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Uh oh, Letty, I hope Dennis is sent packing.

This is for our sweet Francis from Diana Krall:

Garden In the Rain
Written by - Carroll Gibbons & James Dyrenforth
'Twas just a garden in the rain
Close to a little leafy lane
A touch of color 'neath skies of gray
The raindrops kissed the flower beds
The blossoms raised their leafy heads
A perfumed thank you
They seemed to say

Surely here was charm beyond
Compare to view
Maybe it was just that
I was there with you

'Twas just a garden in the rain
But then the sun came out again
And sent us happily on our way.

Whew
That one has my early morning head spinning.

Major incident in London (terrorism?) - many casualties...

Recorded by hank williams
Written by hank williams and fred rose

Capo: 1st fret key: f# play: f
Now you're [f] lookin' at a man that's gettin' kind-a mad
I had lot's of luck but it's all been bad
No [c7] matter how I struggle and strive
I'll never get out of this world a-[f] live.

My fishin' pole's broke the creek is full of sand
My woman run away with another man
No matter how I struggle and strive
I'll never get out of this world alive.

A [bb] distant uncle passed away [bb7] and [f] left me quite a batch [f7]
And [bb] I was livin'g high until that fatal [bb7] day
A lawyer [c7] proved I wasn't born
I was only hatched.---[f]

Ev'rything's agin' me and it's got me down
If I jumped in the river I would prob'ly drown
No matter how I struggle and strive
I'll never get out of this world alive.

These shabby shoes I'm wearin' all the time
Are full of holes and nails
And brother if I stepped on a worn out dime
I bet a nickel I could tell you if it was heads or tails.

I'm not gonna worry wrinkles in my brow
'cause nothin's ever gonna be alright nohow
No matter how I struggle and strive
I'll never get out of this world alive.

(additional verses)
I could buy a sunday suit and it would leave me broke
If it had two pair of pants I would burn the coat
No matter how I struggle and strive
I'll never get out of this world alive.

If it was rainin' gold I wouldn't stand a chance
I wouldn't have a pocket in my patched up pants
No matter how I struggle and strive
I'll never get out of this world alive.

Good Morning WA2K

Some July 7 Birthday celebrities:

1860 Gustav Mahler, composer (Austria; died 1911)
1887 Marc Chagall, artist (Russia; died 1985)

1899 George Cukor, director (New York, NY; died 1983) Enjoyed a successful working partnership with Katharine Hepburn, directing her in ten films over a period of 47 years: A Bill of Divorcement (1932), Little Women (1933), Sylvia Scarlett (1935), Holiday (1938), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Keeper of the Flame (1942), Adam's Rib (1949), Pat and Mike (1952), Love Among the Ruins (1975) (TV), The Corn Is Green (1979) (TV). He was replaced as director of Gone with the Wind (1939) because of constant disagreements with producer David O. Selznick over the script and direction (not as rumour had it because Clark Gable considered him better suited as a so-called woman's director).


1901 Vittorio De Sica, director /actor (Sora, Italy; died 1974) (The Bicycle Thief;Marriage Italian Style, Two Women; Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow; Boccacio 70; Two Women)

1906 Satchel Paige, baseball pitcher (Mobile, AL; died 1982)

1907 Robert Heinlein, science fiction writer (Butler, MO; died 1988) Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966),

1911 Gian Carlo Menotti, composer (Cadigliano, Italy) (The Consul, Amahl and the Night Visitors)

1919 William Kuntsler, radical attorney (New York, NY; died 1995) (some of his clients: Lenny Bruce, H. Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, American Indian Movement leaders, Jack Ruby, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Islamic terrorists)

1922 Pierre Cardin, fashion designer (Venice, Italy)

1927 Doc Severinsen, bandleader/musician/composer (Arlington, OR)(Best known to late night television audiences as the Tonight Show's flamboyant Grammy Award-winning musical director, Severinsen has established a multi-dimensional career beyond his late night repertoire, including symphonic jazz and big band concert appearances, recordings, and commercials plus designing and manufacturing trumpets.

1928 Vincent Edwards actor (TV Dr Ben Casey, Death Stalk, Firehouse)
1940 Richard Armey, TX representative and House majority leader (Cando, ND)
1940 Ringo Starr, singer/drummer and member of the Beatles (Liverpool, England)
1947 Shelley Duvall, actress (Houston, TX) (Popeye, Faery Tale Theatre)
1972 Lisa Leslie, basketball player (Inglewood, CA)
1980 Michelle Kwan, champion figure skater (Torrance, CA)

Good morning, WA2K listeners.

What a delight it was hearing all the music that our audience so appreciates.

It seems that Eva and Diane made certain that Francis received two garden songs and as always, dj and edgar played just the right mix. Dead Flowers and Rolling Stones, with a little of Hank thrown in. Love it!

Diane your commentary was quite meaningful! WOW!

Bob, when I've had a chance, I will read your background more thoroughly, and once again, we have our Raggedy to thank for the celeb updates.

To follow up on Francis' announcement:

London Bombings
Four Blasts Hit London, Killing at Least 2
AP - 9 minutes ago
LONDON - Three explosions rocked the London subway and one tore open a packed double-decker bus during the morning rush hour Thursday. The blasts killed at least two people and reportedly injured more than 90 in what a shaken Prime Minister Tony Blair called a series of "barbaric" terrorist attacks. Blair said it was clear the attacks were designed to coincide with the opening of the G-8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland. The prime minister said the meeting of world leaders would continue but that he would return to London.

Biography for
Yul Brynner

b. July 7, 1915

Birth name
Taidje Khan
Height
5' 11" (1.80 m)
Mini biography

Exotic leading man of American films, famed as much for his completely bald head as for his performances. Brynner masked much of his life in mystery and in outright lies designed to tease the gullible, and it was not until the publication of a biography by his son in 1989 that many of the details of Brynner's early life became clear(er). He often claimed to be a half-Swiss, half-Japanese named Taidje Khan, born on the island of Sakhalin; in reality he was the son of Boris Bryner, a Swiss-Mongolian engineer and inventor, and Marousia Blagavidova, the daughter of a Russian doctor. He was born in their hometown of Vladivostok on 7 July 1915, and named Yul after his grandfather Jules Bryner. When Yul's father abandoned the family, his mother took Yul and his sister Vera to Harbin, China, where they attended a school run by the YMCA. In 1934 Yul's mother took her children to Paris. Her son was sent to the exclusive Lycée Moncelle, but his attendance was spotty. He dropped out and became a musician, playing guitar in the nightclubs among the Russian gypsies who gave him his first real sense of family. He met luminaries such as Jean Cocteau and became an apprentice at the Theatre des Mathurins. He worked as a trapeze artists with the famed Cirque d'Hiver company. He traveled to the U.S. in 1941 to study with acting teacher Michael Chekhov and toured the country with Chekhov's theatrical troupe. That same year he debuted in New York as Fabian in Twelfth Night (billed as Youl Bryner). After working in a very early TV series, "Mr. Jones and His Neighbors" (1944), he played on Broadway in Lute Song, with Mary Martin, winning awards and mild acclaim. He and his wife, actress Virginia Gilmore, starred in the first TV talk show, "Mr. and Mrs." (1948). Brynner then joined CBS as a television director. He made his film debut in Port of New York (1949). Two years later Mary Martin recommended him for the part he would always be known for: the King in Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical "The King and I". Brynner became an immediate sensation in the role, repeating it for film (The King and I (1956)) and winning the Oscar for Best Actor. For the next two decades he maintained a starring film career despite the exotic nature of his persona, performing in a wide range of roles from Egyptian pharoahs to Western gunfighters, almost all with the same shaven head and indefinable accent. In the 1970s he returned to the role that had made him a star, and spent most of the rest of his life touring the world in "The King and I". When he developed lung cancer in the mid-1980s, he left a powerful public service announcement denouncing smoking as the cause, for broadcast after his death. The cancer and its complications, after a long illness, ended his life. He remains one of the most fascinating, unusual and beloved stars of his time.
IMDb mini-biography by
Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Spouse
Kathy Lee (1983 - 10 October 1985) (his death)
Jacqueline de Croisset (1971 - 1981) (divorced) 2 children
Doris Kleiner (1960 - 1967) (divorced) 1 child
Virginia Gilmore (1944 - 1960) (divorced) 1 child
Trade mark

Completely shaved head.

The role of the King of Siam in "The King and I".
Trivia

In 1950, before he achieved fame, he was the director of a children's puppet show on CBS, "Life with Snarky Parker", which lasted barely eight months on the air before cancellation.

Son Yul 'Rock' Brynner II (b. 23 December 1946)

Daughter Lark, born out of wedlock and raised by her mother, (b.1958)

Daughter Victoria Brynner (b. November 1962 in Switzerland)

Daughter Mia Brynner (adopted 1974, born in Vietnam)

Daughter Melody Brynner (adopted 1975, born in Vietnam)

Interred at Saint Robert Churchyard at the Monastery of Saint Michael, La Tourraine, France.

Brynner married Doris Kleiner on the set during shooting of 'The Magnificent Seven' in 1960.

His paternal grandmother was Mongolian.

Is a recipient of the presitigious Connor Award, given by the brothers of the Phi Alpha Tau fraternity based out of Emerson College in Boston.

Died the same day as Orson Welles

One of only eight actors to have won both a Tony and an Oscar for having portrayed the same roles on stage and screen. The others are Joel Grey (Cabaret (1972)), Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)), Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady (1964)), Anne Bancroft (The Miracle Worker (1962)), Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons (1966)), José Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)) and Jack Albertson ("The Subject Was Roses").

According to a new book, "Alfred Hitchcock : A Life in Darkness and Light" by Patrick McGilligan, he was considered for the role of Vandamn, the senior villain (eventually played by James Mason) in "North by Northwest."

While touring in the play "Odyssey" in the mid-1970s, Brynner attained a reputation of being a holy terror toward hotel staff members. Among other things, all hotel suites where he would stay had to be painted a certain shade of tan and all kitchens in those hotel suites had to be stocked in advance with "one dozen brown eggs, under no circumstances white ones!" The play itself, later retitled "Home, Sweet Homer", had a successful pre-Broadway tour of over a year, but lasted exactly one performance when it opened on Broadway in 1976.

He was an accomplished photographer. He took many photos on the sets of the various projects he worked on over the years.

Mentioned in the popular mid-1980s song "One Night in Bangkok," sung by Murray Head, from the soundtrack of the musical Chess.

When he found out he would be playing Pharoah opposite Charlton Heston's Moses in "The Ten Commandments" and that he would be shirtless for most of the film, he began a rigorous weight lifting program because he did not want to be physically overshadowed by Charlton Heston (which explains his buffer than normal physique during "The King and I", another film he was set to work on at the time.)

A recording of him explaining how being bald helped him is included in a song by Stephen Malkmus (of Pavement) entitled "Jo Jo's Jacket". The first verses are about Brynner and include a reference to Westworld and the King and I.

Won Broadway's 1952 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Musical) for "The King and I," a role he recreated in his Oscar-winning performance in the film of the same name, The King and I (1956). He also won a second, Special Tony in 1985 "honoring his 4,525 performances in 'The King and I'."

Died of the same cause (lung cancer) as The Magnificent Seven (1960) co-star Steve McQueen.
Personal quotes

"People don't know my real self, and they're not about to find out."

To interviewers: "Just call me a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy."

Musical: King and I
Song: Puzzlement


King
When I was a boy
World was better spot.
What was so was so,
What was not was not.
Now I am a man;
World have changed a lot.
Some things nearly so,
Others nearly not.
There are times I almost think
I am not sure of what I absolutely know.
Very often find confusion
In conclusion I concluded long ago
In my head are many facts
That, as a student, I have studied to procure,
In my head are many facts..
Of which I wish I was more certain I was sure!
[Spoken]
Is a puzzlement...

[Sung]
What to tell growing son
What for instance, shall I say to him of women?
Shall I educate him on the ancient lines?
Shall I tell the boy as far as he is able,
To respect his wives and love his concubines?
Shall I tell him everyone is like the other,
And the better of the two is really neither?
If I tell him this I think he won't believe it-
And I nearly think that I don't believe it either!-
When my father was a king
He was a king who knew exactly what he knew,
And his brain was not a thing
Forever swinging to and fro and fro and to.
Shall I, then be like my father
And be willfully unmovable and strong?
Or is it better to be right?...
Or am I right when I believe I may be wrong?

Shall I join with other nations in alliance?
If allies are weak, am I not best alone?
If allies are strong with power to protect me,
Might they not protect me out of all I own?
Is a danger to be trusting one another,
One will seldom want to do what other wishes;
But unless someday somebody trust somebody
There'll be nothing left on earth excepting fishes!

There are times I almost think
Nobody sure of what he absolutely know.
Everybody find confusion
In conclusion he concluded long ago
And it puzzle me to learn
That tho' a man may be in doubt of what he know,
Very quickly he will fight...
He'll fight to prove that what he does not know is so!

Oh-h-h-h-h-h Sometimes I think that people going mad!
Ah-h-h-h-h-h! Sometimes I think that people not so bad!
But not matter what I think
I must go on living life.
As leader of my kingdom I must go forth,
Be father to my children and husband to each wife
Etcetera, etcetera, and so forth.
If my Lord in Heaven Buddha, show the way,
Everyday I try to live another day.
If my Lord in Heaven Buddha, show the way,
Everyday I do my best for one-more day!

[Spoken]
But...Is a puzzlement!

Bob, it's amazing what we don't know about celebs, is it not? Thanks for reminding us of Yul Brenner, Boston. <smile>

In reviewing Raggedy's celebs, I found one interesting man that may or may not have been the impetus for Charles Manson's "family"


Amy's summary : Robert A. Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land

This is the story of Valentine Michael Smith (a.k.a. Mike), the Man from Mars. He is child of missing colonists, raised by Martians. He is brought to Earth but because of his odd innocence the Federation keeps him hidden. Nurse Gillian or Jill Boardman sneaks in to see him, befriends him, and becomes his first water brother.
Jill helps Mike escape to the compound of opinionated doctor, lawyer, and author Jubal Harshaw. They learn that Mike has unusual psi powers. Mikes tries to "grok" humanity, and gets a confused notion of what religion is. After his safety is assured Mike visits a Fosterite Tabernacle of the unconventional Church of the New Revelation.
Mike and Jill go out in the world to increase Mike's education. They join a carnival where they meet tattooed lady Patricia Paiwonski who handles snakes. Later Mike and his growing circle of friends found an unusual church to teach his ideas and the Martian language, the Nest of which is a commune that practices nudity and free love.

For those of our listeners who do not remember Charles Manson, take a look in our archives. I do believe, folks, that the Beatles' White Album was also a factor in that man's distorted mind.

Just saw an update on the London bombings. 40 killed and scores wounded.

From the White Album:
Helter Skelter




When I get to the bottom
I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop and turn
and I go for a ride
Till I get to the bottom and I see you again
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Do you don't you want me to love you
I'm coming down fast but I'm miles above you
Tell me tell me come on tell me the answer
and you may be a lover but you ain't no dancer

Go helter skelter
helter skelter
helter skelter
Yeah, hu, hu
I will you won't you want me to make you
I'm coming down fast but don't let me break you
Tell me tell me tell me the answer
You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer

Look out
Helter skelter
helter skelter
helter skelter
Yeah, hu, hu
Look out cause here she comes

When I get to the bottom
I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop and turn
and I go for a ride
Till I get to the bottom and I see you again
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Well will you won't you want me to make you
I'm coming down fast but don't let me break you
Tell me tell me tell me the answer
You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer

Look out
Helter skelter
helter skelter
helter skelter
Yeah, hu,

Helter Skelter
She's coming down fast
Yes she is
Yes she is
coming down fast

When performers realize that they have a cult following, perhaps they will be more aware of their importance, and weigh the impact.

Oh Bob, this is so funny. Yul Brynner is listed for July 11 at the "Any Day in History" , "World Almanac for Kids" and "Born Today" sites so I when I saw your bio, I googled and saw that IMDb and Wikipeda have him listed for July 7. Oh, another site has him listed for July 12.

Anyway, here's to Yul:

Raggedy, honey. It really doesn't matter about the exact day of birth when one is gone, does it.

A great song for all of us here:


[Spoken] It's a very ancient saying,
But a true and honest thought,
That if you become a teacher,
By your pupils you'll be taught.

[Singing] As a teacher I've been learning --
You'll forgive me if I boast --
And I've now become an expert,
On the subject I like most.

[Spoken] Getting to know you.

[Singing] Getting to know you,
Getting to know all about you.
Getting to like you,
Getting to hope you like me.

Getting to know you,
Putting it my way,
But nicely,
You are precisely,
My cup of tea.

[ANNA AND THE MOTHERS]

Getting to know you,
Getting to know all about you.
Getting to like you,
Getting to hope you like me.

Getting to know you,
Putting it my way,
But nicely,
You are precisely,

[ANNA]

My cup of tea.

[ALL]

Getting to know you,
Getting to feel free and easy
When I am with you,
Getting to know what to say

Haven't you noticed
Suddenly I'm bright and breezy?
Because of all the beautiful and new
Things I'm learning about you
Day by day.

Getting to know you,
Getting to feel free and easy
When I am with you,
Getting to know what to say

Haven't you noticed
Suddenly I'm bright and breezy?
Because of all the beautiful and new
Things I'm learning about you
Day .. by ... day.


Ah, so true! (if a little optimistic)

Stunned, and I mean stunned, folks.

I just recieved a PM from John of England. He was at a library in London!

His words:

We've just been bombed!

My God!

Bob, thanks for that update. It was quite thorough.

McTag is in Scotland, thank God. Hope Francis is in Paris.

Francis is in Paris, safe...

Thank God, Francis.

We interrupt this program to bring you the dys rant of the day.
http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=55102&highlight=

Seriously, Letty?! You really heard from him! That is GREAT news in the middle of all this horror. I hope you told him we miss him around here and wish he'd come back. Because I have and I do. Very much.

Eva, I thought the man was dead. I just hope his family is all right.

You know, listeners, you read the news and take it as you see it, but when people we have really grown to love seem at risk, it makes a world of difference. Not that we don't care about those who have been murdered--yes MURDERED for a cause that we simply don't understand, but the reality of horror seeps through when the thing becomes personal.

Still haven't heard about Mathos.

Let's see what dys is ranting about.

Has Gautam checked in?