WA2K Radio is now on the air

I was able to listen to Mack the Knife and Bernadette Peters, letty. My computer is presently faster than the first time I used it. Didn't realize how poor a connection I had. Very good.

Very good, Rex.

Island in the Sun - A really great song, by one of my favorite people in the world. I have to play another by him -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8lumWKuZv0

edgar, that was one amazing song by Harry. It was lovely, but too bad I didn't know what he was singing.

Very different, buddy.

Here is a birthday boy, so first a little info.

Nik Kershaw (born Nicholas David Kershaw; 1 March 1958, is an English singer-songwriter. The one time jazz-funk guitarist was a mid-1980s teen idol. His 50 weeks on the UK Singles Chart in 1984 beat all other soloists. Kershaw appeared at Live Aid, and penned hits for Let Loose, The Hollies and a #1 for Chesney Hawkes, "The One and Only".[

Now, a song by him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN04vtNcrek&feature=related

Odd, I keep remembering that guy playing the flute (Greensleeves) on The Lost Colony.

Kershaw is pretty good. Never heard of him before.
Good enough for Pearl Bailey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1kcY_mi2h0

Ah, the "Pearl of great price", edgar. Wish that I could have found a good trailer for Steinbeck's Pearl. No luck. Love That's Good Enough for Me by Ms Bailey.

I didn't know Kershaw either, but it was his birthday, so thought I would see what he was all about.

Here's another Pearl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzlRPoyt2OA&feature=related

I like Pearl Jam's lead singer very much, letty. Here is still another pearl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi_b0EGLHRk

I never heard that one by Janis (that sang the blues), edgar. She sounded great. Thanks again for your comment.

Never think of turtles that I don't remember yitwail.

For you and JM, buddy.

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

I like the Turtles, letty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y_9KLPKa_I
Here is a singing ranger doing one I heard on the radio as a child

Thanks again for the comment, edgar.

Love I Don't Hurt Anymore by Hank Snow. (he's been everywhere, you know)

My goodnight song is a wonderful meditation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZxUl5gxX6Q&feature=related

From Letty with love and contentment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPLonXjzChg
Saying good night with Elvis singing about Danny.

I came back to tell you I like your good night music, letty and to post some news.

Suze Rotolo, who strongly influenced Bob Dylan's songwriting and walked beside him on the album cover for The Freewheeling Bob Dylan, died of lung cancer on Friday. She was 67.

She is shown in this video, on Bob's arm. The song tells of their break up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC5sO6cpA-Y

Morning Ms Letty,Ed and all WA2K folks.Jumping into the time machine 'cos I got an invite from Morris and Irving Levy to meet them at 1678 Broadway, just north of West 52nd Street in Manhattan....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhrfHQ4sEnc
Quincy Jones - Jazz Corner Of The World/Birdland.
Turn the volume up around 2:53 and blow the cobwebs outa' your sub .

Back to the present day....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2KPsBKvi8I
Jude Cole - Start The Car.

Well I'm tired of the pressure
So tired of the pace.
Just wanna grab you baby, and get out of this place.
I got no chance of makin' it, working downtown.
I'm just walkin' slow and talkin' low
And tired of going down, down, down.

Start the car, we gotta move
This ain't no living, this ain't no groove
It's been a long hard road
Come on baby, let's drive it home
Start the car.

We started out for paradise
But this ain't no promised land.
And this ain't no kind of living for an honest working man.
Well there's people dying on the streets
Sure don't make the news.
While others livin' up on the hill
Singin' the white boy blues.

Start the car, we gotta move
This ain't no living, this ain't no groove
This city's rich, or dirt poor
But somewhere waiting there's something more
Start the car.

Now we're going out with dignity
We're going out with style
Gonna lay down that hammer baby
And make our own road across the miles
'Cause I can't take this town one more day.

Start the car, we gotta move
This ain't no living, this ain't no groove
This city's rich, or dirt poor
But somewhere waiting, there's gotta be something more
Start the car.
It's been a long hard road
Better come on baby
Let's drive it home
Start the car.......

The story behind the track....
It's September 1968 and Dusty Springfield is standing at the microphone in Chip Moman's American Sound Studios in Memphis,about to lay down final vocals for Breakfast In Bed,a smouldering ballad written by Muscle Shoals scribes Eddie Hinton and Donnie Fritts.It's the fourth day into sessions for her forthcoming album Dusty In Memphis and she's already recorded a guide vocal for the song and listened studiously to every lick played by the band.She's suggested little changes here and there and checked through the headphones that everything is sounding just right.
As they wait for Dusty to sing,her Producer,Jerry Wexler,tells her that she is standing in the same place as her heroine Aretha Franklin,when the Atlantic soul legend recorded A Natural Woman (You Make Me Feel Like).Wilson Pickett also recorded in this room,used the very same microphone,headphones and music stand.Dusty,dressed as if for a Talk Of The Town performance in an elegant Darnell of London gown,her blonde wig perfect,her eyes dark with kohl,starts to panic.Her heart races,her temperature rises,her mouth goes dry.
As The Memphis Boys,the studio's house band,strike up the song,Wexler looks on,engineer Tom Dowd and arranger Arif Mardin stand by.Dusty opens her mouth,"You've been cryin'," she sings quietly,"your face is..." She chokes up.The band strike up again,Dusty starts...then stops again.The band try one final time.Dusty starts,coughs and dries up.She is shaking,caught in a moment of acute self-doubt and embarrassment,frozen to the spot.She simply can't perform."I can't be Aretha Franklin," she says to herself."I shoudn't be here at all.I'm a fake."
(text Mojo April 2011)

Is this a "fake"?....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11fFE9lR56U
Dusty Springfield - Breakfast in Bed.

You’ve been cryin’
Your face is a mess
Come in baby
You can dry the tears on my dress
She’s hurt you again
I can tell
Oh, I know that look so well

Don’t be shy
You’ve been here before
Pull your shoes off, lie down
And I will lock the door

And no-one has to know
You’ve come here again
Darling it will be
Like it’s always been before
Come on over here

Breakfast in bed
And a kiss or three
You don’t have to say you love me
Breakfast in bed
Nothing need be said
Ain’t no need

What’s your hurry?
Please don’t eat and run
You can let her wait, my darling
It’s been so long
Since I’ve had you here
You will come again
Darling it will be
Like it’s always been before
Hey child

Breakfast in bed
And a kiss or three
You don’t have to say you love me
Breakfast in bed
Nothing need be said

Breakfast in bed
And a kiss or three
You don’t have to say you love me
Breakfast in bed
Nothing need be said, yeah
You don’t have to

Good moring, WA2K folks.

edgar, thanks again for your comment. Colors of the Wind was good and calming. Ballad in Plain D by "the jester" was sad, but good. Never heard that on by Elvis, but Danny was awesome.

Thanks for the info on Suze. She looked a bit like Janis, somehow.

Hey, Brit. Love Quincy Jones' Birdland. What a performer. Great jazz, too.

Never heard Jude Cole's Start the Car, but I really like it. Also appreciated the info about Dusty and Breakfast in Bed was really good. Thanks, London.

How about some more Birdland, yawl, with a bit of Manhattan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFpbTIR82Cc&feature=related

Good morning, folks. Got to get ready for work. See ya all later.

Good ones, barry.
Manhattan Transfer is a good group, letty.
Time Passes Slowly for some of us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCfFPG0m2kE

Welcome back, edgar. Hurry back, Brit.

I always look for songs from Birdland as I was there so long ago.

edgar, I adore Judy Collins. Haven't heard Time Passes slowly, but she's right.

"time and tide wait for no man/woman" Chaucer

Today is Jon Bon Jovi's birthday, so here are two by him. One from the movie Young Guns, and the other from a rose garden.

First, the one from the movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu3q5gMWDQ8

Now, roses.

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

I used to be indifferent to Bon Jovie, but came to like him very much. Today is the 175TH birthday of Texas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3PYEnBS2K4
Giant