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@edgarblythe,

Welcome back, Texas. Thanks for your comments on what we play on WA2K.

Loved that tribute to "the jester".

I only saw three movies by Daniel Day-Lewis, but he is a superb actor. Should you care to peruse them, here are a few.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000358/

The Gangs of New York is the one that stunned me and he was the consummate evil, and wanted to be.

Ah, it's "the Duke's birthday". Here is a tribute to that fine jazz man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z1oEH0N-3w&feature=related

The band's weaving in and out is sometimes not very good. Know most of those songs, however

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Afternoon Ms Letty,Ed and all WA2K peeps.
Nice 4 CD set Ed,here's a track from a Brit....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ_lOVbRozs
Billy Bragg - Lay Down Your Weary Tune.

and the story behind it....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcpejfqBU4M

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@Barry The Mod,

Great tutorial, Barry. Didn't know Lay Down Your Weary Tune, but you have just made it come to life.

Two people doing a duet. Today is Tammi Terrell's birthday and here she is with Marvin. Tammi died of cancer at a young age, and Marvin's father killed him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4trsL8tPxQ&feature=related

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I have a bootleg album of Dylan singing songs like Lay Down Your Weary Tune and the Cough Song. The cough song is so called because Dylan falls prey to a fit of coughing as he is singing.
Tammy and Marvin are great together.

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Duke Ellington was great for many reasons. He performed with many fine artists and always kept his identity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6aqf52yfQQ&feature=g-vrec
Barbara Lewis

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@edgarblythe,

edgar, thanks again for your comments, and the further explanation of the jester's song.

Ah, I love Barbara Lewis doing Baby I'm Yours. Thanks again for the memory, Texas.

Here's another "Yours" and I noticed that Marty Robbins did it as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV51uxCQ6cg

I believe that I like Marty's better.

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

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I am biased toward Marty. I love his voice more than most artists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALS5Otj9nMU
Mexican Home

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@edgarblythe,

I do as well, edgar.

You sent me searching again.

John Prine (born October 10, 1946, in Maywood, Illinois) is an American country/folk singer-songwriter. He has been active as a recording artist and live performer since the early 1970s.

Mexican Home was a good one, but plaintive, Texas.

Here's James longing to go to Mexico. I would, too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P55RlFLWIOU

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My brother Sam liked that song and album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZY0J1YoTgs
Now a Willie Nelson song

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@edgarblythe,

Ah, I'm glad that Sam liked James edgar. What a surprise to find out that Willie Nelson did Crazy originally. Like Julio's version, however. More synchronicity as I was thinking about Willie's Golden Earrings.

Don't know where euroGeorge is nor the George I used to call soccer George.

Time for me to say goodnight and inspired by Engelbert Humperdinck, I think that I shall do so with two songs.

First the overture to Hansel and Gretel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdAO9CKRyP0&feature=related

Now, their evening prayer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U02DM4NM6GM

Great to have London, Ontario, and Scotland with us. Also, nice to see Morgan back again.

From Letty with love and an evening prayer

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Not to be persnickity about it, but Willie recorded Golden Earrings a long time after other people did.
I had never really listened much to the Hansel and Gretel music, but the music you played from it was good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbsLQBj_cYk
Mel Tillis

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Checking out with that same movie....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqzrHG8eEVc&feature=related
Clint Eastwood & Ray Charles - Beers To You.
"Right turn Clyde".

Laters WA2K.
Looking forward to a drier Monday.

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good evening all !
taking a walk down memory lane - my brother was seven years older than i ,
and he introduced me to the first jazztunes just prior to WW I ( "the BIG ONE " - as archie said 0) .
one of these early tunes was " lambeth walk " .
here it is with some views of london in the 30's .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOMro8HCxgY

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"The Lambeth Walk" is a song from the 1937 musical Me and My Girl (with book and lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose and music by Noel Gay). The song takes its name from a local street Lambeth Walk[1] once notable for its street market and working class culture in Lambeth, an area of London.

The tune gave its name to a Cockney dance first made popular in 1937 by Lupino Lane. The story line of Me and My Girl concerns a Cockney barrow boy who inherits an earldom but almost loses his Lambeth girlfriend. It was turned into a 1939 film The Lambeth Walk which starred Lane.

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another popular tune from that time is " das blonde kaetchen " =
" blond cathie " .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVDyMh8gpWE&feature=related

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and finishing the walk down memory lane , here is the " the donkey serenade " , known in germany as " esel polka " .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tr9O6qettc&feature=related

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the composer was Rudolf Friml
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Rudolf Friml (December 7, 1879 – November 12, 1972) was a composer of operettas, musicals, songs and piano pieces, as well as a pianist. After musical training and a brief performing career in his native Prague, Friml moved to the United States, where he became a composer. His best-known works are Rose-Marie and The Vagabond King, each of which enjoyed success on Broadway and in London and were adapted for film.

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@hamburgboy,

Had to get up for a jimmy,so,continuing on with the theme,from a fave movie of mine Das Boot-
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082096/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqvr6igV3Wc
Rinna Ketty - J'attendrai.

J'attendrai
Le jour et la nuit, j'attendrai toujours
Ton retour
J'attendrai
Car l'oiseau qui s'enfuit vient chercher l'oubli
Dans son nid
Le temps passe et court
En battant tristement
Dans mon coeur plus lourd
Et pourtant, j'attendrai
Ton retour

Les fleurs fanisses
Le feu s'éteint
L'ombre se glisse
Dans le jardin
L'horloge tisse.
Des sons très las,
Je crois entendre ton pas
Le vent m'apporte
Des bruits lointains
Guettant ma porte
J'écoute en vain
Hélas, plus rien
Plus rien ne vient

J'attendrai
Le jour et la nuit, j'attendrai toujours
Ton retour
J'attendrai
Car l'oiseau qui s'enfuit vient chercher l'oubli
Dans son nid
Le temps passe et court
En battant tristement
Dans mon coeur plus lourd
Et pourtant, j'attendrai
Ton retour

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And one my Grandpa used to sing....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSsIahPrmhI&feature=related
Ted Yorke - It's A Long, Long Way To Tipperary.

Up to mighty London came
An Irish lad one day,
All the streets were paved with gold,
So everyone was gay!
Singing songs of Piccadilly,
Strand, and Leicester Square,
'Til Paddy got excited and
He shouted to them there:

It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square!
It's a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.

Paddy wrote a letter
To his Irish Molly O',
Saying, "Should you not receive it,
Write and let me know!
If I make mistakes in "spelling",
Molly dear", said he,
"Remember it's the pen, that's bad,
Don't lay the blame on me".

It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square,
It's a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.

It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square!
It's a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.

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Some peeeaannnoooo history with brother Ray....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBtkQ1U-OrM&feature=related
It runs for 15 minutes.Pour a cup of java and enjoy.

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Mention of Rudolph Friml reminded me of a line from this song of by Tom Lehrer....

Your lips were like wine, if you'll pardon the simile
The music was lovely, and quite Rudolph Friml-y

an artist we hear too little of these days.

The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kMY61W9tfc

National Brotherhood Week
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgASBVMyVFI

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Good morning from here in Florida WA2K folks.

edgar, thanks for your comments and Mel Tillis' Send Me Down to Tuscon, I didn't know.

Here's an original Golden Earrings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emfr71C_T7c&feature=related

hbg, Thanks for all of your great music. My favorite was Donkey Serenade. Alan Jones did such a marvelous job with that one.

Hey, Brit. I know A long Way to Tipperary. My dad was in WWI. Had to check out Rinna Kelley and J'Attendrai. I think I Shall Return sounded a bit like Edith Piaff.

If I missed anyone, I'm sorry as I didn't sleep well last evening. My neighbors are all gone most of the time, and I get a bit shaken when I don't have anyone to call on.

More synchronicity, as today is Willie Nelson's birthday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv3fit69cro&feature=related

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