Pee Wee Hunt once more - with " Mack the Knife " ( Mack was one of the ( in ) famous gangsters in Berlin during the 1920's ) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SstMe2Th6Rg
Quote: Oh the shark has pretty teeth dear,
And he shows them pearly white
Just a jack-knife has Macheath dear
And he keeps it out of sight.
wishing you all a good morning !
" under the linden trees : - an old berlin march .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUQdVl9BEL0
edgar, Kookie Byrnes' Yulesville was great. Odd, I remember Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb.
hbg, enjoyed The Vienna Boy's Choir doing Strauss as well as Pee Wee Hunt's I Love Paris. You played Twelfth Street Rag instead of Kurt Weill's Mack the Knife. Sounds like something that I would do.
Goodnight and good morning, hbg. Love the Linden March.
Today is Lucy Liu's birthday. Don't know her so this is a great introduction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df56raTqKbo
Lucy plays Watson on the new Sherlock Holmes TV show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTX96qGekx0
San Diego Serenade
There are songs, and then there are anthems.
One of those anthems is the subject of music journalist Alan Light's new book, The Holy Or The Broken.
The anthem itself, Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," is one you've probably heard before, but most likely it's been one of the many covers sung by the likes of Rufus Wainwright, Willie Nelson, Susan Boyle, k.d. lang and even Michael Bolton. You may have also heard one of its many appearances in film and television.
As Light tells Weekend Edition Sunday host Rachel Martin, the "bassy and kind of droning" song almost didn't see the light of day.
"Columbia Records, which was Leonard's label then and remains so today, listened to the record and rejected it," Light says.
The label thought the song was "out of step" with where music was at the time, but PVC Records, an independent label, eventually released the song in 1984 in the U.S. to little fanfare.
"Not only was this under the radar, it was completely absent from the radar," Light says. "It was as if this song had never happened."
In 1994, a cover by the late Jeff Buckley helped save "Hallelujah" from musical obscurity. Buckley's version turned one man's lament into another artist's ode to love. Light says the ambiguity of the song's lyrics makes it easy for musicians to make the tune their own.
"There are lyrics that are talking about sex. There are these allusions to stories from the Bible; the King David story and the Samson story," he says. "There's lots and lots of layers."
The song really hit the mainstream when a version by John Cale was in a scene from the hit animated film Shrek. Even since, Light says "Hallelujah" is a go-to emotional trigger in TV shows and movies.
"You know what you're supposed to feel when you hear that song," he says. "You can't even hear it anymore. You just know that's the song that's supposed to make me feel sad now."
Still, Light says at a time when the way we encounter music has become so fragmented, the endurance of this song and its dozens of covers — nearly 30 years after it was first released — is remarkable.
"This is a song that people [now] use at weddings, at funerals and at very deeply personal things ... it's really kind of humbling," he says. "A song like this, you witness just how important it can still be for huge swaths of people."
@Letty,
that i did NOT play Mack the Knife !
finally found him
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHa5vLTtTa8
edgar, I really enjoyed Tom Waits' San Diego Serenade.
Lucy played Watson? Didn't know there was a Sherlock Holmes TV show. The rest of your information was really informative, and I still love Leonard's Hallelujah.
hbg, Fantastic version of Mack the Knife. I know it best by Bobby Darin.
Today is this lady's birthday, but first some information.
Maria Callas
Despite the fact they were both married, Onassis and opera diva Maria Callas embarked on an affair. They had met in 1957 during a party in Venice promoted by Elsa Maxwell. After this first encounter, Onassis commented to Spyros Skouras: "There [was] just a natural curiosity; after all, we were the most famous Greeks alive in the world"
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
Onassis ended his relationship with Callas to marry Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, on 20 October 1968. They married on Onassis's privately owned island of Skorpios.
Now Maria.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv5hCEf8qSw
Here is a preview of the latest incarnation of Sherlock Holmes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff-XiZzJLxw
Holmes meets Watson
Maria Callas song was a good one, as usual with her
@edgarblythe,
Quick Watson the needle? Can't say that I like Lucy as Watson, edgar.
Thanks for your comment about Maria. Who killed JFK is still a mystery.
Another Sherlock Holmes, and one of my favorites of Sir Arthur.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4p5yJVbnvQ
I liked both book and movie of Hound of, letty.
Here now is Judy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJLC4_cSfmM
@edgarblythe,
Thanks for keeping us on the air, edgar. Also appreciate your comment.
Love I'm Just Wild About Harry by Judy.
Here's one to match. This was originally done by her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZZP0EIHHf8
I have many favorite musicals too, barry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RaSUrmSryU
Chinatown song
edgar, thanks again for your comment and Bobby Rydell doing We Got Love was great. Loved Little Man in Chinatown.
Welcome back and goodnight, dear friend.
Love that one from Fiddler on the Roof; Lauren Bacall; and, of course, Les Mis' I Dreamed a Dream.
Saying goodnight with two songs.
First, a memory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzM2Sr9LIiE
Now, a cover of Leonard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah58t5YZr7U
Wonderful having Ontario and London with us today.
Perhaps Scotland and Dublin tomorrow? Hope so.
From Letty with love to the world
