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George, I had no idea that Pearl and Cab did Hello Dolly!

Well, all. We have certainly covered the archives today. That's what radio does for us--keeps our minds and our hopes alive.

George--I also saw Pearl Bailey and Cab Calloway in Hello Dolly! It was in New York City many, many years ago. She certainly did envelope the stage with her spirit and sparkling personality. That was a memorable performance. Her energy, talent and magical sense of humor just took over the entire building.

My favorite song is one that I most identify with since meeting Dys:

World, Take Me Back Lyrics

Dolly
I've sliced my slice of life a little thin
Haven't I, Ephraim?
I've been on the outside looking in
Haven't I, Ephraim?
Well, from now on, Ephraim,
All that's going to change.

The world is full of wonderful things,
a bushel of wonderful things for me to believe in
So world, take me back
I want to be part of the human race again

And bid good-bye to all my trouble and tears
I've wasted so many odd years
It's time to get even
So world, take me back
I want to let laughter light up my face again

Oh, no more peeking through the keyhole
I intend to have my own key
No more sneaking past the parlor
From now on, it's me sitting on the settee.

Oh, today's a day to holler about
for after just sitting life out
since heavens know when.

My step has a spring and a drive
I'm suddenly young and alive
You wonderful world,
Take me back again!

The world is full of Aprils & Junes
Red roses and yello' balloons
For me to hang onto
So world, take me back
I want to be
part of those good old days again!

Whatever happened to those wonderful days
night-away nights, oh where have they gone to?
So world, take me back,
I want to be
there when the gas light flames again!
Oh, no more watching from the sidelines
I intend to star in the show
No more reaching for tomorrow
from now on, I stand with today in my hand.

For today the world is ripe as a peach,
it's going to be mine till I reach a 110.

My step has a spring and a drive
I'm suddenly young and alive
You wonderful world,
Take me back again!

:wink:

That song is perfect for you, Diane! Perfect!

Yes indeed, yes indeed. :wink:

Ah, Di. That was lovely and delightful to hear.

Can we hear applause for our princess, folks?

Our Ryn has another project going. He now has a rogue's gallery all his own. The only problem is that he doesn't put names to faces. I recognize most of the people, but there are a few who are strangers. Let's see. I knew dj-husker-Walter-Montana-panz-and some others that don't post here.

For ehBeth who represents Canada on our radio station:

I recently discovered that the national anthem "O'Canada" wasn't officially adopted until 1980. That was another surprise, listeners.

...and the French version is not a translation of the English, but entirely different lyrics...

And for those of you who are curious, fans, here's the link to Ryn's new creation:

http://www.able2know.com/forums/about48395.html

Copied from Yahoo Movies! on line:

"George and Ira Gershwin used Calloway as the model for the character of Sportin' Life in their 1935 folk opera Porgy and Bess; though he never played that part on-stage, he did substitute for Sammy Davis Jr. on the soundtrack recording of the 1959 film version. "

Looks like I'm going to have to take a sentimental journey. I saw Cab Calloway as Sportin' Life in Porgy and Bess on stage in the fifties. He was the big attraction at the time. Guess I'll just have to check out all my old programs/playbills tucked away in their comfortable resting place.

Ah, Raggedy, you lucky thing. How wonderful that must have been for you:


It Ain't Necessarily So Lyrics
Artist(Band):Sting & Police






Written by Ira Gershwin

It ain't necessarily so, it ain't necessarily so
De t'ings dat yo' li'ble to read in de Bible
It ain't necessarily so

Li'l David was small, but oh my
Li'l David was small, but oh my
He fought big Goliath
who lay down and dieth
Li'l David was small, but oh my

Oh, Jonah, he lived in de whale
Oh, Jonah, he lived in de whale
Fo' he made his home in dat fish's abdomen
Oh, Jonah, he lived in de whale

Li'l Moses was found in a stream
Li'l Moses was found in a stream
He floated on water
Til Ole Pharoah's daughter
She fished him, she says, from that stream

It ain't necessarily so, it ain't necessarily so
Dey tell all you chillun de debble's a villun
But it ain't necessarily so.

To get into Hebben don't snap for a sebben
Live clean, don have no fault
Oh, I takes dat gospel
Whenever it's pos'ble
But wid a grain of salt

Methus'lah lived nine hundred years
Methus'lah lived nine hundred years
But who calls dat livin'
when no gal will give in
To no man what's nine hundred years?

I'm preachin' dis sermon to show
It ain't nessa, ain't nessa, ain't nessa, ain't nessa
Ain't necessarily so.

The really good songs never fade away, do they. Can you believe that Sting also did this song?

Sportin' Life, and I can still hear some tenor sax man wailin' Bess You is My Woman Now.

("Frogs." says johnboy cryptically).

RealJonBoy just hatched? Okay, tadpole. What happened? Was it the finger in the frito?

I have a bone to pick with Fate.
Come here and tell me, girlie,
Do you think my mind is maturing late,
Or simply rotted early.

Odgen Nash.

It's almost time for my frogs to start their nightly concert, listeners, and when they croak and their quick tongues flit like an atomic dart to capture a snake doctor, we learn to appreciate that bull.(she said esoterically)

Johnnie Cochran died today listeners.

Now there was a man with a voice built for radio.

ehBeth. That is something else. I wonder if OJ knows?

Thanks for that news item.

Hesitation Blues
W.C. Handy-1915

I'm a jackhammer man in a jackhammer town
And I hammer on my hammer 'till the sun goes down.
Tell me how long, do I have to wait?
Oh can I get you now, or must I hesitate?

I was born in Pennsylvania I was raised in France,
I'm a dirty old man and I wear silk pants.
Tell me how long, do I have to wait?
Oh can I get you now, or must I hesitate?

I've a rocket in my pocket and a pickle in my pants,
Come on baby let's lay down and dance.
Tell me how long, do I have to wait?
Oh can I get you now, or must I hesitate?

My rooster he crows and my hen she squawks,
When my baby walks man her body sure talks.
Tell me how long, do I have to wait?
Oh can I get you now, or must I hesitate?

Superman's Song - Crash Test Dummies

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Tarzan wasn't a ladies' man

He'd just come along and scoop 'em up under his arm

Like that, quick as a cat in the jungle

But Clark Kent, now there was a real gent

He would not be caught sittin' around in no

Junglescape, dumb as an ape doing nothing



Superman never made any money

For saving the world from Solomon Grundy

And sometimes I despair the world will never see

Another man like him



Hey Bob, Supe had a straight job

Even though he could have smashed through any bank

In the United States, he had the strength, but he would now

Folks said his family were all dead

Their planet crumbled but Superman, he forced himself

To carry on, forget Krypton, and keep going



Superman never made any money

For saving the world from Solomon Grundy

And sometimes I despair the world will never see

Another man like him



Tarzan was king of the jungle and Lord over all the apes

But he could hardly string together four words: "I Tarzan, You Jane."



Sometimes when Supe was stopping crimes

I'll bet that he was tempted to just quit and turn his back

On man, join Tarzan in the forest

But he stayed in the city, and kept on changing clothes

In dirty old phonebooths till his work was through

And nothing to do but go on home



Superman never made any money

For saving the world from Solomon Grundy

And sometimes I despair the world will never see

Another man like him

(2x)

Wow! dys. Great to see you back and singing with the St. Louis Blues Man.

Born in a log cabin near the banks of the Tennessee River, Florence native William Christopher Handy became known as the undisputed "Father of the Blues".

Handy, born in 1873, was the son and grandson of tradition bound Methodist ministers, and maintained a strong affinity for religious music especially Black spirituals throughout his life.

After his father objected to Handy's desire to become a professional musician, the young piano and trumpet player left Florence and embarked on a musical odyssey that carried him to St. Louis and Memphis.



With the publication of "Memphis Blues" in 1912, Handy standardized a unique, original form of American music that became known as "the blues". Later compositions, from "St. Louis Blues" to "Beale St. Blues", established gritty, soulful standards for this heartfelt musical genre.

In the 1920s, Handy moved to New York City and became a successful music publisher. He lost his eyesight during the 1930s and began publishing music in braille. In 1941, he published his autobiography, "Father of the Blues".

Florence, Handy's hometown, hosts a music festival in his honor each year. Handy, who died in 1958, was inducted to the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in 1987. His restored birthplace is now a museum and tourist attraction.

Beth, I have never heard anything done by Crash Test Dummies, but it's a clever name. It still amuses me that Tarzan was referred to as an ape man when he was a member of the royal set. (at least that's what I have been told)

Then there's George of the Jungle Land, a dumb but lovable jungle man.

taking a page from ehbeths book

more songs by quirky canadians

Someone Who Is Cool
The Odds

In natural selection
I've avoided all detection
and the tender bits underneath
all with window dressing and
calculated guessing
and a bark bigger than my teeth

It was the suit that got me the gig
It was the tear that got me the girl
I'm a sheep in this wolf's clothing
I'm a picture that I'm holding
of someone who is cool

soul like a thimble
swallowed up in symbols
wanting what I don't need
if sympathy's the answer
I'll have temporary cancer
but that's not what I'll have you believe

It was the suit that got me the gig
It was the tear that got me the girl
I'm a sheep in this wolf's clothing
I'm a picture that I'm holding
of someone who is cool
someone who is cool

close but kind of meatless
like actors who play Jesus
in movies of the week
What other people wish for
oozes from my every pore
I'm the coffee not the sleep

and I'm the song about the song
that once said something new
I'm a scandal that's unfolding
I'm a picture that I'm holding
of someone who is cool
someone who is cool


Brian Wilson
Barenaked Ladies

Drove downtown in the rain nine-thirty on a Tuesday night,
just to check out the late-night record shop.
Call it impulsive, call it compulsive, call it insane,
but when I'm surrounded I just can't stop.

It's a matter of instinct, it's a matter of conditioning,
it's a matter of fact.
You can call me Pavlov's dog.
Ring a bell and I'll salivate. How'd you like that?
Dr. Lendy tell me you're not just a pedagogue,
cause right now I'm

Chorus
Lying in bed just like Brian Wilson did
Well I'm lying in bed just like Brian Wilson did.

So I'm lying here, just starting at the ceiling tiles.
and I'm thinking about what to think about.
Just listening and relistening to Smiley Smile,
and I'm wondering if this is some kind of create drought
because I am

Chorus

And if you want to find me I'll be out in the sandbox,
wondering where the hell all the love has gone.
Playing my guitar and building castles in the sun,
and singing "Fun, Fun, Fun."

Chorus

I had a dream that I was three hundred pounds
and though I was very heavy,
I floated 'til I couldn't see the ground
I floated 'til I couldn't see the ground
Somebody help me, I couldn't see the ground
Somebody help me, I couldn't see the ground
Somebody help me because I'm

Chorus

Drove downtown in the rain nine-thirty on a Tuesday night.
Just to check out the late-night record shop.
Call it impulsive, call it compulsive, call it insane;


NaCl (Sodium Chloride)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle

Just a little atom of chlorine
Valence minus one
Swimming thru the sea, digging the scene
Just having fun
She's not worried about the shape or size
Of her outside shell
It's fun to ionize
Just a little atom of Cl
With an unfilled shell

But somewhere in that sea lurks
Handsome Sodium
With enough electrons on his outside shell
Plus that extra one
Somewhere in this deep blue sea
There's a negative
For my extra energy yes
Somewhere in this foam
My positive will find a home

Then unsuspecting Chlorine
Felt a magnetic pull
She looked down and her outside
Shell was full
Sodium cried "what a gas be my bride and
I'll change your name from Chlorine to Chloride"

Now the sea evaporates to make the clouds
For the rain and snow
Leaving her chemical compounds in the abscence
Of H2O
But the crystals that wash upon the shore
Are happy ones
So if you never thought before
Think of the love that you eat
When you salt your meat
Think of the love that you eat
When you salt your meat


Tu Vas M'accompagner
Kate & Anna McGarrigle
(Bob Seger's "You"ll Accompany Me)

Comme un loup sortant de la foret
Bete sauvage
Reputee suspecte
Ils te traitent de malin de redoubtable
Ca me semble une conquete formidable

Y'a longtemps que j'te regarde de loin
De tes beaux attributs
Je suis temoin
Tu sais mon gars que je'n pense qu'a toi

Et qu'un bon jour tu m'accompagneras

Oui un beau jour tu vas m'accompagner
Aupres de toi toujours je resterai
Y'en a qui pense du mal de toi
Mais moi je m'en fous
Alors accompagnes moi
Moi je m'en fous
Alors accompagnes moi

Avant que tu partes je voudrais que tu saches
J'ai un grand mal de coeur qui m'arrache
Et moi qui n'a meme plus les pieds sur terre
Cedant mes sentiments les plus sinceres

Oui un beau jour tu vas m'accompagner
Aupres de toi toujours je resterais
Y'en a qui pense du mal de toi
Mais moi je m'en fous alors accompagne moi

C'est un grand risque que je prendrai enfin
Ca pourrait toujours etre une vie de chien
Y'en a qui pense que j'me suicide
Je prefere cette mort
A l'existence vide

Oui un beau jour tu vas m'accompagner
Aupres de toi toujours je resterai
Y'en a qui pense du mal de toi
Mais moi je m'en fous alors accompagnes moi


Ash Hash
Bob Snider

Now if all this ash
used to be hash
what the heck time is it now?
Last thing I remember
I was looking at my stash
Just before the late late show.
Then we threw a couple of movies in the VCR
and I remember driving buddy home in the car.
Well I got no gas so we couldn't have gone far.
What the heck time is it now?

Oh my weary and aching head.
Come on, I've got to get some thinking done.
I can't remember where I put the bed.
Well I ain't moved it since '71.
I got a real sneaky feeling I'm about to fall down.
I hope I can find my way to the ground.
I'd hate to spend the whole night afloatin' around
in the condition I'm in.
Awww.

You know what I think I better do?

First thing in the morning
I'm giving myself a break.
You kind of get a warning
when your fingernails and eyelids ache.
Well it might be closer to the afternoon
but the big point is I'm gonna do it soon.
There ain't nothing underneath this moon
will ever make me toke another take
Uhn-uh.

Y'know I'm feeling better just thinking
about how much better I'm gonna feel.

Hey, what's that on the table?
Why it looks like a little chunk.
I bet old Petey dropped that there;
he always was a drunk.
Well it looks so good just sitting there.
I believe what I need is a bite of the hair.
Doggone stuff is like a breath of fresh air.
I think I'm gonna sell the farm - buy more.
I think I'm gonna sell the farm - I'll find the door
and then I think I'm gonna sell the farm.

I'm guessing NaCl is one of the most posted Canajun songs here at A2K. I've probably posted it at least 3 times - I love that damn song - it makes me all swoony and romantic-feeling.

i saw the sisters about twenty years ago as part of a bunch of cbc summer concerts in toronto, really good show

My goodness, listeners. ehBeth is drowning in a sea of salt and dj's Bob Seger song was lost in translation.

Don't you love it, WA2K listeners?That's what makes our station no. 1.

Still a little unsure about John of Virginia and George's reference to some song that didn't sound the same in French.

And while Walter and the Baron discuss Westphalia, and McTag is off on a jaunt somewhere we continue to stay on the air.