Thank you for the dedication, Letty.
And here's a great Sondheim number (A Little Night Music) from the birthday lady, Judy Collins.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5yG1Dy5b4A&feature=related
My word, Raggedy. I love that song, but I had no idea that it was by Sondheim nor that Judy Collins did it. Thanks, PA.
Here's another dedication, folks. Someone's birthday would have been tomorrow. So for him.
Everything Happens to Me in two versions. The instrumental and then the lyrics by Carmen McRae (or vice versa)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QYLtzSmHYc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esL6t_8D6K4
Ahh. Judy Collins. One of my favorite people. I began purchasing her albums about 1968. Here is a good selection, I think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhKKLm9oHh4
Judy Collins performing Bird on a Wire was a real surprise to me. Love that Cohen song. For years I tried to find a version of it by an Israeli singer, Esther Ofarim, i once heard on radio and not too long ago found the CD. And, lo and behold, it's also on Youtube.
If you'd care to hear it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cvOjmWv7yc&feature=related
That was beautiful, raggedy. I like several vesions of that, but, in the end, Cohen is my man.
Great versions of the same song, edgar and Raggedy, and I see that Bird on a Wire was written by Leonard Cohen. Thanks to the "boat o youse"
When you get a chance, listen to the instrumental version of Everything Happens to me. Pure and wonderful jazz.
Time for me to say goodnight, and here is one that Bob Dylan also did, but this one is the original version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4_HNE4o5sQ&feature=related
As always,
From Letty with love
The Everly Brothers are favorites of mine, also. Dylan did two other of their songs: Take a Message to Mary and Highway 51.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChRRRqinM6k
Hello WA2K, my call in contribution for the evening.
Cohen and Collins
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=czQoGSYBeHU&feature=related
RH
Thanks, rockhead. In 1968, I saw Leonard Cohen's first album in a record store. The song titles, plus the painting of a burning Joan of Arc on the back, persuaded me to take home a copy. Suzanne was the first cut. I became an instant fan.
Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.
R.H. I love that Cohen song. It's the first one that I ever heard by him. Welcome back, incidentally.
edgar, the Dylan song was great as well. Thanks, Texas.
This one by Stevie Wonder was his way of recognizing the horror in Dafur.
So many celebs are making the world aware of the genocide there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z2LNsifEzg
Lorenz Hart
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Lorenz "Larry" Hart (May 2, 1895 - November 22, 1943) was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include, "Blue Moon", "Isn't It Romantic?", "Mountain Greenery", "The Lady Is a Tramp", "Manhattan", "Where or When", "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", "Falling in Love with Love", and "My Funny Valentine".
Hart was born in Harlem to Jewish immigrant parents. He attended Columbia University, where a friend introduced him to Richard Rodgers, and the two joined forces to write songs for a series of amateur and student productions. In 1919, the team's song "Any Old Place With You" was included in the Broadway musical comedy A Lonely Romeo. The smashing success of their score for the 1925 Theatre Guild production, The Garrick Gaieties, brought them great acclaim.
They continued working together until Hart's death in 1943, along the way producing scores for a series of hit shows and making a substantial contribution to the Great American Songbook. Hart also translated plays for the Schubert brothers while continuing to collaborate with Rodgers.
As a lyricist, Hart was an advocate of inner rhyming and multisyllabic rhyming, and his lyrics have often been praised for their wit and technical sophistication.
Hart struggled with homosexuality in an era when such a sexual orientation was socially unacceptable, and with alcoholism, which contributed to his death.
Hart also suffered great emotional turmoil toward the end of his life. His personal problems were often the cause of friction between him and Rodgers, and in fact led to a brief breakup in 1943, at which time Rodgers started working with Oscar Hammerstein II, a school friend of Hart.
Rodgers and Hart teamed a final time in the fall of 1943 for a revival of A Connecticut Yankee. Five days after this show opened, Hart died of pneumonia from exposure. He is believed to have died alone. He is buried in Mount Zion Cemetery in Queens County, New York.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodor Meir Bikel (born May 2, 1924, Vienna, Austria) is an Academy Award- and Tony Award-nominated character actor, folk singer and musician. He made his film debut in The African Queen (1951) and was nominated for an Academy award for his role as the Southern Sheriff in The Defiant Ones (1958).
Bikel started acting as a teenager in Israel, and began a small theater there before moving to London to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After several plays and films in Europe, he moved to the United States in 1954.
He was the U-boat first officer to Curt Jürgens in The Enemy Below (1957) and played the captain of the Russian submarine in The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966).
On Broadway he originated the role of Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music in 1959, for which he received his second Tony nomination. In 1964, he played Zoltan Karpathy, the dialect expert, in the film version of My Fair Lady. Since his first appearance as Tevye in the musical Fiddler on the Roof in 1967, Bikel has performed the role more often than any other actor (2094 times to date). Bikel was screentested for the role of Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film Goldfinger (1964). The screentest can be seen on the "Ultimate Edition" DVD released in 2006.
In the 1950's, Thedore Bikel produced and sang in several albums of Jewish folk songs, as well as Songs of a Russian Gypsy, in 1958. He was a co-founder of the Newport Folk Festival (together with Pete Seeger and George Wein) in 1961. In 1962 he heard Bob Dylan give his premiere performance of "Blowin' in the Wind." Bikel then went to his scheduled performance and became the first singer besides Dylan to perform the song in public. Bikel (with partner Herb Cohen) opened the first folk music coffeehouse in L.A., The Unicorn. Its popularity led to the two opening a second club, Cosmo Alley, which in addition to folk music presented poets such as Maya Angelou and comics including Lenny Bruce. Bikel also appeared in Frank Zappa's film 200 Motels.
In addition to scores of appearances on film and on the stage, Bikel was a guest star on many popular television shows since the 1960s, including The Twilight Zone, Columbo, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty, Little House on the Prairie and Law & Order. He appeared on the game show Super Password as a celebrity guest in 1988.
In the early 1990s, he appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation, in the episode "Family", playing Sergey Rozhenko, the Russian-born adopted father of Worf, who, as a petty officer on the Starfleet vessel Intrepid, had found Worf at the site of the Khitomer Massacre and taken him home to raise as his son. Bikel performed two roles in the Babylon 5 universe. The first was as Rabbi Koslov in the first season episode TKO. He later appeared in the TV movie, Babylon 5: In the Beginning as Anla'Shok leader Lenonn.
Theodore made a most memorable guest appearance in the 1992 PBS special, Chanukkah at Grover's Corner. Bikel made latkes with a talking puppet named "Mozart" and wore a pink sweater, much to the delight of "Terry A La Berry".
Other work
Bikel is President of the Associated Actors and Artistes of America, and was president of Actors' Equity in the late 1970s and early 1980s. U.S. President Jimmy Carter appointed him to serve on the National Council for the Arts in 1977 for a six year term. On January 28, 2007, he was elected to serve as Chair of the Board of Directors of Meretz USA. Bikel is also a lecturer. Bikel's autobiography Theo was published in 1995 by Harper Collins, and re-issued in an updated version by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2002.
A Japanese doctor said, "Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him looking for work in six week"...
A German doctor said, "That's nothing, we can take a lung out of one person, put it in another, and have him looking for work in four weeks"...
A British doctor said, "In my country, medicine is so advanced that we can take half of a heart out of one person, put it in another, and have them both looking for work in two weeks"...
A Texas doctor, not to be outdone said, "You guys are way behind; We took a man with no brains out of Texas; put him in the White House, and now half the country is looking for work"...
Thanks, hawkman, for the great bio's and I love how Texas trumped all the others. Soooooo true.
Here's a new comer on WA2K radio, and I adore the song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEW2aEazNCQ
Bewitched Bothered n Bewildered is always nice, and I love that song by Stevie, as well as the album it's from.
