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I'll have a drink with you and Mario....

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Everybody has been contributing some great posts and music but me. I have just finished a three hour online course that is mandatory part of my job. We have one each month - Resident Retention, Conflict Resolution - etc. Very boring. I particularly like Mario, by the way.

dj, loved the House Martins and their flagrant disobedience of Happy Hour. It would seem that the world has a short memory about prohibition days.

You already know how I adore They Might Be Giants. (another George C. Scott movie) Thanks, Canada.

Izzie, The Snow Patrol was delightful. I know that our Urs loves it as well.

edgar, boy do I know Konrad Lorenze and Conflict Resolution. Part of my psychology classes at UVA.

My son is still on the ventilator, Izzie. As soccer George and I like to observe.

"pray for "his" soul; more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of." --Le Morte d'arthur.

Well, folks, time for me to say goodnight, and guess what will be my goodnight song. Another Romberg by Mario.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEYUZ8EdFes

Love you all, and as always

From Letty with love

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=EYQ00tIm2_8
Good night, with a song by gentleman Jim Reeves.

Good morning, WA2K folks.

edgar, Jim had a lovely voice, and I enjoyed "The Falling Star" song. Thanks, Texas.

Hmmmm. Something is waving to you.



It seems that Ben Franklin did more than fly a kite. He is the one who dubbed the turkey as the official Thanksgiving bird.

How about an old favorite this morning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRM5hMkAWCk&feature=related

Back later, folks, with the original pilgrims in America.

Good morning. Letty, that is the first time I ever listened to all of the words to Turkey in the Straw.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=gdtqQNEgNjI
From the It's not Mr Rogers Department:

Hey Letty and Izzie, I love Snow Patrol and it goes so well with the weather today. We are well - no news on BigDice's ventures - whatever they will be

edgar, that was hilarious, but perhaps too true. Thanks for the smile and the thought.

Here's an interesting tidbit about St. Augustine, folks.

The first Pilgrims to reach America seeking religious freedom were English and settled in Massachusetts. Right?
Well, not so fast. Some fifty years before the Mayflower left port, a band of French colonists came to the New World. Like the later English Pilgrims, these Protestants were victims of religious wars, raging across France and much of Europe. And like those later Pilgrims, they too wanted religious freedom and the chance for a new life. But they also wanted to attack Spanish treasure ships sailing back from the Americas.Their story is at the heart of the following excerpt from America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation.
It is a story of America's birth and baptism in a religious bloodbath. A few miles south of St. Augustine sits Fort Mantanzas (the word is Spanish for "slaughters"). Now a national monument, the place reveals the "hidden history" behind America's true "first pilgrims," an episode that speaks volumes about the European arrival in the Americas and the most untidy religious struggles that shaped the nation.

And, folks, a Bach chorale of the Plymouth Rock Pilgrims.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F0arOB_VDo

Welcome back, Urs. Ah, a snowy Sunday in Germany. Tell BigDice that we're pulling for him, gal.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic5wabTnLEk
Time for a nostalgic look at Autumn, since Winter is on us, in Tomball, at least.

(Bach - very nice - I have it playing now)

from wiki

Autumn Leaves" is a much-recorded popular song. Originally a 1945 French song "Les feuilles mortes" (literally "Dead Leaves") with music by Joseph Kosma and lyrics by poet Jacques Prévert, English lyrics were written in 1947 by the American songwriter Johnny Mercer. It has become a pop standard and a jazz standard in both languages, and as an instrumental. "Les feuilles mortes" was introduced by Yves Montand in 1946 for the film Les Portes de la Nuit

.here's another version, bittersweet for I miss the great talent of the late Eva Cassidy

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=K7-haKkFnT8

i miss you guys

I once had a version of Autumn Leaves by Maurice Chevalier. On the same album he introduced me to What Now My Love. Wonderful spoken interpretations.

i've heard those...something about French song writing translates so well to American music

Panz, Welcome back, buddy. Love both those versions of Autumn Leaves. Izzie played Fields of Gold by Eva.

Believe it or not, y'all, today is Boris Karloff's birthday, so we're going to have quite a mix of music on our cyber radio.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ire4QRlMHuM

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=MuYnilezIjA
Boris. Here is a tribute to him.

Great tribute, edgar. Wonder what language that was?

I think it was the hawkman who told me that Robert Louis Stevenson did the follow book upon which this movie was based. Amazing, no?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsI2WkribXo&feature=related

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/stevenson/robert_louis/s848bs/
I found that RL Stevenson story online, letty.

Thanks, Texas. It was a short story. Hard to imagine that a man who wrote a Child's Garden of Verses could slip into horror. Love his epitaph, too.

Requiem

Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me die.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.

This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.

Do any of you recall squeedelboonk that was on A2K and the Realm? His real name is Mr. Lee. and here is a song that he sent me on cd. He now lives in Key West, Florida.

This version is by Stan Getz and company replete with lyrics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gghq6pvtQHY&feature=related

Love is like a never-ending melody;
Poets have compared it to a symphony,
A symphony conducted by the lighting of the moon -
But our song of love is slightly out of tune.

Once your kisses raised me to a fever pitch;
Now the orchestration doesn't seem so rich.
Seems to me you've changed the tune we used to sing;
Like the bossa nova, love should swing.

(Bridge:)
We used to harmonize, two souls in perfect time;
Now the song is diff'rent and the words don't even rhyme,
'Cause you forgot the melody our hearts would always croon,
And so what good's a heart that's slightly out of tune?

Tune your heart to me the way it used to be;
Join with me in harmony and sing a song of loving.
We're bound to get in tune again before too long -
There'll be no desafinado
When your heart belongs to me completely,
So you won't be slightly out of tune,
You'll sing along with me.