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HA! I'm younger than Barbara Walters.

I'm the same age as Oprah.

Did you hear the news this morning? I don't like news. Well our listeners like news so we gotta do it. Awright. Red Sox game last night a fan hit Yankees Gary Sheffield while he's trying to play a ball. That's new? Red Sox /Yankees of course it's news. Hotel fire in France with reports of people jumping out of windows. Suspect in two year old Cape Cod murder case arrested. Why don't we go right to the comics like we usually do? First we give them a song. Good, they like that. From Hair we have Good Moring Starshine.

ONG: Good Morning Starshine

Good morning starshine
The earth says hello
You twinkle above us
We twinkle below

Good morning starshine
You lead us along
My love and me as we sing
Our early morning singing song

Gliddy glub gloopy
Nibby nabby noopy
La la la lo lo
Sabba sibby sabba
Nooby abba nabba
Le le lo lo
Tooby ooby walla
Nooby abba naba
Early morning singing song

Good morning starshine
The earth says hello
You twinkle above us
We twinkle below

Good morning starshine
You lead us along
My love and me as we sing
Our early morning singing song

Gliddy glub gloopy
Nibby nabby noopy
La la la lo lo
Sabba sibby sabba
Nooby abba nabba
Le le lo lo
Tooby ooby walla
Nooby abba naba
Early morning singing song

Singing a song
Humming a song
Singing a song
Loving a song
Laughing a song
Singing a song
Sing the song
Song song song sing
Sing sing sing sing song

[Extra verse, London 1993]

Good morning starshine
The universe rings
With milky way music
Our blue planet sings
Good morning starshine
And someday so strong
They'll hear the song we sang
Our early morning singing song

Oh, In The Morning
Words and music by Arlo Guthrie

Oh, in the morning
Feel like the sun
Coming up on daytime
Shine on every one
Coming up on darkness
Warm me in your arms
Let me know another lonely night
Has come and gone

Oh, happy river flowing
Gently unto me
Softly bring me music
Listen to you sing
Swiftly running river flowing
We'll at last be free
Oh, happy waterwheel
Roll gently over me

Oh in the evening
Feel alone at last
All of the things that the daytime brings
Roll gently in the past
There is nothing left to see
Except the stars and moon
To let me know another lonely day
Is coming soon

Oh, in the morning
Feel like the sun
Coming up on daytime
Shine on everyone
Coming up on darkness
Warm me in your arms
Let me know another lonely night
Has come and gone

©1969 Howard Beach Music Inc (ASCAP)

Cat Stevens - Morning Has Broken

Morning has broken, like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning
Praise for them springing fresh from the word

Sweet the rain's new fall, sunlit from heaven
Like the first dewfall, on the first grass
Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden
Sprung in completeness where His feet pass

Mine is the sunlight, mine is the morning
Born of the one light, Eden saw play
Praise with elation, praise every morning
God's recreation of the new day

Happy Friday colorbook. Edgar you're up early. Friday means I sing tonight. New location. We have family visiting from Sweden so I'm heading to Nahant Ma. for a get together. Burning the burgers in the back yard today. Since it's an hour to Hull from Nahant I'll sing there instead of my usual Beachfront bash. I'd much rather sing than drive.

bob
I grew up with a raging desire to croon. Unfortunately, was born without the necessary plumbing. I guess I admire you that sing more than the average person for that reason. I wish you much success.

Thanks Edgar. I can't believe I've gone through life without singing for so long. It's a blast. Karaoke of course. I'm 65 and have been singing now for three years. You ought to try it. Songs like Neil Diamonds Sweet Caroline are easier on new singers because the crowd almost automatically joins in. It eases the pressure. For that reason I don't sing it and leave it for them to sing. All you've got to do is put down four beers and jump right in.

People hold hands over ears when I try to sing. My co-worker asks "What did you do with it? - The money they gave you for singing lessons." My wife says there is nothing musical in my voice when I sing (which I do frequently). Feel like a foghorn in an orchestra.

The major difficulty most new singers face is learning how to dodge the rotten fruit thrown.

From me, well behind the play, as usual.

I didn't actually say I was in favour of eating dogs, I just said why not?
We eat just about every other things that walks, jumps, crawls, slithers, swims or flies.

Some may say "But a dog is man's best friend!" To which one may retort "Greater love hath no man than this...." you know the rest.

There are some taboos. Cannibalism for one. Distaste I can understand; I don't fancy vulture. Nor bat. But I would eat most things I think, in a crisis. I will always prefer lamb, though, to dog.

Ah, to be a vulture now that spring is here.

Good morning, WA2K radio, listeners, singers, and staff.

We here in the studios would like to welcome Wiyaka back after a brief respite. Nice to see you, Wi.

What a great way to wake up, folks. Morning music and radio discussions make us feel that we are part of the world.

News from Norway and Paris:








Norway Rejects Vanunu's Asylum Application

Published: 4/15/05






Paris Hotel Fire Kills at Least 20 People
AP - 4/15/05






OSLO, Norway (AP) - Norway has rejected an asylum application from Israeli whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, who spent 18 years in prison for exposing his country's nuclear weapons program, the government said Friday.

Vanunu, who has repeatedly been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize awarded annually in Oslo, has sought asylum in numerous countries and is now under house arrest in Israel.

Norwegian officials said his application for asylum was rejected due to a formality, since he filed the request in Israel but the rules say the request must be filed in the country where the applicant is seeking refuge.

"We have instructed (the immigration directorate), based on foreign policy consideration, that he must get a rejection. No one gets asylum in Norway when they have not applied in Norway," said Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Erna Solberg.

"We do not intend to invite Vanunu by giving him political asylum as an extraordinary measure," said Solberg, whose government portfolio includes responsibility for refugees and asylum seekers.

In October, Sweden rejected Vanunu's application for the same reason, saying that rule is laid out in the Geneva Conventions.

Vanunu said on the Norwegian state radio network NRK that he had not received any official word on the decision.

"I am very sorry that they did not come to my side to work for my freedom and release from here, and at the same time as it (the application) has been declined, they should speak very clearly and loud against the government restrictions taking from me my human rights," Vanunu said.

Vanunu was released from prison in April 2004 under strict restrictions, including bans on talking to the news media or leaving the country, making it impossible for him to personally deliver an asylum application in Norway or other countries.

The former nuclear technician faced charges in an Israeli court this week of violating the terms of his release. The court is to reconvene on May 16.

He has said he wants to renounce his Israeli citizenship and move to a country that would grant him citizenship or asylum, such as the United States, Ireland, Norway, England, Canada, Denmark and his native Morocco.

Vanunu was convicted of treason in 1988 for divulging information and pictures of Israel's top secret nuclear reactor. The details, published in London's Sunday Times, led experts to conclude that Israel has the sixth-largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, including hundreds of warheads.

Israel has followed a policy of nuclear ambiguity, neither confirming or denying it has nuclear weapons.

dys, vultures are there in any season and are nature's clean up crew.

They said a NoNo to Vanunu?

I think he's an okay guy, but controversial, certainly.
If the LibDems get in (it's election time, here) we'll have him.
Should he want to come.

Thanks, edgar for that news brief. It's a pity, listeners, that immigrants become the targets of crooks because they are simply trying to find work. Probably a better tactic for that radio station would be to take written messages.

McTag, it seems that detente has failed in many aspects, and whistleblowers have replaced the accords. Please let us know, Brit, how your elections go and give us an op.ed. on the situation.

Good Day to all.

I forgive you McTag.

April 15 Birthdays:

1452 Leonardo da Vinci, artist/sculptor/inventor (Vinci, Italy; died 1519)
1741 Charles Wilson Peale, portrait painter (Queen Anne County, MD; died 1827)
1843 Henry James, novelist/short-story writer/critic (New York, NY; died 1916)
1858 Emile Durkheim, sociologist (France; died 1917)
1889 Thomas Hart Benton, painter (Neosho, MO; died 1975)
1894 Bessie Smith, blues singer (Chattanooga, TN; died 1937)
1922 Harold Washington, first black mayor of Chicago (Chicago, IL; died 1987)
1922 Michael Ansara Lowell MA, actor (Cochise-Broken Arrow, Centennial)
1924 Neville Marriner, conductor/musician (London, England)
1933 Roy Clark, singer/musician (Meherrin, VA)
1933 Elizabeth Montgomery Los Angeles CA, actress (Samantha/Serena-Bewitched)(Died 1995)
1939 Claudia Cardinale, actress (Tunis, Tunisia)
1951 Heloise (Cruse Evans), household hints columnist (Waco, TX)
1956 Michael Cooper, basketball player (Los Angeles, CA)
1957 Evelyn Ashford, Olympic champion sprinter (Shreveport, LA)
1959 Emma Thompson, actress (London, England)

Book review: ALIVE

On October 13, 1972, a Uruguayan air force plane carrying forty passengers, most of whom were members of a national rugby squad on their way to play a match in Chile, and a crew of five lost its bearings in cloud cover over the Andes. The plane crashed at an elevation of 12,000 feet, some seventy miles southeast of Santiago. Twenty-one persons died either instantly in the crash or from injuries they sustained and suffered from. Eight others died when an avalanche all but buried what was left of the fuselage. Thanks to two brave survivors who breached the Andes, sixteen survivors emerged alive on December 22, 1972, after seventy days of imprisonment in what was known as the "Cordillera de los Andes." Part of their survival, however, lay in eating the bodies of the dead when normal food supplies were exhausted.

Following the lives of the survivors later, however, was a study in post traumatic stress disorder.

Ah, Raggedy. Missed you the first time around. Thanks once again for your update on the celebs. I thought that today might be Da Vinci's birthday as Google was all wrapped up in Mona Lisa.

Dear Elizabeth Montgomery. A delightful actress and a lovely lady. I'm quite surprised that Bewitched hasn't been redone for TV. I noticed that Kojak has been resurrected.

To Mona Lisa from Nat:

Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you
You're so like the lady with the mystic smile
Is it only 'cause you're lonely they have blamed you?
For that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile?

Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa?
Or is this your way to hide a broken heart?
Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep
They just lie there and they die there
Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa?
Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?

Perhaps one of our art critics will explain by the world has been fascinated with Mona Lisa throughout the years.

I've always wondered about Mona Lisa, too, Letty.

As you can see, those synchronicity wavelengths are back again - Roy Clark.