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bobsmythhawk: Re Stan Laurel. Those were some amazingly funny quotes re his own passing and also from Buster Keaton, etc. Thanks ever so much.

I agree, Ragman.

Hey, BioBob, thanks for the background of the famous folks, and I loved your funny about the common tater.

Ragman, also listened to Leon Russell, who I really like, and Karen Carpenter. Dear Karen is another example of how "fame" can be a handicap. Someone just observed in passing, that Ken's sister was pudgy. That led to her anorexia nervosa which eventually led to her death.

The following video is another example of how history can over glorify certain ethnic cultures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq-brWIb12g&feature=related

Strange how much Poe's "Masque of the Red Death" is like Leon's song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-a_5JdyLhg

Bud always supported the jazz ballad with the same observation.

"I'm afraid the masquerade is over; and so is love, and so is love."

Will try to find that one as we love to run the gamut of music on our wee radio station.

I found those lyrics, and all the people who recorded the song:

(I'M AFRAID) THE MASQUERADE IS OVER aka THE MASQUERADE IS OVER
(Herb Magidson / Allie Wruble)

Jimmy Dorsey & His Orch. (vocal: Bob Eberly) - 1939
Larry Clinton & His Orch. (vocal: Bea Wain) - 1939
Leslie "Hutch" Hutchinson - 1939
Horace Heidt & His Orch. - 1939
Dick Jurgens & His Orch. - 1939
Glenn Miller & His Orch. - 1939
Sarah Vaughan - 1956
Helen Merrill - 1956
Dakota Staton - 1960
Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderley - 1961
Marvin Gaye - 1961
The Three Sounds - 1961
Etta Jones - 1962
Stevie Wonder - 1963
Al Jarreau - 1965
Silvia Syms - 1965
Billy Preston - 1965
Anita Kerr Singers - 1965
José Feliciano - 1966
Aretha Franklin - 1974

Also recorded by :
Buddy Greco; The Moonglows; Carmen McRae; Etta James;
Big Maybelle; George Benson; Pat Bowie; The Harptones;
Dave Brubeck; Paul Bryant; Lodi Carr; Steve Wilkerson;
Kate Ceberano & Her Septet; Sonny Criss; Jesse Davis;
Denny Dennis; Lou Donaldson; Eliane Elias; Ray Brown;
The Five Satins; Jimmy Witherspoon; Hollywood Flames;
The Four Tops; Sonny Stitt; P. J. Proby; Debra Holly;
Vince Jones; The Platters; Abby Lincoln; Milt Jackson;
Ivory Joe Hunter; Javon Jackson; Ruby Blue; Patti Page;
Betty Joplin; Trudy Kerr; Doug Lawrence; Mike Wheeler;
Johnny O'Neal; Denise Perrier; Linda Purl; Ike Quebec;
Ann Richards; Kim Richmond; Jan Savitt; Titus Turner;
Little Jimmy Scott; George Shearing; The Cleftones;
Titus Turner; Dan Wall; Mort Weiss; James Williams;
Ruby & The Romantics; ............. and many others.


My blue horizon is turning grey
And my dreams are drifting away

Your eyes don't shine like they used to shine
And the thrill is gone when your lips meet mine
I'm afraid the masquerade is over
And so is love, and so is love

Your words don't mean what they used to mean
They were once inspired, now they're just routine
I'm afraid the masquerade is over
And so is love, and so is love

I guess I'll have to play Pagliacci
And get myself a clown's disguise
And learn to laugh like Pagliacci
With tears in my eyes

You look the same, you're a lot the same
But my heart says "no, no, you're not the same"
I'm afraid the masquerade is over
And so is love, and so is love

(Instrumental Interlude)

I guess I'll have to play Pagliacci
And get myself a clown's disguise
And learn to laugh like Pagliacci
With tears in my eyes

You look the same, you're a lot the same
But my heart says "No, no, you're not the same"
I'm afraid the masquerade is over
And so is love, and so is love."

Marvelous, Ragman, and I found the jazz instrumental version. Back later to play that one for our listeners. Didn't have any idea that so many people recorded it. Thanks, buddy.

Here it is, everyone, and please note the improvisations and introduction of other melodies into the song that is so typical of cool jazz.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebNfeh8khys

Here's to Stan



and

Geronimo




Never got into jazz, Letty, but am enjoying listening to it at WA2K.

Hey, Raggedy. Well, PA, sometimes we call this the discovery channel of our radio. Thanks, for the faded duo. Tried finding a suitable tribute to Stan and Oliver, but no could do.

Here's a discovery that I made that I have been searching for FOREVER. Can't wait to tell my sister about 2.

Everyone likes Gershwin, so.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li9XGprAZtA

having just posted the picture ... here is the music to go with it

memories - didn't have a TV at that time , so we'd visit with friends for an evening for some BLACK + WHITE entertainment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjouKkpR3MU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmmRnROmTU4

I have always liked Don Cherry's records.

Wundebar, hbg. I am so glad that they listed all the songs that Mr. Welk and his assistant played. I don't know why, but I know Stumbling. The other two, of course, were quite familiar.

edgar, Don Cherry's "Band of gold" and his book called "It's Magic" were exactly what our cyber station needed to get alerts. Amazing, y'all. (I love cherrys jubilee, incidentally. The master chef at the Greenbrier Hotel made a big deal out of it )

Well, time for me to say goodnight, and I found a great sleepy song to play. It has not been a good day, I'm afraid. Perhaps tomorrow will be better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlZKW3ZIa8U

As always,

From Letty with love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8qF11GnP6M

Good night, letty.

Just saw the above, Letty. "Let's Face the Music and Dance" was played in "Meet Joe Black", but I'll be darned if I remember telling you that. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers sang and danced to it in "Follow the Fleet" a long, long time ago.

when i saw this, i thought, really? turns out there's more than one musical cherry :wink:

Ornette Coleman/Don Cherry/Charlie Haden/Billy Higgins

Good morning, WA2K folks.

edgar, thanks for the goodnight song. "Sleepy Time Gal" must have worked, because I did get some rest last evening.

Raggedy, I did apologize for getting Jack Black confused with "Meet Jo Black", I watched that movie some time back and recall it was a remake of several "...one short sleep passed, and death thou shalt die.." Glad that Brad got a chance to be alive again. (not certain that I got the exact quote correct)

Hey, honu/M.D. Where have you been? I know that jazz man. Do believe that he is playing a flugelhorn. Thanks, big island man.

Well, folks, today is Barry Manilow's birthday, and this is a great video saluting all the famous couples including Jenny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btiSh_Ug0dw

Charles Gounod
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Charles-François Gounod (June 17[1], 1818 - October 18[2], 1893) was a French composer, best known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Roméo et Juliette.





Biography

Gounod was born in Paris, the son of a pianist mother and a draftsman father. His mother was his first piano teacher. Under her tutelage, Gounod first showed his musical talents. He entered the Paris Conservatoire where he studied under Fromental Halévy.


He won the Prix de Rome in 1839 for his cantata Ferdinand.

He subsequently went to Italy where he studied the music of Palestrina. He concentrated on religious music of the sixteenth century.

Gounod eventually returned to Paris and composed the "Messe Solennelle", also known as the "Saint Cecilia Mass". This work was first performed in London during 1851 and began his reputation as a noteworthy composer.

He wrote two symphonies in 1855. His Symphony No.1 in D major was the inspiration for the Symphony No. 1 in C, composed later that same year by Georges Bizet, who was then Gounod's 17 year old student. Despite their charm and brilliance, Gounod's symphonies are seldom performed. One of the few recordings of the symphonies was one made by Sir Neville Marriner with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields for Philips Records.

Gounod wrote his first opera, Sapho, in 1851, but had no great success until Faust (1859), based on the play by Goethe. This remains his best-known work. The romantic and highly melodious Roméo et Juliette (based on the Shakespeare play), premiered in 1867, is also performed and recorded regularly. The charming and highly individual Mireille of 1864 is admired by connoisseurs.

There is some controversy surrounding "Faust". Many critics believed it was a far advancement over Gounod's prior works. One critic stated his doubt that Gounod composed it, which prompted Gounod to challenge the critic to a duel. The critic withdrew his statement.[citation needed]

From 1870 to 1875 Gounod lived in England, becoming the first conductor of what is now the Royal Choral Society. Much of Gounod's music from this time is vocal or choral in nature.

Fanny Mendelssohn introduced the keyboard music of J.S. Bach to Gounod, who came to worship the composer as a god. For him, The Well-Tempered Clavier was "the law to pianoforte study ... the unquestioned textbook of musical composition".

Later in his life, Gounod returned to his early religious impulses, writing much religious music. These included an improvisation of a melody over the C major Prelude (BWV 846) from The Well-Tempered Clavier, to which Gounod set the words of Ave Maria, a setting that became world-famous.[3]. He also wrote Inno e Marcia Pontificale, now the official national anthem of the Vatican City.

He died in 1893 in Saint-Cloud, France, as he put the finishing touches to a requiem "Le Grand Requiem" inspired by the death of his grandson, a major work which he was never to hear performed.

One of his short pieces, Funeral March for a Marionette, became well known as the theme to Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Ralph Bellamy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born Ralph Rexford Bellamy
June 17, 1904(1904-06-17)
Chicago, Illinois
Died November 29, 1991 (aged 87)
Santa Monica, California
Occupation Film, stage actor
Spouse(s) Alice Delbridge (1927-1930)
Catherine Willard (1931-1945)
Ethel Smith (1945-1947)
Alice Murphy (1949-1991)
Awards won
Academy Awards
Academy Honorary Award
1987 Lifetime Achievement
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Life Achievement Award
1984 Lifetime Achievement
Tony Awards
Best Leading Actor in a Play
1958 Sunrise at Campobello
Other Awards
Hollywood Walk of Fame
6542 Hollywood Boulevard

Ralph Rexford Bellamy (June 17, 1904 - November 29, 1991) was an American actor with a career spanning sixty-two years.





Biography

Early life

Bellamy was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Lilla Louise (née Smith), a native of Canada, and Charles Rexford Bellamy.[1] He began his acting career on stage, and by 1927 owned his own theatre company. In 1931, he made his film debut and worked constantly throughout the decade to establish himself as a capable supporting actor. Bellamy received the lead role in the 1936 film Straight from the Shoulder.


Film career

He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Awful Truth (1937) opposite Irene Dunne and Cary Grant and played a similar part (a naive, aw-shucks boyfriend competing with the sophisticated light-comedy Grant character) in His Girl Friday (1940). He portrayed detective Ellery Queen in a few films during the 1940s, but as his film career did not progress, he returned to the stage, where he continued to perform throughout the fifties. Highly regarded within the industry, he was a founder of the Screen Actors Guild and served as President of Actors' Equity from 1952-1964.

He was briefly married to organist Ethel Smith from 1945 to 1947.[2] Bellamy was also married to Alice Delbridge (1927-1930), Catherine Willard (1931-1945), and, finally, Alice Murphy (1949-1991).

Bellamy was a regular panelist on the CBS television game show To Tell the Truth during its initial run. He also starred in the television detective series Follow that Man, AKA Man Against Crime


On Broadway he appeared in one of his most famous roles, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campobello. He later starred in the 1960 film version. In the summer of 1961, Bellamy hosted nine original episodes of a CBS Western anthology series called Frontier Justice, a Dick Powell Four Star Television production.

On film, he also starred in Rosemary's Baby (1968) as a devilish physician, before turning to television during the 1970s. An Emmy Award nomination for the mini-series The Winds of War (1983) - in which Bellamy reprised his Sunrise at Campobello role of Franklin Roosevelt - brought him back into the limelight. This was quickly followed by his role as Randolph Duke, a conniving billionaire alongside Don Ameche in Trading Places (1983).

In the 1988 Eddie Murphy film, Coming to America, Bellamy and co-star Don Ameche reprised a one-scene cameo of their roles as the Duke brothers. After Randolph and Mortimer Duke lost their enormous fortune at the end of Trading Places, in Coming to America, the brothers are homeless and living on the streets. Prince Akeem (Murphy) gives them a paper bag filled with money, which they gratefully accept and exclaim "We're back!" (failing to notice that the generous Akeem bears an uncanny resemblance to Billy Ray Valentine, the man who had ruined them).


Final years

In 1984, he was presented with a Life Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild, and in 1987 received an Honorary Academy Award "for his unique artistry and his distinguished service to the profession of acting".

Among his later roles was a memorable appearance as a once-brilliant but increasingly forgetful lawyer sadly skewered by the Jimmy Smits character on an episode of L.A. Law.

He continued working regularly and gave his final performance in Pretty Woman (1990).

He died as a result of a lung ailment in Santa Monica, California at the age of 87, and was buried in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.


Awards and honours

Bellamy has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6542 Hollywood Boulevard.

In a 2007 episode of Boston Legal, footage of a 1957 episode of Studio One was used. The episode featured Bellamy and William Shatner as a father-son duo of lawyers. This was used in the present-day to explain the relationship between Shatner's Denny Crane character and his father in the show.