WA2K Radio is now on the air

Raggedy, we met so many delightful folks when we RVed, but more importantly, we leared about other cultures.

Well, listeners, if you have any "on the road" stories, feel free to share them with us on our cyber radio.

For all those who travel, one by The Eagles.

All alone at the end of the of the evening
And the bright lights have faded to blue
I was thinking 'bout a woman who might have
Loved me and I never knew
You know I've always been a dreamer
(spent my life running 'round)
And it's so hard to change
(Can't seem to settle down)
But the dreams I've seen lately
Keep on turning out and burning out
And turning out the same

So put me on a highway
And show me a sign
And take it to the limit one more time

You can spend all your time making money
You can spend all your love making time
If it all fell to pieces tomorrow
Would you still be mine?

And when you're looking for your freedom
(Nobody seems to care)
And you can't find the door
(Can't find it anywhere)
When there's nothing to believe in
Still you're coming back, you're running back
for more

So put me on a highway
And show me a sign
And take it to the limit one more time

Take it to the limit
Take it to the limit
Take it to the limit one more time

When It's Springtime In Alaska (It's Forty Below)
Johnny Horton
Written by Tillman B. Franks and Johnny Horton

Not released as a single


I mushed from Point Barrow through a blizzard of snow
Been out prospectin' for two years or so
Pulled into Fairbanks, the city was a-boom
So I took a little stroll to the Red Dog Sea-loon

As I walked in the door, the music was clear
The purtiest voice I had heard in two years
The song she was singin' made a man's blood run cold
When it's Springtime in Alaska, it's forty below
(When it's Springtime in Alaska, it's forty below)

It was redheaded Lil who was singin' so sweet
I reached down and took the snow packs off my feet
I reached for the gal who was singin' the tune
We did the Eskeemo Hop all around the sea-loon

With a Caribou Crawl and a Grizzly Bear Hug
We did our dance on a Kodiak rug
The song she kept singin' made a man's blood run cold
When it's Springtime in Alaska, it's forty below

I was as innocent as I could be
I didn't know Lil was Big Ed's wife-to-be
He took out his knife and he gave it a throw
When it's Springtime in Alaska, I'll be six feet below
(When it's Springtime in Alaska, he'll be six feet below)

Great one, edgar, and I could play "Springtime in the Rockies," but we are too darn hot here in Florida and Alaska sounds pretty good.

Incidentally, folks, that song came from the musical, Kiss Me Kate, which came from Shakespeare which leads us to play this one.

Kate
Song: Brush up Your Shakespeare

MOBSTERS:
The girls today in society
Go for classical poetry,
So to win their hearts one must quote with ease
Aeschylus and Euripides.
But the poet of them all
Who will start 'em simply ravin'
Is the poet people call
The bard of Stratford-on-Avon.

Brush up your Shakespeare,
Start quoting him now.
Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow.
Just declaim a few lines from "Othella"
And they think you're a helluva fella.
If your blonde won't respond when you flatter 'er
Tell her what Tony told Cleopaterer ,
If she fights when her clothes you are mussing,
What are clothes? "Much Ado About Nussing."
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they'll all kowtow.

With the wife of the British embessida
Try a crack out of "Troilus and Cressida,"
If she says she won't buy it or tike it
Make her tike it, what's more, "As You Like It."
If she says your behavior is heinous
Kick her right in the "Coriolanus."
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they'll all kowtow,
And they'll all kowtow,
And they'll all kowtow.

I like that, Letty. I'm not sure why.

I know why Gus, because she says " your behavior is heinous "

Gus, welcome back, honey. It's always delightful to see you here. Don't we always wonder why we like certain songs and not others?

Well, my goodness there's our little Dutch boy back again. We've missed you, too, heinous or no.

Shucks, folks, I wanted to play "Wonder why, I'm not myself of late, I'm feeling strangely great, I wonder why?" but I cannot remember all the lyrics, so this one will have to do.

Lately I find myself
Amazed
At all around me
Everything I see

Like all of life's ablaze
With light
That suddenly I see
Only now I see

The wonder
The wonder
Of it all

Wonder everywhere
More than we know
Heaven's not up there
But on earth below

The wonder
The wonder
Of it all

Wonder everywhere
More than we know
Heaven's not up there
But on earth below

Don't know if God exists

But there's some magic out there
So much we're not aware
And sometimes suddenly
I hear (I hear)
A harmony sing
Of each and everything

The wonder
The wonder
Of it all

Wonder everywhere
More than we know
Heaven's not up there
But on earth below

The wonder
The wonder
Of it all

Wonder everywhere
More than we know
Heaven's not up there
But on earth below

and here is another one of frank's songs :

hbg, I like that song, but I am not sure why.

I thought Frankie Laine had done that one, but was I surprised to find out that he did a lot of songs that others did. I always recall this song as having been done by Nat Cole, but it seems that The Wild Goose man did it as well.

ANSWER ME.

ANSWER ME OH MY LOVE
JUST WHAT SIN HAVE I BEEN GUILTY OF
TELL ME HOW I CAME TO LOSE YOUR LOVE
PLEASE ANSWER ME MY LOVE

YOU WERE MINE YESTERDAY
I BELIEVED THAT LOVE WAS HERE TO STAY
WON'T YOU TELL ME WHERE I'VE GONE ASTRAY
PLEASE ANSWER ME MY LOVE

IF YOU'RE HAPPIER WITHOUT ME
I'LL TRY NOT TO CARE
BUT IF YOU STILL THINK ABOUT ME
PLEASE LISTEN TO MY PRAYER

YOU MUST KNOW I'VE BEEN TRUE
WON'T YOU SAY THAT WE CAN START ANEW
IN MY SORROW NOW I TURN TO YOU
PLEASE ANSWER ME MY LOVE.

and here's ETHEL WATERS singing :



I FOUND A NEW BABY !

What a brave and wonderful musician was Ethel Water, hbg, and that is an upbeat song, buddy. Thanks for reminding us of the folks who "...walked the untrodden ways...." and made a clear path for others to follow.

It has been a wonderful evening with you all, but I must say goodnight.

I would like to do so with this poem by James Joyce

All day I hear the noise of waters
Making moan,
Sad as the sea-bird is when, going
Forth alone,
He hears the winds cry to the water's
Monotone.
The grey winds, the cold winds are blowing
Where I go.
I hear the noise of many waters
Far below.
All day, all night, I hear them flowing
To and fro.

No poem that lovely can be sad.

Goodnight
From Letty with love

related lyrics by Gene Vincent (pictured with 2 band members)



Well Be Bop A Lula she's my baby
Be Bop A Lula I don't mean maybe
Be Bop A Lula she's my baby
Be Bop A Lula I don't mean maybe
Be Bop A Lula she's my baby doll, my baby doll, my baby doll.
Well, she's the gal in the red blue jeans
She's the queen of all the teens
She's the woman that I know
She's the woman that (scream) loves me so.
Be Bop A Lula she's my baby
Be Bop A Lula I don't mean maybe
Be Bop A Lula she's my baby doll, my baby doll, my baby doll.
(Let's rock)
Well, now she's the woman that's got that beat
She's the woman with the flyin' feet
She's the woman that walks around the store
She's the woman that yells (scream) more, more, more, more.
Be Bop A Lula she's my baby
Be Bop A Lula I don't mean maybe
Be Bop A Lula she's my baby doll, my baby doll, my baby doll.
(Let's rock again, now)
Well Be Bop A Lula she's my baby
Be Bop A Lula I don't mean maybe
Be Bop A Lula she's my baby
Be Bop A Lula I don't mean maybe
Be Bop A Lula she's my baby doll, my baby doll, my baby doll.

Spanish Leather

Oh, I'm sailin' away my own true love,
I'm sailin' away in the morning.
Is there something I can send you from across the sea,
From the place that I'll be landing?

No, there's nothin' you can send me, my own true love,
There's nothin' I'm wishin to be ownin'.
Just carry yourself back to me unspoiled,
From across that lonesome ocean.

Oh, but I just thought you might want something fine
Made of silver or of golden,
Either from the mountains of Madrid
Or from the coast of Barcelona.

Oh, but if I had the stars from the darkest night
And the diamonds from the deepest ocean,
I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss,
For that's all I'm wishin' to be ownin'.

But I might be gone a long old time
And it's only that I'm askin',
Is there something I can send you to remember me by,
To make your time more easy passin'.

Oh, how can, how can you ask me again,
If it only brings me sorrow.
The same thing I would want from you today,
I would want again tomorrow.

I got a letter on a lonesome day,
It was from her ship a-sailin',
Saying I don't know when I'll be comin' back again,
It depends on how I'm a-feelin'.

Well, if you, my love, must think that-a-way,
I'm sure your mind is roamin'.
I'm sure your heart is not with me,
What with the country to where you're goin'.

So take heed, take heed of the western wind,
Take heed of the stormy weather.
And yes, there's something you can send back to me,
Spanish boots of Spanish leather.

Bob Dylan

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

Please remind your PD not to go looking for Arcade Fire lyrics. They are a voodoo bunch that wreaks havoc with our studio equipment.

Welcome back, O man of the island. I recall that song, M.D., but I had to look up info about Gene Vincent. Sad case when a man of thirty six dies of a bleeding ulcer. Found out that he based that song on Little Lulu.

edgar, your Spanish Leather by Bob Dylan reminded me of this one.

Farewell and adieu unto you Spanish ladies,
Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain;
For it's we've received orders for to sail for old England,
But we hope very soon we shall see you again.

Chorus:
We'll rant and we'll roar like true British sailors,
We'll rant and we'll roar across the salt seas,
Until we strike soundings in the Channel of old England,
From Ushant to Scilly is thirty-five leagues.

Then we hove our ship to the wind at sou'-west, my boys,
We hove our ship to our soundings for to see;
So we rounded and sounded, and got forty-five fathoms,
We squared our main yard, up channel steered we.
Chorus:

Now the first land we made it is called the Deadman,
Then Ram Head off Plymouth, Start, Portland and Wight;
We sailed by Beachy, by Fairlee and Dungeness,
Until we came abreast of the South Foreland Light.
Chorus:

Then the signal was made for the grand fleet for to anchor,
All in the downs that night for to meet;
Then it's stand by your stoppers, see clear your shank-painters,
Haul all your clew garnets, stick out tacks and sheets.
Chorus:

Now let every man toss off a full bumper,
And let every man toss off a full bowl;
And we'll drink and be merry and drown melancholy,
Singing, here's a good health to all true-hearted souls.

John Derek
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birth name Derek Delevan Harris
Born August 12, 1926
Hollywood, California, USA
Died May 22, 1998
Santa Monica, California, USA

John Derek (August 12, 1926 - May 22, 1998) was an American actor, director and photographer most famous for the gorgeous women to whom he was married.

Born Derek Delevan Harris in Hollywood, California, he was first married to actress Pati Behrs (1922-2004), grand-niece of Leo Tolstoy and mother of his two children, Russell & Sean.

His matinee-idol good looks quickly got him supporting roles, most notably as Broderick Crawford's son in All the Kings Men (1949), but he also enjoyed leads such as "Nick Romano" in Knock on Any Door (1949) opposite Humphrey Bogart (who told him, "You look great, but kid, that's not enough"), and as Robin Hood in Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950) with Alan Hale.

Perhaps Derek's most memorable film appearance was in a supporting role in the 1956 epic film, as the noble Joshua in The Ten Commandments.

Derek had a minor role as a film director. He directed his fourth wife, Bo Derek, in four movies. The 1990 film Ghosts Can't Do It was his last attempt in the director's chair. He also directed two hit music videos for Shania Twain, "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?" and "Any Man of Mine".

His last three wives seemed to be nearly identical in appearance, especially Linda Evans and Bo Derek. Derek took photos of all three, at different times, for Playboy magazine. He died from cardiovascular disease in Santa Maria, California at the age of 71.

Derek was married to:

Pati Behrs (1951-1957)
Ursula Andress (1957-1966)
Linda Evans (1968-1974)
Bo Derek (1976-1998)

Porter Wagoner
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Background information
Birth name Porter Wagoner
Also known as Mr. Grand Ole Opry
Born August 12, 1927 (1927-08-12) (age 79)
Origin West Plains, Missouri, USA
Genre(s) Country Music
Occupation(s) Country music artist
Instrument(s) Acoustic Guitar
Years active 1951 - Present
Website www.porterwagoner.com
Members
Country Music Hall of Fame
Grand Ole Opry
Notable instrument(s)
Acoustic Guitar

Porter Wagoner (born August 12, 1927, in West Plains, Missouri, in the Ozark Mountains) is an American country music singer. Famous for his flashy Nudie suits and blond pompadour, Wagoner introduced a young Dolly Parton to his long-running television show. Together, "Porter and Dolly" were a well-known duet team for many years. After they split, Parton wrote the song "I Will Always Love You" about him.

His first band, The Blue Ridge Boys, performed on radio station KWPM from a butcher shop in West Plains, Missouri where Wagoner cut meat. Wagoner's big break came in 1951, when he was hired as a performer by station KWTO in Springfield, Missouri. This led to a contract with RCA Records. With lagging sales, Wagoner and his trio played schoolhouses for the gate proceeds.

In 1953, his song entitled "Trademark" became a hit for Carl Smith, followed by a few hits of his own on RCA. He was a featured performer on ABC's Ozark Mountain Jubilee and moved to Nashville and joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1957.





Television show

The Porter Wagoner Show ran on syndicated television from 1960 to 1979. There were 686 thirty minute episodes filmed, the first 104 being shot in black and white, the remainder in color. At its peak, it was featured in over 100 markets, with three million-plus viewers.


The Regular Cast Included
Singer Norma Jean (Beasler) 1960-1967
Singer Dolly Parton 1967-1974
Singer Mel Tillis
Comedian Speck Rhodes
Announcer Don Howser
The house band, The Wagonmasters
Buck Trent on banjo and guitar
George McCormick on rhythm guitar
Don Warden on steel guitar
Mack Magaha on fiddle
Michael Treadwell on bass

Chart success

Wagoner was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2002. His 81 charted records include "Misery Loves Company" (#1, 1962), "I've Enjoyed As Much of This As I Can Stand" (#7, 1962-1963), "Sorrow on the Rocks" (#5, 1964), "Green, Green Grass of Home" (#4, 1965), "Skid Row Joe" (#3, 1965-1966), "The Cold Hard Facts of Life" (#2, 1967), and "The Carroll County Accident" (#2, 1968-1969). Among his hit duets with Dolly Parton were a cover of Tom Paxton's "The Last Thing on My Mind" (1967), "We'll Get Ahead Someday" (1968), and "Better Move it on Home" (1970). He also won three Grammy Awards for gospel recordings.


Later career

He has produced many records and appeared in the Clint Eastwood film Honkytonk Man. Wagoner's positive attitude and engaging persona have made him an ambassador for country music. He appears regularly on the Grand Ole Opry and tours actively as he approaches 80 years of age. He also made a guest appearance on the HBO comedy series "Da Ali G Show", being interviewed by the fictional character Borat in its second season. Though Parton's departure caused some animosity on both sides, the two reconciled in the late 1980s and have appeared together a number of times in the years since; Parton inducted Wagoner into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2002.

On July 14, 2006, Wagoner was hospitalized and underwent surgery for an abdominal aneurysm.

On June 05, 2007, Wagoner released his latest album called "Wagonmaster". The album is produced by Marty Stuart for the Anti-label.

George Hamilton
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

George Hamilton (born George Stevens Hamilton IV on August 12, 1939) is an American film and television actor and occasional film director who lives in Malibu, California.





Life and career

Hamilton was born in Memphis, Tennessee to Anne Stevens and George W. "Spike" Hamilton.[1] Hamilton began his movie career in 1952. As an actor, he is often compared to (and sometimes confused with) Warren Beatty. He is noted for his perpetual, chestnut-colored suntan and his colorful private life. He is also known for his close personal friendship with Imelda Marcos, erstwhile first lady of the Philippines.

Hamilton was married to actress Alana Stewart from 1970 to 1975. Their son, Ashley Hamilton, was born in 1974. He has a younger son, George Thomas Hamilton, with Kimberly Blackford.

In the mid-1980s he starred in the 6th season of the ABC Aaron Spelling-produced nighttime television serial and Dallas imitator, Dynasty.

Hamilton was a semi-regular panelist on the 1998 revival of Match Game.

In 2003, George hosted The Family, a reality television series on ABC spanning one season in 2003. It starred ten members from a traditional Italian-American family, who were each fighting for a $1,000,000 prize.

In 2006, the debonair actor competed in the second season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars and was voted off in round 6. At age 66 and recovering from knee injuries, Hamilton, unable to match the limber dance moves of his younger competitors, charmed the audience and judges with endearingly silly dances utilizing props including a Zorro mask and sword from his 1981 film Zorro, The Gay Blade.

Hamilton is also recently noted for his appearances in Ritz Cracker and Wheat Thins Toasted Chips commercials and ads with Stacy Keibler, who in Dancing with the Stars, was his off-screen "sweetheart", with the tag line "I know toasted".

Along with a successful movie career, his style of dress is one of the reasons why his career has had stamina and may explain his continued notoriety. At one point he was known for having 100 bespoke suits in his closet. It has been said that his favorite tailor is in Panama. His reputation as 'the real James Bond' was noted as far back as 1981 in the movie The Cannonball Run, when a woman confuses Roger Moore, who played Bond at the time, with Hamilton.

In April of 2006, Hamilton served as Grand Marshall for the 79th Annual Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester, Virginia.

In 2006, it was rumored Hamilton will replace Bob Barker on The Price is Right. He did an audition and in March 2007, TMZ reported that Hamilton was a frontrunner to replace Barker. At 67, Hamilton would be the oldest contender for the position, although it would not be an unprecedented move since other game show hosts (such as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire host Regis Philbin) have debuted at about the same age. According to Reuters, Hamilton is one of the final 3 contenders to host the show, alongside Mark Steines and Todd Newton.[1] The New York Post reported in July 2007 an unconfirmed report that Hamilton was no longer in consideration and that Steines and Newton were the two remaining contenders. Soon thereafter, Drew Carey was named as Barker's successor.

Deborah Walley
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Deborah Walley (August 12, 1943 - May 10, 2001) was an American actress.

Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, at fourteen she was playing summer-stock theatre. She studied acting at New York City's American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She began working on stage in the city and made her Hollywood film debut in 1961's Gidget Goes Hawaiian, a role for which she is most remembered. From then until 1974 she appeared in fifteen feature length films, including several of the "Beach Party" films produced by American International Pictures. On television, she was known as Suzie Hubbard Buell on the short-lived comedy, The Mothers-in-Law; Eve Arden played her mother; while Kaye Ballard played her in-law.

After retiring to a home in Arizona she continued to make occasional guest appearances on television. While living there, she co-founded two children's theater companies and became involved with native-American culture and folklore, writing and creating plays about their lives.

Deborah Walley died of esophageal cancer, aged 57, in Sedona, Arizona in 2001.