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Perfect, dj. We must look at clouds from both sides. I suppose.

Well, folks. This is getting a little deep tonight, but I think it's worth it.

Elton John had some good songs, I think, but I always was haunted by his song Daniel. It must have been about the war in Nam.

John
Song : Daniel

Lyrics :

Daniel is leavin' tonight on a plane
I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain
Oh and I can see Daniel waving goodbye
God it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes

They say Spain is pretty though I've never been
Well Daniel says it's the best place that he's ever seen
Oh and he should know, he's been there enough
Lord I miss Daniel, oh I miss him so much


Daniel my brother you are older than me
Do you still feel the pain of the scars that won't heal
Your eyes have died but you see more than I
Daniel you're a star in the face of the sky


Daniel is travelling tonight on a plane
I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain
Oh and I can see Daniel waving goodbye
God it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes
Oh God it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes

Letty, strange you should mention this song haunts you. My brother's name was Daniel, we played this song at his funeral because he was a musician and it was one of his all time favorites…it sometimes haunts me too.

colorbook, there is always something that follows us, but nothing is quite so haunting as a song, right? You must have been very close to Daniel. My brother's name was Bill, Jr. and I never got to know him. He was a musician as well.

Shall we play a memory song tonight then?


My world is like a river as dark as it is deep
Night after night the past slips in and gathers all my sleep
My days are just and endless stream of emptiness to me
Filled only by the fleeting moments of her memories





Sweet memories
Sweet memories

She slipped into the silence of my dreams again last night
Wandering from room to room, she's turning on each light
Her laughter spills like water from the river to the sea
And I'm swept away from sadness clinging to her memories.

That song was by Ray Charles, and if the movie is true to his memory, dj is right--he triumphed against all odds.

Folks, it is my fondest hope that we can remember with sweetness rather than unhappiness. I do think that time does heal most wounds, but not all.

Only Time-Enya


Who can say where the road goes
Where the day flows, only time
And who can say if your love grows
As your heart chose, only time

Who can say why your heart sighs
As your love flies, only time
And who can say why your heart cries
When your love lies, only time

Who can say when the roads meet
That love might be in your heart
And who can say when the day sleeps
If the night keeps all your heart
Night keeps all your heart

Who can say if your love grows
As your heart chose
- Only time
And who can say where the road goes
Where the day flows, only time

Who knows? Only time

Shine on You Crazy Diamond I-V

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom, blown on the
steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger, you legend,
you martyr, and shine!

You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision, rode on the
steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper,
you prisoner, and shine!


Shine on You Crazy Diamond VI-IX

Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Pile on many more layers and I'll be joining you there.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
And we'll bask in the shadow of yesterday's triumph, and sail
on the steel breeze.
Come on you boy child, you winner and loser, come on you miner
for truth and delusion, and shine!

Ah, colorbook. that was beautiful and so right. Sometimes things are just sooooo right, understand?

Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
Green Day

Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road.
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go.
So make the best of this task, and don't ask why.
It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time.

It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

So take the photographs, and still frames in your mind.
Hang it on a shelf in good health and good time.
Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial.
For what it's worth, it was worth all the while

It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right
I hope you had the time of your life.

It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right
I hope you had the time of your life.

It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right
I hope you had the time of your life.

Shine on you crazy diamond and fork in the road. Thanks, Canada. You provide the perfect balance.

Well listeners and friends, I am really tired so I think I will sign off for tonight.

Yes, tomorrow will be a brand new day no matter how frazzled the edges are. So I will leave you with a smile:

Once I went in swimming where there were no women,
Or no men to see.
Bathing suits were loathing,
So I took my clothing
Off behind a tree,
Stepped into the water,
Just like pharoah's daughter,
Stepped into the Nile.
Someone saw me there and stole my underwear,
And left me with a smile.

Good night, all.
From Letty with love.

a song for lisa gevaert

LIKE A HURRICANE
Neil Young

Once I thought I saw you in a crowded hazy bar,
Dancing on the light from star to star.
Far across the moonbeam I know that's who you are,
I saw your brown eyes turning once to fire.

You are like a hurricane
There's calm in your eye.
And I'm gettin' blown away
To somewhere safer where the feeling stays.
I want to love you but I'm getting blown away.

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream,
You could have been anyone to me.
Before that moment you touched my lips
That perfect feeling when time just slips
Away between us on our foggy trip.

You are like a hurricane
There's calm in your eye.
And I'm gettin' blown away
To somewhere safer where the feeling stays.
I want to love you but I'm getting blown away.

You are just a dreamer, and I am just a dream.
You could have been anyone to me.
Before that moment you touched my lips
That perfect feeling when time just slips
Away between us on our foggy trip.

You are like a hurricane
There's calm in your eye.
And I'm gettin' blown away
To somewhere safer where the feeling stays.
I want to love you but I'm getting blown away.

(I had to slip this in - Enya is releasing a rap album - it'll be called "Enya Face!")

Just home from 4 days-5 passes in high country colorado, perhaps pics tomorrow.

welcome back

looking forward to the pics

This is really beautiful! I have the cd.

The Best of Times-Styx

Tonight's the night we'll make history, honey, you and I
And I'll take any risk to tie back the hands of time
And stay with you here tonight
I know you feel these are the worst of times
I do believe it's true
When people lock their doors and hide inside
Rumor has it it's the end of Paradise
But I know, if the world just passed us by
Baby I know, you wouldn't have to cry

The best of times are when I'm alone with you
Some rain some shine, we'll make this a world for two
Our memories of yesterday will last a lifetime
We'll take the best, forget the rest
And someday we'll find these are the best of times
These are the best of times

The headlines read 'these are the worst of times'
I do believe it's true
I feel so helpless like a boat against the tide
I wish the summer winds could bring back Paradise
But I know, if the world turned upside down
Baby, I know you'd always be around

The best of times are when I'm alone with you
Some rain some shine, we'll make this a world for two
Our memories of yesterday will last a lifetime
We'll take the best, forget the rest
And someday we'll find these are the best of times
These are the best of times

And so my friends we'll say goodnight
For time has claimed it's prize
But tonight will always last
As long as we keep alive memories of Paradise...

Good day to all!

July 17 birthday celebs here. Oh, how nice - I see Diahann Carroll has another birthday to celebrate.

1674 - Isaac Watts, English hymnwriter (d. 1748)
1698 - Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (d. 1759)
1787 - Friedrich Krupp, industrialist (d. 1826), The Krupp family, a prominent 400-year-old German dynasty from Essen, have become famous for their steel production and for their manufacture of ammunition and armaments.
1839 - Ephraim Shay, Inventor , Shay locomotive (d. 1916)
1877 - Ernst von Dohnanyi, Hungarian conductor (d. 1960)
1888 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer (d. 1970)

1899 - James Cagney, N.Y., N.Y., actor/cinema's quintessential "tough guy." (Oscar, Yankee Doodle Dandy) Though most Cagney imitators use the line "You dirty rat!", Cagney never actually said it in any of his films.
(d. 1986)

1899 - Erle Stanley Gardner, Malden, MA, author (created Perry Mason) (d. 1970)
1912 - Art Linkletter, Saskatchwan Canada, TV host (People are Funny)
1917 - Phyllis Diller, Lima Ohio, comedienne (Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number)
1917 - Margarete Mitscherlich, physician
1920 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, former chairman of the International Olympic Committee
1920 - Kenneth Wolstenholme, sports commentator (d. 2002)
1928 - Vince Guaraldi, musician, composer (d. 1976)
1935 - Diahann Carroll, singer
1935 - Donald Sutherland, Canada, actor (M*A*S*H, Klute , et al)
1938 - Franz Alt, journalist
1939 - Maria Ilva Biolcati, known as Milva, singer
1941 - Spencer Davis, singer/guitarist (Spencer Davis Group)
1941 - Jürgen Flimm, theatre director and manager
1942 - Tim Brooke-Taylor, comedian
1947 - Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (formerly Parker Bowles), former British royal mistress and now wife of Prince Charles
1948 - Luc Bondy, film and theatre director
1949 - Charlie Steiner, sports anchor
1952 - David Hasselhoff, actor, musician
1954 - J. Michael Straczynski, science fiction author
1956 - Peter D'Adamo, physician, author
1960 - Mark Burnett, reality TV producer
1963 - Matti Nykänen, Finnish ski jumper
1971 - Cory Doctorow, author, activist
1973 - Eric Moulds, American football player
1975 - Konnie Huq, television presenter

Raggedy, thanks again for the celeb updates, and yes it seems that Diahann was born again. <smile>

Donald Sutherland has always been one of my favorites, listeners and his son is also a good actor.

Krupp coffee makers are par excellence, which reminds me............

James Cagney
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Jimmy Cagney was part of the Legends of Hollywood USPS stamp series.
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Jimmy Cagney was part of the Legends of Hollywood USPS stamp series.

James Francis Cagney, Jr. (July 17, 1899-March 30, 1986) was an Irish-American film actor.

Born in Yonkers, New York, Cagney graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York City in 1918.

He worked in vaudeville and on Broadway, marrying the dancer Frances Willard (aka: "Billie") Vernon (1899 - 1994) on September 28, 1922 and remained married for 64 years. They adopted a son James Cagney Jr and a daughter Cathleen "Casey" Cagney. When Warner Brothers bought the film rights to the play Penny Arcade they took Cagney and his co-star Joan Blondell from the stage to the screen in Sinner's Holiday (1930).

Cagney went on to star in numerous films, making his name as a 'tough guy' in a series of crime films such as The Public Enemy (1931), Blonde Crazy (1931) and Hard to Handle (1933). He went on to better things including Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), an Academy Award-winning role in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), White Heat (1949), ("Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"), and Mister Roberts (1955).

He was one of the founders of the Screen Actors Guild and president of the Guild from 1942-44.

Cagney's final appearance on film was in Ragtime in 1981, capping a career that covered over seventy films, although his last film prior to Ragtime had been 20 years earlier in 1961 with Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three. During this hiatus Cagney rebuffed all film offers, including a substantial one in My Fair Lady, to devote time to learning how to paint (at which he became very accomplished), and tending to his beloved farm in Stanfordville, New York.

In 1974 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Film Institute and in 1984 his friend Ronald Reagan awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Cagney's health deteriorated substantially after 1979, and the role in Ragtime, as well as a later television appearance in 1984, was designed to aid in his convalescence.

James Cagney died aged 86 of a heart attack while ill with diabetes in Stanfordville, New York and is interred in the Cemetery of the Gate of Heaven in Hawthorne, New York. As a tribute to his myriad talents and interests, his pallbearers included boxer Floyd Patterson, ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, actor Ralph Bellamy, and film director Milos Forman.

The stereotypical impression of James Cagney involves wearing a trenchcoat and a hat and sneering "You dirty rat!", a line he never said. The origin of this is from the 1932 film Taxi! where Cagney delivered the line "Come out and take it, you dirty, yellow-bellied rat, or I'll give it to you through the door!" often misquoted as "Come out, you dirty rat, or I'll give it to you through the door!".


You're a grand old flag,


You're a grand old flag,
You're a high flying flag,
And forever in peace may you wave.
You're the emblem of the land I love,
The home of the free and the brave.
Ev'ry heart beats true
'Neath the Red, White and Blue.
Where there's never a boast or a brag.
But should auld acquaintance be forgot,
Keep your eyes on the grand old flag!

There's a feeling comes a-stealing,
And it sets my brain a-reeling,
When I'm listening to the music of a military band.
Any tune like "Yankee Doodle"
Simply sets me off my noodle,
It's that patriotic something that no one can understand.

"Way down South, in the land of cotton",
Melody untiring,
Ain't that inspiring?
Hurrah! Hurrah! We'll join the Jubilee!
And that's going some,
For the Yankees, by gum!
Red, white and blue, I am for you!
Honest, you're a grand old flag!

You're a Grand Old Flag
You're a high flying flag
And forever, in peace, may you wave!
You're the emblem of the land I love,
The home of the free and the brave!

Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White, and Blue,
Where there's never a boast or brag.
But should auld acquaintance be forgot
Keep your eye on the Grand Old Flag!

I'm a cranky hanky panky,
I'm a dead square, honest Yankee,
And I'm mighty proud of that old flag
That flies for Uncle Sam.

Though I don't believe in raving
Ev'ry time I see it waving,
There's a chill runs up my back that makes me glad I'm what I am.

Here's a land with a million soldiers,
That's if we should need 'em,
We'll fight for freedom!

Hurrah! Hurrah! For every Yankee tar
And old G.A.R.
Ev'ry stripe, ev'ry star.
Red, white and blue,
Hats off to you
Honest, you're a grand old flag!

You're a Grand Old Flag
You're a High Flying Flag
And forever, in peace, may you wave!
You're the emblem of the land I love,
The home of the free and the brave!

Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White, and Blue,
Where there's never a boast or brag.
But should auld acquaintance be forgot
Keep your eye on the Grand Old Flag!

You're a grand old flag,
You're a high flying flag
And forever in peace may you wave.
You're the emblem of
The land I love.
The home of the free and the brave.
Ev'ry heart beats true
'neath the Red, White and Blue,
Where there's never a boast or brag.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
Keep your eye on the grand old flag.

Music and lyrics by George M. Cohan



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

Well, I declare, folks. Raggedy made it a little bit ahead of Bob this morning. Thanks, Boston, for your bio. Lots of things in there that many of us didn't know. Ragtime was a great book, but I can't remember much about the movie.

Speaking of Ragtime. Scott Joplin was one great piano player, no?

How about a little ragtime music, folks:


Way down on the levee in old Alabamy,
there's Daddy and Mammy, there's Ephraim and Sammy.
On a moonlight night you can find them all.
While they are waitin', the banjos are syncopatin'


Oh, what's that they're sayin'?
Oh, what's that they're sayin'?
While they keep playin', and hummin' and swayin',
it's the good ship Robert E. Lee that's here to carry the cotton away.


Ah-ha-ha, watch them shufflin' along, see them shufflin' along!
Go take your best gal, your real pal, go down on the levee,
I said to the levee, and we'll (CHORUS joins) join that shufflin' throng.
Hear that music and song.
It's simply great, mate,
waitin' on the levee,
waitin' for the Robert E. Lee!

My mom could really rock when she played that song!

Back later, listeners, with a bit of history!