't What It Used To Be, were published in 1978. She also wrote a novel, Adieu Volodya, published in 1985, the year of her death.

First married to the filmmaker Yves Allégret from 1947 to 1949, with whom she had a daughter Catherine Allégret, herself an actress. Her second marriage was to the Italian-born French actor Yves Montand in 1950, a union which lasted until her death.

She died of pancreatic cancer in Auteuil-Anthouillet, France; and is buried in Le Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

The late American singer, pianist and composer Nina Simone took her stage name from Signoret.

Nancy Kelly
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nancy Kelly (March 25, 1921 - January 2, 1995) was an Oscar-nominated American actress, born in Lowell, Massachusetts. Nancy was a child star, who had made so many movies by the time she was nine years old, that Film Daily called her "the most photographed child in America due to commercial posing." She also played Dorothy Gale in a 1933 to 1934 radio show based on the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and was the older sister of actor Jack Kelly, star of the 1957 television series Maverick.

As an adult actress, she was a two-time winner of the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre as well as a Tony Award winner for her performance in The Bad Seed, which she followed up by starring in the film version in 1956 and receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was a major movie leading lady in the 1930s, making 36 movies between 1926 and 1977, including portraying Tyrone Power's love interest in the classic Jesse James (1939), which also featured Henry Fonda, and playing opposite Spencer Tracy in Stanley and Livingstone later that same year.

For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Nancy Kelly has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Blvd.


Sister of Jack Kelly

She was the older sister of actor Jack Kelly, who played Bart Maverick alongside James Garner and Roger Moore in the television series Maverick (1957-1962). Nancy Kelly and Jack Kelly strongly resembled each other in their facial structures but never acted together in a film. Nancy Kelly's acting career was much more successful than her younger brother's, whose career gradually faded out after Maverick.

On her passing in 1995 from complications of diabetes, Nancy Kelly was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Aretha Franklin
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia




Background information

Birth name Aretha Louise Franklin
Born March 25, 1942 (age 65)
Origin Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Genre(s) Soul, R&B, gospel
Occupation(s) Singer, songwriter, pianist
Instrument(s) Voice, piano/keyboard
Years active 1956-present
Label(s) Columbia, Atlantic, Arista
Associated
acts The Sweet Inspirations, Carolyn Franklin, Erma Franklin

Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American soul, R&B, and gospel singer, songwriter, and pianist born in Memphis, Tennessee, but raised in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She has been called for many years "The Queen Of Soul", but many also call her "Lady Soul," as well as the more affectionate "Sister Re". She is renowned for her soul and R&B recordings but is also adept at jazz, rock, blues, pop, gospel, and even opera. She is generally regarded as one of the top vocalists ever, due to her ability to inject whatever she may be singing about with passion, soul and sheer conviction. Franklin is the second most honored female singer in Grammy history after Alison Krauss. Ms. Franklin has won nineteen competitive Grammys (including an unprecedented eleven for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, eight of them consecutive), and the state of Michigan has declared her voice a natural resource.

Franklin has had two number one hit songs on the Billboard Hot 100, "Respect" in the 1960s and her 1980s duet with George Michael, "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)", and many of her singles have hit Top 20, Top 10, and Top 5 positions. Franklin is one of three acts to peak at each of the top 10 positions of the Hot 100, the others being Marvin Gaye (if counting duets with Tammi Terrell) and Madonna. She has enjoyed both critical and commercial success as a solo artist.




Biography

Franklin is the daughter of the legendary preacher Rev. C. L. Franklin and Barbara Siggers Franklin, a pianist and gifted singer. She had five siblings: sisters Erma and Carolyn (both deceased; Erma and Carolyn sang backup for her for many years and accompanied her on some of her most famous recordings), and Carl Ellan Kelley (a half sister from a relationship her father had outside of his marriage to her mother); and brothers Cecil (deceased) and Vaughn (Vaughn is her half brother -- her mother's son by a relationship before her marriage to C. L. Franklin -- and eldest sibling whom her father adopted when he married her mother in 1936).

Franklin has been married twice. She was married to Ted White from 1962-1969, and to actor Glynn Turman from 1978-1984. She has four sons: Clarence, Edward, Ted, and Kecalf. Ted, Jr. is the son of Ted White, and Kecalf's father is entrepreneur Ken Cunningham.


Trivia

Franklin was the protégée of gospel singing sensations Clara Ward, Mahalia Jackson, and James Cleveland. Clara and Mahalia frequently visited her family home in Detroit and served as maternal figures after her mother died in 1952. Franklin paid homage to Ward, Jackson, and Cleveland in 1972 in her Amazing Grace gospel album.
In 1984, Aretha Franklin was sued for breach of contract in 1984 when she was unable to star in the Broadway musical Sing, Mahalia, Sing, (based on the life of gospel legend Mahalia Jackson) mainly because of her fear of flying.
She was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 2001.
Franklin's song "Respect" was used in The Proud Family and as the opening song to the first episode of Murphy Brown.
She made a cameo appearance on Murphy Brown and sang "You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman" on the piano alongside Murphy.
Franklin frequently invites fellow soul singer Chaka Khan, reportedly one of her favorites, to sing at her birthday parties.
Sang "America the Beautiful" at WrestleMania III at the Pontiac Silverdome and will sing it again at WrestleMania 23 at Ford Field in Detroit.
In 2006 Aretha Franklin's Grammy total rose to nineteen with a best traditional R&B vocal award for "A House Is Not a Home," a track from the Luther Vandross tribute So Amazing.
Aretha Franklin calls Fantasia Barrino "my child."
Teairra Mari's grandmother sang backup for her.
She is the godmother of singer Whitney Houston.
Aretha sang the national anthem at Super Bowl XL with Aaron Neville and Dr John.
The name of her youngest son, Kecalf, is a combination of her initials and those of her son's father, Kenneth E. Cunningham.

Paul Michael Glaser
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Paul Michael Glaser (born March 25, 1943) is an American actor.

Originally Paul Manfred Glaser, he was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the youngest of three children. His parents were Dorothy and Samuel Glaser. Glaser attended Tulane University, where he was roommates with film director Bruce Paltrow, and earned a Master's degree in English and theater in 1966. He was a member of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity. He earned a second master's degree from Boston University in acting and directing in 1967.

After appearing in several Broadway productions, Glaser appeared in his first feature film in 1971, playing Perchik in the film version of Fiddler on the Roof. He first gained notice on television playing Dr. Peter Chernak on the daytime series Love is a Many Splendored Thing, and made guest appearances on shows such as: The Rockford Files, but found fame playing Detective David Starsky opposite David Soul in the television show Starsky and Hutch, of which he directed several episodes. It ran for four seasons (1975-1979) on ABC.

After the series, Glaser continued to act on television and in films, and directed the 1987 movie The Running Man starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as well as the 1992 movie The Cutting Edge. He also directed episodes of several well-known TV series, including Robbery Homicide Division and Judging Amy. Glaser returned to the big screen in 2004 in both Something's Gotta Give and with a brief cameo in the 2004 film version of Starsky & Hutch, where his old role was reprised by Ben Stiller. He also directed the film Kazaam starring Shaquille O'Neal.

Glaser has been married twice. He married his first wife, Elizabeth (Meyer) Glaser, in 1980. In August 1981, Elizabeth contracted HIV through a blood transfusion while giving birth to the couple's first child, Ariel. Elizabeth did not find out about the virus until four years later, at which time both Ariel and son Jake (born October 1984) were also found to be HIV positive. Ariel Glaser died in August 1988; Elizabeth Glaser died in 1994, after founding the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. After Elizabeth's death, Glaser served as chairman of the foundation until 2002 and remains Honorary Chairman, roles in which he has testified before Congress and met with national leaders, as well as headlining annual fundraisers for the organization.

Glaser married producer Tracy Barone in 1996; the couple had a daughter, Zoe, in 1997.

Bonnie Bedelia
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Birth name Bonnie Bedelia Culkin
Born March 25, 1948 (age 59)

Bonnie Bedelia Culkin (born March 25, 1948) is an American actress. Her film work includes They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), Lovers and Other Strangers (1970), Heart Like a Wheel (1983), The Boy Who Could Fly (1986), Die Hard (1988), Die Hard 2 (1990), Presumed Innocent (1990), and Sordid Lives (2000).

Bedelia was born in New York, New York to Marion Ethel Wagner and Philip Harley Culkin.[1] She is the aunt of actors Macaulay Culkin, Quinn Culkin, Kieran Culkin, Christian Culkin, Shane Culkin, Rory Culkin, and Dakota Culkin. (Her brother, Kit Culkin, is their father.)