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Love Is Like A Butterfly by Dolly Parton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWwENHbUcdI

dj, that Jamaican music is fabulous. Especially like "Shame and Scandal in the Family"

Rock, Hee hee. Funny! Wonder if he beat the system? I had forgotten that flash. Loved it.

How about a little more of the reggae, y'all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zTxUxFjLB0&feature=related

Victor, Where in the world have you been? Great song by Dolly, and thanks

Letty I have been getting lost on this new site and can't find anything. I have been watching an old British sitcom "Butterflies" the Dolly Parton song "Love is like a butterfly" is the theme song!

Ah, Victor. We all understand the confusion. Don't know that British sitcom, but your butterflies remind me of this one, and what a surprise to find that the entire thing was inspired by Charles Dickens.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHHbSsdc0gk&feature=related

Butterflies Are Free is a play by Leonard Gershe.
Loosely based on the life of attorney Harold Krents, the plot revolves around a Manhattan blind man whose controlling mother disapproves of his relationship with a free-spirited hippie. The title was inspired by a passage in Charles Dickens' Bleak House: "I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies."
After twelve previews, the Broadway production, directed by Milton Katselas, opened on October 21, 1969 at the Booth Theatre, where it ran for 1128 performances. The cast included Keir Dullea, Blythe Danner, and Eileen Heckart, who later in the run was replaced by Gloria Swanson. Stephen Schwartz composed the title song.


and with that song and info, I think I shall say goodnight.

as always,

From Letty with love

Letty I have forgotten about that movie with Goldie Hawn. I saw the movie years ago! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXDm_hC8o3I&feature=PlayList&p=6721890DC4491F73&playnext=1&index=45

Victor, I recall it because it was done locally by a little theatre group in Virginia. Needless to say, it caused a stir.

Funny, folks, Brad Pitt says he was faithful to Jennifer Aniston. What great news.

Still recall this one by Diana Krall.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18No22_j_bM

Good early morning, WA2K folks.

Morning Letty....

How is your world today hunni?

It's a little grey and miz here today - but was truly stunning yesterday - bitterly chilly - but beau-ti-ful! Did some pics of the river with a bit of Jack Johnson to singalong too... (terribe youtube pic quality tho - ack)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51GP0dUVSJE



and for Bowie today....

Ziggy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXq5VvYAI1Q&feature=related

Izzie, Loved the "No Other Way". Thanks, gal, and I just found out that today is David Bowie's birthday. Ziggy Stardust is one of my favorites. Thanks, hun. Believe it or not, I just turned up the heat in my wee studio, but the sky is blue and clear.

Also found out that "The King's" birthday is today, and I truly like this one by him. (I call Elvis the king because of Don Mclean' reference to him)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFSfdL5lPoY

Here is my favorite quote for today, y'all.

"A customer is the most important
visitor of our premises.

He is not dependent on us -
we are dependent on him.

He is not an interruption on our work -
he is the purpose of it.

He is not an outsider on our business -
he is a part of it.

We are not doing him a favour
by serving him -

He is doing us a favour by giving us
an opportunity to do so."




-Mahatma Gandhi

Izzie, you may not know Prince Gautam, but those of us who do feared for him during the carnage in India. I heard from him and here is his message:

Many thanks for yr mail - while we did have some hairy moments (lots of my extended family and friends are in and around the same area as the terrorist attack), we are all okay.

Sorry abt keeping away from A2K for a while now - I will make an appearence soon !!

Give my love to all.

Good afternoon.

Thanks for the good news about Gautam, Letty.
I see that "The Mentalist" got an award on the People's Choice Awards last night.

Some January 8 birthdays:

1924 - Ron Moody, English actor ( Fagin in Lionel Bart's stage and film musical Oliver! based on Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. He created the role in the original West End production, and reprised it in 1982 on Broadway and in the 1968 film version, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy); 1926 - Soupy Sales, American comedian ; 1935 - Elvis Presley, American singer (d. 1977) ;1937 - Dame Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer (performed the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979). She is the only singer to have recorded more than one James Bond theme song) and 1947 - David Bowie, English musician

Ron Moody, Soupy Sales, Elvis; Shirley Bassey and David Bowie




Wishing all a pleasant day.

Thanks again, puppy, for the great info and famous faces.

My word, "The Artful Doger" Fagin. Here's a clip from Oliver Twist. Charles Dickens has inspired so many great works of art including Butterflys Are Free.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-oaKfEe8Cg

and as an added and sad advent, y'all, Patrick Swayze has pancreatic cancer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmTmcDqQ3Vs&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVqi3AmcRpk
Here is TG Shepherd, singing about The Killer.

Good afternoon, folks. Happy birthday, Elvis, wherever you are hiding. Don't visit Alaska any time soon. It's minus 45 there today.

Hey, edgar. Never heard that tribute to Jerry Lee. Great, Texas, and thanks.

Here's one by Shirley Bassey that's different, folks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8sFupDAwvo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHB3pMBMZ6g
Here is a Jim Reeves recording I had not heard before today. I assume it's in German.

Shirley Basssey is always good.

Well, edgar, I searched for the language that Gentleman Jim did that lovely song in and it may be Afrikaner. Not certain, however. What a voice he had. Thanks, Texas.

Time for me to say goodnight and I love this song by Bill Withers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eJbEcq5LWo&feature=related

Goodnight world,

From Letty with love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4yw5VjMtfo
My good night is by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes

My word, edgar, it seems that everyone has done that song from Midnight Cowboy. Thanks, Texas.

Well, folks, I'm up early 'cause I watched Cold Case. Strange, there are two versions of that TV show. One is Cold Case Files based on real events, and the other a fictionalized version.

How about a couple of great songs this morning. One as a tribute to Bob Denver, whose birthday is today, and the other a song from Cold Case.

First, the funny from Bob, y'all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8jUFC4dsd8

Now, Tim McGraw.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4jbbSlltgA

Hey, puppy. When you materialize, I have watched The Mentalist. Strange how many folks are doing the psychic bit.

Good morning from beautiful downtown Tomball. A lifesize statue of namesake, Thomas Ball, now rests at the old train station. The only other lifesize figures in this burg are the two of the Blues Brothers on top of an awning at a local kids hangout. It's in the sixties here and will go up to about seventy seven. Not bad for a January.

Good morning WA2K. I wouldn't mind at all if Edgar sent some of his town's weather my way.

I mentioned The Mentalist, Letty, because you said earlier that you were hoping it would be on in February. I like Simon Baker. I used to watch him play a Pittsburgh lawyer on "The Guardian" (2001).

Some January 9 birthdays:

1890 - Karel Čapek, Czech writer (Karel introduced and made popular the frequently used international word robot, which first appeared in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) in 1921. Karel credited his brother, Josef Čapek, as the true inventor of the word robot; 1898 - Vilma Bánky, Hungarian actress (d. 1991) ; 1898 - Gracie Fields, English vaudeville performer (d. 1979) ; 1901 - Chic Young, American cartoonist (Blondie)(d. 1973); 1908 - Simone de Beauvoir, French author (d. 1986); 1913 - Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994) ; 1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee (or 1911), American burlesque entertainer (d. 1970) ; 1915 - Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor (d. 1982) ;1925 - Lee Van Cleef, American actor (d. 1989) ; 1928 - Judith Krantz, American author ; 1935 - Bob Denver, American actor (d. 2005) ; 1941 - Joan Baez, American singer and activist ; and 1951 - Crystal Gayle, American singer

Gracie Fields; Gypsy Rose Lee, Fernando Lamas, Lee Van Cleef and Joan Baez




Because I love all of Joan's recordings and find it very difficult to pick just one to play, I'll play this more recent one again. This is at the Kennedy Center Awards honoring Pete Seeger.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz_eJqQCCig

Wishing all a good day.

Hey, Blue Puppy, This is the psychic that I meant.

http://www.movieweb.com/news/NEqJrqvq2mmrtu

Thanks for the great info and famous faces, PA. Also loved Joan's vanishing flowers song.

I have always liked Lee Van Cleef. I guess most folks recall him in The Good The Bad and The Ugly, but I seem to remember that he did a Ninja bit as well.

Not the greatest audio, y'all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sZEXKf-Djc

and another from the famous bad guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XgoZN8mI-w

cold and clear here!

Ah Letty - of course you said "Medium". I'll get it straight one of these days, I hope.