Good morning, WA2K radio audience.
Just listened again to The Blue Man Group do the remix of X Files. It was great and I finally got acquainted with that blue bunch.
Also listened to Hall of the Mountain King again on JPB's classical forum and realized that it featured pizzicato strings. That has always fascinated me.
Here's a jazz version of one of my favorite morning songs, y'all, and I have added the lyrics. Imagine, if you will, a great jazz vocalist singing them.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xG_vUwrqhBM
Softly as in a morning sunrise
The light of love comes stealing
Into a newborn day
Flaming with all the glow of sunrise
A burning kiss is sealing
A vow that all betray
For the passions that thrill love
And take you high to heaven
Are the passions that kill love
And let it fall to hell
So ends the story
Softly as in a morning sunrise
The light that gave you glory
Will take it all away
Softly as in a morning sunrise
The light of love comes stealing
Into a newborn day
Flaming with all the glow of sunrise
A burning kiss is sealing
A vow that all betray
For the passions that thrill love
And take you high to heaven
Are the passions that kill love
And let it fall to hell
So ends the story
Softly as in a morning sunrise
The light that gave you glory
Will take it all away
Softly as it fades away
Softly as it fades away
Softly as it fades away
Softly as it fades away
Jack Haley
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Born John Joseph Haley Jr.
August 10, 1898(1898-08-10)
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Died June 6, 1979 (aged 80)
Los Angeles, California, USA
Occupation Actor, Vaudevillian
Spouse(s) Florence McFadden (1921-1979) (his death) 2 Children
Jack Haley (August 10, 1898 - June 6, 1979) (born John Joseph Haley, Jr.) was an American film actor best known for his portrayal of the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz. He also portrayed farmworker Hickory, who appeared in the Kansas sequences, in the film.
Biography
Career
Haley starred in vaudeville as a song-and-dance comedian. One of his closest friends was fellow vaudeville alumnus Fred Allen, who would frequently mention "Mr. Jacob Haley of Newton Highlands, Massachusetts" on the air.
In the early 1930s Haley starred in comedy shorts for Vitaphone in Brooklyn, New York. His wide-eyed, good-natured expression landed him supporting roles in musical features like the Shirley Temple vehicle Poor Little Rich Girl, the Frank Sinatra vehicle Higher and Higher, and the Irving Berlin musical Alexander's Ragtime Band. Both Poor Little Rich Girl and Alexander's Ragtime Band were released by Twentieth Century-Fox.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer hired Haley for The Wizard of Oz after another song-and-dance comic, Buddy Ebsen, who was originally set to play the Tin Man, had a near-fatal reaction from inhaling the aluminum dust makeup. The makeup was switched to a paste, to avoid risking the same reaction by Haley. The new makeup did cause an eye infection which caused Haley to miss four days of filming, but he received treatment in time to prevent permanent damage. Incidentally, Buddy Ebsen, 10 years younger than Haley, outlived him by 24 years.[1]
Haley did not take to the makeup or to the discomfort of the costume very kindly. When being interviewed about the film years later, he remarked that many people had commented that making the film must have been fun. Haley's reply: "Like hell it was; it was work!"
Haley's natural voice (which he used for the "Hickory" character) was moderately gruff. For the Tin Man, he spoke more softly, a la "Mr. Rogers", which he later said was the tone of voice he used when reading stories to his children.
Oz was Haley's only film for MGM.
Haley returned to musical comedies in the 1940s. Most of his '40s work was for RKO Radio Pictures. He surrendered the job in 1947 when he refused to appear in a remake of RKO's old story property Seven Keys to Baldpate; Phillip Terry took the role.
Personal life
He married Florence McFadden on February 25, 1921, and they remained married until his death. Flo Haley opened a successful beauty shop and counted many show people among her customers. (The establishment became known informally as "Flo Haley's House of Correction.")
The couple had one son, Jack Haley Jr. (later a successful film producer) and one daughter, Gloria.[2] Jack Jr. was married to Liza Minnelli, daughter of his father's Oz co-star Judy Garland, for a short time in the 1970s.
In 1972, Haley made his daughter, Gloria, the sole owner of his written memoirs. In 1978, she published them in the form of the hardcover book Heart of the Tin Man.
Death
Haley died of a heart attack on June 6, 1979 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 80. He is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California.[2]
Noah Beery, Jr.
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Born Noah Lindsey Beery
August 10, 1913(1913-08-10)
Kansas City, Missouri
Died November 1, 1994 (aged 81)
Tehachapi, California
Occupation Film, television actor
Noah Lindsey Beery (August 10, 1913 - November 1, 1994), known professionally as Noah Beery, Jr. or just Noah Beery, was an American actor specializing in warm, friendly character parts similar to the ones played by his legendary uncle Wallace Beery, although Noah Beery, Jr., unlike his uncle, seldom broke away from playing supporting roles. His father, Noah Nicholas Beery (known professionally as Noah Beery or Noah Beery, Sr.), enjoyed a similarly lengthy film career as a supporting actor.
Beery was best known as James Garner's uptight and concerned father, Joseph "Rocky" Rockford on the 1970s television series The Rockford Files.
Life and career
Beery was born in New York City, New York where his father was working as a stage actor. The family moved to California in 1915 when his father began acting in motion pictures. After attending school in Los Angeles, they moved to a ranch in the San Fernando Valley, a style of living he would maintain for the rest of his life.
At the age of seven, he appeared with his father in The Mark of Zorro and like his father, who immediately began billing himself as "Noah Beery, Sr.," he went on to become a respected character actor. His uncle, Oscar-winning screen phenomenon Wallace Beery, became the world's highest-paid actor by 1932, and while neither Noah nor his father ever approached that level, both had extremely long and memorable film careers. All three acting Beerys physically resembled each other rather closely, but Noah, Jr. lacked a thrillingly powerful voice like his father's and uncle's (which is ironic, since both older Beerys made major careers as supporting actors in silent movies).
Noah Beery, Jr. appeared in dozens of films, including a large early role as John Wayne's action partner in 1934's The Trail Beyond (Wayne was 27 years old and Beery was 21), 20 Mule Team with his uncle, and Red River with Wayne, but is best known for his role as Joseph "Rocky" Rockford, the father of Jim Rockford, James Garner's character on the popular television series The Rockford Files (1974-1980). Beery's television work also included a weekly stint as a clown in Circus Boy with Mickey Dolenz in the mid-1950s.
Noah Beery, Jr. died in 1994 in Tehachapi, California of a cerebral thrombosis and was interred in the Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery with his father and mother, Margarite Lindsey. His uncle, Wallace Beery is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. His first wife was Maxine Jones, only child of Western star Buck Jones, until 1966. His second wife was Lisa, until his death. His television star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is at 7021 Hollywood Blvd.
Rhonda Fleming
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Born Marilyn Louis
August 10, 1923 (1923-08-10) (age 85)
Hollywood, California, U.S.
Spouse(s) Thomas Lane (? - 1948)
Dr. Lew Morrell (1952-1956)
Lang Jeffries (1960-1962)
Hall Bartlett (1966-1972)
Ted Mann (1978-2001)
Darol Wayne Carlson (2003 - present)
Rhonda Fleming (born Marilyn Louis in Hollywood, California, August 10, 1923), is an American motion picture and television actress.
She acted in more than 40 films, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, and became renowned as one of the most beautiful and glamorous actresses of her day. She was nicknamed the "Queen of Technicolor" because her fair complexion and flaming red hair photographed exceptionally well in Technicolor.
Fleming began working as a film actress while attending Beverly Hills High School, from which she graduated in 1945. After appearing uncredited in a several films, she received her first substantial role in the thriller Spellbound (1945), produced by David O. Selznick and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. She followed this with supporting roles in another thriller, The Spiral Staircase (1946), directed by Robert Siodmak, the Randolph Scott western Abilene Town (1946), and the film noir classic Out of the Past (1947) with Robert Mitchum. Her first leading role came in Adventure Island (1947), a low-budget action film made in the two-color Cinecolor process and co-starring Rory Calhoun.
The actress then co-starred with Bing Crosby in her first Technicolor film, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949), a musical loosely based on the novel by Mark Twain. In this film Fleming exhibited her singing ability, dueting with Crosby on "Once and For Always" and soloing with "When Is Sometime." She and Crosby recorded these songs for a 78 rpm Decca soundtrack album.
In 1953, Fleming portrayed Cleopatra in Serpent of the Nile. That same year she appeared in two films shot in 3-D, Inferno, with Robert Ryan and the musical Those Redheads From Seattle, with Gene Barry. The following year she starred with Fernando Lamas in Jivaro, her third 3-D release.
Among Fleming's subsequent cinematic credits are Fritz Lang's While the City Sleeps (1956), co-starring Dana Andrews; Allan Dwan's Slightly Scarlet, co-starring John Payne and Arlene Dahl; John Sturges's Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), co-starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas and the Irwin Allen / Joseph M. Newman production The Big Circus (1959), co-starring Victor Mature and Vincent Price. Her most recent film was Waiting for the Wind (1990).
During the 1950s and into the 1960s Fleming frequently appeared on television with guest- starring roles on The Red Skelton Show, The Best of Broadway, Shower of Stars, The Dick Powell Show, Death Valley Days , Wagon Train, Burke's Law, The Virginian, McMillan and Wife, Police Woman, Kung Fu, Ellery Queen, and The Love Boat. On March 4, 1962, Fleming appeared in one of the last segments of ABC's Follow the Sun in a role opposite Gary Lockwood, who is nearly fourteen years her junior. She played a Marine in the episode entitled "Marine of the Month".
In 1958, Fleming again displayed her singing talent when she recorded her only LP, entitled simply Rhonda. In this album she blended then current songs like "Around The World" with standards such as "Love Me Or Leave Me" and "I've Got You Under My Skin".
In retirement, Fleming has worked for several charities, especially in the field of cancer care, and served on the committees of many related organizations. In 1991 she and her late husband, Ted Mann, set up the Rhonda Fleming Mann Clinic For Women's Comprehensive Care at the UCLA Medical Center.
Fleming has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Jimmy Dean
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Background information
Birth name Jimmy Ray Dean
Born August 10, 1928 (1928-08-10) (age 80)
Origin Plainview, Texas
Genre(s) Country, Pop
Occupation(s) Singer, Actor, Businessman
Instrument(s) Vocals, Guitar
Years active 1953- Present
Label(s) Columbia Records
Associated acts Roy Clark, Patsy Cline, Charlie Rich
Jimmy Dean (b. Jimmy Ray Dean August 10, 1928, in Plainview, Texas) is an American country music singer, television host, actor, and businessman. Although he may be best known today as the founder of the Jimmy Dean Food Company, he first rose to fame for his country crossover hits like "Big Bad John," and for his television appearances.
Early career
Dean may have been born and lived in the small unincorporated community of Seth Ward just northeast of Plainview.[1] Dean was to attribute his music interest to the Seth Ward Baptist Church.[2] The Seth Ward name has prompted some biographies to erroneously say that his birth name was Seth Ward.
Jimmy Dean became a professional entertainer after a stint in the U.S. Air Force in the late 1940s. He became the host of the popular Washington D.C. TV program Town and Country Time and, with his Texas Wildcats, became favorites in the region. Both Patsy Cline and Roy Clark got their starts with Dean, who eventually fired Clark, his lead guitarist, for his chronic tardiness. Dean replaced Clark with Billy Grammer. Patsy Cline and Dean were good friends during the run of the Town Country Time TV show in the mid-50s. He had his first hit, "Bummin' Around," in 1953, but had no other hits for the rest of the decade. He also had a passion for the Mexican burrito, which he called "delectable enough for my auntie Geraldine."
Dean went on to New York in the 1950s where he hosted another TV variety show for CBS and signed with Columbia Records. For several years in the late 50's and early 60's, he was a host of the CBS News Morning Show which aired prior to Captain Kangaroo.
The 1960s
He became best known for his 1961 recitation song about a heroic miner, "Big Bad John." Recorded in Nashville, the record went to No.1 on the Billboard pop charts and inspired many imitations and parodies. The song won Dean the 1962 Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording. He had several more Top 40 songs including a Top 10 in 1962 with "PT-109", a song in honor of John F. Kennedy's heroism in World War II.
In the early 1960s, he hosted the Tonight Show on occasion and one night introduced Roy Clark, with whom he'd remained friendly, to a national audience. His mid-1960s ABC television variety show, The Jimmy Dean Show, was one of the first to regularly present country music entertainers to a mainstream audience, including Roger Miller, George Jones, Charlie Rich, Buck Owens and a few like Joe Maphis, who seldom got any network TV exposure. He's also remembered for his sketches with one of Jim Henson's muppets, Rowlf the Dog. Many guests who were not related to country music appeared on the show.
When the show ended in the late 1960s, he began to dabble in acting. His best-known role was that of millionaire Willard Whyte in the 1971 James Bond movie, Diamonds Are Forever. Dean also continued to perform music concerts around the U.S.
Because of the similarities in their names, Jimmy Dean is sometimes confused with actor James Dean (who was also nicknamed "Jimmy") in song lyric references such as Madonna's "Vogue" or David Essex's "Rock On."
Later singing career
Dean's singing career remained strong into the mid 1960's and in 1965, he achieved a second number 1 country hit with the ballad "The First Thing Every Morning (And The Last Thing Every Night)" and had a Top 40 hit that year with "Harvest of Sunshine". In 1966, Dean signed with RCA Records and immediately had a Top 10 hit with "Stand Beside Me". His other major hits during this time included "Sweet Misery" (1967) and "A Thing Called Love" (1968). He continued having hits well into the early 1970s with his major hits during this time included a duet with Dottie West called "Slowly" (1971) and a solo hit with "The One You Say Good Morning To" (1972).
In 1976, he achieved a million seller with a recitation song as a tribute to his mother and mothers everywhere called "I.O.U.". The song was released a few weeks before Mother's Day and quickly became a Top 10 country hit, his first one in a decade, and a Top 40 pop hit, his first one in 14 years. The song was re-released 3 more times in 1977, 1983 and 1984 but with minor success each time.
Business man
In 1969, he founded the Jimmy Dean Sausage Company with his brother Don and James M Dean grandson of Sam E Dean (Deans Milk Co.). Despite ups and downs (some revolving around his problems with his partner-brother Don Dean), the company did well, in part due to Dean's own extemporized, humor-themed commercials.
Its success led to its acquisition in 1984 by Consolidated Foods, later renamed the Sara Lee Corporation. Dean remained involved in running the company but the new corporate parent eventually began phasing him out of any management duties, a period that took a toll on his health. In January 2004, Dean said that the Sara Lee company had dropped him as the spokesman for the sausage brand.
Movies
Most notable character he played as an actor was Willard Whyte in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever (film).
Life in Virginia, autobiography, retirement
As a Virginia resident since 1990, he was inducted into the Virginia Country Music Hall of Fame in 1997. Former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore appointed Dean to the Virginia Board of Game and Inland Fisheries, which oversees the state's wildlife efforts and regulates the boating laws.
In the fall of 2004, he released his blunt, straight-talking autobiography, 30 Years of Sausage, 50 Years of Ham. Today, Dean lives in semiretirement with second wife Donna Meade Dean, a singer, songwriter, and recording artist he married in 1991 who helped him write his book. The couple lives on private property at historic Chaffin's Bluff overlooking the James River on the outskirts of Richmond, Virginia.
Jimmy has three children, Garry, Connie, Robert and two granddaughters, Caroline Taylor (Connie's Daughter) and Brianna Dean (Robert's Daughter). Caroline and Brianna are very close and both honors students in the state of New Jersey.
Dean, who dropped out of high school in 1946 to work to help his mother, announced on May 20, 2008, that he is donating $1 million to Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, the largest gift ever from one individual to the institution. "I've been so blessed, and it makes me proud to give back, especially to my hometown."[3]
Eddie Fisher
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Birth name Edwin John Fisher
Born August 10, 1928 (1928-08-10) (age 80), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Genre(s) Traditional Pop
Years active 1948-1984
Label(s) RCA Victor, Ramrod, Dot
Edwin John "Eddie" Fisher (born August 10, 1928) is an American singer and entertainer.
Biography
Early life
Fisher, fourth of seven children, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Russian-born Jewish immigrants Kate (née Winokur) and Joseph Fisher.[1][2] His father's surname was originally Fisch, but was anglicised to Fisher upon entry into the United States.[citation needed]
To his family, Fisher was always called "Sonny Boy" or "Sonny". It was known at an early age that he had talent as a vocalist and he started singing in numerous amateur contests, which he usually won. He sang on the radio in high school (he attended Simon Gratz High School in north Philadelphia) and was later on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, a popular radio show which moved to television.
Career
By 1946, Fisher was crooning with the bands of Buddy Morrow and Charlie Ventura. He was heard in 1949 by Eddie Cantor at Grossinger's Resort in the Borscht Belt. After performing on Cantor's radio show he was an instant hit and gained nationwide exposure. He then signed with RCA Victor.
Fisher was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1951, sent to Texas for basic training, and served a year in Korea. From 1952 to 1953, he was the official vocal soloist for The United States Army Band (Pershing's Own) and a tenor section member in the United States Army Band Chorus (an element of Pershing's Own) assigned at Fort Myer in the Washington, D.C. Military District. The photos of him in uniform during his time in the service did not hurt his civilian career. After his discharge, he became even more popular singing in top nightclubs. He also had a variety television series, Coke Time with Eddie Fisher (NBC) (1953 - 1957), appeared on Perry Como's show, The Chesterfield Supper Club and the George Gobel Show, and starred in another series, The Eddie Fisher Show (NBC) (1957 - 1959).
A pre-Rock and Roll vocalist, Fisher's strong and melodious tenor made him a teen idol and one of the most popular singers of the 1950s. He had seventeen songs in the Top 10 on the music charts between 1950 and 1956 and thirty-five in the Top 40.
In 1956, Fisher costarred with then-wife Debbie Reynolds in the musical comedy Bundle of Joy. He played a serious role in the 1960 drama BUtterfield 8 with then-wife Elizabeth Taylor. His best friend was showman and producer Mike Todd, who died in a plane crash in 1958. Fisher's affair and subsequent marriage to Todd's famous widow caused a show business scandal because he and his first wife, also famous, had a very public divorce.
In 1960, he was dropped by RCA Victor and briefly recorded on his own label, Ramrod Records. He later recorded for Dot Records. During this time, he had the first commercial recording of "Sunrise, Sunset" from Fiddler on the Roof. This technically counts as the biggest standard Fisher can claim credit for introducing, although it is rarely associated with him. He also recorded the album Eddie Fisher today which showed that he had more depth than his singles from the early years had shown. The Dot years were not successful in record sales terms but they did show him as a more competent and entertaining singer than the RCA Victor years. He then returned to RCA Victor and had a minor single hit in 1966 with the song Games That Lovers Play, which became the title of his best selling album. During the time Fisher was the most popular singer in America[citation needed], in the mid 1950s, singles, rather than albums, were the primary recording medium. His last album for RCA was an Al Jolson tribute, You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet. Eddie Fisher's last album was recorded around 1984 under the Bainbridge record label. Fisher tried to stop the album from being released but it showed up on the record stores shelves entitled After All. The album was produced by William J. O'Malley and arranged by Angelo DiPippo.
Fisher has performed in top concert halls all over the United States and headlined in major Las Vegas showrooms. He has headlined at the Palace Theater in New York City as well as London's Palladium.
Fisher has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for Recording, at 6241 Hollywood Boulevard, and one for TV, at 1724 Vine Street.
Personal life
Fisher has had five wives: actress Debbie Reynolds (married 1955-divorced 1959), actress Elizabeth Taylor (married 1959-divorced 1964), actress Connie Stevens (married 1967-divorced 1969), Terry Richard (married 1975- divorced 1976) and Betty Lin (married 1993). Betty Lin died on April 15, 2001. Fisher is the father of two children by Reynolds, actress Carrie Fisher and Todd Fisher, and the father of two children by Stevens, actress Joely Fisher and actress Tricia Leigh Fisher.
In 1981, Fisher wrote an autobiography, Eddie: My Life, My Loves (ISBN 0-06-014907-8). He wrote another autobiography in 1999 titled Been There, Done That (ISBN 0-312-20972-X). The later book devotes little space to Fisher's singing career, but recycled the material of his first book and added many new sexual details that had been too spicy to publish the first time around.
When interviewed, Debbie Reynolds will characteristically say that she could understand being dumped "for the world's most beautiful woman (Taylor)", previously a close friend. Taylor and Reynolds later resumed their friendship, and mocked Fisher in their TV movie These Old Broads, wherein their characters ridiculed the ex-husband they shared, named "Freddie."
Pronouncing English
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation -- think of Psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough --
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!
Thanks, hawkman, for the great info on the notables. Loved your Miss Pronunciation poem. Confession. I did NOT know the correct pronunciation of query, so I learned something today.
Then, of course, there is GAZEbo; PLACEbo; paNAcea,etc.
firefly, what a surprise to hear Bix. Also loved Senor Banderas. Here are the English words to the first.
I'm a very honest man
That likes the best.
I'm not lacking women,
money, or love.
Riding on my horse
Through the mountains I go.
The stars and the moon
tell me where to go.
Ay, ay, ay, ay,
Ay, ay, my love.
Ay, my dark-skinned woman
Of my heart.
I like to play guitar,
I like to sing in the sun.
Mariachis accompany me
When I sing my song.
I like to drink
Brandy is the best.
Also white tequila
with salt for flavor
Ay, ay, ay, ay,
Ay, ay, my love.
Ay, my dark-skinned woman
Of my heart
I like to play guitar,
I like to sing in the sun.
Mariachis accompany me
When I sing my song.
I like to drink
Brandy is the best.
Also white tequila
with salt for flavor
Ay, ay, ay, ay,
Ay, ay, my love.
Ay, my dark-skinned woman
Of my heart
Ay, ay, ay, ay,
Ay, ay, my love.
Ay, my dark-skinned woman
Of my heart
Ah, our puppy and her lovely collage. An octet today, and it does jog our RNA to see the faces. Thanks PA.
edgar, I know Bummin' Around, but didn't know that Jimmy did it. Thanks, Texas.
Here's a funny song from Jack, folks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp5TZF0gNaY&feature=related
Oops. forgot the best one and that was the delightful musical scale presentation by Eddie, Andy, and Bobby. Great, firefly, and Eddie fischer is really wonderful.
Also have an announcement. smokingun is alive and well and living in Northern Ireland, but he had bypass heart surgery. So good to hear from him and his wife, and he is fully recovered and doing well.
