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Writer in the Sun - Donovan



The days of wine and roses are distant days for me.
I dream of the last and the next affair and of girls I'll never see.
And here I sit, the retired writer in the sun,
The retired writer in the sun and I'm blue,
The retired writer in the sun.
Tonight I trod in the starlight, I excused myself with a grin.
I ponder the moon in a silver spoon and the little one 'live within.
And here I sit, the retired writer in the sun,
The retired writer in the sun.
The magazine girl poses on my glossy paper aeroplane
Too many years I spent in the City playing with Mr. Loss and Gain.
And here I sit, the retired writer in the sun,
The retired writer in the sun and I'm blue,
The retired writer in the sun.
I bathe in the sun of the morning, lemon circles swim in the tea
Fishing for time with a wishing line and throwing it back in the sea.
And here I sit, the retired writer in the sun,
The retired writer in the sun and I'm blue,
The retired writer in the sun.

Writer in the Sun. That's very sad, edgar, but we all enjoy your songs by Donovan. thanks, Texas.

Well, folks. It's been a long exhausting day for Letty, so it's time to say goodnight.

The Days of Wine and Roses
Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett

Laugh and run away
Like a child at play,
Through the meadowland toward a closing door,
A door marked Never-more,
That wasn't there before.
The lonely night discloses
Just a passing breeze
Filled with memories
Of the golden smile that introduced me to
The Days of Wine and Roses and you.

Goodnight, my friends,

From Letty with love

This Magic Moment
The Drifters
Written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman

Peaked at # 16 in 1960
Re-made by Jay & The Americans at # 6 in 1969


This magic moment, so different and so new
Was like any other until I kissed you
And then it happened, it took me by surprise
I knew that you felt it too, by the look in your eyes

Sweeter than wine
Softer than the summer night
Everything I want, I have
Whenever I hold you tight

This magic moment while your lips are close to mine
Will last forever, forever till the end of time

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm

<brief instrumental-strings>

Sweeter than wine
Softer than the summer night
Everything I want, I have
Whenever I hold you tight

This magic moment while your lips are close to mine
Will last forever, forever till the end of time


Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh
Magic moment
Magic moment
Magic moment
FADE

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

edgar, I was looking back through my memory and decided that of all the things that I remember best, it is probably music and poetry. "This Magic Moment" is vaguely familiar, but it did give me pause for thought in that I was trying to recall the most magic moment in my life.

I suppose it was in high school when I had a wonderful weekend with a cadet from VMI. The Virginia Military Institute had an all male choir that was amazing and afterwards a dance was held in their honor at the local country club. I sang with the four piece band and became a twosome with a young man, Jim Keel. For that one weekend there was nobody else in the world except us. Later he died in a military plane crash.

I would love for our listeners to give us an inside look at the most "magic moment" in their lives.

Thinking about an old song now, folks:




(words & music by H. Williams - J. Kennedy)
I saw the harbor lights
They only told me we were parting
Those same old harbor lights
That once brought you to me.

I watched the harbor lights
How could I help it?
Tears were starting.
Good-bye to golden nights
Beside the silvery seas.

I long to hold you dear,
And kiss you just once more.
But you were on the ship,
And I was on the shore.

Now I know lonely nights
For all the while my heart keeps praying
That someday harbor lights
Will bring you back to me.

News item about "secret" family recipes:


KFC Still Guards Colonel's Secret Recipe By BRUCE SCHREINER, Associated Press Writer
Fri Jul 22, 3:12 PM ET



LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The handwritten recipe that launched a fast-food dynasty and made Col. Harland Sanders world famous is locked away at KFC headquarters ?- its contents so concealed that not even the chain's top executive knows the ingredients.


It was 65 years ago this month, at his roadside restaurant in Corbin, Ky., that Sanders perfected the blend of 11 herbs and spices for his "finger lickin' good" chicken.

Through the years, the recipe's secrecy has endured, as has people's appetite for the Colonel's Original Recipe Kentucky Fried Chicken.

"We have gone to great lengths to make sure that it stays secret," said KFC President Gregg Dedrick, who doesn't know the famous recipe and intends to keep it that way.

"Presidents come and go," he explained, "but the secret recipe remains."

For KFC, whose Louisville headquarters resemble a white-columned mansion, the recipe is more than a treasured link to its roots. It remains an integral part of the 50-year-old company's success.

At last count, KFC had nearly 13,300 restaurants worldwide, including 1,348 multibrand stores sharing space with sister brands in parent Yum Brands Inc.'s fast-food network. The chicken chain serves some eight million customers daily in more than 80 countries and territories. In China, the chain has grown so fast it opens, on average, a new restaurant daily.

Years ago, the chain dropped its reference to "fried" and its name was shortened to KFC. Its menu was expanded with non-fried chicken items meant to appeal to the health conscious.

Now, the chain is again stressing its traditional fried chicken, with a slight twist. Its variety chicken buckets, offering three types of chicken in one package, are partly credited for KFC's sales rebound after a prolonged slump. KFC also says its 99-cent Snacker sandwich has been a hit.

For the three-months ended June 11, KFC posted 8 percent growth in U.S. same-store sales, versus a 5 percent drop in the year-ago period. In 2004, KFC's worldwide sales at company and franchised stores made up $12.2 billion of Yum's $28 billion in total sales.

The chain is tightlipped about plans to build on the momentum, but Dedrick said, "New food, new stores and more convenience are in the works."

KFC's top executive said the mystique of the Colonel's blend of herbs and spices, along with its taste, gives the chain a leg up on the competition.

"This secret recipe really ensures that we have a product that people love and that nobody else can serve them," Dedrick said.

Only a few people know the recipe and are sworn to secrecy. Some are KFC employees, but the company won't reveal their names. Two companies supply the herbs and spices, but each formulates only part of the ingredients, Dedrick said, and neither supplier knows the other's identity.

The Colonel's own handwritten recipe is tucked away in a safe at KFC headquarters, with portions locked away in safe deposit boxes at undisclosed locations as backup.

For years, Sanders carried the secret formula in his head and the spice mixture in his car. At one time, he carried a copy of the recipe in his wallet.

Sanders' personal secretary, Shirley Topmiller, recalled that Sanders once handed her a "little, raggedy piece of paper" and asked her to make a copy.

"When the printed copy came out, I saw enough to know I was looking at a recipe," Topmiller said. "I rushed back with both pieces and I really kind of chastised him. I said, `Colonel, you cannot walk around with this in your billfold.'"

Sanders later assured her that he had put the recipe in a more secure place. He remained a KFC spokesman ?- pitching the fried chicken on folksy television ads ?- until his death in 1980 at age 90.

John Y. Brown Jr said he was given a copy of the recipe when he and other investors purchased KFC from Sanders for $2 million in 1964.

"I never paid any attention to it because I wasn't going to mess with it," said Brown, who later became governor of Kentucky.

KFC was sold again in 1971 for $285 million, and changed hands a few times until becoming part of Yum, which claims such other brands as Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Long John Silver's.

Occasionally, KFC hears from people who claim they have a copy of the Colonel's recipe, Dedrick said. After having struggled for most of his life, the Colonel wasn't about to let the recipe's secret slip, Topmiller said, adding it became "part of his persona."

Others have tried to replicate the recipe but failed, Dedrick said.

"We've had some people who have claimed they've found the Holy Grail," he said. "But no one's really found the Holy Grail. We've got the Holy Grail locked up in a safe place."

And what if the secret ever leaked?

"We would certainly feel like we had broken a trust with the Colonel," Dedrick said.

Beyond such sentimentalities, there would be serious business consequences. KFC would have to make sure it retained exclusive rights to the recipe and fight off copycats, he said.

Dedrick said he doesn't worry about the recipe being revealed.

Those who know the blend of ingredients consider it a cherished trust, Dedrick said. Also, anyone divulging it might incur "the curse of the Colonel," he said.

And then, listeners, there always the talking dog, Duke, who tries his best to give away the famous bean concoction.

Letty speaks of Magic Moments. I can answer that all my "crushes" were magic moments, but can say without a moment's hesitation that my "most magic moment" was when the nurse put my newborn daughter into my arms.

And the birthdays for July 23 are:

1301 - Otto the Merry, Duke of Austria
1626 - Sabbatai Zevi, Jewish false Messiah (d. 1676)
1649 - Pope Clement XI (d. 1721)
1777 - Philipp Otto Runge, painter (d. 1810)
1796 - Franz Berwald, composer (d. 1868)
1865 - Max Heindel (born Carl Louis von Grasshoff in Denmark); Christian occultist, astrologer and mystic (d. 1919)
1884 - Emil Jannings, actor (d. 1950)
1886 - Salvador de Madariaga (d. 1978), League of Nations disarmament chief
1888 - Raymond Chandler, American author of crime stories and novels (d. 1959)
1892 - Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1975)
1893 - Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (d. 1990) (Menninger Clinic)
1894 - Arthur Treacher, English character actor (b. 1894)
1899 - Gustav Heinemann, politician, President of the Federal Republic of Germany (d. 1976)
1906 - Vladimir Prelog, Croat chemist, Nobel Prize (d. 1998)
1918 - Pee Wee Reese American professional baseball player (d. 1999)
1921 - Calvert DeForest, actor (on David Letterman's late night shows)
1923 - Witto Aloma, Major League Baseball player (d. 1997)
1933 - Bert Convy, American game show host, actor and singer (Snoop Sisters, Win, Lose or Draw)(d. 1991)
1936 - Don Drysdale, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 1993)
1936 - Shiv Kumar Batalvi, Punjabi revolutionary (d. 1973)
1936 - Anthony Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court justice
1938 - Bert Newton, actor, TV show host
1938 - Götz George, actor
1940 - Don Imus, American talk radio host
1942 - Myra Hindley, Moors murderess (d. 2002)
1943 - Tony Joe White, R&B singer-songwriter
1947 - David Essex, rock and roll singer
1947 - Gardner Dozois, science fiction author
1950 - Alex Kozinski, Circuit Judge
1951 - Edie McClurg, actress (Cinderella, 1985)
1957 - Theo van Gogh, film director (d. 2004)
1961 - Woody Harrelson, American actor (TV Cheers, Natural Born Killers, The People vs. Larry Flynt, White Men Can't Jump)
1961 - Martin Gore, musician, songwriter (Depeche Mode)
1965 - Slash (born "Saul Hudson"), guitarist (Guns N Roses)
1968 - Gary Payton, NBA player
1967 - Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor
1970 - Thea Dorn, German writer
1971 - Alison Krauss, bluegrass singer, fiddler
1971 - Dalvin DeGrate aka Mr. Dalvin, R&B singer
1973 - Nomar Garciaparra, baseball star shortstop
1973 - Monica Lewinsky, Congressional intern
1974 - Maurice Greene, American athlete
1974 - Terry Glenn, NFL wide receiver
1976 - Judit Polgár, Hungarian Chess Player.
1978 - Stefanie Sun, Singaporea songstress
1980 - Michelle Williams, singer
1983 - Rebecca Cartwright, Australian actress
1989 - Daniel Radcliffe, actor (Harry Potter movies)

While searching singer/songwriter Teddy Randazzo, I came across what are called Respect Pages. There are bios and death dates of many famous singers there.
http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/Respect2001.html

Ah, Raggedy. Thanks so much for your celeb updates and your magic moment. That is so dear. I have been having some problem with my personal equipment here in the studio, so I will check back later to review the celebs.

edgar, thanks for that information. Hard to believe that Marvin Gaye was killed as well as his brother.

From Marvin:

by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong
-originally charted at # 2 by Gladys Knight and the Pips in 1967


Ooh, I bet you're wond'rin' how I knew
'bout your plans to make me blue
With some other guy you knew before
Between the two of us guys you know I love you more
It took me by surprise I must say
When I found out yesterday
Dontcha know that I

Heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer would you be mine
Oh I heard it through the grapevine
Oh I'm just about to lose my mind
Honey, honey yeah
(Heard it through the grapevine)
(Not much longer would you be my baby, ooh, ooh, ooh)






I know a man ain't supposed to cry
But these tears I can't hold inside
Losin' you would end my life you see
'cause you mean that much to me
You could have told me yourself
That you love someone else
Instead I

Heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer would you be mine
Oh I heard it through the grapevine
And I'm just about to lose my mind
Honey, honey yeah
(Heard it through the grapevine)
(Not much longer would you be my baby, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)



People say believe half of what you see
Son, and none of what you hear
But I can't help bein' confused
If it's true please tell me dear
Do you plan to let me go
For the other guy you loved before?
Dontcha know I

Heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer would you be mine
Baby I heard it through the grapevine
Ooh I'm just about to lose my mind
Honey, honey yeah
(Heard it through the grapevine)
(Not much longer would you be my baby, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)


Honey, honey, I know
That you're lettin' me go
Said I heard it through the grapevine

FADE
Heard it through the grapevine

Tony Joe White (born July 23, 1943 in Goodwill, Louisiana)

In 1969, Tony Joe White came howling out of the swamplands of Louisiana into the national spotlight with his classic, "Polk Salad Annie,"--a Top 10 Hit, followed in 1970, by Brook Benton's soulful rendition of White's timeless classic, "Rainy Night In Georgia." Thirty years later he's still doing just what he's always done, creating soul-flavored, blues-drenched, truth-injected songs about swamp characters and reflective soul-tinged ballads about life and love.

Throughout the ?'70s and '80s Tony Joe White toured with some of the biggest artists of the decade including Credence Clearwater Revival and James Taylor. The 1990s began with an explosion of activity for White as superstar Tina Turner recorded four of his songs for her multi-platinum selling Foreign Affairs album including the world-wide hit, "Steamy Windows". With the advent of that project, White formed an alliance with Turner's manager, Roger Davies and his career began to soar.

While there was a certain "mystique" surrounding White in the United States, it was in Europe where he gained legendary status. In 1991 he signed with Remark and debuted Closer To The Truth and spent the next two years touring Europe with Eric Clapton and Joe Cocker, among others. He cut two more albums for Remark, 1993s Path Of A Decent Groove and '95s Lake Placid Blues, the latter garnering the first of two nominations for "Best R & B Album" from the Nashville Music Awards, (the second being, The Best Of Tony Joe White, a 1996 retrospective of his work on Warner Bros.). French audiences eagerly embraced White as the ?'Swamp Fox' and in 1998, he became the subject of a French produced documentary: Tony Joe White-The Man From Down South. In 1999, White went back to his roots and recorded One Hot July, in the swamps of Louisiana. He then toured Australia and Europe once again in support of the critically acclaimed album. In 2001, Audium and Koch Entertainment released The Beginning - a stripped down in your face acoustic masterpiece that received worldwide recognition and five star ratings in virtually every country.

Throughout the years, White has had songs recorded by dozens of major artists including Elvis, Ray Charles, Joe Cocker, Etta James, Hank, Jr., Tim McGraw, John Mayall and Waylon Jennings, (who recorded numerous White covers-including the '99 release, "Closing In On The Fire"). Most recently, he has worked with Marc Bryan of Hootie & The Blowfish and Michael McDonald (with whom he co-wrote a song recorded by Joe Cocker). He has written and performed jingles for McDonalds and Levi's 501 Blues and been featured on movie soundtracks for Millennium, Selena and Hotspot. His music has also been featured in two HBO original films.

People who are still "Searching For Tony Joe"…as witnessed by the award-winning documentary of the same name, can find the self-proclaimed lone wolf on tour this fall. His most recent CD releases are entitled, Heros and Heroines, the newest products recorded on his own label, Swamp Records. White says he created the company with his son Jody White, so that he could continue to produce music the way he always has -- his way. For full tour schedule, or TJW news, visit www.tonyjoewhite.com

Rainy Night in Georgia

Hoverin' by my suitcase, tryin' to find a warm place to spend the night
Heavy rain fallin', seems I hear your voice callin' "It's all right."
A rainy night in Georgia, a rainy night in Georgia
It seems like it's rainin' all over the world
I feel like it's rainin' all over the world

Neon signs a-flashin', taxi cabs and buses passin' through the night
A distant moanin' of a train seems to play a sad refrain to the night
A rainy night in Georgia, such a rainy night in Georgia
Lord, I believe it's rainin' all over the world
I feel like it's rainin' all over the world

How many times I wondered
It still comes out the same
No matter how you look at it or think of it
It's life and you just got to play the game

I find me a place in a box car, so I take my guitar to pass some time
Late at night when it's hard to rest I hold your picture to my chest and I feel fine
(minor scat) But it's a rainy night in Georgia, baby, it's a rainy night in Georgia I
feel it's rainin' all over the world, kinda lonely now And it's rainin' all over the
world

Oh, have you ever been lonely, people?
And you feel that it was rainin' all over this man's world
You're talking 'bout rainin', rainin', rainin', rainin', rainin', rainin', rainin',
rainin', rainin' rainin', rainin', rainin'

Americans Cope With Record Temperatures

By ANGIE WAGNER, Associated Press Writer

LAS VEGAS - When it's 117 degrees, the beads of sweat feel as big as golf balls, and gamblers still want their cars parked. Casino valet attendants have only one hope: Pray for a Cadillac.


"Cadillacs are awesome. The Cadillac A/C just fires right up," Tommy Clements said as he shuttled cars at Boulder Station hotel-casino.

Sure, people all over the country are complaining about record heat this week. But for the straight story, talk to those who head out into the midday Las Vegas sun to make a living. They are the ones who must know how to hack the heat.

Somehow, life goes on in the desert, even when logic and a decent thermometer suggest it's time to seek shelter and a cold drink. That's not an option when you're an air conditioning repairman, a mail carrier or countless others who just have to find a way to cope and carry on.

How do they do it? Lots of water and a good sweat rag, they say ?- and plenty of rest breaks in the shade.

Dale Curry, a 56-year-old electrician at a construction site, feels like a turkey on Thanksgiving Day, one that's been getting crispy for hours. He guzzles water and rests, but still he aches and can hardly move when the temperature spikes.

He often utters a few choice words, but "it's not a language for small children and ladies," he said.

Even in a place accustomed to triple-digit heat, this has been one hot summer already. Tuesday's 117 degrees tied the record set in 1942.

And don't try dismissing it as a dry heat. Twenty-one people, mostly homeless, have died from similar heat in neighboring Arizona, and authorities in Las Vegas are investigating whether 10 deaths were heat-related.

Step outside if you dare, and see how long it takes for the sweat to start trickling down your cheeks and back. Air conditioners are pumping overtime, errands are run in the morning and at night, parks are deserted until after sundown and only the brave or the crazy hit the links in the middle of the day, despite discounts at some courses. Some construction crews have shifted work to nighttime to try to beat the heat.

This kind of heat cracks dashboards, makes steering wheels too hot to grip and fries feet unfortunate enough to touch pavement. Even swimming pools offer little relief because of bathtub-like temperatures.

Those who must venture outside try the all-A/C route: from air-conditioned homes to air-conditioned cars to air-conditioned shops and offices.

And then there are guys like Darnell Newman, a sales director at Findlay Toyota who has to pound the pavement when a customer wants to look around the car lot.

He came from California in March and is near deciding that Vegas isn't for him.

This, he said, this is crazy.

"I've never dealt with anything like this. I almost had a heat stroke," he said, grabbing some shade by the dealership's doors while he could.

John Graybill, owner of Aire-force One air conditioning repair company, endures even hotter temperatures atop roofs when he becomes the savior in the desert for sweltering customers. His phone hasn't stopped ringing this week, but he takes the summer in stride.

"Heat is heat," he said. "It's part of the job."

Workers atop the Stratosphere hotel-casino gulp water as fast they can. There is no shade, just exhausted, parched and broiling thrill ride operators.

Security officer Joseph Cunico spends four hours a day patrolling the tower pod 906 feet up.

"When you first come up you almost get to the point where you can't stand it," he said.

This summer, Bob McAndrew might be the luckiest guy in Las Vegas. He delivers milk for Anderson Dairy and when the heat starts inching up, he climbs into the back of his truck, where it's a cool, refreshing 40 degrees.

"Never seen it hotter," he said, taking his lunch break inside his truck. "It's a killer."

But no streak lasts forever in Las Vegas, even when it comes to the weather. Temperatures have eased from the terrible teens and will come in under 110 this weekend and next week.

"So we've got a cold wave for Vegas," Cunico joked.


Luisa de Vries fans herself as she and her husband Gerhard find the only shade available after trekking out to the salt flats of Bad Water, the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere, as temperatures passed the 110-degree Fahrenheit mark in Death Valley National Park in California's Mojave Desert, Friday, July 22, 2005. As soaring temperatures drove many indoors or to cooler climes, Death Valley attracted a small but dedicated group of tourists, many European, whodidn't seem to mind enduring one of thehottest places in the country. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Well, Bob. We appreciate your updates on both Tony Joe White and the heat wave that people are dealing with. I do believe the planet is collapsing in on itself.

I didn't know that Tony White wrote "A Rainy Night in Georgia." Brook really did that song well, no? I thought that he did a novelty song called "That's All it Takes to make a Hit Record", but I have not been able to find it.

Meanwhile, listeners, hold this thought:

Thought for Today: ``I'm a self-made man, but I think if I had it to do over again, I'd call in someone else.'' - Roland Young, English actor (1887-1953).



07/22/05 20:00

Love it!

Back later, listeners, with a song for one of Raggedy's celebs, and it turns out to be more synchronicity

Well, folks. I couldn't locate the song that I wanted, so this one will have to do:


Walk me out in the morning dew my honey,
Walk me out in the morning dew today.
I can't walk you out in the morning dew my honey,
I can't walk you out in the morning dew today.

I thought I heard a baby cry this morning,
I thought I heard a baby cry this today.
You didn't hear no baby cry this morning,
You didn't hear no baby cry today.

Where have all the people gone my honey,
Where have all the people gone today.
There's no need for you to be worrying about all those people,
You never see those people anyway.

I thought I heard a young man morn this morning,
I thought I heard a young man morn today.
I thought I heard a young man morn this morning,
I can't walk you out in the morning dew today.

Walk me out in the morning dew my honey,
Walk me out in the morning dew today.
I'll walk you out in the morning dew my honey,
I guess it doesn't really matter anyway,
I guess it doesn't matter anyway,
I guess it doesn't matter anyway,
Guess it doesn't matter anyway

I suspect that The Grateful Dead meant to say "mourn".......

Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)
Written by Eric Carmen
Lead Vocal: MARIE
Produced by Jai Winding
Released on 'Messin' With The Boys' (1980)
Also released on 'Young & Wild' (1998)

Well, I know it sounds funny
But I'm not in it for the money, no
I don't need no reputation
And I'm not in it for the show.

I just want a hit record
Wanna hear it on the radio
Want a big hit record
One that everybody's got to know.

Well, if the program director don't pull it
Then it's bound to get back the bullet
So bring the group down to the station
You're gonna be an overnight sensation.

Oh yeah.

I've been trying to write the lyrics
Non-offensive but satiric, too
If you can get up in the A slot
It's just bound to make a mint for you.

And I wanna a hit record
Wanna hear it on the radio
Want a big hit record
One that everybody's got to own.

Well, if the program director don't pull it
Then it's bound to get back the bullet
So bring the group down to the station
We're gonna be an overnight sensation.

Fit the words to a good melody (melody)
Amazing that success has been ignoring me
So long (making music so long)
So long (so long, for so long).

Melody!

Here it comes
Here it comes.

Hit record, yeah
Hit record, yeah.

Want a hit record, yeah
Want a hit record
Hit record, yeah
Wanna hear it on the radio.

Want a hit record, yeah
Big hit record
Hit record, yeah
I wanna hear it, wanna hear it on the radio.

Want a hit record, yeah
Want a hit record
Hit record, yeah
Wanna hear it on the radio.

Want a hit record, yeah
Big hit record
Hit record, yeah
One that everybody's got to own.

Hit record, yeah
Want a hit record
Hit record, yeah
On the ra-ra-ra-radio.

I want a hit record, yeah
Big hit record
Hit record, yeah
On the radio.

I want a hit record, yeah
Big hit record
Hit record, yeah
On the radio.

I want a hit record, yeah
I want a hit record
Hit record, yeah
On the ra-ra-ra-radio.

I want a hit record, yeah
Big hit record
Hit record, yeah
On the radio.

I want a hit record, yeah
Big hit record
Hit record, yeah
On the radio.

Bob, that is great! Reminds me of "I'm Sixteen and I Got a Bullet"..<smile>

However, listeners, I don't think that is the song to which I referred. The one that I was thinking of went something like:

First you get yourself a group,
etc.

That's all it takes,
To make a hit record.

Ah, well. Perhaps one day.

Now I'm off to find the bullet song.

Hit Single
Joe Jackson

You might have seen me hangin' around
I never miss one night I could be on the town
I used to be another one like you
Always running home to that special one or two
And when I think of all the years of finding out
What I already knew
Now I spead myself around
And you can have 3 minutes too
'Cause I'm a hit single
Lookin' out for number one

I got a line or two that never fail
And every time you look around I'll be there on your tail
I'm nothing special but I don't give in
Before you know it I'll be there right underneath your skin

And if you think that being serious and smart
Gets you where you should be
You must be not only joking
But way too heavy for me

'Cause I'm a hit single
Goin' straight to number one

And when I die and go to pure pop heaven
The angels will gather around
And ask me for my whole life story
And ask for that fabulous sound
But I know they're gonna stop me
As I start going through every line
And say please not the whole damn album
Nobody has that much time

Please . . .

Just the hit single
You gotta love that number one

Box Set
Barenaked Ladies

I never thought that you would love me the way that you do.
I never thought that you would love me half as much as I do.
You say you wanna know everything about me. Well here you go.
You say you couldn't live your life without me. I don't know.
But if you want it girl, you've got it,
it's all right here,
in my box set.

I never thought that words like product could ever leave my lips,
but something happened to me somewhere that made me lose my grip.
Maybe it's a lack of inspiration that makes me stoop,
or maybe it's a lack of remuneration; I can't recoup.
But if you want it folks, you got it;
it's all right here in my box set.

Disc One
it's where we've begun, it's all of greatest hits,
and if you are a fan then you know that you've already got 'em.

Disc Two
it was all brand new, al album's worth of songs,
but we had to leave the whole disc blank 'cause
some other label bought 'em.

Disc Three
This is really me in a grade school play;
I had about a hundred thousand lines but of course I forgot 'em.

I never thought there'd be days like this, there was always someone at my door.
I never thought I would ever miss, and the crowd would always holler for more.
But now it seems all that people want is what I used to be,
and every time I try to do something new,
all they want is 1973.

I never thought I'd be regretful of all my past success.
But some stupid number one hit single has go me in this mess.
You can put it on every compilation - that's all right.
You can hear it on the oldies radio station every night.
And if you want it again, you got it
it's right here in my box set.

Disc Four
Never released before, and you can tell why.
it's just some demos I recorded in my basement.

Disc Five
I was barely alive, I was hacking up a lung,
so they had to use a special computer as my replacement.

Disc Six
A dance remix, so I can catch the latest trend
and it'll make you scratch your head and wonder
where my taste went.

So now my fans are crying sellout,
they say that I've lost my touch.
They say I should just get the hell out,
before I do too much.
Hear my songs in an ad for a bathroom cleanser -
they say it's greed,
And now I'm wondering where my friends are in this time of need.
But if you change your mind and buy it,
I hope you enjoy my new box.

I hope you enjoy my new box,

Well, listeners. Here's our dj again with his totally awesome songs. Both Box Set and Hit Single are perfect, Canada.

Sorry, folks, The only "bullet" song I could find was by TuPac, and that's too ironic to play.

I noticed in passing that the Japanese are making robots that will care for the elderly. The future has finally come to our planet, no?

and on the home front:

Armstrong wins the last time trial of his career, all but guarantees seventh Tour win

By JOHN LEICESTER, AP Sports Writer
July 23, 2005

AP - Jul 23, 12:28 pm EDT
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SAINT-ETIENNE, France (AP) -- As if Lance Armstrong had anything left to prove, as if his crowning achievement really needed an emphatic stamp, cycling's greatest champion gave his best performance Saturday -- claiming the stage win he lacked and all but guaranteeing a seventh consecutive Tour de France victory.

Go, Lance!

Is that "Sixteen with a bullit,
"Got My finger on the trigger gonna' pullit" ?


Speaking of Tony Joe White, and CCR. I have them both listed in my or Funk, topic, as FFunky.

I feel like breaking out in song....Mi,Mi,Mi.Miiiiii.... oops. times up at the old library computor

Boo. Are you back for real? Wonderful! Yes, That's the song; I was spelling it wrong (or correctly<smile)

Do you know the entire thing?