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Quincy is one of those geniuses that are into everything, letty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZutD7E-toOI&feature=grec_index
This would be the first time I have heard Willie singing Leonard Cohen.

Thanks for the acknowledgement of Quincy Jones, Texas.

Strange, when I first heard Willie Nelson I didn't like him, but I have come to appreciate what a fine performer he is. Thanks for his rendition of Bird on a Wire. It's a philosophy in a song.

Here's a nice one by Babs for the afternoon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqxl8sB8-0I&feature=related

Glad to know that our Phoenix is all right.

Actually, Willie's voice is flat and tuneless on some of his songs. Others, he sings like a bird.

Nice Barbra. I like many of her songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T7NLqMGEck
Here is an artist who has a number of songs I truly love.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XIFEJQA3vY
The sound quality is off a bit and possibly also the record speed a tad.

edgar, That first song you played, The Closer I Get to You by Roberta and Donny reminded me of another melody that got stuck in my head.

Never heard Mo Mary by Harry, buddy, but it was marvelous

Aha, Found the one to match Roberta and Donny, and I thought that Harry had done the second one that I'm going to play.

First, Bread.

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

Now a sand song. (no, not sand man)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cuvB2XrP_M

There were three competing versions of Marianne. Belafonte was not among them. He might have done a version in later years, but if he did I never heard it.

Bread has two or three nice songs like that. Good group.

Speaking of Calypso, here is another guy that tried his hand at it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfIpEAlk8jo

Thanks for the info, edgar. I cannot believe that Robert Mitchum did that montage of Calypso. That was awesome! The last movie that I saw him in was Scrooged. That was one funny movie, Texas.

I have been searching for this for eons. I knew some of the lyrics, but can't find them. "..we'll ride away along the trail that follows the sun.."

Still can't find the lyrics, but it comes from this great suite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf4tTydTgjo&feature=related

Don't know what the purpose is at the end with all the bible quotes, however

Time for me to say goodnight, and I think that I shall do so with "The Boss"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PSGhuT_gCk

A candle just doesn't hack it.

As always,

From Letty with love

Grand Canyon Suite - neat video.
The Boss still got it goin' on.

Ragtime Gal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIZ_jaA_Uww

Just in:
Teacher Who Inspired Lynyrd Skynyrd Band Name Dies
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Leonard Skinner, a high-school gym teacher who became a rock 'n' roll footnote by inspiring a group of pupils to name their band Lynyrd Skynyrd, died on Monday in Jacksonville, Fla., after a battle with Alzheimer's disease, the Florida Times-Union reported. He was 77.

Skinner earned the disdain of long-haired students at Robert E. Lee High School during the 1960s by sending them to the principal's office, where they were handed suspension notices.

One of them -- he later believed it was guitarist Gary Rossington -- returned with his father who protested that his son needed to have long hair so that he could support the family with his earnings from a band that he played with.

The principal was unmoved, suggesting that youngster get a crew cut and a wig. The band later adopted the name Lynyrd Skynyrd, and went on to achieve worldwide fame with such southern rock anthems as "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Freebird."

Full story

Oddly a song that has appeared several times on WA2K also mentions a 'Leonard Skinner'

RIP Leonard.

stoppin' in to say g'nite miss letty.

a little bluegrass for ya...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0sDg-yLvlE&feature=related

Morning Ms Letty,Ed,Guv and all WA2K peeps.Here's one for McTag (Is he back from his fishing trip yet?)....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDU8Q5ErlJ0
Admiral Fallow - Subbuteo

Hello, my chum
It's me and I'm banging on your door
It's been far too long
Since we set the leaves alight down on the floor

I've returned for a while
To the concrete that once claimed my knees
And the stones my hands owned
As I sent them toward windows and trees

Towering trees
Towering trees

There are bangers in the wheely bins
Lazer pens shone through the glass
And BB after BB fired
From behind the wall beyond the grass

And though boots met my face
And knuckles cracked me black as coal
I care not for the mindless
Who poked fear at my sorry soul

My soul
My soul

And I miss the rain on the roof
Pitstop paths and whistling streams
I miss the cold stream chips
The red subbuteo team painted green

Built on back fields,
It seemed a thorn in my child side
Instead became a grit-soaked playground
Where the propers and the poor collide

Oh, it might sound dull
But dull's sometimes all we have
Yeah, it might sound dull
But dull's all we ever have

Sometimes I talk with the meter
Of a bingo caller's east-end drawl
Who cares; we're all just trying to float
While everything seems set to fall

So hard
So hard

Stayin' live,with Andy....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGx4qT-gZPk
Andy Robinson - Always Talk To Strangers.

Close the door,I'll put the kettle back on
Take your coat off and make yourself at home
When I'ts raining
Oh,when It's raining

Take a seat and put up your feet
You must be so cold from the street
It's freezing
Oh God It's so freezing

Always talk to strangers
'cause they're always lonely as you
Always talk to strangers
'cause you never know when you need a friend

Take the time and clear your mind
Look for something deep down inside
When you're lonley
Oh God when you're lonley
Money comes and money will go
Nothing beats like a heart that glows
It's priceless
And life is so priceless

Always talk to strangers
'cause they're always lonely as you
Always talk to strangers
'cause you never know when you need a friend

For more of Andy's songs click on....
http://www.myspace.com/andyrobinsons

I always talk to strangers.

Good morning, a2k radio. I will see you all a bit later in the day.

Good morning, WA2K folks.

edgar, loved your goodnight song. My mom was a great fan of Ragtime, and I recall Ragtime Gal. Thanks again for your comments and hurry back, Texas.

Hey, hingehead. Great info about Leonard Skinner. Always nice to hear our singing heads. Rock's Bluegrass Brothers was great. Country Poor; country proud says a lot about our state of the union, Kansas.

Hey, Brit. Great one by Admiral Fallow. Don't know Subbuteo but it says a lot. Always Talk to Strangers was good as well. Reminds me of the song, "Don't Go to Strangers come to me."

Hope McTag didn't use Penny for bait.

Chatted with Miss Squirrel last evening and thought about Achilles.



That made me think of Offenbach's La Belle Helene. Hope Francis is all right.

Two songs for the morning, y'all.

First, a tribute to Bill Murray since today is his birthday. More synchronicity as we discussed Scrooged and Robert Mitchum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zYdtLkRl6s

Inspired by our Aussie, this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8rnFKo4PAE

Too bad about his teacher, and the mention of him in Allan Sherman's funny song was great.

Sweet Home Alabama is the only song by them I can profess to know. But it's a good one.
I like Bill Murray, but have always felt his talent to be under utilized. I would like to see him get a really dynamite roll before he retires.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFSZflacjJU
Here is a record I have not heard in many years.

I know Little Band of Gold, edgar, but never heard of a singer named Kit Carson. Thanks for the comments and the introduction.

Here's one by "old blue eyes" that your band of gold inspired.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX8MN8ZaJ4A

Hmmm, those lyrics were changed from "plain gold ring on her finger" to a meat ball?

Something tells me that in today's world, a wedding ring wouldn't mean a thing.