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I like your Wyoming song too

Letty I am sure you know Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" song has several more verses than the Byrds version...

Rex, I have no idea why that song popped into my head. It is funny, no?

And would you believe, listeners, that this song surfaced from the corner of my mind:

Moonlight on the River Colorado
How I wish that I were there with you
As I sit and find each lonely shadow
Takes me back to days that we once knew
We were to wed in harvest time you said
That's why I'm longing for you

When it's moonlight on the Colorado
I wonder if you're waiting for me too
We were to wed in harvest time you said
That's why I'm longing for you-ooo
When it's moonlight on the Colorado
I wonder if you're waiting for me too

Well, Rex. I have heard it in it's entirety, and once thought that it alluded to drugs. I was told a definite "No" from my dear friend Bert Lee who lives in the Bronx. Who knows what Dylan meant in any of his songs. I'll bet edgar does.

Good grief, folks. I saw a bit of news about Jolie who is to play the evil queen in Beowulf. Wow! I need to revisit that old English epic.

WOW! It's true, listeners. Angelina Jolie will be Grendel's mother in an animated version of Beowulf. Pete De Niro will also star in the movie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Tambourine_Man

Kind of a disappointment I thought it had some political or spiritual commentary too... maybe it still does.

Very interesting Angelina Jolie is one of my very favs...

Well, you are right about Tambourine Man, Rex. Dylan is rather like poetry. Each person sees something new.

You're right, Rex. Angelina is the favorite of a lot of you guys. <smile>

Well, listeners. I really spent a great deal of time trying to find something that would fit Florida and Beowulf as well.

I had to settle for The Beastie Boys; however, Tupac Shakur did a rap song that alluded to Beowulf but I couldn't clean it up enough to play it.







Gratitude (Beastie Boys/Cushman)



Good Times Gone But You Missed Them What's Gone Wrong In

Your System Things They Bounce Just Like A Spaulding What'd

You Think Did You Miss Your Calling It's So Free This Kind Of Feeling

It's Like Life It's So Appealing When You've Got So Much To Say

It's Called Gratitude



Good Times Gone But You Feed It Hate's Grown Strong

You Feel You Need It Just One Thing Do You Know What You Think

That The World Owes You What's Gonna Set You Free Look Inside

And You'll See When You've Got So Much To Say It's Called Gratitude

That's a terrible song to with which to say goodnight, folks, but that time has come for me.

May we always be in each other's heart, mind, and soul.

From Letty with love.

Nice songs about Wyoming, Colorado, and Florida, but someone needs to root for us too So .....

California, Here I Come
(By Al Jolson)

When the wintry winds starts blowing
And the snow is starting in the fall
Then my eyes went westward knowing
That's the place that i love best of all
California i've been blue
Since i've been away from you
I can't wait 'till i get blowing
Even now i'm starting in a call

California, Here I Come
Right back where I started from
where bowers of flowers
bloom in the spring
each morning at dawning
birdies sing at everything
a sunkissed miss said, "Don't be late!"
that's why I can hardly wait
open up that golden gate
California, Here I Come

California, Here I Come (yeaaaaaah!)
Right back where I started from
where bowers of flowers
bloom in the spring
each morning at dawning
birdies sing at everything
a sunkissed miss said, "Don't be late!"
that's why I can hardly wait (come on!)
open up (open up! open up!) that golden gate
California, Here I Come

i'm close to the us / canada border, near detroit

johnny, have you got anything to say about detroit

One Piece At a Time
Johnny Cash

Well, I left Kentucky back in '49
An' went to Detroit workin' on a 'sembly line
The first year they had me puttin' wheels on cadillacs

Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by
And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry
'Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black.

One day I devised myself a plan
That should be the envy of most any man
I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my hand
Now gettin' caught meant gettin' fired
But I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired
I'd have me a car worth at least a hundred grand.

CHORUS
I'd get it one piece at a time
And it wouldn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style
I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is a round.

So the very next day when I punched in
With my big lunchbox and with help from my friends
I left that day with a lunch box full of gears
Now, I never considered myself a thief
GM wouldn't miss just one little piece
Especially if I strung it out over several years.

The first day I got me a fuel pump
And the next day I got me an engine and a trunk
Then I got me a transmission and all of the chrome
The little things I could get in my big lunchbox
Like nuts, an' bolts, and all four shocks
But the big stuff we snuck out in my buddy's mobile home.

Now, up to now my plan went all right
'Til we tried to put it all together one night
And that's when we noticed that something was definitely wrong.

The transmission was a '53
And the motor turned out to be a '73
And when we tried to put in the bolts all the holes were gone.

So we drilled it out so that it would fit
And with a little bit of help with an A-daptor kit
We had that engine runnin' just like a song
Now the headlight' was another sight
We had two on the left and one on the right
But when we pulled out the switch all three of 'em come on.

The back end looked kinda funny too
But we put it together and when we got thru
Well, that's when we noticed that we only had one tail-fin
About that time my wife walked out
And I could see in her eyes that she had her doubts
But she opened the door and said "Honey, take me for a spin."

So we drove up town just to get the tags
And I headed her right on down main drag
I could hear everybody laughin' for blocks around
But up there at the court house they didn't laugh
'Cause to type it up it took the whole staff
And when they got through the title weighed sixty pounds.

CHORUS
I got it one piece at a time
And it didn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style
I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is around.

(Spoken) Ugh! Yow, RED RYDER
This is the COTTON MOUTH
In the PSYCHO-BILLY CADILLAC Come on

Huh, This is the COTTON MOUTH
And negatory on the cost of this mow-chine there RED RYDER
You might say I went right up to the factory
And picked it up, it's cheaper that way
Ugh!, what model is it?

Well, It's a '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56
'57, '58' 59' automobile
It's a '60, '61, '62, '63, '64, '65, '66, '67
'68, '69, '70 automobile.

Colorado

written by Rick Roberts

Hey Colorado
It was not so long ago
I left your mountains to try life on the road
But I'm tired of that race
It was much too fast a pace
And I think I've found my place
Colorado, I want to come home

I had a man there but I left him far behind
I could have loved him if I'd only had the time
Ah but I stopped along my way
Just long enough to say
That I'd really like to stay
But my baby
You know I have to go

I was too young
To know what I'd done
I made my plans
But I was wrong
Yes I was wrong

Colorado
Is it too late to change my mind
I've done some thinking
And I'm trying hard to find
A way to come back home
Cause I've been so very long alone
Won't you take care of your own
Colorado
I think I'm coming home
I want to come home
Let me come home

Massachusetts

Feel I'm goin' back to Massachusetts,
Something's telling me I must go home.
And the lights all went out in Massachusetts
The day I left her standing on her own.

Tried to hitch a ride to San Francisco,
Gotta do the things I wanna do.
And the lights all went out in Massachusetts
They brought me back to see my way with you.

Talk about the life in Massachusetts,
Speak about the people I have seen,
And the lights all went out in Massachusetts
And Massachusetts is one place I have seen.

I will remember Massachusetts...

The Bee Gees

The Black Hills of Dakota

Doris Day
from Calamity Jane


Black Hills, Black Hills,

Tho' I've wandered far a way

Black Hills, Black Hills,

I'll come back to you someday

Where the deer and the buffalo roam

and the Red-wing feathers her nest,

That's the place that I call my home,

The land that I love the best.

Take me back to the Black Hills,

The Black Hills of DA - KO- TA,

To the beautiful Indian country that I love.

Lost my heart in the Black Hills,

The Black Hills of DA - KO- TA

Where the pines are so high that they kiss the sky above.

and when I get that lone-some feeling

and I'm miles away from home

I hear the voice of the mystic mountains calling me back home.

So take me back to the Black Hills,

The Black Hills of DA-KO-TA

To the beautiful Indian country that I love.


Lyrics Paul Francis Webster, music, Sammy Fain

Johnny Nash
b. August 19, 1940

Though by no means an artistic innovator on par with contemporaries such as Bob Marley or Jimmy Cliff, singer Johnny Nash nevertheless proved a pivotal force behind the mainstream acceptance of reggae with the international success of his 1972 chart-topper "I Can See Clearly Now." Born in Houston, TX on August 19, 1940, Nash honed his vocal skills singing in his Baptist church's choir and by 13 was a regular on the local television series Matinee, performing covers of current R&B hits; in 1956 he was discovered by Arthur Godfrey, appearing on his radio and TV broadcasts for the next seven years. Nash signed to ABC-Paramount to release his 1957 debut single "A Teenager Sings the Blues," scoring his first chart hit early the following year with a rendition of Doris Day's "A Very Special Love"; in late 1958, he also teamed with Paul Anka and George Hamilton IV for the inspirational "The Teen Commandments." Marketed as a rival to Johnny Mathis, he even began a film career with 1959's Take a Giant Step, also appearing in 1960's Key Witness before his career flagged with a series of little-noticed singles for Warner Bros., Groove, and Argo.

Nash returned to prominence in 1965 when the ballad "Let's Move and Groove Together" reached the R&B Top Five; more imporantly, the record became a major hit in Jamaica, where he traveled in 1967 on a promotional tour. During a return trip, he cut the ska-influenced single "Hold Me Tight" at Byron Lee's Federal Studios -- a Top Five pop hit on both sides of the Atlantic, the record was issued on his own JAD label, which in early 1970 scored a Top 40 hit with a reggaefied rendition of Sam Cooke's "Cupid" as well. The following year Nash scored a major British hit with his reading of the Bob Marley perennial "Stir It Up"; while living in Britain, he signed to Epic, which in 1972 released his biggest hit, "I Can See Clearly Now," which sat atop the American pop charts for four weeks. Although his popularity at home again dimmed, Nash returned to the UK charts in 1975 with his number one cover of the Little Anthony classic "Tears on My Pillow," followed a year later by another Sam Cooke cover, "(What a) Wonderful World." He gradually retired from performing during the coming years, although Jimmy Cliff successfully covered "I Can See Clearly Now" in 1994. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
albums

http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/nash_johnny/bio.jhtml


I Can See Clearly Now
Johnny Nash

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone,
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-Shiny day.

I think I can make it now, the pain is gone
All of the bad feelings have disappeared
Here is the rainbow I've been prayin' for
It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-Shiny day.

Look all around, there's nothin' but blue skies
Look straight ahead, nothin' but blue skies

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone,
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-Shiny day.

Gene Roddenberry
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


Eugene Wesley Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 - October 24, 1991) was born in El Paso, Texas, USA, and spent his boyhood in Los Angeles, California. He is best known as the creator of the science fiction television series Star Trek, and was one of the first people to be buried in space.


Life and work

Roddenberry was married twice. He had two children by his first wife, Eileen Rexroat (to whom he was married 27 years) ?- Dawn, and the late Darleen. His second marriage was to Majel Barrett, who played Nurse Christine Chapel in the original Star Trek series, Lwaxana Troi, and the voice of the computer in the later three series. He had one child, Rod, with Majel.

Roddenberry first studied to be a policeman for three years, following in his father's footsteps. He later transfered his academic interest in aeronautical engineering and qualified for a pilot's license. Roddenberry joined the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1941 and became an aviator.

After leaving the service, he was a commercial pilot for Pan American World Airways and then served on the Los Angeles Police Department from 1949-1956. Before Star Trek, he wrote scripts for many of the popular television series of the 1950s, such as Have Gun, Will Travel. He produced The Lieutenant, a 1963-1964 NBC series about the U.S. Marines. He was also trying to get other science fiction series off the ground, mostly without success.

Following the cancellation of "Star Trek" Roddenberry pitched four sci-fi tv series concepts that had pilot movies produced but were not picked up. The Questor Tapes, Genesis II, Planet Earth, and Strange New World. He also directed a minor feature film Spectre.

During the latter 1970s, Roddenberry lectured at universities around the country. He amused the attendees with anecdotes from the Star Trek set, spoke of his visions of the future and showed the Star Trek Blooper Reel, a collection of outtakes from the original series. Fans bestowed upon him the affectionate nickname "The Great Bird of the Galaxy" after a mythical creature referenced in an episode of the original Trek series.

Star Trek ran for three seasons. Although it was cancelled due to low ratings, the series gained wide popularity in syndication. The Star Trek episode Assignment: Earth was meant to be the pilot for a spinoff series which never came to fruition. Beginning in 1975 go-ahead was given by Paramount for Roddenberry to develop a sequel "Star Trek" television series based around as many of the original cast as could be recruited. This series was to be the anchor show of a new network but plans by Paramount for this network were scrapped and plans were changed to do a Star Trek feature film. The result Star Trek: The Motion Picture had a lukewarm response but nevertheless, several feature films and a new television series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, were created in the 1980s. Roddenberry was deeply involved with creating and producing Star Trek: The Next Generation, although his involvement lessened in seasons 2 and 3 due to deteriorating health. Star Trek also spawned the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise.

Roddenberry only produced the first Star Trek film, Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Due to cost overruns and a problematic relationship with the Paramount management, Roddenberry was ousted and replaced by Harve Bennett. He continued as executive consultant on the next four films - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. The last film based on the original Star Trek series, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country was dedicated in Roddenberry's memory; he reportedly viewed a version of the film a few days before his death.

In addition to his film and TV work, Roddenberry also wrote the novelization for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which was published in 1979 and was the first of hundreds of Star Trek-based novels to be published by Pocket Books. It has been claimed by some that Alan Dean Foster was the ghost writer of the book, but this has been debunked, although Foster did contribute to the film's screenplay. Roddenberry talked of writing a second Trek novel but died before he was able to do so.

Writers on the show have charged that ideas they developed were later passed off by Roddenberry as his own, or that he lied about their contributions to the show at Star Trek conventions. Roddenberry was confronted by these writers, and apologized to them, but according to his critics, he continued to repeat the false claims. [1] In her autobiography, actress Nichelle Nichols who played Uhura in the first Star Trek series, reported having had a love affair with Gene Roddenberry. She felt that his strong and controversial inclination to get her on the show had a lot to do with their relationship.

Roddenberry's life and work has been favorably chronicled in the biography Inside Trek: My Secret Life with Star Trek Creator Gene Roddenberry by Susan Sackett, his close associate for 17 years. The book has been described as inaccurate by his critics.

Despite his reduced management of Star Trek near the end of his life, Roddenberry was still respected enough that Paramount Pictures, owners of the various Star Trek series, agreed to his request that the Star Trek Animated Series not be considered canon by the studio. According to the reference work The Star Trek Chronology, Roddenberry reportedly considered elements of the fifth and sixth Trek films to be apocryphal, though there is no indication that he wanted them removed from Trek canon.

Gene Roddenberry was a secular humanist [2]. After his death, a lipstick-sized capsule of his ashes was sent into space to orbit the earth for six years (after which they burned up in the earth's atmosphere). There is an asteroid called 4659 Roddenberry and a crater on Mars that were named in his honor.

After his death in 1991, Roddenberry's estate allowed the creation of two long-running television series based upon some of his previously unfilmed story ideas and concepts. Earth: Final Conflict and Andromeda have become reality under the guidance of Majel Barrett, although the actual inspiration of at least Andromeda seems very tenuous indeed. A third Roddenberry storyline was adapted in 1995 as the short-lived comic book Gene Roddenberry's Lost Universe.

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

Good morning, WA2K radio audience and contributors.

I know that all listening enjoyed the state songs. I certainly did. Thanks everyone. I'll be back in a bit to comment, my friends, after--well you know. <smile>

Birds
Neil Young

Lover, there will be another one
To hover over you beneath the sun
Tomorrow see the things that never come today

When you see me fly away without you
Shadow on the things you know
Feathers fall around you
And show you the way to go
It's over
It's over

Nestle in your wings my little one
A special morning brings another sun
Tomorrow see the things that never come today

When you see me fly away without you
Shadow on the things you know
Feathers fall around you and show you the way to go
It's over
It's over

Good Day to All:

Thanks for the bios, Bob.

Today's Birthdays:
1398 - Marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet (d. 1458)
1621 - Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (d. 1674)
1631 - John Dryden, English poet (d. 1700)
1646 - John Flamsteed, English astronomer (d. 1719)
1686 - Eustace Budgell, English writer (d. 1737)
1686 - Nicola Porpora, Italian composer (d. 1768)
1689 - Samuel Richardson, English writer (d. 1761)
1743 - Madame du Barry, French courtesan (d. 1793)
1870 - Bernard Baruch, financier (d. 1965)
1871 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (d. 1948)
1875 - Stjepan Seljan, explorer (d. 1936)
1881 - Georges Enescu, Romanian composer (d. 1955)
1883 - Coco Chanel, French clothing designer (d. 1971)
1883 - Elsie Ferguson, American film actress (d. 1961)
1892 - Alfred Lunt, actor (d. 1977)

1902 - Ogden Nash, poet (d. 1971)

The Camel has a single hump,
The dromedary two,
Or is it just the other way,
I'm never sure -- are you?

Candy is dandy;
But liquor is quicker

I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree;
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all

1906 - Philo T. Farnsworth, American inventor and television pioneer (d. 1971)
1907 - Thurston B. Morton, American politician (d. 1982)
1913 - Richard Simmons, American actor (d. 2003)
1915 - Ring Lardner, Jr., actor and screenwriter (d. 2000)
1916 - Marie Wilson, actress (d. 1972)
1919 - Malcolm Forbes, publisher (d. 1990)
1921 - Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (d. 1991)
1925 - Claude Gauvreau, Canadian playwright, poet, and polemicist (d. 1971)
1926 - Arthur Rock, venture capitalist
1930 - Frank McCourt, Irish-born author - Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for Angela's Ahses
1931 - Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (d. 2003)
1935 - Bobby Richardson, baseball player
1938 - Diana Muldaur, actress, dog breeder, and dog judge
1939 - Ginger Baker, musician
1944 - Charles B. Wang, philanthropist
1940 - Johnny Nash, singer
1940 - Jill St. John, actress
1942 - Fred Thompson, U.S. Senator from Tennessee and actor
1945 - Ian Gillan, vocalist
1946 - Bill Clinton, President of the United States
1946 - Beat Raaflaub, conductor
1947 - Gerard Schwarz, American conductor
1948 - Tipper Gore, former Second Lady of the United States
1950 - Jennie Bond, journalist
1952 - Jonathan Frakes, actor and director
1955 - Peter Gallagher, actor
1956 - Adam Arkin, actor
1958 - Anthony Muñoz, American football player
1960 - Morten Andersen, American football player
1963 - John Stamos, actor
1965 - Kevin Dillon, actor
1965 - Kyra Sedgwick, actress
1966 - Lee Ann Womack, country music musician
1969 - Matthew Perry, actor
1973 - Crown Princess Mette Marit of Norway
1973 - Callum Blue, British actor
1980 - Darius Danesh, singer
1983 - Tammin Sursok, Australian actress

Hey, CJ. Nice to see you back with "California Here I come"! Great state song, dear.

dj. That's a Cash song that I've never heard! And, listeners, I think Rex got a lot of the states in there. Man, you are a wonder, buddy.

Bob, once again you have provided us with great and informative bios on the lives of people we know, but don't really know. I had forgotten that Johnny Nash song. I really like it. Nash and Cash! Sounds like a TV show.

And, folks, I think most of us are aware of Gene Roddenberry.

Well, in looking through our news releases, I found among them a person that I really don't know, but the following song is nice, so I thought I would begin the day with it:

GARY CHAPMAN - RAZOR'S EDGE LYRICS


by John Mallory

In this turbulence
That we're flying through
I just can't fix my eyes
On what I love in you
Yet in the calm
Of the storm's eye
I know that there are reasons
Why we still must try
Rummage through memories
Piecing together
Worn tattered fabrics
Of love that remains
CHORUS:
When the voice of love is drowned
Still we'll hear our silent pledge
Though we find no common ground
We'll learn to love on a razor's edge
And our hearts are moved
With the ebb and the flow
As I try to drop my anchor
In this truth we know
For the depths of love
That I have for you
Lie beneath the stormy surface
That we're learning to subdue
Oh calm the waters
Quiet the tempest
Bring forth an unfaltering
Peaceful resolve
(REPEAT CHORUS TWICE)
Love seeks a passage
Through open wounds
Speaking a language
That comforts and heals
(REPEAT CHORUS TWICE)

edgar snuck in to the studio before I had a chance to listen to his contribution. Hey, Texas. Always good to hear you on the air.

And there's our Raggedy with the celeb updates. Thanks gal.

We all love Ogden Nash and appreciate his hilarious poetry, I think, and what woman hasn't at least tried Chanel no. 5 once in her life; however, it's always been White Shoulders cologne for me, ever since high school.

Isn't it interesting to see Coco between Clinton and the Wright Bros. <smile>