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<kissing Letty on the forehead and tucking her in>

Nelson Eddy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


Nelson Ackerman Eddy (June 29, 1901 - March 6, 1967) was an American singer and film actor.

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Eddy's parents were both singers, and he would later say that singing was the only career he ever contemplated. He studied in Dresden and Paris before performing his first concert recital in Philadelphia in 1928. He continued performing in opera, oratorios, concerts and radio over the next few years, and in 1933 impressed Ida Koverman, secretary to MGM executive Louis B. Mayer who was in the audience.

Eddy's first success was in the film Naughty Marietta (1935) opposite Jeanette MacDonald. The two became so closely identified by the public that MGM continued pairing them in such films as Rose-Marie (1936), Maytime (1937), The Girl of the Golden West (1938) Sweethearts (1938), New Moon (1940) Bitter Sweet (1940) and I Married an Angel (1942). His solo films included Rosalie (1937) Let Freedom Ring (1939), Balalaika (1939) The Chocolate Soldier (1941) and Phantom of the Opera (1943). Though admired for his singing voice, critics were usually scathing in their comments regarding his acting abilities, and he found it difficult to break away from the typecasting of the light operetta roles to which he was assigned. Still, he became the highest paid singer in the world and his concerts were mob scenes of screaming female fans--not unlike a rock star of today. During World War II he left films to do government work. After the war, the operetta film roles were out of vogue and his career was greatly diminished. He continued appearing on radio (occasionally with MacDonald) and attracted a large following with his own nightclub show during the 1950s. He and MacDonald shared a gold record album when, in 1958, they released "Favorites in HiFi (and Stereo)."

In later years, he established himself as a popular concert performer with audiences who remembered nostalgically his popular movie roles.

He collapsed on stage while performing in Miami Beach, Florida and died shortly after as a result of a stroke. He is interred in Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, California.

Eddy married Ann Franklin in 1939 and remained married until his death, when rumors began to emerge that he had an off-screen relationship with Jeanette MacDonald. Sweethearts by Sharon Rich (revised edition, 2001), ISBN 0971199817, discusses Eddy's lengthy affair with MacDonald, drawing on excerpts from letters, diaries, interviews and the unpublished memoirs of Eddy's mother. Nelson Eddy:The Opera Years by Sharon Rich (2001), ISBN 0971199809, covers Eddy's complete opera and concert career from 1922-35.

Nelson Eddy was given three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to Recordings, Radio and Motion Pictures (at 6311 Hollywood Boulevard).

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


Nelson Eddy - Stout-Hearted Men

You who have dreams
If you act, they'll come true
To turn your dreams to a fact
It's up to you
If you have the soul and the spirit
Never fear it, you'll see it through
Hearts can inspire
Other hearts with their fire
For the strong obey
When a strong man shows them the way

Give me some men who are stout-hearted men
Who will fight for the right they adore
Start me with ten who are stout-hearted men
And I'll soon give you ten thousand more-ore

Shoulder to shoulder, and bolder and bolder
They grow as they go to the fore
Then there's nothing in the world
Can halt or mar a plan
When stout-hearted men
Can stick together - man - to man...

Oh...
Give me some men who are stout-hearted men
Who will fight for the right they adore
Start me with ten who are stout-hearted men
And I'll soon give you ten thousand more-ore

Shoulder to shoulder, and bolder and bolder
They grow as they go to the fore
Then there's nothing in the world
Can halt or mar a plan
When stout-hearted men
Can stick together - man - to man...
(Give me some men who are stout-hearted men) [fade]

JIM BRIDGER - Johnny Horton

Once there was a mountain man who couldn't write his name
Yet he deserves the front row seat in History's Hall of Fame
He forgot more about the Indians than we will ever know
He spoke the language of the Sioux the Black Foot and the Crow
(Let's drink to old Jim Bridger yes lift your glasses high)
As long as there's the USA don't let his memory die
(That he was making history never once occured to him)
But I doubt if we'd been here if it weren't for men like Jim
[ ac.guitar ]
He spoke with General Custer and said listen Yellow Hair
The Sioux are the great nation so treat 'em fair and square
Sit in on their war councils, don't laugh away their pride
But Custer didn't listen at Little Big Horn Custer died
(Let's drink to old Jim Bridger...

There's poems and there's legends that tell of Carson's fame
Yet compared to Jim Bridger Kit was civilized and tame
These words are straight from Carson's lips if you place that story by him
If there's a man who knows this God forsaken land it's Jim
(Let's drink to old Jim Bridger...

Good Morning WA2K.

Birthday Celebs:

1858 George W. Goethals, army officer and chief engineer of the Panama Canal (Brooklyn, NY; died 1928)
1958 Julia Lathrop, children's rights activist (Rockford, IL; died 1932)

1900 Antoine Saint-Exupery,France, aviator/writer (Wind, Sand & Stars, The Little Prince) "love is not about two people looking into each other's eyes but rather spending their lives looking off into the same direction together." Died 1944

1901 Nelson Eddy actor/baritone (Great Duets with Jeanette MacDonald) died 1967

1909 Leroy Anderson US, composer (Syncopated Clock, Sleigh Ride, Blue Tango ) died 1975

1916 Ruth Warrick, actress (St. Joseph, MO) (Citizen Kane, TV soap All My Children) died 2005

1919 Slim Pickens (Louis Bert Lindley, Jr) Kingsburg Calif, actor (Dr Strangelove, Blazing Saddles) died 1983

1930 Robert Evans US, actor/director , Producer (Best of Everything, The Sun Also Rises, Man of a Thousand Faces)

1933 Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle actor (Keystone Comedies, Mabel & Fatty) died 1933
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
"At the height of his career, Arbuckle was under contract to Paramount Studios for $1 million a year, at the time an astronomical sum. On September 3, 1921, Arbuckle took a break from his hectic film schedule, driving to San Francisco with two friends, Lowell Sherman and Fred Fischbach. The three checked into the St. Francis Hotel. The three decided to have a party and invited several women to their suite. During the carousing, one of the women, a 26-year-old aspiring actress named Virginia Rappe, became seriously ill, and she was examined by the hotel doctor, who concluded she was merely intoxicated. Rappe died three days later of peritonitis. Matthew Brady, the San Francisco district attorney, quickly pursued charges against Arbuckle, releasing a statement to the press that essentially accused Arbuckle of raping or attempting to rape Rappe with a champagne bottle and crushing her with his weight. However, the doctor who conducted the autopsy on Rappe found no evidence that violence had played any role in her death, nor did he find any evidence that she had been assaulted. Brady proceeded to try Arbuckle anyway. During the trial, Arbuckle testified that he had found Rappe vomiting in the bathroom and screaming in pain, that he had helped her to a bed, and that he had been alone with her no longer than 10 minutes.

Roscoe Arbuckle's career is seen by many film historians as one of the great tragedies of Hollywood. Although Arbuckle was acquitted of the allegations involving Rappe, the case had to be tried three times before he was pronounced innocent. The resulting infamy destroyed his career and his personal life. During the trial, morality groups nationwide called for Arbuckle to be sentenced to death, and studio moguls ordered Arbuckle's friends in the industry not to come to his public defense. Buster Keaton did, however, and he testified in support of Arbuckle, calling Roscoe one of the kindest souls he had known.

Arbuckle's case has been examined by scholars and historians over the years, and it is believed by most serious historians that Arbuckle was indeed an innocent man.

The Hays Office banned all of Arbuckle's films, although Will Hays later issued a statement that Arbuckle should be allowed to work in Hollywood.

Arbuckle tried to return to moviemaking, but audiences shunned him and he retreated into alcoholism?-in the words of his first wife, "Roscoe only seemed to find solace and comfort in a bottle".
Roscoe Arbuckle died from heart failure on June 29, 1933, in New York City, New York State. Buster Keaton stated repeatedly that Arbuckle died of a broken heart."

1941 Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), militant civil rights leader (Port of Spain, British West Indies; died 1998)
1944 Gary Busey, actor (Goose Creek, TX)
1947 Richard Lewis, comedian/actor (New York, NY)
1948 Fred Grandy, actor and politician (Sioux City, IA)
1956 Pedro Guerrero, baseball player (San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic)
1957 Maria Conchita Alonso, actress (Cienfuegos, Cuba)
1962 Sharon Lawrence, actress (Charlotte, NC)

Before I recognize all the wonderful contributors to WA2K radio, I would like to have you visit squinney with your good thoughts for her and for her bear:

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1424065#1424065

Raggedy, I love the quote by Exupery. It is so true, my friend.

Eva, you are so dear. I have never been tucked in nor given a kiss, ever. It felt good.

edgar, I am trying to recall Jim Bridger in my mind's eye. Thanks for that historical song, buddy.

Bob, my mother adored Jeanette McDonald and Nelson Eddy. My mother was, as I like to refer to her, a stoic romantic.

Last night, on the Sci-Fi channel, I watched the historical presentation of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds. That broadcast, via Mercury theater, was so real that people were running amok, and in a panic. Most of the radio listeners did not catch the prologue to the show because they were listening to Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, but when Nelson Eddy came on with a song, they flipped the dial to Mercury theatre and really, REALLY believed that America was being attacked by martians.

As I originally posted, listeners, that is why the FCC of that day and time, required all radio stations to give a station break on the half hour. Honestly, I get spooked sometimes at how strange the coincidences are here on WA2K.

For all the listeners of WA2K, another quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.

Francis, That is one profound observation by your compatriot "....being born slowly......". Thank you for that, my friend, because it is something to examine and re-examine in this "not-so-easy" life.

And how do our listeners feel about this?

Poems
To Virgins, to Make Much of Time - written by Robert Herrick
"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may old time is still aflying,
and that same flower which blooms today, tomorrow may be dying."

and its antithesis by Burns:

"But pleasures are like poppies spread
You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed
Or like the snow falls in the river
A moment white then melts for ever."

You've never been tucked in and given a goodnight kiss, Letty? Oh dear. That's just too, too sad.

Well, Eva. Not that I recall, I haven't, but there is an explanation for it, I will get in touch with you later, my dear.

Song for our Bear:

Oh, gentle presence,
peace and joy and power,
Oh, night divine, that owns each waiting hour.
Oh, love that guards the nestlings faltering flight,
Keep thou, our bear, on upward wing tonight.

and a dedication song, listeners. Please call in your requests:


Carmen Mcrae version

Said I, many times, love is illusion,
A feeling result of confusion.
With knowing smile, and blazing sigh,
A cynical so-and-so was I.


In this world,
Of ordinary people,
Extraordinary people,
I'm glad there is you.

In this world of overrated treasures,
And underrated pleasures,
I'm glad there is you.

I live to love,
I love to live with you,
Beside me.
This road so new,
I'll muddle through,
With you to guide me.

In this world,
Where many, many play at love,
And hardly any stay at love,
I'm glad there is you,
More than ever, I'm glad,
So glad, there's you.

Don't touch that dial now, this ain't surfin's radio. <smile>

Before I have to shut down the control room from Florida. a bit of odd news:
'diamond' rush Wed Jun 29, 9:13 AM ET



BOMBAY (Reuters) - Thousands of people have been flocking to a beach in India's financial hub in a manic diamond rush, but police said Wednesday the stones were fakes and warned them to stay away after one treasure hunter was drowned.



Beggars, hawkers, street children and even housewives and tourists have been arriving at Bombay's Juhu beach, scouring the sands for glittering stones for the past three days.

The treasure seekers are on all fours on the sand from early in the morning, witnesses and police said, sifting through the gravel looking for precious stones. Many even continue their search into the night, searching by torchlight.

"We heard people found diamonds on the beach," said Dhruv, a 15-year-old boy who sells newspapers on Bombay's commuter trains. "So I came here with my friends and we have found more than fifty diamonds which we managed to sell."

Police, however, said the stones were fake and warned people not to venture out onto the beach, particularly during the high tide. But the warnings have apparently had little effect.

While local jewelers were reported as saying that the stones were worthless, crowds on the beach said they had been sold for 300 to 1,500 rupees ($7 to $34).

Theories on the source of the stones vary.

Some believe that they could be part of smuggled loot which was lost in the Arabian sea and washed up on the beaches, while others say they are props left behind after a recent Bollywood film shoot.

Weather report from Florida:

Thunder storms with lightning. Later, listeners

Hello! Cooler here today. But none of that

"Don't know why, there's no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather..."

we ain't in no Hurricane Alley.

Well, McTag. They come and go quickly here, but there is a tropical wave somewhere off the gulf of Mexico that may become Bret. Had I my way, they would all be BRAT. <smile>

"....since my man and I ain't together,
Keeps rainin' all the time...."

Lovely song, buddy. To whom would you like that dedicated?

WEATHER LYRICS

Ted koehler / harold arlen

Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain't together,
Keeps rainin' all the time

Life is bare, gloom and mis'ry everywhere
Stormy weather
Just can't get my poorself together,
I'm weary all the time
So weary all the time
When he went away the blues walked in and met me.
If he stays away old rockin' chair will get me.

All I do is pray the lord above will let me walk in the sun once more.
Can't go on, ev'ry thing I had is gone
Stormy weather

Since my man and I ain't together,
Keeps rainin' all the time.

For our Brit and his lady

thought for the rest of the day:

"Life....
It is the flash of a firefly in the night,
the breath of a buffalo in the winter.
It is the little shadow, which runs across
the grass, and loses itself in the sunset...."




-- Crowfoot
Blackfeet Elder

YOU CAN'T ROLLERSKATE IN A BUFFALO HERD
Roger Miller

You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd
You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd
You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd
But you can be happy if you've a mind to

You can't take a shower in a parakeet cage
You can't take a shower in a parakeet cage
You can't take a shower in a parakeet cage
But you can be happy if you've a mind to

All you gotta do, is put your mind to it
Knuckle down, buckle down, do it, do it, do it

Well you can't go swimmin' in a baseball pool
You can't go swimmin' in a baseball pool
You can't go swimmin' in a baseball pool
But you can be happy if you've a mind to

You can't change film with a kid on your back
You can't change film with a kid on your back
You can't change film with a kid on your back
But you can be happy if you've a mind to

You can't drive around with a tiger in your car
You can't drive around with a tiger in your car
You can't drive around with a tiger in your car
But you can be happy if you've a mind to

All you gotta do, is put your mind to it
Knuckle down, buckle down, do it, do it, do it

Well you can't roller skate in a buffalo herd
You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd
You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd
But you can be happy if you've a mind to

You can't go fishin' in a watermelon patch
You can't go fishin' in a watermelon patch
You can't go fishin' in a watermelon patch
But you can be happy if you've a mind to

You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd
You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd
You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd...

edgar, that is priceless.

Something that I never learned to do was iceskate and rollerskate. So, it wouldn't matter if it were a herd or a rink.

Hmmm. I love this song:

TITLE: Just the Two of Us
Lyrics and Chords


I see the crystal raindrops fall
And see the beauty of it all
Is when the sun comes shining through
To make those rainbows in my mind
When I think of you some time
And I want to spend some time with you

/ Cmaj7 B7 Em / Dm7 Cmaj7 / B7 Em7 - / :

{Refrain}
Just the two of us
We can make it if we try
Just the two of us, just the two of us
Just the two of us
Building castles in the sky
Just the two of us, you and I

/ Cmaj7 B7 / Em7 Dm7 / Cmaj7 B7 Em - / :

We look for love, no time for tears
Wasted water's all that is
And it don't make no flowers grow
Good things might come to those who wait
Not to those who wait too late
We got to go for all we know

{Refrain}

I hear the crystal raindrops fall
On the window down the hall
And it becomes the morning dew
Darling, when the morning comes
And I see the morning sun
I want to be the one with you

{Refrain}
...Building big castles way on high...

Just the two of us
Just the two of us
We can make it, just the two of us
Let's get together, baby
Just the two of us
Just the two of us
We can make it, just the two of us
Just the two of us
We can make it, just the two of us
{Repeat last two lines to fade}

WOW! that's a get down and dance song, folks

Ah, listeners, we miss hebba and hope that he is well and sculpting and dancing.

Leaving with a sense of two,
One for me and one for you.

Goodnight, my friends,

From Letty with love.

this is not jus for the two of us, but for the all of us

Two of Us
The Beatles

Two of us riding nowhere
Spending someone's
Hard earned pay
You and me Sunday driving
Not arriving
On our way back home
We're on our way home
We're on our way home
We're going home

Two of us sending postcards
Writing letters
On my wall
You and me burning matches
Lifting latches
On our way back home
We're on our way home
We're on our way home
We're going home

You and I have memories
Longer than the road that stretches out ahead

Two of us wearing raincoats
Standing so low
In the sun
You and me chasing paper
Getting nowhere
On our way back home
We're on our way home
We're on our way home
We're going home

You and I have memories
Longer than the road that stretches out ahead

Two of us wearing raincoats
Standing so low
In the sun
You and me chasing paper
Getting nowhere
On our way back home
We're on our way home
We're on our way home
We're going home

We're going home
Better believe it