Good morning folks. I am about to have my breakfast and then get on to the job. I may get back a bit earlier than normal. It's a holiday for us, but I have unfinished business first.
Took a cat nap myself, yawl.
euroGeorge. So in Love was great, but your second song was blocked here.
Hey, Brit. Bach's St. John's Passion was perfect as was Johnny Cash's Were You There When They crucified My Lord. It was still a photo, Barry.
Happy Easter everyone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPcQ1y38qB4&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdzysgmaoNQ&feature=related
Hurry back, edgar.
@Letty,
Happy Easter Miss Letty.
Mighty fine choir singing and some really lovely music with Andre, Miss Letty.
Unfinished business Ed, take it easy cowboy.
Billy Idol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQA2XZbDkdA
Buggles - - - Video killed the radio star.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwuy4hHO3YQ
@eurocelticyankee,
Oops, euroGeorge. Billy Idol wouldn't play here. Perhaps it's his last name that did it.
Thanks again for your comments.
I love that one by the Buggles. Well, the video didn't kill our radio star. Today is Merle's birthday, and we'll dedicate this to our edgar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93JyGx-V9eY
@Letty,
Billy Idol - - - Eyes without a face.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chbWJVwaoY8
@eurocelticyankee,
Well, it worked this time, euro. Great one by the Idol man. Hmmm, eyes without a face reminds me of the donkey man again.
What color are your eyes? Mine are blue green.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOfhfzdDYhc
Question just appearing on TV quiz, Millionaire: "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread" is a line written by which poet. The man polled the audience and they came up with Keats. He lost. I was correct in picking Pope. But they had me doubting myself for a couple of minutes.
'Fools rush in...' has a precise derivation, in that it is a quotation from the English poet Alexander Pope's An essay on criticism, 1709:
Such shameless Bards we have; and yet 'tis true,
There are as mad, abandon'd Criticks too.
The Bookful Blockhead, ignorantly read,
With Loads of Learned Lumber in his Head,
With his own Tongue still edifies his Ears,
And always List'ning to Himself appears.
All Books he reads, and all he reads assails,
From Dryden's Fables down to Durfey's Tales.
With him, most Authors steal their Works, or buy;
Garth did not write his own Dispensary.
Name a new Play, and he's the Poet's Friend,
Nay show'd his Faults - but when wou'd Poets mend?
No Place so Sacred from such Fops is barr'd,
Nor is Paul's Church more safe than Paul's Church-yard:
Nay, fly to Altars; there they'll talk you dead;
For Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.
The 'fools' that Pope targetted there were the literary critics of the day.
@edgarblythe,
Welcome back, Texas. Love Alexander Pope and the Bard.
Ah, what fools we mortals be.
Fools Rush In by Peggy Lee was great.
and, The King.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLV0Y27AFJU&feature=related
Elvis can't help falling. Joe Barry is a fool to even care
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcriNmPyY-Q
@edgarblythe,
You sent me searching again, Texas.
Barry started recording locally in 1958, and released two singles on Jin Records around 1960. In 1961, the second single he released for Jin, "I'm a Fool to Care" (originally a hit for Les Paul and Mary Ford), was picked up for national distribution by Mercury Records subsidiary Smash Records. The tune hit #15 on the U.S. Black Singles chart and #24 on the Billboard Hot 100. "I'm a Fool to Care" sold over one million records by 1968, earning a belated gold disc.The song also charted in the UK Singles Chart at #49.The follow-up single, "Teardrops in My Heart", also charted in the U.S. but did not reach the Top 40. Barry released several more singles on Smash and Nugget Records later in the 1960s, but left the music industry soon after. During his career in 1960 or 1961 Joe Barry also appeared on Dick Clark's American Banstand.
Don't know that Joe. As an aside, I'm guessing euroGeorge's eyes are blue. You missed Merle Travis tribute and we dedicated it to you, Texas
Here's another foolish thing. (glad we didn't do April Fools Day)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xKGKfqNJuY&feature=related
UhOh! edgar must be taking a cat nap.
Time for me to say goodnight, and I think that I shall do so with two songs.
First, " old Blue eyes". He was Roman Catholic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_z7Ip09LqY
Now, Good Friday. When I was a kid I could never figure out why they called it good Friday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzWlJRt8A4s&feature=endscreen
Good to see other countries here today.
From Letty with love and understanding
I like Rod Stewart and Frankie. I used to listen to Were You There by Tennessee Ernie as a kid. Later, I played it on record by Harry Belafonte.
Here is a little concert by Little Richard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AspSuDYaVXM&feature=g-all-u&context=G2aacdc7FAAAAAAAACAA
good evening , msletty , ed and all listeners to wa2k .
as usual , only the finest musicians are broadcast on this station .
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Gerry Mulligan is one such musician - and it's his birthday too .
first some music with a beautiful picture background by Van Gogh :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cK_AIpmejs
Quote: Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger.[1] Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophonists in jazz history – playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz – he was also a notable arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others. Mulligan's pianoless quartet of the early 1950s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the more important cool jazz groups. Mulligan was also a skilled pianist and played several other reed instruments. Mulligan reportedly had a relationship with actress Judy Holliday until she died in 1965, and with actress Sandy Dennis from 1965 until they broke up in 1976.
i didn't believe my ears : Gerry Mulligan plays CHOPIN !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vVRTZnzpJc&feature=related
someone - correctly - commented :
Quote: Chopin and Gerry Mulligan in heavens must have great conversations of this type.
This kind of music makes you feel so good.
yes , it does make me feel good !
continuing the music from last night , let's visit some other countries .
here some music from Greece :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdgV3BtksSU
and here is " The Greek tenor George Filadelfefs " singing an aria from a classic Greek Opera :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7bTHflKyJc
what a powerful voice !
of course , a visit to Greece would not be complete without hearing
Melina Mercoury !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8WB8rIIIps
Quote: Melina Mercouri (Greek: Μελίνα Μερκούρη), born as Maria Amalia Mercouri (18 October 1920 – 6 March 1994) was a Greek actress, singer and politician.
As an actress she made her film debut in Stella (1955) and met international success with her performances in Never on Sunday, Phaedra, Topkapi and Promise at Dawn. She won the award for Best Actress at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival, and she was also nominated for an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and two BAFTA Awards.
A political activist during the Greek military junta of 1967–1974, she became a member of the Hellenic Parliament in 1977 and the first female Minister for Culture of Greece in 1981. Mercouri was the person who, in 1983, conceived and proposed the programme of the European Capital of Culture, which has been established by the European Union since 1985.
She was a strong advocate for the return to Athens of the Parthenon Marbles, which were removed from the Parthenon, and are now displayed in the British Museum.[1]
