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Reuters - Susan Boyle announced the November 9 release of her second album, "The Gift," only three days ago, but already the set has shot to No. 1 on Amazon's Bestsellers chart based on pre-order sales.

ah, You didn't like you're so vain. Don't much care for Susan Boyle, Texas, but thanks for the info.

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

First Our House.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP0fy-FKrTY&feature=related

Now dear Sam Cooke.

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

Nice to see Canada and England with us to day.

Goodnight world

From Letty with love

G'night Ms Letty....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ODC5neAXxE
Ray Charles & Betty Carter - Every Time We Say Goodbye

But I do like You're So Vain. I was temporarily taken sick and had to get away from the computer. But it has passed. I am fine now.

I like that song, Our House. I have liked it a long time, but never did know the name of it.
What a Wonderful World is a great one from Sam Cooke also.

And my good night song by Ray Price
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0bD77JFJfU

Barry -
I love Ray. First time I heard him with Betty Carter

G'night Ed....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVtfCVWUF4E
Jimmy Rushing - Good Morning Blues.

Time to swing....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j0sE8s2TkI&feature=related
Carmen McRae - I Wish I Were In Love Again.

Morning Ms Letty,Ed and all WA2K folks.Starting at the Science Desk....

Soyuz capsule lands in Kazakh steppe with 3 aboard
A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts who lived six months on the International Space Station touched down safely, but one day late, Saturday morning in the cloudy, central steppes of Kazakhstan.

The homecoming of American astronaut Tracy Caldwell-Dyson and Russia's Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko had been delayed after technical glitches hindered the undocking of the spacecraft.

NASA spokesman Rob Navias said in a Web streamed report on the landing that the Soyuz craft landed vertically at its precise planned landing spot at 11:23 a.m. local time (0523 GMT).

"That was almost a bull's-eye landing," Navias said.

A hover of 12 Russian recovery helicopters took flight ahead of the landing Saturday morning above an area southeast of the remote central Kazakh town Arkalyk to intercept the capsule.

Recovery workers arrived quickly at the landing spot and erected a plaftorm around the slightly titled capsule.

Skvortsov beamed with joy and held his fist aloft as the recovery team carefully lifted him out of the Soyuz.

After being hoisted out of the craft, the astronauts were immediately placed into reclining chairs to help them recover from the change in gravitational pull after spending 176 days in space.

Russian space officials and health workers then crowded around a smiling Skvortsov and handed him an apple, as is tradition.

Caldwell-Dyson, who looked weary but joyous, spoke with colleagues by satellite phone after being lowered into her chair and wrapped in a blanket.

By contrast with the previous day's attempt to depart the space station, undocking from the International Space Station was executed flawlessly and exactly on schedule.

The three astronauts remaining aboard the space station -- Americans Doug Wheelock and Shannon Walker, and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin -- pumped their fists with joy as they watched a report on the landing via a direct feed.

Russian cosmonauts Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka, along with NASA astronaut Scott J. Kelly, will join them after blasting off from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan on Oct. 8.

Undocking on Friday had been thwarted by signaling errors in the onboard computer system and a malfunction with the opening hooks and latches on the space station side of the capsule.

After the failed undocking attempt, one of the Russian cosmonauts on board, flight engineer Fyodor Yurchikhin, inspected the space station docking mechanism holding the Soyuz in place and discovered a loose piece of gear mechanism with two teeth broken off.

The crew installed a series of electrical jumper cables to bypass what's believed to be a failed part. Once that was completed, the cosmonauts performed a test, and the hooks and latches opened properly, NASA said.

Minor, but recurring, glitches with the Soyuz will create unease as reliance on the Russian craft increases over the next few years with one two launches left for U.S. space shuttles before the fleet is retired.

Space shuttle Discovery is set to lift off Nov. 1 for the International Space Station. Endeavour will follow in February to wrap up 30 years of shuttle flight.

That will leave NASA without its own means to send astronauts into space for the first time in half a century.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoPL7BExSQU&feature=related
Blue in Green by. Miles Davis

Good morning, WA2K folks.

edgar, I now understand. So glad that you are better, Texas. Loved Ray Price's Together Again, buddy.

Hey, Brit, Good morning Blues? How did you guess what I was feeling.Also loved Carmen McRae's I Wish I Were in Love Again.

Well, Ray and Betty sang my telling song. They were fantastic. Don't know Betty Carter but she blended perfectly with Ray.

Miles Davis' Blue in Green was excellent. "Nothing but the Soul" which is a feeling.

Well, I awakened this morning with a classical piece stuck in my head. It's all done in a minor key. Maybe I can find it later.

Well, Brit, your info on the Russian Cosmonauts once again inspired me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s3T_vbmMAc&feature=channel

Your pd/producer declares today as dedication day. If you should like to dedicate a song to anyone, please feel free to do so.

Latin George's daughter is getting married today, and he and she will dance together to this lovely Billy Joel song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8PMUb0jF7g&feature=related

Hope all will celebrate and dance to the music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqiw-Kqtlr0
Well, here is a video for George to enjoy. It gets funny as it goes along.
Russian Bohemia was a nice one, as was Billy Joel's tender song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIIlQmdsfX8
Devoted to You

Morning Ms Letty,Ed and all WA2K peeps.This night worker is ALWAYS dancing ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU3VTCmCWjs
Toploader - Dancing In The Moonlight.

edgar, that first song was hilarious. I can picture Latin George breaking into that funny dance with his daughter. Love the one by the Everly Brothers as well. Thanks on behalf of George.

Hey, Brit. Dancing in the Moonlight is one of my very favorites. Love the way the guy pronounces "dancin". Wonder if the moon will be in full swing for the wedding.

Here's one that I sang at my son's wedding supper.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDh4GC7n0ig&feature=related

This one has a "Latin" beat

That version of The Way You Look tonight is the perfect song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ivwWsC5hH8&feature=fvw
Johnny Mathis sing All the Things You Are

Thanks, edgar for the comment. That one by Johnny Mathis is beautiful as were the visuals. Love all the things you are.

Strange, the end of this long poem by Coleridge popped into my head.

Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.

He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all."

The Mariner, whose eye is bright,
Whose beard with age is hoar,
Is gone; and now the Wedding-Guest
Turned from the bridegroom's door.

He went like one that hath been stunned,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man
He rose the morrow morn.

Of course we all give advice to our children be they boy or girl, so here is one by Cat Stevens that is perfect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jek6iP6AuAQ&feature=fvw

The poem and Cat Stevens' song are perfect for the day.
Other cultures do it differently. Here is a wedding song from Miriam Makeba.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmXvy0X0lGw

Thanks, Texas. Always loved the cat man.

Miriam Makeba's wedding song was fantastic. Good thing that she explained it at the beginning.

Then there are those who don't want to leave the Congo whether it's to get married or not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE-kItUkzYE&feature=related

Guess we had better translate that into English.

Each morning, a missionary advertises neon sign
He tells the native population that civilization is fine
And three educated savages holler from a bamboo tree
That civilization is a thing for me to see

So bongo, bongo, bongo, I don't wanna leave the Congo, oh no no no no no
Bingo, bangle, bungle, I'm so happy in the jungle, I refuse to go
Don't want no bright lights, false teeth, doorbells, landlords, I make it clear
That no matter how they coax him, I'll stay right here

I looked through a magazine the missionary's wife concealed
I see how people who are civilized bang you with automobile

At the movies they have got to pay many coconuts to see
Uncivilized pictures that the newsreel takes of me

So bongo, bongo, bongo, he don't wanna leave the Congo, oh no no no no no
Bingo, bangle, bungle, he's so happy in the jungle, he refuse to go
Don't want no penthouse, bathtub, streetcars, taxis, noise in my ear
So, no matter how they coax him, I'll stay right here

They hurry like savages to get aboard an iron train
And though it's smokey and it's crowded, they're too civilized to complain
When they've got two weeks vacation, they hurry to vacation ground
They swim and they fish, but that's what I do all year round

So bongo, bongo, bongo, I don't wanna leave the Congo, oh no no no no no
Bingo, bangle, bungle, I'm so happy in the jungle, I refuse to go
Don't want no jailhouse, shotgun, fish-hooks, golf clubs, I got my spears
So, no matter how they coax him, I'll stay right here

They have things like the atom bomb, so I think I'll stay where I "ahm"
Civilization, I'll stay right here!

I like that Bongo Bongo better than the original, letty.
Here is Sarah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU1ls_WxgEY

I like that Italian man singing Bongo, edgar.

"...Quiet Nights and quiet stars.." by Sarah was awesome, Texas.

Another by Sarah and Joe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnJ5baGKFYI

Tried to find Our Very own by her without much success.

I love Sarah. That's a great song too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJFNEVd1ucc
George Strait

A picture to go with Quiet Nights And Quiet Stars....

Lighting Up the Night.
Lights and space shuttle Discovery are reflected in the water as it rolls to the pad on its final planned mission to the International Space Station.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6nJnPVdml4
Reflections- Diana Ross & The Supremes