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I sort of flitted through the postings this eve and didn't see the question. Yep, I knew about Fats and Chubby. I liked Chubby, but didn't care for most of his songs. Fats is aces in my book. Some say that his recording, The Fat Man, is the first true rock n roll song. I don't really buy it, but, Fats was as instrumental as Little Richard and Bill Haley in bringing it to the fore.

Here's one from "Little Miss Dynamite."

I'm Sorry

I'm sorry, so sorry
That I was such a fool.
I didn't know
Love could be so cruel.
Oh oh oh oh uh-oh oh yes.

You tell me mistakes
Are part of being young
But that don't right
The wrong that's been done.

[spoken]
(I'm sorry) I'm sorry -
(So sorry) So sorry.
Please accept my apology,
But love is blind,
And I was to blind to see.
Oh oh oh oh uh-oh oh yes.

You tell me mistakes
Are part of being young
But that don't right
The wrong that's been done.
Oh oh oh oh uh-oh oh yes.

I'm sorry, so sorry
Please accept my apology
But love was blind,
And I was too blind to see.
(Sorry)

I thought you would know that, edgar.

Sorry to say, listeners, that edgar and dj have played songs tonight that Letty doesn't know, but that's the name of the radio show, right?

Did you know, Texas, that they are now playing "Great Balls of Fire" behind Appleby's commercials?

Well, folks, I guess it's that goodnight time for me. I'm too tired to sing a goodnight song.

So, I will see you all tomorrow, Lord willing and the creeks don't rise.

Goodnight,
From Letty with love.

I heard that commercial a few minutes ago. Letty, surely you know who "Little Miss Dynamite" is?

actually i just heard the song i posted for the first time tonight, and decided to google the lyrics

the weakerthans are a canadian indie band, very good tunes

This is her first song, recorded at age eleven.

You dynamite you dynamite
Dynamite hey baby when you kiss it's dynamite
Hey baby when you hug and hold me tight I just explode like dynamite
You dynamite if I might do all the things I'd love to do tonight
Then I would love you dear with all my might because you're dynamite
You do such big attraction chain reaction things to me
They ought to make you wear a sign of danger TNT
Love me right hey baby let's make history tonight
The power of one hour of love's delight just knocks me out like dynamite
[ sax ]
You do such big attraction chain...
Because you're dynamite because you're dynamite

One more from "Little Miss Dynamite"

Weep no more my baby I'm a comin' back to you
Weep no more my baby your lonely days are through
Oh oh oh wipe away those teardrops cause I've been lonely too
Well weep no more my baby I'm a comin' home to you
Dry those big brown eyes my baby I've been gone too long
This time I don't mean maybe I know I know I done you wrong
Yeah yeah weep no more my baby your lonely days're through
Weep no more my baby I'm a comin' comin' home to you
Come out and smile for me my baby your tears are making me so sad
I can't stay away no longer you're the only love I've ever had
Oh weep no more my baby I'm a comin' home to you
Weep no more my baby your lonely days are through
And I'm a comin' comin' home to you yeah I'm a comin' comin' home to you
I said I was a comin' comin' home to you

Grandma Moses
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Grandma Moses (September 7, 1860 - December 13, 1961), whose real name was Anna Mary Robertson, was a renowned American folk and naive (primitive) artist.

Robertson was born in Greenville, New York. She spent most of her life as a farmer's wife and the mother of five children. Her husband was Thomas Salmon Moses, whom she married in 1887.

She began painting in her seventies after abandoning a career in embroidery because of arthritis.

Her artwork was discovered by Louis J. Caldor, a collector who noticed her paintings in a drugstore window in 1938. In 1939 an art dealer named Otto Kallir exhibited some of her work at his Galerie Saint-Etienne in New York City.

President Harry S. Truman presented her with the Women's National Press Club Award for outstanding accomplishment in art in 1949. In 1951, she appeared on See It Now, a television program hosted by Edward R. Murrow.

Grandma Moses painted mostly scenes of rural life.

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

J. P. Morgan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


John Pierpont Morgan (April 17, 1837 - March 31, 1913), American financier and banker, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, a son of Junius Spencer Morgan (1813-1890), who was a partner of George Peabody and the founder of the house of J. S. Morgan & Co. in London. He was educated at the English High School in Boston and at the University of Göttingen.

Correction: This is about John Pierpont Morgan, known also as "Pierpont Morgan" and not about his son, John Pierpont Morgan, Jr. who inherited his father's role in banking. The son was known as J.P. Morgan, Jr.


Business

From 1857 to 1861 he worked in the New York City banking house of Duncan, Sherman & Co.; from 1860 to 1864 was agent and attorney in New York for George Peabody & Co. of London, and afterwards for its successor, J. S. Morgan & Co., of which he became head; in 1864-1871 he was a member of the firm of Dabney, Morgan & Co.; and in 1871 he entered the firm of Drexel, Morgan & Co., in which he was associated with Anthony J. Drexel, of Philadelphia, upon whose death in 1893 he became senior partner.

In 1895 the firm became J. P. Morgan & Co. Closely associated with Drexel & Co. of Philadelphia, Morgan, Harjes & Co. (successors to Drexel, Harjes & Co.) of Paris, and, Morgan, Grenfell & Co. (before 1910 J. S. Morgan & Co.) of London. It became one of the most powerful banking houses in the world. Its accomplishments were numerous.

It financed the formation of the United States Steel Corporation, which took over the business of Andrew Carnegie and others and was the world's first billion-dollar corporation. In 1895 it supplied the United States government with $62 million in gold to float a bond issue and restore the treasury surplus of $100 million. In 1902, it purchased the Leyland line of Atlantic steamships and other British lines, creating an Atlantic shipping combine, the International Mercantile Marine Company, which eventually became the owner of White Star Line, builder and operator of RMS Titanic. In addition, J P Morgan & Co (or the banking houses which it succeeded) reorganised a large number of railroads between 1869 and 1899.

Personal

Morgan was a prominent member of the Protestant Episcopal Church; an enthusiastic yachtsman, whose Columbia defeated the Shamrock in 1899 and 1901 for the America's Cup; a notable collector of books, pictures, and, other art objects, many loaned or given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (of which he was president), and many housed in his London house and in his private library on 36th Street, near Madison Avenue, New York City (now the Pierpont Morgan Library); and a benefactor of the American Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harvard University (especially its medical school), the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York and the New York trade schools.

A chronic skin disease (rosacea) plagued Morgan's nose, causing it to appear purple; a popular rhyme ran: "Johnny Morgan's nasal organ has a purple hue..."

In his satirical history of the United States, It All Started with Columbus, Richard Armour commented that "Morgan, who was a direct sort of person, made his money in money... He became immensely wealthy because of his financial interests, most of which were around eight or ten percent... This Morgan is usually spoken of as 'J.P.' to distinguish him from Henry Morgan, the pirate."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._P._Morgan

Elia Kazan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Elia Kazan (September 7, 1909 - September 28, 2003) was an American film and theatre director and producer.

He was born Elia Kazanjoglou in Istanbul in 1909 to Greek parents. He became one of the most visible members of the Hollywood elite. Kazan's theater credits included directing The Glass Menagerie (1944) and A Streetcar Named Desire, (1951) the two plays that made Tennessee Williams a theatrical and literary force, and All My Sons (1947) and Death of a Salesman (1949) the plays which did much the same for Arthur Miller.

His history as a film director is scarcely less noteworthy. He won two Academy Awards for Best Director, for Gentleman's Agreement (1947) and On the Waterfront (1954). He elicited remarkable performances from actors such as Marlon Brando and Oscar winners Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden and, ironically, Kim Hunter (who would feel the effects of the blacklist herself not long after) in the film version of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, James Dean and Oscar winner Jo Van Fleet in East of Eden, and Andy Griffith in A Face in the Crowd.

His later career was clouded, however, by the fact that he was one of the few Hollywood luminaries who "named names" before the House Un-American Activities Committee during the postwar "Red Scare", but some others who named names included Jerome Robbins, Sterling Hayden, Burl Ives and Lela Rogers, Ginger's mother, a right-wing Republican and former Marine.

Kazan had briefly been a member of the Communist Party in his youth, when working as part of a radical theatre troupe in the 1930s. A committed liberal, Kazan felt betrayed by the atrocities of Stalin and the ideological rigidity of the Stalinists. He was personally offended when Party functionaries tried to intervene in the artistic decisions of his theater group.

As Kazan later explained, he felt that it was in the best interest of the country and his own liberal beliefs to cooperate with McCarthy's anti-communist efforts in order to counter Communists in Hollywood who were co-opting the liberal agenda. American playwrights Lillian Hellman and Arthur Miller publicly and bitterly disagreed with Kazan's reasoning.

One of those he named, noted actor John Garfield, with whom he had worked in the Group Theatre troupe, was investigated by HUAC, which failed to uncover any corroborating evidence of Communist Party membership. Garfield was nonetheless blacklisted by Hollywood, ending a promising career, and died the next year, aged 39 of a sudden heart attack.

In 1999, Kazan received an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement. He was accompanied by Martin Scorcese and Robert DeNiro who warned the audience sotto voce not to misbehave. While many in Hollywood felt that enough time had passed that it was appropriate to bury the hatchet and recognize Kazan's great artistic accomplishments, the decision was nonetheless controversial. Some footage from the 1999 Oscars suggests that fully three-quarters of those present in the audience gave him a standing ovation (including Lynn Redgrave, Karl Malden, Meryl Streep and the very liberal Warren Beatty), while the camera showed individual actors such as Nick Nolte, Amy Madigan and Holly Hunter sitting on their hands and refusing to applaud. Others such as Steven Spielberg and Sherry Lansing applauded politely but did not rise.

Elia Kazan died of natural causes at his home in New York City. He was 94 years old.

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

Buddy Holly
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Charles Hardin Holley

Born September 7, 1936
Lubbock, Texas, USA
Died February 3, 1959
Mason City, Iowa, USA

Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936-February 3, 1959), better known as Buddy Holly, was an American singer, songwriter, and a pioneer of Rock and Roll. The change of spelling of Holley to Holly came about because of an error in a contract he was asked to sign, listing him as Buddy Holly. That spelling was then adopted for his professional career.

Holley was born in Lubbock, Texas. The Holleys were a musical family and as a young boy Holley learned to play the violin, piano and guitar. In the fall of 1949 he met Bob Montgomery at Hutchison Jr. High School. They shared a common interest in music, and soon teamed up to perform as the duo "Buddy and Bob." Initially influenced by bluegrass music, they sang harmony duets at local clubs and high school talent shows. Holley's big break came when they opened for Bill Haley and his Comets at a local rock show organized by Eddie Crandall who was also the manager for Marty Robbins. As a result of this performance, Holley was offered a contract with Decca Records to work alone. However, early success as a solo artist eluded him.

Back in Lubbock, Holley formed his own band, "The Crickets", and began making records at Norman Petty's studios in Clovis, New Mexico. Among the songs they recorded was "That'll Be The Day", which takes its title from a phrase which John Wayne's character says repeatedly in the movie, The Searchers. Norman had music industry contacts, and believing that "That'll Be The Day" would be a hit single, he contacted publishers and labels. Coral Records, a subsidiary of Decca, signed Buddy Holly and The Crickets. This put Buddy in the unusual position of having two record contracts at the same time. Before "That'll Be The Day" had its nationwide release and became a smash hit, Holley played lead guitar on the hit-single "Starlight", recorded in April 1957, featuring Jack Huddle.

Holly's music was sophisticated for its day, including the use of instruments considered novel for rock and roll, such as the celesta (heard on "Everyday"). Holly was an influential lead and rhythm guitarist, notably on songs such as "Peggy Sue" and "Not Fade Away". While Holly could pump out boy-loves-girl songs with the best of his contemporaries, other songs featured more sophisticated lyrics and more complex harmonies and melodies than had been previously shown in the genre.

Many of his songs feature a unique vocal "hiccup" technique, a clipped "uh" sound used to emphasize certain words in any given song, especially the rockers. Example, the start of the raucous number "Rave On": "We-UH-ell, the little things you say and do, make me want to be with you-UH-ou..."

Holly also managed to bridge some of the racial divide that punctuated rock, notably winning over an all-black audience when accidentally booked for New York's Apollo Theater (though, unlike the fictional portrayal in his movie biography, it took several performances for audiences to be convinced of his talents).

After the release of several highly successful songs, in March of 1958, he and the Crickets toured the United Kingdom. In the audience were teenagers named John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who later cited Holly as a primary influence (the band's name, The Beatles, was later chosen partly in homage to Holly's Crickets). The Beatles did a cover version of "Words Of Love" that was an almost perfect reproduction of Holly's version. The Rolling Stones did a cover of "Not Fade Away." The group, The Hollies were named in homage.

Holly's personal style, more controlled and cerebral than Elvis's and more youthful and innovative than the country and western stars of his day, would have an influence on youth culture on both sides of the Atlantic for decades to come, reflected particularly in the New Wave movement in artists such as Elvis Costello and Marshall Crenshaw, and earlier in folk rock bands like The Byrds and The Turtles.

He married Maria Elena Santiago on August 15, 1958

In 1959, Holly split with the Crickets and began a solo tour with other notable performers including Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson, "The Big Bopper". One audience member at the tour stop in Duluth, Minnesota was a young Bobby Zimmerman who would later be known as Bob Dylan.

Following the February 2nd performance at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, the performers and their road crew drew straws to decide who would fly in the airplane, and who would ride in the unheated tour bus. The winners were Holly, Valens and Richardson. The four-passenger Beechcraft Bonanza took off into a blinding snow storm and crashed into Albert Juhl's corn field several miles after takeoff at 1.05 a.m. The crash killed Holly, Valens, Richardson, and pilot Roger Peterson, leaving Holly's pregnant bride, Maria Elena Holly, a widow. (She would miscarry soon after.) Funeral services were held at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Lubbock, Texas, and Buddy Holly was interred in the City of Lubbock Cemetery.

Holly's headstone carries the correct spelling of his name, Buddy Holley. It also features a carving of his favorite guitar. Downtown Lubbock has a "walk of fame" with plaques to various area artists such as Mac Davis and Waylon Jennings, with a life-size statue of a guitar playing Buddy as its centerpiece.

The tragic plane crash inspired singer Don McLean's popular 1971 ballad "American Pie", and immortalized February 3rd as "The Day The Music Died". Contrary to popular myth, "American Pie" was not the name of the ill-fated airplane.

The Surf Ballroom, a popular and old-fashioned dance hall that dates to the height of Big Band Era, continues to put on shows, notably an annual Buddy Holly tribute on the anniversary of his last performances.

Tributes

In 1988, Ken Paquette, a Wisconsin fan of the '50s era, erected a stainless steel monument depicting a steel guitar and a set of three records bearing the names of each of the three performers. It is located on private farmland, about one quarter mile west of the intersection of 315th Street and Gull Avenue, approximately eight miles north of Clear Lake. He also created a similar stainless steel monument to the three musicians near the Riverside Ballroom in Green Bay, Wisconsin. That memorial was unveiled on July 17, 2003.

The dramatic arc of Holly's life story inspired a Hollywood biography The Buddy Holly Story, for which actor Gary Busey received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Holly, as well as successful Broadway and West End musicals documenting his career. The West End musical, Buddy, ran for seven years.

Buddy Holly is considered one of the founding fathers of rock 'n roll and one of its most influential. Although his career was cut short, his body of work is considered some of the best in rock music history and his music would influence not only many of his recording contemporaries, but also the future direction music would take. As one of the capstones of Rock 'n' Roll, Buddy influenced groups for decades.

The science fiction novel Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede, by Bradley Denton (ISBN 0688108229 and ISBN 0380718766), begins when television sets throughout the world suddenly begin broadcasting a concert by an apparently living Buddy Holly, who says he is on Ganymede.

Terry Pratchett's novel Soul Music features a protagonist whose name translates to "Bud Y Holly".

"Oil", an episode of The Young Ones features Mike (Christopher Ryan) discovering Buddy Holly, alive and well and tangled in parachutes, in the attic of a house in London. Holly comments that he loves "your British beetles", as he has been eating them since the plane crash. Mike asks Holly if he has come up with any new material, and Holly plays a brief song about eating crickets when his parachute strap breaks, slamming him into the floor and killing him. Mike later hands off a duffle bag containing Holly's corpse to two minor characters, asking them to "take care of my Buddy."

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

Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue

If you knew Peggy Sue, then you'd know why I feel blue
About Peggy, 'bout Peggy Sue
Oh, well, I love you gal, yes, I love you Peggy Sue

Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, Peggy Sue
Oh, my Peggy, my Peggy Sue
Oh, well, I love you gal, and I need you, Peggy Sue

I love you Peggy Sue, with a love so rare and true
Oh, Peggy, My Peggy Sue
Oh, well, I love you gal, yes, I want you, Peggy Sue

Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue, Oh how my heart years for you
Oh, Pa-he-ggy, my Pa-he-ggy Sue
Oh, well, I love you gal, and I need you, Peggy Sue
Oh, well, I love you gal, yes, I want you, Peggy Sue

Grandfather's House
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Grandmother's House is the original house named in the well-known American song "Over the River and Through the Woods". Some versions of this song refer to Grandfather's House. It is unclear which is the correct phrase. The house is a classic example of Greek Revival architecture, located at 114 South Street, Medford, Massachusetts.

The house's rear portion was built in the early 1800s as a small farmhouse. It is this farmhouse that Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) recalled when she wrote of her childhood visits to her grandmother's house in the poem "Over the River and Through the Woods" published in 1844. The Mystic River was the poem's river; most of the woods seem to have vanished long ago.

About 1839 the house was greatly enlarged and given its two-storey Ionic portico by Paul Curtis, who established a shipyard on the north side of the Mystic River at the foot of Winthrop Street. Between 1839 and 1852 Curtis built 27 vessels, including several world famous clipper ships. The house was purchased in 1976 and restored by Tufts University.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather%27s_House

A groggy good morning to all our WA2K radio fans and contributors.

The winds were extremely high last night, and of course Letty kept checking periodically for any signs of damage, etc.

As soon as I get my morning caffine fix, I'll acknowledge each one.

Stay tuned to our station, listeners. More to come.

Good morning Letty. I can already hear the gurgle gurgle of the savory brew.

Yep, Bob. Teddy Roosevelt was right.<smile>

I was particularly interested in your Grandma Moses bio because I have three originals that are done in her style. One would be hard pressed to tell the difference.

I'm sure Solveig would love to see them. She studied at the Sorbonne and was manager of the gift shop at the Museum of Fine Arts here in Boston. I'm not really an art lover except for someone like Robert Bateman.

edgar, I really don't know Little Miss Dynamite, but I have heard of Nobel<smile>

Wow! dj. A Canadian Indie band? That is fantastic. How would you know about them?

Well, Bob. Buddy Holly brings us full circle to Don McLean again, no?

Dawn

By Gordon Bottomley


A THRUSH is tapping a stone
With a snail-shell in its beak;
A small bird hangs from a cherry
Until the stern shall break.
No waking song has begun,
And yet birds chatter and hurry
And throng in the elm's gloom
Because an owl goes home.

Good Morning WA2K.

Thanks for the Kazan bio, Bob. I had forgotten that Jerome Robbins also named names, and really surprized/sad that Burl Ives had too.

I had some problems posting this A.M. and lost my reply with a picture so I'll not risk it again.

Anyway, here are today's birthday celebs:

1533 - Queen Elizabeth I of England (d. 1603)
1615 - Colonel John Birch, English soldier (d. 1691)
1707 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (d. 1788)
1829 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist (d. 1896)
1860 - Grandma Moses, American painter (d. 1961)
1866 - Tristan Bernard, French writer (d. 1947)
1867 - J. P. Morgan, American financier (d. 1943)
1885 - Elinor Wylie, American writer (d. 1928)
1887 - Edith Sitwell, English poet (d. 1964)
1870 - Jimmy Tompkins, Canadian Catholic priest (d. 1953)
1895 - Brian Horrocks, British general (d. 1985)
1900 - Taylor Caldwell, American author (d. 1985)
1908 - Paul Brown, American football coach (d. 1991)
1908 - Dr. Michael DeBakey, American heart surgeon
1909 - Elia Kazan, Hungarian-born film director (d. 2003)
1912 - David Packard, American electrical engineer and businessman (d. 1996)
1913 - Sir Anthony Quayle, English actor (d. 1989)
1923 - Peter Lawford, English actor (d. 1984)
1929 - Sonny Rollins, American jazz saxophonist
1930 - King Baudouin I of Belgium (d. 1993)
1932 - Paul Getty, American-born philanthropist (d. 2003)
1936 - Buddy Holly, American singer (d. 1959)
1937 - John Phillip Law, American actor
1939 - Donnie Allison, American race car driver
1944 - Bora Milutinovic, Serbian football coach
1944 - Robert Laxton, English politician
1945 - Jacques Lemaire, Canadian hockey player
1946 - Willie Crawford, baseball player (d. 2004)
1946 - Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist (d. 2001)
1947 - Graham Young, British serial killer (d. 1990)
1949 - Lee McGeorge Durrell, American author, television presenter, and zookeeper
1949 - Gloria Gaynor, American singer
1951 - Chrissie Hynde, American guitarist and singer
1951 - Julie Kavner, American voice actress
1951 - Morris Albert, Brazilian singer ("Feelings")
1952 - Susan Blakely, American actress
1954 - Corbin Bernsen, American actor
1954 - Benmont Tench, American keyboardist
1955 - Mira Furlan, Croatian actress
1958 - Danny Chan, Hong Kong singer, actor, and songwriter (d. 1993)
1962 - Thomas L. Beard, American musician, composer
1963 - Eazy-E, American rapper (d. 1995)
1968 - Marcel Desailly, French footballer
1976 - Stevie Case (Killcreek), American video game celebrity
1976 - Shannon Elizabeth, American actress
1978 - Nora Greenwald, American professional wrestler
1980 - Mark Prior, baseball player
1982 - Lorne Berfield, American actor
1984 - Vera Zvonareva, Russian tennis player
1987 - Evan Rachel Wood, American actress

(That makes two of us Letty. I never heard of Little Miss Dynamite either. Sorry, Edgar. )