WA2K Radio is now on the air

Wonderful music this afternoon (here at least) on WA2K radio.

Brit, once again you explain things that we don't know. Thanks for the info.
Although I am not familiar with Reet Petite on The Jools Holland Show, I liked it.

edgar, thanks for your input, and as you know I really like the "man in black" but didn't know Pickin' Time. Good one. Thanks for your comment, too.

euro, Glad that you are back with us as well. Don't know either of those songs, but they were great. Thanks for the introduction, Irish.

hbg, I know Paul Anka, Neil Sedaka (like him best doing The Immigrant) and since I had a brief technicolor dream about a man that looked like Mantovani I certainly know him. Love La Paloma.

When I remarked "young man" on Barry's observation. I recalled The Village People, so I went searching and found this total surprise.

First some info.

Masaki Sumitani (住谷 正樹 Sumitani Masaki?) is a Japanese comedian, retired professional wrestler and tarento ("talent"), best known under his performing name of Razor Ramon Hard Gay (レイザーラモンＨＧ Reizā Ramon HG?, occasionally HG, Razor Ramon Sumitani or just Hard Gay). His act gained national attention and popularity when featured on the Bakusho Mondai no Bakuten! (Daibakuten) Saturday variety show on TBS Television in Japan, in 2005.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5oRr3we_2Y

Hope I didn't miss anyone. After that cleansing rainfall, I took a cat nap.

Tony Martin, the debonair baritone whose career spanned some 80 years in films and nightclubs and on radio and television, died on Friday at his home in West Los Angeles. He was 98.
His death was confirmed by business manager, Stan Schneider.

Mr. Martin’s long life in show business began in the late 1920s, when he formed his first band at Oakland Technical High School in California. He was still performing in nightclubs around the country well into the 21st century.

“Tony Martin may be his generation’s Last Man Standing,” Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times in January 2008. The occasion was a five-night engagement at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency in New York, where Mr. Martin sang his hits from half a century earlier while dropping names of colleagues he had outlived, like Bing Crosby and Perry Como.

After a chorus or two of, say, “The Very Thought of You,” Mr. Martin would interject: “Ray Noble, lovely guy. I met him when I did the Palladium in London, and he asked me to sing that song.”

A few lines of “I Don’t Know Why” would recall Russ Columbo, who popularized it. “I was working with Woody Herman in Tom Gerun’s band in Oakland,” Mr. Martin would tell his audience, “when we heard that both Columbo and Bing Crosby were singing with Gus Arnheim’s band down in L.A. So we drove down to hear them.”

Mr. Martin spoke familiarly of Crosby and later singers. Crosby, who was almost 10 years older than he was, was the first of the popular male singers to develop the laid-back persona that Frank Sinatra would make his own. But Mr. Martin rarely appeared out of black tie. Young swains of the 1950s preparing for their first prom could avail themselves of a popular tuxedo model called the Tony Martin.

good arternoon y'all folkses.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYhcedGn2mo
Tony Martin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwX4bjFrP_0
Kathy Young

They're a bit thin on the ground but they're still here (you just gotta look) - Here's one that get's played a few times a year....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIDFlPlw0AI
Robbie Williams - Miss Jones.

hi , msletty and all listeners !
( Hard Gay was just TOO funny ! )

here are two other fellows that bring back memories !

The Everly Brothers :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4oBEF2-eLo&feature=fvwrel

( thanks for your kind comments , msletty )

here, , once more : The Everly Brothers - but just a little older :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6Q6zg90dxk&feature=related

Here's a more subtle tune for the Rainbow Nation -


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfBn5IJgP0o&feature=related
Mary O'Brien - I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten.

Before I say good night folks I must first lament the passing of the great Dublin writer Maeve Binchy.
Here she is herself, followed by music from the film adaptation of her bestseller 'Circle of Friends'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHxvH4hmRws

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL0Vgz97qc8

Good night folks.

Thanks for the info on Tony Martin, edgar. So long ago when I had my puppy mill dog that I named Domino after my first one called sugar, my older sister hummed the lyrics to that Tony Martin song and, of course, I went searching.

I saw on TCM that he did pepe lamoco at The Casbah which starred YeVonne Decarlo and Peter Lorre and Tony Martin.

Loved Night and Day by him as well as Kathy Young's A Thousand Stars. Didn't know that one by Kathy so thanks for the introduction.

Hey, Brit. Loved Have You Met Miss Jones by Robbie as well as Dusty's I Close My Eyes.

hbg, Bye Bye Love and Wake up Little Suzie I do know. The Everly Bros. were good in their time.

Yep, that Japanese bunch doing YMCA was funny.

Hurry back, euro. What a wonderful tribute to the lady and her Circle of Friends.

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

First Domino.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDUOYGzz2xw

Now, The sassy Ms. Sarah.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A5vDrEAqdk

hbg, it's always easy to give kind remarks to those who participate here.

Wonderful having Dublin, Ontario via Germany, and London with us

From Letty with love but still concerned about George ob and Yitwail. Heard from Latin George, however

Good morning Miss Letty & all WA2K folkarinos.

I'm on a roof for the next few hours, luv it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91PpfWU-rmA

Morning, peeples. Domino and Sarah were very good as was euro's music. See you all later in the day. Stay cool.

Hurry back, edgar, 'cause I found out who did Buckle Down Winsocki. Thanks again for the comments

euro, I love that one by The Carpenters. Poor Karen. She had anorexia nervosa and Richard said that it was her forced feeding that caused her cardiac arrest.

Stayed awake rather late last evening watching two great movies on TCM.

Two birthday guys, yawl.

First, Michael.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnvHyGpB0zU

Now, Jim.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucfJhDqB2eg

Didn't know the birthday folk, but the youtubes were good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WFfAqzIw5A
Jim and Patsy

Thanks for restoring our signal, edgar. Of course we know that you meant "songs"

Love that one by "gentleman" Jim and Patsy. I had forgotten what marvelous voices they both have.

Here's the answer to your buckle down, Texas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5hqijJuILQ

The Robert Shaw Chorale was fantastic.

Rather surprised that euro didn't mention the tribute to the Corr man.

Not sure the origin of the buckle down train of thought, but Robert Shaw does it well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1B9V4TFM3U
Pat Boone

Hi folkaroo's,

The Jam - - That's Entertainment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-eDvLdgVzk

Good day Letty and Edgarblythe and folks.
Radio station was playing nineteen eighties music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyeWRd7ZEBs&feature=BFa&list=FLsTLn1UqzekcZ2QeNZj4uyg

edgar, I liked that one by Pat Boone. Thanks for the memory.

euro, Welcome once again. The Jam-That's Entertainment I didn't know, so thanks once again for the introduction. Reminds me of Jam Session.

Alex, Great to see you back as well. Pet Shop Boys' Opportunities was a good one. Rather reminded me of Easy Street, buddy.

Today is Geraldine Chaplin's birthday, so here is a theme from Dr. Zhivago in which she starred, too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwEftzhjsi8&feature=related

I like Laura's Theme.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XT3FRzVK9U
Don Costa