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hbg, I missed your gypsy song and lyrics, Canada. I always was a gypsy on Halloween because I loved the dress. Thanks for the memory.

Before I play The Lettermen, how about this one

Album: Spirits Dancing in the Flesh
Music/ Lyrics: Curtis Mayfield



From nowhere
Through a caravan
Around the campfire light
A lovely woman in motion
With hair as dark as night
Her eyes were like that
Of a cat in the dark
They hypnotize me with love

She was a gypsy woman
She was a gypsy woman

She danced around and round
To a guitar melody
From the fire her face
Was all aglow
How she enchanted me
Oh how I'd like to hold her near
And kiss and forever whisper in her ear

I love you gypsy woman

All through the caravan
She was dancing with all the men
Waiting for the rising sun
Everyone was having fun

I hate to see the lady go
Knowing she'll never know
That I love her

That I love her

She danced around and round
To a guitar melody
From the fire her face
Was all aglow
How she enchanted me
Oh how I'd like to hold her near
And kiss and forever whisper in her ear

and here is NAT "THE KING" COLE :

Well, folks. this is Letty's miss everything day. The shuttle has launched and I missed it. hbg played an Irving Berlin song and I missed it.

Perhaps I had better play the Lettermen song before I miss something else.


Faded photograph,
covered now with lines and creases,
tickets torn in half,
memories in bits and pieces.

Traces of love long ago
that didn't work out right;
traces of love.

Ribbons from here hair,
souvenirs of days together,
the ring she used to wear,
pages from an old love letter.

Traces of love long ago
that didn't work out right;
traces of love with me tonight.

I close my eyes and say a prayer
that in her heart she'll find
a trace of love still there somewhere.

piano solo

Traces of hope in the night
that she'll come back and dry
these traces of tears from my eyes.

When It Rains, It Really Pours

You know what it takes, You've got it, baby. You are the only one I chose. Don't leave me here with all these heartaches, Only you and heaven knows About my troubles troubles troubles. When it rains, it really pours... You shouldn't have took away my loving You know you thrill me from head to toe. I got a feeling for you baby And you're the only one who knows About my troubles, troubles, troubles. When it rains, it really pours... You know what you did to make me love you You really opened up my nose. You got what you wanted, now you left me. That's the way the story goes. Well, I got troubles, troubles, troubles. When it rains, it really pours.

Good morning, WA2K radio friends and contributors.

edgar, that song reminds me that the metaphorical allusion to your song doesn't necessarily involve precipitation.

I have been awake most of the night looking for things. Watched a movie called The Truth About Charlie and it was the most confusing thing. I found out that it was a remake of Charade. That's a lovely song, incidentally.

Still trying to locate the lyrics to a song that is in my head about gypsies. I think it may be from an operetta.."play gypsies..dance gypsies..sing while you may..."

Here is a lovely good morning song for all.

There are shadows in the sky
Dancing in the air
Calling to my heart
Saying, "If you dare,
We're running fast
We're running far
Trying to catch the morning star..."
And time and space
Our only shield
keeping secrets
Unrevealed
Falling night
Breathes in the dark
Trying to catch the morning star...

I can fly through my
mind when I see them as
they shine
Can it be so hard to try
and charm the elusive
morning star...

So within the chase
We soon will find
The light of the moon
those left behind
Try to free the gypsy
in their hearts
By trying to catch the
morning star...

Now that the time
Has come and gone
Illusion has past
And we're on our own
Know the dream is never far
When trying to catch the
morning star...

Good morning WA2K.

Oh Letty, I googled for "Play Gypsy" some time ago and didn't have any luck. I have a Fritz Wunderlich (Hamburger has mentioned him here on the station) CD and he sings that song in German, but I'll be darned if I can remember the operetta or opera it's from. When I heard it on the Wunderlich CD, it immediately brought back memories of my mother singing that song to me. When I have time, I'll listen to the CD (right now I can't find the CD) and give you the source of the song. I'll bet Hamburger will know.

All I can remember is: Play gypsy, dance gypsy, play while you may
We're gypsies one and all...............

....today?

Thanks, Raggedy. It took me some time to find The Animal That Drank up Sound.

Hope the hawkman is ok, and soars in with his famous folks.

I found this by Shakespeare, and it certainly does NOT sound like the Bard.


Ariel's Songs
by William Shakespeare



Come unto these yellow sands,
And then take hands:
Curtsied when you have, and kissed
The wild waves whist,
Foot it featly here and there;
And, sweet sprites, the burden bear.
Hark, hark!
Bow, wow
The watch-dogs bark,
Bow, wow,
Hark, hark! I hear
The strain of strutting Chanticleer
Cry, Cock-a-diddle-dow.


Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange:
Sea nymphs hourly ring his knell.
Ding-dong!
Hark! now I hear them,
Ding-dong, bell!


Where the bee sucks, there suck I,
In a cowslip's bell I lie,
There I couch when owls do cry,
On the bat's back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily, shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough

Oooh! One more comment (we are on the same wave length today) --

I love this portion of Ariel's song from The Tempest:

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange:
Sea nymphs hourly ring his knell.
Ding-dong!
Hark! now I hear them,
Ding-dong, bell!


"today" sounds good.

and as "way leads to way", Raggedy. I just found out that there is a band called Raven Moon introduced by Garrison Keillor, but I could not find one song by this "new" grass band.

Well, why not continue with Poe then.



This says it rather well for many of our listeners. <smile>


An Enigma


"Seldom we find," says Solomon Don Dunce,
"Half an idea in the profoundest sonnet.
Through all the flimsy things we see at once
As easily as through a Naples bonnet-
Trash of all trash!- how can a lady don it?
Yet heavier far than your Petrarchan stuff-
Owl-downy nonsense that the faintest puff
Twirls into trunk-paper the while you con it."
And, veritably, Sol is right enough.
The general tuckermanities are arrant
Bubbles- ephemeral and so transparent-
But this is, now- you may depend upon it-
Stable, opaque, immortal- all by dint
Of the dear names that he concealed within 't.

Edgar Allan Poe

Robert Shaw
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born August 9, 1927
Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
Died August 28, 1978 (aged 51)
Tourmakeady, County Mayo, Ireland
Spouse(s) Virginia Jansen (m. 1976 - Aug. 28 1978) (his death)
Mary Ure (m. 1963 - Apr. 3 1975) (her death) 4 children
Jennifer Bourke (m. 1952 div. 196?) 4 daughters

Robert Shaw (August 9, 1927 - August 28, 1978) was an English stage and film actor and writer.




Life

Robert Shaw was born in Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, in 1927, to Thomas (a doctor) and Doreen Shaw. He had three sisters and one brother. At the age of seven, the family moved to Stromness, Orkney, Scotland. When Robert was 12, his father died (apparently due to alcoholism), and the family moved to Cornwall, where he went to school in Truro. Shaw was a teacher in Saltburn, Yorkshire for a brief period, then attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London.


Marriage and Children

Shaw was married three times and had nine children--

Jennifer Bourke (1952-1963) -- four daughters;
Mary Ure (1963-1975) -- four children;
Virginia Jansen (1976-1978) -- one child.
One of his sons, Ian Shaw, is also an actor.


Death

On August 28, 1978 Shaw died suddenly of a heart attack in Tourmakeady, County Mayo, Ireland at the age of 51, during the production of his final film Avalanche Express which came out in 1979. A Wetherspoon's Pub has been named after him in his home town.


Acting career

Shaw's best-known film performances include a turn as the dangerous enemy secret agent Red Grant in the James Bond film From Russia with Love (1963); the relentless panzer officer Colonel Hessler in Battle of the Bulge (1965); a young Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons (1966); Lord Randolph Churchill, in Young Winston (1972); the ruthless mobster Doyle Lonnegan in The Sting (1973); the tightly wound, but coolly efficient heist mastermind/former mercenary soldier Bernard Ryder aka "Mr. Blue" in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), and the bombastic, shark-obsessed fisherman Quint in Jaws (1975).

Shaw was nominated for the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in A Man for All Seasons.

He performed on stage as well, both in England and on Broadway.


Writing career

In addition to his acting career, Shaw was also an accomplished writer of novels, plays and screenplays. His first novel, The Hiding Place, published in 1960, met with positive reviews. His next, The Sun Doctor, published the following year, was awarded the Hawthornden Prize in 1962.

Shaw then embarked on a trilogy of novels - The Flag (1965), The Man in the Glass Booth (1967) and A Card from Morocco (1969); it was his adaptation for the stage of The Man in the Glass Booth which gained for Shaw's writing the most attention. The book and play present a complex and morally ambiguous tale of a man who, at various times in the story, is either a Jewish businessman pretending to be a Nazi war criminal, or a Nazi war criminal pretending to be a Jewish businessman. The play was quite controversial when performed in the US and the UK, some critics praising Shaw's sly, deft, and complex examination of the moral issues of nationality and identity, others sharply criticizing Shaw's treatment of such a sensitive subject. The Man in the Glass Booth was further developed for the screen, but Shaw disapproved of the resulting film and had his name removed from the credits.

Shaw also adapted The Hiding Place into a screenplay for the film Situation Hopeless ... but not Serious starring Alec Guinness. His play Cato Street, about the 1820 Cato Street Conspiracy, was produced for the first time in 1971 in London.

Melanie Griffith
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birth name Melanie Richards Griffith
Born August 9, 1957 (1957-08-09) (age 50)
New York City, New York, United States
Spouse(s) Don Johnson (1976-1976, 1989-1996)
Steven Bauer (1981-1987)
Antonio Banderas (1997-present)
[show]Awards
Academy Awards

Nominated: Best Actress
1988 Working Girl
Golden Globe Awards

Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1988 Working Girl

Melanie Griffith (born August 9, 1957 in New York City) is an Academy Award-nominated American film actress. She is married to actor/director, Antonio Banderas.




Biography

She is the only child of actress Tippi Hedren who is of Swedish, German and Norwegian descent and eldest child of Peter Griffith of English descent.[citation needed] Her parents divorced when she was four years old, and her father would remarry and have two children: actress, Tracy Griffith and set designer, Clay Griffith.

Griffith began work at just 9 months old in a commercial and later became an extra on Smith! (1969) and The Harrad Experiment (1973). Her first major role was in Arthur Penn's Night Moves (1975), which got her attention and typecast her as a sexy nymphet. Substance abuse problems derailed her career for nearly a decade. Her comeback started with Brian De Palma's Body Double (1984). It also led to her starring role in Jonathan Demme's Something Wild (1986). That led to her playing the title role in Mike Nichols' Working Girl (1988) which became a hit. She earned an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress and won the Golden Globe award as Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. The films that followed were Brian De Palma's The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), Milk Money (1994), John Waters' Cecil B. DeMented (2000), and Two Much (1995), where she met her husband Antonio Banderas.

Griffith has been married four times. She was briefly married to Don Johnson in 1976. She was married to Steven Bauer from 1980 to 1987. She remarried Johnson in 1989. The couple divorced again in 1996 and Griffith married her current husband Antonio Banderas that same year. Griffith has three children by three husbands: Alexander Griffith Bauer (born in 1985); Dakota Mayi Johnson (born in 1989); and Stella del Carmen Banderas Griffith (born in 1996). Dakota followed in her mother's footsteps and served as Miss Golden Globe at the 2006 Golden Globes award ceremony. Griffith was Miss Golden Globe in 1975.

Griffith's television work includes playing actress Marion Davies in HBO television movie RKO 281 (1999) for which she received an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actress. She was also seen on The WB sitcom Twins (2005-2006), in which she played Lee, the mother of the show's main characters played by Sara Gilbert and Molly Stanton.

Late in her career, Griffith made her stage debut at the Old Vic in London, England, where she acted with Cate Blanchett in the Vagina Monologues in February, 1999[1]. Four years later, she made her Broadway debut, playing Roxie in the musical "Chicago" in 2003. An untrained performer in song and dance, she still managed to get a rave review from "The New York Times" theatre critic Ben Brantley who wrote: "Ms. Griffith is a sensational Roxie, possibly the most convincing I have seen," and the "vultures who were expecting to see Ms. Griffith stumble... will have to look elsewhere".[2]. Griffith's celebratory reviews made it a box office success.[3] Her husband Antonio Banderas was appearing across the street in another musical "Nine," at the same time.

SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?


"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
(Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
(I'll bet you're going to check this out.)

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
(Are you doubting this?)

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

(Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?)

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

(Yep, I knew you were going to "do" this one.)

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
(You're not doubting this, are you?)

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

(Yes, admit it, you are going to say ... a e i o u.)

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

(All you typists are going to test this out.)

All 50 states are listed across the top of the
Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
(Some days that's about what my memory span is)

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

(I know some people that could do this, too.)

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for
each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
(Good thing he did that.)

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls
froze completely solid.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Now you know everything

Hey, Bio Bob, welcome back. Great celeb info today, Boston, and that list of facts is mind boggling. One little correction. A student of mine pronounced "orange" ORange, thus "door-hinge" did rhyme. I told him that he had just out ogdened Nash.

Well, listeners, we know our Raggedy is hanging out in our studio, so we will await her portraits of those famous folks before commenting further.

In the interim, let's hear a song by Melanie from the broadway musical, Chicago.

Roxie

Sometimes I'm right
Sometimes I'm wrong
But he doesn't care
He'll string along
He loves me so
That funny honey of mine
Sometimes I'm down
Sometimes I'm up
But he follows 'round
Like some droopy-eyed pup
He loves me so
That funny honey of mine

He ain't no sheik
That's no great physique
Lord knows, he ain't got the smarts

But look at that soul
I tell you that whole
Is a whole lot greater
Than the sum of his parts

And if you knew him like me
I know you'd agree

What if the world
Slandered my name?
Why, he'd be right there
Taking the blame

He loves me so
And it all suits me fine
That funny, sunny, honey
Hubby of mine!

(dialog)

He loves me so
That funny honey of mine!

(dialog)
He loves me so
That funny honey , of mine!!

(dialog)

Lord knows
He ain't got the smarts

(dialog)

Now he's shot of his trap
I can't stand that
Sap

Look at him go
rattin' on me
With just one more
Brain
What a half-wit
He'd be

If they string me
Up
I'll know who
Brought the
Twine

That scummy,
Crummy
Dummy hubby of
Mine

Hey Letty your mention of Nash tickled my erratic (not erotic) memory bank.

Playmates - Beep-Beep (The Little Nash Rambler)




(tempo very slow)
While riding in my Cadillac
What to my suprise
A little Nash Rambler was following me
About one-third my size
The guy must have wanted to pass me
As he kept on tooting his horn (toot-toot)
I'll show him that a Cadillac
Is not a car to scorn

Beep beep (toot-toot)
Beep beep (toot-toot)
His horn went beep beep beep

(tempo slow)
I pushed my foot down to the floor
To give the guy the shake
But the little Nash Rambler stayed right behind
He still had on his brake
He must have thought his car had more guts
As he kept on tooting his horn (toot-toot)
I'll show him that a Cadillac
Is not a car to scorn

Beep beep (toot-toot)
Beep beep (toot-toot)
His horn went beep beep beep (toot-toot)

(tempo medium)
My car went into passing gear
And we took off with gust (whistle)
Soon we were doing ninety
Must have left him in the dust
When I peeked in the mirror of my car
I couldn't believe my eyes
The little Nash Rambler was right behind
I think that guy could fly

Beep beep (toot-toot)
Beep beep (toot-toot)
His horn went beep beep beep (toot-toot)

(tempo fast)
Now we're doing a-hundred-and-ten
This certainly was a race
For a Rambler to pass a Caddy
Would be a big disgrace
The guy must have wanted to pass me
As he kept on tooting his horn (toot-toot)
I'll show him that a Cadillac
Is not a car to scorn

Beep beep (toot-toot)
Beep beep (toot-toot)
His horn went beep beep beep (toot-toot)

(tempo very fast)
Now we're doing a-hundred-and-twenty
As fast as I can go
The Rambler pulled along side of me
As if I were going slow
The fella rolled down his window
And he yelled for me to hear
Hey buddy how can I get this car
O u t o f s e c o n d g e a r (toottoottoottoottoottoottoot)

I recall that song, Bob. Love it. Incidentally it's all right to be erratic and erotic, Boston. Know why?

Psychology segment of our programming.

Women feel safer with married men.

Dr. Gail Saltz
TODAY Contributor



Q. I am curious as to why more women are interested in talking to me now that I am married and wearing a wedding band, as opposed to when I was single. What makes women talk to married men more than they talk to bachelors?

A. There are many reasons. Part of it might be your perception, but there are plenty of men who agree that, after they are married, more women want to talk to them.

Some single women are nervous when they interact with single guys. If both are available, there is always the possibility (however remote) that one or the other is thinking about a potential relationship. If she isn't interested, she could be worrying he will ask her out. If she is interested, she could be worrying he won't!


With a married man, there is none of the game-playing. Both of you know you can talk, banter, even flirt, and the relationship will remain as it is. So the comfort level is greater with a guy who is clearly off-limits. There is no real possibility of risking involvement, rejection and all those complicated things that come with a relationship. (Of course, married men sometimes do cross the line and enter into affairs or emotional affairs, but that is emphatically NOT what we are talking about here.)

Men themselves, after they are married, are often more comfortable around women, so they project a whole different personality.

I have often thought that to be true.

I'm going to look at a $5.00 bill as soon as I add the birthday bios to the gallery.

Robert Shaw, Sam Elliott, Melanie Griffith and Whitney Houston

Me, too, Raggedy, if I can find one.

Great quartet today, PA, and is there one person listening that doesn't recall Robert Shaw in Jaws? I can hear that song about Spanish Ladies in my head. Where's M.D. I always claimed that Jaws was a poor man's Moby Dick.

I really like Sam Elliott, and I hated to hear the info about Whitney Houston, cause I thought she was great in The Body Guard and I like the song from that as well.

Here's another funny car song by the Beach Boys

It's the little old lady
From Pasadena.

The little old lady
From Pasadena
Has a pretty little flower bed
Of white gardenias,
But parked in a rickety old garage
Is a brand new, shiny, red super stock Dodge

And everybody's sayin'
That there's nobody meaner
Than the little old lady
From Pasadena.
She drives real fast and she drives real hard.
She's the terror of Colorado Boulevard.
It's the little old lady
From Pasadena.

You can see her on the streets just gettin' her kicks now,
With a four speed stick and a four-twenty six now,
She's gonna get a ticket now sooner or later,
Because she can't keep her foot of the accelerator.

And everybody's sayin'
That there's nobody meaner
Than the little old lady
From Pasadena.
She drives real fast and she drives real hard.
She's the terror of Colorado Boulevard.
It's the little old lady
From Pasadena.

And everybody's sayin'
That there's nobody meaner
Than the little old lady
From Pasadena.
She drives real fast and she drives real hard.
She's the terror of Colorado Boulevard.
It's the little old lady
From Pasadena.

If you see her on the street,
Don't try to choose her.
You might have a goer,
But you'll never lose her.
The guys come to race her from miles around,
But she'll them a leg, then she'll shut 'em down.

And everybody's sayin'
That there's nobody meaner
Than the little old lady
From Pasadena.
She drives real fast and she drives real hard.
She's the terror of Colorado Boulevard.

It's the little old lady
From Pasadena.

Granny, go.
Granny, go.
Granny, go.
Granny, go

watched neil sedaka - 68 years young ! - being interviewed on CBC-TV last night . he seemed like a very funny and honest guy .
when asked why his wife is also his agent , he replied : "she doesn't ask for commissions , just a new dress now and then ! " .
hbg