and, as we wait, listeners, for the phones to start ringing with the complete lyrics to the song, let's consider this quote:
Thought for Today: ``If anyone tells you something strange about the world, something you had never heard before, do not laugh but listen attentively; make him repeat it, make him explain it; no doubt there is something there worth taking hold of.'' - Georges Duhamel, French author (1884-1966).
04/19/05 20:01
Well, francis of France, tell us, then, what you heard.
Was it a bird courting the trees in your surroundings? Was it the buzz of bees pollinating-- or was it the sounds of protest over petrol prices?
Our listeners await your view of the world as Francis sees it. <smile> After all, this is the purpose of our radio station--to listen and respond.
Yes indeed, Letty. It appears that Google isn't always up-to-date.
Dudley Moore (actor) -- Dead. Pneumonia/progressive supranuclear palsy. Died March 27, 2002. Born April 19, 1935. Starred in 10 and Arthur, died on the same day as Milton Berle and Billy Wilder.
And now for some April 20 Birthdays:
1889 Adolf Hitler, Nazi dictator who launched World War II and the Holocaust (Braunau am Inn, Austria; died 1945)
1893 Joan Miró, painter (Spain; died 1983)
1908 Lionel Hampton, bandleader/musician (Louisville, KY)
1920 John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court justice (Chicago, IL)
1923 Tito Puente, musician (New York, NY; died 2000)
1924 Nina Foch, actress (Leyden, Netherlands)
1939 George Takei, actor (Los Angeles, CA)
1941 Ryan O'Neal, actor (Los Angeles, CA)
1949 Jessica Lange, actress (Cloquet, MN)
1951 Luther Vandross, singer/songwriter (New York, NY)
1973 Carmen Electra, actress (Cincinnati, OH)
1976 Joey Lawrence, actor (Montgomery, PA)
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
WHEN TRUE LOVERS MEET IN MAYFAIR SO THE LEGEND TELLS
SONG-BIRDS SING, WINTER TURNS TO SPRING
EVERY WINDING STREET IN MAYFAIR FALLS BENEATH THE SPELL
I KNOW SUCH ENCHANTMENT CAN BE
'CAUSE IT HAPPENED ONE EVENING TO ME
THAT CERTAIN NIGHT THE NIGHT WE MET
THERE WAS MAGIC ABROAD IN THE AIR
THERE WERE ANGELS DINING AT THE RITZ
AND A NIGHTINGALE SANG IN BERKELEY SQUARE
I MAY BE RIGHT I MAY BE WRONG
BUT I'M PERFECTLY WILLING TO SWEAR
THAT WHEN YOU TURNED AND SMILED AT ME
A NIGHTINGALE SANG IN BERKELEY SQUARE
THE MOON THAT LINGERED OVER LONDON TOWN
POOR PUZZLED MOON HE WORE A FROWN
HOW COULD HE KNOW WE TWO WERE SO IN LOVE
THE WHOLE DARNED WORLD SEEMED UP-SIDE DOWN
THE STREETS OF TOWN WERE PAVED WITH STARS
IT WAS SUCH A ROMANTIC AFFAIR
AND AS WE KISSED AND SAID GOODNIGHT
A NIGHTINGALE SANG IN BERKELEY SQUARE
HOW STRANGE IT WAS, HOW SWEET AND STRANGE
THERE WAS NEVER A DREAM TO COMPARE
WITH THAT HAZY, CRAZY, NIGHT WE MET
WHEN A NIGHTINGALE SANG IN BERKELEY SQUARE
And some Glen Miller verses"
THIS HEART OF MINE BEAT LOUD AND FAST
LIKE A MERRY-GO-ROUND IN A FAIR
FOR WE WERE DANCING CHEEK TO CHEEK
AND A NIGHTINGALE SANG IN BERKELEY SQUARE
WHEN DAWN CAME STEALING UP ALL GOLD AND BLUE
TO INTERRUPT OUR RENDEZVOUS
I STILL REMEMBER HOW YOU SMILED AND SAID
"WAS THAT A DREAM OR WAS IT TRUE?"
OUR HOMEWARD STEP WAS JUST AS LIGHT
AS THE TAP-DANCING FEET OF ASTAIRE
AND LIKE AN ECHO FAR AWAY
A NIGHTINGALE SANG IN BERKELEY SQUARE
I KNOW CAUSE I WAS THERE
THAT NIGHT IN BERKELEY SQUARE
New one:
But they might as well go chasing after moon beams,
If you ever go across the seas to Ireland
Then maybe at the closing of your day
You will sit and watch the moonrise over Claddagh
And see the sun go down on Galway Bay
To hear again the ripple of the trout stream
The women in the meadows making hay
To sit beside the turf fire in the cabin
And watch the barefoot goosoons at their play
Oh. the breezes blowing o'er the sea from Ireland
Are perfumed by the heather as they blow
And the women in the upland digging praties
Speak a language that the strangers do not know
For the strangers came and tried to teach us their ways
They scorned us just for being what we are
But they might as well go chasing after moonbeams
Or light a penny candle from a star
And if there's going to be a life hereafter
And somehow I am sure there's going to be
I will ask my God to let me make my heaven
In that fair land beyond the Irish Sea
...........
To hate all the people your relatives hate
Yes indeed, George. Galway Bay is correct. Oh, I love the song you posted, but I'll let someone else answer that one.
Thanks, Raggedyaggie!
And I love Galway Bay (but you'd not want to hear my
Bushmills-enhanced rendition of it).
Thanks, Raggedy and George. Great game and great songs.
Lionel Hampton--wonderful jazz man, listeners.
News update:
It seems that a tryst was the cause of the Paris hotel fire. The super's lady friend placed candles on the floor to set the scene for a romantic tryst but then left in a rage over his drunken state and that may have accidentally caused last week's hotel fire that killed 24 people, prosecutors said Tuesday.
The woman, who was detained Monday, told police she placed a dozen burning candles on the floor of the breakfast room of the Paris Opera hotel, then threw piles of clothes on the floor and left after she became angry that her boyfriend was drunk.
The prosecutors' office announced it was opening an investigation for ``fire caused involuntarily, manslaughter and involuntary injuries.'' The woman, identified only as 31-year-old Fatima, was placed under investigation - a step short of being charged - Tuesday evening, judicial officials said. She was in custody.
The night watchman, whose name was not released, was in a coma. France-3 television said the man was ``between life and death'' after having jumped from an upper floor window during the fire. The report could not be confirmed.
Several guests trapped by the blaze died by jumping from windows of the overcrowded, six-story hotel during the fire, which was Paris' worst in recent memory. A 1973 blaze in an eastern Paris school killed 20 people, 16 of them students.
Officials raised the death toll Tuesday to 24, including 11 children. Twenty-seven people remained hospitalized, 14 in serious condition, officials said. The nationalities of the dead have not been released, but the budget hotel housed many African immigrants and other people without means who were placed there by social services.
Bouquets of flowers decorated the perimeter of the scorched hotel following a demonstration on Monday by two advocacy groups, Right to Housing and Rights First, to denounce ``the scandalous treatment the government reserves for the poor and the needy.''
Social services have relocated the survivors to another hotel in a Paris suburb, while families continued their search for loved ones.
The statement by the prosecutors' office said Fatima was the girlfriend of the night watchman and went to the hotel at his request.
The suspect told criminal investigators that she ``could be'' at the origin of the fire that started shortly after 2 a.m. Friday in the second-floor breakfast room, the prosecutors' office said.
``After a violent dispute that she blamed on the inebriation of her companion, she finally left the hotel, throwing several piles of clothes on the floor in a fit of rage, without paying attention to the candles,'' prosecutors said in a statement.
The 32-room hotel in Paris' 9th district, which is popular with tourists, was meant to accommodate 61 people, but at least 90 people were known to be living there. It only had a single exit.
Police originally suspected an accidental fire caused by a technical problem. The hotel's fire prevention system had been checked March 24 and four recommendations to improve safety were issued, but the problems were not serious enough to close down the hotel, police said.
Still, Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin said Sunday he plans to work quickly toward new measures to reinforce fire regulations.
Maybe Bushmills, listeners?
I just wanted to give yall a "heads"-up re a story I heard on NPR this morning (you can probably find it at NPR.org on Morning Edition).
It seems that today is April 20th or 420. For reasons that are lost in a haze, as it were, at 4:20 pm on 4/20 (local time), those who are so disposed, throughout the US light up their joints. No one seems to know why 4/20 was selected but evidentally it is a "tradition." Sounds like the Grateful Dead to me but I don't know. I mentioned the story to some of my younger employees and many of them along with some of the students who were in my store at the time knew about it. Several suggested, kidding I think, that yes, they would take the trash out to the dumpster later today, at 4:20 pm.
My, my John of UVA. Gives us a new interp to "If ya got 'em; smoke 'em."
Odd, listeners, that John boy should bring this up, because I noticed this in the news:
New relevance in 'Reefer Madness' remake
NEW YORK, April 12 (UPI) -- The remake of the 1936 propaganda film "Reefer Madness" has modern, post-Sept. 11 relevance to mass paranoia, cast member Alan Cumming says.
Cumming plays a mysterious stranger who comes to a town to educate PTA members about the deadly craze of marijuana permeating society.
He agrees with director Andy Fickman, who adapted his stage version for television that the theme is similar to the culture of fear embodied by the government's color-coded terror advisories after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the New York Daily News said.
The original film was released at a time when the Nazis were on the path that would lead to World War II. The United States was in isolationist mode, but "Reefer Madness" manufactured a menace for them to worry about.
"What made the original film so funny," said Cumming, "was the ridiculousness of it, this authority figure pontificating on the so-called dangers around us. Now we're actually living that."
"Reefer Madness" premiers Saturday night on Showtime.
I saw the musical, "Ain't Misbehavin'" in Roanoke, Virginia and my sister had to explain to me what a reefer was.
Sooooooo, to keep the theme going about allusions:
Aerosmith
Reefer Head Woman
I got a reefer headed woman
she fell right down from the sky
I got a reefer headed woman
she fell right down from the sky
well, I gots to drink me two fifths of whiskey
just to get half as high
when the good Lord made that woman
he sure went to town
ooh, when the good Lord made that woman
he sure went to town
well, when he was feelin' high
ooh, he sure shoulda been feelin' low.
WOW! The joint is Jumpin'
Our audience, comprised of A2K folks, is once again concerned about individual people:
We're concerned about fishin' and Quinn, and now I am wondering about Bob Hawk.
I know Walter is all right.
Let us know if you know, fans.
Song for our missing friends:
If you leave, don't leave now
Please don't take our hearts away
Promise us just one more night
Then we'll go our separate ways
We always had time on our sides
Now it's fading fast
Every second every moment
We've got to--we've gotta make it last
We touch you once We touch you twice
We won't let go at any price
We need you now like we needed you then
You always said we'd still be friends someday
If time were standing still
Heaven knows what happens now
You've got to--you've gotta say you will
Come back to our radio
There's static and we miss you so.
I touch you once I touch you twice
I won't let go at any price
I need you now like I needed you then
You always said we'd still be friends
I touch you once I touch you twice
I won't let go at any price
I need you now like I needed you then
You always said we'd still be friends
I touch you once I touch you twice
I won't let go at any price
I need you now like I needed you then
You always said we'd still be friends someday.
Changed to fit the plea.
Good Morning everbody:
Birthday Celebrities for April 21:
1782 Friedrich Froebel, educator who invented kindergarten (Oberweissbach, Germany; died 1852)
1816 Charlotte Bronte, novelist (Hartshead, Yorkshire, England; died 1855)
1838 John Muir, naturalist/explorer/conservationist (Dunbar, Scotland; died 1914)
1864 Max Weber, sociologist (Germany; died 1920)
1911 Leonard Warren New York NY, baritone (Metropolitan Opera 1939-60) died on stage
1915 Anthony Quinn, actor , (Lust for Life; Lawrence of Arabia, Zorba, the Greek, et al) (Chihuahua, Mexico; died 2001)
1926 Queen Elizabeth II, queen of the United Kingdom (London, England)
1930 Sylvia Mangano, actress (Rome, Italy; died 1989)
1932 Elaine May, actress/writer/director (Philadelphia, PA)
1935 Charles Grodin, actor/TV personality (Pittsburgh, PA)
1947 Iggy Pop, singer (Ann Arbor, MI)
1949 Patti LuPone, actress/singer (Northport, NY)
1951 Tony Danza, actor (New York, NY)
1958 Andie MacDowell, actress/model (Gaffney, SC)
1961 Don Mattingly, baseball player (Evansville, IN)
1971 Shannen Doherty, actress (Memphis, TN)
Good morning, Raggedy. Once again, our celeb updater has remained true. Thanks, gal.
Anthony Quinn was probably one of the finest actors that I have ever seen. He ranks right up there with the biggies, in my estimation, listeners.
Well, fans, it seems that fishin' and Quinn are fine and well and living in Boston.
Still seeking the Hawk, however, and our endless lyrics man, dj.
Back later, audience, with news from around the world.
i'm here, i've just been..........
Takin' Care of Business
Bachman-Turner Overdrive
You get up every morning
From your alarm clock's warning
Take the 8:15 into the city
There's a whistle up above
And people pushin', people shovin'
And the girls who try to look pretty
And if your train's on time
You can get to work by nine
And start your slaving job to get your pay
If you ever get annoyed
Look at me I'm self-employed
I love to work at nothing all day
And I'll be...
[Refrain]
Taking care of business every day
Taking care of business every way
I've been taking care of business, it's all mine
Taking care of business and working overtime
Work out!
If it were easy as fishin'
You could be a musician
If you could make sounds loud or mellow
Get a second-hand guitar
Chances are you'll go far
If you get in with the right bunch of fellows
People see you having fun
Just a-lying in the sun
Tell them that you like it this way
It's the work that we avoid
And we're all self-employed
We love to work at nothing all day
And we be...
[Refrain]
[Spoken] Take good care of my business
When I'm away, every day whoo!
[Repeat first 2 verses]
[Refrain]
Takin' care of business [4x]
[Refrain]
Takin' care of business [repeat, fade]
Another sigh of relief, listeners. Here's our dj back again and doing his thing.
dj, it's your thang, do what you want to do:
Why the Things We Do
Written by - Jimmy Buffett, Jay Oliver & Roger Guth
From - Off To See the Lizard
In an old house down by the beach
Lives an old man who's just out of reach
Oh...he's got nothin' to lose
Some say he's a crazy old man
A refugee from a rock and band
Oh oh, he's still playin' the blues
In the mornin' when you rise
Aren't you glad to be alive
Oh oh, put on your barefoot shoes
When you dance beneath the moon rainbow
Can't you feel the afterglow
Oh oh, why the things we do
Why the things we do
In the drift wood house you learn how to dream
Truth is stranger that fishin' it seems
Oh oh, there's no earthly rules
And the people come to hear him say
Life's too short to live your way
Oh oh, who's really fooling who
Invisible means are the key to support
Makes you a king in your own court
Oh oh, what have you got to lose
Push the sadness from your heart
There's no living in the dark
Why the things we do
Why the things we do
Why the things we do
Why the things we do
Why the things we do
Why the things we do
Why the things we do
Why the things we do
In the mornin' when you rise
Aren't you glad to be alive
Oh oh, put on your barefoot shoes
When you dance beneath the moon rainbow
Can't you feel the afterglow
Oh oh, that's why the things we do
That's why the things we do
That's why the things we do
That's why the things we do
Hey, listeners. What's your "thang".
and for twilight time:
Thought for the evening: ``Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains - except kill it.'' - Erich Fromm, German-American psychoanalyst and author (1900-1980).
04/20/05 20:01
Am I late. You're always late. Am not. Letty's sent a search party out looking for you. I saw them. Why didn't they see you. Where do you look for hawks? In the sky. Exactly. If they'd checked the gutters they'da found me. She's gonna smack you one. What if I say I'm sorry?
Artist: Tyrese Lyrics
Title: I'm Sorry
Album: 2000 Watts
Popularity: 283 - Correct Lyrics
I'm Sorry
I'm sorry, yes I am, for everything that I've done.
How can I do this right, without you in my life.
Even though I say I love you I've gotta make a change in my life, baby,
I realize that you're better off without me by your side.
You're a special lady and I know I'm not ready for you, oh
Chorus:
I'm sorry for, what I've done.
I broke your heart, now we're apart.
I'm sorry for, making you cry.
I broke your heart, now I'm alone.
I'm by myself.
Tell me why, why I'm made my baby cry.
I know our love you would wipe,
Should I put you through all of these changes.
Nevermind all those I said cause I, didn't mean a thing.
I promised you, I only want you in my life, oh.
Chorus:
I'm sorry for(I'm so sorry babe), what I've done(everything I've done to you, oh).
I broke your heart, now we're apart (now we're apart and I can't deal with it).
I'm sorry for(oh, tell me anything), making you cry(I can do to get you back).
I broke your heart, now I'm alone.
I'm by myself.
Oh, it's hurts to move on,
cause you're all I knew,
But I must stay strong.
I can't break down no more.
sometimes I sit and dream of you and me again,
Oh, you have no idea, oh, of how hurt I am that I ran away.
Chorus:
(The one thing I said)
I'm sorry for, (meant the world to me, oh)what I've done.
I broke your heart(I'm so hurt that I did my baby wrong), now we're apart.
I'm sorry for(I'm so sorry now), making you cry(oh).
I broke your heart(how could I be), now I'm alone.
Chorus:
I'm sorry for, what I've done.
I broke your heart, now we're apart(for ever more).
I'm sorry for, making you cry(making my baby cry, oh).
I broke your heart, now I'm alone(I don't think I'm going anywhere baby).
Think she'll buy it? Not a chance.
some songs about time
Time
Pink Floyd
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the english way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say
Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.
Time
David Bowie
Time - He's waiting in the wings
He speaks of senseless things
His script is you and me, boy
Time - He flexes like a whore
Falls wanking to the floor
His trick is you and me, boy
Time - In Quaaludes and red wine
Demanding Billy Dolls
And other friends of mine
Take your time
The sniper in the brain, regurgitating drain
Incestuous and vain, and many other last names
I look at my watch it say 9:25 and I think "Oh God I'm still alive"
We should be on by now
We should be on by now
Lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai
Lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai
You - are not a victim
You - just scream with boredom
You - are not evicting time
Chimes - Goddamn, you're looking old
You'll freeze and catch a cold
'Cause you've left your coat behind
Take your time
Breaking up is hard, but keeping dark is hateful
I had so many dreams, I had so many breakthroughs
But you, my love, were kind, but love has left you dreamless
The door to dreams was closed. Your park was real and greenless
Perhaps you're smiling now, smiling through this darkness
But all I had to give was the guilt for dreaming
We should be on by now
We should be on by now
We should be on by now
We should be on by now
We should be on by now
Lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai
Lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai
Lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai
Lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai
Lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai
Lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai
Lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai
Lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai, lai
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la
Yes time
Time
Tom Waits
Well the smart money's on Harlow and the moon is in the street
And the shadow boys are breaking all the laws
And you're east of East Saint Louis and the wind is making speeches
And the rain sounds like a round of applause
And Napoleon is weeping in a carnival saloon
His invisible fiancee's in the mirror
And the band is going home, it's raining hammers, it's raining nails
And it's true there's nothing left for him down here
And it's time time time, and it's time time time
And it's time time time that you love
And it's time time time
And they all pretend they're orphans and their memory's like a train
You can see it getting smaller as it pulls away
And the things you can't remember tell the things you can't forget
That history puts a saint in every dream
Well she said she'd stick around until the bandages came off
But these mama's boys just don't know when to quit
And Mathilda asks the sailors "Are those dreams or are those prayers?"
So close your eyes, son, and this won't hurt a bit
Oh it's time time time, and it's time time time
And it's time time time that you love
And it's time time time
Well things are pretty lousy for a calendar girl
The boys just dive right off the cars and splash into the street
And when they're on a roll she pulls a razor from her boot
And a thousand pigeons fall around her feet
So put a candle in the window and a kiss upon his lips
As the dish outside the window fills with rain
Just like a stranger with the weeds in your heart
And pay the fiddler off 'til I come back again
Oh it's time time time, and it's time time time
And it's time time time that you love
And it's time time time
And it's time time time, and it's time time time
And it's time time time that you love
And it's time time time
Time Of Your Life
Green Day
Another turning point;
a fork stuck in the road.
Time grabs you by the wrist;
directs you where to go.
So make the best of this test
and don't ask why.
It's not a question
but a lesson learned in time.
It's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
So take the photographs
and still frames in your mind.
Hang it on a shelf
In good health and good time.
Tattoos of memories
and dead skin on trial.
For what it's worth,
it was worth all the while.
It's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
(music break)
It's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
It's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
The Times They Are A-Changin'
Bob dylan
Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.
Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.
Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.
The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.
Turn! Turn! Turn!
The Byrds
To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time for every purpose, under heaven
A time to be born, a time to die
A time to plant, a time to reap
A time to kill, a time to heal
A time to laugh, a time to weep
To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time for every purpose, under heaven
A time to build up,a time to break down
A time to dance, a time to mourn
A time to cast away stones, a time to gather stones together
To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time for every purpose, under heaven
A time of love, a time of hate
A time of war, a time of peace
A time you may embrace, a time to refrain from embracing
To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time for every purpose, under heaven
A time to gain, a time to lose
A time to rend, a time to sew
A time to love, a time to hate
A time for peace, I swear it's not too late
