http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azXn6QPjPwI&feature=related
My pick is a bit more pedestrian than that. The Four Aces. Love is a Many Splendored Thing
Oops, folks, that should have been German PrinCe. I had what is called a slip of the tongue, I guess.
Hey, Texas, we like a variety of music on our cyber radio. It's all right to be pedestrian. As a matter of fact, I liked your "Just WALK on By".
The Four Aces are all right but you snuck Patsy in there "walking" as well.
Wow! The Father of Waters is angry and not behaving as he should. Ray, however, likes the mud.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjlxzuWaSTI
Hey Letty and Edgar et al
I watched the Nelson Mandela 90th Birthday celebrations on the haunted fish tank tonite (don't really watch TV) ... but this was great (plus Wimbledon is on!)
Anyhooo..... Queen were on with Paul Rodgers so I thought I would send you a couple that I had a singalong too tonite...
We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=zBUJztI884M&feature=related
Iz x
Good one by Ray, as always. Hi, izzie. Like the Queen songs.
Wow, Izzie. Nelson Mandela is ninety? Amazing. Hey, gal, Queen rocks all right, and that was a fabulous contribution. Glad to hear you sound up and excited.
Well, folks, not only are they royalty via Queen, they are also princes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPR6GbS9Hdc
My godmother... who is my inspiration, is 96 years old tomorrow.
Footprints in the Sand
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=d08X2lN669k
She still walks with me...from a distance, but is always there - the first thing she does every morning is...pray for me, and before she goes to bed, every nite, she prays for me. She is a spinster, very religious - she is looking forward to meeting God. She has had an amzing life - just incredible.
Her footprints will always be beside me. I love her very much. Will see if I can post a pic of her just briefly.
Izzie, I had to get up for a moment and walk outside of our studio. That tribute to your Godmother expresses your love and her courage. The song only added to it. Yes, we would love to see her picture.
Your "footprints" reminded me of this Longfellow poem.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Psalm of Life
Tell me not in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou are, to dust thou returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each tomorrow
Find us farther than today.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!
Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, - act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sand of time;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
pic above hun and will delete after who have seen.
She is a remarkable lady - she travelled to Oz when she was in her early twenties
was a teacher there, joined the army, was Clerk To Governors - I could sit and listen to her for hours, her life journey is incredible and she is still going strong. Lives alone and drives a car. Doesn't need much (has not had an inside toilet until recent years) and aks for nothing -she taught me to play piano, held me at my christening and walked with me when I was confirmed at 13, in a dress made from my Mothers Wedding Dress. ( I still have it... though my faith is not quite what is should be for the last few years ) - she prays that I will find the light again in the belief I was brought up in. Bless here, she is extraordinary.
Izzie, I don't know who is more beautiful; you or your godmother. How wonderful for both of you. I know that life can shake us and often break us, but there is a glimmer somewhere. I have felt it.
Strange, I just heard from my son and he sounded wonderful. I also told my daughter, who has been where you are, to look up this poem and think about what it says.
WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND ?
BY: CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hang trembling
The wind is passing thro'
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads
The wind is passing by.
Time for me to say goodnight. Please hold Noddy and Phoenix in your thoughts. They have and are going through so much.
My goodnight song fascinates me, and I hope you enjoy it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_N7rXDQLSU
From Letty with love
Well, folks, I just found out some interesting information on Jim Croce. He was a devout Roman Catholic who turned to Judaism when he married. He died in an airplane crash before his album, "I've Got a Name" was released. He was only thirty years old.
To begin the day, here is one by him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rQJ6KQjDG0
Jim - Another gifted artist that died before his time. I like almost everything I've heard by him.
edgar, Time in a Bottle was written for his new born son. Didn't know that either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILf-54Smv9M
I have known a number of women, concerned for their husbands or boyfriends, who were sustained by Time in a Bottle. It goes back just a bit over 30 years ago . . . I never learned how it turned out for most of them. For one brother and his spouse, it worked out wonderfully.
I hope it turned out well, edgar, but we must always figure on fait accompli, or as it is called in America and Ireland, luck.
Poor Jim. For him, it was....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g20puCZ16s
That was new music for me. Very good.
I went in the old archives to bring out this by Roy Hamilton.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddRvxj7hyWY
Well, I've thought enough, methinks. I'll do more later, however.
edgar, Of all the gestures of love, I think that "holding hands" is the greatest. That was a wonderful song by Roy. Thank you, Texas.
Thinking of, "take my hand, I'm a stranger in paradise." That was from Kismet, another type of fate.
Still thinking of the muddy Mississippi, y'all, so from the archives...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B46s-YEoh6k&feature=related
Barbershop Quartet - I think of the Music Man any time I hear that kind of music.
There once was a plan to present a rock n roll production on stage, of Othello, featuring Jerry Lee Lewis. I don't know that it ever saw a performance, but here is a rehearsal video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRcZPdRgVnQ&feature=related
I didn't know that The Music Man featured barbershop quartet stuff.
Well, folks, edgar has just shown us that Jerry Lee was diversified. It's difficult to believe that he would be interested in the Bard, much less Otello. Totally amazing, Texas. Thanks for the revelation.
I know that Paul Robeson did Otello, but I just couldn't find a video, I'm sorry to say.
Dvorak, however, did The New World Symphony for America, but it was mostly European in origin. Let's listen to the Largo part of the symphony, then to Paul sing the adaptation, Going Home.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5EsCoys9qc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBrEQYRcizk
In the Music Man, a group of four men say, "Just a minute, Professor. We need to see your credentials." Well, the professor gets them to singing as a quartet. They get to having such a good time, he slips away without showing credentials. Getting them to sing becomes his standard out.
Wish I had a voice like Robeson's.
