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can't find lyrics for this song, and really that's not the point of this post, sometimes the title of the song is enough

some indie band called johnny boy, have one of the best song titles i've heard in some time

"You're The Generation That Bought More Shoes And You Got What You Deserved"

letty :
yes , i do know Buena Vista , va .
there is also a great JANE BUNNETT cd called Buena Vista social club - recorded with cuban musicians , i believe .



picked up a stack of cd's at the library incl. a great performance by BILLY BUTTERFIELD and ANDY BARTHA , recorded at GLUTH"S LIFE LOUNGE in FORT LAUDERDALE in 1969 - some of the bandmembers also played in jackie gleason's band !
mainly instrumental with some really sharp and hot tunes , such as :
- dese, dem and dose ,
- mama's goodbye ,
ending with :
- careless love .

really swinging stuff !



BLOWING UP A STORM !


hbg

dj, I'm sorry that you cannot find the lyrics to your indie Johnny Boy. The title of your song is a bit strange, however.

Will this Johnny Boy do?

Johnny Boy
GARY MOORE

When I hear that wind blow
All across the Wicklow mountains
Is it you, I hear a calling
Johnny boy, oh Johnny boy

When I look to the west
All across the River Shannon
I can still see you smiling
Johnny boy, oh Johnny boy

When the leaves have turned to brown
And winter's due
As I watch the sun goes down
I'll think of you

When I hear that wind blow
All across the Wicklow mountains
Sure it's you, I'll hear a calling
Johnny boy, oh Johnny boy

Well, hbg, that Vista must be kicking right along, as you got in ahead of me.

I need to check out that Buena Vista Social club, buddy. Right now, I need to eat something. Time for a station break.

This is Cyber Space, WA2K radio

from the jerome kern songbook , ella fitzgerald sings :

I"LL BE HARD TO HANDLE - i think this song also qualifies as a windows vista themesong

link to : BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB



went to a jane bunnett session last year when she brought some young cubans musicians along - superb !
hbg

Thanks for that Belle and Sebastian, djjd.

I was listening to them driving home from dance class, and I was truly in the mood for some more.

~~~

and now for something that I've heard Maria Muldaur perform to good effect

Richland's Woman Blues

by Mississippi John Hurt


Gimme red lipstick and a bright purple rouge
A shingle bob haircut and a shot of good boo'
Hurry down, sweet daddy, come blowin' your horn
If you come too late, sweet mama will be gone

Come along young man, everything settin' right
My husbands goin' away till next Saturday night
Hurry down, sweet daddy, come blowin' you horn
If you come too late, sweet mama will be gone

Now, I'm raring to go, got red shoes on my feet
My mind is sittin' right for a Tin Lizzie seat
Hurry down, sweet daddy, come blowin' you horn
If you come too late, sweet mama will be gone

The red rooster said, "Cockle-doodle-do-do"
The Richard's' woman said, "Any dude will do"
Hurry down, sweet daddy, come blowin' you horn
If you come too late, sweet mama will be gone

With rosy red garters, pink hose on my feet
Turkey red bloomer, with a rumble seat
Hurry down, sweet daddy, come blowin' you horn
If you come too late, sweet mama will be gone

Every Sunday mornin', church people watch me go
My wings sprouted out, and the preacher told me so
Hurry down, sweet daddy, come blowin' you horn
If you come too late, sweet mama will be gone

Dress skirt cut high, then they cut low
Don't think I'm a sport, keep on watchin' me go
Hurry down, sweet daddy, come blowin' you horn
If you come too late, sweet mama will be gone

Beth, did she do Midnight at the Oasis?

Well, all. We appreciate the great music that has been played on WA2K this evening, but it's time for me to say goodnight.

I think that I will make this sweet song my goodnight song.

Christopher Robin (Is Saying His Prayers)

Artist: Safka Melanie



Little boy kneels at the foot of the bed,
Droops on his little hands, little gold head.
Sssttt, whisper. Who dares?
Christopher Robin is saying his prayers:
"God bless Mommy, I know that's right,
And wasn't it fun in the bath tonight,
The cold's so cold and the hot's so hot.
God bless Daddy, I quite forgot.
If I open my eyes just a little bit more
I can see Nanny's dressing-gown on the door;
It's a beautiful blue but it hasn't got a hood,
God bless Nanny and make her good.
Mine has a hood and I lie in bed
And I pull the hood right over my head,
And I shut my eyes and I curl up small
And nobody knows that I'm there at all.
Thank you God, for a lovely day,
And what was the other I wanted to say?
I said, `Bless Daddy', so what could it be?
Now I remember: God bless me".

Little boy kneels at the foot of the bed,
Droops on his little hands, little gold head.
Sssttt, whisper. Who dares?
Christopher Robin is saying his prayers

Goodnight all.

From Letty with love

g'night Miss Letty

Kenny Loggins chimes in with

Christopher Robin and I walked alone
Under branches lit up by the moon
Posing our questions to Owl and Eeyore
As our days disappeared far too soon
But I've wandered much further today than I should
And I can't seem to find my way back to the woods


So help me if you can, I've got to get
Back to the house at Pooh Corner by one
You'd be surprised, there's so much to be done
Count all the bees in the hive
Chase all the clouds from the sky
Back to the days of Christopher Robin
...And Pooh.



Winnie the Pooh doesn't know what to do
Got a honey jar stuck on his nose
He came to me asking help and advice
And from here no one knows where he goes
So I sent him to ask of the Owl if he's there
How to loosen a jar from the nose of a bear



So help me if you can I've got to get
Back to the house at Pooh Corner by one
You'd be surprised there's so much to be done
Count all the bees in the hive
Chase all the clouds from the sky
Back to the days of Christopher Robin
,,,And Pooh



So help me if you can I've got to get
Back to the house at Pooh Corner by one
You'd be surprised there's so much to be done
Count all the bees in the hive
Chase all the clouds from the sky
Back to the days of Christopher Robin
Back to the ways of Christopher Robin
Back to the ways of Pooh

you can listen to Kenny and Jim here

Your eyes are low
Cast in the shadows
The lies I hear
Come in clear
Cold and callow
Your fears your wants
Petty taunts
Reveal you're vain and shallow
Ah still I want you

Chorus:
Kill me right now and end the madness
Kill me now oh hear me my love
Kill me now oh kill me my love
Kill me my dear with loving kindness

You've clawed at my heart until it's bleeding
Your kindness at best has been fleeting
Oh kill me my dear you hear me pleading
Grant this mercy my love's entreating

Your thought is slow
Mired in the wallow
Your words are thorns
From hate they're born
Cold acts follow
You break my mind
Every time
With lies and threats so hollow
Ah still I want you

Chorus:
Kill me right now and end the madness
Kill me now oh hear me my love
Kill me now oh kill me my love
Kill me my dear with loving kindness

Hank Locklin - Country Hall Of Fame

I was roaming round in Nashville in the state of Tennessee

For I love that country music it's as soulful as can be

I have gathered their the records for I cherished every name

So I found myself a standing in the Country Hall of Fame
My heart beat somewhat faster as I walked in through the oor
For I heard the sound of voices I had often heard before
A happy kind of sadness brought a teardrop to my eye
Now I'll tell you what I saw there and I'm sure that you'll see why


Jimmie Rodgers' railroad lantern and his faithful old guitar

I could hear that old blue yodel coming from somewhere afar

Roy Acuff in bronze likeness with that great Fred Rose his friend

And I heard that Wabash Cannonball somewhere around the bend

The guitar of Eddy Arnold memories of Cattle Call

Chet Atkins will be with him when the work's all done this fall
From the autoharp of Maybelle Wildwood Flower seems to ring

Rally Packett and Gid Penner how they all could pick and sing



I could hear George Hay announcin' as I stood there in the room

I could hear Tex Ritter singing his classic song High Noon

Minnie Pearl so glad to be there and Hank Snow keeps Movin' On
May the Lord bless those still living and the ones who's joined his throne

Cowboy Copas Hawkshaw Hawkins Gentleman Jim and Patsy Cline

Rod Bradsfield Ira Louvin these stars will always shine

Ernest Tubb and great Red Foley and Hank Williams bless his name
Though some are gone they'll live forever in the Country Hall of

FAREWELL ANGELINA

Words and Music by Bob Dylan

Farewell Angelina
The bells of the crown
Are being stolen by bandits
I must follow the sound
The triangle tingles
And the trumpet play slow
Farewell Angelina
The sky is on fire
And I must go.

There's no need for anger
There's no need for blame
There's nothing to prove
Ev'rything's still the same
Just a table standing empty
By the edge of the sea
Farewell Angelina
The sky is trembling
And I must leave.

The jacks and queens
Have forsaked the courtyard
Fifty-two gypsies
Now file past the guards
In the space where the deuce
And the ace once ran wild
Farewell Angelina
The sky is folding
I'll see you in a while.

See the cross-eyed pirates sitting
Perched in the sun
Shooting tin cans
With a sawed-off shotgun
And the neighbors they clap
And they cheer with each blast
Farewell Angelina
The sky's changing color
And I must leave fast.

King Kong, little elves
On the rooftoops they dance
Valentino-type tangos
While the make-up man's hands
Shut the eyes of the dead
Not to embarrass anyone
Farewell Angelina
The sky is embarrassed
And I must be gone.

The machine guns are roaring
The puppets heave rocks
The fiends nail time bombs
To the hands of the clocks
Call me any name you like
I will never deny it
Farewell Angelina
The sky is erupting
I must go where it's quiet.

Good morning, WA2K radio fans and contributors.

What an array of wonderful music on our wee cyber station last evening. Thanks to our dj, our edgar, Miss Beth, hbg, and I do hope that I haven't missed anyone.

Woke up this morning hearing this song in the background, folks:

If you're going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you are going to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people there

For those who come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
In the streets of San Francisco
Gentle people with flowers in their hair

All across the nation
Such a strange vibration
People in motion

There's a whole generation
With a new explanation
People in motion
People in motion

For those who come to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there

If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there.

What happened to those flower children? I suppose every generation possesses a flaw in the sub cultures of America. The problem with "free love" is that it was too predictable and there was never any exchanges of the heart nor soul.

Keenan Wynn
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born July 27, 1916
New York, New York, USA
Died October 14, 1986
Los Angeles, California, USA
Other name(s) Francis Xavier Aloysius James Jeremiah Keenan Wynn

Keenan Wynn (July 27, 1916 - October 14, 1986) was an American character actor and member of a well-known show-business family. His bristling mustache and expressive face were his stock in trade as an actor.

He was born in New York, New York as Francis Xavier Aloysius James Jeremiah Keenan Wynn, the son of Jewish American vaudeville comedian Ed Wynn, and his Irish-American Catholic wife, the former Hilda Keenan, but took his stage name from his maternal grandfather, Frank Keenan, one of the first Broadway actors to star in Hollywood.

Keenan Wynn became an actor after Ed Wynn's encouragement, and the two appeared together in the original television production of Rod Serling's Requiem for a Heavyweight (1956) as well as a subsequent television drama detailing the problems they'd experienced together while working on that show called The Man in the Funny Suit (1960); the Wynns, Serling, and much of the rest of the cast and crew played themselves.

Keenan Wynn appeared in hundreds of movies and television shows between 1934 and 1986. Early notable Wynn performances can be seen in See Here Private Hargrove (1944), Under the Clock (1945), Week-End at the Waldorf (45), The Hucksters (1947) and Annie Get Your Gun (1950). He had a featured role in Kiss Me, Kate (1953) and The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956). Promoter Jerry Marks in Frank Capra's A Hole In The Head (1959). His best-known part was as Col. "Bat" Guano in Dr. Strangelove (1964), the same year he starred in the Jerry Lewis comedy, The Patsy. He appeared as the villainous Alonzo P. Hawk in the "flubber" movies, The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) and Son of Flubber (1963), in which his father appeared as well. Wynn took a dramatic turn as the tough as nails Yost in Point Blank (1967) with Lee Marvin. He played Hezakiah in the 1965 movie, The Great Race. He was the voice of the Winter Warlock in the holiday classic Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town. He appeared with Charles Bronson and Jan-Michael Vincent in The Mechanic. He also appeared in other Disney films, including Herbie Rides Again (1974) (curiously, as Alonzo A. Hawk, although the character is virtually identical to the Flubber versions) and The Shaggy D.A. (1974). He had an uncredited role in Touch of Evil. He also appeared in such films as Finian's Rainbow, Laserblast, Joe Dante's Piranha, Robert Altman's Nashville, Dino De Laurentiis' Orca, and the cult favorite Parts: The Clonus Horror. He was a regular on Dallas from 1979-1980, playing the part of "Digger Barnes".

In later years, Wynn took time to support various philanthropic groups. He was an active member of the Westwood Sertoma service club, in West Los Angeles, for many years until his death from cancer at the age of 70.

One son, actor and writer Ned Wynn (born Edmond Keenan Wynn) wrote the autobiographical memoir We Will Always Live In Beverly Hills. His other son, Tracy Keenan Wynn is a screen writer, whose credits include The Longest Yard and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.

He was uncle by marriage to the Hudson Brothers and his daughter Hilda is recently divorced from actor/singer/songwriter Paul Williams.

Maureen McGovern
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Former secretary Maureen McGovern quickly became the new "it" singer in 1973 with the Oscar-winning The Morning After.
Born July 27, 1949
Youngstown, Ohio

Maureen Therese McGovern (born July 27, 1949) is an American singer and Broadway actress, widely known for her premiere rendition of the 1973 hit "The Morning After".




Biography

Early life

McGovern was born in Youngstown, Ohio to Mary Rita Welsh and James Terrence McGovern.[1] She has Irish ancestry.[2] As a child, McGovern would listen to her father's barbershop quartet rehearse in their home. She was told by her elders that she began singing at the tender age of three, and would sometimes sing herself to sleep with things she heard on the radio. She decided at age eight that she wanted to be a professional singer; and she developed a taste for various types of music, including jazz, showtunes, oldies, and folk. Her influences include Barbra Streisand and Dionne Warwick.

Breakthrough recording

After graduating from high school in 1967, she worked as a secretary and performed part-time as a singer for a local folk band called Sweet Rain. Her singing caught the attention of Russ Regan (then head of 20th Century Records) in 1972 when he heard a demo she had recorded. At the time, Regan was searching for a singer to record "The Morning After" (the theme from The Poseidon Adventure) for release as a record. He hired McGovern sight unseen to record the song, which led to her signing with 20th Century Records. After it won an Oscar for Best Original Song, "The Morning After" quickly climbed the pop charts, reaching #1 in 1973.

In 1974, she recorded two movie themes: "We May Never Love Like This Again" (from the disaster film The Towering Inferno, in which she made a short appearance when she is seen singing the song as the evening's entertainment) and "Wherever Love Takes Me" (from the British disaster film Gold). The former won an Oscar (though it was only a minor pop hit), and the latter received an Oscar nomination. These two songs (along with "The Morning After") led the media to call McGovern "the Disaster Theme Queen."


Challenges

McGovern's contract with 20th Century ended in 1976. By this time, her career went downhill and she ended up broke, due to being cheated out of her earnings by her managers and producers. To begin her life over again, she moved to Marina del Rey and took a secretarial job under an assumed name. However, she was still in demand occasionally for international live concerts. Her career made a turn for the better when she was asked to record a version of "Can You Read My Mind," the love theme from 1978's Superman, which was not recorded for the film. The single achieved minor success on the Pop charts. Toward the end of the decade, she recorded "Different Worlds," the theme from a short-lived TV sitcom entitled Angie. The song was her only other Top 40 single aside from "The Morning After," reaching #18 on the Pop charts in 1979 and also spending two weeks at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart. In 1980, she made a cameo appearance as the singing nun, Sister Angelina, in the comedy-disaster movie Airplane!.

Broadway career

At the beginning of the 1980s, McGovern gave up movie themes to begin a career on Broadway, despite having no acting experience. In 1981, she made her Broadway debut as Mabel in a revival of Gilbert & Sullivan's musical The Pirates of Penzance. She then performed in two productions with the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera: The Sound of Music (1981; as Maria) and South Pacific (1982; as Nellie Forbush). She continued her theatrical career throughout the eighties and originated the role of Mary in the Off-Broadway production of Brownstone in 1985.

In 2005, McGovern returned to the Broadway stage as Marmee opposite Sutton Foster's Jo in the musical adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. Plagued by negative reviews, it quickly closed, but McGovern reprised her role for the successful subsequent national tour.

She slowly returned to music in the mid-eighties, contributing songs to musical soundtracks and recording for various-artist compilations. She also returned to touring and performing in concerts and began establishing herself as a classy, jazzy nightclub and cabaret performer. Starting in 1987, she released three albums for CBS in three years - Another Woman in Love (a voice/piano album), State of the Heart (a fully orchestrated album), and Naughty Baby (a live album).


Carnegie Hall performance

In 1989, she performed her debut concert in Carnegie Hall, singing a collection of songs by George Gershwin. The concert was recorded live and released that year as an album entitled Naughty Baby; it features a very first recording of a lost Gershwin song "A Corner of Heaven With You" (written ca. 1917).


Recent career

From the nineties into the 21st century, McGovern continued her careers in musical theatre, performing in concerts, and recording albums, and she occasionally made guest appearances on television. Other recordings include Baby I'm Yours (1992), a collection of her favorite songs from 1955 to 1970, and Out of This World (1996), a collection of songs by Harold Arlen. She was twice nominated for a Grammy, for her albums The Music Never Ends (1997), a collection of songs by Alan & Marilyn Bergman, and The Pleasure of His Company (1998), another voice/piano album.

In 2003, Out of This World and The Music Never Ends were rereleased by Fynsworth Alley Records; both albums included bonus tracks, the former two, and the latter three.


"The Morning After" in pop culture

In the South Park episode "The Succubus" (#303), a succubus uses "The Morning After" to control Chef, and force him into marriage. The boys have to sing the song backwards in order to banish the succubus.

The Simpsons episode "The Wettest Stories Ever Told" featured a parody of The Poseidon Adventure. Just before the ship (called the Neptune) capsizes, Lisa sings a parody of "The Morning After", which gives not-so-subtle hints to the destruction of the ship and deaths of the passengers.

An urgent call comes into 911. . .

Due to a power outage at the time, only one paramedic
responded to the call. The house was very, very dark, so the paramedic
asked Katelyn, a 3-year old girl, to hold a flashlight high over her
mommy so he could see while he helped deliver the baby. Very
diligently, Katelyn did as she was asked.

Heidi pushed and pushed, and after a little while "Connor"
was born. The paramedic lifted him by his little feet and spanked him on
his bottom. Connor began to cry. The paramedic then thanked Katelyn for
her help and asked the wide-eyed 3-year old what she thought about what
she had just witnessed.

Katelyn was quick to respond. . .

"You should have smacked him twice! He shouldn't have crawled in there
in the first place!"

Good morning WA2K.

Thanks Bob. I needed that joke on this foggy, muggy, soon stormy day.

Keenan Wynn, Bobbie Gentry and Maureen McGovern:




and a Good Day to all.

Good morning, hawkman. Thanks once again for the celeb background, Boston. Love little Katelyn's observation about the crawl space.

Bobby, ain't you kin to Me? <smile>

Words and Music by Bobbie Gentry

It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay
And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And Mama hollered out the back door "y'all remember to wipe your feet"
And then she said "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge"
"Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

'n' Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas
"Well Billy Joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please"
"There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow"
'n' Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

'n' Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe
Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show
And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night?
"I'll have another piece-a apple pie, you know it don't seem right"
"I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge"
"And now ya tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

'n' Mama said to me "Child, what's happened to your appetite?"
"I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite"
"That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today"
"Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way"
"He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge"
"And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe
'n' Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo
There was a virus going 'round, Papa caught it and he died last Spring
And now Mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything
And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge