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that was beautiful, Ms. Letty--i refer to <very early> by the Bill Evans Trio, not the country singer from Oz--especially the bowed bass solo by Eddie Gomez. didn't know Evans ever wore his hair long. here's some lyrics that mention Bill Evans, as well as other Jazz luminaries.

Better than sailing at midnight
Better than diving for pearls

Better than skiing at Aspen
Better than feeding the squirrels

Better than finding a horseshoe
Better than losing your head

Better than anything thought of
Better than anything said

Better than singing right out loud
or being spotted in a crowd

Better than anything except being in love


Better than four sets of Dizzy
Better than Count Basie's Band

Better than Rollins and Coltrane
Better than B. on the stand

Better than Ella Fitzgerald
Better than Miles latest news

Better than Bill Evans' ballads
Better than Joe Williams' blues

Better than hearing Lady Day
or checkin in at Monterey

Better than anything 'cept being in love


Better than Lucy and Dezi
Better than "Route 66"

Better than Huntley and Brinkley
Better than quiz shows all fixed

Better than Kildare and Casey
or singin' with Mitch

Better than Hitchcock and Karloff
Better than clicking the switch

Better than movies late at night
or watching Emile Griffith fight

Better than anything 'cept being in love


Better than elephants dancing, clowns on parade
Better than peanuts and popcorn, fresh lemonade

Better than rides on the midway
Better than seals blowing horns

Better than men shot from cannons
Better than fresh ears of corn

Better than balancing on wire
or watching tigers leap through fire

Better than anything 'cept being in love

Better than singin right out loud
or being spotted in a crowd

Better than anything cept being in love

Better than hearing Lady Day
or checking in at Monterey

Better than anything cept being in love

Better than anything
Well except for you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SX4nL3CUEA&feature=related

Julie Driscol and Brian Auger and the Trinity

Didn't check in until late, Letty, but your choice was spot-on. Vivaldi's Four Seasons is one of the very few classical records I own (yep, record, not CD)

Good morning, WA2K musicians.

hbg, I missed your great medley last evening. Talk about toe tapping, folks, Fire Ball Mail was great, and the stairsteps trio was wonderful as well.

Well, Dutchy down under, I sensed that you would be here, honey. I do have a bit of the psychic in me. Thanks for the Pub With No Beer song. What a downer to think that could happen to a thirsty man from Oz when the temperatures are rising. Thanks, buddy.

There's that big island man with great lyrics from Bill that say it all. Great pictures of you and J.M. on C.I.'s travelogue.

edgar, always love what you play, Texas. Thanks again.

Tai, the wonderful thing about our WA2K sound is the ability to listen to classical music. Glad that you enjoyed Vivaldi.

Well, it seems that today is Patsy Cline's birthday, folks, and she is one of the casualities of an early demise, I'm afraid.

This one is for you, Patsy (and Walter)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wysJ7KeGpX4&feature=related

My last offering was a Bob Dylan composition. I don't know much about the artist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po9Fwwp_c7Q

My favorite from Fleetwood Mac. The graphics on this video are not something I would have chosen for it - Not that there's anything I would complain about it.

Hey, edgar. I know that our listeners enjoyed both those songs, Texas. I'm with you, however, about the graphics on The Thunder song. I am not certain, but that may be anime.

Incidentally, I missed the Trinity song, Wheels of Fire. I hadn't realized that Bob Dylan had composed it, but it was well done.

This is a lovely song by Emmylou Harris, and we will consider it our art form for the day, folks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rStaUN3OnA&feature=related

Rex Harrison
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born Reginald Carey Harrison
March 5, 1908(1908-03-05)
Huyton, Knowsley, Lancashire, England
Died June 2, 1990 (aged 82)
New York City, United States
[show]Awards won
Academy Awards
Best Actor
1964 My Fair Lady
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical/Comedy
1964 My Fair Lady
Tony Awards
Best Leading Actor in a Play
1949 Anne of the Thousand Days

Best Leading Actor in a Musical
1957 My Fair Lady

Other Awards
NBR Award for Best Actor
1963 Cleopatra
NYFCC Award for Best Actor
1964 My Fair Lady

Sir Reginald "Rex" Carey Harrison, KBE (5 March 1908 - 2 June 1990) was an Academy Award- and Tony Award-winning English theatre and film actor.





Youth and stage career

Harrison was born in Huyton, a suburb of Liverpool, then part of Lancashire, and educated at Liverpool College.[1] He first appeared on the stage in 1924 in Liverpool. Harrison's acting career was interrupted during World War II, whilst he served in the Royal Air Force, reaching the rank of Flight Lieutenant.[1] He acted in various stage productions until 11 May 1990. He acted in the West End of London when he was young, appearing in the Terence Rattigan play French Without Tears, which proved to be his breakthrough role.

He alternated appearances in London and New York, winning a Tony Award for his appearance as Henry VIII in Anne of the Thousand Days and international superstardom (and a second Tony Award) for his Henry Higgins in the musical My Fair Lady. Later appearances included 's Pirandello's Enrico IV, a 1984 appearance at the Haymarket Theatre with Claudette Colbert in Frederick Lonsdale's Aren't We All?, and also on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre presented by Douglas Urbanski, at the Haymarket in J. M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton with Edward Fox. He revived his Henry Higgins in a highly paid revival of My Fair Lady in 1981, cementing his association with the plays of George Bernard Shaw which included a Tony nominated performance as Shotover in Heartbreak House, Julius Caesar in Caesar and Cleopatra, and General Burgoyne in a Los Angeles production of The Devil's Disciple...


In films

Harrison's film debut was in The Great Game (1930), and other notable early films include The Citadel (1938), Night Train to Munich (1940), Major Barbara (1941), Blithe Spirit (1945), Anna and the King of Siam (1946), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), and The Foxes of Harrow (1947). He was best known for his portrayal of Professor Henry Higgins in the musical My Fair Lady, based on the George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion, especially after he reprised the role in the 1964 film version, for which he won a Best Actor Oscar. The 1956 cast album set sales records at the time. He revived the role on stage in the early 1980s. He also starred in 1967's Doctor Dolittle. Harrison was not by general terms a singer; thus, the music was generally written to allow for long periods of recitative, generally identified as "speaking to the music". Although excelling in High Comedy (Noel Coward said "Rex Harrison is the greatest interpreter of high comedy in the world ... next to Me!"), he attracted favourable notices in dramatic roles such as his portrayal of Julius Caesar in Cleopatra (1963) and as Pope Julius II in The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965), opposite Charlton Heston as Michelangelo. He also appeared as an aging homosexual man opposite Richard Burton as his lover in Staircase. He also acted in a Hindi movie Shalimar alongside the Indian Superstar Dharmendra.


Personal life

Harrison was married six times. In 1942 he divorced his first wife, Colette Thomas, and married actress Lilli Palmer the next year; the two later appeared together in numerous plays and films, including The Fourposter. After several years in film, he achieved wide acclaim starring in the adaptation of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit (1945). He followed that with his first major American film, starring as King Mongkut in Anna and the King of Siam. 1947 saw the release of the classic The Ghost and Mrs. Muir opposite Gene Tierney.

In 1947, while married to Palmer, Harrison began an affair with Carole Landis that became public knowledge. Hollywood blamed Harrison for Landis's 1948 suicide and the scandal resulted in him losing his contract with Fox.[citation needed] Harrison and Palmer divorced in 1957. He soon remarried, to actress Kay Kendall. He was subsequently married to Welsh-born Rachel Roberts, who, like Landis, later committed suicide by taking sleeping pills. Harrison then married Elizabeth Rees-Williams and, finally, Mercia Tinker, who would become his widow in 1990.

The chronology of Harrison's six marriages is as follows:

Colette Thomas (1934-1942), (one son, the actor/singer Noel Harrison)
Lilli Palmer (1943-1957), (one son, the novelist/playwright Carey Harrison)
Kay Kendall (1957-1959)
Rachel Roberts (1962-1971)
Elizabeth Harris (1971-1975), (three stepsons, Damian Harris, Jared Harris and Jamie Harris)
Mercia Tinker (1978-1990)

Honors and death

On 25 July 1989, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, while an orchestra played the music of songs from My Fair Lady.

Having retired from films in the late 1970s, he had continued to act on Broadway until the very end, despite suffering from glaucoma, painful teeth and a failing memory. In 1990 he was appearing on Broadway in The Circle by W. Somerset Maugham, opposite Glynis Johns, when he fell ill. It was discovered that he had pancreatic cancer but had been unaware of it, and he died peacefully three weeks later in New York City at the age of 82, causing the show to end prematurely.

Rex Harrison has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one at 6906 Hollywood Boulevard for his contribution to motion pictures, and another at 6380 Hollywood Boulevard for his contribution to the television industry.

Dean Stockwell
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born Robert Dean Stockwell
March 5, 1936 (1936-03-05) (age 72)
Hollywood, California, U.S.
Years active 1945 ?- present
Spouse(s) Millie Perkins (1960-1962),
Joy Marchenko (1981-2004)

Dean Stockwell (born March 5, 1936) is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning American film and television actor, active for over 60 years. He played Rear Admiral Albert "Al" Calavicci in the NBC television series Quantum Leap, and currently appears in the Sci Fi Channel revival of Battlestar Galactica as Brother Cavil.





Biography

Career

Stockwell began his acting career at age seven. Some of his notable child roles include that of Robert Shannon in The Green Years (1946), as well as playing Gregory Peck's son in Gentleman's Agreement (1947). He also starred in the lead role of the film The Boy With Green Hair in 1948, and in a film adaptation of The Secret Garden in 1949. Unlike many child actors, he continued to act past his teenage years. In 1945 he appeared in a main character role (Donald Martin) in the musical movie "Anchors Aweigh" alongside Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly. In 1950, he appeared in a lead role alongside Errol Flynn in Kim, the film of Rudyard Kipling's novel of the same name.

In 1959, Stockwell appeared in the film Compulsion, based on the famous case of Leopold and Loeb (with characters names changed to "Steiner and Strauss"), playing Judd Steiner. Compulsion also starred Bradford Dillman and Orson Welles as the Clarence Darrow-based lawyer Jonathan Wilk. In 1962, Stockwell appeared in an adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play Long Day's Journey Into Night along with Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson and Jason Robards. In 1965, his performance as an escaped convict who develops feelings for a 15-year-old girl in Rapture drew both praise and controversy. Nevertheless, his dynamic talent as a thespian was recognized.

In 1973, Stockwell was the leading actor in a B-rated horror flick called The Werewolf of Washington. Dean played Jack Whittier, a reporter who had an affair with the daughter of the U.S. President and is sent to Hungary. There he is bitten by a werewolf, and then gets transferred back to Washington D.C., where he gets a job as Press Secretary to the President. Then bodies start turning up all over the city.

In 1984, he appeared in Wim Wenders' critically acclaimed film Paris, Texas, and in that same year, in David Lynch's film version of Dune as the traitor Dr. Yueh. In 1986, Stockwell made a memorable appearance in another Lynch production, the controversial neo-noir classic thriller Blue Velvet. In 1988, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Mafia boss Tony "the Tiger" Russo in the comedy Married to the Mob.


Personal life

Stockwell was born Robert Dean Stockwell in North Hollywood, California, the son of Nina Olivette (née Elizabeth Margaret Veronica), an actress and dancer, and Harry Bayless Stockwell, or Harry Stockwell, an actor and singer.[1] He has been married twice:

Millie Perkins (1960-1962) (divorced)
Joy Marchenko (1981-2004) (divorced); one daughter and one son
Stockwell is an accomplished artist. He creates both digitally enhanced photographs and original collages in the style of his friend and fellow artist, Wallace Berman. He is also a friend of musician Neil Young and designed the album cover art for American Stars 'N Bars. Together they would direct Human Highway, which Stockwell also co-wrote. The title track from Young's 1970 album After the Gold Rush is based on the title of a screenplay written by Stockwell.[2]

Stockwell is an avid golfer and would play golf during breaks in filming episodes of Quantum Leap. He is also a martial artist, holding instructor rank in Modern Arnis.

Samantha Eggar
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Born March 5, 1939 (1939-03-05) (age 69)
Hampstead, London
Years active 1960 -
Spouse(s) Tom Stern 1964-71
[show]Awards won
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama, 1966, The Collector
Other Awards
Best Actress Award - Cannes Film Festival, 1966, The Collector

Samantha Eggar (born March 5, 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning English actress.

She was christened Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar[citation needed] in Hampstead, London, England to an English father, Ralph Eggar, and a mother, Muriel, of Dutch and Portuguese descent.

She began her acting career in several Shakespearean companies, and debuted in film in 1962 in The Wild and the Willing. Also in 1962 she played Ethel Le Neve in the film Dr. Crippen, alongside Donald Pleasence. By 1965, she had received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Collector. She was also awarded Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival.

She married Tom Stern in 1964 (divorced in 1971) with whom she has a son, Nicholas Stern, and a daughter, Jenna Stern.

She has also appeared in such films as Walk, Don't Run, Curtains, Doctor Dolittle, The Molly Maguires, Dark Horse, The Brood, and The Light at the Edge of the World.

In 1997, she provided the voice of Hera in Disney's animated film Hercules.

In 2000, she had a brief run on the American soap opera All My Children. She has also appeared as the wife of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's brother Robert in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.


Current Activity

Recently, she appeared as Sarah Templeton, the wife of Speaker of the House Nathan Templeton (Donald Sutherland) on the now-defunct television show Commander in Chief.

Andy Gibb
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Background information

Birth name Andrew Roy Gibb
Born March 5, 1958(1958-03-05)
Manchester, England
Origin Redcliffe, Australia
Died March 10, 1988 (aged 30)
Oxford, England
Genre(s) Pop, Disco
Occupation(s) Singer
Years active 1975 - 1988
Label(s) RSO, Polydor
Associated acts Bee Gees


Andy Gibb (March 5, 1958 - March 10, 1988) was an English-born Australian singer and teen idol, and the youngest brother of Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, also known as the Bee Gees.





The early years

Born Andrew Roy Gibb in Manchester, England, to Hugh and Barbara Gibb, his family emigrated to Australia six months after his birth, settling in Redcliffe, Queensland, Queensland, near Brisbane.

Gibb began playing at tourist clubs around Spain's coastal Island of Ibiza, and later back in his homeland of the Isle of Man, as a young teenager. The idea of his joining the Bee Gees was often suggested, but the age gap between him and his elder brothers (more than 11 years younger than Barry, slightly more than eight years younger than twins Robin and Maurice) made this difficult to achieve.

After returning to Australia in 1975 to hone his craft as a singer and songwriter, Gibb began recording a series of his own compositions, one of which was released as a single on the ATA label, owned by veteran Australian performer, Col Joye. "Words and Music" would eventually reach Top Five on the Sydney music charts in 1976. This breakout would pave the way to an even greater milestone later that year ?- an invitation from Robert Stigwood (who, at the time, was also the Bee Gees' manager) to launch his international career signed to his label, RSO Records. Gibb soon moved to Miami Beach, Florida to begin working on songs with his brother Barry, and co-producers Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson.

Prior to leaving Australia, Gibb had married his girlfriend, Kim Reeder. They had one child, a daughter named Peta Jaye, born January 25, 1978, but the couple was already separated at the time of Peta's birth and would divorce later that year. Gibb reportedly only met his daughter once in 1981. As of 2007 Peta is known as Peta J. Reeder-Gibb and breeds Staffordshire Bull Terriers as well as being a respected dog show judge in New South Wales, Australia[1].


Rise to the top

In the United States, Gibb became the first male solo artist to chart three consecutive Number One singles on the Billboard Hot 100. In July of 1977, he had his first major hit, "I Just Want to Be Your Everything", a song written by his brother Barry, just as his first album Flowing Rivers broke into the US Top 20, on its way to selling over a million copies. The album's second single "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water" broke in early 1978 amidst the commercial explosion caused by his brothers' contributions to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, replacing "Stayin' Alive" at the top of the US charts, and then surpassed by "Night Fever" when it reached the summit in mid-March. Continuing the momentum of his first successes, Gibb began work with the Gibb-Galuten-Richardson production team on his second album Shadow Dancing. The title track, written by all four Gibb brothers, was released as a single in the US in April 1978, and in mid-June began a seven week run at Number One, achieving platinum status. Two further Top Ten singles, "An Everlasting Love" and "(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away", a cover of the earlier version by his brothers, were extracted from the album, which became another million seller.

Despite his impressive accomplishments, the pressures and excesses of such rapid success began to consume Gibb, and eventually he would succumb to drug addiction and the reality of a career in decline. In 1979, Gibb performed, along with the Bee Gees, ABBA, and Olivia Newton-John (duet with "Rest Your Love On Me"), at the Music for UNICEF Concert at the United Nations General Assembly, broadcast worldwide.

He returned to the studio to begin recording sessions for his final full studio album, After Dark.In March of 1980 the last of Gibb's Top Ten singles charted just ahead of the album's release. "Desire", was recorded for the Bee Gees' 1979 album Spirits Having Flown, and featured their original track complete with Andy's original "guest vocal" track. A second single, "I Can't Help It", a duet with family friend Olivia Newton-John, reached the Top Twenty.

Later in the year, Andy Gibb's Greatest Hits was released as a finale to his contract with RSO Records, with two new songs: "Time Is Time" (number 15 in January 1981) and "Me (Without You)" (Gibb's last Top Forty chart entry) shipped as singles. "After Dark" and "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" were non single songs added to the album. The latter being a duet with PP Arnold, who had previously worked with Barry Gibb, including singing uncredited backups on, "Bury Me Down By The River" from Cucumber Castle.


Career Stall-Out

As a relationship with actress Victoria Principal ensued, Gibb worked on several projects outside of the recording studio. These included acclaimed performances in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat on Broadway, Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance in Los Angeles, and a stint as co-host of the television music show Solid Gold.

As Gibb's drug use intensified, he was becoming unreliable and he was eventually removed from each of those said endeavors. His romance with Principal also ended shortly thereafter, but not before recording and releasing a vanity duet of the Everly Brothers' classic "All I Have To Do Is Dream". This would be Gibb's last official single, and his last US chart entry, peaking at number 51. Gibb had no other notable romances but was linked briefly to ice skater Tai Babilonia and Donna Rice.

His family convinced him to seek treatment for his drug addiction; after a stint at the Betty Ford Clinic in the mid-1980s, Gibb toured small venues with a stage show of his greatest hits and covers. He also appeared in guest-starring roles on several television situation comedies...notably Gimme A Break! and Punky Brewster. Gibb's performances showed him to have (seemingly) recovered from his addiction. Following an expansive and popular East Asia tour, he regularly performed shows in Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe. He also enjoyed a two-week engagement at San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel in March 1986. It was there that the best bootleg recording of his live performances was allegedly made. Although Andy's work in his new lifestyle was well-received, he never managed to recapture the phenomenal success of his teens. In 1987, with his debts far outweighing his income, Gibb was forced to declare bankruptcy.

Determined to revive his recording career, Gibb returned to work alongside brothers Barry and Maurice. Their series of demo recordings would eventually secure him a contract with the UK branch of Island Records. One of the demos, "Man On Fire", was released posthumously on a self-titled 1991 Polydor anthology. Another demo, "Arrow Through The Heart" (though unreleased to the present day), would be featured on an episode of VH1's series Behind the Music.


Death

In March of 1988, Andy was in London, working the new album. He celebrated his 30th birthday here on the 5th. He was staying near Oxford, when, on the morning of Thursday March 10th, he entered John Radcliffe Hospital, complaining of chest pains. He died on March 10, 1988, just five days past his 30th birthday. His death from myocarditis (inflammation of the heart) followed a long battle with cocaine addiction, which had weakened his heart.

HELL EXPLAINED BY A

CHEMISTRY STUDENT




The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid term.

The answer by one student was so 'profound', that the professor shared it with his colleagues via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well:

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.

One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today.

Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:



1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Tracy during my Freshman year that, 'It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you,' and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct......leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Tracy kept shouting 'Oh my God.'


THIS STUDENT RECEIVED AN A+.

Hey, hawkman. That kid deserved an A+. I think I would want him on my team, whatever his major.

Thanks again for the celeb background, Boston.

Here's a nice tribute in song for Andy of the Bee Gees.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWhKIcXYJIQ&feature=related

GORDON LIGHTFOOT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-otk4v9aRs4

one of the very few songs of the Bee Gees I like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvbc4Nqlsmo

Lots of interesting people celebrating their birthday today. And I am celebrating with them...

So here's to them and me!

Happy birthday

And another one I like...

Birthday

JOSHUA BELL FROM ALBERT HALL

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pp-Gl-70dSo

hbg, thanks for that one by Gordon Lightfoot. His name has always fascinated me, Canada

Well, dys, I would call that one by the Bee Gees an adventure in abstract music. Very different, and it would take more listening to see beyond the melody. Thanks, honey.

Urs, is this your birthday? I am so glad that you decided to celebrate it here, gal.(that second birthday song was strange)

Happy Birthday to our Urs.

A German chocolate cupcake for youI

Thank you, Letty!

One of my colleagues made an Oreo cookies cheesecake for me. And we took the family to a restaurant called New York Grill where we had steak, fries, coleslaw. Very American tonight! To top it off, I just had a Cosmopolitan. Now I need to go to bed. :wink:

Have a good night all!

and hbg just hired Joshua Bell to serenade you with that lovely song, Urs. Think of his violin playing it as you dream.

Your timing was perfect, Canada.