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it's gwen verdon's birthday today and she is celebrating it in style with help from a good friend :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4kLYjZB6Rc&feature=related

hbg, Thanks for the info on Gwen Verdon. I don't recall her, but that visual was fantastic. I do recall The Merry Widow Waltz, however, and Lana Turner. Need to check her out. Was Fernando Lamas the one who starred in Hernado's Hideaway? All three gone.

Well, folks, this guy is back in the news. I recall Return to Me after he left the XFiles. Don't remember much about the movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc-vlHqzy_c&feature=related

Hi Folks,
Enjoyed the piece from The Merry Widow hbg, they do NOT make them like that anymore.
The scene from Porgy and Bess was brilliant Miss Letty, what a show.
Bewitched!, Ed how did you dig that up? I know the family of the twins very well. A real blast from the past!.

The Chi Lites.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an-_yAKZ3a8

Well, Irish, you sent me searching again. (thanks for your comments)

The Chi-Lites are a Chicago-based smooth soul vocal quartet from the early 1970s, one of the few from the period not to come from Memphis or Philadelphia. They were led by Eugene Record, and scored eleven Top Ten R&B hits from 1969 to 1974.

Loved Have You Seen Her by that group. Thanks for the introduction.

Here's another Bewitched, euroGeroge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MrlQ-8Ri_s&feature=related

Hi Miss Letty, thanks for that nice Sinead song, she has been in the news again this and yet again for all the wrong reasons. She twittered looking for help from a psychiatrist, why she couldn't just pick up the phone and ring one instead of twittering it, who knows?, she believes she is out of control and needs help, I agree. Sad, but they say admitting you have a problem is a step in the right direction so hopefully she'll get the help she needs.

I liked the X-Files and I really liked a film called Return to Me that David Duchovny starred in though I haven't seen him in anything lately. I liked the music with that video, Sixpence None The Richer I believe singing Kiss me, great song.

Here are the Plain White T's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN4NMeKh5tY

Thanks again, Irish, for the comments. You never cease to amaze me with your musical knowledge. Poor Sinead. What happens to people who are always in the limelight?

Loved Plain White T's Hey There Delilah. Don't know them, but they are truly good.

Here's on to match, euro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws7QbCp73gY&feature=related

Then, of course, there's Samson and Delilah.

Hi Miss Letty, as far as my musical knowledge goes, you're being way to generous my dear.
Enjoyed Tom singing Delilah, ah Delilah the worlds most famous hairdresser.

Patti Austin & James Ingram.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVo1KZg1xQg

PS. Congratulations for achieving one million views.

letty ,
perhaps you might remember gwen verdon from the ed sullivan show ?

( rumours had it that ed had " the hots " for gwen - he certainly was known as a ladies' man )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqK05A1SqIo

even if your name is " cornelius bumpus " , we'll give you a spot on a2k on your birthday .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucQj6XrIzTY

euro, I always say what I mean and mean what I say. You are delightful. Love that remark about "the hair dresser".

Baby Come to Me by Patti and James is another duo that I don't know, but they were great. Thanks for the observance of the views, now if only I had that many dollars?

hbg, Sorry, I still can't recall Gwen Verdon and the only thing that I remember about Ed Sullivan is something about "...a really big shoe.."

Funny about that name. I finally found out what it meant. Who's Got the Paine's Small Earth music is another I don't know, but I always love hearing the songs that are new to me.

How about Tunisia, yawl?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU7q-2O1iBo

Bud used to play that solo on bass.

Good afternoon. I have been wrestling with a revision of a third revision of a document in word processor this afternoon. Think I aced it this time.

I have been told that this is Stephen Foster Day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-qv87vXQzo&feature=g-sptl&cid=inp-hs-edt

Glad you aced it, edgar, and that Stephen Foster song by Hugh Laurie was funny. That guy is one great musician.

Here's a tribute to a man who died too soon and never lived in the South.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPi1lNkEgBs&feature=related

Great, letty. I have one more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayfR6umrF3Q

Ah, Ray Charles who did Georgia on my Mind. Swanee River Rock was great.

And I have one more as well, edgar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMTv44FHG3Y

Evening Ms Letty,Ed and all WA2K folks.Heard this song on the radio a few days back.The DJ said it was Tom Waits.The Youtube poster says it's Tom Waits.Now,I know it is a Tom Waits song but it sure ain't him singing....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7UHd7NVegE&feature=related
????????????????? - (Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night.

Well you gassed her up
Behind the wheel
With your arm around your sweet one
In your Oldsmobile
Barrelin' down the boulevard
You're looking for the heart of Saturday night

And you got paid on Friday
And your pockets are jinglin'
And you see the lights
You get all tinglin' cause you're cruisin' with a 6
And you're looking for the heart of Saturday night

Then you comb your hair
Shave your face
Tryin' to wipe out ev'ry trace
Of all the other days
In the week you know that this'll be the Saturday
You're reachin' your peak

Stoppin' on the red
You're goin' on the green
'Cause tonight'll be like nothin'
You've ever seen
And you're barrelin' down the boulevard
Lookin' for the heart of Saturday night

Tell me is the crack of the poolballs, neon buzzin?
Telephone's ringin'; it's your second cousin
Is it the barmaid that's smilin' from the corner of her eye?
Magic of the melancholy tear in your eye.

Makes it kind of quiver down in the core
'Cause you're dreamin' of them Saturdays that came before
And now you're stumblin'
You're stumblin' onto the heart of Saturday night

Well you gassed her up
And you're behind the wheel
With your arm around your sweet one
In your Oldsmobile
Barrellin' down the boulevard,
You're lookin' for the heart of Saturday night

Is the crack of the poolballs, neon buzzin?
Telephone's ringin'; it's your second cousin
And the barmaid is smilin' from the corner of her eye
Magic of the melancholy tear in your eye.

Makes it kind of special down in the core
And you're dreamin' of them Saturdays that came before
It's found you stumblin'
Stumblin' onto the heart of Saturday night
And you're stumblin'
Stumblin onto the heart of Saturday night

Hey, Brit. Looking For the Heart of Saturday Night was a good one but definitely not Tom Waits. His voice rather reminds me of Leonard Cohen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knII3S0MZtY

I am neither a fan of Mr Waits or Mr Cohen.I just wish peeps could check the facts before posting,but would love to find out just who did sing that song....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW6mOgG5kvA
(Big) Joe Turner-Honey Hush.

Choices,choices,choices.Adolf or Nina -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PefVH7L0Tg0
Adolf Hofner And His San Antonians - Cotton Eyed Joe

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv9717YTmsQ
Nina Simone - Cotton Eyed Joe.

Well, Brit, I really liked Big Joe Turner's Honey Hush. Don't know Cotton Eyed Joe by Adolph Hofner, but they were both good ones.

Ah, I've Never heard Nina sound better. Love that version of Cotton Eyed Joe.

Time for me to say goodnight, and I think that I shall so with David Bowie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B5zmDz4vR4&feature=related

Once again, it is great to have Ontario, Dublin, and London with us today.

From Letty with love to all