Good morning, WA2K radio audience.
Thanks to all of our contributors for keeping our cyber radio on the air. Sorry that I cannot acknowledge each one here, but I shall upon my return.
Welcome, John Coffey. I know that song, buddy, and the melody as well. I flew into Charlotte, N.C. with a geek from Virginia. We had a great conversation.
Today is Chic Corea's birthday (I think) and here's a jazz song by him. It pretty well says it about what's below and what's above for your pd/producer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzdPsfIsCSg&feature=related
Hope this works as I'm using alien equipment
Tis the bday of
William Butler Yeats
1865"1939, Irish poet and playwright, born in Dublin.
The greatest lyric poet that Ireland has produced and one of the major figures of 20th-century literature, Yeats was the acknowledged leader of the Irish literary renaissance.
Early Life
Son of the painter John Butler Yeats, William studied painting in Dublin (1883"86). As a boy he attended school in London and spent vacations in County Sligo, Ireland, which was the setting for many of his poems. He became fascinated by the legends of Ireland and by the occult. His first work, the drama Mosada (1886), reflects his concern with magic, but the long poems in The Wanderings of Oisin (1889) voiced the intense nationalism of the Young Ireland movement.
Poetry: First Period
Yeats's verse can be divided into two periods, the first lasting from 1886 to about 1900. The poetry of this period indicates Yeats's debt to Spenser, Shelley, and the Pre-Raphaelites. It centers on Irish mythology and themes and is mystical, slow-paced, and lyrical. Among the best-known poems of the period are “Falling of Leaves,” “When You Are Old,” and “The Lake Isle of Innisfree.” Yeats edited William Blake's works in 1893, and his own Poems were collected in 1895.
Drama and Prose
Yeats's efforts to foster Irish nationalism were inspired for years by Maud Gonne, an Irish patriot for whom he had a hopeless passion. In 1898 with Lady Augusta Gregory, George Moore, and Edward Martyn he founded the Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin; their first production (1899) was Yeats's The Countess Cathleen (written 1889"92). Yeats helped produce plays and collaborated with Lady Gregory on the comedy The Pot of Broth (1929) and other plays. The Irish Literary Theatre produced several of Yeats's plays including Cathleen Ni Houlihan (1902), and"after the Abbey Theatre was opened"The Hour Glass (1904), The Land of Heart's Desire (1904), and Deirdre (1907). Yeats's writing prose tales were collected in The Celtic Twilight (1893) and in the symbolic Secret Rose (1897).
Poetry: Second Period
Yeats's poetry deepened as he grew older. In the verse of his middle and late years he renounced his early transcendentalism; his poetry became stronger, more physical and realistic. A recurring theme is the polarity between extremes such as the physical and the spiritual, the real and the imagined. Memorable poems from this period include “The Second Coming,” “The Tower,” and “Sailing to Byzantium.” Yeats initiated his second period in such volumes as In the Seven Woods (1903) and The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910). In 1917 he married Georglie Hyde-Lees, and his occultism was encouraged by his wife's power of automatic writing. His prose work A Vision (1937; privately printed 1926) is the basis of much of his poetry in The Wild Swans at Coole (1917) and Four Plays for Dancers (1921).
Later Life and Work
Yeats ultimately became a respected public figure, a member (1922"28) of the Irish senate, and winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature. Some of his best work was his last, The Tower (1928) and Last Poems (1940). All of Yeats's work shows interesting and important revisions from earlier to later versions (see The Variorum Edition of his poems, ed. by Peter Allt and Russell R. Alspach, 1957).
Bibliography:
A Bibliography of the Writings of W. B. Yeats was prepared by Allan Wade (2d rev. ed. 1957). See Yeats's Autobiography (3 vol. in one, 1938), Letters (ed. by Allan Wade, 1954), Memoirs (ed. by Denis Donoghue, 1973), Collected Poems (enl. ed. 1951), Collected Plays (enl. ed., reissued 1952), Mythologies (1959), Senate Speeches (ed. by D. R. Pearce, 1960), and Essays and Introductions (1961).
@edgarblythe,
Some other birthdays for this day:
Tim Allen
Basil Rathbone
Ralph Edwards
Santana
Bobby Freeman
Malcolm McDowell
Richard Thomas
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen
Lisa Tucker
Bo Donaldson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0lKmznjgfQ
And Bo Donaldson warns, Billy Don't Be a Hero.
And, a Basil Rathbone reading of The Raven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTN0jBIQENM
Chic's version of How Deep is the Ocean is a good one. Happy bday, chic.
Yeats
THE FIDDLER OF DOONEY
WHEN I play on my fiddle in Dooney.
Folk dance like a wave of the sea;
My cousin is priest in Kilvarnet,
My brother in Mocharabuiee.
I passed my brother and cousin:
They read in their books of prayer;
I read in my book of songs
I bought at the Sligo fair.
When we come at the end of time
To Peter sitting in state,
He will smile on the three old spirits,
But call me first through the gate;
For the good are always the merry,
Save by an evil chance,
And the merry love the fiddle,
And the merry love to dance:
And when the folk there spy me,
They will all come up to me,
With 'Here is the fiddler of Dooney!'
And dance like a wave of the sea.
You're doing a great job here, Edgar, filling in for Letty!
I was grabbing the first CD that I could reach while driving in my car the other day. It was Chris Isaak and I think he is so cool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6syg1Kn-VPg
@urs53,
Thank you, urs. I agree about Chris Isaak.
Going country now, with Hank Locklin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtJ8JL3vHHs
@edgarblythe,
tim allen, car guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAGN2uA9iT4
(jay leno, not so much...)
Good afternoon, rock - folks. Tim Allen always has something going on.
A good,but very late,evening from London.You're doing a cracking job Ed.
Looking back,I'm sure that Dave Brubeck turned me onto jazz.Celebrating 50 years of Take Five,with that odd,at the time,5/4 beat....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faJE92phKzI&feature=related
For a 7 minute interview with the now 88 year old talking about Take Five....
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105322899&sc=nl&cc=mn-20090613
Thanks DB,my musical life would never have been the same without you!
@Barry The Mod,
I love Brubeck. When I bought my very first stereo phonograph, Take Five was a brand new album. I bought it and also Ray's Genius + Soul = Jazz and tried to play the grooves off of them.
