WA2K Radio is now on the air

Hah! Cheated death again, and WA2K is back on the air.

the real moby dick...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4YpOclKmLs&feature=related

(no whales)

What happened to that 'chat' room Rockhead, one minute there then gone, wouldn't let me in.

I keep getting booted back there, and have to clean out my box and re-enter.

rg says it will level off in a few hours...

Morning Ms Letty,Ed and all WA2K folks and welcome to feel-good Friday.The week-end is all mine for the first time in 3 weeks,which means I've got loadsa backed-up stuff to take care of.Can't complain but gotta run....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep7W89I_V_g
Laters.

Ya got me, rock. I generally avoid most of their songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvN6-RK66Bo
Good morning. Stormy here this AM. Be back on the radio this afternoon.

Hey, Rog. Welcome to our cyber station again. It is so you.

edgar, I got to see your "art appreciation" video of Mona Lisa. How does one learn to appreciate art, I wonder.

Hey, Mooseman. Good to see you back with us. Glad all is well, buddy. Your version of Led Zepplin was good, too.

Dutchy, this is a chat room sometimes. It's talk radio after all.

Hey, Brit. Loved Silent Running and you sent me to the archives again. That was a book and a sci fi film. Thanks for the reminder.

Wanted to play this last evening, but the hamsters were repairing stuff, so here it is for our morning song.

Manhattan Transfer got their name from John Dos Passos.

First the song.

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

Love their a capella version, y'all, and I found out that John Dos Passos was also a painter (of sorts)

Oops, forgot to show John's painting.

Friday....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU4eB7MWi78

urs, welcome back. Love that song, gal. Yep, the cure is love. Your group reminded me of a book that I read as a kid.

http://www.brementownmusicians.com/flash/story/en

More synchronicity, y'all. TCM was doing all of the Road movies with Bing, and Bob and a first show for Dorothy Lamore. Caught the end of Road to Singapore. Also was reminded of I'm in the Jailhouse now by the Soggybottom Boys in O Brother Where Art Thou.

First, Manhattan Transfer again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Non-0JGag

Next, In the Jailhouse Now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2dqgUkJOvs&feature=fvw

Oh, Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten! Very nice, Letty!

Loved that story, Urs.

Hey, y'all, it's Tom Selleck's birthday and here's a great one for him by Queen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFpYl7DjEa0&feature=related

A Nightingale Sang is one of my favorite songs (I have hundreds). Little Street in Singapore has good memories.
I had forgotten about the story of Brementon Musicians, but I read it many years ago.
Hearing in the Jailhouse Now takes me back to 1955 when it was a hit record.
I like Tom Selleck in cowboy movies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnCwClK7fCU
Xavier Cugat now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc1-YJiOHoE
And George Harrison

edgar, I love Brazil by Xavier Cougat. Strange, I just found out he was from Catalan, I recall fbaezer/Pancho reminding that the area was one of the places where another Romance language was spoken. Have to do more research on that one.

Love George H.'s What is Life as well.

Today is Victor Mature's birthday, and I recall him in the movie Samson and Delilah.

Hope this works. I 've been having problems today.

Nope, didn't work. Back later after I resolve the matter.

Hope this works, folks.

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

Now for the Catalan info.

Catalan (Catalan: català, pronounced [kətəˈla] or [kataˈla]) is a Romance language, the national and official language of Andorra, and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencià (Valencian), as well as in the city of Alghero on the Italian island of Sardinia. It is also spoken in the autonomous communities of Aragon (in La Franja) and Murcia (in Carche) in Spain, and, officially recognised to some extent, in the historic Roussillon region of southern France, roughly equivalent to the current département of the Pyrénées-Orientales (Northern Catalonia).

I always liked Victor Mature. He played Doc Holiday oposite Kirk Douglas's Wyatt Earp.

I read two or three times that Bob Dylan was first recorded, commercially, playing harmonica on Harry Belafonte's album, Midnight Special. I did some research and found that the release of his first album, Bob Dylan, was released in March, 1962, while Midnight Special was released two months later. Trivial trivia, perhaps, but noteworthy to some fans.

The Catalan research was interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU_G4chPn7I
Here is one of Bob Dylan's first album's songs.