Love that one by Waylon Jennings. "the only daddy that'll walk the line". I can picture Johnny Cash with white all over his black. I agree about Graham Nash, edgar.
Our Brit played Charade and somehow, it reminded me of Leon.
Larry Parks was a great man, I believe. Much more of a man than the blacklisters. Those Jolson songs are great. I have an album of his best loved recordings. Jerry Lewis had a successful recording of Rockabye.
Here is the original version of Turn Around. The quality of the video is not the best. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTL-fwRsEdc
In 1964, I began reading the Rand novels and a few essays. For a flickering moment, I thought she was on to something. Then, after mulling it over, I threw her stuff in the trash.
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Wed 2 Feb, 2011 06:31 pm
Joyce I love. Ulysses ends with one of the most famous passages in modern literature: the soliloquy of Molly Bloom. I quote from Wikipedia:
Molly's soliloquy (or interior monologue) consists of eight enormous "sentences," with only two marks of punctuation in the entire episode (periods after the fourth and eighth "sentences"). Molly accepts Leopold into her bed, frets about his health, then reminisces about their first meeting and about when she knew she was in love with him. The final words of Molly's reverie, and the very last words of the book, are:
"...I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. "
Joyce noted in a 1921 letter to Frank Budgen that "[t]he last word (human, all too human) is left to Penelope." The episode both begins and ends with "yes," a word that Joyce described as "the female word" and that he said indicated "acquiescence and the end of all resistance."[citation needed] This last, clear "yes" stands in sharp contrast to her unintelligible first spoken line in the fourth chapter of the novel.
The concluding period following the final words of her reverie is one of only two punctuation marks in the chapter, the periods at the end of the fourth and eighth "sentences." When written this episode contained the longest "sentence" in English literature, 4,391 words expressed by Molly Bloom (it was surpassed in 2001 by Jonathan Coe's The Rotters' Club).[1]
Morning Ms Letty,Ed and all WA2K folks.Starting off from The World Travel desk - when you're next in London and go on a tour of The Tower Of London,I really hope you get this Yeoman Warder as your guide.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWFq-v7TKdQ
Yeoman Warder At Tower Of London.
Listen out for the very last line spoken by one of the tour group .
Played a song by this guy a few days ago.Time for one more.Every time I hear this it transports me back to Vegas.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhYF_NNcM0w
Lou Rawls - The Girl From Ipanema.
Long before he became known as a smooth pop balladeer in the 1970s, Lou Rawls was a powerful vocalist whose rich baritone ably blended soul, pop, jazz, and blues.
Personnel: Lou Rawls (vocals); Tommy Strode (guitar); Herb Ellis (piano); Jimmy Bond (bass guitar); Earl Palmer (drums).
What is there to say
when all the love has slipped away
in half a minute
There is always something we can blame
but in the end, it's just the same
Suddenly, you find yourself alone
Half a minute
Half a minute
What is there to say
when every dream just fades away
in half a minute
Every explanation we can find
will never change it, we are through
Suddenly, you find yourself alone
Half a minute
Half a minute
Suddenly, you find yourself alone
Half a minute
Half a minute
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Thu 3 Feb, 2011 05:11 am
Hurry back, edgar. Didn't know that ostrich version by Walt. Funny!
Hey, Brit, good to see you here again. Yoeman Warder gave me a smile. Braveheart by Mel I recall quite well. Herman's Hermits " Henry the Eighth" I really love, but I had no idea that Lou Rawls did The Girl from Ipenema. Matt Bianca's Half a Minute was fabulous. Never heard him nor the song before. Thanks for the introduction.
Good morning, radioland. This afternoon begins the ice storm for here. Luckily I will be at home by then. It is questionable if I can get to work tomorrow. It depends on how accurate are the forecasts.
See ya all later.
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Thu 3 Feb, 2011 01:10 pm
I appreciate the good music, barry.
I have heard of Beefeaters, but didn't know a thing about them.
Supposed to sleet and snow soon. I hope my dog Punky doesn't break down her stall and get lost in the storm like Wildfire did. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc3OnSQc48s
Welcome back, edgar. I love that song Wildfire. For some reason, I have been doing a bit of research and I found this one. What a fantastic voice he has.
I have been following and listening to songs by Dennis Day as long as I can remember. He was that crazy kid, to Jack Benny, for no telling how many decades, and he looked it, always.
I agree about Graham Nash, edgar.
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