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At least that one gets paid to be a punch bag, Barry.

Good morning evreeeeeeeebodeeeeeee! Hope you all feel as wired as I do. . .

Good morning, WA2K folks.

edgar, I really love that Harry song. Remember the Nat and Harry version quite well. Incidentally, Texas. That In to the Mist was originally done by Van Morrison, but I could not find his version

Missed Miss squirrel's Wind song and Ruby Jean and Billy Lee. Great, Chicago.

Ah, shucks. the Brit corrected his mistake and I was gonna tell him to get more sleep.



The noisy couple was funny, however, and I thought perhaps you wanted to hear more of that din.

A couple of interesting things inspired by London, y'all.

First this lovely slide show of Barcelona.

http://www.sagradafamilia.cat/

Also, the red jet set brought to mind another history mystery and that was the unresolved location of Amelia Earhart.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUR8r06EtVE&feature=fvw

Now for one by Three Dog Night that I truly enjoy, folks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVo_Y2wZ0Tw&feature=fvw

edgar, actually I'm cold wired. Can't believe that it feels like winter here.

When we were getting out of bootcamp, some of us were conning the gullible, telling them they had been assigned to duty in Barcelona.
Amelia will always be topic for speculation, I suppose. Pioneers mostly work in groups these days, I would imagine.
I like the Three Dog Night song, letty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jf1CGpwqsI&feature=sub
Got Hank Snow to tell us a story - - -

Funny about boot camp, edgar, and I've never heard Hank do a bad one. Yep, as Bud's friend told him, "that old gin will make you sin."

alex was talking about "indian summer" and the history behind that is illusive as well, but I discovered a fantastic jazz group who does it right, y'all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz37dIh8y2E

mornin' miss letty. (my clock is messed up some right now...)

a birthday

Elizabeth Stanton
1815"1902, American reformer

A leader of the woman suffrage movement, born in Johnstown, N.Y. She was educated at the Troy Female Seminary (now Emma Willard School) in Troy, N.Y. In 1840 she married Henry Brewster Stanton, a journalist and abolitionist, and attended with him the international slavery convention in London. The woman delegates were excluded from the floor of the convention; the indignation this aroused in Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott was an important factor in their efforts to organize women to win greater equality. With several others they called the first woman's rights convention in the United States in 1848 at Seneca Falls, N.Y. Stanton insisted that a suffrage clause be included in the bill of rights for women that was drawn up at the convention. From 1852, despite occasional disagreements, she was intimately associated with Susan B. Anthony in leading the woman's movement. She was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association (1869-90) and of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (1890-92). With Anthony as publisher she and Parker Pillsbury edited (1868-70) the Revolution, a militant feminist magazine. Elizabeth Stanton was a brilliant orator and an able journalist, and as a writer and lecturer she strove for legal, political, and industrial equality of women and for liberal divorce laws. She compiled with Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage the first three volumes of History of Woman Suffrage (1881-86) and wrote Eighty Years and More (1898).

now a song.

Mr Bowie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLnPd7lzT4g

wow! "Wham bam thank you m'am?" Thanks Rocky for the bit of history. David Bowie is one of my favs, Mr. Moose

Don't think this lasted too long, however.



Hmmm, this is history week on WA2K, 'cause I was just thinking of Charles Lindberg and The Spirit of St. Louis.

It's also aviation and history mystery time again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l8DfgnNBrE

And for those who are interested in the Lindberg baby kidnapping.

http://www.celebritymorgue.com/lindbergh-baby/

Don't think that Hauptmann was guilty.

Indian summer - Like that one. Lindberg videos, I will put off watching for now. Too many irons in the fire.

You're right, edgar. A little weary of the aviator stuff myself.

Well, Today is Grace Kelly's birthday, y'all, so here is a tribute to her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v467iyl2Mc&feature=related

I was not implying I didn't want to see the aviator videos. I have been trying to get writing on a new chapter, and it was distracting at the time.

Grace Kelly will always be the marshal's bride to me. "You made that promise when we wed -"

I tend to forget how long ago Lindberg did all his stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxHu_71sU1E
Here is Waylon, who barely missed being a passenger aboard Buddy Holly's ill fated plane.

I didn't know that Waylon was the one who missed being a passenger, edgar. Love that song. I guess Bob Wills is still the king.

Incidentally, I taught all that stuff about Lucky Lindy and, etc. That's why I am still interested.

Well, buddy, you sent me to the archives again, so here is my goodnight contribution.

First the trailer from High Noon, and then Tex Ritter singing the theme.

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3824354073/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_d_78yAKwI&feature=related

Goonight, all

From Letty with the love of learning

The record company did not allow Tex Ritter to release High Noon until well after Frankie Laine made it a hit. The three gunmen waiting for the train to come with Frank Miller on board were played by Sheb Wooley, Lee Van Cleef and William Wilkie. There was a drunk sleeping it off in the jail, played by Jack Elam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1R7fdUw_OM&feature=related
Jackie Wilson

Morning Ms Letty,Ed,Rockhead and all WA2K peeps.Thanks for the Singers Unlimited . I see a CD order going in ASAP.Working tonight so that's my weekend out the window.Checking out with more S.U. plus a friend named Oscar (No,not the grouch!)....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R_riOcfWpU&feature=fvw
The Shadow Of Your Smile.

Down and gone.
Woosh.

Good morning, WA2K folks.

edgar, I love that moon of blue by Jackie. Thanks, Texas.

Hey, Brit. Glad you enjoyed Singers Unlimited, and that one by them, The Shadow of your Smile, was fantastic. So sorry that you have to work this weekend.

Well, today is Robert Louis Stevenson's birthday, and that man was muti faceted, y'all.

"Here he lies where he longs to be...."




and a tribute to one of my favorite writers and composers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DduA5SIkb_U

I wonder if the tsunami in Samoa damaged his final resting place.

Robert Louis Stevenson was one of the true immortals, in my book.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox-Y8jmQguM
Ezio Pinza -

Wow! I didn't know that Ezio Pinza did Faust. That was great, edgar. Strange, I know South Pacific, but had no idea about the background.

South Pacific is a 1949 musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The story draws from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning, 1948 novel, Tales of the South Pacific, weaving together characters and elements from several of its stories into a single plotline. The musical won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1950. The issue of racial prejudice was sensitively and candidly explored, particularly for the 1949 stage work.
South Pacific is generally considered to be one of the greatest musicals in history. Several of its songs, including "Bali Ha'i," "Some Enchanted Evening," "Happy Talk", "Younger than Springtime" and "I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy" have become worldwide standards. The Broadway production of South Pacific was nominated for ten Tony Awards and won all of them, including Best Musical, Best Score and Best Libretto. It was the only musical production ever to win all four Tony Awards for acting. The show was a critical and box office hit and has since enjoyed many successful revivals and tours and spawned a 1958 film and other adaptations.

I didn't see the musical and the movie didn't have Ezio in it. An album perhaps?

Thanks, buddy.

Here'a another that I love inspired by my son's small rose bush that is still alive. Don't know why I know this one, either, y'all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ez44jrxKSg&feature=related

Probably from my older sister who immediately recognized Tony Martin's Domino.

Naturally, I like nly a Rose, letty.

Here is Widow With Shawl (A Portrait)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSaReUiVSDg