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Good morning, WA2K and edgar. Loved your goodnight song by those Thai children. Quite a treat, and your Strawberry Alarm Clock's incense and peppermints was awesome.

Th O'Jay's Ship Ahoy was a gruesome reminder of the slave trade, Texas. Still claim that the real slaves are the working poor.

Two songs for the morning, y'all.

Early this morning, I watched a Midsummer Night's Dream. I was captivated by the special effects even in black and white.

Here is the War March of the Priests from that great movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKWelcf2oTo&feature=related

And, a salute to Sir Elton John for performing in Israel when all other groups canceled .

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

This one was in Tel Aviv.

I invited Mark Noble to join us. Hope that he will.

Didn't see that film, but the music was good. Elton's Crocodile -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcgYwTnBII
Sacco e Vanzetti

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bdF_psD55E
A Woman is a Sometime Thing - or so I was told.

Good afternoon, edgar. Sorry that I have not been back since early morning. Had a bunch of stuff to do, and once again I appreciate your comments. I read Shakespeare's Midsummer's Night's Dream, and while I was searching in the wrong place for that song, I happened to chance upon it in that play. It was delightful watching it, Texas.

I couldn't get your Sacco and Vanzetti song to play, but I managed to listen to Woody Guthry's version. Now I recall the scandal that surrounding those two who were executed for being anarchists. There was a great to do among many fine writers, and here is a protest poem written by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Loved your Harry song, Texas. I guess many guys think A Woman is a Sometimes Thing.

The poem:

Let us abandon then our gardens and go home
And sit in the sitting-room
Shall the larkspur blossom or the corn grow under this cloud?
Sour to the fruitful seed
Is the cold earth under this cloud,
Fostering quack and weed, we have marched upon but cannot
conquer;
We have bent the blades of our hoes against the stalks of them.

Let us go home, and sit in the sitting room.
Not in our day
Shall the cloud go over and the sun rise as before,
Beneficent upon us
Out of the glittering bay,
And the warm winds be blown inward from the sea
Moving the blades of corn
With a peaceful sound.

Forlorn, forlorn,
Stands the blue hay-rack by the empty mow.
And the petals drop to the ground,
Leaving the tree unfruited.
The sun that warmed our stooping backs and withered the weed
uprooted—
We shall not feel it again.
We shall die in darkness, and be buried in the rain.

What from the splendid dead
We have inherited —
Furrows sweet to the grain, and the weed subdued —
See now the slug and the mildew plunder.
Evil does overwhelm
The larkspur and the corn;
We have seen them go under.

Let us sit here, sit still,
Here in the sitting-room until we die;
At the step of Death on the walk, rise and go;
Leaving to our children's children the beautiful doorway,
And this elm,
And a blighted earth to till
With a broken hoe.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

and a tribute to one great looking Frenchman, whose birthday is today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXWg4DXthw4

I recall his Swamp Thing, but don't remember many other movies starring Louis.

I like Louis Jordan. He did some good things.
Paul Robison, now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfsWoNpHg2s&feature=related

Ah, edgar, I love The Song of the Volga Boatmen. Remember when Paul and Enrico were declared the best vocalist in the classical genre?

Guess what I'm gonna play, Texas. This is the opera aria from "Joe Green's" where I searched for the March of the Priests and it wasn't the one that I was looking for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj9jrCii-Sg

Bob Dylan to Time reporter: Whose singing do you like; mine or Caruso's?

Reporter: Caruso.

Dylan: I hit all those notes.

Reporter: I still prefer Caruso.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et4ucvU1dkI
Best Italian song?

Love that duet, edgar. Andrea Bocelli is marvelous. Those Italians really roll them r's.

Funny exchange between Bob Dylan and the reporter. Strange 'cause I met an older guy who walked in to the local shell station singing. He was good and he mentioned Bob Dylan, and I sang a few bars of Lay Lady Lay, and we had a great conversation.

discussion between three guys, one of them Scottish.

Do you say Either or ither? The Scott. nither.

Speaking of which, folks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq14cPI0LW8&feature=related

Scottish songs are okay with me, letty.
I gots John Ritter's daddy singing about some whiskey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVWTeXzgkJE

Rye Whiskey was great by Tex, edgar.

Here's one to match by Willie Nelson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlcCigNf4xI&feature=related

They also had one by Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan, but it wasn't as good.

Yeah. Mountain dew.
(Bob and Johnny recorded an album together. It turned out so bad, it never got released. But a few of the songs are floating around.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYWbIvnkXMU
Share the wine with Al Martino

My word, edgar. I went again on a search and found out some interesting things.

Alfred Cini was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents were immigrants from Malta who ran a construction business, and while growing up he worked alongside his brothers as a bricklayer. However, he was inspired to become a singer by emulating artists such as Al Jolson and Perry Como, and by the success of a family friend, Alfredo Cocozza, who had changed his name to Mario Lanza. After serving with the United States Marines in World War II, including being a part of the Iwo Jima invasion where he was wounded, Cini began his singing career. Encouraged by Lanza, he adopted the stage name Al Martino, taken from his mother's maiden name, and began singing in local nightclubs. In 1948 he moved to New York City, and in 1952 won first place on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts television program with a performance of Como's hit "If"

Loved that one by Al, and come share the wine is what I should do tonight. Don't have the TV to put me to sleep.

My goodnight song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSrvtFUn8Y8&feature=related

Wish I had one of Izzie's sleeping potions.

tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow will creep in a petty pace for me.

From Letty with love and a smile

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XT3FRzVK9U
Tomorrow is Sunday. Here is my good night song.
I love everything Garfunkle recorded, singly or with Paul.

On this date in:


1837 Queen Victoria ascended the British throne following the death of her uncle, King William IV.


1863 West Virginia became the 35th state.


1893 A jury in New Bedford, Mass., found Lizzie Borden innocent of the ax murders of her father and stepmother.


1943 Race-related rioting erupted in Detroit.


1948 The TV variety series "Toast of the Town" hosted by Ed Sullivan debuted on CBS.


1963 The United States and Soviet Union signed an agreement to set up a hot line communication link between the two superpowers.


1975 The movie "Jaws" was released.


1994 O.J. Simpson pleaded innocent in Los Angeles to the killings of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend Ronald Goldman.


1997 The tobacco industry agreed to a massive settlement in exchange for relief from mounting lawsuits and legal bills.


1999 As the last of 40,000 Yugoslav troops left Kosovo, NATO declared a formal end to its bombing campaign against Yugoslavia.


2001 Andrea Yates drowned her five children, who ranged in age from 6 months to 7 years, in the bathtub in her family's home in Houston.


2002 The U.S. Supreme Court declared that executing mentally retarded murderers was unconstitutionally cruel.


2007 Sammy Sosa of the Texas Rangers became the fifth major leaguer to hit 600 career home runs.


2009 Neda Agha Soltan, 27, was gunned down during election protests in Tehran; her dying moments were caught on video and circulated widely on the Internet, making her name a rallying cry for the Iranian opposition and sparking international outrage.

Good morning. Looks to be an okay day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6RA-4kPzDM
I'm Counting on You

Thanks, edgar, for hanging in there. Never on a Sunday was a great one, and so was "The King's" I'm Countin' on You".

Always enjoy your dates in history, buddy.

Incidentally:



Here'a our birthday boy for today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzlKwOoQ4eE&feature=related

Good morning, WA2K. It's going to be a hot day!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Enqj2ojicw
Judy Collins
My Father