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Thanks once again Letty for this song by John Williamson - Australia's True Blue Balladeer. Goodnight my friend.

Letty,
That was a nice good night song. I try to keep up with the songs.
I like your closing:
"Goodnight, y'all
From Letty with love"

Bracero
By Phil Ochs

Capo 2nd fret

Intro:Em

Em D
Wade into the river, through the rippling shallow watter
C B7
Steal across the thirsty border, bracero
Em D
Come bring your hungry bodies to the golden fields of plenty
C B7
From a peso to a penny, bracero
C D G Em
Oh, Welcome to California
Am D Em
Where the friendly farmer will take care of you

Come labor for your mother, your father and your brother
For your sister and your lover, bracero
Come pick the fruit of yellow, break the flower from the berry
Purple grapes will fill your belly, bracero
Oh, Welcome to California
Where the friendly farmer will take care of you

And the sun will bite your body, as the dust will draw you thristy
While your muscles beg for mercy, bracero
In the shade of your sombrero, drop your sweat upon the soil
Like the fruit your youth can spoil, bracero
Oh, Welcome to California
Where the friendly farmer will take care of you

When the weary night embraces, sleep in shacks that could be cages
They will take it from your wages, bracero
Come sing about tomorrow with a jingle of the dollar
And forget your crooked collar, bracero
Oh, Welcome to California
Where the friendly farmer will take care of you

And the local men are lazy, and they make too much of trouble
Besides we'd have to pay the double, bracero
But if you feel you're fallin', if you find the pace is killing
There are others who are willing, bracero
Oh, Welcome to California
Where the friendly farmer will take care of you

Good morning, WA2K listening audience.

Last evening, I watched the total lunar eclipse and it was a passion of sight to see the golden slice fade into dark night.

TTH, nice to see you back in our wee studio, and "From Letty with love" is my signature.

I love this parody, folks. I am not familiar with the original lyrics, but having seen them by Placebo, this is far better.

Some mac and cheese is good indeed
if it's breakfast its better
Ill do my best and eat the rest
Oh no its on my swetter

Some mac and cheese is good indeed
and if it's Kraft its better
I must confess I like the taste
Ill write this guys a letter

Its morning
Im yawning
Its morning
hot!!Warning

Some mac and cheese is good indeed
if microwaved its better
I dont want beef or chicken breast
mac and cheese tastes much better

Its morning
Im yawning
Its morning
hot!!Warning

Its morning
Im yawning
Its morning
hot!!Warning

Oops, edgar. Missed your Phil Ochs song, capo and all. Thanks, Texas.

Guess I had better have some breakfast, so back later.

Stephen Crane
Letty,
I just happen to live in Asbury Park. Been in NJ, for over 35 years now, a native of New Orleans, married a "Tin-Can" Sailor, and the rest they say, is history! This town was started by James Bradley, as a religious community, named for Francis Asbury! Being from the City that Care, (and the government), Forgot, I knew Louisiana History. It was taught in the elementary schools. I must say, that I was educated in private schools, in a pre-dominantly Catholic Society. The religions of both the Spanish and French, was Roman Catholicism, so it's no wonder, I was born into it and experienced 13 years of it, in school! I still consider New Orleans home, no matter, that I haven't lived there in years.

When I learned of Stephen Crane and his connection to New Jersey, I was astonished! The House is less than 6 blocks from me and was in danger of being demolished. A businessman in the area, purchased and renovated it and is now, a tourist draw, for the area. This once, "Jewel of the Jersey Shore", is in the midst of "gentrification" and redevelopment. There are pluses and minuses on both sides. A "money" and power grab, depending on who you talk to. Just keep your eye on us! There are condos going, for over 450K and up! Enough! I'm here to enjoy the music, prose and history of something, I grew up with; music, music, music!

This is one of the nicest groups, I could ever be involved with! Just had to add my 2 cents! Love you, Letty!

teenyboone, thank you for the kind words and your history in cajun music. I grew up with it as well.

For you from The Red Stick. <smile>The English translation is quite poor, I'm afraid.

Jolie blonde, regardez donc quoi t'as fait,
Tu m'as quitte pour t'en aller,
Pour T'en aller avec un autre, oui, que moi,
Quel espoir et quel avenir, mais, moi, je vais avoir?

Jolie blonde, tu m'as laisse, moi tout seul,
Pour t'en aller chez ta famille.
Si t'aurais pas ecoute tos les conseils de les autres
tu serait ici-t-avec moi aujourd 'hui

Jolie blonde, tu croyais il y avait just toi,
Il y a pas just toi dans le pays pour moi aimer.
Je peux trouver just une autre jolie blonde,
Bon Dieu sait, moi, j'ai un tas.

In English
Pretty blond, look at what you've done,
You left me to go away,
to go away with another, yes, than me,
What hope and what future am I going to have?

Pretty blond, you've left me all alone
To go back to your family.
If you had not listened to all the advice of the others
You would be here with me today.

Pretty blond, you thought there as just you,
There is not just you in the land to love me.
I can find another pretty blond,
Good God knows, I have a lot.

The Cajun musician Harry Choates was responsible for making the song as popular as it is today.

Hank Williams also does a song from The French Quarter, and I shall find it later.

Dick Powell
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birth name Richard Ewing Powell
Born November 14, 1904(1904-11-14)
Mountain View, Arkansas, U.S.
Died January 2, 1963 (aged 58)
West Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell (November 14, 1904 - January 2, 1963) was an American singer, actor, producer, and director.

Born in Mountain View, Arkansas, Powell attended Little Rock College in Arkansas, before starting his entertainment career as a singer with the Charlie Davis Orchestra, based in the midwest. He recorded a number of records with Davis, and on his own, for theVocalion label in the late 1920s.

Powell migrated to Pittsburgh, where he found great local success as the Master of Ceremonies at the Enright Theater, and the Stanley Theater. In April 1930, Warner Bros. bought up Brunswick Records, which at that time owned Vocalion. Warner Bros. was sufficiently impressed by Powell's singing and stage presence to offer him a film contract in 1932. He made his film debut as a singing bandleader in Blessed Event. He went on to star as a boyish crooner in movie musicals such as 42nd Street, Footlight Parade, Gold Diggers of 1933, Dames, Flirtation Walk, and On the Avenue, often appearing opposite Ruby Keeler and Joan Blondell.

Powell desperately wanted to expand his range but Warner Bros. wouldn't let him. Finally, reaching his forties and knowing that his young romantic leading man days were behind him, he lobbied to play the lead in Double Indemnity. He lost out to Fred MacMurray, another Hollywood nice guy. MacMurray's success, however, fueled Powell's resolve to pursue projects with greater range and in 1944, he was cast in the first of a series of films noir, as private detective Philip Marlowe in Murder, My Sweet, directed by Edward Dmytryk. The film was a big hit and Dick Powell had successfully reinvented himself as a dramatic actor.

The following year, Dmytryk and Powell re-teamed to make Cornered, a gripping, post-WWII thriller that helped define the film noir style. He became a popular "tough guy" lead, appearing in movies such as Johnny O'Clock and Cry Danger. Even when he appeared in lighter fare such as The Reformer and the Redhead and Susan Slept Here, he never sang in his later roles.

From 1949 until 1953, Powell played the lead role in the NBC radio theater production Richard Diamond, Private Detective. His character in the 30 minute weekly was a likeable private detective with a quick wit.

In the 1950s, Powell produced and directed several B-movies and was one of the founders of Four Star Television, appearing in and supervising several shows for that company. His film The Enemy Below (1957) based on the novel by Denys Rayner won an Academy Award for special effects.

Powell died on January 2, 1963 from lymphoma at the age of 58. He was one of many cast and crew members of The Conqueror (1956) who died from the same disease. The Conqueror was filmed in Utah near an atomic test site. It has long been rumored, but never proven, that the film's shooting location may have been the cause of the cancers that afflicted the crew. Dick Powell was cremated and his remains were interred in the Columbarium of Honor at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.




Personal life

Dick Powell was married three times:

Mildred Maund (1925-1927)
actress Joan Blondell (married September 19, 1936, divorced 1944), with whom he had two children, Ellen and adopted son Norman
actress/singer June Allyson (August 19, 1945 until his death), with whom he had two children, Pamela (adopted) and Richard Powell, Jr.

Veronica Lake
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birth name Constance Frances Marie Ockelman
Born November 14, 1922(1922-11-14)
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died July 07, 1973 (aged 50)
Burlington, Vermont, U.S.
Spouse(s) John S. Detlie (1940-1943)
André De Toth (1944-1952)
Joseph A. McCarthy (1955-1959)
Robert Carleton-Munro (1972-1973)

Veronica Lake (November 14, 1922[1] - July 7, 1973) was a popular American film actress and pin-up model who enjoyed both popular and critical acclaim, especially for her femme fatale roles in film noir with Alan Ladd during the 1940s.

Her success was fleeting. Following a string of broken marriages and long struggles with mental illness and alcoholism, she died almost destitute.




Early life and career

Veronica Lake was born Constance Frances Marie Ockelman in Brooklyn, New York on November 14, 1919. Her father, Harry E. Ockelman, of German-Dutch descent, worked for an oil company onboard a ship. When she was about one year old, the family moved to Florida but returned to Brooklyn before she was five. Her father died in an industrial explosion in Philadelphia in 1932 when she was 9. Her mother (née Constance Charlotta Trimble) married family friend Anthony Keane, a newspaper staff artist, a year later, and Ockelman began using his last name.

Connie was sent to an all-girls Catholic boarding school in Montreal, Canada, which she hated. The Keane family later moved to Miami, Florida. Constance Keane attended high school in Miami, where she was known for her beauty. She had a troubled childhood and was allegedly diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic during her teenage years, although no records exist to verify this diagnosis.

In 1938, Keane moved with her mother and step-father to Beverly Hills, California, where her mother enrolled Keane in the celebrated Bliss-Hayden School of Acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse. Her first appearance on screen was for RKO, playing a small role among several coeds in the 1939 film, Sorority House. Similar roles followed, including All Women Have Secrets and Dancing Co-Ed.

During the making of Sorority House, director John Farrow first noticed how her hair always covered her right eye, creating an air of mystery about her and enhancing her natural beauty. She was then introduced to the Paramount producer Arthur Hornblow Jr. He changed her name to Veronica Lake because, "[w]hen I think about Veronica, I think about classic, and ... [her] beauty is a classical beauty", and the surname suited her blue eyes.

Her contract was subsequently dropped by RKO. She married art director John S. Detlie in 1940. Another small role in the comedy, Forty Little Mothers, brought unexpected attention. In 1941, she was signed to a long term contract with Paramount Pictures. On August 21, she gave birth to a daughter, Elaine Detlie.


1940s icon

Her breakthrough film was I Wanted Wings in 1941, a major hit in which she played the second female lead and was said to have stolen scene after scene from the rest of the cast. This success was followed by Hold Back the Dawn later that year. She was soon regarded as a witty, intelligent and trend-setting actress and had starring roles in more popular movies, including Sullivan's Travels, This Gun for Hire, I Married a Witch, The Glass Key, and So Proudly We Hail!. Looking back at her career years later, Lake remarked, "I never did cheesecake; I just used my hair."


For a short time during the early 1940s, Lake was considered one of the most reliable box office draws in Hollywood and was also known for her onscreen pairings with actor Alan Ladd. At first, the couple was teamed together merely out of physical necessity: Alan Ladd was just 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m) tall and the only actress then on the Paramount lot short enough to pair with him was Lake, who stood just 4 feet 11½ inches (1.51 m). They made four films together.

A stray lock of her shoulder-length blonde hair during a publicity photo shoot led to her iconic peekaboo hairstyle, which hid one eye, and was widely imitated. During World War II, she changed her trademark image to encourage women working in war industry factories to adopt more practical, safer hairstyles.

Although widely popular with the public, Lake had a complex personality and acquired a reputation for being difficult to work with. Eddie Bracken, her co-star in Star Spangled Rhythm was quoted as saying "[s]he was known as 'The Bitch' and she deserved the title." In that movie, Lake took part in a song lampooning her hair style, "A Sweater, A Sarong and a Peekaboo Bang", performed with Dorothy Lamour and Paulette Goddard, although some of Lake's vocals were dubbed.

Lake's career stumbled with her unsympathetic role as Nazi sympathizer Dora Bruckman in 1944's The Hour Before the Dawn. During filming, she tripped on a lighting cable and her second child, William, was born prematurely on July 8, 1943, dying a week later from uremic poisoning. By the end of 1943, her first marriage ended in divorce. Meanwhile, scathing reviews of The Hour Before Dawn included criticism of her unconvincing German accent, which was said to have interfered disastrously with her acting.

Nevertheless, Lake was making $4,500 per week under her contract with Paramount when she married director André de Toth in 1944. Their son, her third child, André Michael de Toth III, was born October 25, 1945. Lake is said to have begun drinking more heavily during this period and people began refusing to work with her. Paramount cast Lake in a string of mostly forgotten films. A notable exception was The Blue Dahlia (1946) in which she again co-starred with Alan Ladd (who reportedly was also less than fond of her). During filming, author Raymond Chandler referred to her as "Moronica Lake". Paramount decided not to renew her contract in 1948.


Tragic spiral

Her fourth child, Diana de Toth, was born October 16, 1948. Lake was also sued by her mother for support payments that year. After a single film for 20th Century Fox, her career collapsed. By the end of 1952, she had appeared in one last film (Stronghold, which she later described as "a dog"), filed for bankruptcy, and divorced de Toth. The IRS seized the remainder of her assets for unpaid taxes. Lake resorted to television and stage work, and in 1955, married songwriter Joseph A. McCarthy.

After breaking her ankle in 1959, Lake was unable to continue working as an actress. She and McCarthy divorced, and she drifted between cheap hotels in Brooklyn and New York City and was arrested several times for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct.

A reporter found her working as a barmaid at the all women's Martha Washington Hotel in Manhattan. At first, Veronica claimed that she was a guest at the hotel and covering for a friend. Soon afterward, she admitted that she was employed at the bar. The reporter's widely distributed story led to some television and stage appearances. In 1966, she had a brief stint as a TV hostess in Baltimore, Maryland, along with a largely ignored film role in Footsteps in the Snow.

Her physical and mental health declined steadily and by the late 1960s Lake was in Hollywood, Florida, apparently immobilized by paranoia (which included claims she was being stalked by the FBI).

She published her autobiography Veronica amid much publicity and positive reviews. With the proceeds, Lake co-produced and starred in her last film, Flesh Feast (1970), a very low budget horror movie with a Nazi-myth storyline.

She then moved to the UK, where she had a short-lived marriage with "English sea captain" Robert Carleton-Munro before returning to the U.S. in 1973, having filed for divorce. Lake was immediately hospitalized and although she is said to have made a cheerful and positive impression on the nurses who cared for her, she was apparently estranged from her three surviving children. She had no guests or visitors and was destitute again.

Lake was 50 when she died of hepatitis and acute renal failure (complications of her alcoholism) near Burlington, Vermont. Her ashes were scattered off the Virgin Islands. In 2004, some of Lake's ashes were reportedly found in a New York antique store.[2]

Lake has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6918 Hollywood Boulevard for her contributions to the motion picture industry.


Quotes

"I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie."
"You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision."
"I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that." (1970)

References in popular culture

The Archie comics character Veronica Lodge was partially named after Veronica Lake, who was in the midst of her early celebrity when the comic book character was introduced in the spring of 1942.
The first two lines of the Rodgers & Hart song "The Girl I Love to Leave Behind" (which is featured in the 1943 movie Stage Door Canteen) are "She has hair that she wears like Veronica Lake / So that fifty percent of her is blind."
Veronica Lake is also the name of a fictional lake located near the small town of Frostbite Falls, Minnesota (a parody of International Falls) on the animated Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.
In 1997, the Academy Award-winning film L.A. Confidential paid homage to Lake's image and manner through Kim Basinger's starring role in an adaptation of James Ellroy's crime novel set in early 1950s Los Angeles. The movie also displayed Lake's photograph and mentioned her. Another scene included an image of Lake from This Gun for Hire screening in the background.
Peter Hammill's 2000 album None of the Above contains a song entitled Like Veronica, of which the opening line is "Wear your hair like Veronica Lake."
Japanese band Melt Banana has a song called Veronica Rake, a play on the difficulty many Asian cultures have with the letter "L".
Britney Spears paid tribute to Lake in Spears' video of her single "Lucky".
Jessica Rabbit from Who Framed Roger Rabbit was designed after Veronica Lake. Jessica also sports Lake's trademark peekaboo hairstyle.
In the Family Guy episode "Deep Throats" in the restaurant scene Stewie is in drag wearing a Veronica Lake wig.
A clip from This Gun for Hire was incorporated into the 1982 film Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.
The characters "Veronica Lake and her Escort" walk into the Copacabana night club in Barry Manilow's musical comedy Copacabana, and are escorted to a table.
The character of Veronica Lake in the hit CBS drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is named after her.

Brian Keith
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Birth name Robert Keith Richey Jr.
Born November 14, 1921(1921-11-14)
Bayonne, New Jersey, United States
Died June 24, 1997 (aged 75)
Malibu, California
Resting place Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, California
Plot: Garden Of Serenity New Memorial Garden
Other name(s) Robert Keith Jr.
Jr. Robert Keith
Spouse(s) Victoria Young (1970-1997) (his death)
Judy Landon (1955-?) (divorced)
Frances Helm (?
Parents Robert Keith And Stage Actress Helena Shipman
[show]Awards
Emmy Awards
1969 Nominated Emmy Outstanding Continued Performance By An Actor In A Leading Role In A Comedy Series
For: "Family Affair"
1968 Nominated Emmy Outstanding Continued Performance By An Actor In A Leading Role In A Comedy Series
For: "Family Affair"
1967 Nominated Emmy Outstanding Continued Performance By An Actor In A Leading Role In A Comedy Series
For: "Family Affair"
Other Awards
Golden Boot Awards

1991 - Golden Boot Laurel Awards
1971 3Rd Place Golden Laurel Best Action Performance
For: The Mckenzie Break (1970)

1962 Nominated Golden Laurel Top Male Comedy Performance
For: The Parent Trap (1961)

Brian Keith (November 14, 1921 - June 24, 1997) was an American stage, film and television actor.




Early life, military service

Brian Keith was born Robert Keith, Jr. in Bayonne, New Jersey, to actor Robert Keith and stage actress Helena Shipman (born in Aberdeen, Washington). He made his acting debut in the silent film Pied Piper Malone (1924) at the age of three. After high school in East Rockaway, New York, he joined the U.S. Marines (1942-1945). He served during World War II as an aerial gunner and received an Air Medal.


Acting career

After the war, Keith became a stage actor, branching out into films and then television. A strong and capable actor, Keith spent many years playing second leads and gruff sidekicks. He won much acclaim for his starring role in Sam Peckinpah's short-lived The Westerner (1960). His biggest break, however, came in 1966 when he landed the role of "Uncle Bill" Davis on the popular television situation comedy Family Affair, a role that earned him three Emmy nominations for Best Actor. The show made him a household name. When CBS requested that he pose for Christmas publicity shots connected with Family Affair, Keith refused on the basis that this was exploitative of the holiday.

He was offered the role of Deke Thornton in The Wild Bunch by Sam Peckinpah, but turned down due to his commitment on Family Affair, leading to a falling-out between the two former friends.

He is also fondly remembered for his role as the father of twins in the 1961 film The Parent Trap, costarring Hayley Mills and Maureen O'Hara. His performance as Theodore Roosevelt in The Wind and the Lion (1975) is also particularly well-remembered and regarded, being considered among the best portrayals of an American president on film.

Keith went on to star in such television series as The Brian Keith Show, Heartland, and Hardcastle and McCormick. He also starred in the six-part television series The Zoo Gang, about a group of former underground freedom fighters from World War II, as "Stephen 'The Fox' Halliday". The show also starred Sir John Mills, Lilli Palmer, and Barry Morse.

Keith spoke fluent Russian, which led to his casting as a Russian in two roles: the Soviet Premier in World War III with Rock Hudson; and as a Soviet scientist in Meteor with Natalie Wood.

In his last film, Keith played President William McKinley in Rough Riders (1997). Director John Milius dedicated Rough Riders to "Brian Keith, Actor, Marine, Raconteur."

In 2008, the Hollywood Walk of Fame will install a star in Brian Keith's honor on the world famous sidewalk in California.


Personal life and death

Keith married three times, first to Frances Helm; then, in 1955, to Judith Landon; and finally, in 1970, to Hawaiian actress Victoria Young (née Leialoha), who later appeared on The Brian Keith Show (1972-74) as Nurse Puni. Keith fathered four children but also adopted three others with Judith Landon. Daisy Keith, one of his children with Victoria Young, became an actress and appeared with her father in the short-lived series Heartland in 1989.

During the later part of his life, Keith suffered from emphysema and lung cancer, despite having quit smoking ten years earlier (he had posed for Camel cigarettes in an endorsement campaign in 1955). Keith was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on June 24, 1997, two months after his daughter Daisy had committed suicide.

He is buried next to Daisy at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.

Kathy Garver, who played his niece Cissy in Family Affair commented, "It was so sad, but it was in line with who he was in real life. He was this very manly man, very in charge of his life, always doing things his way. When his daughter died and he was diagnosed with lung cancer and emphysema and given only a few weeks to live, there was no way he was going to go out any way other than his way. I truly believe that." (Chicago Sun-Times, June 23, 2006).

D. B. Sweeney
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birth name Daniel Bernard Sweeney
Born November 14, 1961 (1961-11-14) (age 46)

Shoreham, New York, U.S.

Daniel Bernard Sweeney (born November 14, 1961, Shoreham, Long Island, New York) is an American stage, film and television actor.





Biography

Early life

Sweeney was born on Long Island and raised in Shoreham to an Irish-American educator father and a municipal government employee mother. [1] After graduating from Shoreham-Wading River High School, he attended both Tulane and New York University. Though he had trouble getting sizeable roles in student productions, upon his graduation he was immediately cast in the Broadway revival of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial.


Career

Sweeney went on to guest star on such television series as The Edge of Night and Spenser: For Hire before entering films, where he scored with the critics for his portrayal of an idealistic, gung-ho Vietnam enlistee in Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone (1987). While he has accrued several assignments (including the starring role of a hockey player in The Cutting Edge (1992)), Sweeney is perhaps best remembered for his even-keel portrayal of the tragic Shoeless Joe Jackson in Eight Men Out (1988). (If he looked like a natural on the ballfield, it was because Sweeney had once played minor league baseball with the Kenosha Twins, hanging up his spikes after a knee injury.)

Sweeney also starred in films such as Memphis Belle (1990), Blue Desert (1991), Fire in the Sky (1993), and Hardball (2001). In addition to his film roles, he continues to work on television. He played Dish Boggett in the miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989) and in 1996 starred in the short-lived Fox series Strange Luck in which he played an amnesiac freelance photographer with strange powers that resulted from being the sole survivor of an airplane disaster. He later co-starred in another short-lived series, the science fiction offering Harsh Realm. Sweeney still appears in theatrical productions.

Sweeney recently guest-starred on House playing an ex-bandmate of Dr. Gregory House's, named Crandall. His daughter is brought to Dr. House after suffering from hallucinations about her experiences during Hurricane Katrina on top of other issues. He is also the voice-over artist for Fox Sports Net's Beyond the Glory and guest-starred on Jericho playing "Goetz", a mercenary employee of security company Ravenwood.

Terrible world history


The following is a "history" collected by teachers throughout the United States, from eighth grade through college level. Read carefully, and you will learn a lot of incorrect information.

The inhabitants of ancient Egypt were called mummies. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere, so areas of the dessert are cultivated by irritation. The Egyptians built the Pyramids in the shape of a huge triangular cube. The Pyramids are a range of mountains between France and Spain.

The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible, Guinesses, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. On of their children, Cain, once asked, "Am I my brother's son?" God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac on Mount Montezuma. Jacob, son of Isaac, stole his brother's birth mark. Jacob was a patriarch who brought up his twelve sons to be patriarchs, but they did not take it. One of Jacob's sons, Joseph, gave refuse to the Israelites.

Pharaoh forced the Hebrew slaves to make bread without straw. Moses led them to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients. Afterwards, Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. David was a Hebrew king skilled at playing the liar. He fought with the Philatelists, a race of people who lived in the Biblical times. Soloman, one of David's sons, had 500 wives and 500 porcupines.

Without the Greeks we wouldn't have history. The Greeks invented three kinds of columns - Corinthian, Doric, and Ironic. They also had myths. A myth is a female moth. One myth says that the mother of Achilles dipped him in the River Stynx until he became intollerable. Achilles appears in The Iliad, by Homer. Homer also wrote The Oddity, in which Penelope was the last hardship that Ulysses endured on his journey. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.

Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock.

In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, the threw the java. The reward to the victor was a coral wreath. The government of Athens was democratic because people took the law into their own hands. There were no wars in Greece, as the mountains were so high that they couldn't climb over to see what their neighbors were doing. When they fought with the Persians, the Greeks were outnumbered because the Persians had more men.

Eventually, the Ramons conquered the Greeks. History calls people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long. At Roman banquets, the guests wore garlic in their hair. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Nero was a cruel tyranny who would turture his poor subjects by playing the fiddle to them.

Then came the Middle Ages. King Alfred conquered the Dames. King Arthur lived in the Age of Shivery, King Harold mustarded his troops before the Battle of Hastings, Joan of Arc was canonized by Bernard Shaw, and victims of the Black Death grew boobs on their necks. Finally, Magna Carta provided that no free man should be hanged twice for the same offense.

In medevil time most of the people were alliterate. The greatest writer of the time was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and versus and also wrote literature. Another tale tells of William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son's head.

The Renaissance was an age in which more individuals felt the value of their human being. Martin Luther was nailed to the church door at Wittenberg for selling papal indulgences. He died a horrible death, being excommunicated by a bull. It was the painter Donatello's interes in the female nude that made him the father of the Renaissance. It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented the Bible. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper.

The government of England was a limited mockery. Henry VIII found walking difficult because he had an abbess on his knee. Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen." As a queen she was a success. When Elizabeth exposed herself before her troops, they all shouted, "hurrah." Then her navy went out and defeated the Spanish Armadillo.

The greatest write of the Renaissance was William Shakespear. Shakespear never made much money and is only famous because of his plays. He lived at Windsor with his merry wives, writing tragedies, comedies and errors. In one of Shakespear's famous plays, Hamlet rations out his situation by relieving himself in a long soliloquy. In another, Lady Macbeth tried to convince Macbeth to kill the Kind by attack his manhood. Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couplet. Writing at the same time as Shakespear was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.

During the Renaissance America began. Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic. His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe. Later, the Pilgrims crossed the Ocean, and this was known as Pilgrims Progress. When they landed at Plymouth Rock, they were greeted by the Indians, who came down the hill rolling their war hoops before them. The Indian squabs carried porpoises on their back. Many of the Indian heroes were killed, along with their cabooses, which proved very fatal for them. The winter of 1620 was a hard one for the settlers. Many people died and many babies were born. Captain John Smith was responsible for all this.

One of the causes of the Revolutionary Wars was the English put tacks in their tea. Also, the colonists would send their parcels through the post without stamps. During the War, the Red Coats and Paul Revere was throwing balls over stone walls. The dogs were barking and the peacocks crowing. Finally, the colonists won the War and no longer had to pay for taxis.

Delegates from the original thirteen states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin had gone to Boston carrying all his clothes in his pocket and a loaf of bread under each arm. He invented electricity by rubbing two cats backwards and declared, "A horse devided against itself cannot stand." Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.

George Washington married Martha Curtis and in due time became the Father of Our Country. Then the Constitution of the United States was adopted to secure domestic hostility. Under the Constitution the people enjoyed the right to keep bare arms.

Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest president. Lincoln's mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. When Lincoln was President, he wore only a tall silk hat. He said, "In onion there is strength." Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg address while traveling from Washington to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope. He also freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation, and the Fourteenth Amendment gave the ex-Negroes citizenship. But the Clue Clux Clan would torcher and lynch the ex-Negroes and other innocent victims. It claimed it represented law and odor. On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. The believed assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposingly insane actor. This ruined Booth's career.

Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable time. Voltare invented electricity and also wrote a book called Candy. Graity was invented by Isaac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the Autumn, when the apples are falling off trees.

Bach was the most famous composer in the world, and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He was very large. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.

France was in a very serious state. The French Revolution was accomplished before it happened. The Marseillaise was the theme song of the French Revolution, and it catapulted into Napoleon. During the Napoleonic Wars, the crowned heads of Europe were trembling in their shoes. The the Spanish gorillas came down from the hills and nipped at Napoleon's flanks. Napoleon became ill with bladder problems and was very tense and unrestrained. He wanted an heir to inherit his power, but since Josephine was a baroness, she couldn't bear children.

The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West. Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years. Her reclining years and finally the end of her life were exemplary of a great personality. Her death was the final event which ended her reign.

The nineteenth century was a time of many great inventions and thoughts. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up. Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of hundred men. Samuel Morse invented a code of telepathy. Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbis. Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species.

Bob, thanks again for the great bio's. I think I like the way kids rewrite history much better than the way it was originally written. Especially smiled at "....Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock..."

Gosh all hemlock, hawkman.

Until our Raggedy arrives, here is a better version of Jolie Blonde.

Jole Blon Delta flower you're my darling you're my sunshine
Oh I love you darling forever I love you promise I'll always be true
Oh ho ho ah ha ha
[ fiddle ]
In the evening in the shadows I'll be waiting in Louisinna
And when I hear your sweet voice I'll rejoice I'm so happy
I'm saving my kisses for you
Oh ho ho ah ha ha
[ harmonica ]
Jole Blon Cajun angel let me tell you that I love you
In the springtime you promised that we would be married
And I'm waiting still waiting for you
Oh ho ho ah ha ha
[ dobro ]
When your hair turns to silver I'll still call you Delta flower
Pretty Blond I still love you I love you I promise
And I'm patiently waiting for you
Oh ho ho ah ha ha

Laughing at Bob's history reports.

Good afternoon WA2K.

Today's B.D. gallery: Dick Powell; Veronica Lake; Brian Keith and D. B. Sweeney

Thanks, Raggedy, for the quartet of famous folks. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find any songs to fit your notables, so I will have to compromise, folks.

It seems that Dick Powell was somehow associated with this lullaby and it is also done by George Shearing who is still with us. (too bad that the death of Powell was associated with that Utah and the Atomic Plant there)

Lullaby of birdland
That's what I
Always hear, when you sigh
Never in my wordland
could there ways to repeal
in a phrase, how I feel

Have you ever heard two turtledoves
Bill and coo
when they love
that's the kind of magic music
we make with our lips
when we kiss

And there's a wheapy 'ol willow
He really knows how to cry
That's how I'll cry on my pillow
If you should tell me
farewell and goodbye

Lullaby of birdland
whisper low
kiss me sweet, and we'll go
flying high in birdland,
high in the sky up above
all because we're in love

Brian Keith and Maureen O'Hara portayed the divorced parents and Hayley Mills played both sisters in this plot to get them together again.

LET'S GET TOGETHER

The Parent Trap
Hayley Mills

Let's get together, yeah yeah yeah
Why don't you and I combi-ine
Let's get together, what do you say
We can have a swingin' ti-ime
We'd be a cra-a-azy team
Why don't we ma-a-ake a scene
Together, oh oh oh oh

Let's get together, yeah yeah yeah
Think of all that we could sha-are
Let's get together everyday
Every way and everywhere
And though we haven't got a lot
We could be sharin' all we've got
Together

Oh, I really think youre swell
Uh-huh, we really ring the bell
Oo-wee, and if you stick with me
Nothing could be greater, say hey alligatorah yeah yeah!

Wow! Haley Mills. Where is she now, folks?

Here's another trap, folks.

Ya see a pair of laughing eyes,

And suddenly you're sighing sighs.

You're thinkin' nothin's wrong,

You string along, boy, then SNAP!

Those eyes, those sighs -

They're part of the tender trap.


You're hand in hand beneath the trees,

And soon there's music in the breeze.

You're actin' kind of smug

Until your heart just goes WHAP!

Those trees, that breeze -

They're part of the tender trap.


Some starry night,

When her kisses make you tingle,

She'll hold you tight

And you'll hate yourself for being single.


And all at once it seems so nice,

The folks are throwin' shoes and rice.

You hurry to a spot that's just a dot on the map.

You're hooked, you're cooked,

You're caught in the tender trap.


(Musical interlude)


Some starry night,

When her kisses make you tingle,

She'll hold you tight

And you'll hate yourself for bein' single.


And all at once it seems so nice,

The folks are throwin' shoes and rice.

You hurry to a spot that's just a dot on the map.

And then you wonder how it all came about,

It's too late now, there's no gettin' out -

You fell in love, and love is the tender trap.

Goodnight all, from a very sleepy cat.



From drowsy Letty with love

The Beatles - I Want To Tell You

I want to tell you
My head is filled with things to say
When you're here
All those words they seem to slip away

When I get near you
The games begin to drag me down
It's all right
I'll make you maybe next time around

But if I seem to act unkind
It's only me, it's not my mind
That is confusing things

I want to tell you
I feel hung up and I don't know why
I don't mind
I could wait forever, I've got time

Sometimes I wish I knew you well
Then I could speak my mind and tell
Maybe you'd understand

I want to tell you
I feel hung up and I don't know why
I don't mind
I could wait forever, I've got time
I've got time
I've got time

Good morning, WA2K listening audience.

edgar, your song by the Beatles about time, led me to recall the oldie that we sang as kids called My Grandfather's Clock. What a surprise to find that the lyrics were written by the same man who wrote Marching Through Georgia. What a history that song has, folks. To my delight, I found this parody on the song.

They've just had an election, boys, down in the USA,
(in case you hadn't noticed what was on the news today).
Someone should have won by now, and somebody still may
But they're still counting in Florida

Chorus -
Hooray hooray, for Bush has won the day
No way! No way! It's going Al Gore's way
They've found another ballot box, one that got away
While they were counting in Florida.

How the networks shouted when they had their exit poll
Al Gore's gone and lost it, and George Bush is on a roll
OK, so they got it wrong and scored a huge own goal
They're still counting in Florida

Chorus.

Al Gore, he conceded for he thought that he had lost
A profligate election (with a billion-dollar cost)
Then retracted his concession for to make one last riposte
They're still counting in Florida

Chorus.

Yanks call this democracy? It's time that they awoke
All their machinations make electioning a joke
So skin a great big reefer up, and give 'em all a toke
They're still counting in Florida