http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a2JHqD-Cf4
Now I am not the only one with this song stuck in my head...
edgar, I searched for your barber shop quartet from The Music Man, but alas, I could not find it. I did find the beautiful ballad "Till There was You". Somehow, I didn't like Shirley Jones' version of it. In the morning I shall do the acoustic guitar rendition.
Rex, I had to smile at "Let's All sing Like the Birdies Sing." I see that there is also a version from Disney's Tiki Palace. Funny oldie, Maine.
Well, it's time for me to say goodnight, and I think I shall do it with some songs from Kismet. You'll like this edgar, because someone you know is doing the vocals.
We'll also dedicate "This is My Beloved" to our Raggedy and hope the storms in Pennsylvania have subsided
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBX3BBWdT0Q
Goodnight, and may your Sunday morning be bright.
From Letty with love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCpCxD6Em8k&feature=related
I found some music from the Music Man. The singers call themselves The Buffalo Bills.
I like that video, letty. It's a good good night one.
nite lovelies - Happy Sunday to you
Iz x
Good morning, WA2K folks.
edgar, now I recall that song, and it is indeed a barber shop piece. Thanks, Texas, and a nice goodnight song by Bob as well. I am still amazed at what that man has done. Wigwam? who could tell.
Izzie, you have a wonderful sunday as well, lovely.
As promised, listeners, here is the acoustic version of "Till There Was You", and the lyrics to match.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSNogCdocvE
There were bells on the hill
But I never heard them ringing,
No, I never heard them at all
Till there was you.
There were birds in the sky
But I never saw them winging
No, I never saw them at all
Till there was you.
And there was music,
And there were wonderful roses,
They tell me,
In sweet fragrant meadows of dawn, and dew.
There was love all around
But I never heard it singing
No, I never heard it at all
Till there was you!
A beautiful ballad
Good Morning Folkses
Hope all are having a good day today thus far
I'm on a Janis morning...
Piece Of My Heart
Good morning, Izzie. Poor Janis. So many songs have been written in tribute to her, but yours I have never heard. Thanks for "A Piece of my Heart".
Well, folks, today is Ian Paice's birthday so let's hear "Smoke on the Water"
Hope this works, folks, as there seems to be a small problem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IQiGmx_TCg
Oh Letty
there's another of those strange things!
My BigBoy used to play this.... but he didn't continue.... so the electric guitar went a while back - BUT we still have an accoustic - with 5 strings and fairly bashed up and out of tune. Little fella is left handed.... he turns the guitar upside down and has learned to play the first few bars of Smoke On The Water on the top E string - PERFECTLY!
How he manages to do this I have no idea... but he does.
Tulips son is learning this on the guitar too right now - he has lessons and is doing real well.
Frank Loesser
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born Frank Henry Loesser
June 29, 1910(1910-06-29)
New York City, New York
Died July 26, 1969 (aged 59)
New York City, New York
Occupation composer, lyricist, screenwriter, actor
Years active 1936 - 1969
Spouse(s) Lynn Garland (m.1936)
Jo Sullivan (m.1959)
Awards won
Academy Awards
Best Original Song
1949 Neptune's Daughter
for the song "Baby, It's Cold Outside"
Grammy Awards
Best Original Cast Show Album
1961 How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
Tony Awards
Best Original Score
1951 Guys and Dolls
1962 How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
Frank Henry Loesser (June 29, 1910, New York City - July 26, 1969, New York City) was an American composer and lyricist. He died of lung cancer at age 59.
During World War II, he wrote 1942's "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition". Formerly a successful lyricist in collaboration with other composers, this was the first song for which Loesser composed the melody in addition to the lyric.
Loesser was awarded a Grammy Award in 1961 for Best Original Cast Show Album for How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.
He wrote the following Broadway musicals:
Where's Charley? (1948) (starring Ray Bolger)
"Once in Love With Amy"
Guys and Dolls (1950)
"A Bushel and a Peck"
"Fugue for Tinhorns"
"I'll Know"
"If I Were A Bell", a favorite of Miles Davis, featured in recordings with John Coltrane
"Luck Be a Lady Tonight"
The Most Happy Fella (1956)
"Standing on the Corner"
"Big D"
"Somebody Somewhere"
"Joey, Joey"
Greenwillow (1960)
How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (1961)
"I Believe In You"
"The Brotherhood Of Man"
Pleasures and Palaces (1965)
Some well-known songs he composed for movies and Tin Pan Alley:
"Baby, It's Cold Outside" from Neptune's Daughter (1949). This was originally a song which Loesser and his wife Lynn (born Blankenbaker) performed at parties for the private entertainment of friends. They also recorded the song for Mercury Records. Under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to supply a full score for Neptune's Daughter, Loesser included this song which he had created in 1944, originally for their housewarming party.
"Heart and Soul" (from the Paramount Short Subject A Song is Born) -- lyrics
"I Don't Want to Walk Without You" (from the Paramount Pictures motion picture Sweater Girl)
"Inch Worm" (from the motion picture Hans Christian Andersen)
"(I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China"
"Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year" (from the motion picture Christmas Holiday)
"Thumbelina" (from Hans Christian Andersen)
"Two Sleepy People" (music by Hoagy Carmichael, 1938)
"What are You Doing New Year's Eve?"
"Wonderful Copenhagen" (from Hans Christian Andersen), which is now the official song of the city of Copenhagen.
He was also the author of "The Ballad of Rodger Young".
2006 saw the release of the PBS documentary, Heart & Soul: The Life and Music of Frank Loesser.
Gary Busey
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born William Gareth Jacob Busey, Sr.
June 29, 1944 (1944-06-29) (age 64)
Goose Creek, Texas, U.S.
Spouse(s) Tiani Warden (September 23, 1996-2001) (divorced)
Judy Helkenberg (December 30, 1968-1990) (divorced) 1 child
Awards won
BAFTA Awards
Won: Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Role (1978) for The Buddy Holly Story
Golden Globe Awards
Nominated: Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (1978) for The Buddy Holly Story
William Gareth Jacob "Gary" Busey, Sr. (born June 29, 1944) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-nominated American film and stage actor, as well as an artist. He has appeared in a number of films, including The Buddy Holly Story, Big Wednesday, Lethal Weapon, Point Break, The Firm and Under Siege.
Biography
Personal life
Busey was born in Goose Creek (now Baytown), Texas, the son of Virginia (née Arnett), a homemaker, and Delmer Lloyd Busey, a construction design manager.[1] He graduated from Nathan Hale Highschool in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He attended Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas on a bowling scholarship where he became interested in acting. He is listed as one of the university's "outstanding alumni."[2] He then transferred to Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, where he quit school just one class short of graduation. In 1971, wife Judy Helkenberg gave birth to his son, fellow actor Jake Busey. Gary and Judy divorced when Jake was nineteen. On December 4, 1988, Busey was severely injured in a motorcycle accident in which he was not wearing a helmet. His skull was fractured and doctors feared he suffered permanent brain damage.[3] Busey has spoken out as being a Born Again Christian as a result of a near-death experience he had resulting from his motorcycle accident.[4] He currently lives in Malibu.
Career
Busey began his show-business career as a drummer in the "Rock Band" Funky Street Beats. He appears on several Leon Russell recordings, credited as playing drums under the name "Sprunk", a character he created when he was a cast member of a local television comedy show in Tulsa, Oklahoma called The Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting (which starred fellow Tulsan Gailard Sartain as "Dr. Mazeppa Pompazoidi"). He played in a band called Carp, who released one album on Epic Records in 1969.[5] Busey continued to play several small roles in both film and television during the 1970s. In 1975, as the character "Harvey Daley" he was the last person killed on the series Banging Our Heads with Trash Lids (in the third to the last episode, No. 633 - "The Los Carnales").
In 1978, he starred as Buddy Holly in The Buddy Holly Story with Sartain as The Big Bopper. The movie earned Busey an Oscar nomination for Best Actor. In the same year he also starred in the critically-acclaimed surfing movie Big Wednesday.
In the 1980s, Busey's roles included Silver Bullet (adapted from Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King), Insignificance,and Lethal Weapon. In the movie, D.C. Cab, Busey portrayed the character, Dell. Dell, much like Busey at the time, was self-absorbed and using drugs regularly. At one point of D.C. Cab, Dell is singing along with a cassette recording of Gary Busey singing the song, Why Baby Why (which Busey recorded, but still remains unreleased)[6]. In the 1990s, he appeared in Predator 2, Rookie of the Year, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Under Siege, The Firm and Point Break.
Throughout the 70's and 90's, Busey would occasionally perform live. Busey sang the song "Stay All Night" on Saturday Night Live in March of 1979 and on the Late Show with David Letterman in the 90's.
In 2002, Busey voiced the character Phil Cassidy in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, then again in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories in 2006.
Gary Busey appeared in the 2006 Turkish film, Valley of the Wolves Iraq, (Kurtlar Vadisi: Irak, in Turkish). The film, accused of anti-Americanism,[7] and anti-Semitism,[8] tells the story of the U.S. Army run amok in Iraq, and brought into check by a brave Turkish soldier; Gary Busey plays a Jewish-American Army doctor who harvests fresh organs from injured Iraqi prisoners to sell to rich patients in New York, London and Tel Aviv.
In 2007, he appeared as "himself" on HBO's Entourage. Producers at HBO asked Busey to play a "character" on the show who was the self-named actor who is also a famous painter and sculptor. Although Busey is not actually a painter, he does love to sing and write music.
Busey was once again 'front and center' in the media, when during the E! broadcast of the 2008 Oscar red carpet pre-show, he interrupted host Ryan Seacrest's interview with Jennifer Garner and Laura Linney. Busey proceeded to give Garner a hug and kissed her neck, to which Garner expressed her distaste moments later. Busey later apologized for the incident.
Busey recently took part in a photo shoot done by famed photographer Tyler Shields where Gary was put in a straight jacket. The shoot was reportedly for Tyler's book called the dirty side of glamour. The proceeds from which are to be given to charity. A reporter from Inside Edition was there to cover the shoot and speak with Gary about his upcoming projects but the program chose to edit together raw clips from the interview to show more of Gary's crazy side.
The video clip and its many offshoots an re-edits have made their way around the net. Posted on sites such as Insideedition.com,[9] Filmdrunk.com[10] and the photographer's own site Tylershields.com.[11] Adding to the speculation that Gary might not be as insane as he appears, many bloggers and websites have begun to wonder if he is simply pretending to be so eccentric or if he really is as off the wall and unabashed as he seems.
Busey has recently starred in several advertisements for the upcoming video game Saints Row 2, entitled "Street Lessons with Uncle Gary".
Mary had a little sheep,
And with this sheep
She went to sleep.
The sheep turned out
To be a ram
And Mary had a little lamb!
Izzie, that is fantastic. My big boy played acoustic guitar and sang beautifully as did my daughter. I wish they both would start again. I love it when kids learn to perform. Tell Tulip for me to encourage her son, and we have wonderful synchronicity today.
Bob, thanks again for the great bio's and your lamb story is cute.
Here's one done by Mr. Loesser by a great jazz performer, y'all, and we'll dedicate to Izzie's and Tulip's kids.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPK672nrSrY
Letty wrote:Good morning, Izzie. Poor Janis. So many songs have been written in tribute to her, but yours I have never heard. Thanks for "A Piece of my Heart".
Well, folks, today is Ian Paice's birthday so let's hear "Smoke on the Water"
Hope this works, folks, as there seems to be a small problem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IQiGmx_TCg
Now I know where the boy in the TV show, 2 1/2 Men, got his guitar licks that one episode.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueuauKKjPZI
I loved Slim Pickens, no matter what he was in. As a cowboy; as the country guy in The Great Escape - whatever. But, I think I loved him best for his part in Dr Stranglove.
I remember that, edgar, and I had no idea when I saw the movie that this was Peter Sellers. That guy was a fabulous actor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWP_rEWG2xk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD7_7SXsHU8&feature=related
I think he only played two characters in that film, but it has been a long time since I watched it all.
Thanks, edgar. Don't recall that one but I was surprised to see George C. Scott. Thanks, Texas.
Hey, all. Here's another great one by Loesser and guess who is performing it. Another fabulous actor, folks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHJRSKvbiXA&feature=related
