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Goodnight to all at WA2K. Tomorrow I leave for Beulah, Colorado where my cousin lives on a small part of what used to be my uncle's ranch. There is no computer access and not much TV because of the isolation. The last 12 miles to her place is on a dirt road. I LOVE it. I'll be back at the end of the week. Take care of Dys for me. Ply him with good music and he will be happy.

For my goodnight song, here are some lyrics that used to appy, but no longer---midnight is usually past my bedtime.

After midnight, we're gonna let it all hang out
After midnight, we're gonna chug-a-lug and shout
We're gonna cause talk and suspicion
Give an exhibition
Find out what it is all about
After midnight, we're gonna let it all hang out
After midnight, gonna shake your tambourine
After midnight, it's gonna be peaches and cream
We're gonna cause talk and suspicion
Give an exhibition
Find out what it is all about
After midnight, we're gonna let it all hang out
After midnight, we're gonna let it all hang out

Ah, yes.

http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/O/origination/features.html

Some of the information is here. The programme on Channel4 was called "The Gospel Truth?"
The script on this page is very small (on my screen at least), but you can copy it onto Word and read it there.
The links on the left-hand side of the screen are all interesting to the amateur musicologist.

Hey Letty sweetie, I gotta sleep sometimes. These time differences are a pesky nuisance.

The main difference between the gaelic protestant church services described, and the more familiar ones, is that there was no instrument played. No organ, piano, or anything else. Also, the people did not have a bible or hymnbook, and most probably could not read anyway. So the presenter started the song, sang a line, and the congregation followed. Also, probably because of the tradition of playing bagpipe music, much of which was improvised and embellished with grace-notes etc, the church singing tended the same way.
So Aretha Franklin and the Rev Murdo McLeod from Lewis, Hebrides (1745) may have more in common than is at first apparent.

ehBeth, I'm getting hints in your posts about a trip of Gautam The Prince to Toronto?
Is it written about on another thread anywhere?

Morning all, I'm five or more hours ahead of you here. This is the last day of work for me before Easter...we're going up to Edinburgh for a few days where our son is in a theatrical production.
I have already booked at table in my favourite Scottish/Italian restaurant for five people for Wednesday evening.

Yes, it is, McTag, and a wonderful thread it is. I'll be back with a link soon, as I assume the good ehbeth is asleep bout now.

Quite a thread, really. One for the ages, and still going strong.

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=45880&start=0

Thanks, ob, I'll have a read. That The Prince is a card, and no mistake.

(er, Cockney patter, not suggesting....er....)

(What am I saying, Cockney? Sounds a bit like Long John Silver in Treasure Island. "Smart as paint, look'ee here, lend an old sea-dog a hand matey. Them as dies'll be the lucky ones....")

Good morning, WA2K listeners. We certainly do have a lot of interesting information and music on our little station.

To recap:

Osso's architecture and art and snippets of her everyday life including those breathtaking scenes and aerial view of the coast line and quiet village.
dj's and edgar's rain and sleep music.
McTag's historical look at the origins of gospel, jazz, and blues.
ehBeth's ongoing thread concerning the Prince and entourage.

and the poetry of America and England.(plus a little bit of Treasure Island)

McTag, You must tell us about your son's part in the production of which you speak. Something tells me there will be hefty applause for someone at the finale. <smile>

We all know, of course, that American music has it's roots in the old world of Africa, England, Scotland, and other far away places. The idea of worship without music or instruments in the early church is akin to the Gregorian chants, in a way.

It seems that our Diane is off for a primitive retreat. I think the pat expression is "back to nature". In our case, nature came back to us.

Back later, listeners, with items of interest and music to soothe the savage breast.

Hey! When did ehBeth start showing off her knickers? This is not a complaint by the way.

Well listeners -- it's a beautiful morning!

Oh What A Beautiful Morning

(from Oklahoma)

Lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Music by RICHARD RODGERS

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,
An' it looks like it's climbin' clear up to the sky.

Oh, what a beautiful mornin',
Oh, what a beautiful day.
I got a beautiful feelin'
Ev'rything'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 got a beautiful feelin'
Ev'rything'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,
And a ol' weepin' willer is laughin' at me!

Oh, what a beautiful mornin',
Oh, what a beautiful day,
I got a beautiful feelin'
Ev'rything's goin' my way.
Oh, what a beautiful day.

Well, Bob. Any song that greets the morning is a pleasure. Takes one's mind off the knickers. Hee hee!

Looking out the window, I just saw a graceful white ibis sail across the golf course, its wing span reminding me that we all love to watch flying things, no matter how small--a simple pale cameo of beauty.

Wishing you all a good day - and a safe and pleasant journey to Diane and Happy Birthday to most of the celebrities below:

1846 Randolph Caldecott, author/illustrator (Britain; died 1886)
1913 Karl Malden, actor (Chicago, IL)
1919 Werner Klemperner, actor (Cologne, Germany; died 2000)
1923 Marcel Marceau, mime (Strasbourg, France)
1930 Pat Robertson, religious broadcasting executive and presidential candidate (Lexington, VA)
1922 Stephen Sondheim, composer/lyricist (New York, NY)
1931 William Shatner, actor (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
1934 Orrin Hatch, senator (Homestead Park, PA)
1936 May Britt [Maybritt Wilkens] Lidinga Sweden, actress (Young Lions)/wife of Sammy Davis Jr (8 years)
1936 Roger Whittaker Nairobi Kenya, singer (Durham Town)
1943 George Benson, singer/musician (Pittsburgh, PA)
1948 Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer (London, England)
1959 Matthew Modine, actor (Loma Linda, CA)
1960 Jennifer Grey, actress (New York, NY)
1972 Elvis Stojko, champion figure skater (Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

Raggedy, Most of your celebrities I think that we all know, but I was amazed to see that Roger Whittaker was from Kenya and also that he did many songs in German. The only one that I recall is "A Last Farewell":

There's a ship lies rigged and ready in the harbour
Tomorrow for old England she sails
Far away from your land of endless sunshine
To my land full of rainy skies and gales
And I shall be on board that ship tomorrow
Though my heart is full of tears at this farewell
For you are beautiful und I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
For you are beautiful und I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell.

I heard there's a wicked war ablazing
And the taste of war I know so very well
Even now I see the foreign flag araising
Their guns on fire as we sailed into hell
I have no fear of death it brings no sorrow
But how bitter will be this last farewell
For you are beautiful and I have loved you dearly .

Though death and darkness gather all about me
And my ship be torn apart upon the sea
I shall smell again the fragrance of these islands
In the heaving waves that brought me once to thee
And should I return safe home again to England
I shall watch the English mist roll through the dell
For you are beautiful and I have loved you dearly .

Seems to be a line or two missing in that version, listeners.

And in German:



Auf deutsch:
Es gibt ein die in Ordnung gebrachten Schiff Lügen und bereitet im Hafen morgen für altes England vor sie weit weg von Ihrem Land des endlosen Sonnenscheins zu meinem Land voll der regnerischen Himmel segelt und Stürme und ich sind an Bord dieses Schiffs morgen, obwohl mein Herz von den Rissen an diesem Abschied für Sie sind schönes und voll ist, das ich liebte Sie lieb lieber habe, als das gesprochene Wort können für Sie erklären sind schönes und ich liebte Sie lieb lieber habe, als das gesprochene Wort sagen kann. Ich hörte, es einen gemeinen ablazing Krieg gibt und der Geschmack des Krieges, den ich kenne, daß so sehr gut sogar jetzt ich die fremde Markierungsfahne sehe, ihre Gewehren auf Feuer araising, wie wir in Hölle segelten ich keine Furcht vor Tod habe, es keine sorge holt, aber wie bitter dieser letzte Abschied für Sie sind schön seien Sie und ich liebte Sie lieb habe. Obwohl Tod und Schwärzung alle über mich erfassen und mein Schiff wird nach dem Meer auseinandergerissen, das, ich wieder den Duft von diesen Inseln in den Hebenwellen, die mich einmal zum thee holten und sollte ich zurückbringe sicheres Haus wieder nach England rieche, ich den englischen Nebel aufpasse, durch das enge Tal für Sie zu rollen bin schön und ich habe liebte Sie lieb.

Interesting item from McTag's little corner of England:

Mon Mar 21, 8:28 AM ET Entertainment - Reuters



LONDON (Reuters) - A British cathedral is on a quest to discover the truth behind Dan Brown's runaway bestseller "The Da Vinci Code."



Manchester Cathedral is hosting a Da Vinci night Monday, where experts including an author and theologian will field questions about the book, which has spurred anti-Christian charges.


"Everyone's fascinated by mystery, secrets and the dark side," said event organizer Canon Robin Gamble.


"This gripping thriller asks lots of questions: Did Jesus really die on a cross? Was the Grail the 'cup of blood?' Is Easter Day fact or fiction? And why does it matter?"


"The Da Vinci Code" is a modern-day quest for the Holy Grail, the chalice from which Jesus and his disciples are said to have drunk at the Last Supper.


The book says Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had children. But Christians are taught that Jesus never married, was crucified and rose from the dead. The storyline has aroused anger among Christians.


The cardinal leading the Vatican (news - web sites)'s charge against "The Da Vinci Code" urged Catholics last week to shun it and branded the bestseller "a sack full of lies insulting the Christian faith."

Letty -- I've tried to sing that at every karaoke site I've attended. Not one had it listed as a choice. I even looked it up under both The last Farewell and it's alternative For You are Beautiful. Love that song.

Back to Roger Whitaker for a moment, if I may. I was looking for the lyrics for his Durham Town and laughed when I saw this:

Misheard lyrics:

Last Farewell:

More dearly that the sulken word can sell.
instead of :
More dearly that the spoken word can tell.


"Durham Town"

I've got an evil donut now. (what a father heard his child singing while they were out for a drive in the car)
Instead of:
I've gotta leave Ol Durham Town.

I don't know this song (Family), but this is funny:

"Family"

And we were happy to screw.
Instead of:
And our happiness grew.

Anyway, lyrics for Durham Town:

Back in nineteen forty-four,
I remember Daddy walking out the door.
Mama told me he was going to war, he was leaving,
Leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving me. - fade

I've got to leave old Durham town,
I've got to leave old Durham town.
I've got to leave old Durham town,
And the leaving's gonna get me down.

When I was a boy, I spent my time,
Sitting on the banks of the river Tyne.
Watching all the ships going down the line, they were leaving,
Leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving me.

I've got to leave old Durham town,
I've got to leave old Durham town.
I've got to leave old Durham town,
And the leaving's gonna get me down.

The last week Mama passed away,
Good-bye, son, was all she'd say.
There's no cause for me to stay, so I'm leaving,
Leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving free.

I've got to leave old Durham town,
I've got to leave old Durham town.
I've got to leave old Durham town,
And the leaving's gonna get me down.

For Letty's missing lines :

The Last Farewell

There's a ship lies rigged and ready in the harbor
Tomorrow for old England she sails
Far away from your land of endless sunshine
To my land full of rainy skies and gales
And I shall be aboard that ship tomorrow
Though my heart is full of tears at this farewell

For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell

I've heard there's a wicked war a-blazing
And the taste of war I know so very well
Even now I see the foreign flag a-raising
Their guns on fire as we sail into hell
I have no fear of death, it brings no sorrow
But how bitter will be this last farewell

For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell

Though death and darkness gather all about me
My ship be torn apart upon the seas
I shall smell again the fragrance of these islands
And the heaving waves that brought me once to thee
And should I return home safe again to England
I shall watch the English mist roll through the dale

For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell

Tis a beautifyl day here in the desert, sun is shinning, no wind, expected high around 60 f, the Lady Diane will be taking the dog Sally up to the ranch in colorado in the Green Horn Mtns where Sally will run run run her little ass off chasing down the sun and clouds while the Lady Diane wil walk the creek beds picking up every shinny pebble to place in her pocket. I hope they have a good week.

Bob, I don't think many folks know Roger Whittaker. The only time I ever heard him was in one of those promos. I liked the melody and his voice was pleasing.

Raggedy, Funnnnneeeeeeeeeee! laughing about "family". Wonder which Durham he means. <smiles> and that misheard word is unbelievable.

I knew that last line was omitted, Francis. Not all lyrics sites are unimpeachable. What's it like in Paris today?

Writer(s): cole porter


I love paris in the spring time
I love paris in the fall
I love paris in the summer when it sizzles
I love paris in the winter when it drizzles

I love paris every moment
Every moment of the year
I love paris, why oh why do I love paris
Because my love is here.

Another short song with no bridge, played in a minor key then switching to major for the second verse. Cole Porter was often a rebel.