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i found the song on a music website

one of my obsessions is peoples obsessions with former partners, i don't get why people can't just move on, so this song and it's subject matter was interesting to me

Great, Diane.

and in response, listeners:



I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed
by Emily Dickinson.

I taste a liquor never brewed,
From tankards scooped in pearl;
Not all the vats upon the Rhine
Yield such an alcohol!

Inebriate of air am I,
And debauchee of dew,
Reeling, through endless summer days,
From inns of molten blue.

When the landlord turn the drunken bee
Out of the foxglove's door,
When butterflies renounce their drams,
I shall but drink the more!

Till seraphs swing their snowy hats,
And saints to windows run,
To see the little tippler
Leaning against the sun

My apology for interrupting the music portion of the program, but I thought that all the working people should give special thanks to Peter J. McGuire.
While googling for a word for the NYT crossword puzzle (I cheat), I saw "Labor Day Word Origins" on the dictionary page and out of curiosity clicked:

In 1882, Peter J. McGuire, a leader of the labor union the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners (joiner being "a craftsman who constructs things by joining pieces of wood" or "a worker in wood who does more ornamental work than a carpenter") proposed a day to honor laborers. Laborers were considered a new class that worked in the factories and plants created by the Industrial Revolution. Labor Day became a national holiday on which workers in the 1890s and early 20th century used to call attention to their grievances. There were often parades, political speeches, fireworks, and a picnic. Today, Labor Day, celebrated on the first Monday in September (as of 1894, by law), simply honors anyone who works. The date has no traditional or historic significance but was picked because it filled a gap in the schedule of legal holidays. Canada also celebrates Labor Day on the first Monday in September; many other countries observe this on May 1. The word labor comes from Latin laborem, "distress, toil trouble; drudgery, labor," and first referred to work that was compulsory or painful. The meaning changed with the advent of the Industrial Revolution. The first labor unions or trade unions came with the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain in the 18th century.

(hmm, I see it took approximately 12 years for Mr. McGuire's proposal to go through. Typical.

Letty: You may have been thinking about "The Turning Point" when you mentioned Anne Bancroft's role as a diva. "The Turning Point" was about two ballerinas, one retired, who did indeed literally come to blows, ending in a bout of laughter, however. Bancroft was also in "Point of No Return" (which was a Hollywoodization of "La Femme Nikita") as Brigitte Fonda's instructor. Interestingly "Point of No Return" featured several Nina Simone songs, one being "Wild is the Wind" which I love.

Raggedy, You are one fantastic blood hound. <smile>, and to think that you learned it all through The NYT's puzzle.

(I'm still working on The French Connection )

Now, folks, I'm a wee bit confused about the books and the movies, but that's par for the course.

"and to think that I learned it on Mulberry Street."

Guess who, no not Horton. <smile>

Well, I must retire for the evening, so I will simply say goodnight to all of you here on our radio.

Blowing you all kisses,

From Letty with love

comparison copy and paste and write....

The preacher talked to me and he smiled,
Said, come and walk with me, come and walk one more mile.
Now for once in your life you're alone,
But you ain't got a dime, there's no time for the phone.

I've just got to get a message to you, hold on, hold on.
One more hour and my life will be through, hold on, hold on.

I told him I'm in no hurry,
But if I broke her heart, won't you tell her I'm sorry.
And for once in my life I'm alone,
And I've got to let her know just in time before I go.

I've just go to get a message to you, hold on, hold on.
One more hour and my life will be through, hold on, hold on.

Well I laughed but that didn't hurt,
And it's only her love that keeps me wearing this dirt.
Now I'm crying but deep down inside,
Well I did it to him, now it's my turn to die.

I've just got to get a message to you, hold on, hold on.
One more hour and my life will be through, hold on, hold on.
Bee Gees

Touched

Locked away in your world
So no one can touch
That the way to your heart
Can mean so much
A thousand lifetimes could never hold
A moment with you
A moment untold
Can hardly express
Can hardly contain
Transcend pain
I am chained
The unexplained
Changing dimensions shifting phase
Volumes of books but contained in a phrase...


Eric Pedersen
1999

What to do with one's self?

No new Dylans' or cows or pigs eyes

Jesse James
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Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847-April 3, 1882), American outlaw, was born in Kearney, Missouri. His father, Robert James, was a Baptist minister who helped found William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri.

At seventeen, James left his native Missouri to fight as a Confederate guerilla in the American Civil War as part of Quantrill's Raiders, participating in raids in Kansas. He reportedly once killed eight men in a single day. He was wounded while surrendering at the end of the war, and later claimed to have been forced into outlawry because his family had been persecuted in the war which in turn caused him to lead one of history's most notorious outlaw gangs.

With his brother Frank James and several other ex-Confederates, including cousin Cole Younger and the rest of the Younger brothers, the James gang robbed their way across the Western frontier targeting banks, trains, stagecoaches, and stores from Iowa to Texas. Eluding even the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, the gang escaped with thousands of dollars. James is believed to have carried out the first daylight bank robbery in peacetime, stealing $60,000 from a bank in Liberty, Missouri.

Then on July 21, 1873, the James-Younger gang pulled off the first successful train robbery in the American West by taking US$3,000 from the Rock Island Express in Adair, Iowa.

Despite their criminal and often violent acts, James and his partners were much adored. Journalists, eager to entertain Easterners with tales of a wild West, exaggerated and romanticized the gang's heists, often casting James as a contemporary Robin Hood. While James did harass railroad executives who unjustly seized private land for the railways, modern biographers note that he did so for personal gain?-his humanitarian acts were more fiction than fact.

On September 7, 1876, the James gang attempted to rob a bank in Northfield, Minnesota, but was thwarted when Joseph Lee Heywood, the bank's clerk, refused to open the safe. Charlie Pitts, a gang member, shot and killed Heywood. A gunfight with townspeople ensued which left two gang members dead and wounded several others. The remaining members of the gang except for Frank and Jesse James were captured in a wooded ravine along the Watonwan River just south of La Salle, Minnesota.

Jesse James had married his own first cousin, named Zeralda after his mother, after a nine-year courtship. They had four children, Jesse Edwards, twins Gould and Montgomery who did not survive childhood, and Mary. She and Frank James' wife tried to get the brothers to take on a more normal life, and with a $10,000 reward on his head, Jesse and his wife moved to Saint Joseph, Missouri, to hide out, where he lived under the assumed name of Tom Howard and rented a house for $14 a month.

In April 1882, Jesse James recruited Robert and Charles Ford to help him rob the Platte City bank. While James stood on a chair in his home in St. Joseph to straighten and dust a picture, the Ford brothers drew their guns. Robert Ford's shot hit James in the back of the head, ending his outlaw days for good. Ford hoped to claim the $10,000 offered for James's capture but received only a fraction of the reward and was charged with murder. He did, however, secure himself a place in Western outlaw lore which lives on in literature, song, and film.

James' epitaph, selected by his mother, read: IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY BELOVED SON, MURDERED BY A TRAITOR AND COWARD WHOSE NAME IS NOT WORTHY TO APPEAR HERE.

The Ford brothers were sentenced to hang but were pardoned by the governor of Missouri. Charles Ford committed suicide two years later, and Robert Ford (outlaw) was killed in a barroom brawl in Creede, Colorado, in 1892. (His killer, Edward O'Kelly, became an instant hero, and was sentenced to only two years in prison for avenging the man whom Theodore Roosevelt called "America's Robin Hood.")

Rumors have persisted that Ford did not kill James, but someone else. Some stories say he lived in Guthrie, Oklahoma, as late as 1948, and a man named J. Frank Dalton, who claimed to be Jesse James and resembled him to a degree, died in Granbury, Texas, in 1951 at the age of 103. That story was promoted and encouraged by the proprietors of Meramec Caverns ("Jesse James' Hideout") near Stanton, Missouri. Some stories claim the real recipient of Ford's bullet was a man named Charles Bigelow, reported to have been living with James' wife at the time.

The body buried in Missouri as Jesse James was exhumed in 1995 and DNA analysis gave a 99.7% match to Jesse James. A court order was granted in 2000 to exhume and test Dalton's body, but the wrong body was exhumed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_James_1847

Darryl F. Zanuck
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Darryl Francis Zanuck (September 5, 1902 - December 22, 1979) was a producer, writer, actor and director who played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as its longest survivor.

Zanuck was born in Wahoo, Nebraska, the son of a hotelier of Dutch descent. He was abandoned by his parents at the age of thirteen. In 1917 he joined the United States Army and served with the Nebraska National Guard in France. Returning to the US he worked in many part-time jobs while he tried to find work as a writer. He managed to find work producing movie plots, selling his first story in 1922 to William Russell and his second to Irving Thalberg. He then worked for Mack Sennett and took that experience to Warner Brothers where he wrote stories for Rin Tin Tin and under a number of pseudonyms wrote over forty scripts from 1924-1929. He moved into management in 1929 and became head of production in 1931.

In 1933 he left Warners to found Twentieth Century Films with Joseph Schenck and William Goetz, releasing their material through United Artists. In 1935 they bought out Fox studios to become Twentieth Century-Fox. Zanuck was vice-president of this new studio and took an interventionist approach, closely involved in editing and producing. During the war he worked for the army. In the 1950s he withdrew from the studio to concentrate on independent producing in Europe. He left his wife, Virginia Fox Zanuck, in 1956 and the later films which he came to produce often featured his girlfriend of that day. Despite this he was largely responsible for The Longest Day (1962) being made.

He returned to control of Fox in 1962 following the studio's disastrous Cleopatra (1962), replacing Spyros Skouras. He made his son Richard D. Zanuck head of production. He became involved in a power struggle with the board and his son from around 1969. In May 1971 Zanuck was finally forced from 'his' studio.

He died in Palm Springs, California at the age of 77, and was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in the Westwood Village section of Los Angeles, California.

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Darryl F. Zanuck has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6336 Hollywood Blvd and he has won 3 The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darryl_F._Zanuck

Carol Lawrence
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Carol Lawrence (born September 5, 1932 in Melrose Park, Illinois) is a musical theater actress, who has also made numerous appearances in film and television.

Born Carol Maria Laraia, Lawrence made her Broadway debut in 1952, and achieved outstanding success when she created the role of Maria in the original Broadway producion of West Side Story in 1957. She received a Tony Award nomination for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for his role. She played the role for two years, and after an appearance in the show Saratoga returned to West Side Story for its 1960 season. Among her other Broadway successes was Kiss of the Spider Woman from 1993 until 1995.

Her film appearances were infrequent, however she played a regular role on the soap opera General Hospital in 1991, and has played guest roles on series such as Toast of the Town, Wagon Train, The Danny Kaye Show, The Dean Martin Show, The Bob Hope Hour, Rawhide, Combat!, Mannix, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, Murder, She Wrote, The Commish, Murder One, Touched by an Angel and Sex and the City.

Lawrence won the Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year Award in 1960.

She was married to the actor Robert Goulet from 1963 until 1981.

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

"I Feel Pretty"

I feel pretty
Oh so pretty
I feel pretty and witty and gay
And I pity
Any girl who isn't me today

I feel charming
Oh so charming
It's alarming how charming I feel
And so pretty
That I hardly can believe I'm real

See the pretty girl in that mirror there?
Who can that attractive girl be?
Such a pretty face
Such a pretty dress
Such a pretty smile
Such a pretty me!

I feel stunning
And entrancing
Feel like running
And dancing for joy
For I'm loved
By a pretty wonderful boy

I feel pretty
Oh so pretty
That the city should give me its key
A committee
Should be organized to honor me

I feel dizzy
I feel sunny
I feel fizzy and funny and fine
And so pretty
Miss America can just resign See the pretty girl in that mirror there
Who can that attractive girl be?
Such a pretty face
Such a pretty dress
Such a pretty smile
Such a pretty me!

I feel stunning
And entrancing
Feel like running and dancing for joy
For I'm loved
By a pretty wonderful boy

Freddie Mercury
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Freddie Mercury (September 5, 1946 - November 24, 1991) was a homosexual pianist, songwriter, arranger, singer, and lead vocalist of the British rock band Queen.


Life and careers

Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara in Stone Town, Zanzibar to Zoroastrian (Parsi) parents from India. His parents Bomi and Jer Bulsara had immigrated to Zanzibar so his father could continue his job at the British Colonial Office. He also had a sister, Kashmira.

Mercury was educated at St. Peter's boarding school in Panchgani near Mumbai, India, where he had his first musical training (Grade IV piano). His first onstage performance was also at St. Peters, with his five-member school band, the Hectics. It was at St. Peter's where he picked up the name 'Freddie'; soon even his parents addressed him by that name.

After spending his formative years in India, Mercury and his family fled Zanzibar because of the revolution of 1964. He was 18 when he arrived in England. There, he pursued a Diploma in Art and Graphic Design at Ealing Art College, following in the footsteps of Pete Townshend. This knowledge was to come in useful when he designed Queen's famous crest.

With a wide vocal range and a somewhat operatic technique, he was one of the most versatile and technically accomplished singers to work in the pop idiom. He was the composer of many of Queen's hits, including "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Somebody to Love", and "We Are the Champions".

His songwriting was unique, demonstrating influence from a variety of sources, but with a strong individual sense of melody, harmony, and complex orchestration. In several of his most well-crafted and popular tunes he provided all of the vocal tracks, resulting in a smooth controlled sound that was at the time unprecedented.

One of Freddie's trademarks throughout the years was using a microphone (and stand) minus the bottom section. In his early years of singing he made the decision to pick up his microphone, still attached to the stand; the bottom fell off by accident, and he decided to use a bottomless microphone stand from then on. When asked why, he replied "Everyone has to have a gimmick, dear."

Queen started using studio overdubs a great deal with their second album, Queen II, which features Freddie's music on the entire second side of the LP (or, in CD parlance, tracks 6-11). Many listeners identify "Bohemian Rhapsody" as the pinnacle of his musical achievement, but it is possible to find the seeds of this mini-opera in his earlier works.

When the band decided to release "Bohemian Rhapsody" in 1975, everyone told them it was far too long and just would not be a hit at 5 minutes and 55 seconds. But Freddie gave a copy of the single to friend and London DJ, Kenny Everett, informing him that it was for him personally, and that he must not play it on air. Everett ended up playing it on the air?-fourteen times in one day. From then on, every major radio station played the song in full, not edited versions as would be expected. It was a colossal hit and established Queen as a leading band of the era. The video for the single, directed by Bruce Gowers using ideas from the band themselves, was considered to be the one that began the whole music video craze. The single stayed at number one for nine weeks.

The album was, at the time, one of the most expensive ever recorded, but when "A Night at the Opera" was released in November 1975, it was a massive hit, and gave Queen their first platinum album.

Freddie had designed a Queen logo for the "Queen" album, which was re-worked and used as the cover for A Night At The Opera. The now-famous "crest" features the band's star signs?-two fairies for Virgo (Freddie, September 5), a crab for Cancer (Brian, July 19), and two lions for the two Leos (Roger, July 26 and John, August 19). The launch party for the album was held in the exclusive Opera Bar at the London Coliseum Theatre.

He released two solo albums: Mr. Bad Guy (1985) and Barcelona (1988), the latter with Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballé. The collaboration came as surprise to critics, being the first of its kind, but was nonetheless widely acclaimed, if not commercially successful. One of his hits as a solo artist was a cover of the song "The Great Pretender" (1987), but after his death gained his first solo number 1 hit "Living On My Own", remixed by No More Brothers, which was his biggest UK hit.

He was bisexual, but never came out publicly. Freddie had a girlfriend Mary Austin, whom he was in a relationship with for six years until he told her about his sexuality. After the relationship was over they still remained close friends. Mary Austin often fronted as his girlfriend to the press. Though previously promiscuous, his last boyfriend, Jim Hutton, lived with him for the last eight years of his life, cared for him when he was ill and was with him at his bedside when he died. He was a fan of Liza Minnelli and Michael Jackson, the latter of whom he collaborated with on some tracks which were never published, including "State Of Shock" (which was performed by the Jacksons and Mick Jagger for the official release).

He was well known for his extravagance and hedonism, but also for his kindness and generosity. He adored cats and kept several, even writing a song about his favourite ("Delilah", on the Innuendo album, 1991). He was a heavy smoker, which contributed to a roughening of his voice in the 80s.

On November 23, 1991, Freddie announced that he had AIDS. The next day he died peacefully at his home in London surrounded by friends and family. Freddie had kept his illness very private, and only those closest to him had been aware of just how close to the end he was.


He was cremated at Kensal Green Cemetery. The wherabouts of his ashes are unknown. The remaining members of Queen founded The Mercury Phoenix Trust and organized The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert.

Mercury appears at 58 in the 2002 List of "100 Greatest Britons" (sponsored by the BBC and voted for by the public).

A species of East African isopod, Cirolana mercuryi N. Bruce, 2004 was named for Freddie Mercury, as, quoting the type, "arguably Zanzibar's most famous popular musician and singer."

His famous overbite was caused by the presence of four extra teeth which pushed his incisors out. He commented early in his career that he wished to have work done on his teeth, but regretted that he did not have time to do it. He also expressed fears that such an operation might damage his voice. During Queen's formative years he could be seen putting his hand over his mouth in an attempt to hide the overbite.

Freddie possessed a very slight tenor voice, he was able to produce very sharp sounds, but also quite grave sounds. He had an enviable voice range, with the superb extension of three and a half octaves.

Freddie was known to enjoy drinking wine, tea, and champagne from time to time, and occasionally smoked marijuana. Before Queen was formed, he was sharing an apartment with more frequent cannabis users, who would often hide their stash in tea leaves. At one point Freddie, unaware, drank this in his tea.

Mercury briefly stopped drinking red wine in 1975 when doctors informed him he had callouses in his throat. He refused to let anyone operate, and eventually his throat healed.

At his own parties he was known for being charming and outgoing, while at parties thrown by other people he was known to be something of a wallflower.

Mercury left £100,000 to his chef, and left his £18-million house to his close-friend and ex-lover, Mary Austin.


Mercury as songwriter

Mercury presented himself as a primary songwriter for Queen from beginning to end, except in the albums News Of The World, The Game and A Kind Of Magic, where bandmates Brian May and Roger Taylor composed an equal or greater number of songs.

Mercury is one of the popular composers who have achieved most success in "bringing complex music to the masses". On one side, he was able to use an impressively rich vocabulary of advanced harmonic, rhythmic and structural features, but at the same time remain catchy and earning commercial success. Mercury wrote or co-wrote nine #1 hits:

* "Bohemian Rhapsody": Topped the charts of Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Holland and the UK.
* "Love Of My Life": #1 in Argentina for an entire year
* "Somebody To Love": #1 in The Netherlands in its original release, and in the UK in a cover version by Brian May, Roger Taylor, John Deacon, Mike Moran and George Michael
* "We Are The Champions": #2 in the UK; #2 in the US; #1 in France for 13 weeks
* "Crazy Little Thing Called Love": #1 in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Holland and the United States
* "Under Pressure": Credited to Queen & Bowie, but essentially Mercury's according to bassist John Deacon. Melody and lyrics were created by both Mercury and Bowie. #1 hit in Argentina, Canada, Holland and the UK. A 1999 remix topped the charts in Czech Republic. In 1990, rap artist Vanilla Ice sampled the main bassline on his worldwide #1 hit "Ice Ice Baby".
* "Living On My Own": Originally recorded in 1985, a remix was released after his death and topped the charts in the UK
* "Innuendo": Again credited to the band, but Mercury was the principal writer (with input from drummer Roger Taylor in lyrics). It was #1 in the UK and South Africa
* "I'm Going Slightly Mad": Credited to Queen but composed by Freddie, this track topped the charts in Hong Kong in spring 1991



In pop culture

Although Mercury may have passed on in the real world, he appears as a recurring character in the Japanese manga and anime series Sakigake!! Cromartie High!. Known to the main characters only as "Freddie," and normally introduced by a harmonious guitar riff, this version of Freddie Mercury wears only long brown pants with red suspenders, and often carries his trademark broken microphone stand. "Freddie" does not speak, despite moments where he is visible singing in the background (although his voice is not audible), and sometimes appears riding a giant black horse.

Some characters in the series wonder if he understands Japanese. In one episode, the school doctor gives him a perfect bill of health, so clearly Freddie is not the ghost of Freddie Mercury. In the world of Cromartie, Freddie is either still alive and in hiding, or a clone of the original Freddie. He does show some remarkable attributes, such as extreme patience when other characters repeatedly slap him in the head, and the ability to navigate Tokyo using only his "animal instincts," as one character describes it.

The action manga Bremen, relating the adventures of a Japanese rock band in Tokyo, features a minor character named "Mick". He appears to be a westerner living in Japan, and is the owner of a club where the main characters have their first real gig. Mick is nearly identical to Freddie Mercury in appearance, and even wears a tank top with the same stylised Q as in the Queen logo.

A gymnastics teacher like Mercury appears in Akira Toriyama's Japanese manga "Dragonball" in a story in Vol. 421. Queen is one of Toriyama's favourite bands.

In December 2004, the rock group Electric Six released a cover version of Queen's "Radio Ga Ga". The promotional video features the lead singer, Dick Valentine, impersonating the ghost of Freddie Mercury dancing in front of his grave. This depiction has caused controversy amongst fans of Queen and Mercury, many of whom find it offensive, despite Electric Six claiming that it was intended to be interpreted positively.

The character Sol Badguy in the Guilty Gear series of fighting games is heavily influenced by Mercury, while the Street Fighter character Eagle was reimagined as a tribute to Mercury for Capcom vs. SNK 2.

Mercury appears in the video to Mylo's single "Destroy Rock & Roll".

Singer Kurt Cobain's "suicide" note[1] mentions Mercury:

"I haven't felt the excitement of listening to, as well as creating, music along with reading and writing for too many years now. I feel guilty beyond words about these things. For example, when we're backstage and the lights go out and the manic roar of the crowds begins, it doesn't affect me the way in which it did for Freddy [sic] Mercury, who seemed to love, relish in the love and adoration from the crowd, which is something I totally admire and envy."

Most recently, in her 2004 album Exodus, Japanese pop star Utada Hikaru mentions Freddie Mercury in the song Animato:


The Japan TV series Pride (starring the popular actor Kimura Takuya), used predominately Queen's and Freddie's songs, and the theme song is Freddie's "I Was Born to Love You" (newer version).. The story was about Love & Fight?-the ice-hockey leader's love story.

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

Queen - We Are The Champions
Artists > Queen > We Are The Champions

I've paid my dues
Time after time
I've done my sentence
But committed no crime
And bad mistakes
I've made a few
I've had my share of sand kicked in my face
But I've come through

We are the champions - my friends
And we'll keep on fighting - till the end
We are the champions
We are the champions
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions - of the world

I've taken my bows
And my curtain calls
You brought me fame and fortuen and everything that goes with it
I thank you all

But it's been no bed of roses
No pleasure cruise
I consider it a challenge before the whole human race
And I ain't gonna lose

We are the champions - my friends
And we'll keep on fighting - till the end
We are the champions -
We are the champions
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions - of the world

Good day to all.

Today's birthdays:
1187 - Louis VIII of France (d. 1226)
1568 - Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian, philosopher, and poet (d. 1639)
1638 - Louis XIV of France (d. 1715)
1667 - Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (d. 1733)
1695 - Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (d. 1770)
1735 - Johann Christian Bach, German composer (d. 1782)
1750 - Robert Fergusson , Scottish poet (d. 1774)
1771 - Archduke Charles, Austrian general (d. 1847)
1774 - Caspar David Friedrich, German artist (d. 1840)
1791 - Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (d. 1864)
1807 - Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish Anglican clergyman and philologist (d. 1886)
1827 - Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and writer
1847 - Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882)
1857 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist and inventor (d. 1935)
1867 - Amy Beach, American composer and pianist
1874 - Nap Lajoie, baseball player (d. 1959)
1888 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, second President of India (d. 1975)
1892 - Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (d. 1973)
1902 - Darryl F. Zanuck, American film producer and executive (d. 1979)
1905 - Arthur Koestler, Austrian writer (d. 1983)
1912 - John Cage, American composer (d. 1992)
1912 - Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer (d. 2001)
1913 - Frank Thomas, American animator (d. 2004)
1916 - Frank Yerby, American novelist (d. 1991)
1921 - Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive
1924 - Paul Volcker, American banker
1929 - Bob Newhart, American actor and comedian
1929 - Andrian Nikolayev, cosmonaut
1934 - Carol Lawrence, American actress and singer
1936 - Bill Mazeroski, baseball player
1939 - George Lazenby, Australian actor
1939 - William Devane, American actor
1940 - Raquel Welch, American actress
1942 - Werner Herzog, German film director
1945 - Al Stewart, Scottish singer and songwriter
1946 - Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer Queen (d. 1991)
1946 - Loudon Wainwright III, American singer and composer
1946 - Buddy Miles, American musician
1948 - Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian diplomat and politician
1950 - Cathy Guisewite, American cartoonist
1962 - Peter Wingfield, Welsh actor
1963 - Juan Alderete, American bassist (Racer X)
1965 - Chris Morris, British writer
1969 - Dweezil Zappa, American musician
1973 - Rose McGowan, Italian-born actress
1976 - Tatyana Gutsu, Ukrainian gymnast

Good morning, WA2K radio fans and contributors.

Once again, we are in debt to Rex for sharing his original music with us, but a wee bit concerned at the same time. You all right, Maine?

Top o the morning, Bob. We here on the radio are always enlightened by your timely bios and music. Thanks, Boston.

Well, everyone. When we arise in the morning, we expect to stretch, but when our studio monitors stretch with us, we find it a bit twilight zonish. <smile>

After doing a bit of research myself, I found that indeed our Raggedy was correct. The Turning Point with Anne Bancroft was a movie about ballerinas and there was a book called The Turning Point, but I found that I had never read it.

America has always been preoccupied with the villains of the old West, and why that is, is an interesting study in the "bad boys" syndrome.

There is a ballad of Jesse James, listeners, and I vaguely recall some of it, ".....and that dirty little coward, that shot Mr. Howard, and laid poor Jesse in his grave...."

Back later, everyone.

Back later, but not before I recognize our Raggedy with her timely updates on the celebs. Thanks, gal.

Folks, I think that Bob Newhart's deadpan humor is hilarious. Facial expressions say so much, right listeners?

Well, I keep asking questions that no one can answer, but here's another, anyway.

Whose slogan was "good to the last drop", and who coined it?

Maxwell House Coffee. I will take a stab at it being coined by Arthur Godfrey.

Well, good morning, edgar. You are 100% correct about the brand, but a little tilted about the man. <smile>

How about Don McNeal (Breakfast Club)?

Good Morning, Good Morning

Nothing to do to save his life call his wife in
Nothing to say but what a day how's your boy been
Nothing to do it's up to you
I've got nothing to say but it's O.K.
Good morning, good morning, good morning...
Going to work don't want to go feeling loww down
Heading for home you start to roam then you're in town
Everybody knows there's nothing doing
Everything is closed it's like a ruin
Everyone you see is half asleep.
And you're on your own you're in the street.
Good morning, good morning...
After a while you start to smile now you feel cool.
Then you decide to take a walk by the old school.
Nothing had changed it's still the same
I've got nothing to say but it's O.K.
Good morning, good morning, good morning...
People running round it's five o'clock.
Everywhere in town it's getting dark.
Everyone you see is full of life.
It's time for tea and meet the wife.
Somebody needs to know the time, glad that I'm here.
Watching the skirts start to flirt now you're in gear.
Go to a show you hope she goes.
I've got nothing to say but it's O.K.
Good morning, good morning, good morning...