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That new version can be ordered from UniverseCD.com or Amazon.com.

He was one of the forerunners of the techno-rock and New Age music. William Orbit is really the master and I think his work on Madonna's only Grammy award winning CD had a lot to do with his sound mix. Again, click on the HD version and watch it full screen -- good visuals on this one:



Then the only Orbit mix for Madonna I could find:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQg2cKUpt4A&feature=related
Well, one Belafonte song is never enough for me. Here is Brown Skin Girl.

tidying up, miss letty.

this was too nice for my thread, thought mebbe you'd like it for breakfast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMbvcp480Y4&feature=related

Good morning Ms Letty,Ed and all WA2K peeps.
Lou Donaldson....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oIhtrcIpPU&feature=sdig&et=1245792785.72
Brother Soul

Dusty and Cilla....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6KcoyxiI5M&feature=sdig&et=1245792785.72
Heart and Soul

Pulling the plug with Chuck Edwards....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCSj-DLEHJk&feature=related
Downtown Soulville

Laters WA2K

Sorry Ms Letty,should have taken this to PM...
LightWizard,Tubular Bells,DVD,5.1,23:30-A freaking-masing,them bells sound soooooooo real!
Going back to bed
G'night

Good morning. I'll be back on the radio in the early afternoon. Have a good 'un, y'all.

Good morning, WA2K radio audience.

Thanks, Mr. Wizard, for that William Orbit song. Really like him. Didn't care much for the one by Madonna, but she was good in the Eva Peron show.

edgar, as usual loved Harry Belafonta's Brown Skin Girl. Odd, that, as I was talking to the most beautiful brown skin girl who was my waitress. We had a great conversation about her ethnic background. She told me her name, and I told her mine, and we decided that it was the best way to enjoy each other.

Rock, Albinoni's adagio was so comforting; I needed that this morning, Kansas, as I have been having problems with my equipment in my wee studio.

Hey, Brit. This is also talk radio; you don't have to PM the wizard about the tubular bells. Still wondering, however, why you never responded to my PM message. Thanks for all your soul music. Sorry that I couldn't listen to it. As I observed, problems.

Interesting, y'all. I usually can engage strangers in conversation, but when I went to the utilities company to pay my bill, I asked the man whose accent was different from whence he hailed and he said Texas but was originally from the Ukraine. Nothing more than that. Another instance was when I was visiting my son, there was a very tired and disheveled man in ragged clothing who was a Nam vet. When I asked him about his experience he said that he didn't want to talk about it. Not many vets want to talk about their war experience.

How about some jazz this morning by Clifford Brown, and then, because I lost one of my gold earrings, something unusual from Willie Nelson.

first Clifford.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGPMew3Jv5E&feature=related

Now an oldie by Willie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imKv1Dk5ulw

I once had the original LP of "Tubular Bells" as I frequented the then popular high fidelity equipment "lounges" -- they had the equipment for sale but the store was set up as an acoustic environment listening rooms (or, some small stores, one room). They actually had sales people who knew this equipment and in the 60's, I went into one of the original Genesis Audio stores (which has morphed into a high end highly engineered audio/video installation firm) and the store was filled with the new B&W English speakers systems with the Kevlar speakers cones being their claim-to-fame and the marvelous Nautilus extremely high end speaker system (way too expensive for all but the extremely wealthy):



Anyway, the reviews of the new version of "Tubular Bells" nearly all state that something had been lost from the original, which was, of course, the audio tape directly dubbed into "The Exorcist" magnetic (or optical, I'd have to look that up) soundtrack. I still have a turntable in the garage, or my niece has it, so I could burn the original, clicks-and-pops and all, onto a CD. Except I've either lost, sold or donated the LP many, many years ago. Acoustically, the new CD is pretty startling with the bells surrounding one in a panoramic carillon of sound.

Only my real channels are B&W as I put my surround sound system together with a melange of different brands of speakers (I know, you're not suppose to do that), but equalized using my Yamaha receiver's set-up microphone (although I have since tweaked it to have a bit more treble.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwcYPCpIIkY
It's Phil Harris' birthday.

The Willie song was a good one. I always knew it by Peggy Lee and Bobby Darin.

My word, edgar, I just found out that Phil's birth name was Wonga Phil Harris. Liked Woodman Spare That Tree, but never heard it. You reminded me that he did The Preacher and the Bear, Texas. One of my favorites by him was, The Thing. I had forgotten about that.

Had no idea that Bobby Darin had done Golden Earrings, and I saw that Miss Peggey Lee had done it, but frankly, I didn't know WHO had done it until I did a search. Be sure and check out Clifford Brown. Love those two songs by him replete with strings, etc.

Here's another birthday guy, y'all. Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuCEwjo4ycM&feature=related

I did check out the song, letty. Forgot to mention it. Mick Fleetwood is one of those artists I like and even admire, but I only know a few of the songs.
I have
Guinivere
by Donovan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOsDNl5yCFI

edgar, I love that song by Donovan. Guess what it reminds me of. King Arthur, Sir Lancelot, and the "white lady"(that was Dave's wife's little American eskimo dog's name) There may have really been a King Arthur.

Here's one to match, Texas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atCZyK7nMW4

That song is new to me, letty. Of course, this all makes me think of Camelot, with Richard Harris. After many years of anticipation, I was sorely disappointed with it.

Many years ago, I melted lead for the Kansas City Star. Roger Miller has a song about a Kansas City Star.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWaAyPFhvoY&feature=rec-HM-r2

Roger Miller was funny, edgar. What does "melting lead mean"? Remember his England Swings like a Pendulum?

Today is Ambrose Bierce's birthday and I never think of him that I don't think of Bert Lee and his original song, Cowboy from Boston. The movie, Old Gringo ,with Gregory Peck and Jane Fonda was a disappointment to me just as Camelot was to you.

It was thought that the word "gringo" came from the song Green Grow the Lilacs, so for my goodnight song, I'm going to do two that relate.

First, a new group to me, folks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7GnyTM0anI

Now, a gringo song. Wish I could have located one from the movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL6TvUjwW6w

As ever, folks,

From Letty with love

Newspapers made the letter casing from lead in those times, letty.

been talking railroads with edgar, posted these tunes on his thread, thought i'd share them here



In eighteen hundred and forty-one
The corduroy breeches I put on
Me corduroy breeches I put on
To work upon the railway, the railway
I'm weary of the railway
Poor Paddy works on the railway

In eighteen hundred and forty-two
From Hartlepool I moved to Crewe
Found myself a job to do
A working on the railway

I was wearing corduroy breeches
Digging ditches, pulling switches
Dodging pitches, as I was
Working on the Railway

In eighteen hundred and forty-three
I broke the shovel across me knee
I went to work for the company
On the Leeds to Selby railway

I was wearing corduroy breeches
Digging ditches, pulling switches
Dodging pitches, as I was
Working on the Railway

In eighteen hundred and forty-four
I landed on the Liverpool shore
My belly was empty me hands were raw
With working on the railway, the railway
I'm sick to my guts of the railway
Poor Paddy works on the railway

In eighteen hundred and forty-five
When Daniel O'Connell he was alive
When Daniel O'Connell he was alive
And working on the railway

I was wearing corduroy breeches
Digging ditches, pulling switches
Dodging pitches, as I was
Working on the Railway

In eighteen hundred and forty-six
I changed my trade to carrying bricks
I changed my trade to carrying bricks
To work upon the railway

I was wearing corduroy breeches
Digging ditches, pulling switches
Dodging pitches, as I was
Working on the Railway

In eighteen hundred and forty-seven
Poor Paddy was thinking of going to Heaven
The old bugger was thinking of going to Heaven
To work upon the railway, the railway
I'm sick to my death of the railway
Poor Paddy works on the railway

I was wearing corduroy breeches
Digging ditches, pulling switches
Dodging pitches, as I was
Working on the Railway



The canals and the bridges, the embankments and cuts,
They blasted and dug with their sweat and their guts
They never drank water but whiskey by pints
And the shanty towns rang with their songs and their fights.

Navigator, Navigator rise up and be strong
The morning is here and there's work to be done.
Take your pick and your shovel and the bold dynamite
For to shift a few tons of this earthly delight
Yes to shift a few tons of this earthly delight.

They died in their hundreds with no sign to mark where
Save the brass in the pocket of the entrepreneur.
By landslide and rockblast they got buried so deep
That in death if not life they'll have peace while they sleep.

Navigator, Navigator rise up and be strong
The morning is here and there's work to be done.
Take your pick and your shovel and the bold dynamite
For to shift a few tons of this earthly delight
Yes to shift a few tons of this earthly delight.

Their mark on this land is still seen and still laid
The way for a commerce where vast fortunes were made
The supply of an Empire where the sun never set
Which is now deep in darkness, but the railway's there yet.

Navigator, Navigator rise up and be strong
The morning is here and there's work to be done.
Take your pick and your shovel and the bold dynamite
For to shift a few tons of this earthly delight
Yes to shift a few tons of this earthly delight.

I have heard more stories than one on the origin of "gringo." Green Grow the Lilacs is one. Another refers to the green coats the Americans were wearing at the time. I'm pretty sure I heard at least one more, but I forgot it.
I have a Clint Walker western on in the other room. He is sharing billing with Vincent Price. The Old Gringo video is pretty typical - but I love virtually all westerns.