Baby Elephant Walk was from the John Wayne Daktari movie. This appears to be a different production, letty.
@edgarblythe,
edgar, Didn't see Mogambo. Odd because I had jungle fever when I was a kid. You are also right about the right song; wrong movie. I checked it out, and that must have been a TV series. Odd, no?
Wonder where Barry the Brit is? Just noticed that an Indian plane crashed and only eight survived. How tragic.
Today is Morrissey's birthday. Don't know him, but this is a great song by the guy, y'all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKoS5X4SMrY&a=4UxH50eFzgA&playnext_from=ML
Don't know Morrissey, either, letty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLQJ4toj-JY
Guess Who
On this date in:
1813 Composer Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig, Germany.
1859 Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Canon Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1868 The Great Train Robbery took place near Marshfield, Ind., as seven members of the Reno gang made off with $96,000 in cash, gold and bonds.
1907 Actor Laurence Olivier was born in Dorking, Surrey, England.
1939 The foreign ministers of Germany and Italy signed a "Pact of Steel" committing the two countries to a military alliance.
1960 A magnitude 9.5 earthquake, the strongest on record, struck southern Chile. Approximately 1,655 people were killed and 3,000 injured.
1969 The lunar module of Apollo 10 separated from the command module and flew to within nine miles of the moon's surface in a dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing.
1990 North Yemen and South Yemen merged to form the Republic of Yemen.
1992 Johnny Carson hosted NBC's "Tonight Show" for the last time after nearly 30 years in the job.
1998 Voters in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland cast ballots giving resounding approval to a Northern Ireland peace accord.
2002 A jury in Birmingham, Ala., convicted former Ku Klux Klansman Bobby Frank Cherry of murder in a 1963 church bombing that killed four black girls.
2002 The remains of Chandra Levy, a federal intern who had beem more than a year, were found in a Washington, D.C., park. (Her accused killer is awaiting trial.)
2003 Annika Sorenstam became the first woman since 1945 to tee off against the men on the pro tour, playing in the first round of the Colonial golf tournament in Fort Worth, Texas.
@edgarblythe,
Just learned about The Guess Who. They are Canadian and that song Share the Land was awesome. Thanks for the introduction, Texas.
Your dates in history are always so inspirational. I see some birthday boys in there.
Here's a tribute to Sir Laurence. (Rebecca was scary)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01PDvP1x4kA
Speak of the devil, etc. Just saw the Brit on the liner.
Sir Lawrence - great man and actor.
@edgarblythe,
I love that one by the Hilltoppers, edgar. "...all day all night Marianne..."
Odd, I was searching for George Shearing's Sand in my Shoes and as serendipity would have it came across one that is amazing. The American remake of this was The Bird Cage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSgzhrxmsX0
@edgarblythe,
Ah, one cannot beat Miss Peggy, edgar. She did that one as a slow ballad. I mostly heard it as a upbeat jazz version. Pete Kelly's Blues. I had forgotten that.
Time for me to say goodnight, and I think that I shall do so with Richard Wagner and a hummingbird.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGuTf_vBaDU&feature=fvw
My daughter bought one of those feeders, but no hummingbirds appeared.
To all of you everywhere,
From Letty with love
Wagner and the hummingbirds made a good video, letty.
Saying good night with Nelson Riddle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il9d0LYGBHM&playnext_from=TL&videos=7ATfYFnkTj0&feature=grec
Morning Ms Letty,Ed and all WA2K junkies.Starting this Sunday morning with some Afro Jazz....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAG9Q9OzUNc&feature=related
Hugh Masekela.
Yusuf Islam aka Cat Stevens....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiiZrZTrOFY&feature=related
Where Do The Children Play.
Laters.
Good morning WA2K folks.
edgar, I really loved your goodnight song. Lisbon Antigua by Nelson is a wonderful tribute to Portugal. Thanks, Texas.
Glad to see our Brit back. Thanks, London, for all three songs. I only knew the one by Cat, however. Love him! Speaking of cats and scats, today is Scatman Crothers' birthday, so here is one by him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZOhBjavJkk&feature=related
On this date in:
1430 Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians, who sold her to the English.
1533 The marriage of England's King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon was declared null and void.
1701 Captain William Kidd was hanged in London after being convicted of piracy and murder.
1788 South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1873 Canada's North West Mounted Police force was established.
1915 Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary in World War I.
1937 Industrialist John D. Rockefeller died at age 97.
1945 Nazi official and SS chief Heinrich Himmler committed suicide while imprisoned in Luneburg, Germany.
1949 The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) was established.
1960 Israel announced it had captured former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.
1997 Iranians elected a moderate president, Mohammad Khatami, over hard-liners in the ruling Muslim clergy.
2002 Golfer Sam Snead died at age 89.
2003 Congress sent President George W. Bush a $330 billion package of tax cuts - the third of his presidency.
2005 Actor Tom Cruise jumped on the couch while declaring his love for actress Katie Holmes on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." (The two were married in 2006.)
2006 ABC named Charles Gibson to replace Elizabeth Vargas as anchor of its "World News Tonight" evening newscast.
Good morning. Barry's contributions - all great stuff.
Scatman did an exceptional job on that one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVL24i38F2s
Bessie, dear Bessie -
@edgarblythe,
Love that one by Bessie Smith, edgar. She was Lady Day's inspiration.
Inspired by your events in history, here are two songs for Sunday morning.
First a tribute to the RCMP. (much rather have done Jenette and Nelson's version, but couldn't get it to work)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIOBQHEUhwc
Now, St. Joan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llebPM7-jPQ&feature=related
The Mounties are special.
