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I like Joyce for two works: Ulysses and Portrait of the Artist. I don't know where he will be placed in a few more generations, as writers go, but Ulysses is brilliant on so many levels, it is not likely to be forgotten.

I am weary. Lord knows I gets weary. I have checked out everybody's songs. Don't want to write comments. Will play a song in a bit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylkOK7IDwNg
Good afternoon again, peeples.

Good afternoon to you as well, edgar. Hope you've got your second wind now.

Never heard "the jester" do Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues. Good one.

"...and while the kind was looking down, the jester stole his mighty crown..."

Today is Billy's birthday but first some info.

Billy "Crash" Craddock (born June 16, 1939) is an American country and rockabilly singer. He first gained popularity in Australia in the 1950s with a string of rockabilly hits, including the Australian number one hit "Boom Boom Baby". Switching to country music, he gained popularity in United States in the 1970s with a string of top ten country hits, several of which were number one hits, including "Rub It In", "Broken Down in Tiny Pieces", and "Ruby Baby". Craddock is known to fans as "Mr. Country Rock" for his uptempo rock-influenced style of country music.

He sounds a bit like the king.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcLbR9a3uC8&feature=related

"Crash" is related to two of my children, from the first marriage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MtJqE5q32w&feature=fvst
Hank

Well, edgar, you got friends in high places. Don't know that one by Hank, but I was surprised to find that he did a Hank Snow song.

Here's another by Hank.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19vApPwWqh8&feature=related

Schmidt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe553Mv-I74&feature=feedrec_grec_index

That Hank song goes through my mind almost every day, letty.

Thanks, edgar. I have learned to love Hank because his lyrics are so much like poetry.

Wow! That was the most fascinating thing that I have ever heard and watched. Don't know Eric, but I think Sudden Garden was great. Thanks for the introduction, Texas.

Time for me to say goodnight, and I think that I shall do so with Dylan Thomas. He was born in Wales as well. Not certain that Bob took his name from the man, but perhaps you can resolve that one for us.

First, a small note about Dylan.

Jimmy Carter, who campaigned for Thomas to be commemorated at "Poet's Corner" within London's Westminster Abbey, was not successful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFCO97tGLgk&feature=related

If you click on "show more", you will see the English lyrics.

So nice to have London and Dublin with us today

From Letty with love and belief

Good morning WA2K on a damp and dreary day here in Ireland,
Enjoyed a 2 hour walk with the madra this morning raining or not, oh yeah.
Lots of festive fun in Dublin yesterday for Bloomsday, a quick taste...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C358q_COfwo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhilxzboNi0
Alas I was not there as I was in the beautiful city of Cork to see this guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FavBDpg91gA
He was brilliant, I believe he's playing in London tomorrow with Van Morrison,
so all you cockney's out there, you'd be mad to miss him.
Later yawl.

Morning Ms Letty,Ed and all WA2K folks.The music behind Dylan Thomas' words came from the movie Schindler's List' (1993) which is Steven Spielberg's masterpiece. One of the most appreciated films of all time. Based on the novel 'Schindler's Ark' by Thomas Keneally and adapted by Steven Zaillian.
This holocaust drama received seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director for Spielberg and Best Score for John Williams. All the earnings this film made went to Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. You can find their site here....
http://dornsife.usc.edu/vhi/

Back to business and,as it happens,a guy at work knows a couple of the guys in this new and up-and-coming Brit band....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo8OgMzS3uU
The Overtones - Gambling Man.

Heard this on the radio for the first time last night....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oDHE2DwC1o
Dennis Hopper Choppers - All Could Come True.

"Dennis Hopper Choppers is Ben Nicholls, a one-man-band, simultaneously playing guitar, bass drum, high hat, organ bass pedals, vox-organ and a 1969 Fender Dual Showman amplifier originally designed for Dick Dale which he said is ‘probably the loudest thing I’d ever heard.’ This coming from a man who played bass in the Silverjets and Menlo Park. His debut, self-released album, Chop is 13 tracks of high-plains-via-East-London fretboard wrangling and heartfelt rockabilly stomp while his rich and astonishingly versatile baritone gives the album it’s soaring range. The story of Chop’s making reads like a great unwritten Hollywood screenplay. Ben holed-up to write the album in a deserted villa in Tabernas, Spain. A villa whose owner, in true Hitchcock style, was murdered out of the blue by her son. "

Good morning. What's for breakfast? Coffee's good, anyway. See ya all later on the radio.

Looking at the the apples at this time of day means only one direction....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqaKz-geIIE
Otis Clay - The Only Way Is Up.


Well,
Well well,
We're gonna make it, we're gonna make it baby.

We've been broken down to the lowest turn
Bein' on the bottom line, sure ain't no fun
If we should be evicted from our homes,
We'll just move somewhere else and still carry on

Oh, you and me baby

The only way is up, yeah, for me and you now
The only way is up, baby, for me and you now

Now we may not know where our next meal is coming from
But with you by my side, baby, I'll face what is to come
Girl, I want to thank you, for loving me this way
Things may be a little dark now but there'll a brighter day

Just hold on, hold on, it won't be long now
Hold on, hold on

The only way is up, baby, for me and you now
The only way is up, baby, for me and you now

You and me together, we're gonna make it,yeah
Life make you raw but we can take it, ah...
I truly know we're gonna make it

The only way is up, baby, for me and you now
The only way is up...................

edgar, Hurry back. That coffee ought to give you a jump start.

Hey, Irish. Really enjoyed your Marino Waltz, Your Montage, and Bob "the Jester". As I observed, I love James Joyce's Poetry and Ulysses was simply a Roman version of Odysseus. Never read that, however.

Wow! our Brit is on a roll today. Thanks for identifying the music behind Dylan Thomas. In some school systems in Virginia, Schindler's List was banned because of the nudity and violence. I didn't see the movie, but appreciate its context. Also appreciated the testimonials.

Gambling Man was a good one as was Dennis Hopper Choppers. Hard to believe that was a one man band.

Otis Clay was a great one to use for your ascension.

Today is Igor Stravinsky's birthday and here he is conducting at eighty two. What a guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tGA6bpscj8&feature=related

Is that eegor or eyegor, letty? He's a perty fair conductor/composer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAWYSgJiu8k&feature=related
Dreamin'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6yC7b0VOzY
Another dreamin' song

Hmm, I think it is perhaps eeyor.

I know Johnny's, but not Kenny's, edgar.

Our Ursula is back from Hungary and I am certain that those of you on Facebook will have a great treat with seeing her beautiful photo's.

For her and her Swede.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-EGKpbIBuw&feature=related

Howdy folks, nice piece by Lang Lang Miss Letty.
Liked Ed's two especially Johnny Burnette, catchy.
Sticking with Ed's theme......
Dreams.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEi7GPkxfsE

Dreamer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BruEmB7_1ok

Maybe later yawl.

Bugs Bunny does that rhapsody also, letty.

That Fleetwood Mac song is very personal to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRg8HBxsR6k&feature=fvst
Another rhapsody