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Nothing better than good fiddle music, hamburger.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=y7EbLIdE88Q
Edie Adams, widow of Ernie Kovaks, has died.

for edgar (but everyone may listen) some newfie cabin music :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgadt6RiHiE

I like that. It's different, for certain.

Thank you, edgar and hamburger for the wonderful music. I am so sorry to hear that Edie Adams has died. What a wonderful actress and performer. Loved her in Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

I must say goodnight, now, and I think that I shall do it with a rose. We know that this was for Janis Joplin, methinks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYWAYLZWZBg&feature=related

I will be back with Bach tomorrow, my friends.

From Letty with love

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=SYUTKoV8gN8
The Cattle Dog's Revenge, by Jack Drake
reading

Letty faithfully carrying on her radio thread, coming up to 4 years now!

In the same vein as Ed...


Kansas orchestrations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwcoyNhGW7o&feature=related

Hugs Miss L.

I love doing the tango Miss Letty, will you join me please?

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=HG0Q530daGI&feature=related

Good morning, WA2K radio audience.

edgar, That reading by Jack Drake was amazing. Not all dogs are loved, right, Texas? Thanks.

Reyn, that was one funny pic. Just a reminder to everyone; I created our cyber radio station because I wanted everyone to hear from the world. dj said it right when he labeled me the production manager.

Rocky, how very fascinating was your song by an Irishman. David Munnely was a great wake up call. Thanks, honey.

Ah, Dutchy. Dancing the tango was one of the most vivid dreams that I have ever had. I am certain that it had to do with my youthful fascination with Rudolph Valentino as done by Anthony Dexter. Of course, I will dance with you. <big smile>

I love this air by Bach, folks, and the young woman playing the violin is captivating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOVwokQnV4M

Turner Classic Movies did the great oldies last evening:

Sabu in Thief of Bagdad and Song of India. How very sad that both Sabu and Gail Russel died in their thirties while Turhan Bey is still alive today.

I couldn't believe that the host announced the up and coming movie, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Perhaps I am a wee bit psychic.

Good morning.

Thought you might find this interesting, Oh Psychic PD.

By Ralph Riegel
Sunday August 24 2008
VETERAN Hollywood actress and Murder She Wrote TV star, Angela Lansbury, has admitted Ireland was "the sanctuary" her family needed after a fire destroyed their Malibu home and her two children were threatened by the Californian drug culture.
Angela, 82 -- who now lives outside Ballycotton in County Cork -- admitted that Ireland offered her entire family a new life three decades ago.
She admitted that some of her happiest years were spent in Ireland with her late husband, Peter, and children Deirdre and Anthony.
Angela Lansbury was one of the first stars to choose Cork as 'a home away from home'. Over the years, she was joined by Sir David Puttnam, the late Oliver Reed, Michael Flatley, Jeremy Irons, Roy Disney and Hurd Hatfield -- whose decision to relocate to Ireland was largely taken because of his deep friendship with Angela, who he met on the set of The Picture of Dorian Gray, in 1945.

EBay bio:
Hatfield was gay and had many affairs with younger men over the course of his career. In addition to Lansbury, he was good friends with director Curtis Harrington and actress Jean Stapleton .

Turhan Bey and Hurd Hatfield played in "Dragon Seed" together with K. Hepburn.

1995 - Murder She Wrote - Veteran character actor Turhan Bey makes a rare TV appearance in this episode, set in Cairo, Egypt. Having arrived in the Land of the Pharoahs as part of a cultural exchange program, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) soon becomes involved in a perplexing case involving the theft of a priceless Egyptian relic, a gang of smugglers, and the CIA. And as usual, she helps to extricate an old friend from a murder charge.

(I saw an article some years ago that stated that Hurd Hatfield and Turhan Bey spent time at the same vacation resort. )

And now, today's birthdays:
Spring Byington (1886-1971); Jean Arthur (1900-1991); Arthur Miller (1915-2005); Rita Hayworth (1918-1987) ; Montgomery Clift (1920-1966); Tom Poston (1921-2007); Evel Knievel (1938-2007); Earl Thomas Conley, singer (1941); Margot Kidder (1948); Howard Rollins, actor (1950-1996); Alan Jackson, singer (1958); and Norm MacDonald (1963)

Spring, Rita and Monty:



Have no idea how I got that small picture of Rita, too.

Is the editing feature gone?

Raggedy, first, thanks for the great montage, but I am totally amazed at your information about Angela and her preference for Ireland.Then you go on to add that Hurd Hatfield and Turhan Bey may have been an item, etc.



Here's another shocker, folks. Rita doing her thing. I read that the movie made her look like a good girl, but the bible states otherwise.

Salome(SAlome)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjI8G6gA65w

But, remember what George Gershwin said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS9leq2btOY

Heh, heh. Perfect comeback, puppy. I think Sportin' Life was most definitely that bad old devil.

Who's gonna argue with Gershwin when he wrote such lovely jazz ballads, y'all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTTQGhBzX5s

DETROIT - Four Tops frontman Levi Stubbs, whose dynamic and emotive voice drove such Motown classics as “Reach Out (I’ll Be There)” and “Baby I Need Your Loving,” died Friday at 72.

He had been ill recently and died in his sleep at the Detroit house he shared with his wife, said Dana Meah, the wife of a grandson. The Wayne County medical examiner’s office also confirmed the death.

With Stubbs in the lead, the Four Tops sold millions of records and performed for more than four decades without a change in personnel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_1QwoFZWpc

That's pretty sad. There goes another voice of my youth and formative years. Hell, I learned how to dance to their (and The Supreme's) music.

I didn't realize he ws that age, but, then, I often don't realize I'm my age.

Levi Stubb's Tears

Levi Stubbs' Tears
Billy Bragg

With the money from her accident
She bought herself a mobile home
So at least she could get some enjoyment
Out of being alone
No one could say that she was left up on the shelf
It's you and me against the World kid she mumbled to herself

CHORUS:
When the world falls apart some things stay in place
Levi Stubbs' tears run down his face

She ran away from home with her mother's best coat
She was married before she was even entitled to vote
And her husband was one of those blokes
The sort that only laughs at his own jokes
The sort that war takes away
And when there wasn't a war he left her anyway

Norman Whitfield and Barratt Strong
Are here to make right everything that's wrong
Holland and Holland and Lamont Dozier too
Are here to make it all okay with you

One dark night he came home from the sea
And put a hole in her body where no hole should be
It hurt her more to see him walking out the door
And though they stitched her back together they left her heart in pieces on the
floor

When the world falls apart some things stay in place
She takes off the Four Tops tape and puts it back in its case
When the world falls apart some things stay in place
Levi Stubbs' tears...

edgar, I am sorry to hear about Levi Stubbs. Loved that song, "I'll Be There"

Ragman, welcome back, buddy. I used to dance to The Four Tops "Sugarpie honey bunch..Can't Help Myself." Great Group.

dj, Haven't seen you in a while. Glad you're back as well, Canada, and that tribute to Levi by Bill Bragg was great. He sounds Cockney.

Speaking of tributes, here's one to Monty Clift by "old blue eyes."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVcli4Is8ds&feature=related

A funny quote for the day, folks.

To do is to be. Sartre
To be is to do. Camus
Shoo-bee-doo-bee-doo. Sinatra.

Hello, Letty, time for you to say goodnight.

Found a new version of one of my favorites, folks, and with the "state of the union", it might be quite appropriate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGXIRHOG2KU

Perhaps tomorrow things will be better.

From Letty with love