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I don't know them either, edgar, but I liked them. Hmmm. wonder if they were supporters of the counterculture.(protesters) Thanks for the introduction.

Ah, we missed Dick Smothers' birthday yesterday, and I just found out that CBS canceled their show because he and Tommy WERE protesters and part of the counterculture. Sheeeez.

Well I found a great one by an interesting trio. I'll let them introduce themselves, y'all.

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

Hiya Letty and WA2K contributors. Really enjoyed the trio, Letty.

(Just popping in briefly -- early to bed for me tonight.)

Ah, our dear Tai Chi is off to bed. Always good to see your little baby face in our cyber studio. So glad the you enjoyed Tom, Dick, and Harry.

It's time for me to say goodnight as well, y'all, and since my daughter emailed me this poem by Tennyson, I decided to make it my goodnight song. I sent her this as well, and she put it on my son's memorial site.

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

As always,

From Letty with love and a memory

I remember the show and the controversy well, letty. The Smothers picked Glen Campbell to appear on the show and to act as a summer replacement. When the show got cancelled, Glenn was given the same time slot.

I recently wrote this to my own son:

Reflection Song

It’s sometimes a hard road, ain’t it son?
And a long old way until the race is won
Sometimes you’re tired
‘N’ sometimes you’re wired
‘N’ I hope sometimes you have some fun

It ain't just feathered wings makes a bird to fly
It’s knowing when he’s ready makes him even try
Sometimes he might stall
Sometimes he might fall
He just gets back up into the sky

And sometimes when it seems you’re all alone
Turn around I’m cheering from my paternal zone
Though words might fail
May love prevail
If not this brass ring then another one

It ain't just feathered wings makes a bird to fly
It’s knowing when he’s ready makes him even try
Somtimes he might stall
Sometimes he might fall
He just gets back up into the sky

I ain't the parent you might have had
In every family’s some good and then some bad
Be your own man
And not your old man
Set your own terms and make both of us glad

Remember it ain't just feathered wings makes a bird to fly
It’s knowing when he’s ready makes him even try
Sometimes he might stall
Sometimes he might fall
He just gets back up into the sky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOKhCwcjBYE&feature=fvw
Bob Dylan wrote this song commemorating a meeting with Elvis Presley.

Hey WA2K,ever heard Japanese funk? Cop a load of Osaka Monaurail....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACmzHiwUp80
Quick Sand.

and this guy was in James Brown's band....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JawQn7gKdJo
Maceo Parker-Let's Get It On.

Good early morning, WA2K radio audience.

edgar, that poem for you son is truly great. "...be your own man; not your old man.." is a line that I zeroed in on, buddy.

Loved Bob's tribute to Elvis. He sounds great on that one. Thanks, Texas.

Hey, Brit. Japanese funk? Fantastic, and Maceo Parker doing Marvin is the kind of jazz I love awakening to.

Here's an interesting birthday boy, y'all.

First, one from the group he used to perform with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbcWEd4opkI

Now one from the kid himself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZAcRG7yltI&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Waving madly as I head off to work! Just wanted to thank you for sharing Reflection Song, edgar -- it was great. Hope to catch up with the music later.

Scott's eyebrows knock me out. He does sing well.

Here is one about a man doing time in Huntsville.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqdIGoj14Pk&feature=sub

Sheeeze, I always miss that Canadian woman, but I am glad that she corrected me in the fact that Reflections was a song. Ah, well. Most lyric poems are usually adapted to music.

Well, my, my, edgar. That's one by Merle that I like. Thanks for playing it, buddy.

Today is Robert Vaughn's birthday, and although I did not see The Magnificent Seven, I though our listeners might enjoy a look and a listen, y'all. Robert is the only surviving member.

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

Dear Letty, Edgar, Baz, Panz et al WA2K

slowly, but surely...

have missed you all but you're always in my thoughts

Elton and George
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqw373vmKTw

Izzie, Welcome back, hun. We have missed you here. Love that one by George and Elton.

Here's one for all of us and especially for our "dancing queen".

George Michael and QUEEN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c7x2JD_j-0&feature=related

Hi, izzie. Good music.

I watched Magnificent Seven the first time about a year ago. While it did not live up to the hype, I enjoyed it. Enjoy George Michael too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQaBGSxvNrI
Here is the Byrds.

Great one by The Byrds, edgar. Never heard that one, although I recall them and Dylan doing Mr. Tamborine Man.

Today is a most interesting composers birthday, y'all. Never heard of him before, but I am impressed.


Benjamin Britten (born Lowestoft, 22 November 1913; died Aldeburgh, 4 December 1976) was probably the greatest English composer of his time. He came from East Anglia (a region in the south east of England) and he often thought about the East Anglian landscape and the sea when writing his music. He wrote a lot of music for his friend, the tenor Peter Pears. His operas include Peter Grimes, Billy Budd, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Death in Venice. His War Requiem was performed in Coventry Cathedral in 1962 after it had been rebuilt because the old cathedral had been destroyed in the war. He wrote music for children which sounds like proper, adult music. Britten started the Aldeburgh Festival. He was an excellent pianist and conductor

Found out he also did the opera of The Turn of the Screw.

In memory of Mr. Britten

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bmw01EkfmI&feature=related

seamless, letty.
Here is a comic number, with a bit of history.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZbJatpUVVE

Seamless? I don't get it, edgar.

Wow! That was a bit of history, Texas. Strange, I was just searching for a sing song. No, not Sing Sing.

Inspired by your Sam Butera, listen to the kids play Sing, Sing, Sing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj5v8qH2xPw&feature=related