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Ah, edgar, that was so tender; I remember The Donna Reed Show, but that's about all that I recall.

Hope our blue puppy and our green turtle are all right. Not a word from them.

Hope you had a good day with your daughter. I remember when I was a kid, I kept trying to kiss my elbow in hopes that I would turn into a boy.

Thanks, Texas, for keeping us on the air. So glad that the squirrel dropped in, but the moose is having to work late at night following "the bouncing ball".

Time for me to say goodnight, and I think that I shall do it with a jazz version of Darn That Dream.

Got the lyrics this time. That's difficult to do now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSA_4gVD_dk&feature=related


darn that dream,I dream each night
you say you love me, and you hold me tight
but when I awake, I find you're out of sight
oh, darn that dream

darn your lips, and darn your eyes
they lift me high above the moonlight skys
then I tumble out of paradise
oh, darn that dream

darn that one track, mind of mine
it can't understand that you don't care
just to change the mood I'm in
Lord I'd welcome a nice old, nightmare

darn that dream, and bless it too
without that dream, I never would have you
but it haunts me, cause it won't come true
oh, darn that dream

From Letty with love for everyone

My daughter and son showed up, along with two grandkids. We went to Denny's. It was great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THWr-zoBlJg
Saying good night with the singing voice of Clint "Cheyenne" Walker, believe it or don't.

Good morning, WA2K radio and edgar.

Clint Walker has a great voice. Just barely recall Cheyenne, Texas, and thanks for the reminder.

What is wrong with AP? Well, it least it's not sensationalized, y'all.

NKorea threatens to harm U.S. if attacked. Huh?

Clint today.



Beginning with another by Clint. Love this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUIAwiKaaZ8&feature=related

And, another birthday boy. Never paid much attention to the Kinks, but this song is worth playing twice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXuJXPd8C14&feature=related

I listened to that Clint Walker song last night, but again this morning. I was searching for his version of Beautiful Dreamer when I came across the posted music.
And also listened to Waterloo Sunset.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T57_h0TX0oc&feature=related
We'll let Andy Williams whistle away the dark. I believe it is a Henry Mancini composition.

One more from Ray and the boys before I climb the the apples....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IScz-m4BD_0&NR=1
Laters WA2K

Never cared much for Andy Williams, edgar, but "Whistling Away the Dark" was really good. Yep, this sad old world just became a bit sadder. Thanks, Texas.

Well, Brit, The Kinks' "Village Green Preservation Society" was delightful. Thanks, London.

Well, y'all, today is Kris Kristofferson's birthday, but instead of playing one exclusively by him, I thought that I would do one by The Highwaymen that includes him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbR3K9DEAjI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ko_bzuODTI
Here is a Kristoferson song by Roger Miller

Highwaymen did that one and several other songs very well, I think, letty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT7Wo910JBQ
Today is the birthday of Erich Maria Remarque. Here is a video on All Quiet on the Western Front made by a student.

It's also Billy Wilder's birthday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGwwwFytaQY

Well, edgar. I most certainly did not know that Roger Miller did "Me and Bobby MaGee". I first thought that Janis Joplin had written it. Thanks for the info, Texas.

I have always been fascinated by WWI and WWII, namely because of my father and my brother. Had no idea that All Quiet on the Western Front was remade for TV nor that Remarque was German. During Hitler's regime, it was banned and burned.

I appreciate that student's creative endeavor to recreate it, and the only critique that I would have offered him would have been his enunciation. I found it difficult to follow his monologue.

Couldn't find the sountrack for the TV one, but I did find that Sir Elton had it on his album Jump Up.

I do recall The Apartment by Bill Wilder, and the theme was quite familiar, but the plot is not.

Here is the trailer (Part I) for the remake, folks, followed by one of the songs from Sir Elton's Jump Up.

Let's listen to the trailer first.

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

Now, perhaps one of our contributors can follow up with the Western Front track.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V08iMzB0-jA

I watched the TV broadcast of that movie, letty. Didn't recall the song by elton.
Today is Mike Todd's birthday. The only film I could name of his is Around the World in 80 Days. Don't recall names of his stage productions. If it weren't for the one film and his marriage to Liz Taylor, I would not know him.

Mike Todd died in a plane crash at fifty years of age, edgar. I didn't know that he did Around the World in Eighty Days. Well, we've already done that one, so here is what I found by Sir Elton, Texas.

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

Incidentally, I didn't see the one with John of Virginia in it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD-KG42qB1w
I did not know either of the Elton John songs, but both are good ones. I posted The Apartment trailer to honor Billy Wilder. He also had Sunset Boulevard, Some Like it Hot and Stalag 17.

Wow! I remember Stalag 17, edgar. Don't recall the details, but I do remember William Holden's discovery of the spy when he said, "Ach, so". Thanks for the reminder.

Woke up rather early in the morn and watched a little bit of Cabin in the Sky on AMC. Marvelous sound track, Texas. I had no idea it was based on Faust. I think Richard Arlen did most of the songs.

Here's the trailer; Then my favorite song from the production.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGsEwqyYIo8

Bud liked Jo Stafford because she had no vibrato.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7F4Vf1_an8

I watched that movie at first, because I love Lena Horne. But the rest of the cast was great. I read Ethel Waters His Eye is on the Sparrow as a result. Great film, letty.

Jo Stafford is another of my favorite singers.

It is Chris Lemmon's ( son of Jack) birthday, but I did not find a good video of him. He once appeared on a short lived TV series, in which he was a piano player. He was good.

I think our listeners would love to hear son of Jack, edgar.

My daughter gave me this cd a long time ago. I love it, so let's listen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRFZUB3NzGs&feature=related

Those guys are good

He was the producer of "Around the World," (which did not deserve the Oscar) and was formerly an executive producer for "This Is Cinerama." Of course, he's remembered for what would be a forerunner of IMAX -- Todd AO, which was the answer to the three projector process without the bothersome brownish separation areas. It was not anamorphic like Cinerama and Panavision, and Super Panavision ("2001") ultimately took it into history with only one more film made, John Huston's terrible "The Bible." Not many theaters would buy the expensive projector or install the curved screen (actually never as curved as it was designed for) to show this 70mm high resolution process, and "Around the World" was also shot at the same time in CinemaScope, likely the print nearly everyone saw in their neighborhood theater. The main difference was that the film went through the projector in the conventional vertical feed, while IMAX is horizontal (passing through the camera sideways). Another competitor was VistaVision which also was a horizontally oriented high resolution wide screen process and those projectors also became history (think of the poor theater owners who bought this very expensive equipment to end up with writing it off as a loss). Hitchcock's "Vertigo" and a few others were filmed in this 16:9 ratio process (curiously, the standard picked up by the TV industry).

It was really the scientists and engineers at American Optical who developed the process, Mike Todd was the moneybags who decided he was going to supplant all the other film processes. He was the original producer of "The Colgate Comedy Hour," so it's no wonder it took the marriage to Liz and untimely death to make him famous.

I watched Vertigo so long ago, I need to see it once more to refresh the experience.

I like that song you played off the album too, letty. Used to hear it quite a lot on the radio.