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Lyle Lovett
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Background information

Birth name Lyle Pearce Lovett
Born November 01, 1957 (1957-11-01) (age 50)[1]
Origin Klein, Texas, United States[1]
Genre(s) singer-songwriter, alternative country[1]
Occupation(s) Singer, songwriter, record producer, actor[1]
Years active 1980-present[1]
Label(s) Curb, MCA[1]
Associated
acts Randy Newman[1]

Lyle Pearce Lovett (born November 1, 1957) is an American singer-songwriter and actor.






Biography

Early life

Lovett was born in the unincorporated region of Klein, Harris County (suburban Houston),Texas, the son of Bernell (née Klein), a training specialist, and William Lovett, a marketing executive.[2] He was raised Lutheran.[3] Lovett attended Texas A&M University, where he studied German and journalism, and lived next door to Robert Earl Keen.


Career

Lovett's music career began as a songwriter, but he soon signed with MCA Records in 1986 and released his eponymous debut album. While typically associated with the country genre, Lovett's often incorporate folk, swing, blues, jazz and gospel music as well as more traditional country styling. He has won four Grammy Awards, including Best Country Album (1996 for The Road to Ensenada), Best Country Duo/Group with Vocal (1994 for "Blues For Dixie" with the Texas swing group Asleep at the Wheel), Best Pop Vocal Collaboration (1994 for "Funny How Time Slips Away" with Al Green) and Best Country Male Vocal (1989) for Lyle Lovett and His Large Band).

Lovett has acted in a number of films, including Robert Altman's film The Player (1992), Short Cuts (1993)), Prêt-à-Porter (1994), The Opposite of Sex (1998), Cookie's Fortune (1999), and composed for Dr. T & the Women (2000). More recently, he has acted in The New Guy (2002). His television acting forays include Mad About You and Dharma & Greg.

Lovett was given an Esky for Surest Thing in Esquire's 2006 Esky Music Awards in the April issue. The magazine said of Lovett: "The secret of Lyle Lovett's endurance comes down to the three C's: class, charisma and consistency...In the studio and on stage with his giant orchestra, he's spent two decades gracefully matching genuine songcraft with A-list musicianship".


Personal life

Lovett's personal life was brought to the fore in 1993 when he married actress Julia Roberts. The couple divorced less than two years later, in March 1995. Lovett has been dating April Kimble since 1999.

His small-town life was again brought to the public's attention on March 28, 2002 when Lovett was caught by a bull and rammed into a fence on his uncle's farm in Klein, before being pulled to safety. Lovett fully recovered after six months and began touring again in the summer of 2003.

Mistakes on a resume

These are from actual resumes:


"Personal: I'm married with 9 children. I don't require prescription drugs.

"I am extremely loyal to my present firm, so please don't let them know of my immediate availability."

"Qualifications: I am a man filled with passion and integrity, and I can act on short notice. I'm a class act and do not come cheap."

"I intentionally omitted my salary history. I've made money and lost money. I've been rich and I've been poor. I prefer being rich."

"Note: Please don't misconstrue my 14 jobs as 'job-hopping'. I have never quit a job."

"Number of dependents: 40."

"Marital Status: Often. Children: Various."

RESUME BLOOPERS

"Here are my qualifications for you to overlook."

REASONS FOR LEAVING THE LAST JOB:

"Responsibility makes me nervous."

"They insisted that all employees get to work by 8:45 every morning. Couldn't work under those conditions."

REASONS FOR LEAVING MY LAST JOB:

"Was met with a string of broken promises and lies, as well as cockroaches."

"I was working for my mom until she decided to move."

"The company made me a scapegoat - just like my three previous employers."

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

"While I am open to the initial nature of an assignment, I am decidedly disposed that it be so oriented as to at least partially incorporate the experience enjoyed heretofore and that it be configured so as to ultimately lead to the application of more rarefied facets of financial management as the major sphere of responsibility."

"I was proud to win the Gregg Typting Award."

SPECIAL REQUESTS & JOB OBJECTIVES:

"Please call me after 5:30 because I am self-employed and my employer does not know I am looking for another job."

"My goal is to be a meteorologist. But since I have no training in meteorology, I suppose I should try stock brokerage."

"I procrastinate - especially when the task is unpleasant."

PHYSICAL DISABILITIES:

"Minor allergies to house cats and Mongolian sheep."

PERSONAL INTERESTS:

"Donating blood. 14 gallons so far."

SMALL TYPOS THAT CAN CHANGE THE MEANING:

"Education: College, August 1880-May 1984."

"Work Experience: Dealing with customers' conflicts that arouse."

"Develop and recommend an annual operating expense fudget."

"I'm a rabid typist."

"Instrumental in ruining entire operation for a Midwest chain operation."

They're funny, Bob. Yep, it's one of those days. I can't preview any pictures.

Here's hoping:

Stephen Crane; Betsy Palmer and Lyle Lovett

teenboone and Raggedy, I do appreciate your wishes, belated or not. Thanks, Sharon. I think one of the dearest things in the world is to experience the notion of"love reflected in love". That is the litmus test, my dear.

Raggedy, I am looking at one of the few things that was left to me by my mother; my lovely opal ring with three perfect stones. Now I can make it four. <smile> Not to worry about the disappearing act because I know that most of us know who is who, honey.

Bob, once again we are in your debt for the great background on the notables. Thanks, hawkman, for the smile and the information.

I have always liked Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage, and the implications of the novel, but this is one of his most arcane poems that I read in undergrad school and didn't understand until mental maturity.

Stephen Crane

In the Desert

In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, "Is it good, friend?"
"It is bitter - bitter", he answered,
"But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart."

Sometimes in our lives we all have pain
We all have sorrow
But if we are wise
We know that there's always tomorrow

Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on

Please swallow your pride
If I have things you need to borrow
For no one can fill those of your needs
That you don't let show

Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on

If there is a load you have to bear
That you can't carry
I'm right up the road
I'll share your load
If you just call me

So just call on me brother, when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that you'd understand
We all need somebody to lean on

Lean on me when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
Till I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on

Lean on me...
Bill Withers

Love that song, dys, and it says so much about the real kind of strength we need in this life. One of my favorites by James Taylor.


When youre down and troubled
And you need a helping hand
And nothing, whoa nothing is going right.
Close your eyes and think of me
And soon I will be there
To brighten up even your darkest nights.

You just call out my name,
And you know whereever I am
Ill come running, oh yeah baby
To see you again.
Winter, spring, summer, or fall,
All you have to do is call
And Ill be there, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Youve got a friend.

If the sky above you
Should turn dark and full of clouds
And that old north wind should begin to blow
Keep your head together and call my name out loud
And soon I will be knocking upon your door.
You just call out my name and you know where ever I am
Ill come running to see you again.
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you got to do is call
And Ill be there, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hey, aint it good to know that youve got a friend?
People can be so cold.
Theyll hurt you and desert you.
Well theyll take your soul if you let them.
Oh yeah, but dont you let them.

You just call out my name and you know wherever I am
Ill come running to see you again.
Oh babe, dont you know that,
Winter spring summer or fall,
Hey now, all youve got to do is call.
Lord, Ill be there, yes I will.
Youve got a friend.
Youve got a friend.
Aint it good to know youve got a friend.
Aint it good to know youve got a friend.
Youve got a friend.

dear miss letty-betty, I have, over the years, discovered I have more friends on a2k than I ever thought possible, you are one of many.

Yes, dys, you have this mystique about you that attracts people. I think I feel faint, folks, the cowboy just said my name.

This poem emerged from the RNA corner of my mind.

Any Human to Another
by Countee Cullen

The ills I sorrow at
Not me alone
Like an arrow,
Pierce to the marrow,
Through the fat,
And past the bone.

Your grief and mine
Must intertwine
Like sea and river,
Be fused and mingle,
Diverse yet single,
Forever and forever.

Let no man be so proud
And confident,
To think he is allowed
A little tent
Pitched in a meadow
Of sun and shadow
All his little own.

Joy may be shy, unique,
Friendly to a few,
Sorrow never scorned to speak
To any who
Were false or true.

Your every grief
Like a blade
Shining and unsheathed
Must strike me down.
Of bitter aloes wreathed,
My sorrow must be laid

Damn. He was good.

O the sisters of mercy they are not
Departed or gone,
They were waiting for me when I thought
That I just cant go on,
And they brought me their comfort
And later they brought me this song.
O I hope you run into them
You whove been traveling so long.

Yes, you who must leave everything
That you cannot control;
It begins with your family,
But soon it comes round to your soul.
Well, Ive been where youre hanging
I think I can see how youre pinned.
When youre not feeling holy,
Your loneliness says that youve sinned.

Well they lay down beside me
I made my confession to them.
They touched both my eyes
And I touched the dew on their hem.
If your life is a leaf
That the seasons tear off and condemn
They will bind you with love
That is graceful and green as a stem.

When I left they were sleeping,
I hope you run into them soon.
Dont turn on the light
You can read their address by the moon;
And you wont make me jealous
If I hear that they sweeten your night
We werent lovers like that
And besides it would still be all right
We werent lovers like that
And besides it would still be all right.

Leonard Cohen

edgar, Cohen is also amazing. Some college professor ought to assign his creative writing class to explicate his music via an essay.

Thinking about Kenny Rogers tonight and found this one. It was inspired by one evening star that I saw through the wisps of dark clouds.

If you never rode West of the Arizona border
You can turn the other way boy but you never get far
You be living a lie if you wanna see the wonders of the age
You must follow the evening star.

Chorus:
Evening star
Shine a little Heaven
On a stranger with no dream
Where you are.

You can see the loneliness I mean and if I gotta fight
I can never play somebody else's game
I can follow the evening star
Starlight, you never need somebody else's name
If you follow the evening star.

Have you ever known a sunset when the sky's on fire
How you end another day boy you've been searching too far
Like the desert I rode on any memory is lost in the restless wind
I just lie beneath the evening star.

Chorus:
Evening star
Shine a little Heaven
On a stranger with no dream
Where you are.

Have you ever held a woman in the California moonlight
Put your money on a good night if you never been there
It's a sight for sore eyes if you wanna see the wonders of the age
Making love beneath the evening star.

Chorus
Evening star
Shine a little Heaven
on a stranger with no dream
Where you are.

You can see the loneliness I mean and if I gotta fight
I will never play somebody else's game
I can follow the evening star
Starlight, you never need somebody else's name
If you follow the evening star...

it's time TO BLOW THE CANDLES OUT !
(ye' all sleep tight , don't let the bedbugs bite :wink: )



THEY KNEW HOW TO HAVE FUN IN "THE OLDEN DAYS" ! :wink:

OLD IRISH FOLK SONG - attrbuted to LOCKE

hbg, welcome back. We have missed you here, Canada.

I suspect the fun of which you speak has always been known. Love that song, but I hate to tell you, Thomas Moore wrote "Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms."

Well, folks, I always thought the following song was Irish, but not so. My dad loved it and the chord changes, especially on the piano, are beautiful.

It's a wonderful goodnight song as well.

I'll take you home again Kathleen
Across the ocean wild and wide
To where your heart has ever been
Since first you were my bonny bride

The roses all have left your cheek
I watch them fade away and die
Your voice is soft when ere you speak
And tears bedim your lovely eyes

Oh, I will take you home Kathleen
To where your heart shall feel no pain
And when the fields are soft and green
I will take you to your home Kathleen

Goodnight everyone
From Letty with love

Please dont tell
No, no, no
Dont say that I told you so
I just heard a rumour from a friend
I dont say that its true
I'll just leave that up to you
If you dont believe I'll understand

*You recall a girl
Thats been in nearly every song
This is what I heard
Of course the story could be wrong
Shes the one
I've been told
Told she's wearing a band of gold
Peggy Sue got married not long ago

*repeat till end Peggy Sue got married not long ago

Buddy Holly

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors

edgar, You never cease to amaze me with your Buddy Holly repoitoire Thanks, Texas.

How about a morning song by Donovan, folks.

Yellow is the colour of my true love's hair,
In the morning, when we rise,
In the morning, when we rise.
That's the time, that's the time,
I love the best.

Green's the colour of the sparklin' corn,
In the morning, when we rise,
In the morning, when we rise.
That's the time, that's the time,
I love the best.

Blue's the colour of the sky-y,
In the morning, when we rise,
In the morning, when we rise.
That's the time, that's the time,
I love the best.

Mellow is the feeling that I get,
When I see her, m-hmm,
When I see her, oh yeah.
That's the time, that's the time,
I love the best.

Freedom is a word I rarely use,
Without thinking, oh yeah,
Without thinking, m-hmm.
Of the time, of the time,
When I've been loved.

Yellow is the colour of my true love's hair,
In the morning, when we rise,
In the morning, when we rise.
That's the time, that's the time,
I love the best.

Stefanie Powers
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Birth name Stefania Zofya Federkiewicz
Born November 2, 1942 (1942-11-02) (age 65)
Hollywood, California, U.S.
Occupation actress, singer
Spouse(s) Patrick De La Chenais (1993-1999)
Gary Lockwood (1966-1972)

Stefanie Powers (born Stefania Zofia Federkiewicz[1] on November 2, 1942) is an Emmy Award-nominated American stage and film actress and singer, who's best known for her role as Robert Wagner's wife and crime-fighting partner, Jennifer Hart, on the popular 1980s crime drama, Hart to Hart. For her contribution to the television industry, Powers has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6778 Hollywood Blvd.





Biography

Early life

Powers was born in Hollywood, California to Polish American parents and was raised in the Roman Catholic religion. Her parents divorced during her childhood and her mother, Julia Golen, re-married.[2]


Career

As an actress, Powers appeared in several motion pictures in the early 1960s in secondary roles such as the thriller Experiment in Terror (1962), the comedy If A Man Answers (1962) with Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin, and in a serious role as the daughter of John Wayne in McLintock! (1963). In 1966, her "tempestuous" good looks led to a starring role in the short-lived television spy thriller series, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.. In 1969, she appeared nude for the only time in her career, in the movie Crescendo.

Although she continued to appear in television guest roles and made-for-TV films, she is best known for her role opposite her old friend, Robert Wagner in the 1979-1984 hit television series, Hart to Hart for which she received two Emmy and five Golden Globe Award "best TV actress" nominations. She starred briefly in the 1991 London musical Matador, which closed prematurely due to the sharp drop in tourism during the Persian Gulf War. In 1993, she won the Sarah Siddons Award for her stage performance in "Love Letters".

In 1996, she toured in a production of "Applause" which was slated to go to New York in hopes of a Broadway revival. She played the role of Margo Channing, played in the original production by Lauren Bacall (and later Anne Baxter), and in the source film All About Eve" by Bette Davis.

In 2002 she toured the UK in the singing role of Anna Leonowens in a revival of The King and I. She also toured the U.S. in 2004 and 2005 in her role as Leonowens. Powers is one of many notable graduates from Hollywood High School, including classmate Nancy Sinatra. Powers released her debut CD in 2003, titled, On The Same Page. The album features selections from the classic Great American Songbook era.


Personal life

Powers was married to actor Gary Lockwood between 1966 and 1972. She had a relationship with actor William Holden that led to their being involved with wildlife conservation. Following his death in 1981, Powers became President of the "William Holden Wildlife Foundation" and a director of the Mount Kenya Game Ranch in Kenya. In the United States, she works with both the Cincinnati and Atlanta zoos. She devotes a great deal of time to the cause and is international guest speaker on wildlife preservation.

On April 1, 1993 she married a somewhat younger French aristocrat, Patrick Houitte de la Chesnais, but they divorced in 1999. Powers has no children.

An outstanding polo player, along with Canadian retailing magnate Galen Weston and Thoroughbred owner/breeder Henryk de Kwiatkowski, Stefanie Powers was among the first foreign members of the Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club, Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom whose membership includes HRH The Prince of Wales. In 2005, she competed in the Joules UK National Women's Championships at Ascot Park. Recently been filming for BBC's "Through the Keyhole" doing American homes

K.D. Lang
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Birth name Kathryn Dawn Lang
Born November 2, 1961 (1961-11-02) (age 46)
Origin Edmonton, Alberta Canada
Genre(s) Country, pop
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter
Years active 1984-present
Website www.kdlang.com

K.D. Lang OC (or k.d. lang, born Kathryn Dawn Lang on November 2, 1961) is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian singer and songwriter.





Biography

Early years

Lang was born November 2, 1961[1] in Edmonton, Alberta to Audrey and Fred Lang. The family moved to Consort, Alberta[2], when she was nine months old, and there she grew up with her 2 sisters and 1 brother, on the Canadian prairies.

Lang was first drawn to country music when she attended college[3]. Soon, she became fascinated with the life and music of Patsy Cline and ultimately determined to pursue a career as a professional singer. Lang formed a Patsy Cline tribute band called the Reclines in 1983, and they recorded a debut album, Friday Dance Promenade. A follow-up album, A Truly Western Experience, was released in 1984 and received strong reviews and which led to national attention in Canada.

Singing at country and western venues in Canada, she made several recordings that received good reviews and earned a 1985 Canadian Juno Award for Most Promising Female Vocalist. She accepted the award wearing a wedding dress and made numerous tongue-in-cheek promises about what she would and would not do in the future, thus fulfilling the title of Most Promising. Lang has won eight Juno Awards.

In 1986, she signed a contract with an American record producer in Nashville, Tennessee, and received critical acclaim for her 1987 album, Angel with a Lariat which was produced by Dave Edmunds.


Career rise

Her career received a huge boost when Roy Orbison chose her to record a duet of his standard, "Crying". Instead of being overwhelmed by the power of Orbison's voice, the two blended their vocal ranges into a collaboration that won them the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals.

The year 1988 marked the release of Shadowland, an album of torch country produced by the legendary Owen Bradley. That year she performed "Turn Me Round" at the closing ceremonies of the XV Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta. Later that same year she would sing background vocals with Jennifer Warnes and Bonnie Raitt for Orbison's acclaimed television special, Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night. Lang also guest-starred on Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special in 1988, where she sang "Jingle Bell Rock".


Grammy Awards and mainstream success

K.D. Lang won the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for her 1989 album, Absolute Torch and Twang. The single "Full Moon of Love" that stemmed from that album became a modest hit in the United States in the summer of 1989 and a number 1 hit on the RPM Country chart in Canada.

Her cover of Cole Porter's "So In Love" appears on the Red Hot + Blue compilation album and video from 1990, a benefit for AIDS research and relief.

The album Ingénue in 1992, a set of adult contemporary pop songs that showed comparatively little country influence, contained her most popular song, "Constant Craving". That song brought her multi-million sales, much critical acclaim, and the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Another top ten single from the record was "Miss Chatelaine". The salsa-inspired track was ironic; Chatelaine is a Canadian women's magazine which once chose Lang as its "Woman of the Year", and the song's video depicted Lang in an exaggeratedly feminine manner, surrounded by bright pastel colours and a profusion of bubbles reminiscent of a performance on the Lawrence Welk show.

Lang contributed much of the music towards Gus Van Sant's soundtrack of the film Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993), and also did a cover of "Skylark" for the 1997 film adaptation of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. She also performed "Surrender" for the closing titles of the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, having previously worked with Bond composer David Arnold on his album Shaken and Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project.

In 1996, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

In 2003, she won her fourth Grammy Award, this time for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for her collaboration with Tony Bennett, A Wonderful World.

On subsequent tours critical acclaim continued to come her way. In 2004, Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote: "Few singers command such perfection of pitch. Her voice, at once beautiful and unadorned and softened with a veil of smoke, invariably hits the middle of a note and remains there. She discreetly flaunted her technique, drawing out notes and shading them from sustained cries into softer, vibrato-laden murmurs. She balanced her commitment to the material with humor, projecting a twinkling merriment behind it all."[4]

In the same year, she released Hymns of the 49th Parallel, which featured cover versions of songs by iconic Canadian singer-songwriters: Bruce Cockburn, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Ron Sexsmith, Jane Siberry, and Neil Young.[5]

Also in 2004 she sang the song "Little Patch of Heaven" for the Walt Disney Feature Animation film Home on the Range.

On July 29, 2006, Lang performed her hit "Constant Craving" at the Outgames Opening Ceremonies in Montreal, Canada.

In 2006 Lang duetted with singer Madeleine Peyroux on a cover of the Joni Mitchell song "River" for Peyroux's album Half the Perfect World. That same year Lang was featured in Nellie McKay's second album, Pretty Little Head, singing with McKay in "we had it right". In 2006 Lang sang a version of The Beatles' "Golden Slumbers" for the Happy Feet film soundtrack.

She is due to release an album of new material, Watershed in February 2008.[6]. It will be her first collection of original material since Invincible Summer in 2000.


Film and television career

Lang played the lead in the 1991 drama film Salmonberries, and also costarred with Ewan McGregor and Ashley Judd in Eye of the Beholder (1999). Lang had an uncredited role as a lounge singer in 2006's The Black Dahlia. She has also made guest appearances on the sitcoms Dharma & Greg and Ellen.


Activism

In addition to her musical talents, K.D. Lang, who came out as a lesbian in a 1992 article of the LGBT-related news magazine The Advocate, has actively championed gay rights causes. She has performed and supported many causes over the years, including HIV/AIDS care and research. She is sometimes known for utilizing an androgynous physical appearance. Her animal rights vegetarian stance including a "Meat Stinks" campaign created much controversy, particularly at her hometown in the middle of Alberta's cattle ranching industry.

Oh no ---- not some more random thoughts. For Heaven's sake will you suffer in silence?



If a cow laughed real hard, would milk come out her nose?

If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan?

If you tied buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped it from a height, what would happen?

If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?

You know how most packages say "Open here". What is the protocol if the package says, "Open somewhere else"?

Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM?

Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?

Why isn't "palindrome" spelled the same way backwards?

Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called cargo?

You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes, why can't they make the whole plane out of the same substance?