I had only heard Cindy by Eddie Fisher. The HIghwaymen are a good bunch.
I never paid much attention to Shania Twain, but when I learned she had the best selling album made by a woman of all time, I decided to check her out a little.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH7VoJJh84k
Hurry back, Brit. Don't Let it Go to Your Head was a good one. I did smile at some of the "show too much" stuff. Reminded me that Madonna is misbehaving that way as well.
edgar, Welcome back to you as well. Don't know Shania, but When was a good one. Thanks again for your comment.
Don't Let it Go to Your Head reminded me of this one, however.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKzhFqemJXU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fko7_SV3Lc
Katy Perry
Diana's song is one I know. Good one.
@edgarblythe,
Thanks for your comment and Katy Perry's Part of Me. Don't know her, Texas, but thanks for the introduction.
How about All of Me by Michael.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3f6tsFTdvU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbuQDqnMebk
Old Blue
All of me is one of those great songs, letty.
@edgarblythe,
Thanks again for your comment, Texas. Ah, The Byrds doing Old Blue. That conjured up a few memories. Rather like Old Shep. Had to wipe a couple of tears from my eye with that one.
Well, today is this great jazz man's birthday, and he says it right. "...they can't take that away from me..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUVQaNTzNKU&feature=fvwrel
Now, the lyrics.
The way you wear your hat
The way you sip your tea
The memory of all that
No they can't take that away from me
The way your smile just beams
The way you sing off key
The way you haunt my dreams
No they can't take that away from me
We may never never meet again, on that bumpy road to love
But I'll always, always keep the memory of
The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you changed my life
No they can't take that away from me
From the news desk as Barry would say.
LONDON (AP) — Kate Winslet has been honored by Queen Elizabeth II for her titanic contribution to the arts.
The actress, who won a best actress Academy Award in 2009 for "The Reader" and made her breakthrough as the feisty Rose in 1997 blockbuster "Titanic," has been named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, or CBE, in the queen's Birthday Honors List, published Saturday.
Winslet said the honor made her "very proud to be a Brit."
"I am both surprised and honored to stand alongside so many men and woman who have achieved great things for our country," the 36-year-old star said.
Actor and director Kenneth Branagh was made a knight and will be known as Sir Kenneth. A respected Shakespearean actor whose films as a director range from "Henry V" and "Hamlet" to the comic-book fantasy "Thor," Branagh said he felt "humble, elated, and incredibly lucky" to get the honor. It puts him in a pantheon of theatrical knights alongside the late Sir Laurence Olivier, whom Branagh played in "My Life With Marilyn."
Saying goodnight with two songs.
First Kate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18FMybmqadc&feature=related
Sorry, Sir Kenneth, but I decided that a sonnet from "the bard" would be better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ff3nMmAnP0&feature=related
Always good to have Canada and London with us. Hope our George is dealing with his loss.
From Letty with love to the world.
Titanic is one of my favorite films, letty.
Shall I Compare Thee is a great one too, of course.
Hurry back, Barry. Great one by Jenny. Don't know her, but I remember that werewolf. Also enjoyed Walking in the Rain.
edgar, Great one by "the king". Didn't know Dixieland Rock. It was a good one, and The Crystals' Then He Kissed Me was also a winner. Especially liked The Joker and your way of saying Good Morning in Tex-Mex along with the southern y'all.
Two songs for the middle of the day here.
First, an inspiration as your PD needs it today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCKEa53J2Bk&feature=related
Now, "the singing bus driver"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ChoOH3RAUA&feature=related
Great hymn. And I like Matt as much as you do. Here is Murray Kellum. I did not realize before now he died in a plane crash.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0q_4HP4Fek
@edgarblythe,
Thanks again for your comment, edgar. Don't know Murray Kellum, but Girl of My Life was great. Odd, I couldn't find one thing about him, and believe me, I searched and searched.
Well, Today is Eric Segal's birthday, and I had no idea that the man had died of parkinson's disease. I was given to understand that Segal wrote the screenplay to promote the movie.
Here's the theme from Love Story. I never heard Andy Williams sound so great.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jEaIDqHl74&feature=related
On the right songs, such as that one, Andy Williams is great.
Murray is known to everybody for his Long Tall Texan song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kNx1L8C6cU
more Andy
@edgarblythe,
Love that Wedding Song by Andy, edgar. Intonation is everything, and here's Marty with the same ability on our radio.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0s3dv17DzU&feature=related
One night in 1957, a tall, rather lanky man in western entertainer clothes strode into an all-night diner on the Bessemer Highway near Birmingham, Ala. He and his band, the Western Ramblers, had stopped in for a bite to eat while enroute to an engagement.
A 17 year-old Birmingham lad named Henry Strzelecki took in with wide-eyed awe the man’s colorful attire, his large, white Stetson, big shiny boots, easy gait, and height.
Then Strzelecki wrote the famous song that went pop as a million-selling hit recorded by Murry Kellum. The song the lad penned waws entitled Long Tall Texan and the subject was none other than Tex Ritter.
Birmingham, AL-born Henry Strzelecki started out in country music in his teens, recording with songwriter Baker Knight on the Decca label out of Nashville in the mid-'50s. He played with his brother Larry in the Four Flickers (later the Four Counts), who toured the southern and border states late in the '50s. The Four Flickers was the first group to record the song in 1959 which was released by the Memphis Lee label (Lee 1003).
Jerry Woodard, a rockabilly singer of Strzelecki’s acquaintance, recorded it for Century Ltd, a small label run by another Jackson, Mississippi artists, Andy Anderson & the Dawnbreakers. [Century Limited 603, 1960]. Though Woodard’s version wasn’t a hit, Andy Anderson liked ‘Long Tall Texan” enough to play it on personal appearances.
Murry Kellum, a local kid who occasionnaly sat in with the Dawnbreakers, was even more taken with the song. He decided to record it himself with help from his parents, who put up the money for a session at the Pepper Studio in Memphis in March 1963. Kellum was accompanied on the trip by his friend, Glen Sutton, and members of Sutton’s band – brother Ronnie Sutton on bass, Sammy Martin on piano, Woody Coates, sax, and Dick Thomas on drums. Kellum sing and played guitar on ‘Long Tall Texan’ while Sutton performed on the other side.
‘Long Tall Texan’ b/w ‘I Gotta Leave thius Town’ was issued on Kellum’s own K&M label (the initials stood for his parents’ names)
Glenn Sutton :
« For $182 we cut four sides, including « Long Tall Texan ». We came back to Jackson and pressed about two hundred records and put ‘em out there in town. And a little guy at a record store in Jackson, Mississippi, played it for a salesman at Hi Records in Memphis. They leased as it was, the two sides. I was one side of the record, and Murray was the other . ‘Long Tall Texan’ – his side – went to number fifty with a bullet in the pop charts .
Joe Cuoghi, a Memphis distributor who owned the mighty Hi label, re-issued Kellum’s master on his M.O.C. subsidiary and with national distribution, ‘Long Tall Texan’ crept up to #51 in the late summer of 1963.
The Beach Boys further popularised the song by including it on their best-selling “Beach Boys Concert” LP n 1964.
Kellum, who was born in Jackson in 1942, tragically died in a plane crash at the age of 47 in 1990.
I have a vinyl album of Marty's Hawaiian music, letty. Aloha Oe is first on side one., I think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L1JG5ri6fI
Marty Robbins
@edgarblythe,
First, edgar, allow me to grade your marvelous thesis on the Tex Ritter story.
Thanks again for your comments, and although I didn't know that one by Marty, I loved it. He was a fantastic performer.
John Travolta has been in the news lately, so I was reminded of this one that I really like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvOWox2o5cU&feature=related
