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Morning Ms Letty,Ed and all WA2K folks.Oops,forgot to say that the Swifts arrived Sunday .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUCOU9vteCA
Live on French TV,Dee Dee Bridgewater avec amis.

I've gotta thank the great Milt Jackson for turning me on to the Vibraphone.Here's 3 guys and a gal doing Mongo Santamaria's Afro Blue....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpfxpHNqMhU&feature=related

Time to pull the plug and have some dinner so signing off with Irishman Donal Lunny getting a little help from some Japanese Kodo drummers....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7xTgFBLUbc
Cavan Potholes.
(love the guy doin' a Pete Townsend on the little cymbals)
Laters WA2K.

Good morning, WA2K folks.

edgar, loved Tobacco Road byEric Burton of The Animals.

Sent me searching again, Texas. Erskine Caldwell wrote both Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre. UhOh. Didn't set too well with the Southerners. I'll let our listeners check out God's Little Acre.

Well, Barry the Brit has done some great stuff today. Dee Dee Bridgewater's With My Friends was awesome, and Afro Blue another great one. Love those vibraphones, London. Cavan Potholes was amazing. Ah, The Irish and the Japanese. Great combination and great music.

Speaking of vibraphones, here's one by a modern jazz quartet and their tribute to Django.

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

I love Erskine Caldwell's books, letty. He lived the life of a southerner before writing about it.

Barry always brings in good stuff.
Django was pretty good.
This video is a cartoon, but it features Smiley Burnette's record, Mama Don't Allow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJKn6OJpsLE

That one by Smiley was hilarious, edgar, but I think I heard it by someone else.

Yep, there was poor white trash and then my older sister told me the black kids called her generation poor white sagers. More about that later, as I'll have to check with her. today is Tom T. Hall's birthday, so here is a group of songs by him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zms7m3PhgGY&feature=related

Tom T Hall has some great songs, all right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCSWZTzJJaU

That's what I like about the South, too, edgar. Love that one by Phil! Didn't you tell me that he did the original Preacher and the Bear?

It's Leslie Uggams' birthday and although I know the name, I don't recall having heard her sing. she is good, y'all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rnHXC5oS5M

Leslie was prominently used by Mitch Miller and the gang before she went solo, letty.

I don't know if Phil had the first version of Preacher and the Bear, but he did record it. I have also a version of it by Leadbelly.

On this date in:


1787 The Constitutional Convention was convened in Philadelphia.


1810 Argentina began its revolt against Spain.


1844 The first telegraphed news dispatch, sent from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, appeared in the Baltimore Patriot.


1878 Song-and-dance man Bill "Bojangles" Robinson was born in Richmond, Va.


1895 Playwright Oscar Wilde was convicted of a morals charge in London and sentenced to prison.


1935 Baseball Hall of Famer Babe Ruth hit the 714th and final home run of his career.


1946 Transjordan became a kingdom as it proclaimed its new monarch, King Abdullah Ibn Ul-Hussein.


1951 Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays made his major league debut with the New York Giants.


1961 President John F. Kennedy asked the nation to work toward putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade.


1968 The Gateway Arch in St. Louis was dedicated.


1979 An American Airlines DC-10 crashed during takeoff at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, killing all 271 people on board and two on the ground.


1986 An estimated 7 million people participated in "Hands Across America," forming a line across the country to raise money for the nation's hungry and homeless.


1992 Jay Leno debuted as host of NBC's "Tonight Show," succeeding Johnny Carson.


1997 Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., became the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, marking 41 years, 10 months in office. (Thurmond's record was surpassed in 2006 by Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va.)


1997 Polish voters adopted a constitution that removed the last traces of communism.


2004 The Boston Roman Catholic archdiocese announced it would close 65 of 357 parishes because of financial problems caused in part by the clergy sex abuse scandal.


2005 Carrie Underwood was crowned the winner of "American Idol."


2006 Former Enron Corp. chiefs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were convicted in Houston of conspiracy and fraud for the company's downfall. (Skilling was sentenced to 24 years in prison; Lay died before he could be sentenced.)


2009 North Korea claimed to have carried out a powerful underground nuclear test.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiygaIWqiQE
Death of a Ladies Man

Well, edgar, that is one (of many) that I don't understand by Leonard; he is still a genius, but I still prefer Suzanne. Thanks, buddy for the dates in history because here is another genius.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRZQXQn5QeQ

I remember reading The Happy Prince when I was a kid, and just discovered that it still makes me cry. Most of you may know that beautiful story of the prince of gold and the dear swallow.

The ending, folks.

God told one of his angels to bring him the most precious things in the city, and the angels took Him the dead bird and the leaden heart, so God said: you have rightly chosen; in my garden of paradise this little bird shall sing forever, and in my city of gold the Happy Prince shall praise me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXS-hnZIZFE
Oscar Wilde has the last laugh, historically speaking.
Eddy Fisher now -

Like Cindy oh Cindy, edgar. Eddie Fisher was a great singer, no? What a situation he became involved in, however.

This is for all the father's out there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOSZz5ToOTM&NR=1

If I fail to listen to Eddy for a time, I tend to forget what a fine voice he had. Papa is the first song I recall hearing by him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMwaQons_ok
Now, the Ames Brothers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx8xBHe4cKU
Hank Locklin

edgar, I had no idea that the Ames Brothers did that German goodbye song. It was great, and Hank Locklin's Send Me the Pillow brings back memories of my country cousins. Thanks, Texas.

My goodnight song, y'all.

Came across this one by accident.

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

goodnight world,

From Letty with love

Morning Ms Letty,Ed and all WA2K peeps.Starting at the Odd News Desk....

Elephant caught drinking Jacuzzi dry.

Tuesday, May 25 2010, 16:54 BST
An elephant has been spotted drinking the water from a Jacuzzi which was previously thought to have sprung a mystery leak.

According to The Sun, staff at South Africa's Etali Safari Park could not work out why the water kept going missing from a hot tub.

An elephant named Troublesome was later seen with its trunk dipped in the Jacuzzi consuming its full 200-litre water content.

Owner Susan Potgieter said: "When I first saw the photograph of her drinking I couldn't believe it.

"It was something of a relief because we had been trying to work out why the pool had been draining so quickly for weeks, but couldn't find a leak anywhere. Our plumbers could not work out why it was draining either."

She added: "Now that we know what was going on we have tried to provide her an alternative source of water. But it's hard to get an elephant to change her ways.

"She is a very welcome visitor for us and our guests, but it's probably best to check if she is around before taking a dip in the Jacuzzi."

I love Jumbos.In Kenya,at Treetops,I was 50ft away from a herd of around 30.A bl^^*y amazing!!!!
Here's one for Jumbos everywhere....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQCZLYgm05g
Kamahl - The Elephant Song.
(pass the tissues)