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Good crowd last night. Al and Sean were fine last night. The last song Al was tottering from an excess of liquid refreshment and Sean let him know but was gentle so I don't think there's any permanent affliction. Would have been on sooner but my machine was slower than cold molasses running uphill in a blizzard. Bob was in good voice and received more than the usual applause and huzzahs.

Here's what I trotted out for their inspection.

Piano Man Billy Joel
Ghost Riders in th Sky Vaughn Monroe
Can't Help Falling in Love Elvis Presley
He'll have to go Jim Reeves
My Way Frank Sinatra
Crazy Patsy Cline
King of the Road Roger Miller

He'll Have to Go

Jim reeves

(Words & music by J. Allison - A. Allison)

Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone
Just pretend that we're together all alone
Tell the man to turn the juke box way down low
You can tell your friend there with you, he'll have to go

You can't say the words I want to hear
When your with another man
If you love me, answer yes or no
Darling I will understand

Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone
Just pretend that we're together all alone
Tell the man to turn the juke box way down low
You can tell your friend there with you, he'll have to go

You can't say the words I want to hear
When your with another man
If you love me, answer yes or no
Darling I will understand

Just put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone
Just pretend that we're together all alone
Tell the man to turn the juke box way down low
And you can tell your friend there with you, he'll have to go
Yes you can tell your friend there with you, he'll have to go

Back later as I have to seek life giving fluid.

Sounds as though all things being considered, it was a great night for all, Bob, and Sinatra did it his way, all right!

Jim Reeves has a lovely voice, and I'm certain you did that song equally well, right listeners?

Nothing better than a long tall glass of water, eh?<smile>

Well, listeners, it seems that our missing bride to be saw too many Julia Roberts movies:

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A Georgia bride-to-be who vanished just days before her wedding turned up in New Mexico and fabricated a tale of abduction before admitting Saturday that she had gotten cold feet and "needed some time alone," police said.



Jennifer Wilbanks, 32, was in police custody more than 1,420 miles from her home on what was supposed to be her wedding day.

"It turns out that Miss Wilbanks basically felt the pressure of this large wedding and could not handle it," said Randy Belcher, the police chief in Duluth, Ga., the Atlanta suburb where Wilbanks lives with her fiance. He said there would be no criminal charges.

Wilbanks, whose disappearance set off a nationwide hunt, called her fiance, John Mason, from a pay phone late Friday and told him that she had been kidnapped while jogging three days before, authorities said. Her family rejoiced that she was safe, telling reporters that the media coverage apparently got to the kidnappers.

But Wilbanks soon recanted.

And for Lord 'ellpus, a song of another sort:

Artist: Lyrics
Song: Get Me to the Church on Time Lyrics

Jamie, Harry, Friends There's just a few more hours.
That's all the time you've got. A few more hours
Before they tie the knot. Doolittle
There are drinks and girls all over London,
and I've gotta track 'em down in just a few more hours!
I'm getting married in the morning! Ding dong!
The bells are gonna chime. Pull out the stopper!
Let's have a whopper! But get me to the church on time!
I gotta be there in the mornin'
Spruced up and lookin' in me prime.
Girls, come and kiss me;
Show how you'll miss me.
But get me to the church on time!
If I am dancin' Roll up the floor.
If I am whistlin' Whewt me out the door!
For I'm gettin' married in the mornin'
Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.
Kick up an rumpus But don't lost the compass;
And get me to the church, Get me to the church,
For Gawd's sake, get me to the church on time!
Doolittle and Everyone I'm getting married in the morning
Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.
Doolittle Drug me or jail me, Stamp me and mail me.
All But get me to the church on time!
I gotta be there in the morning
Spruced up and lookin' in me prime.
Doolittle Some bloke who's able Lift up the table,
All And get em to the church on time!
Doolittle If I am flying Then shoot me down.
If I am wooin',
Get her out of town!
All For I'm getting married in the morning!
Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.
Doolittle Feather and tar me;
Call out the Army; But get me to the church.
All Get me to the church...
Doolittle For Gawd's sake, get me to the church on time!
Harry and Everyone Starlight is reelin' home to bed now.
Mornin' is smearin' up the sky. London is wakin'.
Daylight is breakin'. Good luck, old chum,
Good health, goodbye.
Doolittle I'm gettin' married in the mornin'
Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime...
Hail and salute me Then haul off and boot me...
And get me to the church, Get me to the church...
For Gawd's sake, get me to the church on time!

Thought for Today: ``Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.'' - Ayn Rand, Russian-born author (1905-1982).



04/29/05 20:00

Shucks. I already had the groom tried and executed.

edgar, I was almost certain that it would be another Scott Peterson affair. Glad that we were both wrong, however.

Well, let's hope that things work out and that the groom doesn't integrate the old phrase:

Hell hast no fury as a man scorned.

Good Day to all.

Birthdays for April 30:

1870 Franz Lehar, composer (Hungary; died 1948) (The Merry Widow )
1910 Al Lewis, actor (New York, NY)
1912 Eve Arden Mill Valley CA, actress (Connie-Our Miss Brooks)died 1990
1926 Cloris Leachman Des Moines IA, actress (Phyllis, Last Picture Show)
1933 Willie Nelson, country singer (Abbott, TX)
1938 Gary Collins, actor/TV personality (Boston, MA)
1940 Burt Young, actor/writer (New York, NY)
1944 Jill Clayburgh, actress (New York, NY)
1945 Michael J. Smith, astronaut who died in the Challenger explosion (Beaufort, NC; died 1986)
1948 Perry King, actor (Alliance, OH)
1955 Jane Campion, director (Wellington, New Zealand)
1956 Lars Von Trier, director (Copenhagen, Denmark)
1961 Isiah Thomas, basketball player (Chicago, IL)
1982 Kirsten Dunst, actress (Point Pleasant, NJ)

Life giving fluid has been administered. Thank you for your concern. I see aggie has notified us of bd for one of my favorites Willie Nelson. Willie, can you give the listeners some tutelage in your art form?



WILLIE NELSON
ALWAYS ON MY MIND


Maybe I didn't quite you
as good as I should
Maybe I didn't love you
quite as often as I should
little things I should have said and done I never took the time
You were always on my mind You were always on my mind

Maybe I didn't hold you
all those lonely lonely times
and I guess I never told you I'm so happy that you're mine
If I made you feel second best I'm so sorry I was blind

You were always on my mind You were always on my mind

Tell me tell me that your sweet love hasn't died
Give me one more chance to keep you satisfied satisfied

Little things I should have said and done
I never took the time

You were always on my mind You were always on my mind

You were always on my mind

Hey, Raggedy, Our listeners can always depend on you. I noticed that you smiled at The Merry Widow. Love it!

I have to smile myself, fans, because I just thought of a funny nonsense verse:

Little Willine in the best of sashes,
Fell in the fire and was burned to ashes.
By and by the room grew chilly,
But no one liked to poke up Willie.

Hope all the Willies of the world don't start calling in protests.

Just in case, a great Nelson song:

In the twilight glow I seen her
Blue eyes crying in the rain
When we kissed goodbye and parted
I knew we'd never meet again
Love is like a dying ember
And only memories remain
And through the ages I'll remember
Blue eyes crying in the rain
Someday when we meet up yonder
We'll stroll hand in hand again
In the land that knows no parting
Blue eyes crying in the rain

WOW, everybody. Bob and I just sang a duet. Dys and Diane must be thinking of us.

Oh Letty, let me clarify. I'm smiling at the Merry Widow because that's the movie we were discussing earlier here on A2K. Wasn't it Bob who gave us a song - Maxims - the other day?

Wow! I feel just like Spock doing a mind meld. (Letty 90% Bob 10%)

I read your mind, Raggedy. I can do that from time to time.

For example, I am thinking that edgar is going to get prescription glasses.

See, listeners? Bob just read my mind.

For all our staff and listeners:


"Can You Read My Mind"

When I'm all alone at night
I can hear the beating of your heart
I should tell you and I might
Before you tear me apart
You're all I ever think about
All I ever dream about
Can you read my mind?
Can you read my mind?

Oh when I look at you
I probably should go
Cause I wanna be with you
More than you'll ever know
Hmm for a taste of you
I could calm my desire
Baby you blow my mind
You light my fire, oh

I want you (yeah)
Need you (yeah)
Can't live without you

When I'm all alone at night
I can hear the beating of your heart
I should tell you and I might
Before you tear me apart
You're all I ever think about
All I ever dream about
Can you read my mind?
Can you read my mind?

Is it the way I feel?
The curiosity or the things you do
That brings out the lust in me
The thought of me and you, drives me wild
Come close to me
Can you stay awhile?

Hold you, need you
Can't live without you

When I'm all alone at night
I can hear the beating of your heart
I should tell you and I might
Before you tear me apart
You're all I ever think about
All I ever dream about
Can you read my mind?
Can you read my mind?
When I'm all alone at night
I can hear the beating of your heart
I should tell you and I might
Before you tear me apart
You're all I ever think about
All I ever dream about
Can you read my mind?
Can you read my mind?

Yeah
Hold you, need you
Can't live without you

When I'm all alone at night
I can hear the beating of your heart
I should tell you and I might
Before you tear me apart
You're all I ever think about
All I ever dream about
Can you read my mind?
Can you read my mind?

Letty, I picked up the glasses yeaterday. Now I have to go to a doctor concerning the amount of pressure from an air test.

Love this Willie Nelson song:

If you had not have fallen
Then I would not have found you
Angel flying too close to the ground
And I patched up your broken wing
And hung around a while
Tried to keep your spirits up
While you were feelin' down
I knew someday that you would fly away
For love's the greatest healer to be found
So leave me if you need to
I will still remember
Angel flying too close to the ground
Fly on, fly on past the speed of sound
I'd rather see you up
Than see you down
Leave me if you need to
I will still remember
Angel flying too close to the ground

edgar, Not to worry. You don't have glaucoma. See? I did it again. Maybe I ought to get a crystal ball.

Raggedy, thanks for playing that song for our listeners. I have never heard that one.

Oh, try to catch that one sometime, Letty. The guitar arrangement is beautiful, and since I know you all love Ray Charles, try to catch Willie and Ray's duet of "Seven Spanish Angels".

Now, back to that mind thing. How about Gordon Lightfoot's :

If you could read my mind love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old time movie
'bout a ghost from a wishin' well
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
You know that ghost is me
And I will never be set free
As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see
If I could read your mind love
What a tale your thoughts could tell
Just like a paperback novel
The kind that drugstores sell
When you reach the part where the heartaches come
The hero would be me
But heroes often fail
And you won't read that book again
Because the ending's just too hard to take

I'd walk away like a movie star
Who gets burned in a three way script
Enter number two
A movie queen to play the scene
Of bringing all the good things out in me
But for now love, let's be real
* I never thought I could act this way *
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
I don't know where we went wrong
But the feelin's gone
And I just can't get it back

If you could read my mind love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old time movie
'bout a ghost from a wishin' well
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
But stories always end
And if you read between the lines
You'll know that I'm just tryin' to understand
The feelin's that you lack
I never thought I could feel this way
And I've got to say that I just to get it
I don't know where we went wrong
But the feelin's gone
And I just can't get it back

Totally out of context:

TIME IN A BOTTLE
JIM CROCE

If I could save Time in a bottle
The first thing that I'd like to do
Is to save every day
'Til Eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you

If I could make days last forever
If words could make wishes come true
I'd save every day like a treasure and then,
Again, I would spend them with you

CHORUS:
But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
I've looked around enough to know
That you're the one I want to go
Through time with

If I had a box just for wishes
And dreams that had never come true
The box would be empty
Except for the memory
Of how they were answered by you

(Repeat Chorus)

Ah, edgar. I love that song. I do wish Croce had a magic bottle with time in it.

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