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Old Kentucky Fried Chicken? They gave me a smile, edgar.

A great song for the evening, Texas. I understand they're having some trouble there with the shooting of police.

Been watching to see if there were any fireworks. Nothing, so I guess I'll have to create my own.



Time for me to say goodnight, and I think that I shall do so with two songs.

Song for a Stormy Night

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

Now dear Nat.

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

Goodnight world,

From Letty with love

Song for a stormy night is interesting, Never heard it before.
Of course I know Nat and his song.
My good night is with Little Anthony
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we2kmO24rgE&feature=related

Morning Ms Letty,Ed and all WA2K peeps.Felling mellow this morning so handing over to the voice that is Luther....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14WGjUgFyjk&feature=digest
Luther Vandross - Superstar/Until You Come Back to Me.

Happy 4th of July Yanks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umcEYz9LJm8
Lonnie Donegan - Battle of New Orleans.

(spoken: ) Well, this heres the story of the Battle of New Orleans,
which was fit between the errr ... Yankees ocorst and the English people,
in which the British came off rather ignominiously means they never done no good no how alright shuddup right

WELL in 1814, we took a little trip,
along with Colonel Packenham down the mighty Mississipp.
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans,
and we fought the bloomin British in the town of New Orleans

Chorus
Well, we fired our guns and the British kept a comin',
there wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began a running,
on down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexicoooo, yeh

Weeell, we looked down the river till we see the British come,
there must have been a hundred of 'em beatin' on the drum.
They stepped so high and they made the bugles ring,
well, we stood beside our cotton bales and never sayed a thing.

Chorus
Well, we fired our guns and the British kept a comin',
and there wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began a running,
on down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
ederum a ohderum a ederum a ohderum

Well, Packenham said we could take em by surprise,
if we didn't fire a musket till we looked `em in the eyes.
Well, we stood quite still till we see their faces well,
then we opened up our muskets and we really gave em ..

Chorus
Well, we fired our guns and the British kept a comin',
and there wasn't nigh as many as there was a - - - -
and we fired once more and they began a running,
on down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Weeeeell, they rrraan through the briars and they ran through the brambles,
and they ran through the bushes where the rabbits couldn't go.
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch em,
all down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Chorus
Well, we fired our guns and the British kept a comin',
there wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began a running,
on down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexicooooh ah ha tiddly dee
Well, we fired our muskets so the barrels melted down,
then grabbed an alligator and we fought another round.
Well, we stuffed his head with cannon balls and powdered his behind,
so when we touched the powder off, the 'gator lost his mind.

Chorus
Well, we fired our guns and the British kept a comin',
there wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began a running,
on down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
on down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Happy Birthday America!

Happy Birthday Rube Goldberg.



Hey, Texas. Liked Little Anthony's Tears on my Pillow.

Hey, Brit, you are a good sport, but we always knew that! "bloody British"

Ah, Luther Andross' Superstar. I only know that by Karen Carpenter. Sang it once. Thanks for the memory. Luther's version was excellent.

For all of you folks out there!

Lay of the Last Minstrel
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,
From wandering on a foreign strand!
If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
For him no Minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung.


Sir Walter Scott

And from Ray

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghz4_kikLkE

Lonnie is purty good on that Jimmy Driftwood song about the War of 1812.
Luther is also purty good.
Ray Charles - I love that one about America. Of course I love all of his songs.

I thought at first Rube Goldberg was a lady - Had to go to the archives.

I like the way Walter Scott voices his sentiment in the poem, letty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FZS0jBls9Q

Listening to this on the hammock:

Wow! Bob Catley's My America was great, Texas. Hmmm. Somehow he sounded Irish.

Welcome once again, Francis. Dance me to the End of Love was great. Leonard Cohen and his unique voice is always a good listen.

Speaking of Irish, folks. AMC is now showing the movie The Devil's Disciple.

The Devil's Disciple is an 1897 play written by Irish dramatist, George Bernard Shaw. The play is Shaw's eighth, and after Richard Mansfield's original 1897 American production it was his first financial success, which helped to affirm his career as a playwright. It was published in Shaw's 1901 collection Three Plays for Puritans together with Captain Brassbound's Conversion and Caesar and Cleopatra. Set in Colonial America during the Revolutionary era, the play tells the story of Richard Dudgeon, a local outcast and self-proclaimed "Devil's disciple". In a twist characteristic of Shaw's love of paradox, Dudgeon sacrifices himself in a Christ-like gesture despite his professed Infernal allegiance.



Could NOT locate the music from this marvelous movie, so here's a tribute to Burt Lancaster. edgar, already knows how we appreciate Kirk Douglas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LI-5S_mMWI

Anyone remember the rebels in New Hampshire?

Burt is another guy I love. Thanks for the tribute, letty. Never saw that movie.
Francis played one of my alltime favorite artists.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLZYzbj6zJY

Loved that one by Buffy, edgar. Thanks again, Texas, for the comments.



Remember this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBy8t_O592k

To go along with the picture:


The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she

With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

I think I vaguely recall that Neil Sedaka song. Think I heard it once a while back.
That's a great poem to accompany the picture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqAyiKaS5uQ
A New York City high school choir helped him perform this one.

edgar, I was certain that you would remember that one because you thought that I didn't like Neil.

ah, oui, Francis. The statue was a gift from the French, and the poem written by a Jewish lady. She died at 34.



Emma Lazarus

Are you lost in thought again, Letty?



Alfred Binet

He started the IQ test to separate the educable from the non educable but discovered that the nature of a child's mistakes was the answer to learning.

Stanford used that great man's mind to make bucks on the test.

Yes, Francis, you are right. Emma died at 38. Now I will never forget it.

I have no intellect to measure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMYCj3IJ_VQ
But I like this video