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Maurice Chevalier - Thank Heaven for Little Girls (from Gigi) Lyrics




Thank heaven for little girls
for little girls get bigger every day!

Thank heaven for little girls
they grow up in the most delightful way!

Those little eyes so helpless and appealing
one day will flash and send you crashin' thru the ceilin'

Thank heaven for little girls
thank heaven for them all,
no matter where no matter who
for without them, what would little boys do?

Thank heaven... thank heaven...
Thank heaven for little girls!

I guess that one is Maurice's signature song, Bob, but I was surprised to find out that he did this one.

Long ago my heart and mind
Got together and designed
The wonderful girl for me
Oh what a fantasy

Thought the ideal of my heart
Can't be ordered a la carte
I wonder if she will be
Always a fantasy

Will I ever find the girl in my mind?
The one who is my ideal
Maybe she's a dream and yet she might be
Just around the corner waiting for me

Will I recognize the light in her eyes
That no other eyes reveal
Or will I pass her by and never even know
That she was my ideal

[Instrumental solos]

Will I recognize the light in her eyes
That no other eyes reveal
Or will I pass her by and never even know
That she is my ideal

about time to spin another record before the station goes off the air for the day !

and let me quickly sneak another one in - before letty close shop !

here is the cootie williams band with chick webb at the SAVOY BALLROOM

Well, hbg. Ain't nothin' like the Duke to go to bed by. Thanks for the song, and I love the line "...ain't got no fancy to tickle...."

In searching for music by Rachel Ward, folks, I was quite surprised to come across a mini series that she and Richard Chamberlain did for Hallmark called Blackbeard.



How about a pirate song to go with it.

The Pirate Song

To the mast nail our flag it is dark as the grave,
Or the death which it bears while it sweeps o'er the wave;
Let our deck clear for action, our guns be prepared;
Be the boarding-axe sharpened, the scimetar bared:
Set the canisters ready, and then bring to me,
For the last of my duties, the powder-room key.

It shall never be lowered, the black flag we bear;
If the sea be denied us, we sweep through the air.
Unshared have we left our last victory's prey;
It is mine to divide it, and yours to obey:
There are shawls that might suit a sultana's white neck,
And pearls that are fair as the arms they will deck.

There are flasks which, unseal them, the air will disclose
Diametta's fair summers, the home of the rose.
I claim not a portion: I ask but as mine
'Tis to drink to our victory - one cup of red wine.
Some fight, 'tis for riches - some fight, 'tis for fame:
The first I despise, and the last is a name.

I fight, 'tis for vengeance! I love to see flow,
At the stroke of my sabre, the life of my foe.
I strike for the memory of long-vanished years;
I only shed blood where another shed tears,
I come, as the lightning comes red from above,
O'er the race that I loathe, to the battle I love.


Tomorrow, I shall be heading for Virginia and, of course, I've procrastinated.

Heh,heh. What kind of sneakers are you wearing, hbg? But that, too, is a great one and a wonderful way for Letty to say....

Goodnight, my friends.

From Letty with love

Elvis Presley - Let Me Lyrics

Whenever I dance with the girl I love
My head goes round and round
When she's close to me
I can't stay on the ground
Whenever I dance with the girl I love
I never have a care
All night I'm so light
I walk right on the air
Oh let me, oh honey let me
Let me do what you know I love to do
Please take another chance and let me
Let me have another dance with you
Whenever I feel those pretty arms
Reaching round about
That feeling goes to my toes
And all the lights go out, go out, go out
Whenever I see those eyes of blue
Smiling up so shy
I'm in such a spin I take right off and fly
So let me, oh honey let me
Let me do what you know I love to do
Please take another chance and let me
Let me have another dance with you
So let me dance in the arms I love
Thrill me through and through
I'm so drunk with love
That all I see is you
I never hear the music play
I never see the crowd
Only you and me
Dancing on a cloud
Oh let me, oh honey let me
Let me do what you know I love to do
Please take another chance and let me
Let me have, another dance, with you

Good early morning, WA2K radio audience.

edgar, while Elvis walks on air, Letty is up early because I was sleepless, and that's the price we pay for procrastination.

Artist: Sleepless
Song: Sands of time


The sand, the grains - a symbol of time
The sea, the waves - a song with a rhyme
A desert wind

Time - shattering the images above and healing wounds
A desert wind, a frying sun
A holy war handled by an angry gun
The night, the moon, the sky, the stars above us
The day, the sun, burning the mysterious thoughts
Inspiring an artist

Did you ever think, did you ever know, did you ever feel
That I was last to go?
Waiting at the gallows pole
There's a time when our dreams should be fulfilled

The screen of rays full of mist
A little child grown by the loving priest

There's a time when our dreams should be fulfilled
The day we come back from the landmine field
Distorted figure covered in black
Another soul is hidden away from you
Well what's the point?

The sand, the grains - a symbol of time
Well what's the point
If your ego is based on your success?
So the story goes on like a game of chess

Jerry Lee Lewis - I Believe In You


Well I heard the other day
from some people who passed this way
They were saying you were untrue
I love you baby no matter what you do
They say you'll leave me and I'm just a fool
All I'll ever be is your footstool
But I believe oh honey right now
I believe in you oh yeah now

They say you're bad so bad
but you're the best girl old Jerry ever had
Love me and leave me that's what they say
I love you baby yeah come what may
They say you'll leave me and it won't be long
I'm gonna wake up one morning Lord
I'm gonna find you gone
But I believe oh honey right now honey
I believe in you oh yeah

Well they say you're just plain bad
you're the best girl that I ever had
Oh don't leave me don't leave me honey
They say you'll soon be gone that's what they say
Oh I'll love you baby yeah come what may
Honey I want you to hang around here
and be with old Jerry just one more day
Cause I believe oh I believe
I believe in you yes I be-lie-ve

Dick Haymes
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born September 13, 1916
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died March 28, 1980, age 63
Los Angeles, California, USA

Dick Haymes (September 13, 1916 - March 28, 1980) was one of the most popular American male vocalists of the 1940s and early 1950s.

He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His Irish-born mother, Marguerite Haymes (1894-1987), was a well-known vocal coach and instructor. He became the vocalist in a number of big bands, worked in Hollywood on radio and in many films throughout the forties and fifties.

He never became a United States citizen and avoided military service during World War II by asserting his non-belligerent status as a citizen of Argentina, which was neutral. Years later (1955), this act of his nearly caused his deportation to Argentina on an unrelated technicality in immigration law. During World War II, he was briefly detained at Ellis Island.

Haymes was married six times and had six children. His most famous marriages were to film actresses Joanne Dru (1941-1949) and Rita Hayworth (1953-1955). His daughter Stephanie Haymes was married to Sir Elton John's lyricist Bernie Taupin

He died in Los Angeles from lung cancer, at the age of 63.

Scott Brady
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Scott Brady (September 13, 1924 - April 16, 1985) was an American film actor.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, he was the younger brother to a fellow actor, Lawrence Tierney, Brady began his film career after taking drama classes after World War II (where he was a Navy boxing champ). The actor specialized in tough-guy roles in films like He Walked by Night and Johnny Guitar. He appeared regularly on the 1970s cop show, Police Story. His last film role was in the 1984 movie Gremlins. He is often confused with his brother, Tierney, whom he resembles. Brady was a lumberjack early in life before taking up acting.

He was originally offered the role of Archie Bunker in All in the Family in 1971 and turned it down. He played Shirley Feeney's father Jack Feeney in episode 32 of Laverne & Shirley which aired 2/15/1977.

Brady died from pulmonary fibrosis at the age of 60. Other sources have the cause as emphysema

Jacqueline Bisset
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birth name Winfred Jacqueline Fraser-Bisset
Born September 13, 1944 (1944-09-13) (age 63)
Weybridge, Surrey, England

Jacqueline Bisset (born Winifred Jacqueline Fraser-Bisset on 13 September 1944) is an English actress.





Biography

Early life

Bisset was born in Weybridge, Surrey, England to Max Fraser-Bisset, a Scottish General Practitioner, and the former Arlette Alexander, a lawyer of French and English descent; Bisset's mother cycled from Paris and boarded a British trooper in order to escape the Germans during WWII.[1] Bisset has a brother, Max. Bisset's mother taught her to speak French fluently and she was educated at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in London. When Bisset was a teenager, her mother was diagnosed with disseminating sclerosis. Bisset's parents divorced in 1968, after 28 years of marriage.[1] Bisset subsequently moved in to help her mother. She had taken ballet lessons as a young child, and now began taking acting lessons and fashion modelling to pay for them.

She lives in England.


Career

In 1967, Bisset was cast in the critically acclaimed movie Two for the Road. Next, she participated in the James Bond satire, Casino Royale (1967), as Miss Goodthighs.

In 1968, Mia Farrow dropped out of the movie The Detective (1968), and the role went to Bisset. That same year, she was cast opposite Steve McQueen in Bullitt, and appeared in the 1970 disaster film Airport.

In 1973, she appeared in François Truffaut's Day for Night, where she earned the respect of European critics and moviegoers as a serious actress. In 1977, Bisset made great strides towards becoming a better known entertainer in America with her movie The Deep (1977),[2] co-starring Robert Shaw, where her appearance swimming underwater wearing only a T-shirt helped make the film a box office smash, leading the producer Jon Peters to say, "That T-shirt made me a rich man",[3] and led many to credit her with popularizing the wet T-shirt contest. At the time, Newsweek magazine declared her to be "the most beautiful film actress of all time".

By 1978, she was a household name. She earned her first Golden Globe nomination for the comedy Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?. Soon thereafter, she played in the movies Rich and Famous (1981) with Candice Bergen, and Under the Volcano with Albert Finney (1984), for which she earned her a second Golden Globe award nomination. In 1996, she was nominated for a César Award, France's version of the Oscars, for her role in La Cérémonie. During her career, Bisset has worked with such well-respected directors as Truffaut, John Huston, George Cukor and Roman Polanski. Several of her movies are French or Italian productions.

Bisset has also appeared in many made-for-TV movies, especially during the past ten years, some of which have been quite successful. One of her later TV movies, released in 2003, was America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story, in which she portrayed Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. Bisset's most recent television work was a recurring role as the mysterious James, during the fourth season of the FX show Nip/Tuck.


Personal life

Though she has been romantically linked with many actors, Bisset has never married. Bisset is the godmother to actress Angelina Jolie. She appeared with Jolie in the film Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005); however, the scenes never made the final cut.

Unlike many actresses of her generation who have had difficulty finding work after the age of 40, Bisset made a seamless transition from leading lady to character actor. She remains very much in demand both in Hollywood and Europe. She told a Bermuda newspaper in 2004:[4]

"This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young and they go to the cinema to see the sort of romance or adventure that appeals to them. It's not an intellectual cinema in America. But one mustn't be too greedy. One wants to be stimulated by the work as long as there is something to give. I think you have to be as flexible as possible. Perhaps you don't get handed the big American productions, but, quite honestly, who would want to be in a lot of them? Many of them are just puerile teenage filler, and they're not fascinating to be in. To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give, and the camera just sort of brushes past you, and doesn't get what you have to give. Most actresses I know are frustrated, but you have to adapt to the reality. I go and find a small part in something I find interesting, or find an independent film".


Bisset in popular culture

In the NBC TV show Cheers, the episode "Bar Bet" has Sam Malone faced with a bet made with an old drinking buddy a long time ago. The bet: he would marry Jacqueline Bisset by a certain date or lose his bar. Rather than losing the bet because he'll never marry the Jacqueline Bisset, or welching on the bet and having to admit under oath that he was drunk when he made the bet, he instead locates an American woman with the exact same name and brings her back to Boston.

Bisset is mentioned by name in the Al Stewart song "Clifton in the Rain."

In the HBO TV show The Larry Sanders Show, Artie says he once dated Bisset.

The local parish had a fairly new priest. He had wonderful,
innovative ideas that were, for the most part accepted by
the congregation.
His mentor - a "higher ranking" priest came for a visit -
to see how he was doing. After looking the parish over,
the senior priest said, "Father John, your idea of a drive
through confessional is wonderful. That makes it so
convenient for your church members. And, Father John,
it was a really good idea to have the confessional open 24
hours a day, for those who work "shift" work. However,
Father John... that flashing neon sign that says:
"TOOT and TELL or GO to HELL" ... well, that has GOT TO GO!!

Lookit this place. Musta forgot to pay the help. Well let's see if I can find an appropriate song to play. At least it'll stir the cobwebs. Oh, I know.

The Sound Of Silence (3:08)

P. Simon, 1964

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turn my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never shared
No one dared
Disturb the sound of silence

"Fools," said I, "you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence

Nuttin!
Maybe it was sumpin you said.
Don't think so.
Maybe you need a bath.
Had one this month.
You been ornery?
Not that I know of.
Try bein nice to them.
How?
Give them a good mornin song.
Oh yeah. Shoulda thought of that. Thanks.


Oklahoma

Curly:

There's a bright, golden haze on the meadow
There's a bright, golden haze on the meadow.
The corn is as high as an elephant's eye
And it looks like it's climbing clear up to the sky.

Oh, what a beautiful Mornin'
Oh, what a beautiful day.
I've got a beautiful feelin'
Everything's goin' my way.

All the cattle are standin' like statues
All the cattle are standin' like statues
They don't turn their heads as they see me ride by
But a little brown mav'rick is winkin' her eye

Oh, what a beautiful Mornin'
Oh, what a beautiful day.
I've got a beautiful feelin'
Everything's goin' my way.

All the sounds of the earth are like music
All the sounds of the earth are like music
The breeze is so busy it don't miss a tree
An' a ol' weepin' willer is laughin' at me

Oh, what a beautiful Mornin'
Oh, what a beautiful day.
I've got a beautiful feelin'
Everything's goin' my way.
Oh, what a beautiful day!

Howzat?
Looks ok to me.

Jack Hawkins
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birth name John Edward Hawkins
Born September 14, 1910
Wood Green, London, England
Died July 18, 1973 ( age 62 )
London, England

John Edward "Jack" Hawkins (September 14, 1910 - July 18, 1973) was an English film actor of the 1950s and 1960s.

Hawkins made his London stage debut aged 12, and was appearing on Broadway in Journey's End by the age of 18. Although he appeared in several films during the 1930s, it was only after service in World War II that he began to build a successful career in the cinema, often playing stern but sympathetic authority figures in films like Angels One Five (1952), The Long Arm (1956) and The Cruel Sea (1953), the film that made him a star. Ironically Hawkins was politically liberal and an emotional man, in sharp contrast to his conservative screen image.

From the late 1950s he mostly appeared in character roles, often in epic films like The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) (playing General Edmund Allenby) and Oh! What a Lovely War (1969). For Kwai, he had to convince his good friend, Alec Guinness, to take the lead role, which would ultimately win Guinness an Oscar.

Some of his more unusual roles included an Egyptian Pharaoh in Land of the Pharaohs (1955), Ben Hur's adoptive Roman father Quintus Arrius in Ben-Hur (1959), and Zulu (1964), where he played against type as the fanatical Rev. Otto Witt.

He was married to Jessica Tandy from 1932 to 1942 and later to Doreen Lawrence from 1946 until his death in 1973.

In December 1965, Hawkins was diagnosed with throat cancer and his entire larynx was removed in January of the following year; thereafter his performances were dubbed, often (and to Hawkins's approval) by actor Charles Gray. The loss of his voice was all the more tragic as he had spoken in a very rich baritone and a cultured accent. However, his voice had clearly been failing since the late 1950s - unknown to the public, he had undergone cobalt treatment in 1959 for what was described as a secondary condition of the larynx. In private, he used a mechanical larynx to aid his speech.[1]

Hawkins died in 1973 following an operation to insert an artificial voicebox. He was 62. His final appearance was in the television miniseries QB VII. His autobiography, titled "Anything For a Quiet Life", was published after his death.