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Well, no wonder, then, dys. I kept getting sites that said, "You'll have to click yes to view these lyrics.

yeah, I tried to find the Paul Robeson waterboy lyrics and go the same thing.

My word, Odetta has a conglomerate of stuff thrown in there.

Nine pound hammer
Jack o Diamonds.

I do believe the Water Boy that I heard said, I'm Gonna tella yo Mammy.

Ah, well, listeners. " I gets weary and sick of typin, so I will jest say a quick good night then, and Old Man Ocean he jest keep surfin along."

I'm listening to Robeson now. The only difference is :
If you don't come
I gwanna turn you over my knee.

I'm reading from the booklet that accompanies Robeson's album. Robeson's son writes: "Water Boy, written by the well-known white composer Avery Robinson, is special because it was always one of my father's favorites. I have found an inteesting reference to it in my father's 1929 diary: "Water boy is my best record - (made) when I was untrained."
17 years later, his intuitive affinity for the song was confirmed. In 1946 Paul received an African battle-ax from a member of an anthropological expedition to a remote village in southern Angola. The acompanying letter explained that Water boy had been among several recordings played for the asembled villagers on a portable gramophone. Having heard the song, the village chief went to his hut and brought back a ceremonial battle-ax, which he laid before the gramophone as a gift to "the great brother across the water."

Do you enjoy IQ tests? Well, give this one a try to see how 'smart' you really are. http://web.tickle.com/

I'm too stupid to take the test, I'm a liberal.(although to many of the right wingers here I am an anarchist) I can live with that.

Belafonte adapted most of the folksongs and calypso music he sang, but did it so pleasingly he ought to be forgiven. Often one song in his repertoire is a conglomerate of a number of songs. His version of Jump Down Spin Around contrasted with Leadbelly's version is very striking.

Jackie Wilson
Alone At Last

Music based on theme from the First Movement of Tchaikovskys Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor.
Jackie Wilson was approaching the height of his career when he put this emotive recording into the national Top 10.

Alone at last, you and I,
Together locked in a sigh
The musics soft, lights are low;
The mood is one all lovers know.
Oh, my darling at last we are one;
The trip to heavens begun;
I kiss your fingertips, your eyes, your lips,
Oh what exciting moments we share when were
All alone at last.

Oh, my darling, at last, you and I,
Together locked in a sigh
The musics soft, lights are low;
The mood is one all lovers know.
Oh, my darling at last we are one;
The trip to heavens begun;
I kiss your fingertips, your eyes, your lips,
Oh what exciting moments we share when were
All alone at last.

CI
I took the test. I got a "A"

We're both pretty smart.

Good Morning! Some Celebrity Birthdays for this January 7:

1800 Millard Fillmore, 13th president of the United States (Cayuga County, NY; died 1874)
1863 Konstantin Stanislavsky, actor/director and creator of "method acting" (Russia; died 1938)
1863 Adolph Zucker, film executive (Hungary; died 1976)
1922 Vincent Gardenia, actor (Naples, Italy; died 1992)
1922 Jean-Pierre Rampal, flautist (Marseilles, France; died 2000)
1928 William Blatty, novelist/screenwriter (New York, NY)
1952 Erin Gray, actress (Honolulu, HI)
1957 Katie Couric, TV anchor (Washington, DC)
1964 Nicolas Cage, actor (Long Beach, CA)


The son of comparative literature professor August Coppola (a brother of director Francis Ford Coppola) and dancer/choreographer Joy Vogelsang, Cage changed his name early in his career to make his own reputation, succeeding brilliantly with a host of classic, quirky roles by the late 1980s.
Nephew of Francis Ford Coppola; nephew of Talia Shire.
Got Johnny Depp his first acting job. Close friends with Tom Waits.
Nephew of Francis Ford Coppola.
Awared Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role for: Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

Good morning, all. For those of you who enjoy test taking, C.I.'s link is full of fun stuff.

C.I., I would have enjoyed taking a lot of those tests, but it required one to sign in, etc. and I find that I get a lot of spam when I do that.

edgar, you are absolutely correct. H.B. did have a pleasing way of converting oral tradition into meaningful lyrics. Never knew that Jackie Wilson sang such pleasing songs.

Wow, Raggedy. That's a great picture of Nicholas Cage. I had no idea that he got Depp his first acting job. Anyone out there see National Treasure? It seems that some listeners in the film department claim that it's a lot like The DeVinci Code.

Well, it seems that linguists have been studying the Texas "twang" and have come up with something interesting things. We'll leave it to edgar to verify the findings:

Top Stories - Chicago Tribune


Y'all listen up!

Thu Jan 6, 9:40 AM ET Top Stories - Chicago Tribune


By Howard Witt Tribune senior correspondent

Turns out it's all in the y'all.








If you ever find yourself in a group of Southerners and want to spot the Texan in the bunch, listen hard for the y'alls. Most of them will surely use the expression--a contraction of "you all"--to refer to a group of people ("Are y'all goin' to the store?"), but the Texan is more likely to employ it to refer to a single individual as well.


That's just one of the unusual discoveries made by two linguistics professors at the University of Texas-San Antonio who are studying Texas Twang, the distinctive dialect of English proudly spoken by natives of the Lone Star State--and sometimes ridiculed by the rest of the country.


The husband-wife team, Guy Bailey and Jan Tillery, are fixin' to complete the last of their research this summer. When they're done finished with their work, which is underwritten by the National Geographic (news - web sites) Society, they might could write the definitive guide to what they lovingly call TXE, or Texas English.


"Texas is different--it's the only state that was its own country at one time and has its own creation story," said Bailey, a native of Alabama and provost and executive vice president of the university. "Out of that has come a sense of braggadocio and a strong desire to hold on to a unique way of speaking."


Y'all is a case in point. Use of the term is spreading beyond the South throughout the U.S., Tillery noted, largely because it fills a linguistic need: It's a clearer way to denote the second-person plural than the existing--and confusing--"you."


But Texans, in a kind of defiant counterreaction to the mass appropriation of their beloved term, now also use it to refer to one person as well as many ("Y'all are my beautiful wife"), Tillery said. That, of course, is precisely the kind of confusion that y'all evolved to clear up in the first place.


"If the rest of the country says you can't use y'all except for more than one person, then of course we're going to take it and say, no, you can use it for one person," said Tillery, whose drawling speech bears the marked twang of her childhood home in Lubbock.


"For me it's a conscious effort, because I was treated as such a backwards pea-brain because of how I talked that I decided I would just be very upfront and even more pronounced," she said. "I'll tell you something--it's a good way to hide an intellect."


To conduct their research, Bailey and Tillery have divided the state into 116 geographic grids and have sought to interview four representative Texans in each one. Ideally they try to find four generations of a single family, to chart linguistic changes over time. To locate their subjects, they often approach small-town postmasters for referrals.


250 key questions


Interviewees are asked 250 questions to check unique Texas pronunciations and determine whether they use certain words and phrases, such as "polecat" for skunk or "snake feeder" for dragonfly. Some of the terms are used elsewhere across the Southern U.S. as well, but many combinations are distinctively Texan.


Then the interview subjects read aloud a brief story, "My Friend Hugo," designed by Tillery to contain every vowel sound and phonetic variation in the English language. To an expert linguist, how a person reads the story can reveal where that person comes from.


Most native Texans, for example, use a flat "i", saying "naht" for night and "rahd" for ride, and they don't make any audible distinction when pronouncing such words as "pool" and "pull" or "fool" and "full." Midwesterners, by contrast, exhibit their own characteristic linguistic quirks, such as something experts call a fronted "o" in words like "about."


The researchers have found that some distinctive Texas speech patterns, such as saying "warsh" instead of "wash" and "lard" instead of "lord," are beginning to disappear as younger generations abandon them.


Also vanishing is much of the traditional regional vocabulary, such as "light bread" for white bread and "snap beans" for green beans.


But in other ways, Texas English is expanding. Newcomers to the state soon begin sounding like Texans, Bailey noted, tossing around y'alls and saying "Ahma fixin' to" (generally defined as "I will do it if I get around to it").





`Might could' explained

The infamous double modal ("might could," "may can," "might would"), a hedging construction denoting less certainty than "might" alone, remains more elusive, however.

"It's very easy for people who move into Texas to pick up `y'all,'" Bailey said. "It's a little bit harder to pick up `fixin' to.' But `might could' is another matter. We have found that unless you're born and raised in Texas, you don't pick up the double modals."

When all is said and done, do Texans sound funny?

"Not to Texans," Bailey said, "and not really to other people in the South.

"You know, there's a lot of comment about President Bush (news - web sites)'s speech, but Bush has a fairly typical Texas accent. The person who had the more distinctive accent was President Clinton (news - web sites)."

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A glossary of Texas Twang

Y'all: You-all (can be used as singular or plural).

Croker sack: Burlap sack.

Snake feeder: Dragonfly.

Mosquito hawk: Dragonfly.

Snap beans: Green beans

Light bread: White bread.

Flitter: Pancake.

Corn dodgers: Hushpuppies.

Pulleybone: Wishbone. Polecat: Skunk.

Cold drink: Soda pop.

Tank: Pond.

Dinner on the ground:

Potluck dinner.

You might get an argument from Californians ("The Bear Flag Republic")
about that.

and Virginia, as well, George.

Thought for today:

"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.'' - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author.

I was particularly taken with the ".....willingness to remain vulnerable.."

She should know...

Indeed she should, panz. Lucky Lindy? Well, it's all in how we view luck, I reckon.

Fat ugly fat man swam
In a red tire made of stone
A painted lady paddled next to him
With two poodles on her lap
Garbo quietly picked a flower
While the chauffeur won his check again
And barrymore took a noon day nap?
And diamonds fell like rain
Cisco kid and a bald headed waitress
Trapped 'neath a bed of brass
The french cook served them chocolates
And some cold cuts on the grass
Louilla ripped her zebra pants
In the polo lounge
And errol flynn was not let in
Cause he was coming down

Up in zanadu diamonds fell like rain
Citizen kane was king poor citizen kane

Valentino suddenly appeared
In his midnight blue tuxedo
Had a falcon on his shoulder
Eating chicken from his hands
And fatty arbuckle waddled by
On way to the bath house green
Frankenstein ate the leading lady
And licked the carcass clean

Up in zanadu diamonds fell like rain
Citizen kane was king poor citizen kane

WOW!

We just received a call in for a dedication to the Bear and the Panz:

Basic Jazz Improvisation
B-flat Blues

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The goal of this page is to give a basic outline of jazz improvisation utilizing the B-flat Blues Scale. This page will allow you to improvise along with a rhythm section at several different tempos.



What is improvisation?
Improvisation is the making up of melodies and/or rhythms "on the spot" by using specific scales. Improvisation is widely used in music. Bach, Liszt, and Beethoven used improvisation as a tool to create their music. Improvisation is a main ingredient in jazz.

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What is the B-flat Blues?
The B-flat Blues consists of 12 measures that use the following chord progression. Chords are made up of three or more notes out of a major scale. The three chords used in the B-flat Blues are the Bb7, Eb7 and F7. The notes in the Bb7 chord are Bb, D, F and A. The notes in the Eb7 chord are Eb, G, Bb and D. The notes in the F7 chord are F, A, C and Eb.







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What instrument do you play?
C Instruments - Piano, Flute, Oboe, Violin, Mallet Percussion, Guitar, Trombone, Baritone (B.C.), Tuba, Bass, Bassoon, Cello
Bb Instruments - Trumpet, Clarinet, Tenor Sax, Bass Clarinet, Soprano Sax, Baritone (T.C.)
Eb Instruments - Alto Sax, Bari Sax
F Instrument - French Horn
Alto Clef Instrument - Viola

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Where could I learn more about improvisation?
Marc Sabatella's Jazz Improvisation Primer: Jazz Standards
Jenny's Jazz - Improvisation Questions and Answers
Jamey Aebersold
Dallas Jazz Orchestra

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