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And a "first" and "last" favorite of mine by Gordon Lightfoot.

The first time ever I saw your face
I thought the sun rose in your eyes
And the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave
To the night and the empty skies my love
To the night and the empty skies
The first time ever I kissed your mouth
I felt the earth turn in my hand
Like the trembling heart of a captive bird
That was there at my command my love
That was there at my command

The first time ever I lay with you
And felt your heart beat close to mine
I thought our joy would fill the earth
And would last till the end of time my love
And would last till the end of time

The first time ever I saw your face
I thought the sun rose in your eyes
And the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave
To the night and the empty skies my love
To the night and the empty skies

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The last time I saw her face
Her eyes were bathed in starlight
And her hair hung long
The last time she spoke to me
Her lips were like the scented flowers
Inside a rain-drenched forest

But that was so long ago that I can scarcely feel
The way I felt before
And if time could heal the wounds
I would tear the threads away
That I might bleed some more

The last time I walked with her
Her laughter was the steeple bells
That ring to greet the morning sun
A voice that called to everyone
To love the ground she walked upon
Those were good days

The last time I held her hand
Her touch was autumn, spring and summer
And winter too
The last time I let go of her
She walked a way into the night
I lost her in the misty streets
A thousand months, a thousand years
When other lips will kiss her eyes
A million miles beyond the moon
That's where she is

But that was so long ago that I can scarcely feel
The way I felt before
And if time could heal the wounds
I would tear the threads away
That I might bleed some more

The last time I saw her face
Her eyes were bathed in starlight
And she walked alone
The last time she kissed my cheek
Her lips were like the wilted leaves
Upon the autumn covered hills
Resting on the frozen ground
The seeds of love lie cold and still
Beneath a battered marking stone
It lies forgotten

Good morning, Raggedy. We all appreciate the photo's, gal. I didn't realize that Gordon did "The Very First Time Ever I saw your Face". I love that song, PA, but I understand the sadness of the alternate lyrics.

Well, folks, I do believe that we know all of the pup's celeb pictures. Here is one for Lauren who worked with the committee to save the whales.


PEARL JAM

"Whale Song"

The sun was in clouds. The sun looked out. Exposed a trail of mist and spouts.
Ships followed the ancient lead. Deceiving friends under the sea.
Wow, imagine that? They won't fight back. I got a theory on that.
A whale's heart is as big as a car. A whaler's thought must be smudged by the dark.

They won't fight back. I'm sure they know how. Means they love or are too proud.
They won't fight back. I'm sure they know how. Means they love or too proud.
They swim. It's really free. It's a beautiful thing to see. They sing.

Hunters of land. Hunters of sea. Exploit anything for money.
I refer to anybody that takes advantage of what that is free.
They won't fight back.
It's only a thought that makes it seem right. What you don't see is because of your sight.

Take what you want. Kill what you can. That's just one way of the mind of man.
Take their lives. Sell their parts but there is not taking of their hearts.

If I was lost at sea. That harpoon boat in front of me. It's the whale I'd like to be.

They won't fight back.
They don't know how.
They won't fight back.

Just want you to know, Letty, but maybe you do know, that the "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "The Last Time I Saw Her" are two entirely different songs. The first time I heard "The First Time" it was performed on a TV special by Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne. I have the record, but it hasn't been put out on CD yet. Robert Flack had a smash hit with it.

Although I prefer Lightfoot doing it, Glenn Campbell also recorded a nice version of "The Last Time I Saw Her".

First an important observation.

Did your puppy run away, Raggedy?



I knew Roberta Flack had done The Very First Time, but one never knows who was the first on the scene.

I never heard the second song by Gordon, gal. So thanks for that info.

I understand that Duran Duran is making a comeback, so here is a great song by them.

Ordinary World - Duran Duran

Came in from a rainy Thursday
On the avenue
Thought I heard you talking softly

I turned on the lights, the TV
And the radio
Still I can't escape the ghost of you

What has happened to it all?
Crazy, some are saying
Where is the life that I recognize?
Gone away

But I won't cry for yesterday
There's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way
To the ordinary world
I will learn to survive

Passion or coincidence
Once prompted you to say
"Pride will tear us both apart"
Well now pride's gone out the window
Cross the rooftops
Run away
Left me in the vacuum of my heart

What is happening to me?
Crazy, some'd say
Where is my friend when I need you most?
Gone away

But I won't cry for yesterday
There's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way
To the ordinary world
I will learn to survive

Papers in the roadside
Tell of suffering and greed
Here today, forgot tomorrow
Ooh, here besides the news
Of holy war and holy need
Ours is just a little sorrowed talk

And I don't cry for yesterday
There's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way
To the ordinary world
I will learn to survive

Every one
Is my world, I will learn to survive
Any one
Is my world, I will learn to survive
Any one
Is my world
Every one
Is my world

What happened to my puppy? I want my puppy back.

All right, listeners. We're distributing flyers to our staff and want you folks who have your radio on to help find Raggedy's puppy.

Oh, where oh where
Has her little dog gone
Oh, where oh where can he be?
With his tail cut short
And his ears cut long
Oh, where oh, where
Is our song.

sorry , can't find raggedy's puppy .

will he be soothed hearing GLORIA GAYNOR singing the HONEY BEE song ?

Early Morning Rain
Lyrics: Gordon Lightfoot
Music: Gordon Lightfoot

In the early morning rain with a dollar in my hand
With an aching in my heart and a pocket full of sand
I'm a long way from home and I miss my loved one so
In the early morning rain with no place to go

Out on runway number nine, big 707 set to go
But I'm stuck here on the grass where the cold winds they do blow
Where whiskey it was boss and the women they were fine
Well now there she goes my friend, now there she's rolling down the line

Hear the mighty engines roar, see the silver bird on high
She's away and westward bound, far above the clouds she'll fly
There the morning rain don't fall and the sun always shines
She'll be flying over my home in about three hours time

This old airport's got me down it ain't no earthy good to me
Because I'm stuck here on the ground, cold and drunk as I can be
You can't jump a jet plane like you can a railroad train
So I'd best be on my way in the early morning rain

I just got back from a lovely trip
Down on A1A,
I stopped off at the grocers
To shop for holiday

I saw a plastic Santa Claus
And what else did I see
artifical wreaths and such
And not one real green tree

hbg, Love Gloria Gaynor. Remember her song, "I Will Survive"?

Thanks, Canada, for the honey bee song.

well, edgar, Gordon reminds me that the weather here is classic. Thanks, Texas.

Maybe this will bring that puppy home to PA.

Every honey bee fills with jealousy
When they see you out with me
I don't blame them
Goodness knows
Honeysuckle rose

When you're passin' by,
Flowers droop and sigh
I know the reason why
You're much sweeter
Goodness knows
Honeysuckle rose

Well, don't buy sugar
You just have to touch my cup
You're my sugar
And it's oh so sweet when you stir it up

When I'm takin' sips
From your tasty lips
Seems the honey fairly drips
You're confection
Goodness knows
Honeysuckle rose

Well, don't buy sugar
You just have to touch my cup
You're my sugar
And it's oh so sweet when you stir it up

When I'm takin' sips
From your tasty lips
Seems the honey fairly drips
You're confection
Goodness knows
Honeysuckle rose

Jerry Lee Lewis - Fraulein


Far across deep blue waters
Lives an old German's daughter
By the banks of the old river Rhine
Where I loved her and left her
But I can't forget her
I miss my pretty Fraulein

Fraulein, Fraulein
Look up towards God's Heaven
Each night when that moon starts to shine
By the same stars above you
I swear to God, woman, I love you
You are my lovely Fraulein

When my memories wander
Way over yonder
To the sweetheart I left behind
In a moment of glory
a face comes before me
The face of my pretty Fraulein

Fraulein, Fraulein
Walk down by the river
Pretend that your hand's holding mine
By the same stars above you
I swear that I love you
You are my pretty Fraulein

edgar, those are lovely lyrics. Jerry Lee surprises me constantly, Texas.

Inspired by hbg's cupid picture, this one came to mind. Don't ask me why I know it, but I do. I can hear the melody in my mind. I wasn't aware of Sam Cooke's tragic background, however.

Cupid
Sam Cooke

Cupid, draw back your bow and let your arrow go
Straight to my lover's heart for me, for me
Cupid, please hear my cry and let your arrow fly
Straight to my lover's heart for me

Now, I don't mean to bother you but I'm in distress
There's danger of me losin' all of my happiness
For I love a girl who doesn't know I exist
And this you can fix

So, Cupid, draw back your bow and let your arrow go
Straight to my lover's heart for me, nobody but me
Cupid, please hear my cry and let your arrow fly
Straight to my lover's heart for me

Now, Cupid if your arrow make a love storm for me
I promise I will love her until eternity
I know between the two of us her heart we can steal
Help me if you will

So, Cupid, draw back your bow and let your arrow go
Straight to my lover's heart for me, nobody but me
Cupid, please hear my cry and let your arrow fly
Straight to my lover's heart for me

Now, Cupid, don't you hear me
Callin' you, I need you
Cupid, help me

A little sad tonight, folks. When I see how the government keeps violating freedom of choice, my heart becomes heavy for my country. Now parents are being ordered to court because their children haven't been vaccinated.

My goodnight song.

(Words by Grian McGregor; tune by Jay Ungar)

The sun is sinking low in the sky above Ashokan,
The pines and the willows know soon we will part.
There's a whisper in the wind of promises unspoken,
And a love that will always remain in my heart.

My thoughts will return to the sound of your laughter,
The magic of moving as one.
And a time we'll remember long ever after
The moonlight and music and dancing are done.

Will we climb the hills once more?
Will we walk the woods together?
Will I feel you holding me close once again?
Will every song we've sung stay with us forever?
Will you dance in my dreams or my arms until then?

Under the moon the mountains lie sleeping,
Over the lake the stars shine.
They wonder if you and I will be keeping,
The magic and music, or leave them behind.

Broken lines, broken strings,
Broken threads, broken springs,
Broken idols, broken heads,
People sleeping in broken beds.
Ain't no use jiving
Ain't no use joking
Everything is broken.

Broken bottles, broken plates,
Broken switches, broken gates,
Broken dishes, broken parts,
Streets are filled with broken hearts.
Broken words never meant to be spoken,
Everything is broken.

Bridge: Seem like every time you stop and turn around
Something else just hit the ground

Broken cutters, broken saws,
Broken buckles, broken laws,
Broken bodies, broken bones,
Broken voices on broken phones.
Take a deep breath, feel like you're chokin',
Everything is broken.

Bridge: Every time you leave and go off someplace
Things fall to pieces in my face

Broken hands on broken ploughs,
Broken treaties, broken vows,
Broken pipes, broken tools,
People bending broken rules.
Hound dog howling, bull frog croaking,
Everything is broken.

Bob Dylan

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

edgar, I love that Dylan song. He says it right, Texas, and so did the bard. "...More light and light it grows; more dark and dark our woes..."

This is a lovely lyrical song/poem for the morning.

November Morning
by Evaleen Stein

A tingling, misty marvel
Blew hither in the night,
And now the little peach-trees
Are clasped in frozen light.

Upon the apple-branches
An icy film is caught,
With trailing threads of gossamer
In pearly patterns wrought.

The autumn sun, in wonder,
Is gayly peering through
This silver-tissued network
Across the frosty blue.

The weather-vane is fire-tipped,
The honeysuckle shows
A dazzling icy splendor,
And crystal is the rose.

Around the eaves are fringes
Of icicles that seem
To mock the summer rainbows
With many-colored gleam.

Along the walk, the pebbles
Are each a precious stone;
The grass is tasseled hoarfrost,
The clover jewel-sown.

Such sparkle, sparkle, sparkle
Fills all the frosty air,
Oh, can it be that darkness
Is ever anywhere!

A thought from early morning Virginia.

Johnny Mercer
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Background information

Birth name John Herndon Mercer
Born November 18, 1909(1909-11-18)
Savannah, Georgia, U.S.
Origin Hollywood, California, U.S.
Died June 25, 1976 (aged 66)
Occupation(s) Songwriter, lyricist
Years active 1930 - 1976
Associated
acts Harold Arlen,
Harry Warren

John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer (November 18, 1909 - June 25, 1976) was a popular American songwriter and singer. As a songwriter, he worked mainly as a lyricist but wrote his own music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as songs written by others. From the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s, many of the songs he wrote and performed were among the most popular hits. He wrote the lyrics to more than 1000 songs, including songs for movies and Broadway shows and received nineteen Academy Award nominations. He also was a cofounder of Capitol Records.[1]




Childhood

Born in Savannah, Georgia, Mercer liked music as a small child. His aunt told him he was humming music when he was six-months old. He never had formal musical training but he listened to all the music he could and by the time he was 11 or 12 he had memorized almost all of the songs he had heard. He once asked his brother who the best songwriters were, and his brother said Irving Berlin, among the best of Tin Pan Alley.[2]



Starting out




Mercer moved to New York in 1928, when he was 19. His first few jobs were as an actor but he soon gravitated toward singing and lyric writing. His first lyric appeared in a musical revue in 1930. Later, after appearing in two motion pictures, he quit acting altogether to concentrate on writing and performing songs exclusively.

This was the golden age of the sophisticated popular song, like those of Cole Porter. Songs were put into revues without much regard for integrating the song into the plot. During the 1930s there was a shift in musical theatre from musical revues to musicals that used the song to further the plot. There was less of a demand for the pure stand-alone song. In the early 1930s, when Mercer was offered a job in Hollywood to write songs and act in low-budget musicals for RKO, he took it.[3]


Hollywood years

It was only when Mercer moved to Hollywood in 1935 that his career was assured. His first big song "I'm an Old Cowhand from the Rio Grande" was used by Bing Crosby in a film, and from there his demand as a lyricist took off. He found himself writing more and performing less.

In 1941 Mercer met an ideal musical collaborator in the form of Harold Arlen whose compositions mixed with jazz and blues provided Mercer's sophisticated, slangy lyrics a perfect musical vehicle. Now his lyrics began to display the combination of sophisticated wit and southern regional vernacular that characterize some of his best songs. Their first hit was "Blues in the Night" (1941). They went on to compose "That Old Black Magic" (1942), "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (1941), "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" (1944), and "Come Rain Or Come Shine" (1946) among others.[4]

In Hollywood he was able to collaborate with a remarkable number of composers, including Richard Whiting, Harry Warren, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Jimmy Van Heusen, Henry Mancini, Dorothy Fields, and Hoagy Carmichael. He was adaptable in his style, listening carefully and absorbing a tune and then transforming it into his own style. He said he preferred to have the music first, taking it home and working on it. He claimed composers had no problem with this method as long as he came back with the lyrics.

Mercer cofounded Capitol Records in Hollywood in 1942 along with businessman Buddy DeSylva and record store owner Glen Wallichs.[1]

After the death of his friend and collaborator, Paul Whiting, he began working with Harry Warren, one of the best composers in the film business. Starting in the late 1930s, Mercer also had an immensely productive collaborative relationship with Harold Arlen.

Mercer was often asked to write new lyrics to already popular tunes. The lyrics to "Laura," "Midnight Sun," and "Satin Doll" were all written after the melodies had become hits. He was also asked to write English lyrics to foreign songs, the most famous example being "Autumn Leaves," based on the French "Les Feuilles Mortes."

Occasionally, Mercer wrote both music and lyrics. "Something's Gotta Give" is probably the best-known song in this category.

Mercer wrote for some MGM films, which include Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) and Merry Andrew (1958). He wrote the lyrics to "Moon River" for Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's. (Henry Mancini wrote the music.) In 1969, Mercer helped publishers Abe Olman and Howie Richmond found the National Academy of Popular Music's Songwriters Hall of Fame.

A good indication of the high esteem in which Mercer was held can be seen in the fact that, in 1964, he became the only lyricist to have his work recorded as a volume of Ella Fitzgerald's celebrated 'Songbook' albums for the Verve label. Yet Mercer always remained humble about his work, attributing much to luck and timing. He was fond of telling the story of how he was offered the job of doing the lyrics for Johnny Mandel's music on The Sandpiper, only to have the producer turn his lyrics down. The producer offered the commission to Paul Francis Webster and the result was "The Shadow of Your Smile" which became a huge hit, winning the 1965 Oscar for Best Original Song.[2]


Broadway credits

Mercer wrote the lyrics for songs heard in the revues Garrick Gaieties (1930) and Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1939 and for the musicals St. Louis Woman (1946), Top Banana (musical) (1951), Li'l Abner (1956), Saratoga (1959), and Foxy (1964).


Southern roots

Born in the South, Mercer grew up listening to records of Tin Pan Alley songs but also to so-called "race" records, marketed to blacks. His later songs merged his southern roots with his urban knowledge of sophisticated songwriters. It was his southern roots that enable him to be one of the few lyricists able to skillfully write lyrics set to the jazz melodies of composers such as Hoagy Carmichael. For years Mercer had to ignore those roots to fit the requirements of Tin Pan Alley standard terms. "Moon River", with its remarkable phrase "my huckleberry friend" would never have been accepted in the Tin Pan Alley years.[4]


Singing style

Well-regarded also as a singer, with a folksy singing quality, he was a natural for his own songs such as "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive", "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe", "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)", and "Lazybones." He was considered a first-rate performer of his own work.[2]

It has been said that he penned "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)", one of the great torch laments of all times, on a napkin while sitting at the bar at P. J. Clarke's when Tommy Joyce was the bartender. The next day he called Tommy to apologize for the line "So, set 'em up, Joe," "I couldn't get your name to rhyme." Mercer, like Cole Porter before him, was more interested in the words than the emotion in lyric. This may be why "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" was sung more effectively by him than other singers who often turned it into a tear-jerker.

ATCO Records issued Two Of A Kind in 1961, a duet album by Bobby Darin and Johnny Mercer with Billy May and his Orchestra, produced by Ahmet Ertegün.

In 1971 Mercer presented a retrospective of his career for the "Lyrics and Lyricists Series" in New York City. Including an omnibus of his "greatest hits" and a performance by Margaret Whiting, it was recorded live as An Evening with Johnny Mercer.[5]

In 1974, Mercer recorded two albums of his songs in London, with the Pete Moore Orchestra, and with the Harry Roche Constellation.


Posthumous success

In his last year, Mercer became extremely fond of pop singer Barry Manilow, in part because Manilow's first hit record was of a song titled "Mandy", which was also the name of Mercer's daughter Amanda. After Mercer's death, his widow, Ginger Mehan Mercer, arranged to give some unfinished lyrics he had written to Manilow to possibly develop into complete songs. Among these was a piece titled "When October Goes", a melancholy remembrance of lost love. Manilow applied his own melody to the lyric and issued it as a single in 1984, when it became a top 10 Adult Contemporary hit in the United States. The song has since become a jazz standard, with notable recordings by Rosemary Clooney, Nancy Wilson, and Megon McDonough, among other performers.


Academy Awards

Mercer won four Academy Awards for Best Song:

"On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" (1946) (music by Harry Warren) for The Harvey Girls
"In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening" (1951) (music by Hoagy Carmichael) for Here Comes The Groom
"Moon River" (1961) (music by Henry Mancini) for Breakfast at Tiffany's
"Days of Wine and Roses" (1962) (music by Henry Mancini) for Days of Wine and Roses

Other facts


Mercer was a direct descendant of Revolutionary War General Hugh Mercer, and through him was also a distant cousin of General George S. Patton.
Mercer was the great-grandson of Confederate General Hugh Weedon Mercer
Mercer House in Savannah was built by General Hugh Weedon Mercer in 1860, later the home of Jim Williams, whose trial for murder was the centerpiece of John Berendt's book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, although neither the General nor Johnny ever lived there.
His mother was Lillian Barbara Ciucevich. Born in America she was the daughter of Croatian migrants who came to America in the 1870s.
He was honored by the United States Postal Service with his portrait placed on a stamp in 1996.
His star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1628 Vine Street[6] is a block away from the Capitol Records building at 1750 Vine Street.
He died in Bel Air, California.
There is a theatre named after him in Savannah's Civic Center.
There is a pier named after him in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, just north of Wilmington.

Brenda Vaccaro
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born November 18, 1939 (1939-11-18) (age 67)
Brooklyn, New York
Spouse(s) William Bishop (1977-1978)
Charles Cannizzaro (1981-1982)
Guy Hector (1986-)
[show]Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
1976 Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough

Brenda Buell Vaccaro (born November 18, 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning American actress.




Biography

Early life

Vaccaro was born in Brooklyn, New York to Italian American parents Christine M. Pavia and Mario A. Vaccaro (originally a lawyer), both of whom were pioneers in Italian cuisine.[1][2][3] She was raised in Texas, where her parents co-founded Mario's Restaurant (a nationally recognized restaurant)[4] and where Vaccaro graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1958.[5] She returned to New York City to study at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and made her Broadway debut in the short-lived 1961 comedy Everybody Loves Opal, for which she won the Theatre World Award.


Career

Vaccaro's Broadway credits include Cactus Flower (1965), How Now, Dow Jones (1967), The Goodbye People (1968), the female version of The Odd Couple, (1985), and Jake's Women (1982). The husky-voiced actress has been nominated for the Tony Award three times, for Best Featured Actress in a Play (Cactus Flower), Best Actress in a Musical (Dow Jones), and Best Actress in a Play (The Goodbye People).

Vaccaro co-starred in the 1969 Dustin Hoffman/Jon Voight film Midnight Cowboy, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. For her performance in the 1975 film adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough she garnered an Academy Award nomination and won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. Additional screen credits include Airport '77, Capricorn One, Supergirl, and The Mirror Has Two Faces.

Vaccaro's many television credits include a number of television movies and a regular role in the short-lived 1984 series Paper Dolls in addition to guest appearances on The Fugitive, The Defenders, Coronet Blue, The Name of the Game, Marcus Welby, M.D., McCloud, The Streets of San Francisco, The Love Boat, St. Elsewhere, Murder, She Wrote, The Golden Girls, Columbo, Touched by an Angel, Friends, The King of Queens, and Nip/Tuck. She has been nominated for an Emmy Award three times and won for Best Supporting Actress in Comedy-Variety, Variety or Music for The Shape of Things in 1974.

Later she went onto supply the voice for Johnny Bravo's mother Bunny Bravo in the animated cartoon series.

David Hemmings
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

David Hemmings (November 18, 1941 - December 3, 2003) was an English movie actor and director, whose most famous role was the photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup in 1966 (opposite Vanessa Redgrave), one of the films that best represented the spirit of the 1960s. Although initially an attractive leading man, he was increasingly cast as a villain in the latter stages of his career, when his waistline expanded and his looks deteriorated.





Career

Early performances

Born in Guildford, Surrey, he started his career as a boy soprano, appearing in several works by Benjamin Britten, who formed a close friendship with him at this time. Most notably, he created the role of Miles in the opera Turn of the Screw. Hemmings' intimate, yet innocent, relationship with Britten is described in John Bridcut's Britten's Children.


Film and television work

Hemmings then moved on to an acting and directing career in the cinema. He made his first film appearance in 1954, but it was in the mid-sixties that he first became well known as a pin-up and film star. Antonioni, who detested the "Method" way of acting, sought to find a fresh young face for the lead in his next production. It was then that he found Hemmings, at the time acting in small stage theatre in London. Following Blowup, Hemmings appeared in a string of major British films, including Camelot (1967), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) and Alfred the Great (1969) (in which he played the title role). In keeping with his standing as a 1960s icon, he also appeared in Barbarella.

Around 1967 Hemmings was also briefly considered for the role of Alex in a planned film version of Anthony Burgess' controversial novel A Clockwork Orange which was to be based on a screen treatment by satirist Terry Southern and British photographer Michael Cooper. Cooper and The Rolling Stones were reportedly upset by the move and it was decided to return to the original plan in which Mick Jagger would play Alex, with the rest of The Rolling Stones as his droog gang, but the production was shelved after Britain's chief censor, the Lord Chamberlain, indicated that he would not permit it to be made.[1] Another (Italian) cult movie in which Hemmings appeared was the 1975 thriller Profondo Rosso (also known as Deep Red or The Hatchet Murders) directed by Dario Argento.

In 1978 Hemmings directed David Bowie and Marlene Dietrich in Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo (also known as Just a Gigolo). The film was poorly received, Bowie describing it as "my 32 Elvis Presley movies rolled into one".[2] Hemmings directed a film version of James Herbert's novel The Survivor, starring Robert Powell and Jenny Agutter, in 1981. Throughout the 1980s he also worked extensively as a director on television programmes including Magnum, p.i. (in which he also played characters in several episodes), The A-Team and Airwolf, in which he also played the role of Dr. Charles Henry Moffett, Airwolf's twisted creator, in the pilot and the second season episode "Moffett's Ghost". He once joked, "People thought I was dead. But I wasn't. I was just directing The A-Team." In 1984 he directed the puzzle contest video Money Hunt: The Mystery of the Missing Link.

In 1992 he returned to the voyeuristic preoccupations of his Blowup character with a plum part as the Big Brother-esque villain in the season three opener for Tales From the Crypt. In later years, he had roles in the blockbuster movie Gladiator (2000), with Russell Crowe, and Last Orders (2001). One of his final film appearances was a cameo role in the cult hit, Equilibrium (2002), shortly before his death.


Music

In 1967 Hemmings recorded a pop single ("Back Street Mirror", written by Gene Clark) and an album, David Hemmings Happens, in Los Angeles. The album featured instrumental backing by several members of the Byrds, and was produced by Byrds mentor Jim Dickinson. Hemmings also later provided the narration for Rick Wakeman's prog rock adaptation of Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth, which was recorded live. In 1975 he starred as Bertie Wooster in the short-lived Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Jeeves. Hemmings also managed the career of Canadian rocker Pat Travers during the latter half of the 1970's.


Personal life

Hemmings married four times, the most famous of his wives being the Fort Worth, Texas-born actress and long-term British resident, Gayle Hunnicutt, mother of his son, Nolan Hemmings.


Death

In December 2003, Hemmings died of a heart attack, in Romania, on the film set of Blessed, (working title Samantha's Child) after playing his scenes for the day. He was 62. His funeral was held in Calne, Wiltshire, where he had made his home for several years.


Appearances in popular culture

He was mentioned twice in the Monty Python's Flying Circus TV show (series 1, episode 8 - "Full Frontal Nudity"). The first time was at the beginning of the episode with the caption "In this performance the part of David Hemmings will be played by a piece of wood", the second time being at the end of the episode with the voice over "David Hemmings appeared by permission of the National Forestry Commission."

Linda Evans
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Birth name Linda Evanstad
Born November 18, 1942 (1942-11-18) (age 64)
Hartford, Connecticut
Spouse(s) John Derek (1968-1974)
Stan Herman (1976-1981)
[show]Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actress - Drama Series
1982 Dynasty

Linda Evans (born Linda Evanstad on November 18, 1942 in Hartford, Connecticut) is a Golden Globe-winning American actress known primarily for her roles on soap operas and television.

At 23, the naturally blonde-headed Evans rose to fame as Barbara Stanwyck's daughter and Lee Majors's sister, Audra Barkley, on the 1960s western, The Big Valley (1965-1969), and later as John Forsythe's younger compassionate wife, Krystle Carrington, on the 1980s prime-time television soap opera, Dynasty (1981-1989).





Career

Evans's first guest-starring role was on an episode of Bachelor Father. In real-life, Evans said that she actually had a crush on Forsythe. This led her to co-starring with him on Dynasty, more than two decades later.

Due to her character's name on Dynasty, she started a successful ad campaign for Crystal Light beverages, starting in 1984. She was also recently spoofed in a scene on one episode of Family Guy, in which it was implied that the actress could not work well with others. As a result, Evans finds no more acting jobs and had to work in a supermarket.

Evans was the one who filmed Evel Knievel's jump over the fountains of Caesars Palace on New Year's Eve, 1967.

Evans has been married twice. She was first married to film producer John Derek from 1968 to 1974. When their marriage ended, he soon married actress Bo Derek. Evans' second marriage was to Stan Herman, a property executive, from 1976 to 1981. Evans dated musician Yanni from 1989 until 1998. She dated Willie Tanner in the early 1960's.

Regularly listed as one of the most beautiful women in America, she appeared in Playboy magazine at the behest of her then husband John Derek in 1971 and a second time in 1982 when she was turning forty.

For her contribution to the television industry, Linda Evans has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6834 Hollywood Blvd.

Evans resides in Lakewood, Washington and owns a small chain of fitness centers.

In the 1990s, Evans hosted infomercials for Rejuvenique, a mask for toning facial muscles. In 2005, she was one of the guests at the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles.

In 2006 Evans starred in Legends opposite former Dynasty rival, Joan Collins.

Collins and Evans did not get along during the production, according to Collins, who wrote about their experience on the road in the U.K. Daily Mail. Collins said that Evans never reciprocated party invites during Dynasty, kept her distance from Collins during the series' run, revealed that she agreed for the producers to approach Evans for Legends against her better judgement (as Evans had never acted on stage before) and further said that Evans was too physical during their on-stage stunts during Legends. In the article, Collins called her Linda "The Lips" Evans, a reference to the latter's collagen-enhanced lips, and said she tried to be nice to Evans during the run, even helping with her stage fright. The article was entitled, "Why I'll Never Work With Linda Evans Again."

Evans is a follower of Ramtha's School of Enlightenment.