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Letty my love, you must work on that stutter. I posted My Way because it's one of my favorites to sing. Often requested by women who remember their fathers singing (or some proximity thereof) it to them. As a matter of fact it was requested last night and I was happy to oblige.

Well, Bob. They say that if one looks in the mirror and talks, the stutter will improve. I had forgotten that last evening was Karaoke night for you.

I swear on my honor that it was not I who did the double take.

Let he who without sin cast the first stone. Since I am assured of the stutter championship I withdraw my suggestion.

Ah, folks. If the topic is sin, then we need to look at Johnny Mercer:






Gather 'round me, everybody
Gather 'round me while I'm preachin'
Feel a sermon comin' on me
The topic will be sin and that's what I'm ag'in'
If you wanna hear my story
The settle back and just sit tight
While I start reviewin'
The attitude of doin' right







You've got to accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
And latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with Mister In-Between

You've got to spread joy up to the maximum
Bring gloom down to the minimum
Have faith or pandemonium's
Liable to walk upon the scene

To illustrate my last remark
Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark
What did they do just when everything looked so dark?

(Man, they said "We'd better accentuate the positive")
("Eliminate the negative")
("And latch on to the affirmative")
Don't mess with Mister In-Between (No!)
Don't mess with Mister In-Between

(Ya got to spread joy up to the maximum)
(Bring gloom down to the minimum)
(Have faith or pandemonium's)
(Liable to walk upon the scene)

You got to ac (yes, yes) -cent-tchu-ate the positive
Eliminate (yes, yes) the negative
And latch (yes, yes) on to the affirmative
Don't mess with Mister In-Between
No, don't mess with Mister In-Between

Oh yes we got trouble
Right here in River City
With a capital T
And that rhymes with P
And that stands for Pool

Thank you for the song referring to Maxwellton Braes.
An old favourite, Annie Laurie.

Funnily enough, I can remember another old Scottish favourite, which my father used to sing, called Rothesay Bay, and try as I might I could not get the words out of any internet website. The tune is mentioned a few times, but not the words.

It starts "When the moon comes o'er the Cumbrae..."

Good Morning everybody!

Oh, there's Emily (thanks, Bob) - and as Letty remembered "Wuthering Heights" is my most favorite movie of all time (Laurence Olivier version, of course) Aah yes, romantic I am, but not hopeless.
I posted the birthdays earlier but couldn't get through. But, I can't get any e-Mails either so maybe it's my computer (horrible thought) or my ISP.

Anyway, today's birthdays:

1549 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)
1641 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673)
1818 - Emily Brontë, English novelist (d. 1848)
1855 - Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist
1857 - Thorstein Veblen, economist (d. 1929)
1863 - Henry Ford, American industrialist (d. 1947)
1889 - Franz Masereel, painter and graphic artist (d. 1972)
1889 - Vladimir Zworykin, physicist and inventor (d. 1982)
1890 - Casey Stengel, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1975)
1898 - Henry Moore, sculptor (d. 1986)
1909 - C. Northcote Parkinson, British historian and writer (d. 1993)
1914 - Lord Killanin, former IOC president (d. 1999)
1921 - Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist (d. 2005)
1929 - Werner Tübke, painter (de:Werner Tübke)
1930 - Thomas Sowell, economist
1934 - Bud Selig, baseball team owner and commissioner
1936 - Buddy Guy, guitarist, singer
1939 - Peter Bogdanovich, film director
1941 - Paul Anka, singer and composer
1945 - David Sanborn, musician, Grammy Award winner
1946 - Neil Bonnett, NASCAR driver (d. 1994)
1947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor, 38th Governor of California
1947 - William Atherton, American actor
1948 - Jean Reno, actor
1956 - Delta Burke, actress
1956 - Anita Hill, American law professor, author
1958 - Kate Bush, singer
1961 - Laurence Fishburne, actor
1962 - Alton Brown, Food Network host
1963 - Lisa Kudrow, actress
1964 - Vivica A. Fox, actress
1971 - Tom Green, comedian, actor
1974 - Hilary Swank, Academy Award winning actress
1975 - Graham Nicholls, British artist
1981 - Nicky Hayden, American Motorcycle Racer

and Emily

Ah, There's our Raggedy with her celebs. I'll observe them later PA as I am having a bit of trouble, as McTag puts it, in Florida city. <smile>

McTag. I hope I have better luck finding your old song than I did finding Alsou. <smile>

I've Got the World On A String
The Ink Spots
Words by Ted Koehler and Music by Harold Arlen

This version did not chart but
In 1933, two versions did: Cab Calloway (# 18) and Bing Crosby (# 19)
In 1953, Frank Sinatra took it to # 14.
Sung in the revue "Cotton Club Parade" by Aida Ward


I've got the world on a string
Sitting on a rainbow
Got that string around my finger
What a world, what a life, I'm in love

I've got a song that I sing
I can make the rain go
Anytime I snap my finger
What a world, what a life, I'm in love

Life's a beautiful thing
Long as I hold that string
I'd be a silly so-and-so
If I'd ever let you go

But I've got this world on a string
I'm sittin' on a rainbow
Got that string around my finger
What a world, what a life, I'm in love

<lengthy instrumental break>


Life's a beautiful thing
Long as I hold that string
I'd be a silly so-and-so
If I'd ever let you go

But, darling, I've got the world on a string
Sitting on a rainbow
Got that string around my finger
What a world, what a life, I'm in love

edgar, that is one neat song, Texas, but I am surprised at the origins of it.

Well, listeners, until I can get things straight in our studio--

Thought for Today: ``Love is purely a creation of the human imagination ... the most important example of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.'' - Katherine Anne Porter, American author (1894-1980).



07/29/05 20:00

and for our McTag:

Rothesay Bay
-Traditional Scottish Song


Fu' yellow lie the cornrigs, fat down the braid hillside;
It is the brawest har'st field, alang the shores o' Clyde,
And I'm a puir har'st lassie wha stands the lee lang day -
Amang the cornrigs of Ardbeg, aboon sweet Rothesay Bay.

O I had a true love, now I hae nane ava;
And I had three braw brithers, but I hae tint them a'.
My father and my mither sleep i'' the mools this day -
I sit my lane amang the rigs, aboon sweet Rothesay Bay.

It's a bonnie bay at morning, and bonnier at nooon,
But the bonniest when the sun draps and red comes up the moon.
When the mist creeps o'er the Cumbraes, and Arran peaks are gray,
And the great black hills, like sleeping kings, sit grand roun' Rothesay Bay.

The early bird catches the worm, they say, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese.

Well I never, the old words to Rothesay Bay.
Well done, Letty, and thank you.

Rothesay is a town on Bute, a large island in the scenic Firth of Clyde, on the Scottish west coast.

(BTW place names ending in -ay, meaning island, such as Colonsay, Oronsay, Scalpay, Islay, Rothesay are Norse in origin and were Viking names.
Also -ey such as in names like Ely and Sheppey in England)

You are quite welcome, McTag. Lovely song, incidently.

Now, folks, time for a little bit of history:


211th day of 2005. There are 154 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On July 30, 1945, during World War II, the battle cruiser USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered components for the atomic bomb that would be dropped on Hiroshima, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine; only 316 out of 1,196 men survived the sinking and shark-infested waters.

On this date:

In 1729, the city of Baltimore was founded.

In 1792, the French national anthem ``La Marseillaise,'' by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, was first sung in Paris.

In 1844, the New York Yacht Club was founded.

In 1864, during the Civil War, Union forces tried to take Petersburg, Va., by exploding a mine under Confederate defense lines. The attack failed.

In 1932, the Summer Olympic Games opened in Los Angeles.

In 1942, President Roosevelt signed a bill creating a women's auxiliary agency in the Navy known as ``Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service'' - WAVES for short.

In 1965, President Johnson signed into law the Medicare bill, which went into effect the following year.

In 1975, former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in suburban Detroit. Although presumed dead, his remains have never been found.

In 1975, representatives of 35 countries convened in Finland for a conference on security and human rights that resulted in the Helsinki accords.

In 1980, the Israeli Knesset passed a law reaffirming all of Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state.

Ten years ago: Russia and Chechen rebels signed an agreement calling for a gradual withdrawal of Russian troops and the disarmament of rebel fighters.

Five years ago: President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela won a fresh six-year term in a landslide re-election.

One year ago: Leaders of the Sept. 11 commission urged senators to embrace their proposals for massive changes to the nation's intelligence structure. Mike Tyson was knocked out in the fourth round of a fight in Louisville, Ky., by British heavyweight Danny Williams.

I missed your explanation of the suffixes, McTag. Norse? well that is quite interesting, but there's a mite of all cultures in the lot of us.

It just occurred to me, listeners, that our dj is conspicuous by his absence. Hey, Canada. Where are you?

Well, the 'Norsemen' (Vikings) ruled over the kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria in 875, the other British kingdom, Wessex, was attacked in 878, and only by 955 Eadred ruled over a united England again.

But at king Ethelred's death in 1016, the Viking leader Cnut was effectively ruling England.

And later, 1066 and all that happened :wink:

Thanks for that song, Letty!





Well, three kings in one year, a legendary battle in October and a Norman in charge of England - no wonder that people rarely forget the year 1066. :wink:

I remember the Mayflower date because of a song, and I remember when Columbus discovered the new world because of a poem, Walter. It has to do with mnemonic devices, but other than that, dates are not the important thing, the events that occur that changed the world are important. Let's take your Gutenberg, for example. Why Germany's history could still be written on vellum scroll with a quill pen by some monk had it not been for that printing press guy. :wink:

Hey, Germany. I'm glad you liked that song. Wanna see one about NaCl? :wink:

Come on, listeners. Tell Walter you want to hear the salt song.

As luck would have it, listeners, some lovely lady from Germany called in a request and asked that the following song be played for a "salt" from her area:

SODIUM CHLORIDE)
Kate McGarrigle, Garden Court Music ASCAP
Just a little atom of chlorine
Valence minus one
Swimming thru the sea, digging the scene
Just having fun
She's not worried about the shape or size
Of her outside shell
It's fun to ionize
Just a little atom of Cl
With an unfilled shell

But somewhere in that sea lurks
Handsome Sodium
With enough electrons on his outside shell
Plus that extra one
Somewhere in this deep blue sea
There's a negative
For my extra energy yes
Somewhere in this foam
My positive will find a home

Then unsuspecting Chlorine
Felt a magnetic pull
She looked down and her outside
Shell was full
Sodium cried "what a gas be my bride and
I'll change your name from Chlorine to Chloride"

Now the sea evaporates to make the clouds
For the rain and snow
Leaving her chemical compounds in the abscence
Of H2O
But the crystals that wash upon the shore
Are happy ones
So if you never thought before
Think of the love that you eat
When you salt your meat
Think of the love that you eat
When you salt your meat

(the spelling errors are NOT mine)