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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmXvy0X0lGw
I like lots of African music. Miriam Makeba is my favorite.
I will be back later to comment, etc.
Good morning, peeples.

Good morning Letty, edgarblythe, and all.
Shame he is not around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIoZh5Qd7Rc

Alex, Welcome back, buddy. Don't know that Australian band, but just found the name really mean "In Excess". Love Mystify Me, especially since it's acoustic. Thanks for the introduction, and later perhaps you can tell us which member is "not around".

More Africa, y'all. Amazing that Paul Anka has done it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxXXoU0n6ac

Toto's Africa has always surprised me for some reason.
The Hohadza Band gets that Zimbabwe sound good.

I know that Paul Anka song by someone else. Can't recall who. Well, Paul Simon did music related to South Africa.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JhcnaHN_UI

I watched and listened to your video twice, edgar. I recall having seen The Naked Prey with Cornell Wilde. One tribe massacred another. I met Clark Terry and he wasn't very nice, frankly. There is good and bad in every race; however, Black Mambazo was fantastically creative. Thanks, Texas.

Incidentally, here is the other version that you might have been thinking of. I played it by Paul Anka, because it was new to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByuesLyvGn4&feature=related

Did you check out Miriam Makeba, letty? Very good "Click' Song.
Here is Cape Town.
It is about apartheid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvPrRAJ1zGc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_a8_6yPMkE

I love Miriam, edgar. Here is my favorite by her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2gMLCLSZ9w&feature=fvw

The one by Harry about the Cape was great as well

Don't you forget to listen to Bert Kaemfert's song. That's the one that I heard originally.

Thanks, dys. Johnny and Odetta are great. Love her Motherless Child.

How about a bit of Nat Cole. Love this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3RjUrUk50o

Bert Kaemfert's song was one I have heard too, but there is still another version I know out there. African Sunset is a great song, letty. Nat's Our Love is Here to Stay is of course Nat at his best. Here is a song about Haiti. Don't recall if I have played it here before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpjZx4iCNX4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u40r9dBEQtE&feature=related
Timi Yuro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2cbkVZgUko
I'm Walkin the Dog
Webb Pierce

Hey Ed,I'm Walking To New Orleans,but without the string section....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AssFPpdfYSY
Fats Domino

That sounds very much like the original, like they took the strings out after the fact.

Quite the reverse Ed....

Sort of a curiosity piece here. This is the actual take that was used for the released version but prior to the last minute addition of the string section of The New Orleans Symphony!

From Wikipedia (as of 9/28/08): Walking to New Orleans is a 1960 song by Bobby Charles, written for and recorded by Fats Domino.
Domino was a hero of Charles. Domino had previously recorded the Charles tune "Before I Grow Too Old". When Domino stopped on tour in Lafayette, Louisiana he invited Charles into his dressing room, and regretted he didn't have a copy of his new record to give to Charles, but invited Charles to come visit him in Domino's home of New Orleans. Charles replied, "I don't have a car. If I'd go, I'd have to walk." Afterwards, the thought remained on Charles's mind, and he said he wrote the song for Domino in some 15 minutes.
After he got to New Orleans to accept Domino's invitation, Charles sang "Walking to New Orleans" for Domino. Domino was enthusiastic about the number and made a few modifications to it, including adding a quote from his earlier hit, "Ain't That A Shame". Dave Bartholomew made an orchestration for the backup band, and Domino with Bartholomew and band recorded it in Cosimo Matassa's studio on Rampart Street.
After the recording was made, Bartholomew decided to overdub a string section from the New Orleans Symphony. Use of classical strings was unusual for early rock and roll. Domino was at first somewhat surprised when Bartholomew played back the new version with strings, but warmed to the distinctive sweet melancholy sound it added. The record was a hit, released on Imperial Records, reaching #6 on the pop chart and #2 on the R&B chart.

More Bobby Charles....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K3n0bodrV4

Here's something to relax with - Faure's Pavane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpgyTl8yqbw

Good stuff, George.

I've just seen on TV a programme about the life and works of Johnny Mercer, the programme produced I think by Clint Eastwood.
It was really marvellous. I didn't know how many of the classics he actually wrote, and sang most of them too.
What a man. From Savannah, Georgia.....and I learned that his ancestor was a surgeon-general who crossed the Delaware with Washington! He's in the painting. A good family.

But I like Pavane's foray too.

Good morning, WA2K folks.

The kids are still asleep, so once again this is my quiet time.

Love the mix of music that we have on our cyber radio station.

edgar, Thanks for Haiti Cherie, and Make the World Go Away I know, but by someone else. Web Pierce's Walking the Dog is great.

Hey, Brits. Good afternoon. Love Fats Domino's Walking to New Orleans and also See You Later Alligator. McTag, Johnny Mercer is one of my favorite composers and performers. "Skylark" is fantastic. Don't think he ever wrote a poor song, buddy.

George Ob, Fantastic classical piece by Gabriel Faure. Watched and listened twice, becaue the art work by Monet (hope I didn't confuse the two French artists)and the Pavane by the man was a wonderful classical piece and so calming for me this morning.

More synchronicity, because today is Omar Sharif's birthday and here is a tribute to him in French.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg1GAiuDzc8

Omar Sharif worked with Peter O'Toole in two movies: "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Night of the Generals". Sharif was asked by a reporter what it was like to work with the legendary O'Toole. Sharif replied, "He is the very stereotype of a ham actor."