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Sorry for not paying attention to today's theme but I just heard that Elliot Randall passed away on 5/8/11.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTDRd0Z0O4o&feature=related

Just for his work on Reelin in the Years, Randall has my undying respect.

flower lady, there's no theme today on WA2K. I like the mix of ideas and music.

Edgar's comment says it all, and I really enjoyed Think It Over by Buddy Holly.

Reeling in the Years by Steely Dan was great.

I've been doing research on a Space Odyssey and I recall seeing the movie. Hal the computer was the bad guy, but the entire meaning simply had to do with the effect of space creatures on the evolution of early man (apes) and the consequences. Rather like War of the Worlds.

Here's a bit of the beginning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vahx4rAd0N0&feature=related

Space Odyssey was a mixed bag for me. Loved the music and some segments, but the final 30 or forty minutes dragged so that I became thoroughly bored.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThIF_x_8kR8
Tommy Edwards

I agree, edgar.

Loved that song by Tommy Edwards, buddy and the visuals were awesome.

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

First, Where the Eagles Fly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkzwE6ufhDY&feature=related

Now, Mario.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31IQOMS7OpY&feature=related

So nice to have JPB with us today and Barry the Brit as well.

Goodnight all,
From Letty with love

The song in Where Eagles Fly was written by Buffy Sainte-Marie and I believe won an academy award for her. Joe Cocker does it nicely.

I always enjoy Mario and Seranade.

Its really a great news.I am also interested in it.Can I give my nomination as a photographer?
Please let me know.

Bonjour tutti frutti, and hope you are all well on this glorious spring morn.

I've been pretty busy over the past few weeks, among other things, learning the fine art of repairing a dry stone wall (and making a right hash of it in the process).
Ah, WA2K Radio, the one constant thread on A2k that remains positive and friendly. The reliable port in the storm, which is a credit to all the time and effort taken by Miss Letty (ably asisted by Edgar), in a supreme effort to cheer up the masses with music and pleasant and informative snippets that are guaranteed to put a spring in the step and a tune to be whistled for the rest of the day.
I'd take my hat off to you, but it is slightly windy this morning and I've just put my expensive wig on.

Here's a Dutch lady who I think you'll like, as she has come out with a song that sounds like one or two that Doris Day sang, back in the days before she was a virgin.

Caro Emerald - A Night Like This.

Warning - those of a historical disposition please note that there are bikinis in this video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74LXx0wSqMI

Morning Ms Letty,Ed and all WA2K peoples.Starting at the Science Desk - A spy in the sky taking off from Florida yesterday....

An Air Force Space Based Infrared Systems GEO-1 payload is launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket May 7, 2011, from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. SBIRS is designed to provide global, overhead, persistent, infrared surveillance capability to meet 21st century demands in mission areas including missile warning, missile defense, technical intelligence and battlespace awareness.

And from the Weather Desk here's their prediction for today....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkUsGkxZSvM
Marvin Gaye - Sunny.

Here's someone who I think should have found more fame than he did.

Pluto Shervington.

A classic reggae artist with a terrific sense of humour and very good at telling a funny story, Pluto only really had two hits in the UK, one being "Dat" and the other titled "Dear Judge", both quite hilarious.

My all time favourite Pluto song is definitely "Ram Goat Liver", and tells the story of someone who's late for work on a Monday, travelling on a bus which accidentally runs over and kills a stray Ram goat.
The decision is taken to quickly cook and eat the goat before anyone finds out, but this dishonesty comes back to haunt him at the end of the tale, proving that crime never pays.
The song is sung with a real Jamaican accent, so I've stuck an attempt at translation at the end of certain lines in the song, hoping that it will help people to follow along and enjoy it more.

Firstly.....just try listening to the song without reading the lyrics and see how far you get, then, when you're totally lost, try again with the lyrics.
Listen to it several times and you'll be humming it all day!






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kw3yie9EuI







Now with lyrics.....

RAM GOAT LIVER

Sunday gone I jump on a mini bus
I really late but it's not my fault
And when we nearly reach by the terminus
I feel de bus come to a halt

He lick a ram goat down by de round-about ---He lick = the bus driver hit
but just as if that could not suffice
A bredda run through the bus and start to shout ----bredder = brother
He shoulda dead, mek we buy a pound a rice -----the goat should be dead, so let's buy some rice and make a stew before the owner discovers that he's missing.

Ram goat liver good fi mek mannish water----- mannish water is a spicy goat stew, supposedly a great aphrodisiac.
Billy goat teeth mek the earring for your daughter
Curried goat lunch put de bite in your bark
It mek your daughter ... It mek your daughter walk and talk

Well the news spread fast like a telegram
Nobody know where de goat come from
We raise a pot and a pan from an Ire-man ----man who sells pots and pans
Who sit down dere all along

Two twos and the pot a boil----- two twos is obviously a measure of time
A head o yam and banana tip
Meanwhile quarters a gwan ----I can only assume that this means that the stew is ready
Lick me goat and a "meeeah" tek me sip

Ram goat liver good fi mek mannish water
Billy goat teeth mek the earring for you daughter
Curried goat lunch put de bite in your bark
It mek you daughter ... It mek you daughter walk and talk

Well I pop two belch and I make a sigh
I tek a walk about the street
But while I waitin down de road fi bum a ride----hitch a lift
I feel a gripe and start to feel very weak

Before too long you no haf to ask
A runny belly like a judgement day
An everybody in the road a dead with laugh
Its then I know that crime will never pay

Ram goat liver good fi mek mannish water
Billy goat teeth mek the earring for you daughter
Curried goat lunch put de bite in your bark
It mek you daughter ... It mek you daughter walk and talk

Ram goat liver good fi mek mannish water
Billy goat teeth mek the earring for you daughter
Curried goat lunch put de bite in your bark
It mek you daughter ... It mek you daughter walk and talk

Ram goat liver good fi mek mannish water
Billy goat teeth mek the earring for you daughter
Curried goat lunch put de bite in your bark
It mek you daughter ... It mek you daughter walk and talk.

Good morning, WA2K folks. (here in Florida at least)

edgar, Thanks again for your comments and the info on Buffy having done the lyrics to that Eagle song.

Jim, Welcome to our radio studio. You may certainly be our official photographer.

O.G., fantastic song by Caro Emerald. Not to worry, because most of us know about bikinis. Thanks for the introduction and that reggae song Ram Goat Liver was really rousing. Always good to see and hear you here, and thanks for the kind words.

Welcome back, Brit. I cannot believe that I missed that "spy in the sky" lift off. Love Marvin Gaye's weather report. Sunny is one of my favorites by him.
Jim can be our NASA photographer and you can be our news reporter.

Speaking of favorites, today is this guy's birthday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJZCw_KyHsM&feature=fvwrel

Good morning. Got a lot on my plate this day. I have been checking out the music, but will comment later in the day. Rain is in the local forecast today. Best news I could have gotten. See ya later on the radio.

Hurry back, edgar. Let us know about the weather situation.

Keep in touch if you can. In the mean time, here is a neat song and dance by Tom Jones.

First, the song.

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

Now the funny Carlton dance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS1cLOIxsQ8.

A soldier did the dance while a rocket was streaming behind him headed for pluto.

I love that song by Tom Jones. I have seen most episodes of Fresh Prince. There is at least one time that Tom Jones actually shows his face on that show.

Burt is highly talented too.

Thanks to barry and old goat also.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4aZ2HH1zis
Bobby Vinton

edgar, thanks again for your comments to everyone.

Ah, Rain, Rain, Go Away. Little Bobby wants to play, and so he did. Love that one by Bobby Vinton.

Here's a birthday boy and I had no idea that he was the son of Martin Sheen.

Here's a tribute to Emilio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIn1mq3Noto

and the lyrics.

I looked out this morning and the sun was gone
Turned on some music to start my day
I lost myself in a familiar song
I closed my eyes and I slipped away

It's more than a feeling (more than a feeling)
When I hear that old song they used to play (more than a feeling)
I begin dreaming (more than a feeling)
'till I see Marianne walk away
I see my Marianne walkin' away

So many people have come and gone
Their faces fade as the years go by
Yet I still recall as I wander on
as clear as the sun in the summer sky

It's more than a feeling (more than a feeling)
When I hear that old song they used to play (more than a feeling)
I begin dreaming (more than a feeling)
'till I see Marianne walk away
I see my Marianne walkin' away

When I'm tired and thinking cold
I hide in my music, forget the day
and dream of a girl I used to know
I closed my eyes and she slipped away
She slipped away

It's more than a feeling (more than a feeling)
When I hear that old song they used to play (more than a feeling)
I begin dreaming (more than a feeling)
'till I see Marianne walk away

Hope these are the right ones

I have seen Emilio in The Young Guns and a few other films. He uses his fathers real last name.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4E_260SH5Y
The Chordettes