WA2K Radio is now on the air

Morning Ms Letty,Ed and all WA2K folks.Kicking off with....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNWFlwOBhDE&feature=relmfu
Lizz Wright - Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly.


Never be afraid to love
Never be afraid to just be
Catch the way and change the doubt
Have the courage to be free
Don't cloud your eyes with others lies
See only what you want to see
Duplicate the simple truth
Have a courage to be free

Open Your eyes, you can fly
Open Your eyes, you can fly
You can fly
You can fly

Never be afraid to love
Never be afraid to just be
Catch the way and change the doubt
Have a courage to be free
Don't cloud your eyes with others lies
See only what you want to see
Just duplicate the simple truth
And have a courage to be free

Open Your eyes, you can fly
Open Your eyes, you can fly
You can fly
You can fly

Oooooo, mhmmm hey eh he

Open Your eyes, you can fly
Open Your eyes, you can fly
You can fly ,yeah
You can fly ,yeah

Oh ooo yeaaaaaaah
Oh ooo yeaaaaaaah

Never be afraid to love
Oh ooooo

I've not played a Show tune for a while so here's a lady doing one from the Funny Girl....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAUJEIW-awM&feature=related
Shirley Bassey - People.

Climbing the apples with an Aussie....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGZ21JQFJ3c&feature=related
Sue Barker - Groovin' .
Laters WA2K.

Good early morning from Florida, WA2K folks.

Awakened by a setting RED moon over the canal.

edgar, thanks again for your comments. Loved Don's If I Could See you Just One Time.

Welcome back, Brit. Don't know Lizz Wright, but Open Your Eyes You can Fly was great as was Dame Shirley's People. Only heard that one by Babs. Don't know Sue Barker either but I do know Groovin', buddy. (hey, it ain't Sunday Yet)

This morning's song was inspired by jcboy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lrqs_ViPS8&feature=related

Good morning. I appreciate barry's music this morning and letty's Abba song. See ya all later on the radio.

Found this piece on Buck Owens
just a couple of minutes ago you might find interesting.
Every once in awhile his Together Again pops up in my mental jukebox uninvitedly.

Here's Buck on youtube; not the same as the vinyl version, but he still can coax one's tears out, though.

neko, Welcome back. We appreciate the news about Buck, and Together Again is a wonderful way to celebrate his LIFE.

Our dj. reminded me of this one by him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOpgL4mqEis

This number's the flip side
of Buck's Together Again, if my memory's correct. Perhaps Ed can check on this for us.

neko, when I used to listen to radio/tv music, I never paid much attention to the background. After a quick check on Buck, I found out about his illness and final performance. He ate something he loved, he sang his last song at a concert and went home and died in his sleep. Not a bad way to go.

Also found out that Creedence Clearwater Revival mentioned him in this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUIGSeDA6S8

and, yawl, the lyrics.

Just got home from Illinois, lock the front door, oh boy!
Got to sit down, take a rest on the porch.
Imagination sets in, pretty soon I'm singing,

CHORUS:
Doo, doo, doo, Looking out my back door.
There's a giant doing cartwheels,
A statue wearing high heels.
Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn.
A dinosaur Victrola listening to BUCK OWENS.

CHORUS]
Tambourines and elephants are playing in the band.
Won't you take a ride on the flying spoon?
Doo, doo doo.
Wond'rous apparition provided by magician.

CHORUS

Tambourines and elephants are playing in the band.
Won't you take a ride on the flying spoon?
Doo, doo doo.
Bother me tomorrow, today, I'll buy no sorrows.

CHORUS

Forward troubles Illinois, lock the front door, oh boy!
Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn.
Bother me tomorrow, today, I'll buy no sorrows.

CHORUS

Well, neco, while we await our edgar's return, here is another birthday boy.


Mexico to Celebrate Cantinflas' Birthday




11 de agosto de 2011, 00:09Mexico, Aug 11 (Prensa Latina) Mexico will celebrate on Friday the one-hundred-year birthday anniversary of its most famous actor, Mario Moreno (Cantinflas). The actor was born in Santa Maria la Redonda neighbourhood in Mexico City and died at 82 years old.

Fragments of his films will be shown the day of his birthday in the Auditorium, the Music Library, and other places, including different areas of the crowded subway, among many other activities in the capital and all over the country.

Various artists who met him, including Silvia Pinal, Maria Victoria, Sergio Corona, Xavier Lopez (Chabelo), and Carlos Espejel spoke about the famous actor in the round table Cantinflas and his Time, staged at the Cinematheque.

During his long career as an actor, Mario Moreno starred in over 50 films.

Odd, I don't recall having seen this movie at all but I remember the theme.

Here's the trailer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQgOld79N6o&feature=related

When Buck was in his first wave of popularity, I was too good to listen to country. Give me, I says, oldies rock, folk, folk rock and pop. But, I love him these days. Streets of Bakersfield is one of my very favorite songs.

I have sat down to watch Around the World in Eighty Days more than once, but it is too long and uninteresting, after a time. To me, Cantinflas is likeable in the film, but the comedy falls flat.

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

lol Despite its being a big budget production I confess to having forgotten all about it.
Heck, I could very well have been the projectionist of the day,having to twiddle the widescreen lens on the company's 16mm projector
before screening time.

I kinda recall guffaws of laughter out of the audience...sorta.

edgar, I most certainly know Still on the hill. That song gives me a smile.

neco, I am still trying to recall why I know the song, buddy. I noticed they did a remake of the movie. Maybe you were the real man in that one.

Around the world I searched for you,
I went along til hope was gone to keep a rendezvous

etc.

Here's another "still", edgar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dK_TOg1KRM

Josh sings pretty well. Never heard him before that I recall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtUoOw_RhS0
Here is my favorite Around the World

Well, Texas, you sent me searching again.

Greco began playing piano at the age of four. His first professional work was playing with Benny Goodman's band. Most of Greco's work has been in the jazz and pop genres. He has recorded songs such as "Oh Look A-There, Ain't She Pretty", "The Lady is a Tramp", and "Around the World", and has released about 65 albums and 100 singles. He has had an active concert career playing in symphony halls, theatres, nightclubs, and Las Vegas showrooms. In the 1960s he made appearances with the Rat Pack. Greco played the nightclub singer Lucky in the 1969 film The Girl Who Knew Too Much.

That was a rat pack type performance, buddy.

Ever hear King Kong sing? Here he is.

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

I like both Al and King Kong, letty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNY8eYmzdH4&feature=related
Monkey Man

Thanks again for your comment, Texas. Don't know Monkey Man by The Rolling Stones. Great one.

Guess this is anthropoid and bug day on WA2K.

The Monkees and The Beatles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ2mfqa_-gI&feature=related