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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.

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.

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.