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djjd62
 
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Reply Mon 31 Dec, 2007 05:11 pm
The Ice of Boston
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djjd62
 
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Reply Mon 31 Dec, 2007 08:37 pm
Muirshin Durkin
Pogues

In the days when I was courtin',
I was seldom done resortin'
In the ale house and the playhouse,
And many's the house between
I told me brother Seamus,
I'll go off and get right famous,
And when I come back home again,
I'll have seen the whole wide world

And it's goodbye, Muirshin Durkin,
I'm sick and tired of workin'
I'll no more dig the praties,
I'll no longer be a fool
As sure as me name is Carney,
I'll go off to California
And instead of digging praties,
I'll be digging lumps of gold

Farewell to all the girls at home,
I'm bound away across the foam
Off to seek me fortune
In far Amerikay
There's silver there a-plenty,
For the poor and for the gentry
And when I come back home again,
I never more will say,

Goodbye, Muirshin Durkin,
I'm sick and tired of workin'
I'll no more dig the praties,
I'll no longer be a fool
As sure as me name is Carney,
I'll go off to California
Where instead of diggin' praties,
I'll be digging lumps of gold
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Letty
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jan, 2008 06:38 am
Good morning, WA2K radio audience.

dj, Welcome back, buddy. I am certain that we all enjoyed The Ice of Boston. I know that the lyrics were humorous, but hope that it didn't reflect our Boston crew here, especially after last evening's revelry.

We went to a restaurant near Seaworld, and truly enjoyed our New Year's Eve celebration until we got the bill . WOW!

It was, however, wonderful conversing with a man from Belgium and listening to his review of the situation in Flanders, etc. He knew all about Jacques Brell, Charles Trenet, etc. and it was truly nice to hear his opinion of America. It was very positive.

Today is Steve Ripley's birthday, and though I am not acquainted with the man from the group called The Tractors, he has done a song with which I am familiar, folks.

Comb your hair and paint and powder
You act proud and I'll act prouder
You sing loud and I'll sing louder
Tonight we're setting the woods on fire

You're my gal and I'm your feller
Dress up in your frock of yeller
I'll look swell but you'll look sweller
Setting the woods on fire

We'll take in all the honkey tonks
Tonight we're having fun
We'll show the folks a brand new dance
That never has been done

I don't care who thinks we're silly
You be daffy and I'll be dilly
We'll order up to bowls of chili
Setting the woods on fire

I'll gas up my hot rod stocker
We'll get hotter than a poker
You'll be broke but I'll be broker
Tonight we're setting the woods on fire

We'll sit close to one another
Up the one street and down the other
We'll have a time o brother
Setting the woods on fire

We'll put aside a little time
To fix a flat or two
My tires and tubes are doing fine
But the air is showing through

You clap hands and I'll start bowing
We'll do all the laws allowin'
Tomorrow I'll be right back plowing
Setting the woods on fire.

Big weather change headed our way. COLD! Interesting way to start the new year's day
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jan, 2008 10:01 am
Happy New Year WA2K. Very Happy

and a Happy 89th B.D. to J. D. Salinger; 68th to Frank Langella; 66th to Country Joe McDonald (Country Joe and the Fish and 58th to Steve Ripley( I notice that Steve didn't make it into Wikipedia, Letty.)

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http://polizeros.com/wp-content/wood2.jpghttp://www.vintagekramer.com/Electric/steveripley.jpg
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jan, 2008 10:51 am
Dana Andrews
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Birth name Carver Dana Andrews
Born January 1, 1909(1909-01-01)
Covington County, Mississippi
Died December 17, 1992 (aged 83)
Los Alamitos, California, USA
Spouse(s) Janet Murray (1932-1935)
Mary Todd (1939-1992)

Dana Andrews (January 1, 1909 - December 17, 1992) was an American film actor.




Early life

He was born Carver Dana Andrews on a farm just outside of Collins, Covington County, Mississippi, the third of nine children of the Rev. Charles Forrest Andrews, a Baptist minister and his wife Annis. The family subsequently moved to Huntsville, Texas, where his younger siblings (including actor Steve Forrest) were born.

Andrews attended college there and also studied business administration in Houston, working briefly as an accountant for Gulf & Western. In 1931, he travelled to Los Angeles, California seeking opportunities as a singer. He worked at various jobs to earn a living, including pumping gas at a filling station in Van Nuys. One of his employers believed in him and paid for his studies in opera and also at the Pasadena Playhouse, a prestigious theater and acting school.


Career

Andrews signed a contract with Samuel Goldwyn and nine years after arriving in Los Angeles was offered his first movie role in William Wyler's The Westerner (1940), starring Gary Cooper. In the 1943 movie adaptation of The Ox-Bow Incident with Henry Fonda, often cited as one of his better early films, he played a lynching victim. He gave finely calibrated performances in Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) and in the film Laura (1944) both opposite Gene Tierney, and in the Oscar-winning 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives.

By the 1950s, alcoholism had derailed Andrews' career, and on a couple of occasions nearly cost him his life on the highway. He was forced into supporting roles and character parts in B-movies, albeit good ones (he once said that he'd made more money in real estate than he'd ever made as an actor). In 1963, he was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild. Between 1969 and 1972, he appeared in a leading role as college president Tom Boswell on the NBC daytime soap opera, Bright Promise. In 1972, after four years of sobriety, he became one of the first celebrities to appear in a public service announcement for AA.


Personal life

Andrews married Janet Murray on New Year's Eve, 1932. She died in 1935, not long after the birth of their son, David (a musician and composer who died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1964). On November 17, 1939, he married actress Mary Todd. They had three children, Katharine (born in 1942), Stephen (born in 1944), and Susan (born in 1948). For 20 years the family lived in Toluca Lake in the home now owned by Jonathan Winters. After his children were grown, Andrews lived out his later years with his wife Mary in the Studio City home bought from his friend, film director Jacques Tourneur (director of Canyon Passage and Curse of the Demon, in which Andrews appeared).

In the last years of his life Andrews suffered from Alzheimer's disease and in 1992 he died of congestive heart failure and pneumonia.
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jan, 2008 10:56 am
t feels like Salinger wrote The Catcher in the Rye in a day, and that incredible feeling of ease inspires writing. Inspires the pursuit of voice. Not his voice. My voice. Your voice."[105] Authors such as Stephen Chbosky,[106] Carl Hiaasen, Susan Minot,[107] Haruki Murakami, Gwendoline Riley,[108] Tom Robbins, Louis Sachar,[109] and Joel Stein,[110] along with Academy Award-nominated writer-director Wes Anderson, have cited Salinger as an influence.
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jan, 2008 10:59 am
Frank Langella
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Birth name Frank A. Langella Jr.
Born January 1, 1940 (1940-01-01) (age 68)
Bayonne, New Jersey, U.S.

Frank A. Langella, Jr. (born January 1, 1940) is an American stage and film actor. He has won three Tony Awards - two for Best Featured (Supporting) Actor in a Play (Edward Albee's Seascape (1975), Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool (2002)) and one for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance as Richard Nixon in Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon (2007). Langella was nominated for two other Best Leading Actor in a Play Tonys; first in 1978 for the Edward Gorey-designed revival of Bram Stoker's Dracula and again in 2004 for Stephen Belber's Match.




Biography

Personal life

Langella, an Italian American,[1] was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, the son of Frank A. Langella, Sr., a business executive,[2] and graduated from Syracuse University in 1959 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in drama. He remains a brother of the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity. Prior to graduating Syracuse University, Frank Langella attended Bayonne High School and Washington elementary school in Bayonne, NJ.


Career

Langella was best known early in his career for his success in the title role of the Broadway production of Dracula. In a recent interview, Langella commented that people (in fact, mostly men) always complimented him on the sexual energy of his stage performance as the Count, telling him, "Boy, did my wife make love to me that night!" after seeing him onstage. Despite his initial misgivings about continuing to play the role, he was persuaded to star opposite Laurence Olivier in the subsequent film version directed by John Badham. Langella reports that on his last day of shooting he hung the cloak on a costume rack firmly knowing he could never pick it up again for fear of being typecast. Langella reminisced on filming with Olivier. In the The Complete Films of Laurence Olivier (Jerry Vermilye, Citadel Press), Langella says.....

"The thing about him that's pretty wonderful is that when we were on the set together there was no such thing as the legend, the reputation, the past. There was only the moment, how we work this moment and 'Oh, dear boy, what do you think we should do about this?' and 'Oh, my God, will you help me out?' - all those wonderful things he does to make you feel relaxed."

He went on to play Sherlock Holmes in an HBO adaptation (1981) of William Gillette's famous stage play. He repeated the role on Broadway in 1987 in Charles Marowitz's play Sherlock's Last Case. That same year (1987), Langella would also portray the villain Skeletor in Masters of the Universe.

For years afterward, Langella largely avoided acting on film in order to seriously pursue theatre. He has done more film and television work in recent years after finding a niche; in 1993 he made a memorable three-episode appearance on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as the devious Jaro Essa. He also appeared in a 2003 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and as a villainous pirate in the summer 1995 release Cutthroat Island. He picked up the Peter Sellers role in Adrian Lyne's remake of Lolita (which gave him a still-controversial frontal-nude scene, much to Langella's outrage and embarrassment). More recently, he appeared in George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) as former CBS chief executive William S. Paley and in Bryan Singer's Superman Returns (2006) as Daily Planet editor Perry White.

Langella is still best known as an accomplished stage actor, most recently appearing in Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon which received enthusiastic reviews during a run at the Donmar Warehouse and Gielgud Theatre in London before moving to New York's Bernard B. Jacobs Theater in April 2007. Langella has been announced to reprise his Tony award winning role as Richard Nixon in the upcoming film adaptation to be directed by Ron Howard.
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jan, 2008 11:01 am
Country Joe McDonald
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born January 1, 1942
Washington, DC
Occupation musician, activist
Children Seven McDonald
Parents Florence McDonald

Joseph Allen McDonald (born January 1, 1942 in Washington, DC) was the leader and lead singer of the 1960s rock & roll group, Country Joe and the Fish.[1]

He started his career busking on Berkeley, California's famous Telegraph Avenue in the early 1960s.[1] His mother, Florence McDonald, served for many years on the Berkeley city council. As of 2007, Country Joe still lives in Berkeley.

Country Joe has recorded 33 albums and has written hundreds of songs over a career spanning 40 years. He and Barry Melton co-founded Country Joe and The Fish which became a pioneer psychedelic band with their eclectic performances at The Avalon Ballroom, the Fillmore, Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock.

Their best-known song is his "The "Fish" Cheer / I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag," a black comedy novelty song about the Vietnam War, whose familiar chorus ("One, two, three, what are we fighting for?") is well known to the Woodstock generation and Vietnam Vets of the 1960s and 1970s. He is also known for "The Fish Cheer" which was a cheerleader-style call-and-response with the audience where Joe spelled out "fish" ("Give me an F!").

The cheer was on the original recording of the I-Feel-Like-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die, being played right before the song on the LP of the same name. The cheer became popular and the crowd would spell out F-I-S-H when the band performed live. During the summer of 1968 the band played on the Schaefer Beer Festival tour.[2] Gary "Chicken" Hirsh suggested before one of the shows to spell the word "****" instead of "fish." Although the crowd loved it, the management of the Schaefer Beer Festival did not and kicked the band off the tour for life. The Ed Sullivan show then canceled a previously scheduled appearance by Country Joe and the Fish and told the band to keep the money they had already been paid in exchange for never playing on the show.[2] The change of the cheer from "fish" to "****" would continue at most of the band's live shows throughout the years, including Woodstock and the Isle of Wight Festival.

Joe went on to have a long solo career with key albums including:

Thinking of Woody Guthrie (1969) - recorded in Nashville, which at the time was a very odd choice of location for a hippie songster to make an album of leftist anthems
War War War (1971) - a tribute to the World War I anti-war verse of British poet Robert W. Service set to music
Hold On It's Coming - songs about the West Coast hippie movement
Superstitious Blues - with Jerry Garcia playing guitar on some tracks
Paradise With an Ocean View (1977) - included the landmark environmental protest song "Save the Whales"
Paris Sessions - landmark feminism, with a female band, singing songs, written by Joe, including "Sexist Pig".
In 2003 McDonald was sued for copyright infringement over his signature song, specifically the "One, two, three, what are we fighting for?" chorus part, as derived from the 1926 early jazz classic "Muskrat Ramble", co-written by Kid Ory. The suit was brought by Ory's daughter Babette, who holds the copyright today. Since decades had already passed from the time McDonald composed his song in 1965, Ory based her suit against a new version of it recorded by McDonald in 1999. The court however upheld McDonald's laches defence, noting that Ory and her father were aware of the original version of "Fixin'", with the same section in question, for some three decades without bringing a suit until 2003, and dismissed the suit.

In 2004, Country Joe re-formed some original members of Country Joe and The Fish as the Country Joe Band - Bruce Barthol, David Bennett Cohen, and Gary "Chicken" Hirsh. The band toured Los Angeles, Berkeley, Bolinas, Sebastopol, Grants Pass, Eugene, Portland and Seattle. They then made a 10-stop tour of the United Kingdom and played at the Isle of Wight and London. Following that came the New York tour which included a Woodstock reunion performance followed by an appearance at the New York State Museum in Albany. Returning to the West Coast the band played in Marin and Mendocino Counties, the World Peace Music Awards in San Francisco and at the Oakland Museum as part of an exhibit on the Vietnam War.

In the spring of 2005, McDonald joined a larger protest against California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed budget cuts at the California state capital.


Trivia


In the fall of 2005, political commentator Bill O'Reilly compared McDonald, a Navy veteran,[3] to Cuban president Fidel Castro, remarking on McDonald's involvement in Cindy Sheehan's protests against the Iraq War.[4]

McDonald's daughter Seven is a columnist for the LA Weekly.

He performed at the Isle of Wight Festival in the summer of 2007
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jan, 2008 11:07 am
Steve Ripley
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Steve Ripley (born Paul Steven Ripley on January 1, 1950 in Boise, Idaho)[1] is a singer, songwriter, studio engineer, guitarist and inventor. He is also a member of country rock band The Tractors.




Biography

Ripley attended Glencoe High School in Glencoe, Oklahoma. As a studio musician, he has worked with Bob Dylan (on Shot of Love), with J. J. Cale (on "Shades" and "8"), and with Clarence Gatemouth Brown and Roy Clark (on "Makin' Music".)

As a studio engineer, he created guitars for John Hiatt, Ry Cooder, Jimmy Buffett and Eddie Van Halen before moving to Tulsa to buy Leon Russell's former studio called "The Church Studio."[2] In 2002 he created his own record label (Boy Rocking Records) to produce artists including Leon Russell and The Red Dirt Rangers.[3] ("Ranger Motel")



Discography

The Tractors

1994 : The Tractors (Arista)
1995 : Have Yourself a Tractors Christmas (Arista)
1998 : Farmers in a Changing World (Arista)
2001 : Fast Girl (Audium)
2002 : The Big Night (Boy Rocking)
2005 : The Kids Record (Boy Rocking)

Solo discography

2002 : Ripley (Boy Rocking Records) with The Jordanaires
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jan, 2008 11:08 am
Signs that you are too drunk would be...

You lose arguments with inanimate objects.
You have to hold onto the lawn to keep from falling off the earth.
Job interfering with your drinking.
Your doctor finds traces of blood in your alcohol stream.
Career won't progress beyond Senator of Massachusetts.
The back of your head keeps getting hit by the toilet seat.
Sincerely believe alcohol to be the elusive 5th food group.
24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case - coincidence?? - I think not!
Two hands and just one mouth... - now THAT'S a drinking problem!
You can focus better with one eye closed.
The parking lot seems to have moved while you were in the bar.
Your twin sons are named Barley and Hops.
Hey, 5 beers has just as many calories as a burger, screw dinner!
Mosquitoes catch a buzz after attacking you
At AA meetings you begin: "Hi, my name is... uh..."
Your idea of cutting back is less salt.
You wake up in the bedroom, your underwear is in the bathroom, you fell asleep clothed. - hmmm.
The whole bar says 'Hi' when you come in...
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Letty
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jan, 2008 12:49 pm
Good afternoon, WA2K folks. In the words of John Denver, "....gee it's good to be back home again...."

Well, I want to thank our Raggedy for the great collage. Marvelous quartet of notables, PA. Perhaps wikipedia got Steve confused with the Believe it or Not guy. Razz

Good to see you back home again as well, BioBob, and thanks for the background info. Certainly did not know all that stuff about Dana Andrews.

Love your observations about the "drunk test" as opposed to the sobriety test, especially the one about the toilet seat that keeps banging the head.

Here's on from Country Joe, and strangely enough the man I met from Belgium preferred country music. Somehow that was a surprise to me.

At the Crossroads

Put my heart inside a bottle
and place it on the shelf
I'm savin' my love for you babe
and for no one else
Though miles may come between us
my love for you still lives on
The days gone by can never die
no matter how long I'm gone

Oh, I'm standin' at the crossroads
just like a ship adrift at sea
The blues are like a bloodhound
always comin' after me
Oh I'm standin' at the crossroads
wonderin' which way to go
The blues are like my shadow
they're with me wherever I go

The times aren't always gentle
the people aren't always kind
But behind the bend might be a friend
there for you to find
But it seems like all good people
I meet as I'm travelin' through
Just sit down to talk and
before we begin
They're off with their own things to do
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yitwail
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jan, 2008 02:19 pm
Here's to the folks out there in radio land who had some bubbly lately Drunk

Note LW is Lawrence Welk, -L is a Lemmon sister,
LS is the Lemmon Sisters, LL is Larry Looper,
SS is Stoney Stonedwell, AL is Alice Lean,
SM is sailor matey, SC is sailor captain

LW Thank you, thank you and good evening friends.
We're coming to you once again from the beautiful
Aragon Ballroom on Lick Pier at beautiful Santa
Monica Beach, California. We've been getting lots
of cards and letters from you folks out there in
television lant and we surely do thank you for...ah...
for...ah...for all the cards and letters from you
folks out there in television lant. Starting us off
tonight is our trio the Lemmon Sisters and
girls what are you going to sing?

-L We're going to sing Thank You For All Those Cards
and Letters You Folks Out There in Television Land.

LW Lant!

-L Lant

LW And now an appropriate number. A-wun and a-too and a-

LS Thank you for all those cards and letters
You folks in television lant
We wonder where this television lant is
Could it be a couple of miles from where Dinney Lant is
Oh, well never the less you guys and gals in

LW What is that noise there?

LS - bunch of palsy-walsies -

LW Oh, its the bubble machine. Turn off...just a moment...
I...hold it just a moment please...turn off the bubble
machine...please turn off the bubble. Thank you, Lemmon Sisters for that lovely number. Wunerful, wunerful. And now on with the show. Here's that man with the deep, deep voice,
Larry Looper. Larry, What are you going to sing for us, Larry?

LL I'm going to sing Thank You For All Those Cards and Letters.

LW I'm sorry, that number has been taken.

LL Well. Ill sing The Funny Old Hills then.

LW Good. A-wun and a-too and a-

LL I-

LW Hold it just a moment. The bubbles don't come till the end
of the program. Turn off the bubbles. Thank you Lar- thank you
Larry Looper, for that wunerful number. Now I would like to
play a short instrumental medley based on the names of girls.
A-wun and a-too...no...no, thats not it...thank you so very much. And now, here's that young man about town from the brass section, Stoney Stonedwell, to sing Please.

SS Please. Lend your little ears to my plea -

LW What is the matter with that machine. Here, hit it with your
horn...hit it...here...stick your mouthpiece in it there.
Wunerful, wunerful. And now on with the show. Here's our
champagne lady Alice Lean. Alice is going to sing
Moonlight and Shadows. A-wun and a-too and a-
Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in twenty-five years
my popping finger is caught in my cheek. Will you give me a hand there, Alice...here, pull my arm...no, the other arm...just pull it...
pull it...thats it.

AL Moonlight and shadows and you in my arms
And the melody in the bamboo tree, my sweet
Even in shadows

LW Hold it, somebody stop the bubble machine. The whole ballroom is lathering up with bubbles. And now I can't see the cameras. Here, let me set that accordion down on the stage and I'll try to fix that. Bear with us, folks just a moment please. Gee, the time is running out and we haven't even played the polka. Wait a minute, boys, I didn't mean...hold it, Alice, don't polka on my accordion.
Gee, Dad, it was a Wurlitzer. Hit the theme, boys. And so its
goodnight from all the champagne... wheres the cameras...theres so many bubbles I can't...and so, friends, we...help, the whole ballroom is shoving off to sea...

SM Sure is a clear night, ain't it, Captain?
SC Yup, matey, these are the kind of nights when the sea plays
tricks on ye.
SM Yeah, I recollect one night off Singapore...
SC Tricks, I say, like that mirage off the port bow, now.
SM What?
SC See it there, kinda bubbly looking in the moonlight?
SM Oh, yeah. Gee, if I didn't know better, I'd say it looks
like the Aragon Ballroom.
SC Yeah...dee-deedee dee-dee dee dee dee-dee
SM Hey, thats a catchy chantey you're humming there, Captain. What is it?
SC Oh, I don't know. Just keeps running through my head.
SM Let's go below and catch a little shut-eye.

LW Help! Help! Wunerful, wunerful. Turn off the bubble machine.
Help...help...
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Letty
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jan, 2008 04:11 pm
Hey, M.D. I had forgotten how absolutely funny Stan Freberg can be. He did "politically correct" things long before there was such an idea. Love that one, and here's another.

In his album, Stan Freberg presents The United States of America, nothing was sacred, big island man.

Here is "Take an Indian to Lunch".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izch3bAAnx4
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hamburger
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jan, 2008 04:52 pm
Quote:
LW Good. A-wun and a-too and a-


that was great stuff imo . i think LW probably took lessons for getting it just right Laughing !
also liked it when he said : "aren't my boys wunnerfull " and announcing a performer coming from "naxfill" - just priceless .


of course , i had to learn proper "canadian" when i landed on these shores .
it took me a long time to pronounce VICKS VAPORUB properly -
i kept saying FICKS FAPORUB to the amusement of all Laughing
hbg
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hamburger
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jan, 2008 05:43 pm
good evening listeners !
let's start tonight's SWINGTIME with :

http://www.drummerworld.com/pics/drum26/genekrupa8.jpg

playing for you :

Quote:
Oh, the flat foot floogie with a floy, floy,
Flat foot floogie with a floy, floy,
Flat foot floogie with a floy, floy,
Floy doy, floy doy, floy doy.
Yeah, yeah yeah, byah, oh, baby!
Yeah, byah, byah, oh, baby!
Yeah, byah, byah, oh, baby!
Yeah, byah, byah!
Whenever your cares are chronic,
Just tell the world, "go hang,"
You'll find a greater tonic,
If you go on swingin' with the gang!
Flat foot floogie with a floy, floy,
Flat foot floogie with a floy, floy,
Floy, floy, floy, yeah!
Send me on out there!
[Shouting and muttering to the band.]
Whenever your cares are chronic,
Just tell the world, "go hang,"
You'll find a greater tonic,
If you go on stumblin' with the gang!
Hey, hey, hey, yes, yes!
Well, all right then; get those floy-floys straight!
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JLNobody
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jan, 2008 05:49 pm
Wishing a Happy New Year to Lady Letty and all her poets and song lovers!
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Letty
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jan, 2008 05:57 pm
Hey, hbg. I didn't know that L. W. was German. My word, buddy, even though English is an off shoot of low German, I would find it very hard to master that language were I to move there.

I had to go to the archives to find who did that song originally, Canada. I think it must have been Fats Waller. Is that Benny Goodman?

I was informed that this is the year of the rat, so I thought I would play a song about my daughter's pet rat that she named Orion.(it was a lab rat, incidentally)

My word, folks, there's a black cat. He must have known that this was the year of the rat. Razz Thanks, JL, let's hope that this is a better year, and the same to you, honey.

We'll dedicate this to Mr. Nobody.

Orion look down
Look down here please
Tell me how much
How much will it cost me
What kind of coin
What pretty pretty penny
Tell me how long
How long will my trial be
How long will it be?

Pollux and Castor
Old twin brothers
Tell me if he's
If he's just like
all the others
Without the words
That others have heard

Tell me how long
How long will my trial be
How long will it be?

Seven sisters
I want you to say
What will the price be
And just what will I pay
Tell me how soon
In what empty room
Tell me, tell me how long
How long will my trial be
How long will it be?

Orion look down
Look down here please
Tell me how much
How much will it cost me
What kind of coin
What pretty pretty penny
Tell me, tell me how long
How long will my trial be
How long will it be?
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hamburger
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jan, 2008 06:16 pm
letty :

Quote:
Lawrence was born in Strasburg, North Dakota, as one of nine children to Catholic, German-speaking immigrants from the French portion of Alsace-Lorraine, via Odessa, Ukraine.


lawrence welk was a true american but could give a good imitation of a german accent imo Laughing
he knew what his listeners wanted - and he gave it to them !

he wrote several quite funny books : such as :

WUNNERFULL , WUNNERFULL (yes that's really the title of one of his books ! Laughing )

see LW's books here :L W THE WRITER
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Letty
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jan, 2008 06:36 pm
My word, hbg. I had no idea at all about the background of Mr. Wonderful. <smile> thanks for the info.

http://www.imperialtheatre.nb.ca/site/images/lawrence_welk.jpg

Here's one that I recall by the Alsace-Lorraine man.

I know (I know)
You belong - to somebody new
But Tonight you belong to me...
Although (Although)
We're apart - your part of my heart..
And tonight you belong to me...
Way down by the stream..
How sweet it will seem..
Once more just to dream
In the moonlight...
My honey I know...
With the dawn..that you will be gone..
But tonight you belong to me...
Way down way down along the stream..
How very very sweet it will seem..
Once more just to dream in the silvery moonlight...
My honey I know...
With the dawn..that you will be gone..
But tonight you belong to me...
Just to little old me...
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jan, 2008 10:44 pm
Fare Thee Well
Belafonte

One of these days
And it won't be long
You're gonna call my name
And I'll be gone

Fare thee well
Fare thee well oh honey
Honey fare thee well

Well you don't know
You don't know my mind
When you see me laughin'
It's to keep from cryin'

Fare thee well
Fare thee well oh honey
Honey fare thee well

There's just one thing
That troubles my mind
That's leaving you darling
Leaving you here behind

Fare thee well
Fare thee well oh honey
Honey honey honey fare thee well

I don't know where
Don't know where I'm bound
Keep searching for something
I ain't never found

Fare thee well
Fare thee well oh honey
Honey fare thee well


Lost a verse somewhere. Something about "I'm just a rumbler
Like all the rest." Oh, well.
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