WA2K Radio is now on the air

Good morning, WA2K radio audience.

edgar, I particularly enjoyed your song by The Whitest Boy Alive, because I think this one is a foil of sorts.

BLACKMORE'S NIGHT

Morning Star
(From the album "UNDER A VIOLET MOON")

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 sheild
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...
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...

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...
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...

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...
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...
morning star...
Can it be so hard to try and charm the elusive morning star...

Mahalia Jackson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Background information

Birth name Mahalia Jackson
Born October 26, 1911(1911-10-26)[1]
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Origin United States
Died January 27, 1972 (aged 60)
Evergreen Park, Illinois, USA
Genre(s) Gospel
Instrument(s) singer
Years active 1927 - 1971
Label(s) Apollo, Columbia

Mahalia Jackson (October 26, 1911[1] - January 27, 1972) was an American gospel singer, widely regarded as the best in the history of the genre. Mahalia Jackson became one of the most influential gospel singers in the world.





Early life

Mahalia Jackson grew up in the "Black Pearl" section of the Carrollton neighborhood of Uptown New Orleans, Louisiana. The three room dwelling on Pitt Street housed thirteen people. This included Mahalia, whom they affectionately called "Halie" for short, her brother Roosevelt, whom they called Peter, and her mother Charity. Several aunts and cousins lived in the house as well. Mahalia was nicknamed "Halie" after her aunt, Mahalia. Family members conferred upon the aunt the title of Aunt Duke. She was rewarded with the name because she held the title of being the "boss" of the family.

When Halie was born she suffered from a condition known as genu varum or what is commonly called "bowed legs." The doctors wanted to perform surgery by breaking Halie's legs, but one of the resident aunts would not hear of it. So Halie's mother would rub her legs down with greasy dishwater. It never stopped young Halie from performing her dance steps for the white woman her mother and Aunt Bell cleaned house for.

When Mahalia was six, her mother Charity died. It was a terrible blow to the family especially when the decision came as to who would keep Halie and her brother Peter. Aunt Duke assumed this responsibility, and the children were forced to work from sun-up to sun-down. Aunt Duke would always inspect the house using the "white glove" method. If the house was not cleaned properly, Halie would be beaten with a "cat-o-nine-tails." If one of the other relatives was unable to do their chores, or clean at their job, Halie or one of her cousins was expected to perform that particular task. School was hardly an option. Halie loved to sing and church is where she loved to sing the most. Halie's Aunt Bell told her that one-day she would sing in front of royalty. Halie would one day see that prediction of her aunts come true. Mahalia Jackson began her singing career at the local Mount Moriah Baptist Church.


Career


1920s - 1940s

In 1927, Jackson moved from the South to Chicago, Illinois, in the midst of the Great Migration. There she would sing with The Johnson Brothers, one of the earliest professional gospel groups. She later married Isaac Hockenhull, who was 10 years her senior. Mahalia refused to sing secular music, a pledge she would keep throughout her professional life despite enormous financial inducements to do otherwise; she eventually divorced Isaac because of his unrelenting pressure on her to do so. The Johnson Brothers broke up in the mid-1930s, and Mahalia began her solo career in 1937. Though her recording of "God's Gonna Separate the Wheat from the Tares", was only a moderate success, she became a popular concert draw. She experienced a recording hiatus until 1946, and in 1948 recorded "Move on Up a Little Higher", a recording so popular that stores could not stock enough copies of it to meet demand. The success of this record rocketed Mahalia to fame in the U.S. and soon after in Europe. Other recordings received wide praise, including: "I Can Put My Trust in Jesus", which won a prize from the French Academy, and "Silent Night" which became one of the best-selling singles in the history of Norway.


1950s - 1970s

Mahalia's career in the late 1950s and early 1960s continued to rise. She began a radio series on CBS and signed to Columbia Records in 1954. However, with her mainstream success came an inevitable backlash from gospel purists who felt she had watered down her sound for popular accessibility. Jackson had many notable accomplishments during this period, including her performance of many gospel songs in the 1958 film, St. Louis Blues, and singing "Trouble of the World" in 1959's Imitation of Life; recording with Percy Faith; and important performances at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958 and 1959, the 1961 inauguration of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, and the March on Washington in 1963 (she sang the gospel standard "How I Got Over"). She also sang "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" at the funeral of her friend Martin Luther King, Jr. The late 1960s saw a downturn in her popular success. She ended her career in 1971 with a concert in Germany, and when she returned made one of her final television appearances on The Flip Wilson Show.


Death and legacy

Mahalia Jackson died in Chicago on January 27, 1972 at age 60 of heart failure and diabetes complications. She was buried in Providence Memorial Park in Metairie, Louisiana. The year of her death, Mahalia was honored with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition, she was posthumously inducted into the Gospel Music Association's Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1978. Mahalia Jackson is widely regarded as the greatest gospel singer in history and one of the voices of the 20th-century. Indeed, her good friend Martin Luther King said "a voice like hers comes along once in a millennium". In addition to sharing her singing talent with the world she mentored the extraordinarily gifted Aretha Franklin (she was a close friend of Aretha's father, C. L. Franklin, and a frequent guest in the Franklin home). She was also good friends with fellow Chicago based gospel singer Albertina Walker founder of the world renowned gospel group The Caravans, who later went on to phenomenal success as a solo artist and is regarded as the "Queen of Gospel Music", carrying on the legacy started by Mahalia. She also discovered a young Della Reese.

In 1997, Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame "as a pioneer interpreter of gospel music whose fervent contralto was one of the great voices of this century".[2]. In adition, Jackson was the first gospel artist to be inducted onto the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Despite the inscription of Jackson's birth year on her headstone as 1912, she was actually born in 1911.

In popular culture

In the movie Jungle Fever, the character played by Ossie Davis tries to distract himself from his son Gator's (Samuel L. Jackson) crack cocaine addiction by listening to Mahalia Jackson albums by the hour.

In the 1959 remake of the film Imitation of Life Mahalia Jackson portrays the choir soloist, singing "Trouble of the World" at Annie's funeral. She has no speaking lines, but her singing performance highlights the climactic scene.

In the The Boondocks episode "Return of the King", a still-living Martin Luther King, Jr. laments over losing his iTunes password when he tried to download Mahalia Jackson's catalog.

She is referenced in the Denis Leary song "Elvis & I" when Leary sings "He says what the hell is Lisa Marie thinking with Michael Jackson crap, she should have married Janet or LaToya or Tito or even Mahalia Jackson".

In the 1994 "Wake Up Show Anthem" for the Los Angeles radio station 92.3FM The Beat, the rapper Ras Kass mentioned Jackson in his freestyle verse: "Come equip, your losing your paraphernalia / I'm a hip hop Apostle singing the Gospel like Mahalia Jackson".

She was an early influence on Irish soul singer Van Morrison, whose song "Summertime in England" (from 1980s Common One) refers to her by name: "The voice of Mahalia Jackson came through the ether."

African-American rapper Raekwon in Mobb Deep's song Eye for an Eye says, "But still/ write my will out to my seeds then build/ Mahalia sing a tale but the real we still kill."

Jackie Coogan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Birth name John Leslie 'Jackie' Coogan
Born October 26, 1914
Los Angeles, California
Died March 01, 1984 (aged 69)
Santa Monica, California
Occupation Actor
Spouse(s) Betty Grable
Flower Parry
Ann McCormack
Dorothea Lamphere
Children John Anthony Coogan
Joann Dolliver Coogan
Lesley Diane Coogan
Christopher Fenton Coogan
Parents John Henry Coogan, Jr., and Lilian Rita Dolliver Coogan

John Leslie (Jackie) Coogan (October 26, 1914 - March 1, 1984) was an American actor who began his movie career as a child actor in silent film.




Hollywood

Coogan was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, to John Henry Coogan, Jr., and Lilian Rita Dolliver Coogan. He began his acting career as an infant in both vaudeville and film, with an uncredited role in the 1917 film Skinner's Baby. Charlie Chaplin discovered him in a vaudeville house, doing the "shimmy," a popular dance at the time, on the stage. His father, Jack Coogan, Sr. was also an actor. The boy was a natural mimic, and delighted Chaplin with his abilities in this area. As a child actor, he is best remembered for his role as Charlie Chaplin's irascible sidekick in the film classic The Kid (1921) and for the title role in Oliver Twist, directed by Frank Lloyd, the following year. His scene in The Kid where he is taken away from the tramp character played by Chaplin and thrown into the back of a truck by the social service agents is one of the most famous scenes in cinema. He was also the first star to get heavily merchandised, with peanut butter, stationery, whistles, dolls, records, and figurines just being a sample of the Coogan merchandise. He also travelled internationally to huge crowds. Many of his early films are lost or just unavailable, but Turner Classic Movies recently presented The Rag Man with a new score. Coogan was famous for his pageboy haircut and his The Kid outfit of oversized overalls and cap, which was widely imitated, including by the young Scotty Beckett in the Our Gang films.


Coogan Bill

As a child star, Coogan earned as much as $4 million, but the money was taken by his mother Lilian and step-father Arthur Bernstein for cocaine and heroin. He sued them in 1935, but only received $126,000. The legal battle did, however, bring attention to child actors and resulted in the state of California enacting the California Child Actor's Bill, sometimes known as the Coogan Bill or the Coogan Act. This requires that the child's employer set aside 15% of the child's earnings in a trust, and codifies such issues as schooling, work hours and time-off. Jackie's mother and step-father attempted to soften the situation by pointing out that the child was having fun and thought he was playing. Virtually every child star, however, from Baby Peggy on has stated that they were keenly aware that what they were doing was work.

Tragedy struck in 1935 when Coogan's father was killed in a car crash that also claimed the life of best friend Junior Durkin, a child actor best known as "Huckleberry Finn" in two films of the early 1930s. Just short of his twenty-first birthday, Jackie was the sole survivor of the accident.


World War II

Coogan enlisted in the US Army in March 1941. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he requested a transfer to US Army Air Forces as a glider pilot because of his civilian flying experience. After graduating from glider school, he was made a Flight Officer and he volunteered for hazardous duty with the 1st Air Commando Group. In December 1943, the unit was sent to India. He flew British troops, the Chindits, under General Orde Wingate on 5 March 1944, landing them at night in a small jungle clearing 100 miles behind Japanese lines in the Burma campaign.

Nazi Propaganda portrayed him as a Jew named Jacob Cohen.


As Uncle Fester in the Addams FamilyAfter the war, Coogan returned to acting, taking mostly character roles and appearing on television in a series McKeever and the Colonel (1962). He finally found his most famous TV role as Uncle Fester in The Addams Family (1964) television series, for which he is fondly remembered by a whole new generation of fans to this day. He had a role in the 1969 movie Marlowe.

Besides The Addams Family, he appeared a number of times on the Perry Mason series, and once on Emergency! as a junkyard owner who tries to bribe the paramedics, who have come to inspect his property for fire safety. He continued to guest star on television until his retirement in the mid 1970's.


Marriage and Children

Ruth Elizabeth Grable, aka. Betty Grable, married on 20 November 1937, divorced on 11 October 1939
Flower Parry, married on 10 August 1941, divorced on 29 June 1943
1 son, John Anthony Coogan (film & video writer/producer), born 4 March 1942 in Los Angeles, California.
Ann McCormack, married on 26 December 1946, divorced on 20 September 1951
1 daughter, Joann Dolliver Coogan born 2 April 1948 in Los Angeles, California.
Dorothea Odetta Hanson, aka. Dorothea Lamphere, best known as Dodie, married on April 1952, they were together until his death
1 daughter, Leslie Diane Coogan, born 24 November 1953 in Los Angeles, California. Her son is the actor Keith Coogan who was born 13 January 1970. He began acting in 1975. Two years after his grandfather's death in 1986 he changed his name to Keith Coogan from Keith Eric Mitchell. He is well remembered for his portrayal of the oldest son in Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
1 son, Christopher Fenton Coogan, born 9 July 1967 in Riverside County, California, and was killed in a motorcycle accident in Palm Springs, California on 29 June 1990.

Death and burial

Coogan died of a heart attack in 1984 at the age of 69. He was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City.

Jaclyn Smith
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birth name Ellen Jaclyn Smith
Born October 26, 1947 (1947-10-26) (age 60)
Houston, Texas, United States
Spouse(s) Brad Allen
Official site www.jaclynsmith.com

Ellen Jaclyn Smith (born October 26, 1947) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress. She is best known for the role of Kelly Garrett in the television series Charlie's Angels (1976-1981). Smith was the only original female lead to remain with the series for its complete run. For two decades, Smith has held the unofficial title of "Queen of TV Movies and Mini-series", appearing in over two dozen television movies and mini-series.





Career

Acting

Her first acting venture outside the Angels mold was the CBS TV movie of the week Escape from Bogen County (1977). Then came the lead role in the highly anticipated version of Joyce Haber's The Users with Tony Curtis and John Forsythe in 1978.

In 1980, she starred with Robert Mitchum in the suspense thriller Nightkill while divorcing husband actor Dennis Cole. The movie was touted as her first big screen role, but turned out to be a huge disappointment for Smith, as the film was largely unreleased in the cinema and was released on TV soon afterwards. But Smith's performance in the movie was lauded by critics. She then starred in the blockbuster TV movie Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, and received a Best Actress nomination from the Golden Globe awards, but lost to Jane Seymour for the TV remake of East of Eden. In 1983, Sidney Sheldon's Rage of Angels arrived on her doorstep. Smith was so popular that fans all over the world begged Sheldon to re-write the storyline that required Smith's character's son to die; there was a sequel in 1986.

In 1988, Smith appeared again in another miniseries based from Sheldon's novel, Windmills of the Gods, this time with veteran superstar Robert Wagner as her love interest. It was another blockbuster in the Nielsen ratings chart during its showing.

But the one that really certified Smith's reign as the Queen of TV/Miniseries was the offer to star opposite the King Of TV Miniseries Richard Chamberlain in the movie adaptation of Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity. Smith was Chamberlain's first choice as his leading lady but she had just wrapped up with the Windmills of the Gods shoot and declined the offer. The role was offered to Lesley-Anne Down who wanted her husband to photograph the film. Producers refused and again offered the role to Smith. The result is probably one of the best ever in television history. The miniseries was a huge hit not only in America but all over the world.

With Windmills of the Gods and The Bourne Identity, Smith was back again on top. Then in 1989, she starred in another TV movie, Settle the Score. Originally titled Blood Knot, the film was Smith's first disturbing role. It detailed incest, rape, killings, and other dirty family secrets. The film was widely acknowledged by the critics and again proved her Nielsen ratings prowess.

Other blockbuster hits were Florence Nightingale, George Washington, Lies Before Kisses, The Rape of Dr. Willis, In the Arms of a Killer and several TV versions of Danielle Steel novels. Her then-husband Tony Richmond also directed her in the 1985 feature film Deja Vu.

In 1989, Smith had the title role in Christine Cromwell, a mystery television series based in San Francisco which only lasted one season, but whose cast included such esteemed actors as Celeste Holm, as Christine Cromwell's oft-married mother, as well as Theodore Bikel. Christine Cromwell is part of ABC's Mystery Wheel series which rotates with other detective shows like Columbo, Kojak and B.L. Stryker. Smith's show has the distinction of being the only female character. Although consider as a series, the show is more of a monthly two-hour show.

Smith had a recurring role as Vanessa Cavanaugh in the series The District (2002 -2004), which starred Craig T. Nelson.

Smith reprised her Kelly Garrett role in a short cameo in the 2003 Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle feature film. In 2007, she hosted Shear Genius, an American reality series on the Bravo network.


Designing

Since 1985, Smith has designed and promoted a clothing line for Kmart. Her fashion collection alone sold more than 300 million units since its debut. Smith now sells shoes, watches, and accessories. A few years ago, Smith started another business venture - her up-scale home furnishing business and it's now being sold all around America.


Personal life

Smith has been married four times; to actors Roger Davis (1968-1975) and Dennis Cole (1978-1981), to filmmaker Tony Richmond (1981-1989), and to Houston cardiothoracic surgeon[1]Brad Allen (since 1997). Smith has two children, Spencer Margaret and Gaston, from her marriage to Richmond. She battled breast cancer successfully.

In 1991, her stepson Joe Cole, the then-roommate to Henry Rollins, was shot to death in his home during a robbery attempt.


Cultural references - Movie facts


Actress Jane Seymour may have starred in more TV movies or miniseries but Jaclyn Smith tops the list when it comes to the Nielsen Ratings Chart. Smith's got more No. 1 projects more than any other actress in Hollywood.
Comic strip artist Sy Barry drew the luscious Diana Palmer, wife of The Phantom, after Jaclyn Smith.
People named her twice in their annual list of the Most Beautiful People in the World.
The difficult-to-please Mr. Blackwell once named her The World's Best Dressed Woman.
In 1979, McCall's ran a poll of Who's Face Most Women Would Like To Have. Jaclyn Smith topped the list. In 1985, McCall's named her as one of America's 10 Best Bodies.
TV Guide magazine readers voted Jaclyn Smith as the Most Beautiful Woman On Television in 1991.
In the April 1984 issue of People, Jaclyn Smith was voted as one of the Ten Great Faces of Our Time. Film producer Robert Evans said that Smith comes closest to perfection in her eyes, hair, and facial structure.
CBS rejected Smith's idea of playing Gone with the Wind author Margaret Mitchell in the movie version of the book Road to Tara. Years after, Shannen Doherty starred in NBC's bio of Mitchell.
In a season 15 episode of The Simpsons (The Fat and the Furriest) she is portrayed as having her own line of Axe Heads
A nationwide poll in 1983 conducted by TV Picture Life magazine crowned Smith and Tom Selleck as the New King & Queen of Hollywood.
In 1985, Ladies' Home Journal magazine sampled 2,000 men and women in 100 places in America to determine America's Favorite Women. Jaclyn Smith came in the top of the list as the Most Beautiful Woman in America. Dynasty star Linda Evans came second.
Smith's California perfume was so successful that Max Factor released California for Men as well.
The French band Air (band) were inspired by Smith's Charlie's Angel's character Kelly Garrett and recorded and released the song "Kelly Watch the Stars" on their 1998 album Moon Safari.
Lists of magazine's who named Jaclyn Smith as the World's Most Beautiful Woman: 1. People 2. TV Guide (U.S.) 3. Harper's Bazaar 4. Time 5. TV Picture Life 6. Rona Barrett's Hollywood 7. Ladies' Home Journal 8. McCalls 9. Celebrity Plus 10.TV Times 11.Preview 12.Modern Screen

A man was getting a haircut prior to a trip to Rome. He mentioned the trip to the barber who responded, "Rome? Why would anyone want to go there? It's crowded, dirty and full of Italians. You're crazy to go to Rome. So, how are you getting there?"

"We're taking TWA," was the reply. "We got a great rate!"

"TWA?" exclaimed the barber. "That's a terrible airline. Their planes are old, their flight attendants are ugly, and they're always late. So, where are you staying in Rome?"

"We'll be at the downtown International Marriott."

"That dump! That's the worst hotel in the city. The rooms are small, the service is surly and they're overpriced. So, whatcha doing when you get there?"

"We're going to go to see the Vatican and we hope to see the Pope."

"That's rich," laughed the barber. "You and a million other people trying to see him. He'll look the size of an ant. Boy, good luck on this lousy trip of yours. You're going to need it."

A month later, the man again came in for his regular haircut. The barber asked him about his trip to Rome.

"It was wonderful," explained the man, "not only were we on time in one of TWA's brand new planes, but it was overbooked and they bumped us up to first class. The food and wine were wonderful, and I had a beautiful 28 year old stewardess who waited on me hand and foot. And the hotel - it was great! They'd just finished a $25 million remodeling job and now it's the finest hotel in the city. They, too, were overbooked, so they apologized and gave us the presidential suite at no extra charge!"

"Well," muttered the barber, "I know you didn't get to see the Pope."

"Actually, we were quite lucky, for as we toured the Vatican, a Swiss Guard tapped me on the shoulder and explained that the Pope likes to personally meet some of the visitors, and if I'd be so kind as to step into his private room and wait, the pope would personally greet me. Sure enough, five minutes later the Pope walked through the door and shook my hand! I knelt down as he spoke a few words to me."

"Really?" asked the Barber. "What'd he say?"

He said, "Where'd you get the lousy haircut?"

Hey, hawkman. Thanks for the great bio's, buddy. Love the barber funny, and until our Raggedy arrives, here's an answer from Rossini.

Largo al factotum, Figaro's aria from Il Barbiere di Siviglia

(Italian)
Largo al factotum della citta.
Largo! La la la la la la la LA!

Presto a bottega che l'alba e gia.
Presto! La la la la la la la LA!

Ah, che bel vivere, che bel piacere (che bel piacere)
per un barbiere di qualita! (di qualita!)

Ah, bravo Figaro!
Bravo, bravissimo!
Bravo! La la la la la la la LA!

Fortunatissimo per verita!
Bravo!
La la la la la la la LA!
Fortunatissimo per verita!
Fortunatissimo per verita!
La la la la, la la la la, la la la la la la la LA!

Pronto a far tutto, la notte e il giorno
sempre d'intorno in giro sta.
Miglior cuccagna per un barbiere,
vita piu nobile, no, non si da.
La la la la la la la la la la la la la!

Rasori e pettini
lancette e forbici,
al mio comando
tutto qui sta.
Rasori e pettini
lancette e forbici,
al mio comando
tutto qui sta.

V'e la risorsa,
poi, de mestiere
colla donnetta... col cavaliere...
colla donnetta... la la li la la la la la
col cavaliere... la la li la la la la la la la LA!!!

Ah, che bel vivere, che bel piacere (che bel piacere)
per un barbiere di qualita! (di qualita!)

Tutti mi chiedono, tutti mi vogliono,
donne, ragazzi, vecchi, fanciulle:

Qua la parruca... Presto la barba...
Qua la sanguigna... Presto il biglietto...

Tutti mi chiedono, tutti mi vogliono,
tutti mi chiedono, tutti mi vogliono,
Qua la parruca, presto la barba, presto il biglietto, ehi!

Figaro... Figaro... Figaro... Figaro...Figaro...
Figaro... Figaro... Figaro... Figaro...Figaro!!!

Ahime, (ahime) che furia!
Ahime, che folla!
Uno alla volta,
per carita! (per carita! per carita!)
Uno alla volta, uno alla volta,
uno alla volta, per carita!
Figaro! Son qua.
Ehi, Figaro! Son qua.

Figaro qua, Figaro la, Figaro qua, Figaro la,
Figaro su, Figaro giu, Figaro su, Figaro giu.

Pronto prontissimo son come il fumine:
sono il factotum della citta.
(della citta, della citta, della citta, della citta)

Ah, bravo Figaro! Bravo, bravissimo;
Ah, bravo Figaro! Bravo, bravissimo;
a te fortuna (a te fortuna, a te fortuna) non manchera.
Ah, bravo Figaro! Bravo, bravissimo;
Ah, bravo Figaro! Bravo, bravissimo;
a te fortuna (a te fortuna, a te fortuna) non manchera.
Sono il factotum della citta,
Sono il factotum della citta,
della citta, della citta,
Della citta!!!
La la la la la la la la la!

English lyrics later.

(English translation)
Make way for the topman of the city


Rushing to his shop now that it's dawn


Ah, isn't life good, how pleasant it is
For a barber of class!


Ah, nice one Figaro!
Nice one, really nice one!


I am the luckiest it's true to say!


I am the luckiest it's true to say!
I am the luckiest it's true to say!


Ready for anything, night and day
Always busy and around
A better lot for a barber
A more noble life cannot be found


Razors and combs
Lancets and scissors,
At my command
Are all here.
Razors and combs
Lancets and scissors,
At my command
Are all here.

And there are `extras',
Then, for the business
With women and with gentlemen
With women
With gentlemen

Ah, isn't life good, how pleasant it is
For a barber of class!


Everyone asks for me, everyone wants me
Women, young people, old people, the golden haired
What about the wig... A quick shave
Some leeches for bleeding, Quick the note

Everyone asks for me, everyone wants me

What about the wig, a quick shave, Hurry - the note, o me!




Heavens, what mayhem!
Heavens, what crowds!
One at a time,
For pities sake!
One at a time, One at a time,
One at a time, For pities sake!
Figaro! Here I am.
O me, Figaro! Here I am

Figaro here, Figaro there
Figaro up, Figaro down

Quicker and quicker the sparks fly with me
I am the topman of the city


Ah, nice one Figaro! Nice one, really nice one;
From you luckiness will not depart

Ah, nice one Figaro! Nice one, really nice one;
From you luckiness will not depart

I am the topman of the city

Good afternoon WA2K.

Mahalia Jackson; Jackie Coogan; Jaclyn Smith and Cary Elwes





Wishing all a great day.

and a great day to you as well, Raggedy. Thanks, PA, for the marvelous montage.

Let's hear one from Mahalia, shall we?

I'm gonna live the life I sing about in my song
I'm gonna stand for right and I always shun the wrong
If I'm in the crowd, If I'm alone
On the streets or in my home
I'm gonna live the life I sing about in my song

Everyday, everywhere
On a busy thoroughfare
Folks may watch me; some may spot me
Say I'm foolish
But I don't care
I can't sing one thing and then live another
Be saint by day and a devil undercover
I've got to live the life I sing about in my song

If at day, if at night
I must always walk in the light
Some mistake me; underrate me
Because I want to do aright
I can't go to church and shout all day Sunday
Go out and get drunk and raise sand all day Monday
I've got to live the life, I sing about in my song

good evening all !

just came across a capstan song that we sang in german many moons ago - here is the original english version :

THE RIO GRANDE

hbg, Love that Rio Grande song, but this is just too eerie to be mere coincidence. This group is called Crash Test Dummies. (that was my photo on the connect the picture thread) and they are from Manitobe, Canada.




Weird halloween type song as well.

CRASH TEST DUMMIES

"The Ghosts That Haunt Me"

There's a skeleton in everybody's closet
I can think of one or two in my own room
But I would like to introduce them both to you
You'd shake their bony hands and so dispell the gloom

[CHORUS]
'Cause you're so kind
I know you would not mind
You'd send away the ghosts that haunt me now
And the things I fear
Just wouldn't seem so near
And when I stroll out late at night
There would be nothing rattling at my hells

There are nights when all my aching bones won't let me sleep
And demons come to plague me as I lie in bed
But I know if you were sleeping there beside me then
That you could fend them off and they would let me rest

There are nights
When the wind comes howling through my old place
I have dreams
And I wake up with the sweat pouring down my face
And I wait till the morning comes

There will come a time I fear when all my days are done
And they will come collect my corpse and bury me
And then I hope you'll come over to the Other Side
To join me in our new life, keep me company

letty :
"crash test dummies" , "barenaked ladies"(the name cost them some snide remarks at the beginning !) , all canadian boys !
hbg




THE BARENAKED LADIES

and if that's not enough , we have the ARROGANT WORMS to offer as canada's CULTURAL ICONS :wink:
hbg

THIS IS NOT FOR PEOPLE EASILY OFFENDED - if you might be , PLEASE !!! do not read !!!



the ARROGANT WORMS performing the CHRISTMAS TURKEY SONG at the ROXY THEATRE in owen sound/ontario

Hee, hee, hbg. They ain't bear nor naked nor ladies. Love it!

And as for those arrogant worms, sounds as though that dad might have over et.

Here's another of your boys that I really love; Hank Snow from Nova Scotia, and he's doing a different Rio Grande type song.

(2 FIDDLE SOLOS)
I'd love to roam out yonder,
Out where the buffalo wander...
(Yee hee hee)
Free as the eagle flyin,
I'm ropin' and a-tyin', I'm ropin' and a tyin'...

Yippee my ranch and my cattle,
Far from the great city's rattle,
You'll be a big herd to battle,
For I just love herdin' cattle.

Hi Letty, just watched and played something that will set your feet tapping, have a look at this. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xe5w0_ray-charles-jerry-lee-lewis

Ah, Dutchy, if Miss Letty didn't have such antiquated equipment, I could have sat here all night listening to them rockin' pianos. I'm still gonna try tomorrow, y'all. Heard just enough to feel the beat.



However, Ain't nobody gonna have to rock me to sleep tonight.

Thanks for the marvelous evening.

Good night

From Letty with love.

Boys and girls of every age
Wouldn't you like to see something strange?

Come with us and you will see
This, our town of Halloween

This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night

This is Halloween, everybody make a scene
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright
It's our town, everybody scream
In this town of Halloween

I am the one hiding under your bed
Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red

I am the one hiding under yours stairs
Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair

This is Halloween, this is Halloween

Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song

In this town, don't we love it now?
Everybody's waiting for the next surprise

Round that corner, man hiding in the trash can
Something's waiting no to pounce, and how you'll...

Scream! This is Halloween
Red 'n' black, slimy green

Aren't you scared?

Well, that's just fine
Say it once, say it twice
Take a chance and roll the dice
Ride with the moon in the dead of night

Everybody scream, everybody scream

In our town of Halloween!

I am the clown with the tear-away face
Here in a flash and gone without a trace

I am the "who" when you call, "Who's there?"
I am the wind blowing through your hair

I am the shadow on the moon at night
Filling your dreams to the brim with fright

This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
Halloween! Halloween!

Tender lumplings everywhere
Life's no fun without a good scare

That's our job, but we're not mean
In our town of Halloween

In this town

Don't we love it now?

Everybody's waiting for the next surprise
Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back
And scream like a banshee
Make you jump out of your skin
This is Halloween, everybody scream
Wont' ya please make way for a very special guy

Our man jack is King of the Pumpkin patch
Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King, now!

This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song

La la-la la, Halloween! Halloween! [Repeat]

Marilyn Manson - This Is Halloween

Perhaps it's the color of the sun cut flat
Uncov'rin' the crossroads I'm standing at,
Or maybe it's the weather or something like that,
But mama, you been on my mind.

I don't mean trouble, please don't put me down or get upset,
I am not pleadin' or sayin', "I can't forget."
I do not walk the floor bowed down an' bent, but yet,
Mama, you been on my mind.

Even though my mind is hazy an' my thoughts they might be narrow,
Where you been don't bother me nor bring me down in sorrow.
It don't even matter to me where you're wakin' up tomorrow,
But mama, you're just on my mind.

I am not askin' you to say words like "yes" or "no,"
Please understand me, I got no place for you t' go.
I'm just breathin' to myself, pretendin' not that I don't know,
Mama, you been on my mind.

When you wake up in the mornin', baby, look inside your mirror.
You know I won't be next to you, you know I won't be near.
I'd just be curious to know if you can see yourself as clear
As someone who has had you on his mind.

It's knowing that your door is always open
And your path is free to walk
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag
Rolled up and stashed behind your couch
And it's knowing I'm not shackled
By forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains that have dried upon some line
That keeps you in the backroads
By the rivers of my mem'ry
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind

It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy
Planted on their columns now that binds me
Or something that somebody said
Because they thought we fit together walking
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing
Or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track and find
That you are moving on the backroads
By the rivers of my mem'ry
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind

Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines
And the junkyards and the highways come between us
And some other woman crying to her mother
'Cause she turned and I was gone
I still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face
And the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind
But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the backroads
By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind

I dip my cup of soup back from the gurglin'
Cracklin' caldron in some train yard
My beard a roughning coal pile and
A dirty hat pulled low across my face
Through cupped hands 'round a tin can
I pretend I hold you to my breast and find
That you're waving from the backroads
By the rivers of my mem'ry
Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind

(John Hartford)