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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbPudGZszKI
bill monroe originated bluegrass music.

My word, Mr. Wizard and edgar. I didn't see the movie Written on the Wind, but I recall that Robert Stack did Untouchables on TV. For the longest time, I thought the untouchable were the Al Capone gang. Loved the movie.

edgar, I recall Queen doing Another one Bit the Dust. Thanks for the reminder, buddy.

As usual, I was up all night concerned about my son, so I had to do some research today. Our friend Buddy Pennington, who played a mean banjo, played with Bill for a while. Buddy died after heart surgery at UVA. Things were different in those days.

Panz, You and Bud would have gotten along famously. His music was the love of his life. He learned to read by playing the bass as his mom played hymns on the piano.

Today is Mary Hopkins, birthday, and although I love Those Were The Days, I recall this one with fondness because I played tenor ukulele and sang it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbhEtYdZ3Wo

Sorry that the sync is not so hot, y'all.

Aha! WA2K exclusive (well, for our gang), the opening credits of "Written on the Wind"

Hee, hee, Mr. Wizard. You missed edgar having done that one. Check out Mary Hopkin.

Today is also Pete Seeger's birthday. The man is 90. Love him. Listen to this one. It's another that I know and don't know why I know it, y'all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5JLCAIJLJ8

Good evening Ms Letty,Ed,LW and all WA2K peeps.Izzie has moved on.She was great company!....
http://www.myspace.com/howardeliottpayne
Come Down Easy

BTW thanks for the hug

Hey, Brit, Welcome back. Love both those songs by Howard Elliott Payne. Great performer. Thanks for letting us know that Izzie is on her way home. I listened twice to that kid trying to figure out if that was an acoustic guitar that he was playing. Virtual hugs are almost as good as the real thing, right?

I simply have to play one by James Brown, y'all. Lots of soul singers come together here.

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y2SIIeqy34
more pete seger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9IP0hHcatI
and more james brown
this song and i feel good are my favorites by him

that was the only time i have heard mary hopkins sing something besides those were the days.
barry's songs are good also.

Well, silly, edgar's was the album version and not the screen credits with the opening scoring and the gunshot -- the song was nominated for an Oscar for Sammy Cahn and posthumously to Victor Young for the music. I always thought it was one of the best film opening sequences, especially punctuated by the sound of a gun, but long after Bette Davis shot the crap out over her lover from the front porch in "The Letter" opening credits. The longest tracking shot in film history, but ending with an explosion was Orson Welle's "Touch of Evil" which had a Henry Mancini score pre-"Peter Gunn." However, the Welles cut which was released a few years ago included the juke box music coming from the Mexican border town bars and cafes and little of the Mancini score. It's on YouTube in both versions. Venice, California, doubled for the border town and most of those buildings in the movie have been torn down -- it's actually a block from where my Mom first lived when the family moved to California.

Then with the original Henry Mancini score with the street music:

that last version reminds me of the peter gunn episode that had no dialog.

the song, guantanamera was a biggie with the folk and anti war crowd in the sixties and 70s.
i not only have no upper case, i have no six.

I do vaguely remember the Peter Gunn episode without dialogue. Another LP I owned and wore out was the score from Peter Gunn. I was overjoyed when it was re-released as a CD:

oops, edgar, missed Where Have All the Flowers Gone by Pete. Love that one, buddy

Mr. Wizard, I found this trailer on A Touch of Evil. It's easier to see and hear, methinks. I didn't see it, however.

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi33489177/

Well, it's time for me to say goodnight, and I think that I shall do it with The Byrds version of a Pete Seeger song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNopQq5lWqQ&feature=related

As always,

From Letty with love

I can't watch trailers on IMDb as I block their adware cookies and they don't like that. Too bad--cookies are one of the most notorious reasons for browser crashes and other applications freezing. It's hard to dump them because it may also dump cookies like bank accounts, etc. that depend on that text for your user name and password. I have all cookies on prompt to accept or deny -- on Firefox, I can allow them for a session which is what I could do with IMDb if I remembered what adware they try to stick on my hard drive. I can watch it in on NetFlix, but I probably know the movie line by line.

Good morning, WA2K radio and Mr. Wizard.

No problem, buddy. I never think of Orson Welles that I don't think of "rosebud", Citizen Kane, and yellow journalism.



Ah, folks, today is Audrey Hepburn's birthday, so we'll also use that rosebud for her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T24H4BYOkkI&feature=related

According to Trivial Pursuit, this was Dean Martin's biggest selling song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv9PSkNkUfs

I loved Audrey Hepburn. On the other hand, did not like Breakfast at Tiffany's. The printed version left me unsatisfied, and I could not get all the way through the film.

Thanks Ms Letty,may I follow with this....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcXiJibBloU&feature=related
I wonder which DVD will be in my player tonight?

Thanks, edgar, for "Memories Are Made of This" by Dino. Had no idea that was his most popular song.

I didn's see Breakfast at Tiffany's either.

Welcome back Cockney Brit. ah, yes, Moon River by Henry and Johnny. Great song, and I love this scene from My Fair Lady when Eliza lapses a bit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kBNr3djnZM&feature=related