@edgarblythe,
Love that one by "the jester". Hope McTag is alright. We go back a long way.
How about some bag pipes and they do NOT play Amazing Grace.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rjbrqcQ5Sw
one more bump and then I'll stop
Love the original, edgar.
The bagpipes worked. Sorry if I missed your contribution, Texas. I think it was Morning Side of the Mountain.
Poor Bobby and Sandra; Poor John and Karen.
Saying goodnight with them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJUIWYX8HlI
From Letty with love and hope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxriVnyPkRg
Come a ty-ya yippie something or other
Wilf Carter
We were at the San Diego Zoo today.
Here's two guys at a different zoo.
Simon & Garfunkel -- At The Zoo
Good morning from our radio station here in Florida. I'm still waiting for it to become the sunshine state again.
edgar, Loved that one by Wilf Carter.
Latin George, Welcome back. Simon and Garfunkel at the zoo, was great.
Today is this dear man's birthay:
We probably remember him best as Superman, but I recall his having fallen off a horse in Culpeper, Va. and becoming completely paralyzed from the waist down and recovering in the UVA hospital:
Somewhere in Time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhahbyEjFPw
Now, A Morning After that refers to the Poseidon Adventure:
The SS Poseidon, a trans-Atlantic passenger steamship slated for retirement, is making its way across the Atlantic from New York City to Athens on its last voyage. On the bridge, company representative Linarcos (Fred Sadoff) orders the ship's master, Captain Harrison (Leslie Nielsen), to empty ballast and proceed at full speed, against the Captain's better judgement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KClpLzFftU
There's an oddity. Maureen sings so well. But that is her only song I could name.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC3IP5pjr-M
That Presley boy
@edgarblythe,
Texas, Didn't know Ready Teddy by "the king", but I do know Let Me Be Your Teddy Bear. Thanks again for your comment.
I bet you know this guy. Today is his birthday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnHR-Uc17g4
Once again calling all musicians, poets, music lovers, painters and folks who like to chat.
Today is William Faulkner's birthday, and here is a poem by him:
A Poplar
By William Faulkner
Why do you shiver there
Between the white river and the road?
You are not cold,
With the sun light dreaming about you;
And yet you lift your pliant supplicating arms as though
To draw clouds from the sky to hide your slenderness.
You are a young girl
Trembling in the throes of ecstatic modesty,
A white objective girl
Whose clothing has been forcibly taken away from her.
I never see Izz with a y that I don't think of Izzie.
I recall her having played this one on our radio sometime back, so let's listen again, y'all:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6JAamJFzKg
If I'm not mistaken, I think it was our edgar who let us know that Perry did it.
"Wind Beneath My Wings" (sometimes titled "The Wind Beneath My Wings" and "Hero") is a song written in 1982 by Jeff Silbar and Larry Henley.[1] They recorded a demo of the song, which they gave to musician Bob Montgomery. Montgomery then recorded his own demo version of the song, changing it from the mid-tempo version he was given to a ballad. Silbar and Henley then shopped the song to many artists, eventually resulting in Roger Whittaker becoming the first to release the song commercially. It appeared on his 1982 studio album, also titled The Wind Beneath My Wings. It was also recorded by Australian artist Colleen Hewett and released by Avenue Records in 1982, becoming a minor local hit, early the following year.
Following Whittaker's recording, many other artists recorded the song, including Sheena Easton. Easton's versions appeared on her 1982 studio album Madness, Money & Music, and her 1984 Spanish album "Todo Me Recuerda A Ti" though it was not released as a single by her record company. She did, however, perform it on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Merv Griffin Show, her HBO live concert special, and her NBC television special.
The first year "Wind Beneath My Wings" appeared on music industry trade publication charts in the United States was 1983. Singer Lou Rawls was the first to score a major hit with the song, as his version peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, No. 60 on the Billboard Hot Black Singles chart, and No. 65 on the main Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.[2] Gladys Knight & The Pips also released a recording of the song in 1983 under the title "Hero", and their version peaked at No. 64 on Billboard's Hot Black Singles chart[2] while also reaching No. 23 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. Singer Gary Morris released a country version of the song in 1983 that charted highest on any of the Billboard music charts that year. Morris's version of the song peaked at No. 4 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart, and also later won both the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association awards for Song Of The Year.
The highest-charting version of the song to date was recorded in 1988 by singer and actress Bette Midler for the soundtrack to the film Beaches. This version was released as a single in early 1989, spent one week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in June 1989, and won Grammy Awards for both Record of the Year and Song of the Year in February 1990. On October 24, 1991, Midler's single was also certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipment of one million copies in the United States.
"Wind Beneath My Wings" has also been recorded by Kerry Ellis, Lee Greenwood, B.J. Thomas, Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers, Sheena Easton, Patti LaBelle, Captain and Tennille, Joe Longthorne, Eddie & Gerald Levert, John Tesh, Judy Collins, Shirley Bassey, RyanDan, Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, Sonata Arctica, Chyi Yu, Perry Como, Donald Braswell II, Sergio Franchi, Steven Houghton and Celine Dion, the Mighty Clouds of Joy, and R. Kelly. Paloma San Basilio (Spanish version "Gracias a ti") Lou Rawls sang the song at the nationally-televised 50th Presidential Inaugural Gala on January 19, 1985, the day before the second inauguration of Ronald Reagan.
In a 2002 UK poll, "Wind Beneath My Wings" was found to be the most-played song at British funerals.
@edgarblythe,
Thanks, Texas, for the history of that song. Don't know Maxine doing Like a Rolling Stone. It was a good one.
Today is this country singer's birthday. He is really good, y'all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBEBbgQEJy4
Son of George Harrison sings a Beatles song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am4DxV3k5Gw
edgar, that guy doing For You Blue was great. Dear George, another gone too soon.
Little under the weather this late afternoon , so I saying good evening with two songs. I have good memories now, and I saw six Florida birds on my lawn that were delightful.
Two different versions of the same song.
First, The Four Freshmen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eV0Yu3JZ4E
Now, a Canadian.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eayKjJwvNPw
Glad that Region and I are friends again.
From Letty with love to the world
Hello again there, all you peeps out there in virtual radio-land.
Here's a early British rocker. In those days our artists liked to copy American sounds, Gene Vincent, Little Richard (although he can't be copied!) and above all, Elvis Presley.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F16dD0u6VAs
and just a few years later
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSHNycjA8VM
