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Evelyn Keyes
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Birth name Evelyn Louise Keyes
Born November 20, 1916 (1916-11-20) (age 91)
Port Arthur, Texas, United States
Years active 1938 - 1989
Spouse(s) Barton Bainbridge (1938-1940)
Charles Vidor (1943-1945)
John Huston (1946-1950)
Artie Shaw (1957-1985)

Evelyn Keyes (b. November 20, 1916, Port Arthur, Texas) is an American actress.





Film career

A chorus girl by age 18, Keyes was put under contract by Cecil B. DeMille. After a handful of B movies at Paramount Pictures, she landed her most notable role, that of Scarlett O'Hara's sister Suellen in Gone with the Wind (1939). Keyes' last important film role was a small part as Tom Ewell's vacationing wife in The Seven Year Itch (1955), which starred Marilyn Monroe. Keyes officially retired in 1956, but continued to act.


Personal life

She was married to Barton Bainbridge from 1938 until his death in 1940. Later she married and divorced director Charles Vidor (1943 - 1945), actor John Huston (23 July 1946 - 1950), and bandleader Artie Shaw (1957 - 1985). In 2005, Keyes sued Shaw's estate, claiming that she was entitled to one-half of Shaw's estate pursuant to a contract to make a will between them. In July 2006, a Ventura, California jury unanimously held that Keyes was entitled to almost one-half of Shaw's estate, or $1,420,000. [1]

Keyes said of her many relationships, "I was always interested in the man of the moment, and there were many such moments". While married to Huston, the couple adopted a Mexican child, Pablo, whom Huston had discovered while on the set of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

Her autobiography, Scarlett O'Hara's Younger Sister: My Lively Life in and Out of Hollywood, was published in 1977. Keyes has expressed her opinion that Mrs. Mike was her best film.

She currently resides in Santa Barbara, California.

Phyllis Thaxter
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Phyllis Thaxter (born Phyllis St. Felix Thaxter November 20, 1921 in Portland, Maine) was the daughter of Maine Supreme Court Justice Sidney Thaxter and her mother a one-time Shakespearean actress. Thaxter, taking after her mother, worked as a Broadway actress in the 1930s and eventually signed an MGM contract in 1944. Her movie debut had her playing opposite actor Van Johnson in the war-time docudrama Thirty Seconds over Tokyo. While at MGM, Phyllis married James T. Aubrey, Jr., who later became president of CBS-TV and MGM. They divorced in 1962. While at MGM, she usually played the ever-patient wife to a number of leading men, including Robert Ryan in Act of Violence (1948). One of her more memorable roles was also in 1948, playing a cattle owner's daughter alongside Barbara Bel Geddes in Blood on the Moon (1948). She changed studios, moving to Warner Brothers, in the 1950s but usually played the same type of roles.

Thaxter's career stalled after an attack of infantile paralysis, while visiting her family in Portland, in 1952. She, however, made a slow comeback in character parts in television, movies and the stage. In 1978, Phyllis Thaxter was cast along with Glenn Ford as Ma and Pa Kent in Superman.

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Duane Allman
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Background information

Birth name Howard Duane Allman
Also known as Skydog
Born November 20, 1946(1946-11-20)
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Died October 29, 1971 (aged 24)
Macon, Georgia, U.S.
Genre(s) Southern rock, Blues, Blues-rock, Jam, Jazz fusion
Occupation(s) Musician
Instrument(s) Guitar
Years active 1961 - 1971
Label(s) Mercury, Capricorn
Associated
acts The Allman Brothers Band
Derek and the Dominos
Allman Joys
The Hour Glass
Website AllmanBrothersBand.com
Notable instrument(s)
Gibson '59 Darkburst Les Paul
Gibson '68 Cherry SG

Howard Duane Allman (November 20, 1946 - October 29, 1971) was an American lead guitarist and noted session musician.

Allman is noted for both his slide guitar and improvisational skills. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine named Duane Allman as number two on their list of the greatest guitarists of all time, trailing only Jimi Hendrix.[1] He was a noted session musician, was a founding member, alongside his brother Gregg, and leader of The Allman Brothers Band, and also had a major role on the 1970 album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, by Derek and the Dominos, led by Eric Clapton. His nickname, "Skydog," was a portmanteau of two nicknames, "Skyman," given to him by soul singer Wilson Pickett and "Dog," given to him by friends because of a perceived resemblance to such.





Biography

Allman was born in Nashville, Tennessee. When he was three years old and his family was living near Norfolk, Virginia, his father, Willis, a United States Army sergeant, was murdered on December 26 in a robbery by a veteran he had befriended that day. Geraldine "Mama A" Allman and the boys moved back to Nashville. In 1957 they moved to Daytona Beach, Florida.

As a teenager in 1960, Allman was motivated to take up the guitar by the example of his younger brother, Gregg, who had obtained a guitar after hearing a neighbor playing country music standards on an acoustic guitar. Gregg later said that after Duane started playing, "he ... passed me up like I was standing still."

Another important event occurred in 1959 when the boys were in Nashville visiting family. They attended a rock 'n' roll show in which blues artist B. B. King performed, and both promptly fell under the spell of the music. Brother Gregg reports that Duane turned to him in the middle of the show and said, "We got to get into this."


Allman Joys and Hour Glass

The Allman boys started playing publicly in 1961, joining or forming a number of small, local groups. Shortly thereafter Allman quit high school to stay home during the day and focus on his guitar playing. Their band the Escorts eventually became the Allman Joys. After Gregg graduated from Seabreeze High School in 1965, the Allman Joys went on the road, performing throughout the Southeast and eventually being based in Nashville and St. Louis.

The Allman Joys morphed into another not-completely-successful band, The Hour Glass, which moved to Los Angeles in early 1967. There the Hour Glass did manage to produce two albums that left the band unsatisfied. Liberty, their record company, tried to market them as a pop band, completely ignoring the band's desire to play more blues-oriented material. The Hour Glass songs that are on the first and second Duane Allman Anthologies, as well as the Allman Brothers' anthology Dreams, are so radically different from the Liberty releases that they might as well be two different bands. Duane's guitar playing, buried in the 1960s albums, takes on the commanding presence that he later displayed with the Allman Brothers.

At this point Allman added electric slide guitar to his repertoire, after hearing Taj Mahal perform the Willie McTell classic "Statesboro Blues," featuring Jesse Ed Davis on slide; this was later a signature tune for the Allman Brothers Band. Allman used an empty glass Coricidin medicine bottle worn over his ring finger as a slide; this was later picked up by other slide guitarists such as Rory Gallagher, Derek Trucks and Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd.[2][3]

The Hour Glass broke up in early 1968, and Duane and Gregg Allman went back to Florida, where they played on demo sessions with the 31st of February, a folk rock outfit whose drummer was Butch Trucks. Gregg returned to California to fulfill Hour Glass obligations, while Duane jammed around Florida for months but didn't get another band going.



Session musician

Allman's playing on the two Hour Glass albums and an Hour Glass session in early 1968 at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, had caught the ear of Rick Hall, owner of FAME. In November 1968 Hall hired Allman to play on an album with Wilson Pickett. Allman's work on that album, Hey Jude (1968), got him hired as a full-time session musician at Muscle Shoals and brought him to the attention of a number of other musicians, such as guitar great Eric Clapton, who later said, "I remember hearing Wilson Pickett's 'Hey Jude' and just being astounded by the lead break at the end. ... I had to know who that was immediately ?- right now."

Allman's performance on "Hey Jude" blew away Atlantic Records producer and executive Jerry Wexler when Hall played it over the phone for him. Wexler immediately bought Allman's recording contract from Hall and wanted to use him on sessions with all sorts of Atlantic R&B artists. While at Muscle Shoals, Allman was featured on releases by a number of artists, including Clarence Carter, King Curtis, Aretha Franklin, Otis Rush, Percy Sledge, Johnny Jenkins, Boz Scaggs, Delaney & Bonnie and jazz flautist Herbie Mann. Shortly after he recorded his lead break in "Hey Jude," he recorded all of the lead guitar in Boz Scaggs' "Loan Me A Dime." His soloing in the song is noted as some of the best he ever laid down on record. For his first Aretha sessions, Allman traveled to New York, where in January 1969 he went as an audience member to the Fillmore East to see Johnny Winter and prophetically told fellow Shoals guitarist Jimmy Johnson that in a year he'd be on that stage; the Allman Brothers Band indeed played the Fillmore that December.


Formation of The Allman Brothers Band

The limits of full-time session playing frustrated Allman. The few months in Muscle Shoals were by no means a waste, however, because besides meeting the great artists and other industry professionals he was working with, Allman had rented a small, secluded cabin on a lake and spent many solitary hours there refining his playing. Perhaps most significantly, at F.A.M.E. Allman got together with R&B and jazz drummer Jaimoe Johanson, who came there to meet Allman at the urging of the late Otis Redding's manager, Phil Walden, who by now was managing Allman and wanted to build a three-piece band around him. Allman and Jaimoe got Chicago-born bassist Berry Oakley to come up from Florida and jam as a trio, but Berry was committed to his rock band with guitarist Dickey Betts, the Second Coming, and returned south.

Getting fed up with Muscle Shoals, in March Allman took Jaimoe with him back to Jacksonville, Florida, where they moved in with Butch Trucks. Soon a jam session of these three plus Betts, Oakley, and Reese Wynans took place and forged what all present recognized as a natural, or even magical, bond. With the addition of brother Gregg, called back from Los Angeles to sing and replace Wynans on keyboards, at the end of March 1969, the Allman Brothers Band was formed. (Wynans became well known over a decade later as organist with Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble.) After a bit of rehearsing and gigging, the sextet moved up to Macon, Georgia, in April to be near Walden and his Capricorn Sound Studios. While living in Macon, Allman met Donna Roosman, who bore his only child, Galadrielle. Despite their child, the relationship quickly ended.


Success, Layla, At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band went on to become one of the most influential rock groups of the 1970s, described by Rolling Stone's George Kimball in 1971 as "the best damn rock and roll band this country has produced in the past five years."[4] After months of nonstop rehearsing and gigging, including fondly remembered free shows in Macon's Central City Park and Atlanta's Piedmont Park, the band was ready to settle on the band name we know, and to record. Their debut album, The Allman Brothers Band, was recorded in New York in September 1969 and released a couple months later. In the midst of intense touring, work began in Macon and Miami (Atlantic South - Criteria Studios), and a little bit in New York, on the ABB's second album, Idlewild South. Produced mostly by Tom Dowd, Idlewild South was released in August 1970 and broke ground for the ABB by quickly hitting the Billboard charts.

A group date in Miami, also that August, gave Allman the chance to participate in Eric Clapton's Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. Clapton had long wanted to meet Allman; when he heard that the Allman Brothers were due to play in Miami, where he had just started work on Layla with producer Tom Dowd, he insisted on going to see their concert, where he met Allman. After the show the two bands?-the Allman Brothers Band and Derek and the Dominos?-returned to Criteria, where Allman and Clapton quickly formed a deep rapport during an all-night jam session.[5] At one point, Allman cautiously asked Clapton if he could come by the studio to watch. Clapton refused, telling Allman to bring his guitar because, "you got to play." Allman wound up participating on most of the album's tracks, contributing some of his best-known work. Allman never left the Allman Brothers Band, though, despite being offered a permanent position with Clapton. Allman never toured with Derek and the Dominos, but he did make two appearances with them on December 1, 1970 at the Curtis Hixon Hall and the following day at Onondaga County War Memorial.

In an interview, Duane told listeners how to tell who played what: Eric played the Fender parts and Duane played the Gibson parts. He continued by noting that the Fender had a sparklier sound, while the Gibson produced more of a "full-tilt screech."

The Allman Brothers went on to record At Fillmore East, one of the classic live albums of rock and roll, in March, 1971. Meanwhile, Allman continued contributing session work to other artists' albums whenever he could. According to Skydog: the Duane Allman Story, Allman was in the habit of spontaneously dropping in at recording sessions and contributing to whatever was being taped that day. He received cash payments but no recording credits, making it virtually impossible to compile a complete discography of his works.


Death

Duane Allman was killed in a motorcycle accident only a few months after the summer release and great initial success of At Fillmore East. While in Macon on October 29, during a band break from touring and recording, Allman was riding toward an oncoming truck that was turning well in front of him but then stopped in mid-intersection. He lost control of his Harley while trying to swing left, possibly striking the back of the truck or its crane ball. He flew from his bike, which landed on and skidded with him, crushing internal organs; he died a few hours later, less than one month shy of his 25th birthday. In a bizarre coincidence, bassist Berry Oakley would die only 13 months later in a similar motorcycle crash with a city bus, just three blocks away from the site of Duane Allman's.


Memorials

After Duane Allman's funeral and a few weeks of mourning, the five surviving members of the Allman Brothers Band carried on with the name, resuming live performances and finishing the recording work interrupted by Duane's passing. They called this next album Eat a Peach for one of Duane Allman's interview lines, in response to the question "How are you helping the revolution?": "There ain't no revolution, only evolution, but every time I'm in Georgia I eat a peach for peace." Released in February, 1972, this double album contains a side of live and studio tracks with Allman; two sides of "Mountain Jam", recorded with Duane at the Fillmore during the same March stand as At Fillmore East; and a side of tracks by the five-piece band. There is a widely believed urban legend that Eat a Peach was a reference to the type of truck that killed Duane; however, that is not true. Though the cover art of the album does depict a truck underneath a giant peach, whether it is a reference to Allman's accident is unknown.

A year later, after Berry Oakley's death in Macon following another motorcycle accident just a few blocks from where Duane crashed, Berry's body was laid to rest beside Duane Allman's in Macon's Rose Hill Cemetery. The variety of Allman's session work and ABB bandleading can be heard to good effect on two posthumous Capricorn releases, Duane Allman: An Anthology (1972) and Duane Allman: An Anthology Vol. II (1974). There are also several archival releases of live Allman Brothers Band performances from what is called the band's Duane Era.

Shortly after Duane's death, Ronnie Van Zant of Lynyrd Skynyrd dedicated the song "Free Bird," to the memory of Duane Allman. Many people assume the song was written about Duane, but this is not true; the song had been written before Duane had died.

In 1973 some fans carved the very large letters "REMEMBER DUANE ALLMAN" in a sandstone embankment along Interstate 20 near Vicksburg, Mississippi. A photograph was published in Rolling Stone magazine and in the Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll; the carving itself lasted for over ten years.[6]

In 1998 the Georgia state legislature passed a resolution designating a stretch of State Highway 19 within Macon as "Duane Allman Boulevard" in his honor.

Duane Allman was generally considered a pacifist and was highly respected among his band mates. A care-free hippie throughout his teen and adult years, he was an avid reader, enjoying The Lord of the Rings and philosopical, political and poetic books. He named his only child Galadrielle in honor of Galadriel. Although never formally educated, roadie and band manager (1970-1976) Willie Perkins has joked that Allman referred to himself as a "roads scholar" from knowledge attained through his own readings and travels.

The guitar that Duane Allman used to record most of his songs is being kept at Hard Rock Cafe in London at the Vault.

Bo Derek
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Birth name Mary Cathleen Collins
Born November 20, 1956 (1956-11-20) (age 51)
Long Beach, California
Years active 1977-present
[show]Awards
Golden Raspberry Awards
Worst Actress
1981 Tarzan, the Ape Man

Bo Derek (born Mary Cathleen Collins on November 20, 1956, Long Beach, California, U.S.) is a Golden Globe-nominated American film actress and model.




Early life

Derek is of Irish, German, Dutch and Welsh descent. Her father is Phil Collins, a Hobie Cat executive. Her mother is Norma Collins, hairdresser to Ann-Margaret. In addition to Derek, they had one son, Colin Bass, {born Colin Collins) bassist of the progrock band Camel, and two other daughters. After the parents divorced, Norma Collins married American stunt performer Bobby Bass [1][2][3]

Derek attended Narbonne High School in Harbor City, California, and graduated in 1974.

Derek started modelling to pay for a new surf board, and after a few shoots and a deodorant advert found she had a knack for performance. She got herself a Hollywood agent, and on the audition trail met director John Derek, 30 years her senior. John filed for divorce from his wife, actress Linda Evans, and the pair moved to Germany to avoid John being charged with statutory rape under US law due to Bo only being 16. The couple returned to America soon after Bo's 18th birthday, and married in 1976.[4] They remained married until his death in 1998.


Career

Acting

Derek turned down a role in the film King Kong in (1976),[5] making her first on screen performance in 1977's Orca: the Killer Whale, in which her character's leg was bitten off when the whale attacked her home on a pier.

Derek first came to prominence when she co-starred in the 1979 Blake Edwards film 10, in which Dudley Moore's character is torn between his love for Julie Andrews and his fascination with Derek. Her appearance shot her to instant stardom and status as a sex symbol. Her beaded and plaited cornrow hairstyle in the film was widely copied and became eponymous. As a result of the film, Bo received a Golden Globe nomination for new star of the year, but lost out to Bette Midler for The Rose.

Some of Bo Derek's subsequent films were not well-received by either the public or critics. For the 1981 film Tarzan, the Ape Man, the producers of the film were actually sued by the Edgar Rice Burroughs Estate over the name of the film, as Derek's role and physique seemed to overshadow the focus on Tarzan himself. She followed this film with the sexually charged Bolero and a subsequent role in her husband's production Ghosts Can't Do It.

She made the first of many appearances in Playboy, starting with the March 1980 issue. Her first pictorial (among others) was photographed by then husband John, on a secluded beach along an unnamed area of the Colorado River. The twelve page spread featured a few with her and her pet greyhound together jogging and sunbathing, as well as her sailing and swimming in the river, all nude. She also made the cover (in a bikini).

Bolero and Tarzan, the Ape Man earned her the dubious honor of four Golden Raspberry Awards, as well as a nomination in 2000 as the "Worst Actress of the Century". However, she has lately made a respectable showing as Jamie Kennedy's mom and Ryan O'Neal's wife in Malibu's Most Wanted (2003). In addition, she can be seen on TV in Fashion House playing one of the main characters, notorious fashion designer Maria Gianni. Derek was also chosen to be one of the judges in the 2006 Miss Universe pageant.


Political

Derek is a conservative Republican who supported George H.W. Bush in 1988 and 1992 and campaigned for his son, George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004, and she appeared at both Republican conventions. She is currently supporting Rudolph W. Giuliani for president.[1] Derek has also appeared at public events with Republican Congressman David Dreier of Southern California [2].

It is also rumored that Derek has dated White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten. When asked about the nature of their relationship on the April 30, 2006 edition of Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, Bolten identified Derek as a "friend" and as a "strong supporter of the President." According to Wallace, when President Bush heard of their rumored relationship Bush teased Bolten that together he and Derek were a "15".

Bo Derek has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts by President George W. Bush.

Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani skipped the debate on minority issues to attend a $2300-a-plate fundraiser at the Biltmore Four Seasons in Santa Barbara hosted by Bo Derek.


Personal life

Relationships

Since John Derek's death, she has been romantically linked by various tabloids to Paul McCartney, Kiefer Sutherland, and media billionaire Ted Turner.[6] She is currently dating actor John Corbett.[7]

Derek lives on a ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley, California, that she originally bought with John Derek; with her sister, her sister's husband. and their two children.


Horse owner/activist

A horse lover and riding enthusiast since childhood, she is the owner of Iberian horses and is a Spokesperson for the Animal Welfare Institute's national campaign to end horse slaughter through passage of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. On February 5, 2002, she published her autobiography entitled Riding Lessons, Everything that matters in life I learned from horses (ISBN 0-060-39437-4).


Formula One fan

Bo was spotted with F1 Supremo Bernie Ecclestone in the Pit Lane at the 2007 Formula One Turkish Grand Prix and was interviewed by Peter Windsor to whom she spoke of her love of Formula One racing.

I took my dad to the Mall one time to buy some new shoes.
We decided to grab a bite at the food court I noticed he was watching a
Teenager sitting next to him. The teenager had spiked hair in all
Different colors: green, red, orange, and blue. My dad kept staring at
him. The teenager would look and find him staring every time.

When the teenager had enough, he sarcastically asked, "What's
the matter old man, never done anything wild in your life?"
Knowing my Dad, I quickly swallowed my food so that I would not
Choke on his response; knowing he would have a good one. And in classic
Style he did not bat an eye in his response,
"Got drunk once and had sex With a peacock. I was just wondering if you were my son."

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

edgar, I don't believe that song will win the "pullet-zer" prize, buddy.<groan>

Love your peacock funny, Bob, and thanks once again for the bio's.

Until our restored puppy arrives, I watched the movie "Song of Love" last evening on TCM. It was a love story about Claire and Robert Schumann. I did NOT know that the lovely song, Traumerei meant reverie.

Well, folks watching that oldie put me in a classical mood, but let's do one by The Allman Brothers.

Allman Brothers
Back Where it All Begins

Say you want to be a rolling stone
Get your sail out in the wind
Get out on the highway and let 'er roll on
Roll on back to someplace you ain't never been
Hey, hey

When I was younger I was hard to hold
Seem like I was always goin'
Which ever way the wind would blow
Now that travelin' spirit calls me again

Callin' me back to where it all begins

Moon rise and sun go down
Turn my whole world around
Little star up in the sky
Tell my sweet baby please don't cry
Please don't cry

(SOLO)

Moon rise and sun go down
Turn my whole world around
Little star up in the sky
Tell my sweet baby please don't cry
Please don't cry

Travel out across the burnin' sand
Cross the ocean to some distant land
We'll reach the end we'll all be singin'
and we'll all be friends
Back where it all begins

Back where it all begins

Good morning WA2K.

Saw "Song of Love" many years ago, Letty. I love Traumeri. Did the movie seem too outdated or was it a relief?

Today's B.D. photo gallery:

Judy Canova; Evelyn Keyes; Phyllis Thaxter; Duanne Allman and Bo Derek

Good morning, Raggedy. To tell you the truth, PA, and you may think this foolish, but after hearing Traumeri, and hearing the commentary proceeding the movie, I quit watching. It made me a mite melancholy.

I do wonder, however, why Schumann became insane.

Thanks, PA, for the great collage for our gallery here on WA2K radio.

Marvelous quintet, puppy, and I think we all know Ravel's Bolero.

Let's listen to this one for the day, folks. I call it an antithesis to Schumann.

The Beach Boys

Disney Girls

Clearing skies and drying eyes
Now I see your smile
Darkness goes and softness shows
A changing style

Just in time words that rhyme
Well bless your soul
Now I'll fill your hands
With kisses and a Tootsie Roll

Oh reality, it's not for me
And it makes me laugh
Oh, fantasy world and Disney girls
I'm coming back

Patti Page and summer days
On old Cape Cod
Happy times making wine
In my garage
Country shade and lemonade
Guess I'm slowing down
It's a turned back world
With a local girl
In a smaller town

Open cars and clearer stars
That's what I've lacked
But fantasy world and Disney girls
I'm coming back

Love...Hi Rick and Dave
Hi Pop...Well good morning mom
Love...get up guess what
I'm in love with a girl I found
She's really swell
Cause she likes
Church, bingo chances and old time dances

All my life I spent the night
With dreams of you
And the warmth I missed
And for the things I wished
They're all coming true

I've got my love to give
And a place to live
Guess I'm gonna stay
It'd be a peaceful life
With a forever wife
And a kid someday

Well, it's early nights
And pillow fights
And your soft laugh
Fantasy world and Disney girls
I'm coming back

This may be the answer concerning Schumann's madness, folks.

Schumann

Aah, I can well understand that, Letty. I, too, experience "blue" moods while listening to certain music, Chopin in particular.

This might answer your question about Schumann:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Schumann

Bolero makes me happy.

Ooops. You beat me to it.

I did? Usually, Raggedy, I don't beat anyone.

My older sister was acquainted with a man in Virginia who had congenital syphilis. Such a terrible irony.

Yes, Ravel's Bolero is upbeat, and I understand your feelings about Chopin's music. I truly think it's knowing that they died so young that makes us feel a certain sadness for such men with so great a talent.

And then there is Milton with his L'allegro and the counter piece, II Penseroso.

How about a happy tune to rescue us from the doldrums, folks.

Diana Krall

Pick Yourself Up

Nothings impossible I have found
For when my chin is on the ground
I pick myself up, dust myself off, start all over again

Don't lose your confidence if you slip
Be grateful for a pleasant trip
And pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start all over again

Work like a soul inspired till the battle of the day is won
You may be sick and tired but you'll be a man my son

Don't you remember the famous man who had to fall to rise again?
They picked themselves up, dust themselves off and started all over again

had a little time on my hands, so thought i'd play a *nice* song for a change. it runs against my usual cynical nature, but our PD knows why i chose this particular Hollies number.

The road is long
With many a winding turn
That leads us to who knows where
Who knows when
But I'm strong
Strong enough to carry him
He ain't heavy, he's my brother

So on we go
His welfare is of my concern
No burden is he to bear
We'll get there
For I know
He would not encumber me
He ain't heavy, he's my brother

If I'm laden at all
I'm laden with sadness
That everyone's heart
Isn't filled with the gladness
Of love for one another

It's a long, long road
From which there is no return
While we're on the way to there
Why not share
And the load
Doesn't weigh me down at all
He ain't heavy, he's my brother

He's my brother
He ain't heavy, he's my brother...

Welcome back, heralding honu. Yes, island man, I know. That song says so much, no? I realize that families have arguments and anger for various reasons, but when life seems at its worst, there's the place that one may go, and it's called home. We're not talking about a house or structure, that is totally different.

Not the best lyrics, folks, but it does say a lot.

Do you remember when we were only kids
Knew everyone in our neighborhood and swore that we would never forget
Well time flies and the years go by, but memories never fade
I've been gone much too long, gotta get back there someday

But my travelin' days ain't over yet
And no matter how far away
There's one thing I can't forget

Chorus:
Home is where the heart is
But I'm always on the run
Home is where the heart is
Though my journey's just begun
Home's where the heart is

We used to hang out through the day and party all night long
I never thought I'd go away from the place where I belong
But here I am on the road again and my love is miles away
I've been gone much too long, gotta get back there someday

But my travelin' days ain't over yet
And no matter how far away
There's one thing I can't forget

Chorus

No matter how far away
The one thing I can't forget

Chorus

BUTTON UP YOUR OVERCOAT !

good afternoon listeners !
it's actually quite mild here and no need for an overcoat this afternoon - 10 C plus , about 50 F ! pretty nice for nov 20 .
worked a bit in the garden and some little insects (miny skeeters ) were performing a dance over one of the flowerbeds !

the lyrics of those OLDIES are absolutely wonderful imo .
i can almost hear the band playing and the lyrics being sung - NOSTALGIA .
hbg

and here is THE CHAIRMAN - when he was still a young fellow - singing for us :

Hey, hbg. Love that song, buddy. You're right, however, too warm for overcoats, so I suspect that is just an admonition from a song writer. Who wrote that?

Frankly, folks. I could go swimming in the ocean right now should I choose.

However, this little gal dared to be different and regretted it.

She was afraid to come out of the locker
She was as nervous as she could be
She was afraid to come out of the locker
She was afraid that somebody would see
(Two, three, four, tell the people what she wore)

It was an itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini
That she wore for the first time today
An itsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini
So in the locker she wanted to stay
(Two, three, four, stick around we'll tell ya more)

She was afraid to come out in the open
And so a blanket around her she wore
She was afraid to come out in the open
And so she sat bundled up on the shore
(Two, three, four, tell the people what she wore)

It was an itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini
That she wore for the first time today
An itsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini
So in the blanket she wanted to stay
(Two, three, four, stick around we'll tell ya more)

Now she's afraid to come of the water
And I wonder what she's gonna do
Now she's afraid to come out of the water
And the poor little girl's turnin' blue
(Two, three, four, tell the people what she wore)

It was an itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini
That she wore for the first time today
An itsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini
So in the water she wanted to stay

(From the locker to the blanket)
(From the blanket to the shore)
(From the shore to the water)
Guess there isn't any more

Dodie Stevens

(Mickie Grant)

Now I've got a guy and his name is Dooley
He's my guy and I love him truly
He's not good lookin', heaven knows
But I'm wild about his crazy clothes

He wears tan shoes with pink shoelaces
A polka dot vest and man, oh, man
Tan shoes with pink shoelaces
And a big Panama with a purple hat band

Ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh

He takes me deep-sea fishing in a submarine
We got to drive-in movies in a limousine
He's got a whirly-birdy and a 12-foot yacht
Ah, but thats-a not all he's got

He's got tan shoes with pink shoelaces
A polka dot vest and man, oh, man
Tan shoes with pink shoelaces
And a big Panama with a purple hat band

Now Dooley had a feelin' we were goin' to war
So he went out and enlisted in a fightin' corps
But he landed in the brig for raisin' such a storm
When they tried to put 'em in a uniform

He wanted tan shoes with pink shoelaces
A polka dot vest and man, oh, man
He wanted tan shoes with pink shoelaces
And a big Panama with a purple hat band

Ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh

Now one day Dooley started feelin' sick
And he decided that he better make his will out quick
He said
"Just before the angels come to carry me
I want it down in writin' how to bury me."

A'wearin tan shoes with pink shoelaces
A polka dot vest and man, oh, man
Give me tan shoes with pink shoelaces
And a big Panama with a purple hat band

Ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh

And a big Panama with a purple hat band!!

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whoever they are :wink:

wikipedia to the rescue :







JUST AMAZING WHAT A LITTLE "GOOGLING" WILL REVEAL !

Fell off my chair laughing! That was a good one!