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Wow! I had never heard Lobo, edgar. He has a terrific voice and the visuals were awesome.

Hmmm, folks, since Lobo is Spanish for wolf, let's listen to one of those howling creatures.

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

I listened to your wolf video earlier, letty, but got sidetracked after that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md72xiMyJ0Y
Some more lobos.

Loved Los Lobos One Night One time, edgar. Also enjoyed The Platters You'll Never Know.

Speaking of howling, here's a tribute to a man named Howlin' Wolf.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFgMPEKOl8s

Just found out why Izzie calls Dutchy Beagle. Thanks Brit.

Back later with my goodnight song, y'all.

Time for me to say goodnight and I think that I shall do so with my favorite serenade.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHpJRMnpgC0

A quick goodnight while I can

From Letty with love and an eyeroll.

I like about all the versions of Serenade that I have heard, letty.
The Howlin Wolf video came through loud and clear.
Saying good night with Freddie Cole.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzLSw6tZSAo

Morning Ms Letty,Ed and all WA2K folks.Starting today at The Odd-News desk....
"Man completes five-year pub crawl.
Wednesday, June 2 2010, 17:01 BST

A 60-year-old man has completed a five-year car-free pub crawl after visiting every establishment listed in the Good Beer Guide.

Real ale fan Stuart Ashby of Shoreham, West Sussex, drank a pint in each of the 700 pubs named in the 1990 edition of the book, finishing at The Lamb in Yapton, the Daily Mail reports.

Ashby said: "When there is no public transport I hitch-hike. I don't think anything of it. Enough people stop to get me from A to B and people are interested when they find out where I am going.

"I do a lot of walking, which stops me putting on more weight than I would otherwise. If it needs doing then I'll travel as far as I have to by whatever means to make it to a pub on the guide."

He added: 'I've had some wonderful times and some scary times. I once travelled to a pub in South Bermondsey (that's in London!) and the place was shut at 5pm so I banged on the door for a bit only to be greeted by a very angry man and his shotgun.

"I left that one pretty quickly. I did go back later, very discreetly, because I had to have a pint from there so I could cross it off my list."

The most remote pub on his journey was an establishment off the coast of Devon on Lundy Island, requiring a four-hour ferry trip."

That's a lot of beer so time for a change....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr0lSEACCHg&feature=related
Corb Lund.

First time I've heard this longer version....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ1NYFFDT8I
Cliff Edwards - When You Wish Upon A Star.

I Got A Woman so I'm climbing the apples with Ray Charles....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IQBKWdXnqU&feature=related
Laters WA2K.

On June 3, 1965, astronaut Edward White became the first American to ``walk'' in space, during the flight of Gemini 4. (Go to article.)

On June 3, 1926, Allen Ginsberg, the "poet laureate" of the Beat Generation, was born. Following his death on April 5, 1997, his obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)



On June 3, 1876, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about a federal scandal and the attempt to impeach President Grant.



On this date in:


1621 The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherlands, present-day New York City.


1888 The poem "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published, in the San Francisco Daily Examiner.


1937 The Duke of Windsor married American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson, for whom he had abdicated the British throne.


1963 Pope John XXIII died at age 81.


1968 Pop artist Andy Warhol was shot and critically wounded in his New York film studio, The Factory, by actress Valerie Solanas.


1981 Pope John Paul II left a Rome hospital and returned to the Vatican three weeks after an attempt on his life.


1989 Chinese army troops began a sweep of Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations.


1989 Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, died.


1999 Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic accepted a peace plan for Kosovo designed to end mass expulsions of ethnic Albanians and 11 weeks of NATO airstrikes.


2001 Mel Brooks' musical comedy "The Producers" won a record 12 Tony Awards.


2008 Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination.


2009 New Hampshire became the sixth state to legalize same-sex marriage.

A Supermarket in California
Allen Ginsburg

What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the
streets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.
In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit
supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!
What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles
full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes! --- and you,
Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?
I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the
meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys.
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price
bananas? Are you my Angel?
I wandered in and out of the brilliant stacks of cans following you, and
followed in my imagination by the store detective.
We strode down the open corridors together in our solitary fancy tasting
artichokes, possessing every frozen delicacy, and never passing the cashier.
Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors close in an hour. Which way does
your beard point tonight?
(I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel
absurd.)
Will we walk all night through solitary streets? The trees add shade to
shade, lights out in the houses, we'll both be lonely.
Will we stroll dreaming of the lost America of love past blue automobiles in
driveways, home to our silent cottage?
Ah, dear father, graybeard, lonely old courage-teacher, what America did you
have when Charon quit poling his ferry and you got out on a smoking bank and
stood watching the boat disappear on the black waters of Lethe?

Good morning WA2K folks.

Hey, Brit. That's some kind of record, and I loved that song Rye Whiskey by Carb Young. Also love Ray Charles' I got a woman. Hmmm. Wonder who did the original When You Wish Upon a Star? That version by Cliff Edwards was great.

edgar, I especially recall Wally Simpson's observation:

"You Can't be too rich or too thin". Told my daughter just yesterday: "Well, at least I'm 50% of her observation." Once again, thanks for the important dates in history.

Tried to find a proper tribute to Allen Ginsberg without much luck, Texas.

It's Tony Curtis' birthday, so here is a tribute to him, y'all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PSZyFQP8w4&feature=related

I have one to add, eb:

On June 3, 1909, supermom Bernice Swift was born. The mother of eight, including yours truly, is still active and happy at 101.

Swimp, Hi! Fantastic about your mom.

How about some soul music?

Today is Curtis Mayfield's birthday, and although I don't know him. (checked out Superfly; never saw it) here is a song by the man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQqTxK7VhSk&feature=related

Swimpy's mom rocks.

people get ready always makes me think of Rod Stewart and Jeff Beck.

jeff beck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOL4RcmBj9I&feature=related

101 is quite a feat. I have a friend who is going strong at 84. She was just telling me about her sister, who is 100. Most of my relatives have died while relatively young.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6LZLZ4Rryw
Got some more Allen Ginsburg

Back in a bit. Got food on the burner.

Welcome back mooseman. You rock, too, and Jeff Beck's Big Block gave me a moment of cognitive insight.

Thanks, edgar. As I observed very few good tributes to Allen.

Checked out Jeff Beck and found this.

Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck (born 24 June 1944) is an English rock guitarist. He was one of the three noted guitarists which include Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page, to have played with The Yardbirds. He was ranked 14th in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time"

New Kids on the Block, Rock?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZusIOLDRs8

'Preciate the two Curtises, letty. Tony may be old, but he is today seeking new acting roles.