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From Letty with love

MUSIC, MUSIC MUSIC

Teresa Brewer

PUT ANOTHER NICKEL IN
IN THE NICKELODEON
ALL I WANT IS LOVING YOU AND
MUSIC, MUSIC MUSIC
I'D DO ANYTHING FOR YOU
ANYTHING YOU'D WANT ME TO
ALL I WANT IS KISSING YOU AND
MUSIC, MUSIC MUSIC

CLOSER, MY DEAR COME CLOSER
THE NICEST PART OF ANY MELODY
IS WHEN YOU'RE DANCING CLOSE TO ME

PUT ANOTHER NICKEL IN
IN THE NICKELODEON
ALL I WANT IS LOVING YOU AND
MUSIC, MUSIC MUSIC

BUT:

In the corner of the bar there stands a jukebox
With the best of country music, old and new
You can hear your five selections for a quarter
And somebody else's songs when yours are through

I got good Kentucky whiskey on the counter
And my friends around to help me ease the pain
'Til some button-pushing cowboy plays that love song
And here I am just missing you again

Please, Mr., please, don't play B-17
It was our song, it was his song, but it's over
Please, Mr., please, if you know what I mean
I don't ever wanna hear that song again

If I had a dime for every time I held you
Though you're far away, you've been so close to me
I could swear I'd be the richest girl in Nashville
Maybe even in the state of Tennessee

But I guess I'd better get myself together
'Cause when you left, you didn't leave too much behind
Just a note that said "I'm sorry" by your picture
And a song that's weighing heavy on my mind

Please, Mr., please, don't play B-17
It was our song, it was his song, but it's over
Please, Mr., please, if you know what I mean
I don't ever wanna hear that song again

(Responding to Letty's plea)

Please Mister Postman
The Beatles

Wait, oh yes wait a minute mister postman
Wait, wait mister postman

Mister postman look and see
If there's a letter in your bag for me
I been waiting such a long time
Since I heard from that girl of mine

There must be some word today
From my girlfriend so far away
Please mister postman look and see
If there's a letter, a letter for me
I been standing here waiting mister postman
So patiently
For just a card or just a letter
Saying she's returning home to me

So many days you passed me by
See the tear standing in my eye
You didn't stop to make me feel better
By leaving me a card or a letter

Please Mr. Postman, look and see
If there's a letter, oh yeh for me,
I've been waiting, a long long time
Since I've heard from that girlfriend of mine.

You gotta wait a minute, wait a minute
You gotta wait a minute, wait a minute
You gotta wait a minute, wait a minute
You gotta check it and see, one more time for me

Wait
Wait
Wait
Deliver the letter, the sooner the better

GOOD MORNING A2K!



You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain
Too much love drives a man insane
You broke my will, but what a thrill
Goodness gracious Great Balls of Fire

I laughed at love 'cos I tought it was funny
You came along and moved me honey
I changed my mind, this love is fine
Goodness gracious Great Balls of Fire

Kiss me baby, woooo, feels good
Hold me baby, well I want to love you like a lover should
Your fine, so kind
I gotta tell this world that your mine mine mine mine-ine

I chew my nails down and I twiddle my thumb
I'm real nervous but it sure is fun
Come on baby, you drive me crazy
Goodness gracious Great Balls of Fire

Well kiss me baby, woooo, feels good
Hold me baby, well I want to love you like a lover should
Your fine, so kind
I gotta tell this world that your mine mine mine mine-ine

I chew my nails and I twiddle my thumb
I'm real nervous but it sure is fun
Come on baby, drive me crazy
Goodness gracious Great Balls of Fire!

Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls Of Fire

Lex Barker
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Birth name Alexander Crichlow Barker Jr.
Born May 8, 1919(1919-05-08)
Rye, New York
Died May 11, 1973 (aged 54)
New York City, New York
Spouse(s) Constanze Thurlow
(1942-1950)
Arlene Dahl
(1951-1952)
Lana Turner
(1953-1957)
Irene Labhart
(1957-1962)
Carmen G. Cervera
(1965-1972)

Lex Barker (May 8, 1919 - May 11, 1973) was born Alexander Crichlow Barker, Jr. in Rye, New York and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1938.

He is best known as the tenth actor to play Tarzan in the movies, and starred in nearly thirty movies in the 1940s and 1950s. During this time he enlisted to fight in World War II and eventually rose to the rank of Major.

In 1957, as he found it harder to find work in American films, Lex moved to Europe, where he found popularity and starred in over forty European films, including two movies based on the novels by Italian author Emilio Salgari (1862-1911). In Italy he also had a short but compelling role as Anita Ekberg's fiancé in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita.

But it was in Germany where he would have his greatest success. There he starred in two movies based on the Doctor Mabuse-stories (formerly filmed by Fritz Lang) and in 13 movies based on novels by German author Karl May (1842-1912), playing such characters as Old Shatterhand, Kara Ben Nemsi, and Dr. Sternau.

He even recorded a single, in German, with Martin Böttcher, the composer of some of the soundtracks of the Karl May movies, including "Ich bin morgen auf dem Weg zu dir" (I'll be on the way to you tomorrow) and "Mädchen in Samt und Seide" (Girls in Velvet and Silk).

In 1966 Barker was awarded with the "Bambi Award" as "Best Foreign Actor" in Germany.

Barker's third wife, Lana Turner ordered Barker out of their home one night at gunpoint after Turner's daughter, Cheryl Crane, accused him of molesting her.

He married five times:

Constanze Thurlow (1942 - 1950) (divorced)
Arlene Dahl (1951 - 1952) (divorced)
Lana Turner (8 September 1953 - July 22, 1957) (divorced)
Irene Labhardt (1957 - 1962) (marriage ended at her death)
Maria del Carmen "Tita" Cervera (1965 - 1972) (divorce not valid, marriage ended with his death), who later became the fifth and final wife of billionaire Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza
He was engaged at the time of his death to actress Karen Kondazian.

Barker continued to work in films until his last appearance in 1967's Woman Times Seven.

He died three days after his 54th birthday of a heart attack in New York City. His son, Christopher Barker, also became an actor.

David Attenborough
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born May 8, 1926 (1926-05-08) (age 81)
London, England
Residence Richmond, London
Nationality British
Field Naturalist
Alma mater Clare College, University of Cambridge (Natural Sciences)
Notable prizes Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour, Royal Victorian Order, Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society
Sir David Frederick Attenborough, OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS (born on 8 May 1926 in London, England) is one of the world's best known broadcasters and naturalists. Widely considered one of the pioneers of the nature documentary, he has written and presented eight major series (with a ninth in production) surveying nearly every aspect of life on Earth. He is also a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC2 and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s.

He is the younger brother of director and actor Richard Attenborough.




Early life

Attenborough grew up in College House on the campus of University College, Leicester, where his father, Frederick, was principal.[1] He was the middle of three sons (his elder brother, Richard, became a director and his younger brother, John, an executive at Alfa Romeo). During World War II his parents also adopted two Jewish refugee girls from Europe.

Attenborough spent his childhood collecting fossils, stones and other natural specimens. He received encouragement in this pursuit at age 7, when a young Jacquetta Hawkes admired his "museum". A few years later, one of his adoptive sisters gave him a piece of amber filled with prehistoric creatures; some 50 years later, this amber would be the focus of his programme "The Amber Time Machine".

Attenborough was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys in Leicester and then won a scholarship to Clare College, University of Cambridge, where he obtained a degree in Natural Sciences. In 1947, he was called up for National Service in the Royal Navy and spent two years stationed in North Wales and the Firth of Forth.

In 1950, Attenborough married Jane Elizabeth Ebsworth Oriel; the marriage lasted until her death in 1997. The couple had two children, Robert and Susan.


First years at the BBC

After leaving the Navy, Attenborough took a position editing children's science textbooks for a publishing company. He soon became disillusioned with the work, however, and in 1950 he applied for a job as a radio talks producer with the BBC. Although he was rejected for this job, his CV later attracted the interest of Mary Adams, head of the "talks" (factual broadcasting) department of the BBC's fledging television service. Attenborough, like most Britons at that time, did not own a television, and he had seen only one programme in his life.[2] However, he accepted Adams' offer of a three-month training course, and in 1952 he joined the BBC full time. Initially discouraged from appearing on camera because Adams thought his teeth were too big,[3] he became a producer for the Talks Department, which handled all non-fiction broadcasts. His early projects included the quiz show Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? and a series about folk music presented by Alan Lomax.

Attenborough's association with natural history programmes began when he produced and presented the three-part series The Pattern of Animals. The studio-bound programme featured animals from London Zoo, with the naturalist Sir Julian Huxley discussing their use of camouflage, aposematism and courtship displays. Through this programme, Attenborough met Jack Lester, the curator of the zoo's reptile house, and they decided to make a series about an animal-collecting expedition. The result was Zoo Quest, first broadcast in 1954, which Attenborough presented at short notice, due to Lester being taken ill.


BBC administration

From 1965 to 1969 Attenborough was Controller of BBC2. Among the programmes he commissioned during this time were Match of the Day, Civilisation, The Ascent of Man, The Likely Lads, Not Only... But Also, Man Alive, Masterclass, The Old Grey Whistle Test and The Money Programme. He also initiated televised snooker. This diversity of programme types reflects Attenborough's belief that BBC2's output should be as varied as possible. In 1967, under his watch, BBC2 became the first television channel in the United Kingdom to broadcast in colour.

From 1969 to 1972 he was BBC Television's Director of Programmes (making him responsible overall for both BBC1 and BBC2), but turned down the offer to become Director General of the BBC. In 1972 he resigned his post and returned to programme making.


Major series

Foremost among Attenborough's TV documentary work as writer and presenter is the "Life" series, which begins with the trilogy: Life on Earth (1979), The Living Planet (1984) and The Trials of Life (1990). These examine the world's organisms from the viewpoints of taxonomy, ecology and stages of life respectively.

They were followed by more specialised surveys: Life in the Freezer (about Antarctica; 1993), The Private Life of Plants (1995), The Life of Birds (1998), The Life of Mammals (2002) and his most recent, Life in the Undergrowth (2005), which concerned terrestrial invertebrates. Life in Cold Blood (dealing with reptiles and amphibians) is currently in production and due for completion in 2008. The "Life" series as a whole currently comprises 74 programmes.

Attenborough has also written and/or presented other shorter productions. One of the first after his return to programme-making was The Tribal Eye (1976), which enabled him to expand on his interest in tribal art. Others include The First Eden (1987), about man's relationship with the natural habitats of the Mediterranean, and Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives (1989), which demonstrated Attenborough's passion for discovering fossils. In 2000, State of the Planet examined the environmental crisis that threatens the ecology of the Earth. The naturalist also narrated two other significant series: The Blue Planet (2001) and Planet Earth (2006). The latter is the first natural history series to be made entirely in high-definition.

In May-June 2006, the BBC broadcast a major two-part environmental documentary as part of its "Climate Chaos" season of programmes on global warming. In Are We Changing Planet Earth? and Can We Save Planet Earth?, Attenborough investigated the subject and put forward some potential solutions. He returned to the locations of some of his past productions and discovered the effect that climate change has had on them.

Life in Cold Blood is intended to be Attenborough's last major series. In an interview to promote Life in the Undergrowth, he stated:

Once I have completed the reptiles series [...] that will be enough. It would complete the survey for me. I will have given a series to every group of animals and when that is done there would be 100 or so hours of DVDs on the shelf.[4]

However, in a subsequent interview with Radio Times, he said that he did not intend to retire completely and would probably continue to make occasional one-off programmes.


Other work

In 1975, the naturalist presented a BBC children's series entitled Fabulous Animals. This represented a diversion from Attenborough's usual fare, as it dealt with the creatures of myths and legends, such as the griffin and kraken. It was a studio-based production, with the presenter describing his subjects with the aid of large, ornately illustrated books.

From 1983, Attenborough worked on a number of enviromentally-themed musicals with the WWF and writers Peter Rose and Anne Conlon. Yanomamo was the first, about the Amazon Rainforest, and the second was Ocean World in 1991 which premiered at the Royal Festival Hall. They were both narrated by Attenborough on their national tour, and recorded on to audio cassette. Ocean World was also filmed for Channel 4 and later released.

From 1997 to 2005, Attenborough also narrated the long-running half-hour nature series Wildlife on One on BBC One (variously retitled Wildlife on Two, BBC Wildlife and Natural World depending on the channel on which it is repeated), though his role was mainly to introduce or narrate other people's film, and he rarely appeared on camera.

Attenborough also serves on the advisory board of BBC Wildlife magazine.


Achievements, awards and recognition

1970 : BAFTA Desmond Davis Award
1974 : CBE
1979 : BAFTA Fellowship
1983 : FRS
1985 : Knighthood
1991 : CVO for producing Queen Elizabeth II's Christmas broadcast for a number of years from 1986
1996 : CH "for services to nature broadcasting"
2000 : International Cosmos Prize
2003 : Michael Faraday Prize awarded by the Royal Society
2004 : Descartes Prize for Outstanding Science Communication Actions
2004 : Caird Medal of the National Maritime Museum
2005 : OM
2005 : Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest
2006 : National Television Awards Special Recognition Award
2006 : Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management - Institute Medal in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the public perception and understanding of ecology
2006 : The Culture Show British Icon Award

On 13 July 2006, Attenborough, along with his brother Richard, were awarded the titles of Distinguished Honorary Fellows of the University of Leicester "in recognition of a record of continuing distinguished service to the University."[5] David Attenborough was previously awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree by the university in 1970.[6]

In 1993, after discovering that the Mesozoic reptile Plesiosaurus conybeari had not, in fact, been a true plesiosaur, the paleontologist Robert Bakker renamed the species Attenborosaurus conybeari in Attenborough's honour.[7]

Out of four extant species of echidna, one is named after him: Sir David's Long-beaked Echidna, Zaglossus attenboroughi, which inhabits the Cyclops mountains in the Papua province of New Guinea.

In June 2004, Attenborough and Sir Peter Scott were jointly profiled in the second of a three part BBC Two series, The Way We Went Wild, about television wildlife presenters. Part three also featured Attenborough extensively. The next month, another BBC Two programme, Attenborough the Controller, recalled his time as Director of Programmes for BBC2.

In November 2005, London's Natural History Museum announced a fundraising campaign to build a communications centre in Attenborough's honour. The museum intends to open the David Attenborough Studio in 2008.[8]

An opinion poll of 4,900 Britons conducted by Reader's Digest in 2006 showed Attenborough to be the most trusted celebrity in Britain.[9] In a list compiled by the magazine New Statesman in 2006, he was voted tenth in the list of "Heroes of our time".[10]

It is often suggested that David Attenborough's 50-year career at the BBC making natural history documentaries and travelling extensively throughout the world has probably made him the most travelled person on Earth ever.[11]

His contribution to broadcasting was recognised by the 60-minute documentary Life on Air, transmitted in 2002 to tie in with the publication of Attenborough's similarly titled autobiography. For the programme, the naturalist was interviewed at his home by his friend Michael Palin (someone who is almost as well-travelled). Attenborough's reminiscences are interspersed with memorable clips from his series, with contributions from his brother Richard as well as professional colleagues. Life on Air is available on DVD as part of Attenborough in Paradise and Other Personal Voyages.


Favourite Attenborough moments

In April 2006, to celebrate Attenborough's 80th birthday, the public were asked to vote on their favourite of his television moments, out of twenty candidates. The results were announced on UKTV on 7 May. Each is given with its series and advocate:

Attenborough watching a lyrebird mimicking various noises (The Life of Birds, selected by Bill Oddie)
Mountain gorillas (Life on Earth, Sanjeev Bhaskar)
Blue whale encounter (The Life of Mammals, Alan Titchmarsh)
His description of the demise of Easter Island's native society (State of the Planet, Charlotte Uhlenbroek)
Chimpanzees using tools to crack nuts (The Life of Mammals, Charlotte Uhlenbroek)
A grizzly bear fishing (The Life of Mammals, Steve Leonard)
Imitating a woodpecker to lure in a real one (The Life of Birds, Ray Mears)
The presenter being attacked by a displaying male capercaillie (The Life of Birds, Bill Oddie)
Chimps wading through water on two feet (The Life of Mammals, Gavin Thurston)
Observing a male bowerbird's display (The Life of Birds, Joanna Lumley)
Watching elephants in a salt cave (The Life of Mammals, Joanna Lumley)
Wild chimps hunting monkeys (The Trials of Life, Alastair Fothergill)
Freetail bats leaving a cave and Attenborough holding one of their young (The Trials of Life, Rory McGrath)
Being threatened by a bull elephant seal (Life in the Freezer, Björk)
A wandering albatross chick and its parent (Life in the Freezer, Ellen MacArthur)
Spawning Christmas Island red crabs (The Trials of Life, Simon King)
In a tree with gibbons (The Life of Mammals, Steve Leonard)
Burrowing under a termite mound to demonstrate its cooling system (The Trials of Life, Björk)
Observing a titan arum (The Private Life of Plants, Alan Titchmarsh)
Timelapse footage of a bramble growing (The Private Life of Plants, Rory McGrath)

Parodies and artistic portrayals

Attenborough's accent and hushed, excited delivery have been the subject of frequent parodies by comedians, most notably Spike Milligan, Marty Feldman, The Goodies and South Park. Especially apt for spoofing is Attenborough's pronunciation of the word "here" when using it to introduce a sentence, as in, "He-eah, in the rain forest of the Amazon Basin..."

Attenborough also appears as a character in David Ives' play Time Flies, a comedy focusing on a romance between two mayflies.

In the documentary In the Wild: Lemurs with John Cleese, while trekking through the forest in Madagascar, Cleese points as if to have seen an exotic creature and exclaims, "It's David Attenborough!"


Views and advocacy

Environmental causes

From the beginning, Attenborough's major series have included some content regarding the impact of human society on the natural world. The last episode of The Living Planet, for example, focuses almost entirely on humans' destruction of the environment and ways that it could be stopped or reversed. Despite this, his programmes have been criticised for not making their environmental message more explicit. Some environmentalists feel that programmes like Attenborough's give a false picture of idyllic wilderness and do not do enough to acknowledge that such areas are increasingly encroached upon by humans.[12]

However, his closing message from State of the Planet was forthright:

The future of life on earth depends on our ability to take action. Many individuals are doing what they can, but real success can only come if there's a change in our societies and our economics and in our politics. I've been lucky in my lifetime to see some of the greatest spectacles that the natural world has to offer. Surely we have a responsibility to leave for future generations a planet that is healthy, inhabitable by all species.

In the last few years, Attenborough has become increasingly outspoken in support of environmental causes. In 2005 and 2006 he backed a BirdLife International project to stop the killing of albatross by longline fishing boats.[13] He gave public support to WWF's campaign to have 220,000 square kilometres of Borneo's rainforest designated a protected area.[14] He also serves as a vice-president of Fauna and Flora International and president of Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust. In 2003 he launched an appeal to create a rainforest reserve in Ecuador in memory of Christopher Parsons OBE, the producer of Life on Earth and a personal friend, who had died the previous year. Sir David also launched ARKive in May 2003,[15] a global project which had been instigated by Christopher Parsons to gather together natural history media into a digital library, an online Noah's Ark. He later became Patron of the World Land Trust, and an active supporter.

Attenborough has repeatedly said that he considers human overpopulation to be the root cause of many environmental problems. Both his series The Life of Mammals and the accompanying book end with a plea for humans to curb population growth so that other species will not be crowded out.

He has recently written and spoken publicly about the fact that he now believes global warming is definitely real, and caused by humans.[16] At the climax of the aforementioned "Climate Chaos" documentaries, the naturalist gives this summing up of his findings:

"In the past, we didn't understand the effect of our actions. Unknowingly, we sowed the wind and now, literally, we are reaping the whirlwind. But we no longer have that excuse: now we do recognise the consequences of our behaviour. Now surely, we must act to reform it: individually and collectively; nationally and internationally ?- or we doom future generations to catastrophe."

In a 2005 interview with BBC Wildlife magazine, Attenborough said he considered George W. Bush to be the era's top "environmental villain".


Other causes

In May 2005, Attenborough was appointed as patron of the UK's Blood Pressure Association, which provides information and support to people with hypertension.[17]


Sir David Attenborough is also an honorary member of BSES Expeditions, a youth development charity that operates challenging scientific research expeditions to remote wilderness environments


Religion and creationism

In a December 2005 interview with Simon Mayo on BBC Radio Five Live, Attenborough stated that he considers himself an agnostic.[18] When asked whether his observation of the natural world has given him faith in a creator, he generally responds with some version of this story:

My response is that when Creationists talk about God creating every individual species as a separate act, they always instance hummingbirds, or orchids, sunflowers and beautiful things. But I tend to think instead of a parasitic worm that is boring through the eye of a boy sitting on the bank of a river in West Africa, [a worm] that's going to make him blind. And [I ask them], 'Are you telling me that the God you believe in, who you also say is an all-merciful God, who cares for each one of us individually, are you saying that God created this worm that can live in no other way than in an innocent child's eyeball? Because that doesn't seem to me to coincide with a God who's full of mercy.[19]

He has explained that he feels the evidence all over the planet clearly shows evolution to be the best way to explain the diversity of life, and that "as far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then he chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world."

In a BBC4 interview with Mark Lawson Sir David, in answer to the question "Have you at any time had any religious faith?" replied "No."

In 2002, Attenborough joined an effort by leading clerics and scientists to oppose the inclusion of creationism in the curriculum of UK state-funded independent schools which receive private sponsorship, such as the Emmanuel Schools Foundation.

Don Rickles
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Born May 8, 1926

Donald Jay Rickles (born May 8, 1926 in New York City, New York) is an American comedian, film actor, and voice actor.




Early life and stand-up career

He was born in New York City to Jewish parents Etta and Max Rickles, and spent most of his early career doing stand-up comedy, becoming known primarily as an "insult comedian." It is said that this characteristic was partially inspired by his admiration for older comic Jack E. Leonard and was greatly elaborated when he learned to respond to hecklers by insulting them back. The audience liked these insults more than his prepared material, so he developed that part of his act. There is a story that while working in a Los Angeles nightclub early in his career, he spotted Frank Sinatra, and called out "Make yourself at home, Frank: hit somebody!"


Military service and early acting career

Rickles served in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Cyrene as a S1/c until 1946, when he was honorably discharged. Two years later he studied drama, and played occasional bit parts on television alongside his work in nightclubs. In 1958 he made his film debut in Run Silent, Run Deep, and went on to appear in a number of other films. In an episode of the mid-60s drama series Run for Your Life, Rickles played a distressed comedian whose act culminates with his strangling a patron while imploring the patron to "Laugh!"


A frequent Tonight Show guest

As his career progressed, he made more and more appearances on television talk shows, making his first appearance on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show in 1965. He would go on to make over 100 appearances on The Tonight Show throughout the rest of its run during Carson's era. From the 1970s, he made several appearances on Dean Martin's show. Frank Sinatra provided a big career boost, allowing Rickles to poke fun at his hairpiece, his voice, and his alleged Mafia connections.

In 1968, he came out with the comedy album Hello, Dummy!, which consisted of edited-together live performances of his Las Vegas act.


Television series and the "cigarette box incident"

From 1976-1978 he starred in the Navy-themed sitcom C.P.O. Sharkey as an abrasive Chief Petty Officer. During production of the series, Rickles appeared on The Tonight Show with guest host Bob Newhart. While poking fun at Newhart, in faux-anger, Rickles slammed the cigarette box which Johnny Carson kept on his desk and broke it. When Carson returned from vacation and discovered this incident (during the taped broadcast of his show), he took a camera crew to the studio next door where Sharkey was being taped, and disrupted taping in order to tease Rickles about it. Rickles, known for his quick comebacks, was left speechless and could only laugh heartily. This incident was often replayed in Tonight Show retrospectives and was considered a highlight of the 1970s era of the show.


Recent voice and film work

More recently, he made a return to film, appearing in a dramatic part as Robert DeNiro's trusted colleague in Martin Scorsese's Casino, and voicing Mr. Potato Head in the Pixar computer-animated film Toy Story and Toy Story 2.

Rickles has for many years also been known as "Mr. Warmth" (a satirical self-reference to his insult comedy schtick). Often when he is introduced to an audience or on a television talk show, Spanish matador music, usually "La Virgen de la Macarena," will be played (subtly foreshadowing that someone is about to be metaphorically gored), or else a dischordant version of "Mister Wonderful".


Personal life

Rickles and his wife Barbara are fast friends with comedian Bob Newhart and his wife, and they often vacation together. Rickles and Newhart appeared together on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on January 24, 2005, the Monday following Johnny Carson's death, reminiscing about their many guest appearances on Carson's show. Included was Rickles (and Newhart) recounting the "cigarette box incident". The footage of the incident was also included.

Rickles has been married for over 41 years to his wife, who hails from the Wynnefield section of Philadelphia. He and Barbara have a daughter, Mindy, a son, Larry and two grandchildren, Ethan and Harrison Mann. Harrison Mann is a soothsayer.

Rickles continues to be very active on the stand up comedy scene to this day, and has many dates booked through the end of 2007, and still says he has no plans to retire, he recently told New Jersey newspaper The Daily Record. "I'm in good health. I'm working better than I ever have. The audiences are great. Why should I retire? I'm like a fighter. The bell rings and you come out and fight. My energy comes alive. And I still enjoy it."[citation needed]

On May 8th 2007, Rickles' autobiography "Rickles' Book" will be published.

Ricky Nelson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Background information

Birth name Eric Hilliard Nelson
Born May 8, 1940
Origin Teaneck, New Jersey
Died December 31, 1985
Genre(s) Rock 'n' roll, Pop music
Occupation(s) Actor, Rockabilly/Rock n roll singer
Years active 1957-1985
Label(s) Imperial, Decca (MCA)

Eric Hilliard "Ricky" Nelson, later known as Rick Nelson (May 8, 1940 - December 31, 1985), was one of the first American teen idols.

Born in Teaneck, New Jersey, he was the younger son of Ozzie Nelson, the leader of a big band, and Harriet Hilliard Nelson, the band's singer. Along with brother David Nelson, the family starred in the long-running radio and television series The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet from 1944 to 1954 on the radio, and 1952 to 1966 on television. However, David and Ricky Nelson did not join the cast until 1949; for the first five years of the radio show, the sons were played by professional actors.

Ricky Nelson began a rock and roll music career in 1957. He recorded his debut single, the Fats Domino song "I'm Walkin'", seeking to impress a date who was an Elvis Presley fan ?- Nelson's first song was a hit, reaching #4 on the charts. Soon, each episode of the Ozzie & Harriet television show ended with a musical performance by "Ricky". It was during the sitcom's run that Ozzie Nelson, either as a move to keep his son's fans tuned in each week, or as an affirmation of his reputed behind-the-scenes persona as a control freak, kept Ricky from appearing on other TV shows that arguably would have enhanced his public profile, American Bandstand and The Ed Sullivan Show in particular. Ironically, Rick finally did appear on the Sullivan show in 1967, but where his career was at that time made it seem irrelevant. Rick also appeared on other TV shows (usually in acting roles); in 1977, he guest-hosted on Saturday Night Live where he proved to be a good sport in spoofing his TV sitcom image, by appearing in a Twilight Zone send-up, where, trying to go "home", he'd find himself among the characters from other 1950s/early 60s-era sitcoms, Leave It To Beaver, Father Knows Best, and Make Room For Daddy.

Despite the promotional aspects of his career, it is clear that Nelson knew and loved music, and was a credible performer before he became a teen idol, largely due to his parents' musical background. Unlike many teen idols of the time, Nelson showed his personal taste in working with strong musicians, including James Burton, Joe Maphis, The Jordanaires, and Johnny and Dorsey Burnette.

From 1957 to 1962, Nelson had 30 top 40 hits, more than any other artist at the time, except Elvis Presley (who had 53) and Pat Boone (who had 38). Many of Nelson's early records were double hits with both the A side and the B side hitting the Billboard charts. When Billboard introduced the Hot 100 chart on August 4, 1958, Nelson's single "Poor Little Fool" became the first song ever in the #1 position on that chart.

While Nelson preferred rockabilly and uptempo rock songs like "Hello Mary Lou", "It's Late", "Stood Up", and "Be-Bop Baby", his smooth, calm voice made him a natural to sing ballads. He had major success with "Travelin' Man", "Poor Little Fool", "Young World", "Lonesome Town", and "Teenage Idol", which clearly could have been about Nelson himself at the time.

In addition to his recording career, Nelson also appeared in movies, including Rio Bravo with John Wayne and Dean Martin (1959) The Wackiest Ship In the Army (1960) and Love and Kisses (1965).

In 1961, Nelson began to be credited on his records as "Rick Nelson" instead of "Ricky Nelson".

In April 1963, he married Kristin Harmon in what Life Magazine referred to as "The Wedding of the Year." Kristin Harmon is the daughter of Football All-American University of Michigan football legend and Heisman Trophy winner Tom Harmon and actress Elyse Knox, and is the older sister of movie and television star Mark Harmon, perhaps known best for the hit series "NCIS."

In 1963, Nelson signed a 20-year contract with Decca Records, but he had no further major hits after 1964's "For You". In the mid-1960s, he began to move towards country music, but did not reach the Top 40 again until 1970, when he recorded Bob Dylan's "She Belongs To Me" with the Stone Canyon Band.

In 1972, Nelson reached the top 40 one last time with "Garden Party", a song he wrote in disgust after a Madison Square Garden audience booed him when he tried playing new songs instead of just his old hits from the 1950s and 1960s. "Garden Party" reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, and was certified as a gold single. (Coincidentally, "Garden Party" was a hit at the same time Nelson's influence Elvis Presley was having his last top 10 single, "Burning Love", as was Chuck Berry with "My Ding-a-Ling"; Berry is among the musicians alluded to in the lyrics of "Garden Party".)

However, Nelson never regained his career's momentum. By the late-1970s, Nelson's life was in shambles. His wife had divorced him and taken their four children. He wasn't making records and when he played live at all, it was in very small, insignificant venues. Nelson began using drugs, especially marijuana.[1] In 1985, he joined a nostalgia rock tour of England. It was a major success, and it revived some interest in Nelson. He tried to duplicate that effect in the United States, and he began a tour of the South. While on that tour, he died in a plane crash in De Kalb, Texas in 1985; he was on his way to a New Year's Eve concert in Dallas, Texas. Nelson was interred in the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. The last song he sang on stage before his death was Buddy Holly's "Rave On."

Rumors that drug use among the passengers caused the crash frequently resurface, but the original NTSB investigation long ago stated that the crash was probably due to mechanical problems. An examination indicated the fire originated in the right hand side of the aft cabin area at or near the floor line. The ignition and fuel sources could not be determined, although many believe that the most likely cause was a defective cabin heater. The pilot indicated that the crew tried to turn on the cabin heater repeatedly shortly before the fire occurred, but that it failed to respond. After the fire, the access panel to the heater compartment was found unlatched. The theory is supported by records that showed that DC-3s in general, and this aircraft in particular, had a previous history of problems with the cabin heaters.

Nelson was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, and also to the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1515 Vine Street.

His twin sons, Gunnar and Matthew Nelson, also were teen idols, performing as Nelson, and his daughter, Tracy Nelson, is an actress and cancer survivor. She may be best known for her role in the television series Father Dowling Mysteries, which starred Tom Bosley. Nelson's youngest son, Sam Nelson, is an actor and singer.

In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of his passing, PBS aired a one hour documentary entitled "Ricky Nelson Sings", featuring interviews with his children, as well as James Burton and Kris Kristofferson. The only time Kris Kristofferson played with Ricky Nelson was in Elroy, Wisconsin at Party in the Park July 3, 1985.

Bob Dylan, in his 2004 memoir, Chronicles, Vol. 1, wrote about Nelson's influence on his music. Also in 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Nelson #91 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[1]

On December 27, 2005, EMI Music released an album titled Ricky Nelson's Greatest Hits, with 25 songs. It peaked at #56 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

In Stephen King's Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Nelson appears in You Know They Got a Hell of a Band as an evil version of himself, who torments an unsuspecting couple trapped in a town inhabited by late rock n roll legends. Nelson was portrayed by William McNamara in the 2006 television mini-series adaptation of Nightmares & Dreamscapes.

His estate is run as The Rick Nelson Company, LLC, and owns ancilliary rights to the classic Ozzie and Harriet television series. As of 2007, after years of public domain video releases on VHS and DVD, an officially released edition of the show has been released via Shout! Factory.

Toni Tennille
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Toni Tennille (born Cathryn Antoinette Tennille, 8 May 1940, Montgomery, Alabama) is one-half of the 1970s Grammy Award winning duo, Captain & Tennille. She attended Sidney Lanier High School and Auburn University in Alabama, where in the latter, sang with the big band music group, the Auburn Knights. Toni is a well-above-average height woman, at 178 centimeters (5' 10").

She became famous when she and her husband, the Captain, Daryl Frank Dragon, both accomplished musicians and songwriters, emerged in the early 1970s with their summer 1975 hit, "Love Will Keep Us Together", along with many others. Tennille is also credited with vocals on Pink Floyd's album The Wall and Elton John's hit "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me".

Tennille serves as an Ambassador of the Arts for the state of Nevada, among many other influential endeavors. Toni and Daryl were married on 11 November 1975. She is one of four girls born to Frank and Cathryn Tennille. Toni's sisters are Jane Tennille, Melissa Tennille and Louisa (Lulu) Tennille.

Captain & Tennille achieved stardom during the 1970s and early 1980s. Toni's father, Frank Tennille, was known as Clark Randall and was a singer with several big bands, including Bob Crosby's Bobcats. Toni's mother, Cathryn was a hostess of a local Mongomery, Alabama TV Talk Show. Toni and her sisters would be in the studio from time to time. Toni would play on her mother's show and occasionally with her sisters would dance and sing on the show. Toni Tennille attended Sidney Lanier High School and then Auburn University, where she studied music and was the lead singer with a campus band. In her second year of college, the family moved to California, when the family furniture business closed. Toni's parents divorced soon afterward. Toni herself would divorce her first husband Kenneth Shearer. She got a job as a file clerk and wrote music in her spare time. It wasn't too long after that that she would meet Daryl Dragon.

Toni Tennille's birth year was erroneously publicized as 1943, as was their marriage date which is November 11, 1975 at The Silver Queen Saloon Wedding Chapel in Virginia City, Nevada. The wrong date was erroneously publicized as February 14, 1975.




When they met in 1971 in San Francisco, Daryl Dragon had been performing for about six years as a keyboardist for The Beach Boys and Tennille was staging a musical she had written called Mother Earth, a rock ecology, at the Marines Memorial Theatre. Toni hired Daryl as a musician for the production; after which, in turn, he recommended Toni to the Beach Boys as a piano player, and she landed the gig as a touring keyboardist with them. She is recognized in music history books as the worlds first and only "Beach Girl". During touring with the band, traditionally, the Beach Boys would put band mates in hotel rooms together to save money. When it came to Toni having a roommate, it was Daryl. It was around that time that Toni penned the first love song of many that she would write for Daryl, "The Way I Want To Touch You".

They soon discovered they made a great team on their own and began performing on a regular basis at The Smokehouse club in Encino, California (Los Angeles), initially billed as The Dragons. There they met Bruno and Carol Cicotti who would become their longtime manager and personal assistant. Dragon and Tennille released a single on their own label (Butterscotch Castle Records and later Joyce Records) as Captain & Tennille, and eventually obtained a recording contract with A&M Records.

Their first single was a cover version of Neil Sedaka's "Love Will Keep Us Together". The song contained a verbal acknowledgment to its composer, as The Captain & Tennille worked the line "Sedaka is back" into the fadeout. The song spent four weeks at #1 in the U.S. in the summer of 1975 and became the top selling single of the year. They also received a Grammy Award for Record of the Year for this recording, which also gave Sedaka his first Grammy. They were nominated in two categories, Best Vocal Performance by a Group and for Record of the Year, both for "Love Will Keep Us Together" and received the award for Record of the Year.





Popular success

Over the next few years, the duo released a string of hit singles including "The Way I Want To Touch You", "Lonely Night (Angel Face)", "Shop Around", a cover version of Willis Alan Ramsey's "Muskrat Love" (previously popularized by America), and "You Never Done It Like That". Such was their level of success that they were given their own television show, but they were not happy with its format and asked to be released from their contract.

Neil Bogart signed them to a contract with Casablanca Records, and they reached Number One with their first single, "Do That To Me One More Time." Subsequent singles achieved only moderate success. They signed with CBS Records but were released from their contract.


Recent activities

Throughout the '90s, they continued to perform various concert dates, frequently at Harrah's Lake Tahoe which was close to their home in Northern Nevada. They played a one-time-only date at the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles in 1995 as part of their 20th anniversary as an act.

Throughout the 1980s and '90s, Tennille enjoyed a second career as a big band and pop standards singer, mimicking the success of pop colleague Linda Ronstadt.

She also starred in the Broadway tour of Victor/Victoria. At the end of that project, she and Dragon were to have embarked on a 25th anniversary tour but have not toured.

Captain & Tennille's released their Ultimate Collection: The Complete Hits on Hip-O Records in 2001 and More Than Dancing...Much More, a 2002 CD. The latter contains what was originally their final album in 1982, More Than Dancing, which at that time was released only in Australia, and is combined with selected tracks from their 1995 20 Years Of Romance, originally on K-Tel as well five previously unreleased tracks.

In 2003, British Electro-kitsch duo Bent sampled Toni's vocals into their hit "Magic Love", confounding British listeners, many of whom knew the voice was familiar but could not place it.

In November 2003, Tennille performed a benefit concert for the Reno Chamber Orchestra with Dragon. This was the first time they had publicly performed as Captain & Tennille in many years, and, as a result, their first live recording was released. The double-CD, An Intimate Evening with Toni Tennille, can be acquired only through the Reno Chamber Orchestra website.

In 2005 Brant Berry, of R2 Entertainment, signed an agreement with Captain & Tennille for three separate projects featuring the duo. These were a DVD issue of Captain & Tennille's 1976 variety series. Secondly, R2 re-released all six of their albums (both from the original A&M and Casablanca labels) on newly-remastered CDs. Several of the CDs were previously only available in Japan. The new CDs, packaged both as individual CDs and in a box set, contain brand-new liner notes written by Toni Tennille. Thirdly, a new recording by Captain & Tennille was released: a 3-song Christmas CD, whose main title is "Saving Up Christmas." This release is in anticipation of a full-length Christmas CD, which R2 had planned to be released in the fall of 2006.

The couple is currently has homes in both the Sedona region of Arizona and Palm Springs, California. They previously lived in Nevada where Tennille was appointed "Ambassador For The Arts" by the governor of the state.


Trivia

Tennille's father was singer Clark Randall (a.k.a. Frank Tennille), a member of the legendary Bob Crosby's Bobcats. Toni Tennille's real first name, Cathryn, is the same as her mother's; the elder was a TV talk show hostess in Montgomery, Alabama.
Dragon's father was the legendary conductor, Carmen Dragon.
Tennille has also worked as a session singer (most frequently partnered with Beach Boy Bruce Johnston), performing backup on no fewer than three Elton John albums including Caribou, Blue Moves, and 21 At 33 (some vocally arranged by Dragon) and most notably (and prominently) on the classic "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me". She also appeared as a backup vocalist on tracks by Art Garfunkel and The Beach Boys, as well as Pink Floyd for whom she performed backing tracks on The Wall album.

Melissa Gilbert
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Melissa Ellen Gilbert (born on May 8, 1964) is an American actress.

The naturally red-headed Gilbert is best known as a child actor who starred as Charles Ingalls' (played by Michael Landon) middle daughter, Laura Ingalls, on the television series Little House on the Prairie (1974-1983). Not long after that she played Gerda in the Faerie Tale Theatre adaptation of The Snow Queen. She also provided the voicework for the roles of Clara in the Sanrio film, Nutcracker Fantasy and later Barbara Gordon in Batman: The Animated Series. More recently, she served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild.









Family and early career

Gilbert was born in Los Angeles, California, to a Jewish family. She was adopted by actor Paul Gilbert (born Paul MacMahon) and his wife, Barbara Crane. Her younger brother, Jonathan Gilbert, was also adopted. Melissa and Jonathan worked together when he portrayed Willie Oleson in Little House on the Prairie and in the movie The Miracle Worker. When Melissa was eight, her parents divorced, and when she was 11, her adoptive father died. Her adoptive mother married Harold Abeles and gave birth in 1975 to Sara Abeles, who became an actress. In 1984 Sara Abeles changed her name to Sara Gilbert. Sara would later star in the American television series Roseanne.


Career after Little House

Gilbert has continued to work regularly, mainly in television. She starred as Jean Donovan in the biopic Choices of the Heart (1983), and played Anna Sheridan in three episodes of Babylon 5 in 1996.

Melissa won the Screen Actors Guild presidency in 2001 after a contentious election in which she ultimately beat her opponent, Valerie Harper, 21,351 votes to 12,613 votes after a second vote was taken. In 2003, she was re-elected, defeating Kent McCord with 50% of the vote to his 42% [1]. In July 2005, she announced that she would not seek a third term and she was succeeded by Alan Rosenberg, who assumed the Guild presidency on September 25.

For her contribution to the television industry, Gilbert has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6429 Hollywood Blvd. In 1998, she was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Gilbert regularly keeps in contact with her friend Alison Arngrim, who played her nemesis and sometimes best friend "Nellie Oleson" on Little House on the Prairie.

Lies - by "tweety"

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The program's fully tested and bugfree.

We're working on the documentation.

Of course we can modify it.



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We run the stuff through as fast as it comes in the door.

The new machines on order.



3 Biggest Large Company Lies

We have an entrepreneurial spirit here.

People are our greatest resource.

We say 'let the marketplace decide'.



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We have an entrepreneurial spirit here.

The boss is just one of the guys.

Staying small is a conscious decision.



3 Biggest Marketing Lies

Immediate delivery?...No problem.

We treat every customer as if they were our most important.

We're going out to lunch to talk business.


3 Biggest Engineering Professor's Lies


Some day this course will come in handy.

These tests are more trouble for me than they are for you.

This is the way they do it in industry.



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Money...it's just a score card.

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You have to twist my arm to get me to go on a business trip.



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You'll make lots of money in your proffessional career.

The general public respect Physicists.



3 Biggest student teacher lies

The school will help and support you all they can.

This teaching course is interesting and stimulating.

Kids today are just the same as when you went to school.



3 Biggest advertising lies

This product will taste as good as it looks.

You really need our product.

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I'll be factual and to the point.

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..and they lived happily ever after.

Dying is painless.

Things have gotten so bad that they couldn't possibly get worse.

My Rifle Pony and Me

Ricky Nelson
Duet w/ Dean Martin

Sun is sinking in the west
The cattle go down to the stream
The redwing settles in the nest
It's time for a cowboy to dream

Purple light in the canyon
that is where I long to be
With my three good companions
just my rifle pony and me

Gonna hang my sombrero
on the limb of a tree
Coming home sweet my darling
just my rifle pony and me

Whippoorwill in the willow
sings a sweet melody
Riding to Amarillo
just my rifle pony and me

No more cows to be ropin'
No more strays will I see
'round the bend shell be waitin
For my rifle pony and me
For my rifle my pony and me

Good Afternoon WA2K.

Faces to match Bob's bios:

Thanks Sweety

You xl at that and I don't. Glad you noticed and jumped in.

Master song

I believe that you heard your master sing
when I was sick in bed.
I suppose that he told you everything
that I keep locked away in my head.
Your master took you travelling,
well at least that's what you said.
And now do you come back to bring
your prisoner wine and bread?

You met him at some temple, where
they take your clothes at the door.
He was just a numberless man in a chair
who'd just come back from the war.
And you wrap up his tired face in your hair
and he hands you the apple core.
Then he touches your lips now so suddenly bare
of all the kisses we put on some time before.

And he gave you a German Shepherd to walk
with a collar of leather and nails,
and he never once made you explain or talk
about all of the little details,
such as who had a word and who had a rock,
and who had you through the mails.
Now your love is a secret all over the block,
and it never stops not even when your master fails.

And he took you up in his aeroplane,
which he flew without any hands,
and you cruised above the ribbons of rain
that drove the crowd from the stands.
Then he killed the lights in a lonely Lane
and, an ape with angel glands,
erased the final wisps of pain
with the music of rubber bands.

And now I hear your master sing,
you kneel for him to come.
His body is a golden string
that your body is hanging from.
His body is a golden string,
my body has grown numb.
Oh now you hear your master sing,
your shirt is all undone.

And will you kneel beside this bed
that we polished so long ago,
before your master chose instead
to make my bed of snow?
Your eyes are wild and your knuckles are red
and you're speaking far too low.
No I can't make out what your master said
before he made you go.

Then I think you're playing far too rough
for a lady who's been to the moon;
I've lain by this window long enough
to get used to an empty room.
And your love is some dust in an old man's cough
who is tapping his foot to a tune,
and your thighs are a ruin, you want too much,
let's say you came back some time too soon.

I loved your master perfectly
I taught him all that he knew.
He was starving in some deep mystery
like a man who is sure what is true.
And I sent you to him with my guarantee
I could teach him something new,
and I taught him how you would long for me
no matter what he said no matter what you'd do.

I believe that you heard your master sing
while I was sick in bed,
I'm sure that he told you everything
I must keep locked away in my head.
Your master took you travelling,
well at least that's what you said,
And now do you come back to bring
your prisoner wine and bread?


Winter Lady

Trav'ling lady, stay awhile
until the night is over.
I'm just a station on your way,
I know I'm not your lover.

Well I lived with a child of snow
when I was a soldier,
and I fought every man for her
until the nights grew colder.

She used to wear her hair like you
except when she was sleeping,
and then she'd weave it on a loom
of smoke and gold and breathing.

And why are you so quiet now
standing there in the doorway?
You chose your journey long before
you came upon this highway.

Trav'ling lady stay awhile
until the night is over.
I'm just a station on your way,
I know I'm not your lover.


Stranger song
(1966)

It's true that all the men you knew were dealers
who said they were through with dealing
Every time you gave them shelter
I know that kind of man
It's hard to hold the hand of anyone
who is reaching for the sky just to surrender
who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.

And then sweeping up the jokers that he left behind
you find he did not leave you very much
not even laughter
Like any dealer he was watching for the card
that is so high and wild
he'll never need to deal another
He was just some Joseph looking for a manger
he was just some Joseph looking for a manger.

And then leaning on your window sill
he'll say one day you caused his will
to weaken with your love and warmth and shelter
And then taking from his wallet
an old schedule of trains, he'll say
I told you when I came I was a stranger
I told you when I came I was a stranger.

But now another stranger seems
to want you to ignore his dreams
as though they were the burden of some other
O you've seen that man before
his golden arm dispatching cards
but now it's rusted from the elbows to the finger
And he wants to trade the game he plays for shelter
Yes he wants to trade the game he knows for shelter.

Ah you hate to watch another tired man
lay down his hand
like he was giving up the holy game of poker
And while he talks his dreams to sleep
you notice there's a highway
that is curling up like smoke above his shoulder
It's curling just like smoke above his shoulder.

You tell him to come in sit down
but something makes you turn around
The door is open you can't close your shelter
You try the handle of the road
It opens do not be afraid
It's you my love, you who are the stranger
It's you my love, you who are the stranger.

Well, I've been waiting, I was sure
we'd meet between the trains we're waiting for
I think it's time to board another
Please understand, I never had a secret chart
to get me to the heart of this
or any other matter
When he talks like this
you don't know what he's after
when he speaks like this,
you don't know what he's after.

Let's meet tomorrow if you choose
upon the shore, beneath the bridge
that they are building on some endless river
Then he leaves the platform
for the sleeping car that's warm
You realize, he's only advertising one more shelter
And it comes to you, he never was a stranger
and you say ok the bridge or someplace later.

And then sweeping up the jokers that he left behind...

And leaning on your window sill...

I told you when I came I was a stranger.


Sisters of Mercy

Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone.
They were waiting for me when I thought that I just can't go on.
And they brought me their comfort and later they brought me this song.
Oh I hope you run into them, you who've been travelling so long.

Yes you who must leave everything that you cannot control.
It begins with your family, but soon it comes around to your soul.
Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned:
When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.

Well they lay down beside me, I made my confession to them.
They touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on their hem.
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn
they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.

When I left they were sleeping, I hope you run into them soon.
Don't turn on the lights, you can read their address by the moon.
And you won't make me jealous if I hear that they sweetened your night:
We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be all right,
We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be all right.


Leonard Cohen

Jerry Lee Lewis - Break My Mind

Baby, oh! Baby
Tell the man at the ticket stand
That you've changed your mind
Let me run on out and tell the cab
To keep his meter flyin'
Or did you say goodbye to me
Babe, you're gonna break my mind

Break my mind
Break my mind
Oh! I just can't stand
To hear them big jet engines whine
Break my mind
Break my mind, oh! Lord
If you leave you're gonna leave
A babblin' fool behind

Baby, I say, Baby
Let me take your suitcase
Off of them scales in time
Tell the man that you suddenly developed
A thing about flyin', flyin'
'Cause if you say goodbye to me, Baby
You know you?re gonna break my mind

Break my mind
Break my mind
Oh! I just can't stand
To hear them big jet engines whine
Break my mind
Break my mind, oh! Lord
If you leave you're gonna leave
A babblin' fool behind

Break my mind
Break my mind
Oh! I just can't stand
To hear them big jet engines whine
Break my mind
Break my mind, oh! Lord
If you leave you're gonna leave
A babblin' fool behind




Jerry Lee Lewis - Break Up

Well who's that guy you've been seeing most everyday
He shouldn't be allowed to come and take my baby away
Baby why dont you wake up, all we gotta do is make up
Come on baby, dont break up with me

Well, I saw you walking with him just the other night
And I almost flipped when I saw him squeeze you tight
Baby why dont you wake up, all we gotta do is make up
Come on baby, dont break up with me

Do you remember when the time you was so true
Then he came along and looked at you
Remember when you said you love me so
Now, Baby please dont go

I dont know just exactly what I'm gonna do
But if you like him then I suppose he likes you too
Baby why dont you wake up, all we gotta do is make up
Come on baby, dont break up with me


Do you remember when the time you was so true
Then he came along and looked at you
Remember when you said you love me so
Now, Baby please dont go

Look a-hear, look a-hear, I know that you gonna be true
But if you like him, honey, I suppose he loves you too
Baby why dont you wake up, all we gotta do is make up
Come on baby dont break up with me
Come on baby dont break up with me
Come on baby dont break up with me




Jerry Lee Lewis - Breathless

Now if you love me please don't tease
If I can hold then let me squeeze
My heart goes round and round
My love comes a tumblin' down

You leave me ahhhhhhh
Breathless
I shake all over and you know why
I am sure its love honey thats no lie

Cause when you call my name
You know I burn like a wooden flame
You leave me ahhhhhh
Breathless!

OOOOOOOhhhhhh baby, Oooooooh crazy!
Your much to much Honey I can't love you enough
It's alright to hold me tight
But when you love me love me riiiiighhhht!

Ah come on baby now don't be shy
This love was ment for you and I
Wind, rain, sleet or snow
I am gonna be wherever you go

You have left me ahhhh
Breathless

WEeeeeeellll
oooooh baby, mmmmnnn crazy
Your much to much
I can't love you enough

Well its alright to hold me tight
But when you love me love me right
Ah come on baby now don't be shy
This love was ment for you and I

Wind, rain, sleet or snow
I am gonna be wherever you go
You leave me ahhhh
Breathless




Jerry Lee Lewis - Brown Eyed Handsome Man

Flying across the desert in a TWA,
I saw a woman walking across the sand
Walkin' thirty miles in route to Bombay
To meet a brown eyed handsome man,
Brown eyed handsome man

Milo Venus was a beautiful lass
She had the world in the palm of her hand
But she lost both her arms in a wrestling match
To get a brown eyed handsome man,
Brown eyed handsome man

Way back in history three thousand years
Back ever since the world began
There's been a whole lot of shakin' goin' on
Over brown eyed handsome man,
Brown eyed handsome man

Milo Venus was a beautiful lass
She had the world in the palm of her hand
But she lost both her arms in a wrestling match
To get a brown eyed handsome man,
Brown eyed handsome man

Two, three count had nobody on
He hit a high fly in the stand
Rounding third he was headed for home
It was a brown eyed handsome man
Brown eyed handsome man

i'm not sure about phoenix, but here's what john prine had to say about mars

Linda Goes To Mars
John Prine

I just found out yesterday that Linda goes to Mars
Every time I sit and look at pictures of used cars
She'll turn on her radio and sit down in her chair
And look at me across the room, as if I wasn't there

Oh My stars! My Linda's gone to Mars
Well I wish she wouldn't leave me here alone
Oh My stars! My Linda's gone to Mars
Well, I wonder if she'd bring me something home.

Something, somewhere, somehow took my Linda by the hand
And secretly decoded our sacred wedding band
For when the moon shines down up on our happy, humble home
Her inner space gets tortured by some outer space unknown.

Oh My stars! My Linda's gone to Mars
Well I wish she wouldn't leave me here alone
Oh My stars! My Linda's gone to Mars
Well, I wonder if she'd bring me something home.

Now I ain't seen no saucers 'cept the ones upon the shelf
And if I ever seen one I'd keep it to myself
For if there's life out there somewhere beyond this life on earth
Then Linda must have gone out there and got her money's worth.

Oh My stars! My Linda's gone to Mars
Well I wish she wouldn't leave me here alone
Oh My stars! My Linda's gone to Mars
Well, I wonder if she'd bring me something home.

Yeah, I wonder if she'd bring me something home.

It's been a blue, blue day
I feel like runnin away
I feel like runnin away from it all

My love has been untrue
She's found somebody new
It's been a blue, blue day for me

I feel like cryin, dyin
What can I do
Fell like prayin, sayin
I'm glad we're through

It's been a blue, blue day
I feel like runnin away
I feel like runnin away from the blues

I cannot make believe
That I don't sit and grieve
It's been a blue, blue day for me

I can't pretend and say
That I don't love her anyway
It's been a blue, blue day for me

I feel like cryin, dyin
What can I do
Fell like prayin, sayin
I'm glad we're through

It's been a blue, blue day
I feel like runnin away
I feel like runnin away from the blues

Don Gibson
Blue Blue Day