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Thanks, Barry.
Fans of the cartoon series, Family Guy, will know Adam West is a regular voice of that series (Plays Mayor Adam West).
I like Paul Williams, letty. He also acts. Was in Smokey and the Bandit.
That movie trailer - Wow.

Welcome back, Brit. My word, Adam West? Great tribute and glad that Adam is still with us.

Know this gal? It's her birthday, too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7CMGY5C_Pg&feature=related

edgar, didn't know that Paul played in Smokey and the Bandit, but thanks for the reminder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHMOMB9TED8
Here is a Canadian named Buddy Knox.

I remember when all the Twiggy fuss went on. She did pretty well with that song.

edgar, which movie trailer were you talking about. Frances Farmer? My older sister used to call me Twiggy.

Loved Party Doll, and I used to think that was Barbie Doll.

Well, it's Cass Elliot's birthday, and the rumor that she choked on a sandwich is not true, but yet it persists.

For Mamma Cass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX86nKwHKUk

I meant the Farmer video. It calls to mind a novel I read, A Fine Madness. About a guy being pursued by a doctor intent on giving him a lobotomy.

Just searched out this site, edgar.

http://www.uh.edu/engines/ut-1.htm

Excerpt:

Without creativity we are nothing. But, when we step off onto those unexpected side roads that intersect the main arteries of our thinking, we are not welcome. Change is a threat to the world around us. Function creatively, and the world will certainly try to "weave a circle round [you] thrice." The creative daemon within us poses a threat that most people want to see sealed off.

Thanks for the reference as it explains a lot.

The Mama Cass song is a good one. I always liked her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYAUAELUSts
A cartoon treatment of swingin on a star

"Know this gal? It's her birthday, too."
Our Twiggy is still going strong but,thankfully,given up singing She's been doing the ads for Marks & Spencer....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyJMHEasO-Y

edgar, I love Little LuLu's version of Swinging on a Star. Thanks, buddy.

Hey, Brit. Twiggy does a good job advertising M&S. I like her still.

One more observation about lobodomy. Rosemary Kennedy had that operation done because she was thought to be retarded. That was a terrible stigma in the Kennedy family. Actually, she was not; that surgery was done because of mental illness. Either way, it's terrible, y'all.

Well, folks, we have another birthday girl, but your PD/Producer doesn't know this lady. Not bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiVOfEL5iRg

I'll dedicate that one to my daughter, who is still hanging in with her brother.

Oh, yeah. I know Trisha. She's one that I recognize for talent, but rarely listen to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlZDEHDtth8
Well, I got a comedy routine by Dean Martin and George Gobel.

Funny, edgar. Hard to beat George, Deano, and Phil. I didn't realize that there was a movie about Ode to Billy Jo. I didn't see it, but there were some interesting theories about who and why, y'all.

Well, I'm still exploring the realm of creativity and the side effects, so here is a classical piece for today.

One of my favorite classical composers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq7ncjhSqtk

MADRID - Leonard Cohen is recovering after collapsing onstage while on tour in eastern Spain, his music company said Saturday.

The veteran poet and performer has been released from hospital after suffering from a stomach complaint, Doctor Music Concerts said in a statement.

Cohen was part-way through his "Bird on the Wire" song in Valencia when he fainted, causing the band to stop playing to rush to his aid as concertgoers watched. The concert was stopped.

A video showing Cohen kneeling down several times during the performance and then keeling over sideways during a saxophone solo has been placed on YouTube on the Web by a fan.

The Canadian-born musician, who will be 75 years-old on Monday, was taken in an ambulance to the Nueve de Octubre hospital in Valencia but released early Sunday, Barcelona-based Doctor Music Concerts said.

Cohen was due to perform the last show of his Spanish tour at the Palau Sant Jordi concert hall in northeastern Barcelona on Monday. Trucks carrying Cohen's show had arrived at the hall on Saturday morning and were to set up as normal, a spokesman for the concert hall said.

Cohen had to come out of retirement five years ago when he discovered that most of his retirement fund had disappeared in a disputed case of mismanagement.

After leaving Spain Cohen was due to perform next at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida on Oct. 17, his Web site said.


I am not going to post the video of Cohen falling out. Instead, here is Bird on the Wire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iuTiHhIKnY

Playing Horowitz now, letty. I greatly admire him.

edgar, Leonard Cohen has always fascinated me. It seems that he had an attack of acute indigestion. Lots of stress on the man since his nest egg was stolen.

Bird on a Wire is rather sad, however. "...tried in my way to be free..." Hope things work out for that creative genius.

Another interesting man was born today. Here's a tribute to Jeremy Irons.

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

as I understand it Cohen composed "Bird on the Wire" while living on the Greek isle of Hydra, he lived at the top of a hill overlooking the bay. The government was installing electricity to all the homes and setting the poles carrying the wires while he watched from his house. He felt as though the bringing of electricity would destroy the validity os his life (take away his freedom) as he watched the workmen setting the posts and stringing the wire be wrote "like a bird on the wire." He left Hydra shortly after, returning to N America.
The version of Bird on the Wire I like best is from his "Live Songs" recorded in Paris and London.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TLLcvWeiKw&feature=related
Del Shannon
Runaway.
Got to run into town. Will check in later.

Don't runaway too far, edgar. Love that song, incidentally.

You know, dys, I can understand how Leonard felt about the electrification of rural areas.

FDR started the TVA to do just that, and the government ownership of utilities was the beginning of a bad thing.

When I was a wee thing, I loved visiting my Uncle Roger because they had no electricity except kerosene lamps (I think that's what they were called). Later, we bought an Alladin's Lamp at Rodanthe located at The Outer Banks of N.C.. Still have that with the brass base and the glass chimney plus the mantle.

Primitive living is often the better part of yesterday, but there are draw-backs.

Which reminds me, y'all, of this old time piece.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYNFfYGw56U&feature=related

I love a pendulum clock to this day.

Taking the government out of Texas electric companies has caused the cost of power to skyrocket.