@edgarblythe,
two great artists saying GOOD NIGHT for me :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFmgLPkv1q8&feature=related
@hamburgboy,
and another great singer wishes you A GOOD MORNING :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4aE7E8bzd0
@hamburgboy,
but if you are a little sleepy eyed - this will get you going
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14MrpZs1D9Q&feature=related
Good morning, folks. Nice and chill this morning. See ya all later today.
Very cool here, and I had a touch of hypothermia.
hbg, I loved all of your music. Did I hear The Ringling Brothers? especially enjoyed the one by this fellow.
Quasthoff was born in Hildesheim, Germany, with serious birth defects caused by his mother's exposure during pregnancy to the drug thalidomide which was prescribed as an antiemetic to combat her morning sickness. Thomas Quasthoff is about four feet tall due to shortening of the long bones in his legs, and he has phocomelia of the upper extremities with very short or absent long bones. Amazing how wonderfully the man could sing.
edgar, Your Handel's Messiah was great in response to Martin Luther.
Thanks, Rock, for Johnny Rivers Seventh Son.
Hurry back edgar.
Well, Today is Veteran's Day in the USA. Salute to all of you here and those who are not.
Thinking of Audie Murphy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lDVC_zE7kk
He also did The Red Badge of Courage. (incidentally, that red badge was a wound)
I had read that actor Neville Brand came in next after Audie Murphy for WW II war exploits. Turns out, it was a partial myth. However, he did come home a hero.
"Brand entered the Illinois National Guard on October 23rd, 1939, as a private with Company F, 129th Infantry. A year-and-a-half later, Corporal Brand was inducted into Federal service with the 129th, and assigned Army Serial Number 20602562.(3)
After five weeks of infantry training, and an unsuccessful attempt at Officers Candidate School, the twenty-four-year-old former shoe salesman departed for the European Theater of Operations on December 9th, 1944, and arrived there on December 16th. Relatively little is known of his nine months and nineteen days overseas, but his official military records reflect that Neville Brand participated in the Ardennes, Rhineland, and Central European campaigns, and received the Silver star while convalescing at the 21st General Hospital for gallantry in combat. His other awards and decorations are the Purple Heart, the Good Conduct Medal, the American Defense Service Ribbon, the European/African/Middle Eastern Theater Ribbon with three Battle Stars, one Overseas Service Bar, one Service Stripe, and the Combat Infantryman's Badge.(4) In a rare 1966 interview in which he consented to speak of his wartime service, Brand recalled how he earned his Silver Star when his unit came under intense fire from German machine guns located within a hunting lodge. "I must have flipped my lid," he said, for "I decided to go into that lodge." Disregarding his own safety, he worked his way around to the rear of the lodge/command post, burst in through the back and single-handedly dispatched the enemy within.(5)
Later, on April 7th, 1945, exactly one month and a day before the official German surrender, Sergeant Brand was wounded in action by the Weser River.(6) Felled by a gunshot to his upper right arm, and pinned down by withering enemy ground fire, Brand lay there slowly bleeding to death. "I knew I was dying," he said, "It was a lovely feeling, like being half-loaded."(7) Rescued and treated, Brand was evacuated to a military hospital and, on September 17th, 1945, he departed for the United States. Less than a month later, Staff Sergeant Brand was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army at Fort Sheridan, Illinois.(8)
@edgarblythe,
Thanks for that info, edgar. You fill in a lot of the gaps for me. Love that montage of songs by Vera Lynn.
Irving Berlin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71smG5d29to
I love those old songs, especially Irving.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_4HaMYRIks
Spice
@edgarblythe,
Love that one by the Spice Girls, edgar, Sound Off. Yep, I come from a military family so I think I know most of the oldies. Genetic memory and no, not instinct.
Remember this guy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ8hpDy6HxM&feature=related
James Cagney first made me aware of the man's music, letty. But he doesn't really need any help at being great. I am off to dinner just now. See everybody later.
@edgarblythe,
Don't know that one by The Young Rascals, edgar, but I really liked it, especially the flute.
Saying goodnight with two songs by the remarkable Vera Lynn.
First, The White Cliffs of Dover.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwtW2Lx5Vwc
Now, another lovely song by that lady.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Obw65YhrpI
Good bless all of our veterans.
From Letty with love and remembrance
Vera was the perfect artist for a day like this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY6BhlbiqwU
Johnny Mathis
Good morning, folks. It will be another Saturday of being busy. But I can stop in from time to time.
@edgarblythe,
I think that edgar just got our signal restored. Thanks, Texas for that and your comment.
Loved your goodnight song. Didn't know gentleman Jim's I Missed Me, nor did I know that he died in a plane crash.
Ah, dear Johnny with one of my favorite songs. Yes, it's a small world.
Here's a birthday boy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMA-_ElvKsk&feature=related.
That was to honor the full moon last evening.
Guess everyone is having a great weekend. I had to smile as down here they're having Christian Surfer's Day.
@Barry The Mod,
Welcome back, Brit. My mom would have loved his song, Jesus is Waiting, as do I. Found out why his hand is in a sling. He has vitilago. Never heard of that disease. I was simply amazed that a large part of the Atlantic beach was dedicated to those kinds of surfers.
Played this one on edgar's songs that tell stories forum, so I think I'll play it here as well.
From the poet John Donne.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuULa7aiazA&feature=related
