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Perfect, dj, simply perfect.

Listeners, isn't our dj, a marvelous person?

You can be our person of the week, Canada.

The original nursery rime, and a 19th century jocular elaboration.

The House That dj Built


This is the house that dj built.

This is the malt
That lay in the house that dj built.

This is the rat
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that dj built.

This is the cat,
That killed the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that dj built.

This is the dog,
That worried the cat,
That killed the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that dj built.

This is the cow with the crumpled horn,
That tossed the dog,
That worried the cat,
That killed the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that dj built.

This is the maiden all forlorn,
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn,
That tossed the dog,
That worried the cat,
That killed the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that dj built.

This is the man all tattered and torn,
That kissed the maiden all forlorn,
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn,
That tossed the dog,
That worried the cat,
That killed the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that dj built.

This is the priest all shaven and shorn,
That married the man all tattered and torn,
That kissed the maiden all forlorn,
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn,
That tossed the dog,
That worried the cat,
That killed the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that dj built.

This is the cock that crowed in the morn,
That waked the priest all shaven and shorn,
That married the man all tattered and torn,
That kissed the maiden all forlorn,
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn,
That tossed the dog,
That worried the cat,
That killed the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that dj built.

This is the farmer sowing the corn,
That kept the cock that crowed in the morn,
That waked the priest all shaven and shorn,
That married the man all tattered and torn,
That kissed the maiden all forlorn,
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn,
That tossed the dog,
That worried the cat,
That killed the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that dj built.

One exception to this rime--dj built a house of song,
That we'll be singing all day long.

Goonight to all our people here on WA2K radio.

From Letty with love.

i'm just a humble music geek, with too much time on my hands and too much information in my head, no accolades are necessary







they are however appreciated

DJ, accolades are coming your way from New Mexico. More will arrive when I can find them.

Accolades? You're looking for accolades?

Here, I have an extra one.

Powerful image DJ being dubbed "Knight of the House of Music"...

Hey has anyone seen film on TV yet of this year's Glastonbury music festival?

Rock & floods!

http://www.bbc.co.uk//ouch/news/btn/flash_glastonbury.shtml

Good morning, all.

Is it just me or has our hamster morphed into a snail?

I'm afraid that we have embarrassed our dj, but we may now refer to him as Sir dj of the house of WA2K. <smile> and within his court is a hummingbird and venus.

Good morning, Francis and McTag.

McTag, That was some story about Glastonbury in Somerset. I had to do a bit of research on the music festival and was surprised to find that the oldest Christian church above ground was located there. Above ground?

This is my quiet time and I must admit that it is deliciously still and dark.

Hi, Miss Letty. Can not sleep?

No, I cannot, Francis. I'm afraid morpheus was illusive.

For the imminent sun:

Sunshine Of Your Love
Cream

It's getting near dawn
When lights close their tired eyes
I'll soon be with you my love
give you my dawn's surprise
I'll be with you darlin', soon
I'll be with you when the stars start falling

I've been waiting so long
To be where I'm goin'
In the sunshine of your love

I'm with you my love
The light shining through on you
Yes, I'm with you my love
It's the morning and just we two
I'll stay with you darlin', now
I'll stay with you till my seas are all dried up

I've been waiting so long
To be where I'm goin'
In the sunshine of your love

I'm with you my love
The light shining through on you hoo.
Yes, I'm with you my love
It's the morning and just we two
I'll stay with you darlin' now
I'll stay with you till my seas are all dried up.

I've been waiting so long
To be where I'm goin'
In the sunshine of your love

Good Morning WA2K.

The celebrities of the day are:

1874 Rose O'Neill, designer of the Kewpie Doll (Wilkes-Barre, PA; died 1944)
1886 Henry "Hap" Arnold, World War II general (Gladwyne, PA; died 1950)
1887 George Abbott, producer/director/playwright (Forestville, NY; died 1995) (B'Way Damn Yankees and Pajama Game,et al)
1893 Charlotte Greenwood Phila, actress (Oklahoma, Moon over Miami) died 1977
1903 George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair), novelist (Motihari, Bengal; died 1950) (Animal Farm)
1924 Sidney Lumet, director (Philadelphia, PA) (Pawnbroker, Fail Safe, et al) (Dog Day Afternoon; The Verdict; Network
1925 June Lockhart, actress (New York, NY) (TV Lassie, Petticoat Junction; Lost in Space)
1942 Willis Reed, basketball player/coach/executive (Hico, LA)
1945 Carly Simon, singer/songwriter (New York, NY) (Oscar for Let the River Run (Working Girl)
1948 Jimmie Walker, actor/comedian (New York, NY)
1963 George Michael England, rocker (Wham-I Want Your Sex)
1963 Mike Myers Canada, comedian (SNL-Wayne's World)


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Elektra 45824
December 1972 • Billboard: #1

Born into a wealthy family who controlled one of New York's most successful publishing houses, she (Carly Simon) was familiar with society life and the conceits that are peculiar to the rich and famous. Her songs reflect here observations and often betray the propriety that her family's lifestyle demanded. She could be just as topical and scathing when singing about her peers. "You're So Vain" is the ultimate put-down of a conceited hedonist (Warren Beatty? Mick Jagger? Who knows?), and it drew attention to the cannibalistic nature of the singer/songwriter circle in the early '70s. For its time, it was a perfect piece of analytical criticism. It contained the perceptions that were all the more powerful because the were sung by a woman who sounded eager to make transparent the conceits of her male protragonist. If it was intended as vengeance for a lover who spurned her, it did the trick, particularly when considering that it was a #1 hit for three weeks. Getting Mick Jagger to supply backup vocals made the song even more provocative. While "You're So Vain" was one of the biggest hits of the troubadour/rock star era, it also drove a steak through the heart of the beast, by drawing attention to the contradictory nature of sensitivity and self-obsession. "

George Michael (born June 25, 1963) is a Greek-British pop singer/songwriter born in East Finchley, London.


Born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, Michael began his career by forming a band called 'The Executives' together with Andrew Ridgeley. The band didn't survive for long though. It wasn't until he formed the duo Wham! together again with his best friend Andrew Ridgeley in the early 1980s that the success came for the band. Their first album, 'Fantastic', was an instant success and within a year they had released their classic debut single, Wham Rap, while their second single, Young Guns (Go For It!) became the first in a string of Top 10 hits. They were rapidly followed by titles such as Club Tropicana, Wake Me Up Before You Go Go, Careless Whisper, Last Christmas, Everything She Wants, I'm Your Man, and many more. Michael also sang on the original Band Aid recording of "Do They Know It's Christmas and donated the profits from 'Last Christmas' to the charity. After the success of his solo releases "Careless Whisper" and "Different Corner" stories of an impending split intensified. After a series of sell-out concerts at Wembley in 1986 the band was ended.

Solo career

Some of his biggest hit singles as a solo artist include the single "Faith" (taken from his debut album Faith that not only became No.1 on both sides of the Atlantic but also resulted in stunning 6 No.1 singles in America) and many more.

"Careless Whisper" (written when he was 17) became one of the most played songs of the decade and voted Londoner's Favourite record of all time in January 1995 in a competition run jointly by the capital's leading evening newspaper and radio station. He was then also voted Best Male Singer by the same radio station and by the readers of a national newspaper. Some of his other hits include "Father Figure", "One More Try", "Freedom 90", "Fastlove", "Jesus To A Child", "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" (a duet with Elton John), 2002's "Freeek!" and "Shoot The Dog".

His work covers a variety of pop styles, from ballads to funky dance tracks. In a career spanning more than 20 years, George Michael has been responsible for more than 80 million album sales.

Having decided to release his new material through a number of labels on a single-by-single basis, George found a home at Sony for his new, highly anticipated album Patience. It was released in March 2004 after two unstellar singles came out on Polydor and it debuted at number one on the UK album charts and number 2 in Australia.

Notoriety

Michael was involved in a court case concerning his record contract after his record company CBS was taken over by Sony. Amongst Michael's complaints was that Sony had not fully supported the release of his second solo album resulting in its poor performance in the US compared to "Faith". Sony responded that Michael had refused to appear in promotional videos and it was this that had caused the poor response to the album. The case was heard in London and was found against Michael. As a consequence Michael declared he would not release any new material until he had completed the minimum of his contractual obligations to Sony.

Michael is also well known for his 1998 arrest for "engaging in a lewd act" in a public restroom in a Beverly Hills city park. He was arrested by an undercover Beverly Hills police officer named Marcelo Rodriguez.

George Michael: "Well, I was followed into the restroom, and then, this cop - well, I didn't know he was a cop at the time obviously - he started playing this game. I think it's called ?'I'll show you mine, you show me yours, and then when you show me yours, I'm gonna nick you!'" [1] (http://gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/people/110998pe.htm)

After pleading "no contest" to the charge, Michael was fined $810 and sentenced to 80 hours of community service. After that incident, he became open about his homosexuality.

Soon afterwards, Michael made a video for his single "Outside" which was clearly based on the public restroom incident and which featured men dressed up as policemen kissing. Rodriguez, the police officer, claimed that this video "mocked" him, and also that Michael had slandered him in interviews, and in 1999 filed a ten million dollar lawsuit in California against the singer. The court dismissed the case on the grounds related to the officer's status as a kind of public official, but an appeals court reinstated the case on December 3, 2002.

George has often taken a public political stance. George Michael sang as part of Band Aid on the charity song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" for famine relief in Ethiopia and Wham! played at Live Aid in 1985. In the 1980s, George Michael was very critical of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government and its cruise missile alliance with the United States. George said that he felt bad, since through his taxes he was paying for these weapons, yet was obliged to never dodge his tax obligations to his home country.

In December 2004 Elton John stated in an interview that he believed George Michael should 'get out more'. As both John and Michael were openly gay and had performed together on several occasions many were surprised at the public spat. In an open letter response Michael claimed he and Elton were not good friends and that John had little knowledge of his personal life other than what he might glean from gossip.


Future career

George Michael announced that Patience will be the last record on sale to the public. He told BBC Radio 1 on March 10, 2004 that future music that he puts out will be available for download with fans encouraged to make a donation to charity. He said: "I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money. I'd like to have something on the Internet which is a charitable download site where anyone can download my music for free. I'll have my favourite charities up there and people will hopefully donate to that."

He states that the decision will put less pressure to produce a new album every so often and allow him to have more of a private life with his partner Kenny Goss.

George Michael ranks as Britain's 10th richest musician with an amassed personal fortune said to be between at 115 million dollars to over 200 million dollars in assets, real estate and currency. George owns several homes all over the world, one in Texas and one of London.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Michael


Song Name: Careless Whisper
Title: Artist: GEORGE MICHAEL Song: Careless Whisper Album: Ladies And Gentlemen CD1 - For The Heart

Listen to song
I Feel So Unsure
As i take your hand
And lead you to the dance floor
As the music dies



Something in your eyes
Calls to mind a silver screen
And all its sad goodbyes

[Chorus]

I'm never gonna dance again
Guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it's easy to pretend
I know you're not a fool
I should have known better than to cheat a friend
And waste a chance that i've been given
So i'm never gonna dance again
The way i danced with you

Time can never mend
The careless whisper of a good friend
To the heart and mind
Ignorance is kind
There's no comfort in the truth
Pain is all you'll find

[Chorus]

Tonight the music seems so loud
I wish that we could lose this crowd
Maybe it's better this way
We'd hurt each other with the things we want to say
We could have been so good together
We could have lived this dance forever
But now who's gonna dance with me
Please stay

[Chorus]

Now that you've gone
Now that you've gone
Now that you've gone
Was what i did so wrong
So wrong that you had to leave me alone

Well, listeners. There's our Raggedy with her celeb updates. Thank you, my friend. Carly Simon has never said, has she, but I always heard it was James Taylor that backed up that recording.

I always liked her song behind the James Bond movie, "Nobody does it Better." Of course we will always wonder about who was so vain, right folks?

Good morning, Bob. Never heard of what's-his-name, but I was fascinated by the bio, and did you do the karaoke last evening?

Well, we're missing Germany and Norway. "They haven't a thing left to say, the night we called it a day." <smile>

and here's an item of interest for our resident hummingbird:

Study Examines Flight of Hummingbirds

By WILLIAM McCALL

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Not much bigger than a honey bee, the tiny hummingbird is able to hover gently over a flower because it uses some of the same wing motion as an insect - but not as much as previously thought, a new study says.

The hummingbird neatly splits the difference between birds, which get all their lift from the downstroke of their wings, and bugs, which get equal amounts of lift from both downstroke and upstroke.

Here is the entire story:

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?floc=ne-main-9-l8&flok=FF-APO-1501&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20050624%2F2104779882.htm&sc=1501

Hope that works. If not, well, you know what they say about flipping and flitting.

Researchers used sophisticated technology originally developed for engineering design to analyze the movement of air around a hummingbird's wings and provide details about its flight that had been limited to mere guesswork for decades.

Hummingbirds get about 75 percent of their lift from the downstroke, with the remaining 25 percent provided by the upstroke, according to University of Portland and Oregon State University researchers.


For all other birds, the lift is 100 percent downstroke, while bugs are 50-50, up and down.

I used to wear a red ball cap around the apartments. But, with so many red hummingbird feeders about, the little birds kept hovering in my face, looking for a way to get at some nectar. I changed hat colors for both of our sakes.

But Beautiful - Frank Sinatra

[Words and Music by Johnny Burke and James Van Heusen]

Love is funny or it's sad
Or it's quiet or it's mad
It's a good thing or it's bad
But beautiful
Beautiful to take a chance
And if you fall, you fall
And I'm thinking I wouldn't mind at all
Love is tearful or it's gay
It's a problem or it's play
It's a heartache either way
But beautiful
And I'm thinking if you were mine
I'd never let you go
And that would be but beautiful I know

I would like to post you a song, Miss Letty. Which kind would you love it?

Hummingbird, hummingbird should be your name
Too restless to settle too wild to tame
Too restless to settle too wild to tame
Hummingbird, hummingbird should be your name

Hummingbird, hummingbird winging along
No tender young blossom can hold you for long
No tender young blossom can hold you for long
Hummingbird, hummingbird winging along

You'd hug me and kiss me like others I've known
You'd promise to love me and call me your own
Then all of my dreams would be shattered apart
By the hum hum of your hummingbird heart

There's a yellow flower by your bed
Sadly droopin' it's perfumed head
So you won't smell it, I know what you'll miss

And there's a hummingbird, a hummingbird,
A hummingbird, a hummingbird,
Oh there's a hummingbird singing.

There is the hat you made, the clothes you wore
Lying down on the cold, dirty floor.
The colors are fading, they'll never shine again.

And there's a hummingbird, a hummingbird,
A hummingbird, a hummingbird,
Oh there's a hummingbird singing.

Now the road is turning gray,
There's a shadow where you once lay.
They'll find it tomorrow, and think you went alone.

But there's a hummingbird, a hummingbird,
A hummingbird, a hummingbird,
Ah there's a hummingbird crying.

edgar, you are funny today, but I enjoy listening to your aviary songs. Thanks, Texas. "But beautiful" takes me back.

Francis, anything in French for Letty would be a song of delight.