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Hey, Raggedy. Isn't Schumann marvelous, and his music was done so well by the pianist, PA. I loved Run for the Roses, gal, just as I love your septet for our gallery. I didn't know about You Tube until I was in Orlando and had access to the cable connection. Now our listeners don't have to "pretend" to listen. First time that I have ever seen or heard the "little Sparrow" as well.

Here's one in honor of Jennifer Beals, folks

I'll be There Where the Heart is

It's the song that just keeps playing on the radio
And you know I haven't seen you for a while
I lie awake at night and wonder how you are
And I wish that I could see you again

Is it fate, or is it luck that brings us back
Or is it just a common point of view
Time has put a spell on you, you never seem to change
I wish that I could see you again

Chorus:
I'll be here where the heart is
When the dreams that we've been after all come true
You will find me here where the heart is
I'll wait for you, I'll wait for you

It's the light that just keeps shining day after day
And other loves have come and gone
And I'll be here with open arms to take you in
I wish that I could see you again

chorus

And in between, and when I need to see you again
All I have to do is close my eyes
Are the pictures comin' in my friend
I'll hold you again, but until then

chorus repeats out

I had no idea this was a Piaf song. Vera Lynn performed it as did John Gary.

If the sun should tumble from the sky
If the sea should suddenly run dry
If you love me, really love me
Let it happen, I won't care
If it seems that everything is lost
I should smile and never count the cost
If you love me, really love me
Let it happen, darling, I won't care

Shall I catch a shooting star?
Shall I bring it where you are?
If you want me to, I will
You can set me any task
I'll do anything you ask
If you'll only love me still

When at last our life on earth is through
I shall share eternity with you
If you love me, really love me
Then whatever happens, I won't care

Then whatever happens, I won't care

Here it is by Piaf:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaEl9Oa7lqQ


Wishing all at WA2K a great day.

Marvelous, Puppy. I know that song, and it could be because Walter cued me in to Vera Lynn and her renditions so long ago. Thank you, as being able to see and hear the songs of yesterday is a thing that makes my day go easier.

We do learn and listen on our wee cyber radio, folks.

It is my wish that all in our vast forum will have a day that is perfectly complete.

Time for a station break.

This is cyber space, WA2K radio.

good afternoon all !
it's rather grey in eastern ontario , just a few snowflakes , looking forward to some sunshine tomorrow .
so let's cheer up with a nonsense song from THE GOONS !
hbg



OOPS ! WRONG PICTURE
(it's actually a picture of SABRINA who would occasionally make an appearence on the show)

SABRINA was known to be friendly with Major Dennis Bloodnok, IND. ARM. RTD. (Military idiot, former plumber's mate, coward and bar) is a character from the 1950s BBC Radio comedy The Goon Show.

Born 1867 and 1880, Sandhurst NAAFI,[clarify] although it's also claimed he originated in India though "through no fault of the natives."

Bloodnok's army career is noted by cowardice and monetary irregularities. He is discharged after being found dressed as a woman, although he claims it was carnival night.
(no wonder SABRINA gave him the COLD shoulder after that !)



the only known picture of major bloodnok (in disguise to keep the enemy at bay)

Love it hbg. I can see why that Sabrina would be popular, and we love the song by your Goons. Thanks, Canada, and those lyrics are funny.

I just discovered that there was a movie called The Goonies filmed in Oregon, U.S. A. I need to do more research on that strange film.

Here's one by Cyndi Lauper from that movie, folks.

Here we are
Hanging onto strains of greed and blues
Break the chain then we break down
Oh it's not real if you don't feel it

Unspoken expectations
Ideals you used to play with
They've finally taken shape for us.

What's good enough for you
Is good enough for me
It's good enough
It's good enough for me
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Now you'll say
You're startin' to feel the push and pull
Of what could be and never can
You mirror me stumblin' through those

Old fashioned superstitions
I find too hard to break
Oh maybe you're out of place

What's good enough for you
Is good enough for me
It's good enough
It's good enough for me
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Good Enough for you
Is good enough for me
It's good, it's good enough
It's good enough for me
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Old fashioned superstitions
I find too hard to break
Oh maybe you're out of place

What's good enough for you
Is good enough for me
It's good enough
It's good enough for me
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Good Enough for you
Is good enough for me
It's good, it's good enough
It's good enough for me
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Good enough for you
Is good enough for me
It's good, it's good enough
It's good enough for me
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah
Well, well, well, well
Uh-huh
Huh, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Good enough
Good enough for
Is (Goonies) good enough for me
It's good enough

Goonies

Good enough
Good enough for
Is (Goonies) good enough for me
It's good enough

since we are visiting with the brits ...

Hava Nageela Hava Nageela
Hava Nageela vay mismacha

Hava Nageela Hava Nageela
Hava Nageela vay mis ma cha

Hava na ranina
Hava na ranina
Hava na ranina vay mismacha

Hava na ranina
Hava na ranina
Hava na ranina vay mismacha


Oo roo ooroo achim
Oo roo achim belev say maya
Oo roo achim belev say maya
Oo roo achim belev say maya
Oo roo achim belev say maya

Oo roo achim Oo roo achim
Belev say maya




Harry Belafonte

letty :
reading those old song lyrics really gives one an appreciation of what life must have been like .
where ever those newcomers (now called "immigrants") came from , they all were great story tellers - though the irish would be hard to beat , wouldn't they ? :wink:

well , here is a song by someone who'd been on these shores for a while .
hbg

My goodness, edgar. I did not know that Harry Belafonte sang that Jewish song. Ragman had to explain it to me, Texas. Thanks.

Wow! folks. I went out tonight and dined alone, but the experience was a culinary delight. I did explain to the young man who served me, that scrimp scampi was best in a sauce and not served over pasta. Hey, I had two delightful cups of Irish coffee, however.

hbg, you are right. Ain't no man worth the salt of any woman's tears.

Earlier, Raggedy and I were talking about Vera Lynn, so here's one by her.

Auf wiedersehen, auf wiedersehen
We'll meet again, sweetheart

This lovely day has flown my way
The time has come to part
We'll kiss again, like this again
Don't let the teardrops start
With love that's true, I'll wait for you
Auf wiedersehen, sweetheart

Auf wiedersehen
Auf wiedersehen
We'll meet again, sweetheart
This lovely day has flown away
The time has come to part
We'll kiss again, like this again
Don't let the teardrops start
With love that's true, I'll wait for you
Auf wiedersehen, sweetheart

Incidentally, she was a Brit who knew German.

Well, all, the time has come for me to say goodnight, and I want you all to hear this wonderful pianist who does Chopin.

Li Yundi (Chinese: 李云迪, pinyin: Lǐ Yúndí) (born October 7, 1982) is a well-known young virtuoso classical pianist. He is also popularly known by the Western iteration of his name, Yundi Li. Born in Chongqing, China, Li is most well known for being the youngest pianist to win the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition at the age of 18. Li currently resides in Hannover, Germany, where he studies with his teacher Arie Vardi at the Hannover Conservatory of Music.

Amazing, that we have a young man from China playing a beautiful piece by Chopin from Poland and who now is residing in Germany.

My goodnight song, all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvm2ZsRv3C8

From Letty with love

Sunrise doesn't last all morning
A cloudburst doesn't last all day
Seems my love is up and has left you with no warning
It's not always going to be this grey

All things must pass
All things must pass away

Sunset doesn't last all evening
A mind can blow those clouds away
After all this, my love is up and must be leaving
It's not always going to be this grey

All things must pass
All things must pass away
All things must pass
None of life's strings can last
So, I must be on my way
And face another day

Now the darkness only stays the night-time
In the morning it will fade away
Daylight is good at arriving at the right time
It's not always going to be this grey

All things must pass
All things must pass away
All things must pass
All things must pass away

George Harrison

Good morning, WA2K radio audience.

edgar, that song by George in fortuitous, Texas. Thanks.

It seems, folks, that Billy Bragg was born on this day, so let's hear one by him.

Dolphins

I've been searching
For the dolphins in the sea
And sometimes i wonder
Do you ever think of me

This world may never change
The way it's been
And all the ways of war
Won't change it back again

I'm not the one to tell
This world how to get along
I only know that peace will come
When all our hate is gone

This world may never change

Good Morning WA2K.

I must say I've never heard this song performed so beautifully as was presented to us by Letty's discovery last night.

At the end of the rainbow there's happiness
and to find it how often I've tried
but my life is a race, just a wild goose chase
and my dreams have all been denied!

Why have I always been a failure?
What can the reason be?
I wonder if the world's to blame?
I wonder if it could be me?

I'm always chasing rainbows
watching clouds drifting by!
My schemes are just like all of my dreams
ending in the sky!

Some fellows look and find the sunshine
I always look and find the rain!
Some fellows make a winning sometime
I never even make a gain!

Believe me . . .

I'm always chasing rainbows
waiting to find a little blue bird in vain!

Good morning, Raggedy. Great lyrics from Chopin, gal. So many classical pieces have given rise to popular songs. I listened to Revolutionary Etude by him as well. (incidentally, PA, would you please change "in" to "is"? )

Who inspired these lyrics?

None but the lonely heart
Can know my sadness
Alone and parted
Far from joy and gladness

Heaven's boundless arch I see
Spread about above me
O what a distance dear to one
Who loves me

None but the lonely heart
Can know my sadness
Alone and parted
Far from joy and gladness
Alone and parted far
From joy and gladness
My senses fail
A burning fire
Devours me
None but the lonely heart
Can know my sadness

Irene Dunne
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birth name Irene Marie Dunn
Born December 20, 1898(1898-12-20)
Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
Died September 4, 1990 (aged 91)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Years active Broadway 1920s
Film 1930 - 1952
Television 1962
Spouse(s) Francis Dennis Griffin

Irene Dunne (December 20, 1898 - September 4, 1990), was a five-time Academy Award-nominated American film actress and singer of the 1930s and 1940s.




Early life

Born Irene Marie Dunn in Louisville, Kentucky to Joseph Dunn, a steamboat inspector for the United States government, and Adelaide Henry, a concert pianist/music teacher from Newport, Kentucky, Irene Dunne would later write, "No triumph of either my stage or screen career has ever rivalled the excitement of trips down the Mississippi on the river boats with my father." She was only eleven when her father died in 1909. She saved all of his letters and often remembered and lived by what he told her the night before he died: "Happiness is never an accident. It is the prize we get when we choose wisely from life's great stores."[1]

After her father's death, she, her mother and younger brother Charles moved to her mother's hometown of Madison, Indiana. Dunne's mother taught her to play the piano as a very small girl. According to Dunne, "Music was as natural as breathing in our house."[1] Nicknamed "Dunnie," she took piano and voice lessons, sang in local churches and high school plays before her graduation in 1916.

She earned a diploma to teach art, but took a chance on a contest and won a prestigious scholarship to the Chicago Musical College. She had hopes of becoming an opera singer, but did not pass an audition with the Metropolitan Opera Company.


Career

Dunne turned to musical theater, making her Broadway debut in 1922 in Zelda Sear's The Clinging Vine.[2] The following year, Dunne played a season of light opera in Atlanta, Georgia. Though, in her own words, Dunne created "no great furore," by 1929 she was playing leading roles in a successful Broadway career, grateful that she was never in the chorus line.

Dunne met her future husband, Francis Griffin, a New York dentist, at a supper dance in New York. Despite differing opinions and battles that raged furiously,[1] Dunne eventually agreed to marry him and leave the theater. They were wed on July 16, 1928.

Dunne's role as Magnolia Hawks in Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat was the result of a chance meeting with showman Florenz Ziegfeld in an elevator the day she returned from her honeymoon. Dunne was discovered by Hollywood while starring with the Chicago company of the musical in 1929. She signed a contract with RKO and appeared in her first movie in 1930, Leathernecking, an early musical. She moved to Hollywood with her mother and brother, and maintained a long-distance marriage with her husband in New York until he joined her in California in 1936. That year, she re-created her role as Magnolia in what is considered the classic film version of Show Boat.

During the 30s and 40s, Dunne blossomed into a popular screen heroine in movies such as Back Street (1932), Magnificent Obsession (1935), and Love Affair (1939). She sang "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" in the 1935 Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers film version of the musical Roberta. She possessed an exceptional aptitude for comedy. The unique Dunne trademark flair for combining elegance and madcap comedy is seen at its best in such films as Theodora Goes Wild (1936), The Awful Truth (1937) and My Favorite Wife (1940), the latter two opposite Cary Grant. Other notable roles include Anna Leonowens in Anna and the King of Siam (1946), Lavinia Day in Life with Father (1947), and Martha Hanson in I Remember Mama (1948). In The Mudlark (1950), Dunne was nearly unrecognizable under heavy makeup as Queen Victoria. She retired from the screen in 1952, after It Grows on Trees, a comedy about a couple who discover that money does grow on trees, at least in their back yard.

She continued with television performances on Ford Theatre, General Electric Theater, and the Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, remaining active as an actress until 1962.

Dunne commented in an interview that she had lacked the "terrifying ambition" of some other actresses and said, "I drifted into acting and drifted out. Acting is not everything. Living is."[3]


Later life

In 1957, Dwight David Eisenhower appointed Dunne one of five alternative U.S. delegates to the United Nations in recognition of her charitable works and interest in conservative Catholic and Republican causes. In her retirement, Dunne devoted herself primarily to civic, philanthropic, and Republican political causes. In 1965, Dunne became a board member of Technicolor, the first woman ever elected to the board of directors.

Dunne remained married to Dr. Griffin until his death on October 15, 1965. They lived in Holmby Hills, California in a Southern plantation-style mansion that they designed. They had one daughter, Mary Frances (née Anna Mary Bush), who was adopted in 1938 from the New York Foundling Hospital, run by the Sisters of Charity of New York.[4] Both Dunne and her husband were ordained Knights of Malta.

One of her last public appearances was in April 1985, when she attended the dedication of a bust in her honor at St. John's (Roman Catholic) Hospital in Santa Monica, California, for which her foundation, The Irene Dunne Guild, had raised more than $20 million.

Dunne died peacefully at her Holmby Hills home in Los Angeles, California in 1990, and is entombed in the Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles, California. Her personal papers are housed at the University of Southern California.


Awards and nominations

Dunne has been described as the best actress to never win an Academy Award. She received five Best Actress nominations during her career: for Cimarron (1931), Theodora Goes Wild (1936), The Awful Truth (1937), Love Affair (1939) and I Remember Mama (1948).

In 1985, she was awarded the Kennedy Center Honors, Lifetime Achievement for a career that spanned three decades and a range of musical theater, the silver screen, Broadway, radio and television. Other honors include the Laetare Medal from Notre Dame University in 1949, the Bellarmine Medal from Bellarmine College in 1965 and Colorado's Women of Achievement in 1968. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6440 Hollywood Blvd. and displays in the Warner Bros. Museum and Center for Motion Picture Study.[5]

Audrey Totter
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born December 20, 1918 (1918-12-20) (age 89)
Joliet, Illinois

Audrey Totter (born December 20, 1918 in Joliet, Illinois) is an American actress.

Totter began her acting career in radio in the late 1930s and after success in Chicago and New York, was signed to a seven year film contract with MGM Studios.

She made her film debut in Main Street After Dark (1945) and during the 1940s established herself as a popular female lead. Although she appeared in various film genres, she became most widely known to movie audiences in film noir productions. Initially MGM groomed her to become an important player and she was paired opposite some of their biggest stars. Among her successes were The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) with John Garfield and Lana Turner, Lady in the Lake (1947) with Robert Montgomery and Jayne Meadows, The Unsuspected (1947 for Warner Brothers Studios) with Claude Rains, High Wall (1947) with Robert Taylor, The Saxon Charm (1948) with Montgomery and Susan Hayward, Alias Nick Beal (1949) with Ray Milland, The Set-Up (1949) with Robert Ryan, Any Number Can Play (1949) with Clark Gable and Alexis Smith, and Tension (1950) with Richard Basehart.

By the early 1950s the tough talking "dames" she was best known for portraying, were no longer fashionable, and as MGM began to work towards creating more family themed films, Totter was released from her contract. Totter for her part, was reported to have grown dissatisfied with MGM's handling of her career, only agreeing to appear in Any Number Can Play after Gable intervened.

She worked for Columbia Pictures and 20th Century Fox but the quality of her films dropped sharply and by the end of the decade her career was in decline. A continuing role in the television series Medical Center, that of highly efficient Nurse Wilcox, from 1972 until 1976 was the biggest success of her later years.

Totter's most recent TV appearance was in a 1987 episode of Murder, She Wrote.

Mala Powers
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mary Ellen "Mala" Powers (December 20, 1931 - June 11, 2007) was an American film actress.

She was born in San Francisco, California. In 1940 her family moved to Los Angeles. Her father was an executive with United Press. In the summer of her relocation, Powers attended the Max Reinhardt Junior Workshop where she enjoyed her first role in a play before a live audience. She continued with her drama lessons, and a year later she auditioned and won a part in the 1942 Dead End Kids film Tough as They Come.

At the age of 16 she began working in radio drama, before becoming a film actress in 1950. Her first roles were in Outrage and Edge of Doom in 1950. That same year, Stanley Kramer signed Powers to star opposite Jose Ferrer in what may be her most remembered role as Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her part in this movie.

While on a USO entertainment tour in Korea in 1951, she acquired a blood disease and almost died. She was treated with chloromycetin, but a severe allergic reaction resulted in the loss of much of her bone marrow. Powers barely survived the experience, and her recovery took nearly nine months.

She began working again in 1952 and 1953, including a part in City Beneath the Sea, although she was still taking medication. Following her recovery she appeared in a series of B-movie westerns and sci-fi films. Among these were The Colossus of New York, Flight of the Lost Balloon, and Doomsday Machine.

She appeared on over 100 TV shows, including episodes of Maverick, Wild Wild West and Perry Mason, and she co-starred opposite Anthony Quinn in the TV movie The Man and the City.

She was married to Monte Vanton in 1954, but they later divorced; they had a son, Toren Vanton, who survived his mother. Powers remarried in 1970 to M. Hughes Miller, a book publisher. Shortly before her death from complications of leukemia in 2007, aged 75, she had been on a lecture tour at universities. She was a master teacher for the past 14 years in the summer program at the University of Southern Maine for the Michael Chekhov Theatre Institute, training actors and teachers of acting.

She was Patron of the Michael Chekhov Studio London and had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Father O'Flannagan dies due to old age. Upon entering St.Peter's gate, there is another man in front, waiting to go into heaven. St. Peter asks the man, "What is your name what did you accomplish during your life?". The man responds "My name is Joe Cohen, and I was a New York city Taxi driver for 14 years" "Very well," says St. Peter, "Here is your silk robe and golden scepter, now you may walk in the streets of our Lord." St. Peter looks at the Father, and asks "What is your name and what did you accomplish?" He responds, "I'm Father O'Flannagan, and have devoted the last 62 years to the Lord". "Very well," says St. Peter, "Here is your cotton robe and wooden staff, you may enter." "Wait a minute," says O'Flannagan, "You gave the taxi driver a silk robe and golden scepter, why did I only get a cotton robe and wooden staff?". "Well," St. Peter replied, "We work on a performance scale, you see while you preached, everyone slept, when he drove taxis, everyone prayed!"

Good Morning, BioBob and thanks once again for the celeb updates. Love your little funny, hawkman. No accounting for St. Peter and his interpretation of who gets what, right?

Until our Raggedy comes back, I was interested in Johnny Depp and his role in Sweeny Todd, the musical, folks. It seems that he practiced daily so that he could do his own singing. Found this ballad, and although somewhat macabre, it obviously played out well on stage.

Attend the tale of Sweeny Todd.
His skin was pale and his eye was odd.
He shaved the faces of gentlemen
Who never thereafter were heard of again.
He trod a path that few have trod,
Did Sweeny Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

He kept a shop in London Town
Of fancy clients and good renown.
And what if none of their souls were saved?
They went to their
Maker impeccably shaved by Sweeny,
By Sweeny Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Swing your razor wide, Sweeny,
Hold it to the skies!
Freely flows the blood of those who moralize.

His need were few, his room was bare:
a lavabo and a fancy chair,
A mug of suds and a leather strop,
An apron, a towel, a pail and a mop.
For neatness, he deserves a nod.
Does Sweeny Todd,, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

In conspicuous Sweeny was,
Quick and quite and clean 'e was.
Back of his smile, under his word,
Sweeny heard music that nobody heard.
Sweeny pondered and Sweeny planned,
Like a perfect machine 'e planned
Sweeny was smooth, Sweeny was subtle,
Sweeny would blink and rats would scuttle.
Sweeny! Sweeny! Sweeny! Sweeny!
Sweeny!

Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd
He served a dark and a hungry god
What happened then, well that's the play,
And he wouldn't want us to give it away. Not Sweeney,
Not Sweeney Todd, The demon barber of Fleet Street.