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How about a little Dave Brubeck this a.m.?

TAKE FIVE

Wow! Bob. Isn't it amazing what one learns at a cocktail party? I well remember my social foundations prof talking about "the cocktail effect."

More about that later, listeners.

How coincidental, Boston. One book that I am looking at as we speak, is Anaerobic Infections. Certainly did not read that as a child.

Thank you, for that preview of John what's-his-name new book. Now we know about men and their interesting differences.

in my garden this morning, Celosia at dawn:

And here's dys, listeners, and accompanied by Celosia at dawn. What an unusual fern type blossom. The yellow of it is refreshing, buddy.

Finally, folks. I have some color in my yard. The very first bird of paradise has sprung forth and my hibiscus bush is full of red. Now if I could just get edgar's green, green grass of home, I would be happy.

Somehow, the image of a Fleur-de-lis came to my mind. How disappointing to find out it was heraldic.

I had such beautiful flowers in Virginia. Iris--Japanese iris--tulips--easter lilies--lilacs.

Well, I found out that Boston George is all right, just very busy at work, and of all things there was a sighting of hiama.

Perhaps, folks, things are looking up, and spring out. <smile>

er, make that springing out.

My goodness, folks. Tico slipped in with Take Five. Hey, buddy. How did I miss you, of all people. While we are waiting for the quartet to strike up that unusual song with the off beat rhythm, let's hear a flower song for dys's yellow(golden rod?)

Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin
Never released



I watch the raindrops falling on my window pane
All the bloomed forget-me-nots won't falter in the rain
Electric light bulbs cannot replace the sun
And picture postcards can't reveal all the things we've done

And the flowers will never ever die
And the flowers will never die
And autumn in the country cannot withhold the sky
And the flowers will never die

He spreads his cloudy blanket on a raging sea
And calms the cruel waves with the help of powers that be
The hours fly by, the clock ticks on maneuvering its hands
While the autumn leaves fall from the trees and return into the land.

I tried to locate the song of the flowers from Gold Diggers of Paris and I did, but I was not permitted to steal the lyrics.

Oh, my GAWD, Tico. That was fantastic, and the liquid tones of Paul Desmond are to die for. Thanks for that, my friend.

We met Dave Brubeck at one of the LSO's concerts in Daytona Beach. He thought that my husband was with the newspaper.

I Will Always Return
Bryan Adams

I hear the wind call your name
It calls me back home again
It sparks up the fire - a flame that still burns
Oh it's to you I'll always return
I still feel your breath on my skin
I hear your voice deep within
The sound of my lover - a feeling so strong
It's to you - I'll always belong

Now I know it's true
My every road leads to you
And in the hour of darkness darlin'
Your light gets me through

Wanna swim in your river - be warmed by your sun
Bathe in your waters - cos you are the one
I can't stand the distance - I can't dream alone
I can't wait to see you - Ya I'm on my way home

Oh I hear the wind call your name
The sound that leads me home again
It sparks up the fire - a flame that still burns
Oh, it's to you - I will always return

Certainly. I was enjoying it over on JP's Song of the Day thread, and thought I'd share with your listeners.

Letty, only just read the poem...what can I say? I was so moved, thank you, it was lovely. Who wrote it, where did you find it?

Thanks again

Sarah
x

dj, you're back. Don't we always love to see Canada with us folks? So glad that the Toronto crash did not take ONE human life. Wow! I love that song. "..I hear the wind call your name..." simply beautiful. Thank you, my friend.

smorgs, Wasn't that lovely. I wish I could tell you, Manchester, but I don't think the author was listed. Try checking it out on the net.

Folks, I just heard from a friend who tells me that William Henry III is alive and still living in Alabama. Great news all around.

Now all we need is McTag and Walter to make our station complete today. And I know that Yitwail is somewhere around. <smile>

News update from the Cape:

Category > Science & Technology

Unprecedented Shuttle Repair a Success

Published: 8/3/05





SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) - A spacewalking astronaut gently pulled two potentially dangerous strips of protruding filler from Discovery's tile belly with his gloved hand Wednesday, successfully completing an unprecedented emergency repair.

Astronaut Stephen Robinson said both pieces came out easily during the spacewalk, which lasted six hours. He did not have to use a makeshift hacksaw put together in orbit that he brought along just in case.

If things would just take a turn for the better in Niger, we would all rejoice. My heart breaks for those small children.

How would your pronounce that African name, folks?

Listening, listening all day, Letty :wink:

Aha! I wondered where you were hanging out, Walter. Always good to see our favorite German in our studios. Now if McTag's computer has not blown up again, tell him we need to know the etymology of soccer.

Any requests for Dixieland? <smile>

Since I reorganised my cd-collection today, I refound some nice rock 'n' roll records :wink:



Elvis Presley - Dixieland Rock

(words & music by schroeder - frank)

Well down in new orleans at the golden goose
I grabbed a green-eyed dolly that was on the loose
Well I dig that music, well she said me too
I said pretty baby come on and let?s do

The dixieland rock
Well the dixieland rock
Let your hair down sugar, shake it free
And do the dixieland rock with me

With the blue light shining on her swinging hips
She got the drummer so nervous that he lost his sticks
The cornet player hit a note that?s flat
The tromboner hit him while the poor cat sat

The dixieland rock
Well the dixieland rock
Let your hair down sugar, shake it free
And do the dixieland rock with me

I was all pooped out and when the clock struck four
But she said no daddy can?t leave the floor
She wore a clinging dress that fit so tight
She couldn?t sit down so we danced all night

The dixieland rock
Well the dixieland rock
Let your hair down sugar, shake it free
And do the dixieland rock with me
Let your hair dance sugar, shake it
And do the dixieland rock with me

Hey! I just remembered that today is Columbus Day in America.

Do you know, listeners, that I read on one of those history updates that Chris was really a Spanish mercenary. UhOh!

Well, nevertheless let's do a song for for him:


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They All Laughed

The odds were a hundred to one against me
The world thought the heights were too high to climb
But people from Missouri never incensed me
Oh, I wasn't a bit concerned
For from hist'ry I had learned
How many, many times the worm had turned

They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
When he said the world was round
They all laughed when Edison recorded sound
They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother
When they said that man could fly

They told Marconi
Wireless was a phony
It's the same old cry
They laughed at me wanting you
Said I was reaching for the moon
But oh, you came through
Now they'll have to change their tune

They all said we never could be happy
They laughed at us and how!
But ho, ho, ho!
Who's got the last laugh now?

They all laughed at Rockefeller Center
Now they're fighting to get in
They all laughed at Whitney and his cotton gin
They all laughed Fulton and his steamboat
Hershey and his chocolate bar

Ford and his Lizzie
Kept the laughers busy
That's how people are
They laughed at me wanting you
Said it would be, "Hello, Goodbye."
But oh, you came through
Now they're eating humble pie

They all said we'd never get together
Darling, let's take a bow
For ho, ho, ho!
Who's got the last laugh?
Hee, hee, hee!
Let's at the past laugh
Ha, ha, ha!
Who's got the last laugh now?

Um.

Columbus Day was October 12th, last time I checked.

UhOh, Eva. Well, I should have known that. Lemme see where I went awry.

Highlight in History:

On Aug. 3, 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, on a voyage that took him to the present-day Americas.

sorry about that listeners. Them ships weren't too swift, were they.

Well, then. We'll just make today WA2K Day.

Well, yesterday was the 8th month anniversary of WA2K radio.

on Dec. 2, 2005,
Our radio station came alive!

I guess we had better thank these fellows:


The Invention of Radio

Radio owes its development to two other inventions, the telegraph and the telephone, all three technologies are closely related. (Read the history found on the telegraph and telephone pages to better understand the roots of radio)
Few radio broadcasts travel through the air exclusively, while many are sent over telephone wires. In the 1860s, James Clerk Maxwell, a Scottish physicist, predicted the existence of radio waves, and in 1886 Heinrich Rudolph Hertz, a German physicist, demonstrated that rapid variations of electric current could be projected into space in the form of radio waves similar to those of light and heat.

Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian inventor, proved the feasibility of radio communication. He sent and received his first radio signal in Italy in 1895. By 1899 he flashed the first wireless signal across the English Channel and two years later received the letter "S", telegraphed from England to Newfoundland. This was the first successful transatlantic radiotelegraph message in 1902.

(Note: Nikola Tesla is now credited with having invented modern radio; the Supreme Court overturned Marconi's patent in 1943 in favor of Tesla.)

Wireless signals proved effective in communication.

Now we have:

Canada
Germany
Denmark
Norway (sometimes)
France
England
and, of course, America, thanks to Chris.

Hey, Eva. Did I redeem myself?