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Letty
 
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Reply Wed 13 Feb, 2008 06:39 am
Hee hee, BioBob, what a great story and one that could be true in some parts of the planet. Thanks again for the great bio's and for the morning smile. It is calm, clear, and sunny here in my little studio. Hope it remains so, folks.

Until the puppy princess of Pennsylvania arrives, here's an answer to edgar's great song.

First the lyrics, then the song.

It isn't by chance I happen to be,
A boulevardier, the toast of Paris.
For over the noise, the talk and the smoke,
I'm good for a laugh, a drink or a joke I walk in a room, a party or ball,
"Come sit over here" somebody will call.
"A drink for M'sieur, a drink for us all!
But how many times I stop and recall.

Ah, the apple trees,
Blossoms in the breeze,
That we walked among,
Lying in the hay,
Games we used to play,
While the rounds were sung,
Only yesterday, when the world was young.

Wherever I go they mention my name,
And that in itself, is some sort of fame,
"Come by for a drink, we're having a game,"
Wherever I go I'm glad that I came.
The talk is quite gay, the company fine,
There's laughter and lights, and glamour and wine,
And beautiful girls and some of them mine,
But often my eyes see a diff'rent shine.

Ah, the apple trees,
Sunlit memories,
Where the hammock swung,
On our backs we'd lie,
Looking at the sky,
Till the stars were strung,
Only last July when the world was young.

Ah, the apple trees,
Blossoms in the breeze,
That we walked among,
Lying in the hay,
Games we used to play,
While the rounds were sung,
Only yesterday, when the world was young.

While sitting around, we often recall,
The laugh of the year, the night of them all.
The blonde who was so attractive that year,
Some opening night that made us all cheer.
Remember that time we all got so tight,
And Jacques and Antoine got into a fight.
The gendarmes who came, passed out like a light,
I laugh with the rest, it's all very bright.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3UsSa5NRVfw
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Wed 13 Feb, 2008 11:25 am
OOOH! Princess from Pennsylvania. Nobody's ever called me that before. Thank you Bob and Letty. I promise not to let it go to my head. Honest, I do. http://www.disgalaxy.addr.com/Stories/101/dalm10.gif

Until I get my crown. Very Happy

And the matches to Bob's bios:

Lyle Bettger; Tennessee Ernie Ford; Eileen Farrell; McGuire Sisters; Kim Novak, George Segal; Oliver Reed, as Bill Sikes in Oliver); Carol Lynley and Stockard Channing


http://lifeinlegacy.com/2003/1004/BettgerLyle.jpghttp://www.selections.com/images/products/picture1/AF553.jpghttp://www.vaimusic.com/CD/1260.jpg
http://www.crimelibrary.com/graphics/photos/gangsters_outlaws/cops_others/frank_sinatra/5a_200.jpghttp://www.ozsons.com/images/KimNovak.jpghttp://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/section/movies/filmography/7/WireImage_794821.jpg
http://w1.303.telia.com/~u30302957/billsikes.jpghttp://www.nndb.com/people/496/000079259/carollynley02.jpghttp://www.tvguide.com/images/pgimg/stockard-channing1.jpg
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Letty
 
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Reply Wed 13 Feb, 2008 12:03 pm
Well, Raggedy, I was going to play Puppy Love for you and the beagle Una, but decided that we would make you blush with too much of a good thing. Razz Here's your crown, PA, but don't forget:

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. That will be our quote for the day.

http://www.michellesmonogramming.com/sparkling%20crown.jpg

It's been a while since we did opera, so let's listen to Eileen do an aria from Madam Butterfly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-S9I4b2ON8&feature=related
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hamburger
 
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Reply Wed 13 Feb, 2008 03:00 pm
Quote:
WIDSOM OF CHILDREN

Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. In between, he practised on an old spinster, which he kept in his attic.

Handel was half German, half Italian and half English.

Beethoven was so deaf he wrote loud music.

Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died from this.

Most composers do not live until they are dead.


and here is jascha heifetz playing a little fiddle tune by some other old HAMBURGER aka. JOHANNES BRAHMS

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AfDXZ4RCm6U
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Letty
 
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Reply Wed 13 Feb, 2008 03:25 pm
hbg, I love those kids' remarks. Made us all laugh, I think. Hmmm the last one is prophetic. "Most composers don't live until they are dead". Same way with painters, methinks.

Loved your Brahms "fiddle" tune as well. Let's listen to Lang Lang, because yours reminded me of this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLR3oNNY4_A
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hamburger
 
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Reply Wed 13 Feb, 2008 03:40 pm
LANG LANG IN TORONTO - SOLD OUT ALREADY !

Quote:
Lang Lang
Special Performance Sat. Mar. 1, 2008 at 8:00 pm


E-mail this concert to a friend

One of the most kinetic and most talked-about artists before the public, Chinese fireball Lang Lang returns to the TSO for one night only! He brings his unique touch to a grandly appealing youthful concerto by Beethoven. The same composer's Seventh Symphony - an outburst of dancing, driving energy - completes the programme.

Join Rick Phillips in the lobby on March 1 at 7:15 for an enlightening talk on this programme.

Peter Oundjian, conductor
Lang Lang, piano



Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7


Sat. Mar. 1 at 8:00 pm
$148, $127, $98.50, $85, $72, $55.50, $47, $40.50


LANG LANG - DIZZY FINGERS Laughing

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PxdynChtyyo

i didn't realize that strauss also composed in CHINESE Shocked
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Letty
 
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Reply Wed 13 Feb, 2008 04:07 pm
Isn't that kid fabulous, hbg? Loved his Chinese interpretation of Strauss, and thanks, Canada.

Well, folks, time for another Tennessee. Let's listen, then a brief explanation of The Company Store.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMWBhVNFlZs&feature=related
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Letty
 
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Reply Wed 13 Feb, 2008 04:39 pm
In the early days of mining, the miner was paid in script that could only be redeemed at the company store; consequently the miner did owe his soul, so to speak, to the store where he had to purchase everything.

Loretta Lyn says it, folks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rdQrgyEuOY&NR=1
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Wed 13 Feb, 2008 05:22 pm
I would like to thank Letty for the beautiful crown which I shall treasure always.

I would also like to thank her for playing Elvis in honor of Uno, because that's just what I was thinking when I saw him win at the Westminster Dog Show. Mad

and in keeping with the mining theme, Tennessee Ernie had a great version of this song, but not on Youtube. Hard to believe it's Gordon Lightfoot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIxtLy9-FZA
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Letty
 
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Reply Wed 13 Feb, 2008 06:13 pm
Raggedy, I cannot believe how great Gordon Lightfoot sounded, gal. What a wonderful guitarist and vocalist. Thanks ,your highness. You, of course, are the best in show. Razz

Here's Gordon a little later, and I love it, folks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta0a3DFUU0Y&feature=related
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hamburger
 
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Reply Wed 13 Feb, 2008 06:18 pm
i have spoken of them before .. here are they
THE MEN OF THE DEEPS - NOVA SCOTIA COAL MINERS
when we heard them , they had two miners playing guitars which was much more in style imo .

since the mines are now closed , the choir will probably not be around much longer

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kr0AS6n33UU

this is more appropriate imo - just the choir and guitars

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0vV1xV1ocB8
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Letty
 
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Reply Wed 13 Feb, 2008 06:51 pm
hbg, I recall your having played that fantastic Nova Scotia Coal Miners. Frankly, Canada, it brought a tear to me eye. They were wonderful, as was the second version.

Hey, want to have a little fun in song, folks? I recall having heard this one when I was a wee thing, and something about the melody of one of hamburger's songs reminded me of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CceKVmBu2C4&feature=related
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Wed 13 Feb, 2008 08:22 pm
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oMOK11mbYTg

Hilltoppers
my favorite version of Marianne
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Letty
 
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Reply Wed 13 Feb, 2008 08:25 pm
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Wed 13 Feb, 2008 08:30 pm
Don Quixote

Don Quixote's in the parlor
Stiffly in his armor
He doesn't want your tea
Says he vainly fought some giants
But has no complaints
"It was a day's work for me"
I told him, "Crazy little punk
You're a fool for all that spunk
Why not go home, you're tired now
That lame old horse is dying
And Sancho Panza's crying
Please release me from my vow"

Don Quixote Don Quixote
de la Mancha
Tired of your mantra
Go on home Don Quixote


All the world is a minefield
And you're going to have to yield
Go on home now and take your bed
You don't know cows from great monsters
Citadels from dumpsters
Your impossible dreams have fled
Dulcinea the simpleton
Has reduced you to a crumb
And your lance has become a crutch
I know you're a pious man
But you've stood your final stand
You're like a van without a clutch



Don Quixote Don Quixote
de la Mancha
Tired of your mantra
Go on home Don Quixote
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Thu 14 Feb, 2008 05:48 am
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=awRkRa2UxvE

Marcels
Blue Moon
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Letty
 
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Reply Thu 14 Feb, 2008 06:50 am
Good morning, WA2K audience.

edgar, loved your version of Marianne, and the parody on Dun-Key-Ho-te was great, Texas. I recall having read that in undergrad college and only feeling a sense of sorrow for the man who tilted at windmills.

I guess the word for today would be quixotic. <smile>

It is cold here , folks, and I don't think that I will take a walk in the morning dew today. The following version of the song is rather dirge like but let's listen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwqn4O0pKHs&feature=related
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Letty
 
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Reply Thu 14 Feb, 2008 08:35 am
Oh, yes. I forgot to say...

http://www3.sympatico.ca/tl.cb/valentine.gif

Well, you know Razz
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Thu 14 Feb, 2008 10:32 am
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Thu 14 Feb, 2008 10:35 am
Thelma Ritter
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born February 14, 1902
Brooklyn, New York, United States
Died February 5, 1969 (aged 66)
New York, United States
Years active 1947 - 1968
Spouse(s) Joseph Moran (1927-1969)
[show]Awards
Tony Awards
Best Actress in a Musical
1958 New Girl in Town

Thelma Ritter (February 14, 1902 - February 5, 1969) was a Tony Award winning American character actress of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.





Early life

Ritter was born in Brooklyn, New York. After appearing in high school plays and stock companies, she trained as an actress at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She went on to establish a stage career but took a hiatus to raise her two children (her daughter is the actress Monica Moran) by her advertising-executive husband, Joseph Moran. Ritter then resumed her career on radio in the early 1940s.


Career

Ritter did stock theater and radio shows early in her career, without much impact. Ritter's first movie role was in Miracle on 34th Street (1947). The 45-year-old made a memorable impression in a brief uncredited part, as a frustrated mother unable to find the toy that Kris Kringle has promised to her son. Her second role, in writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's A Letter to Three Wives (1949), also left a mark, although Ritter was again not listed in the credits.

Mankiewicz kept Ritter in mind, and cast her in his All About Eve the following year. An Oscar nomination led to popularity, and a second Oscar nomination followed for Mitchell Leisen's' classic screwball comedy The Mating Season (1951) starring Gene Tierney, John Lund and Miriam Hopkins. Ritter enjoyed steady film work for the next dozen years. She also appeared in many of the episodic drama TV series of the 1950s, such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, General Electric Theater, and The United States Steel Hour.

Throughout her career, Ritter was nominated for an Academy Award six times but never received one. She co-hosted the Oscar ceremony in 1954, trading wisecracks with Bob Hope.

The diminutive, gravel-voiced Ritter gained great acclaim as a premiere character actress, known for her comic timing and sassy one-liners. She was most typically cast as the sardonic, seen-it-all housekeeper who saw through her boss's vanity and frequently told him or her so. But she was also fiercely protective, and neither trusted nor tolerated fools or con men. Ritter would trade on this irascible screen persona for the rest of her life.

Her unsentimental, hard-boiled fatalism could be used in other ways. In occasional non-comedic turns, she projected an unglamorous world-weariness, notably in Pickup on South Street (1953).

Some of her best - known roles include Bette Davis's devoted maid in All About Eve (1950), as Gene Tierney's maid/mother-in-law in The Mating Season (1951), James Stewart's nurse in Rear Window (1954), and as Doris Day's housekeeper in Pillow Talk (1959). Her turn in John Huston's The Misfits (1961), where she played opposite Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable, also garnered favorable reviews.


Death

Shortly after a 1968 performance on The Jerry Lewis Show, Ritter suffered a heart attack which eventually proved fatal just nine days before her 67th birthday.
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