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good afternoon , all !
found a RAY CHARLES SONG that i have never before heard - it's :
HARD HEARTED HANNAH OF SAVANNAH - she's sweet as sour milk
i think it's quite a jazzy tune !
hbg

Hey, hbg. I recall that song, buddy, but I didn't know all the lyrics, and I had no idea that Ray did it. Thanks

Here's one that I remember from memory, because my high school friends and I always sang it for fun.


Way down in Columbus Georgia wanna be back in Tennessee
Way down in the county courthouse,
People turned their backs on me

Go ahead and leave me if you want to
Never let me cross your mind.

In your heart you love another
Leave me little darlin'
I don't mind.

Good day, WA2K.

Fabulous picture of San Francisco, Letty.

B.D. people, Jim Davis and Macaulay Culkin:

Hey, Raggedy. Isn't that a lovely place, PA? Thanks for the duo, dear.

Don't know many songs by either Jim or McCaulay, so I guess we'll have to do another about San Francisco, and it's by (do you believe it?) Global Deejays.


Paris
London
L.A.
Chicago
Tokio
Bagdad
New York
Hear the Global Deeyas
Moskau
Memphis
Capetown
Dallas
Amsterdam
Boston
Berlin
San-Fran-cisco

If you're going to San Francisco
You should wear some flowers in your hair
If you're goin' to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people there
In the street
If you come
In the street
If you come
In the street
If you come
In the street
If you come to San Francisco

Paris
London
L.A.
Chicago
Tokio
Bagdad
New York
Hear the Global Deeyas
Moskau
Memphis
Capetown
Dallas
Amsterdam
Boston
Berlin
San-Fran-cisco

If you're going to San Francisco
You should wear some flowers in your hair
If you're goin' to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people
(some gentle people, some gentle people, some gentle people)
In the street
If you come
In the street
If you come
In the street
If you come
In the street
If you come to San Francisco

San-Fran-cisco

Eric Burdon & The Animals - San Franciscan Nights


This following program is dedicated to the city and people of
San Franciscan, who may not know it but they are beautiful and so
is their city this is a very personal song, so if the viewer
cannot understand it particularly those of you who are European
residents save up all your brand and fly trans love airways to
San Franciscan U.S.A., then maybe you'll understand the song, it
will be worth it, if not for the sake of this song but for the
sake of your own peace of mind.


Strobe lights beam create dreams
walls move minds do too
on a warm San Franciscan night
old child young child feel alright
on a warm San Franciscan night
angels sing leather wings
jeans of blue Harley Davisons too
on a warm San Franciscan night
old angels young angels feel alright
on a warm San Franciscan night.

I wasn't born there perhaps I'll die there
there's no place left to go, San Franciscan.

Cop's face is filled with hate
heavens above he's on a street called love
when will they even learn
old cop young cop feel alright
on a warm San Franciscan night
the children are cool
they don't raise fools
it's an american dream
includes indians too.

San Francisco
Judy Garland

I never will forget, Mmmm...Jeanette MacDonald
Just to think of her, it gives my heart a pang
I never will forget, how that brave Jeanette
Just stood there in the ruins and sang, and sang...

San Francisco, open your golden gate
You'll let nobody wait outside your door
San Francisco, here is your wanderin' one
Saying I'll wander no more.

Other places only make me love you best
Tell me you're the one in all the golden west
San Francisco, I'm coming home again
Never to roam again...

San Francisco, right when I arrive
I really come alive...
And you will laugh to see me,
Perpendicular, hanging on a cable car

San Francisco, let me beat my feet
Up and down Market Street
I'm gonna climb Nob Hill, just to watch it get dark
From the top of the mark

There's Brooklyn Bridge, London Bridge,
And the Bridge of San Louis Rey
But the only bridge, that's a real gone bridge,
Is the bridge accross the bay

San Francisco, I'm coming home again,
Never to roam again, by gum
San Francisco, I don't mean Frisco
San Francisco, here I come!

Come Back from San Francisco
The Magnetic Fields

Come back from San Francisco.
It can't be all that pretty,
when all of New York City misses you.
Should pretty boys in discos distract you from your novel,
remember I'm awful in love with you.

You need me like the wind needs the trees to blow in.
Like the moon needs poetry, you need me.

Come back from San Francisco and kiss me; I've quit smoking.
I miss doing the wild thing with you.
Will you stay? I don't think so,
but all I do is worry, pack bags, call cabs, and hurry home to me.

When you betray me, betray me with a kiss.
Damn you. I've never stayed up as late as this.

Thanks, edgar. Interesting songs by The Animals and Judy Garland. It seems that I know that song by Jenette MacDonald, because my mother loved her and Nelson. Sorry that I can't find it, however.

Hey, dj. Now that's one that is an antithesis, buddy. Very unusual, Canada. You do an amazing job ferreting out songs that are different. Thanks.

Well, folks. California has its quakes and Florida has is hurricanes, so there's no garden of eden anywhere, right?

This one is weird.

Just when ya thought it was safe

Shake it
Shake it
Shake it

When I hit town
Yo, the party can't fail
I'm hittin' 20
On the rictor scale
Got a hundred million people
Spilling coffee stains
On your brand new shirt
Oh, that reminds me
When you feel your gums flap
It's Aaron's rap
Watch yourself
I'ma rearrange your map
Do your hands shake, baby
You ain't getting old
It's only Aaron Carter here
To rock and roll

Where ever I go
Shake, shake, shake
All the things in my room I
Brake, brake, brake
All the guys and the girls I
Make, make, make
Make 'em drop it down
Shake it down, break it down
Here we go

Wherever I go
Shake, shake, shake
All the things in my room I
Brake, brake, brake
All the people out in Cali yell
Not another earthquake
Make 'em drop it down
Shake it down, break it down

When I drove by
I'ma shake the foundation
Rock the formation
What's your reservation
Photos hang up the walls
It's amazing, oh no
Trouble with the bass vibration
Race the impact
Of my new track
Take cover cause
We're coming through like that
All the other
Tracks are wickie wickie whack
Its 2 double 0 2, time to react
From the east, to the west
To the north, to the south

Where ever I go
Shake, shake, shake
All the things in my room I
Brake, brake, brake
All the shots at the girls I
Make, make, make
Drop it down, shake it down
Break it down, here we go

Wherever I go
Shake, shake, shake
All the things in my room I
Brake, brake, brake
All the people that are jealous say
Not another earthquake
Drop it down, shake it down
Break it down, here we go

er, listeners, I think that was a rap song.

Crossin' the highway late last night
He shoulda looked left and he shoulda looked right
He didn't see the station wagon car
The skunk got squashed and there you are!

You got yer
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
You got yer dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high Heaven!

Take a whiff on me, that ain't no rose!
Roll up yer window and hold yer nose
You don't have to look and you don't have to see
'Cause you can feel it in your olfactory

You got yer
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
You got yer dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high Heaven!

Yeah you got yer dead cat and you got yer dead dog
On a moonlight night you got yer dead toad frog
Got yer dead rabbit and yer dead raccoon
The blood and the guts they're gonna make you swoon!
You got yer
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
You got yer dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high Heaven!

C'mon stink!

You got it!
It's dead, it's in the middle
Dead skunk in the middle!
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high heaven!
All over the road, technicolor man!
Oh, you got pollution
It's dead, it's in the middle
And it's stinkin' to high, high Heaven

SHAKE IT , SHAKE IT ! :wink:

here is diana krall with a mellower tune :



and diana with HER ELVIS !

This one is for the dys, because this skunk is rife with love, and not dead in the middle of the road. <smile>



Love, Diane Krall, hbg, and I know that song because she sings the good ones.

Well, folks, I guess I had better do a little Florida dreaming, but I'll think of California in my dreams.

Goodnight,

From Letty with love.

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

First a brief edit as that should have been Diana Krall.

How about a great day song by Johnny Mercer, folks.

Day in, day out
The same old hoodoo follows me about
The same old pounding in my heart whenever I think of you
And, darling, I think of you
Day in and day out

Day out, day in
I needn't tell you how my days begin
When I awake, I awaken with a tingle
One possibility in view
That possibility of maybe seeing you

Come rain, come shine
I meet you and to me the day is fine
Then I kiss your lips
And the pounding becomes
The ocean's roar
A thousand drums
Can't you see it's love
Can there be any doubt
When there it is
Day in, day out

words & music by wayne - edwards)

Is this train the frankfort special
Now aint this outfit something special
Well, we heard rumors from the bases
Frankfort girls got pretty faces

Go, special go. blow whistle, blow
Frankfort specials got a special way to go
Whao - oh - oh

Now when we get to our headquarters
Well be good boys and follow orders
Now dont take girls from one another
No! no! no! no! no!
Well treat a sailor like a brother

Go, special go. blow whistle, blow
Frankfort specials got a special way to go
Whao - oh - oh
Round wheels singin on a long flat track
Boiler bustin to blow its stack
Towns and villages flyin by
Farewell frauleins, dont you cry
Youll soon get another g.i.

Come on, train, and get the lead out
Well, one more day we gotta sweat out
Frantic frauleins at the station
Theyre ready for a celebration

Go, special go. blow whistle, blow
Frankfort specials got a special way to go

Go, special go. blow whistle, blow
Frankfort specials got a special way to go
Whao - oh - oh

Come on, train, and get the lead out
Well, one more day we gotta sweat out
Frantic frauleins at the station
Theyre ready for a celebration

Go, special go. blow whistle, blow
Frankfort specials got a special way to go
Whao - oh - oh
Whao - oh
Whao - oh, whao - oh, whao - oh, whao - oh, whao - oh,
Whao - oh, whao - oh, whao - oh

Frankfort Special
Elvis Presley

Good morning, edgar. Great song, Texas, and since nobody likes Walter except the dys' dog, perhaps we shoul try and bridge the gap.

Here's one from Hank Locklin, folks.

Far across deep blue water lives an old German's daughter
By the banks of the old River Rhine
Where I loved her and left her but I can't forget her
Cause I miss my pretty Fraulein
Fraulein Fraulein look up toward the heavens each night when the stars start to shine
By the same stars above you I swear that I love you you are my pretty Fraulein
[ ac.guitar - piano ]
When my memories wander away over yonder to the sweetheart that I left behind
In a moment of glory a face comes before me the face of my pretty Fraulein
Fraulein Fraulein...

Well, Walter isn't pretty but Mrs. Walter is.

C. S. Forester
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Cecil Scott Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (August 27, 1899 - April 2, 1966), an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of adventure with military themes. His most notable works were the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series, about naval warfare during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen (1935; filmed in 1951 by John Huston).

Born in Cairo, Forester had a complicated life, including imaginary parents, a secret marriage, a murder charge, and a debilitating illness. He was educated at Alleyn's School, Dulwich College and Guy's Hospital (now part of King's College London). He married Kathleen Belcher in 1926, had two sons, and divorced in 1945. His eldest son, John, is a noted cycling activist and wrote a biography of his father.

During World War II Forester moved to the United States where he wrote propaganda to encourage the country to join the Allies, and eventually settled in Berkeley, California; while living in Washington, D.C., he met a young British intelligence officer named Roald Dahl, of whose experiences in the R.A.F. he had heard word, and encouraged him to write about them. In 1947, he secretly married a woman named Dorothy Foster. He suffered extensively from arteriosclerosis later in life.

The popularity of the Hornblower series, built around a central character who was heroic but not too heroic, has continued to grow over time. It is perhaps rivalled only by the much later Aubrey-Maturin series of seafaring novels by Patrick O'Brian. Both Hornblower and Aubrey are based in part on the historical Admiral Lord Dundonald of Great Britain (known as Lord Cochrane during the period when the novels are set). Brian Perett has written a book The Real Hornblower: The Life and Times of Admiral Sir James Gordon, GCB, ISBN 1-55750-968-9, presenting the case for a different inspiration, namely James Alexander Gordon. In his work "The Hornblower Companion", however, Forester makes no indication of any historical influences or inspiration regarding his character. Rather, he describes a process whereby Hornblower was constructed based on what attributes made a good character for the original Hornblower story, "A Happy Return" (published in America as "Beat to Quarters"). Forester does reveal that the original trigger for his central character as an officer in the Royal Navy was his finding of three bound volumes of the Naval Chronicle when looking in a second-hand bookshop for some reading matter to take on a small boat; this, he implies, provided enough material for his subconscious to work on to ensure the eventual emergence of the Hornblower we know.

Forester wrote many other novels, among them The African Queen (1935) and The General (1936); Peninsular War novels in Death to the French and The Gun (filmed as The Pride and the Passion in 1957); and seafaring stories that did not involve Hornblower, such as Brown on Resolution (1929), The Ship (1943) and Hunting the Bismarck, which was used as the basis of the screenplay for the 1960 film Sink the Bismarck! Several of his works were filmed, most notably the 1951 film The African Queen directed by John Huston. Forester is also credited as story writer for several movies not based on his published fiction, including Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942).

He wrote several volumes of short stories set during the Second World War. Those in The Nightmare (1954) were based around events in Nazi Germany, ending at the Nuremberg Trials. Stories in The Man in the Yellow Raft (1969) followed the career of the destroyer USS Boon, while many of those in Gold from Crete (1971) followed the destroyer HMS Apache. The last of the stories in the latter book - If Hitler had invaded England - offers a plausible sequence of events starting with Hitler's attempt to implement Operation Sea Lion, and culminating in the early military defeat of Nazi Germany in the summer of 1941.

In addition to his novels of seafaring life, Forester also published two crime novels, Payment Deferred (1926), and Plain Murder (1930), and two children's books. One, Poo-Poo and the Dragons (1943), was created as a series of stories told to his son to encourage him to finish his meals while Forester was left alone to care for him as his wife was absent.[1] The second, The Barbary Pirates (1953), is a children's history of those early 19th-century pirates.

Martha Raye
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Birth name Margy Reed
Born August 27, 1916
Butte, Montana
Died October 19, 1994
Los Angeles, California
Spouse(s) Bud Westmore (1937-1938)
David Rose (1938-1941)
Neal Lang (1941-1944)
Nick Condos (1944-1953)
Ed Begley (1954-1956)
Robert O'Shea' (1956-1960)
Mark Harris (1991-1994)
[show]Awards
Academy Awards
The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (1969)
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Life Achievement Award (1974)

Martha Raye (August 27, 1916 - October 19, 1994) was an American comic actress and singer who performed in movies, and later on television.




Childhood

Raye's life as a singer and comedy performer began very early in her childhood. She was born at St James Hospital, Butte, Montana as Margy Reed[1], where her parents, Peter Reed and Maybelle Hooper, were performing at a local vaudeville theatre as "Reed and Hooper". Two days after Martha was born, her mother was already back on stage, and Martha first appeared in their act when she was three years old. She performed with her brother, Bud, and soon the two children became such a highlight that the act was renamed "Margie and Bud". Some show business insiders speculated that the Judy Garland song from A Star Is Born, "I was born in a trunk in the Princess Theater in Pocatella, Idaho" was inspired by Raye's beginnings.

Raye continued performing from that point on and even attended the Professional Children's School in New York City, but she received so little formal schooling -- getting only as far as the fifth grade -- that she often had to have scripts and other written documents read to her by others.


Career

In the early 1930s, Raye was a band vocalist with the Paul Ash and Boris Morros orchestras. She made her first film appearance in 1934 in a band short titled A Nite in the Nite Club. In 1936, she was signed for comic roles by Paramount Pictures, and made her first picture for Paramount in 1936. Her first picture was Rhythm on the Range with crooner Bing Crosby. Over the next 26 years, she would eventually appear with many of the leading comics of her day, including Joe E. Brown, Bob Hope, W.C. Fields, Abbott and Costello, Charlie Chaplin and Jimmy Durante. She joined the USO soon after the US entered World War II.

Martha Raye was best known for the size of her mouth, which appeared enormous in proportion to the rest of her face, thus earning her the nickname "The Big Mouth". She often alluded to this in a subsequent series of commercials for Polident denture toothpaste in the 1980s: "So take it from The Big Mouth...new Polident Green gets tough stains clean!" Her mouth would come to relegate her motion picture work to largely supporting comic parts, and was often made up in such a way that it appeared even larger than it already was. For example, she appears in the picture The Big Broadcast of 1938 where Bob Hope first sang what became his theme song, Thanks for the Memories (however, it is not sung to Ms. Raye, but rather to Shirley Ross). Her title as "The Big Mouth" made her a natural to be the spokesperson for Polident denture cleanser in the 1970s and 1980s.


USO

During World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, she travelled extensively to entertain the American troops -- even though she had a lifelong fear of flying.

In October 1966, she came to Soc Trang, Vietnam, to entertain the troops at this base, which was the home base of the 121st Aviation company, the Soc Trang Tigers, the gunship platoon, The Vikings and the 336th Aviation company. Shortly after her arrival, both units were called out on a mission to extract supposed POWs from an area nearby. Raye decided to hold her troop of entertainers there until the mission was completed so that all of the servicemen could watch her show.

During that time, a serviceman flying a "Huey Slick" carrying troops recalls that his ship received combat damage to the extent that he had to return to base at Soc Trang:

I was the pilot of that "slick" which had received major damage to the tail-rotor drive shaft from a lucky enemy rifle shot. The maintenance team at the staging area inspected and determined that a one-time flight back to base camp would be OK but grounded the aircraft after that.

Upon arriving back at Soc Trang, I informed Martha (she came right up to us and asked how things were going) that we had a gunship down in the combat area and additional efforts were being made to extract the crew. I don't recall if we had received word of the death of the pilot at that time. Martha stated that she and her troup would remain until everyone returned from the mission.

As there were no replacements, the servicemen could not return to the mission. While the servicemen waited, Raye played poker with them and helped to keep everyone's spirits up.

I enjoyed playing cards with Martha but regretted it somewhat. It appears that she had plenty of practice playing poker with GIs during her USO service in multiple wars. But I still love her for who she was and what she did.

When the mission was completed, which had resulted in the loss of a helicopter, gunship and a Viking pilot, there was also an officer, the Major who was in command of the Vikings who had been wounded when the ship went down. He was flying pilot position but was not in control of the ship when the command pilot, a Warrant Officer, was shot. When he and the two remaining crewmen were returned to Soc Trang, Raye volunteered to assist the doctor in treating the wounded flyer. When all had been completed, Raye waited until everybody was available and then put on her show. Everyone involved appreciated her as an outstanding trooper and a caring person. During the Vietnam War, she was made an honorary Green Beret because she visited U.S. Army Special Forces in Vietnam without fanfare, and she helped out when things got bad in Special Forces A-Camps. As a result, she came to be known affectionately by the Green Berets as "Colonel Maggie".


TV career

Raye was an early television star when that medium was very young; for a while she had her own program, The Martha Raye Show (1954 - 1956) in which she was the lead and her awkward boyfriend was portrayed by retired middleweight boxer Rocky Graziano. Other stars who appeared on her show included Zsa Zsa Gabor and Cesar Romero. Following the demise of her TV variety show, the breakup of her fifth marriage, and a series of other personal and health problems, she attempted suicide with sleeping pills on August 14, 1956. Well wishers gave her a St. Christopher's medal, a St. Genesius medal and a Star of David. After her recovery she wore these faithfully, although she was neither Catholic nor Jewish. At the end of her TV programs she would also thank the nuns at the The Sisters of St. Francis Hospital in Miami, Florida where she recovered. She would always say, "Goodnight, Sisters" as a sign of appreciation and gratitude.


Later career

In 1970 she portrayed Boss Witch, the "Queen of all Witch-dom" in the feature film Pufnstuf for Sid and Marty Krofft. This led to her being cast as villainess Benita Bizarre in The Bugaloos (1970), which the Kroffts produced the same year. Thanks to the cult following of The Bugaloos, Benita Bizarre remains one of Raye's best known, best loved roles.


Raye as the outrageous Benita Bizarre on The Bugaloos (1970).She often appeared as a guest on other programs, particularly ones that often had older performers as guest stars, such as The Love Boat and on variety programs. She also appeared for two years as Mel Sharples' mother, Carrie, on the sitcom Alice. She made guest appearances or did cameo roles in such TV series as "The Andy Williams Show", Murder, She Wrote, and McMillan and Wife. At one time, rumours circulated that Raye and Rock Hudson, the star of McMillan and Wife were romantically involved, but those rumours were obviously untrue in light of Hudson's homosexuality, of which Raye was very aware. She was never attracted to him sexually but did form a close friendship with him.


Personal life

Raye's personal life was complex and emotionally tumultuous in that she was married seven times, with most of her marriages lasting less than two years and her first marriage lasting only three months. She was married to Hamilton "Buddy" Westmore from May 30, 1937 until September 1937, filing for divorce on the basis of extreme cruelty; to conductor and composer, David Rose from October 8, 1938 to May 19, 1941; to Neal Lang from June 25, 1941 to February 3, 1944; to Nick Condos from March 9, 1944 to June 17, 1953 which resulted in the birth of her only child Melodye Raye Condos on July 26, 1944; to Edward Thomas Begley from April 21, 1954 to October 6, 1956; to Robert O'Shea from November 7, 1956 to December 1, 1960; and to Mark Harris from September 25, 1991 until her death in 1994.


Mark Harris
Raye's marriage to Harris in a quick Las Vegas ceremony made headlines. Martha was then 75, and Harris was then 42, and Raye had known Harris for less than a month. Harris was a self-proclaimed bisexual who had been in relationships with men, and acknowledged that the marriage was never consummated. Also, it was apparent to many that Raye was already suffering from the dementia associated with advancing Alzheimer's disease, and other ailments which plagued her, and so it was argued that the marriage was clearly an exploitive one in which Harris was motivated most by a desire for control of Raye's fortune and for publicity.

Also, a tug of war ensued between Martha's daughter Melodye and Mark Harris over Martha's possessions, her will, and eventually her burial. Raye left the bulk of her estate to Harris, with a portion going to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), as Raye was a great animal lover. Ironically, Harris used a large portion of his inheritance from Raye to fund his own line of furs for his fashion company.

Raye and Harris sued Bette Midler and the producers of the movie For The Boys in the early 1990s, because they felt the story was Martha's story. They lost the case.

Raye's final years were spent dealing with ongoing health problems. She suffered from Alzheimer's disease and had lost both legs in 1993 due to circulatory problems. She died of pneumonia on October 19, 1994, after a long history of cardiovascular disease. Raye was 78 years of age, and residing in Los Angeles at the time of her death.


Burial

In appreciation of her work with the USO during World War II and subsequent wars, special consideration was given to bury her in Arlington National Cemetery upon her death, however, she was ultimately buried with full military honors in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Martha Raye has her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Tommy Sands
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Tommy Sands (born Thomas Adrian Sands, 27 August 1937, Chicago, Illinois) is an American pop music singer and actor.


Career

Born into a musical family in Chicago, his father was a pianist and his mother a big-band singer. While still young, he moved with his family to Shreveport, Louisiana. Sands began playing the guitar at age seven and within a year had a job performing twice weekly on a local radio station. He was only fifteen when Colonel Tom Parker heard about him and signed him to RCA Records. His initial recordings achieved little in the way of sales but in early 1957 he was given the opportunity to star in an episode of "Kraft Television Theatre". On the show, his song presentation of a Joe Allison composition called "Teenage Crush" went over big with the young audience and, released as a 45 rpm single by Capitol Records, it went to No.3 on the Billboard Hot 100 record charts.

Sands' sudden fame brought an offer to sing at the Academy Awards show and his teen idol looks landed him a motion-picture contract to star in a 1958 musical drama called Sing, Boy, Sing. In 1960, he married Nancy Sinatra and for a time they were the toast of Hollywood. Sands performed in several films including Babes in Toyland in 1961, The Longest Day in 1962, and Ensign Pulver in 1964, but both his singing and film career had faded by the 1970s.

He was divorced from Sinatra in 1965 and has a daughter, model Jessica Sands, born in 1977 from another relationship.

Sands' pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.

Tuesday Weld
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Born August 27, 1943
New York City

Tuesday Weld (born August 27, 1943) is an Emmy and Academy Award-nominated Golden Globe-winning American film and television actress.




Biography

Early life

Weld was born Susan Ker Weld in New York City. Her father, Lathrop Motley Weld, was a member of the wealthy Weld Family of Boston; he died when she was three and left her widowed mother, Aileen Ker,[1] and two older siblings in difficult financial circumstances.[2] Weld's mother capitalized on her daughter's beauty and put her to work as a child model to support the entire family. Using Weld's résumé from modelling, her mother secured an agent and Tuesday (an extension of her childhood nickname, "Tu-Tu") Weld made her acting debut on television at age twelve and her feature film debut at age twelve in a bit role in the 1956 Alfred Hitchcock crime drama, The Wrong Man.


Career

Also in 1956, Weld got the lead in a film celebrating the advent of rock and roll called Rock, Rock, Rock that featured record promoter Alan Freed and singers Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon, and Johnny Burnette. In the film, Connie Francis performed the vocals for Weld's singing parts. In 1959, still only sixteen years old, she was given a role in the CBS television show, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Although Weld was a cast member for only a single season, the show gave her considerable national publicity, and she was named a co-winner of a "Most Promising Newcomer" award at the Golden Globe Awards. Only a year later, in 1960, she appeared as Joy, a free-spirited university student in High Time, a collegian comedy starring Bing Crosby and Fabian.

In 1961, after starring opposite Elvis Presley in Wild in the Country, the two had an off-screen romance. However, in Hollywood, her reputation for recklessness was fodder for pulp magazines and the more malignant gossip columnists of the day. Louella Parsons reportedly said, "Miss Weld is not a very good representative for the motion picture industry".[citation needed]

Weld appeared with Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen in the 1963 comedy/drama Soldier in the Rain, and although her performance was well received, the film was only a minor success. Although frequently typecast as the "blonde in the tight sweater," critics and others in the film industry have acknowledged her talent. However, Weld never achieved the level of stardom many thought her looks and abilities would bring, partly as a result of her turning down roles in films that became great successes and that made stars of others, such as Lolita, Bonnie and Clyde, Rosemary's Baby, True Grit, and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. Roddy McDowall, who co-starred with her in a 1966 film, said: "no actress was ever so good in so many bad films".[citation needed]

In 1965, she appeared in the successful Norman Jewison film The Cincinnati Kid, opposite Steve McQueen. Some of her most notable screen performances include Pretty Poison (1968), co-starring Anthony Perkins; I Walk the Line (1971), opposite Gregory Peck; and Play It As It Lays (1972), again with Perkins, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

In her thirties, Weld gave memorable performances in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award as best supporting actress; Who'll Stop the Rain (1978) opposite Nick Nolte; and Michael Mann's acclaimed 1981 film Thief, opposite James Caan. In 1984, she appeared in Sergio Leone's gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America as a masochistic prostitute featuring a brutal rape scene with her and Robert De Niro. Weld has also appeared in a number of made-for-television movies, including Reflections of Murder (1987) and A Question of Guilt, in which she plays a woman accused of murdering her children. In 1993, Weld played a neurotic police officer's wife and aging former beauty in the film Falling Down.

Weld continues to makes occasional appearances in film and television.


Personal life

Weld married screenwriter Claude Harz in 1965 and bore a daughter, Natasha, in 1966. After divorcing Herz, Weld married famed British comedian/actor Dudley Moore, in 1975. In 1976 they had a son, Patrick, and in 1980 after a number of separations, were finally divorced. Weld married the renowned Israeli concert violinist and conductor Pinchas Zukerman in 1985. After thirteen years, that marriage also ended in divorce.

Weld's photographs have been featured on the covers of two Matthew Sweet albums, Girlfriend (1991) and Time Capsule: Best of 90/00 (2000).

Barbara Bach
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Birth name Barbara Goldbach
Born August 27, 1947 (1947-08-27) (age 60)
New York City, New York
Years active 1968-1986
Spouse(s) Augusto Gregorini (1968-1978)
Ringo Starr (1981 - to present)

Barbara Bach (born August 27, 1947) is an American model and actress, known as the Bond girl from the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me. She is the wife of Ringo Starr, a former member of The Beatles.





Biography

Youth

Bach was born Barbara Goldbach in Queens, New York to Marjorie and Howard Goldbach, a policeman. Her father was Jewish and her mother was Catholic, and Bach attended a Catholic convent school.[1] When she was sixteen, Bach left school to become a model, rising to the ranks of top models by the time she reached 17. At eighteen, she married Augusto Gregorini. They had two children in Italy, one of them being singer-songwriter Francesca Gregorini.


Career

In 1971, she starred with two other Bond girls, Claudine Auger and Barbara Bouchet in La Tarantola dal ventre nero, a giallo mystery. She had small roles in other Italian films.

In 1975, Bach separated from Augusto and moved back to the United States. In 1977, Bach's role as Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me gained her recognition and awareness as an international sex symbol. In 1978 she played a role in the movie Force 10 from Navarone.


Personal life

British musician Ringo Starr and Bach met on the set of the film Caveman in 1980. They were married on April 27, 1981, just a few weeks after the film's release. Since the mid-1980s, Bach has been inactive as an actress; in recent years, she has accompanied Starr on his tours. Bach currently resides in Aspen, Colorado.

RIDDLES

In what direction does a sneeze travel?
Atchoo (Richard Lederer)

Why did the projector blush?
It saw the filmstrip.

What do you get when you cross a parrot with a homing pigeon?
Voice mail.

Why are fire engines red?
Everyone knows that fire engines have 4 wheels and 8 men. 4 and 8
make 12. There are twelve inches in a foot. A foot is a ruler. Queen
Elizabeth, a ruler, is the name of one of the largest ships on the
seas. Seas have fish and fish have fins. The Finns fought the
Russians and Russians are red, and fire trucks are always rushin'
therefore, fire trucks are red!

PUNS

Be true to your teeth, or they will be false to you.

Don't expect to eat something fancy when you're flying because it's
plane food.

A toothless termite walked into a tavern and said, "Is the bar
tender
here?"

A baker stopped making donuts after he got tired of the hole thing.

If you step onto a plane and recognize a friend of yours named Jack
don't yell out Hi Jack!