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I have Jane Morgan's record of Fascination, also. She sang beautifully, but I never knew much about her.

some songs about or referencing musical instruments

Acoustic Guitar
The Magnetic Fields

Acoustic Guitar,
I'm gonna make you a star,
Get your picture all over the world

Acoustic Gutiar,
You can have your own car,
Just bring me back my girl

She always loved the sound of your strum
You made her think, maybe, I wasn't so dumb
She tends to faint at the sound of a drumb
Cuz she's focused and planned, maybe she'll come

Acoustic Gutiar, how lovely you are
With your inlays of mother of pearl
Be a good gutiar and you could go far
Just bring me back my girl

She always said that you were the one
That could make her move her cute little bum
You understand where she's coming from
Which I obviously don't, or she wouldn't be gone

Acoustic guitar, if you think I play hard
Well you could of belonged to Steve Earle
Or Charo OR GUAR, I could sell you tomorrow

So bring me back my girl
You'd better bring me back my girl


Bang a Gong (Get It On)
T. Rex

Well, you're dirty and sweet
Clad in black, don't look back, and I love you
You're dirty and sweet, oh yeah
Well, you're slim and you're weak
You got the teeth of the hydra upon you
You're dirty, sweet and you're my girl

{Refrain}
Get it on, bang a gong, get it on
Get it on, bang a gong, get it on

Well, you're built like a car
You got a hubcap diamond star halo
You're built like a car, oh yeah
Well, you're an untamed youth
That's the truth, with your cloak full of eagles
You're dirty, sweet and you're my girl

{Refrain}

Well, you're windy and wild
You got the blues in your shoes and your stockings
You're windy and wild, oh yeah
Well, you're built like a car
You got a hubcap diamond star halo
You're dirty, sweet and you're my girl

{Refrain}

Well, you're dirty and sweet
Clad in black, don't look back, and I love you
You're dirty and sweet, oh yeah
Well you dance when you walk
So let's dance, take a chance, understand me
You're dirty, sweet and you're my girl

{Refrain}

Get it on, bang a gong, get it on
Get it on

{Refrain twice}


Piano Man
Billy Joel

It's nine o'clock on a Saturday
The Regular crowd shuffles in
There's an old man sitting next to me
Makin' love to his tonic and gin

He says, "Son, can you play me a memory
I'm not really sure how it goes
But it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete
When I wore a younger man's clothes"

La la la, de de da
La la, de de da da dum

Chorus:
Sing us a song, you're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well, we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feelin' alright

Now John at the bar is a friend of mine
He gets me my drinks for free
And he's quick with a joke or to light up your smoke
But there's someplace that he'd rather be
He says, "bill, I believe this is killing me."
As the smile ran away from his face
"Well I'm sure that I could be a movie star
If I could get out of this place"

Oh, la la la, de de da
La la, de de da da dum

Now Paul is a real estate novelist
Who never had time for a wife
And he's talkin' with Davy, who's still in the navy
And probably will be for life

And the waitress is practicing politics
As the businessmen slowly get stoned
Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness
But it's better than drinkin' alone

Chorus
sing us a song you're the piano man
sing us a song tonight well we're all in the mood
for a melody and you got us feeling alright

It's a pretty good crowd for a Saturday
And the manager gives me a smile
'Cause he knows that it's me they've been comin' to see
To forget about life for a while
And the piano, sounds like a carnival
And the microphone smells like a beer
And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar
And say, "Man, what are you doin' here."

Oh, la la la, de de da
La la, de de da da dum

Chorus:
sing us a song you're the piano man sing us a song tonight
well we're all in the mood for a melody and you got us
feeling alright


Don't Bang The Drum
The Waterboys

Well here we are in a special place
what are you gonna do here?
Now we stand in a special place
what will you do here?
What show of soul are we gonna get from you?
It could be deliverance, or history
under these skies so blue
could be something true,
But if I know you you'll bang the drum
like monkeys do

Here we are in a fabulous place
What are you gonna dream here?
We are standing in this fabulous place
What are you gonna play here?
I know you love the high life, you love to leap around
You love to beat your chest and make your sound
but not here man - this is sacred ground
with a Power flowing through
And if know you you'll bang the drum
like monkeys do

Here we stand on a rocky shore
Your father stood here before you
I can see his ghost explore you
I can feel the sea implore you
Not to pass on by
Not to walk on by
and not to try
Just to let it come
Don't bang the drum
Just let it come
Don't bang the drum
Just let it come
Don't bang the drum
Do you know how to let it come now?
don't bang the drum
Just let it come now..
don't bang the drum...
Don't bang the drum
Don't bang the drum
Don't bang the drum
Don't bang the drum
Don't bang the drum
Don't bang the drum
Don't bang the drum
Don't bang the drum
Don't bang the drum

While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Beatles


I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at the floor and I see it need sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps

I don't know why nobody told you
how to unfold you love
I don't know how someone controlled you
they bought and sold you

I look at the world and I notice it's turning
While my guitar gently weeps
With every mistake we must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps

I don't know how you were diverted
you were perverted too
I don't know how you were inverted
no one alerted you

I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at you all
Still my guitar gently weeps

ALL OF THE MONKEYS AIN'T IN THE ZOO
(Tommy Collins)
TOMMY COLLINS (CAPITOL 3665, 1957)

Now, I've got a cousin on my daddy's side
He was a single boy and doin' fine
Until he met a widder who took him for a ride
He's a hubby now besides the poll of nine

All of the monkeys ain't in the zoo
There's some runnin' loose around me and you
Just watch when you're in a crowd and you'll agree too
That all of the monkeys ain't in the zoo

Oh, the women on a budget always tickle me
They're a tight as ticks and worry all the time
And then a travelling salesman sweeps 'em off their feet
They give a dollar for a brush that's worth a dime

All of the monkeys ain't in the zoo
There's some runnin' loose around me and you
Just watch when you're in a crowd and you'll agree too
That all of the monkeys ain't in the zoo

Now, there's some awful smart men that run the USA
They head the list of some of our great men
And then there's some others who had a big shot brother
They weren't elected, they were just put in

All of the monkeys ain't in the zoo
There's some tellin' us what we can do
Just watch when you're in a crowd and you'll agree too
That all of the monkeys ain't in the zoo

I used to tell my girl when she'd get marryin' on her mind
That she'd never make a monkey out of me
But I was just a country kid and I didn't know the game
And I guess you know what happened to me

All of the monkeys ain't in the zoo
There's some runnin' loose around me and you
Just watch when you're in a crowd and you'll agree too
That all of the monkeys ain't in the zoo

ALONG CAME JONES
(Norman Gimbel - Ann Renfer)
The Coasters

I plopped down in my easy chair and turned on Channel 2
A bad gunslinger called Salty Sam was chasin' poor Sweet Sue
He trapped her in the old sawmill and said with an evil laugh
"If you don't give me the deed to your ranch
I'll saw you all in half!"
And then he grabbed her (and then)
He tied her up (and then)
He turned on the bandsaw (and then, and then...)

[Chorus]
And then along came Jones
Tall thin Jones
Slow-walkin' Jones
Slow-talkin' Jones
Along came long, lean, lanky Jones

Commercial came on, so I got up to get myself a snack
You should've seen what was goin' on by the time that I got back
Down in the old abandoned mine, Sweet Sue was havin' fits
That villain said, "Give me the deed to your ranch
Or I'll blow you all to bits!"
And then he grabbed her (and then)
He tied her up (and then)
He lit the fuse to the dynamite (and then, and then...)

[Chorus]

I got so bugged I turned it off and turned on another show
But there was the same old shoot-'em-up and the same old rodeo
Salty Sam was tryin' to stuff Sweet Sue in a burlap sack
He said, "If you don't give me the deed to your ranch
I'm gonna throw you on the railroad tracks!"
And then he grabbed her (and then)
He tied her up (and then)
He threw her on the railroad tracks (and then)
A train started comin' (and then, and then...)

[Chorus]

BABY
(Richard Penniman)
LITTLE RICHARD (SPECIALTY 681, 1960)

Baby, don't you need a man like me?
Yeah-yeah-yeah-yes
Baby, don't you need a man like me?
We could be so happy together
Try to raise a family

Baby, sorry I've gotta go
Yeah-yeah-yeah-yes
Baby, sorry I've gotta go
I'm gonna come back to see you, baby
When you wanna love me some more

Yes baby, don't you need a man around?
Yes baby, don't you need a man around?
We could be so happy together
I'm the sweetest man in town

Baby, sorry I've gotta go
Yeah-yeah-yeah-yes
Baby, sorry I've gotta go
I'm gonna come back to see you, baby
When you wanna love me some more

ah, tico. The perfect person to whom I can say goodnight!

Unless, of course, it's dj of Canada and the piano man. <smile>

And edgar is back with Jane Morgan. Hey, Texas, does Mrs. edgar know about this fascination?

My goodnight song to all of you:




Mountains may move
River may run
But you make me be myself
You make me be
How do I tell you
How do I tell
You're the ones

Stars may move
Time may run
But you make me free myself
You make me free
How do I tell you
How do I tell
You're the ones
You're the ones

Goodnight all

From Letty with love

My Babe
(Little Walter, harp & vocals; (Willie Dixon, words & lyrics)

My baby don't stand no cheatin', my babe
Oh yeah she don't stand no cheatin', my babe
Oh yeah she don't stand no cheatin',
She don't stand none of that midnight creepin'
My babe, true little baby, my babe

My babe, I know she love me, my babe
Oh yes, I know she love me, my babe
Oh yes, I know she love me,
She don't do nothin' but kiss and hug me
My babe, true little baby, my babe

- solo -

My baby don't stand no cheatin', my babe
Oh no, she don't stand no cheatin', my babe
Oh no, she don't stand no cheatin',
Ev'rything she do she do so pleasin'
My babe, true little baby, my babe

My baby don't stand no foolin', my babe
Oh yeah, she don't stand no foolin', my babe
Oh yeah, she don't stand no foolin',
When she's hot there ain't no coolin'
My babe, true little baby, my babe
She's my baby (true little baby) ...

I do a bit too much glancing in here when I'm working, I confess.

Morningtime here, and all's well. We may go to Liverpool today, where there's a big street music festival on. We can get there from here on the train.

Last night I mucked up my files and folders on this computer, while I was attempting to download a lot of photographs from disc. I know, I know, it's stupid. I did a bit too much dragging & dropping when some got in the wrong folder. Now I will need a young person to sort it out.

Good morning WA2K radio.

Hey, Yit. Was that "baby" song a dedication? We love 'em here on our station. Top o the morning to the turtles. <smile>

My goodness, McTag. Perhaps you have created your own XFiles, buddy. Here, let me help.

Well, it seems as though Katrina is going to do an encore in Florida, so here's to that aggressive lady:







Artist: Taco Lyrics
Song: Encore (Sweet Gipsy Rose) Lyrics


Every evening, eight o'clock, the curtain's up, the band begins to play
The mayor's there, his lovely wife's been squeezed into the fashions of the day
You make your entrance on time
Decadent, thrilling, divine
You're hypnotic, so exotic, the audience just sighs and melts away

Encore, show us more
Sweet Gipsy Rose-a
Encore, they shout more
Se magnifica
Such a pretty face, than of you bolding into space
So give them more, encore
Tre magnifica

Twelve o'clock, the stage is bare, the curtain's down, the show comes to an end
Waiting in the wings, I see the silhouette of him, your current friend
Without me, your show wouldn't be
Professional right down to a "T"
Yes, I'm the one who pulls the curtain down, yes, I'm the one you'll never see

Encore, show them more
Sweet Gipsy Rose-a
Encore, they shout more
Se magnifica
Such a pretty face, will send me flying into space
So give them more, encore
Tre magnifica

Without me, your show wouldn't be
Professional right down to a "T"
Yes, I'm the one who pulls the curtain down, yes, I'm the one you'll never see

Encore, show them more
Sweet Gipsy Rose-a
Encore, they shout more
Se magnifica
Such a pretty face, has got me flying up in space
So give us more, encore
Tre magnifica

Seriously, I hope all those who could be affected are safe and out of that woman's way.

C. S. Forester
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Cecil Scott Forester is the pen name of Cecil Smith (August 27, 1899 - April 2, 1966), an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of adventure with military themes, notably the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series (being filmed with Ioan Gruffudd as Horatio Hornblower) about naval warfare during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen (1935; filmed in 1951 by John Huston).

Born in Cairo, Forester had a complicated early life, including imaginary parents and a secret marriage. During World War II he moved to the United States where he wrote propaganda to help get that country to enter the war on the Allied side, and eventually settled in Berkeley, California. He married Kathleen Belcher, had two sons, and divorced in 1945. The eldest son, John Forester is a noted cycling activist and wrote a biography of his father. He secretly married Dorothy Foster in 1947.

The popularity of the Hornblower series, built around a central character who was heroic but not too heroic, has continued to grow over time. It is perhaps rivalled only by the much later Aubrey-Maturin series of seafaring novels by Patrick O'Brian. Interestingly, both Hornblower and Aubrey are based in part on the historical figure, Admiral Lord Dundonald of Great Britain (known as Lord Cochrane during the period when the novels are set). Brian Perett has written a book The Real Hornblower: The Life and Times of Admiral Sir James Gordon, GCB, ISBN 1557509689, presenting the case for a different inspiration.

The original conception of the popular American television series Star Trek was based in large measure on the Hornblower books, and was pitched as such to NBC television by creator Gene Roddenberry.

Forester also had a life outside the Hornblower series, writing many other novels, among them The African Queen (1935) and The General (1936); Peninsular War novels in Death to the French and The Gun; detective novels like Payment Deferred (1926) and Plain Murder (1930); and seafaring stories that did not involve Hornblower, such as Brown on Resolution (1929), The Ship (1943) and Sink the Bismarck! (1959). Several of his works were filmed, most notably the 1951 film The African Queen directed by John Huston. Forester is also credited as story writer for several movies not based on his published fiction, including Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.S._Forester

Martha Raye
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Martha Raye (August 27, 1916 - October 19, 1994) was an American comic actress and singer in motion pictures and later, on television.

Miss Raye was best known for the size of her mouth, which appeared enormous in proportion to the rest of her face. It relegated her motion picture work to largely supporting comic parts. She became known as "The Big Mouth"; apparently she was often made up in a way which tended to cause it to appear as even larger than it actually already was. For example, she appears in the picture The Big Broadcast of 1938 where Bob Hope first sings what became his theme song, Thanks for the Memories; however, it is not sung to Miss Raye, but rather the female leading actress that she supports. She joined the USO soon after the US entered World War II. During WW2, Korea and Vietnam, Martha travelled extensively to entertain the American troops.

In October 1966, Martha came to Soc Trang, Vietnam, to entertain the troops at this base which was the home base of the 121st Aviation company, the Soc Trang Tigers and the gun-ship platoon, The Vikings along with the 336th Aviation company. Shortly after her arrival, both units were called out on a mission to extract supposed POWs from an area nearby. Martha decided to hold her troop of entertainers there until the mission was completed so that all could watch her show. During that time, I was flying a "Huey Slick" carrying troops into the LZ. My ship received combat damage to the extent that I had to return to base at Soc Trang and, as there were no replacements, we could not return to the mission. While waiting, Martha played poker with us (I should have known better) and was very genial. When the mission was completed, which had resulted in the loss of a helicopter gun-ship and a Viking pilot, CWO2 James W. Hargrove, there was also a wounded officer, Major R. Nutter, Viking Lead, acting as co-pilot who had been wounded when that ship went down. When he and the two remaining crewmen were returned to Soc Trang, Martha volunteered to assist the doctor in treating the wounded Major Nutter. When all had been completed, Martha waited until all were available and then put on her show. An outstanding trooper and wonderful person. In 1968, she was given the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in the form of an Oscar. In November of 1993, President Clinton awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Miss Raye was an early television star when that medium was very young; for a while she had her own program, The Martha Raye Show, in which she was the lead and her awkward boyfriend was portrayed by retired middleweight boxer Rocky Graziano. In the late 1950s she made a well-publicized suicide attempt which may have been partially related to the breakup of her marriage to conductor-composer David Rose.

In 1970 she portrayed Boss Witch, the "Queen of all Witch-dom" in the film Pufnstuf. She often appeared as a guest on other programs, particularly ones which often had older performers as guest stars, such as The Love Boat, and on variety programs. She also appeared in a number of commercials for a denture adhesive product which emphasized its importance to her appearance due to the size of her mouth. In addition to the aforementioned television work, she appeared for two years as Mel Sharples' mother, Carrie, on the sitcom Alice.

Martha Raye was deeply patriotic and, thanks to her work with the USO during World War II and subsequent wars, special consideration was given to bury her in Arlington National Cemetery upon her death. She was buried with full military honors on Saturday, in Ft. Bragg, North Carolina.

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

Jet aircraft
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The first true, turbine-equipped jetplane was the Heinkel He 178 (Germany), piloted by Erich Warsitz in 1939 (August 27, 1939).

Jet aircraft are aircraft with jet engines. Generally, civil jets fly at altitudes of 30,000 to 45,000 feet (10,000 to 15,000 m), because they are most economical to operate at these altitudes. Jets are not economically efficient at low altitudes, which is why propeller powered airplanes are commonly used for very short routes.

The first aircraft to incorporate significant principles of the jet engine was the Coanda-1910 (Romania), piloted by its inventor Henri Coanda in 1910. The engine of this aircraft, unlike the modern jet engine, used a piston engine rather than a turbine to drive its compressor. Unfortunately, the aircraft crashed during its first and only demonstration.


The first jet fighter was the Messerschmitt Me 262, piloted by Fritz Wendel. It was the fastest conventional airplane of WW II (only the rocket-powered Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet was faster). Mass production started in 1944, too late for a decisive impact. About the same time the United Kingdom produced the Gloster Meteor which made up the first operational jet fighter squadron in 1944 and which saw limited action in WWII.

During the Korean War on November 8, 1950, United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown flying in an F-80, intercepted two North Korean MiG-15s near the Yalu River and shot them down in the first jet-to-jet dog fight in history.

BOAC operated the first commercial jet service, from London to Johannesburg, in 1952 using De Havilland Comets.

Modern civil jets generally cruise at speeds of 0.75 to 0.85 Mach, which is to say, 75 percent to 85 percent of the speed of sound. The speed of sound is a function of air temperature, and therefore the speed of a jet is not really "constant" in terms of miles per hour, but varies by atmospheric conditions. In general, modern civil jets cruise at about 420 to 580 miles per hour (680 to 900 km/h).

The fastest jet plane remains the SR-71 Blackbird.

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

Good morning, Bob. Hope your karaoke went well last evening. Our listeners always enjoy hearing your bio's, Boston.

I remember seeing the movie Finding Forester with Sean Connery. Is that the same Forester in your bio? Didn't he also write Passage to India?

Speaking of India, listeners. Our Prince is back from a pampered vacation in his royal palace.

Incidentally, Bob. I was surprised to find out that the Hornblower books inspired Star Trek.

Now! Tell us about YOUR venture in the land of singing. <smile>

Americans schizophrenic when it comes to France

Fri Aug 26, 1:18 PM ET

PARIS (Reuters) - Americans seem to be schizophrenic when it comes to their opinion of France.


Arrogant is the best way to describe the French, according to nearly three out of every 10 Americans, but almost as many would call them open, a Le Figaro magazine poll showed on Thursday.

Some two thirds of Americans see France as a land of liberty and human rights in which people can freely practice their religion, and yet almost one third call it an anti-Semitic country.

Relations between the United States and France are expected to improve in the coming years by 36 percent of Americans and to deteriorate by 22 percent.

But the cliches associated with France tend to be more positive than negative -- ask Americans what best symbolizes France and the good things in life come to the fore, with Paris, wine, and gastronomy topping the list, while strikes barely get a mention.

The survey polled 1,000 people between July 6 and 10.

Good Day WA2K:

Today's birthdays:

1407 - Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (d. 1425)
1637 - Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (d. 1715)
1665 - John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (d. 1751)
1677 - Otto Ferdinand Graf von Abensperg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1748)
1730 - Johann Georg Hamann, German philosopher (d. 1788)
1770 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (d. 1831)
1809 - Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President of the United States of America. (d. 1891)
1858 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (d. 1932)
1865 - James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (d. 1935)
1865 - Charles G. Dawes, 30th Vice President of the United States (d. 1951)

1871 - Theodore Dreiser, American author (d. 1945) His first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), told the story of a woman who fled her country life for the city (Chicago, Illinois) and fell into a wayward life of sin. The publisher did little to promote the book, and it sold poorly. Dreiser took a job editing women's magazines until he was forced to resign in 1910 because of an inter-office romance. His second novel, Jennie Gerhardt was published the following year. Many of Dreiser's subsequent novels dealt with social inequality.
His first commercial success was An American Tragedy (1925), which was made into a film in 1931 and again in 1951. (A Place in the Sun)

Other works include the Trilogy of Desire about Frank Cowperwood, a fictionalized version of Charles Yerkes: The Financier (1912), The Titan (1914), and The Stoic (completed posthumously in 1947).

In 1935 the library trustees of Warsaw, Indiana ordered the burning of all the library's works by Dreiser.

Dreiser's style is marked by long sentences and intense attention to detail. Being that his works deal with social status and the pursuit of material goods and pleasures, this level of realism and description services his theme; on the other hand, it can make many of his works, particularly Sister Carrie, difficult for some. It should be noted that Dreiser is not well-regarded for his style, but for the realism of his work, character development, and his points-of-view on American life.


1874 - Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)

1875 - Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (d. 1967) U.S. biologist, suffragette, philanthropist and, after her husband's death, heir to a substantial part of the McCormick fortune. She is well remembered today for funding most of the research necessary to develop the birth control pill.

1886 - Eric Coates, English composer (d. 1957)
1890 - Man Ray, photographer and artist (d. 1976)
1899 - C.S. Forester, British author (d. 1966)
1904 - Norah Lofts, American author (d. 1983)
1906 - Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984)
1908 - Don Bradman, Australian cricketer (d. 2001)
1908 - Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (d. 1973)
1909 - Lester Young, American musician (d. 1959)
1910 - Mother Teresa, Albanian missionary and humanitarian (d. 1997)
1911 - Kay Walsh, British actress (d. 2005)
1915 - Norman F. Ramsey, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1916 - Martha Raye, American actress (d. 1994)
1926 - Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian mathematician, computer scientist, and politician (d. 2002)
1928 - Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African politician

1929 - Ira Levin, American author of fiction thriller novels ,playwright and songwriter.

Levin studied at New York University, where he majored in philosophy and English. After that, he wrote training films and scripts for television. He wrote his first novel, A Kiss Before Dying, when he was 22 years old. Levin is an unusually gifted and versatile writer who is adept at thrillers and comedy. For example, he wrote the play No Time For Sergeants, which later became a popular film that launched the career of Andy Griffith.

Levin's crowning achievement as a playwright, however, is the comedy thriller Deathtrap, which is still the longest running play on Broadway. In 1982, it was made into a film starring Christopher Reeve and Michael Caine.

Ira Levin's best known novel is Rosemary's Baby, a horrifying tale of satanism and the occult. It was made into a film as were two others of his novels, The Boys from Brazil and The Stepford Wives (twice). In The Boys from Brazil, Levin wrote about real life Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele attempting to create an army of Hitler clones. This novel was even more terrifying because Levin made the idea so convincing. No less than Stephen King has described Ira Levin as "the Swiss watchmaker of suspense novels, he makes what the rest of us do look like cheap watchmakers in drugstores".


1932 - Antonia Fraser, British author
1935 - Frank Yablans, American film producer
1940 - Sonny Sharrock, American jazz guitarist
1945 - G.W. Bailey, American actor
1947 - Barbara Bach, American actress
1950 - Charles Fleischer, American actor
1952 - Pee-Wee Herman, American actor
1953 - Peter Stormare , Swedish-born actor
1957 - Bernhard Langer, German golfer
1970 - Peter Ebdon, English snooker player
1970 - Jim Thome, baseball player
1974 - Jose Vidro, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
1975 - Jonny Moseley, American skier
1976 - Carlos Moya, Spanish tennis player
1976 - Mark Webber, Australian race car driver
1977 - Deco, Brazilian footballer
1988 - Alexa Vega, American actress

Raggedy, Good morning, gal. Wow! that's quite a thesis you have going there on your regularly scheduled celeb updates. Many, many thanks, PA.

Here's one for Prez Young:


Listen to my tale of woe,
It's terribly sad but true,
All dressed up, no place to go
Each ev'ning I'm awf'ly blue.
I must win some handsome guy
Can't go on like this,
I could blossom out I know,
With somebody just like you. so...

Oh, sweet and lovely lady, be good
Oh, lady, be good to me
I am so awf'ly misunderstood
So lady, be good to me

Oh, please have some pity
I'm all alone in this big city

I tell you I'm just a lonesome babe in the wood,
So lady be good to me.

Oh, please have some pity
I'm all alone in this big city

I tell you I'm just a lonesome babe in the wood,
So lady be good to me.

Oh lady be good to me.

Carl Bosch was born at Cologne on August 27, 1874, and grew up there. From 1894 to 1896 he studied metallurgy and mechanical engineering at the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg, but started reading chemistry at Leipzig University in 1896. He graduated under Professor Wislicenus with a paper on organic chemistry in 1898. He entered the employ of the Badische Anilin- und Sodafabrik, Ludwigshafen, Rhine as a chemist in April 1899 and participated actively in the development of the then new industry of synthetic indigo under the guidance of Dr. Rudolf Knietsch.

At the turn of the century Bosch became interested in the problem of the fixing of nitrogen and his first experiments in this field were done with metal cyanides and nitrides; in 1907 he started a pilot plant for the production of barium cyanide.

Bosch's opportunity for really large-scale work came when in 1908 the Badische Anilin- und Sodafabrik acquired the process of high-pressure synthesis of ammonia, which had been developed by Fritz Haber at the Technische Hochschule in Karlsruhe. Bosch was given the task of developing this process on a large industrial scale. This task involved the construction of plant and apparatus which would stand up to working at high gas pressure and high reaction temperatures. Haber's catalysts, osmium and uranium had to be replaced by a contact substance which would be both cheaper and more easily available. Bosch and his collaborators found the solution by using pure iron with certain additives. Further problems which had to be solved were the construction of safe high-pressurized blast furnaces, a cheap way of producing and cleaning the gases necessary for the synthesis of ammonia. Step by step Bosch went on to using increasingly larger manufacturing units and thus created the industry which deals with the production of synthetic ammonia according to the high-pressure process.

From this work resulted the second task of making the thus won ammonia available for use in industry and agriculture. Bosch succeeded in working out methods for the industrial production of nitrogen fertilizers, thus providing practically every country in the world with sufficient fertilizers for agricultural purposes. The Stickstoffwerke (Nitrogen works) in Oppau were opened in 1913, followed by the even larger Leunawerke near Merseburg in 1917, where the synthesis of methanol and the hydrogenation of oil were added to the production programme. Bosch was appointed Managing Director of the Badische Anilin- und Sodafabrik in 1919 and in 1925 was made Principal of the I.G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft, which was created by the merger of the German coal-tar dye works. In 1935 Bosch was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of the I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G.

Bosch was honoured in many ways and not only for his achievements and inventions in the field of industry, but also for his research in pure science, which he considered to be his duty. He received the honorary doctorate of the Technische Hochschule in Karlsruhe (1918), of the Landwirtschaftliche Hochschule (Agriculture College), Berlin (1921), the Technische Hochschule in Munich (1922), of Halle University (1927), the Technische Hochschule in Darmstadt (1928). The distinctions of Honorary Senator of the Universities of Heidelberg (1922) and Leipzig (1939), and of Honorary Citizen of Frankfurt (1939) were conferred upon him.

He received the Liebig Memorial Medal of the Association of German Chemists, the Bunsen Medal of the German Bunsen Society, the Siemens Ring, the Golden Grashof Memorial Medal of the VDI (Association of German Engineers), the Exner Medal from the Austrian Trade Association, and the Carl Lueg Memorial Medal from the Association of German Metallurgists. In 1931 he was awarded the highest international honour, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, jointly with Friedrich Bergius, for their contributions to the invention and development of chemical high pressure methods.

Bosch particularly enjoyed his membership of various German and foreign scientific academies, and his chairmanship of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society of which he became its President in 1937.

He died after a prolonged illness on April 26, 1940.

From Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1922-1941, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1966

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