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Ah, The Merry Go round, edgar. Why not:

ride a painted pony
let the spinning wheel spin. <smile> Hey, Tico. Name that tune.

Bob. Jest 'cause them men is old, don't mean they are under the hill. Great joke, Boston.

My time of night, listeners, so here be me:


Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)


Writer(s): Antonio Carlos Jobim


Quiet nights of quiet stars quiet chords from my guitar
floating on the silence that surrounds us.

Quiet thoughts and quiet dreams quiet walks by quiet streams
and a window that looks out on the mountains and the sea, oh how lovely

This is where I want to be here with you so close to me
until the final flicker of life's ember.

I who was lost and lonely believing life was only
a bitter tragic joke, have found with you,
the meaning of existence, oh my love.

WOW! is that a great song or not.

johnboy gently interrupts this program to suggest that, if you can, you listen to this piece of incredibly fine writing,
Write this down or remember it:
---log on to npr.org
---down in the lower left, click on All Things Considered
---scroll down and down until you reach the article entitled "Poet on call: A dream of New Orleans, Interrupted" Click on that and wait for the minute or so it may take to load and begin playing.

John of Virginia. I didn't hear you rapping at my chamber door.

I don't even have a window lattice.

I'm certain that all of our listeners will give that site a look see. Is there no way that you can say it here?

You really need to hear the voice that tells the story, letty.

Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping, into the future. I was just sitting on the patio having my evening libation when the solar garden lanterns came on. just a few weeks ago they would come on around 9 ish and it's only 7:21. I am taking this as an omen of things to come, mostly darkness.
Dys(maybe it's my eyes growing old)lexia.

it's 9:30 here and full on dark, a month ago it was still light at this point

the fall is definitely upon us

dj(how did these words get into my name)jd62

Yes, John of Virginia. I am too tired to hear properly tonight. Tomorrow, perhaps. Thanks, buddy.

Well, dys. I sense that...."...and there was darkness..."

Ok, folks. I'm going to be sad now:

In The Gloaming
Below are the lyrics to the song In The Gloaming sung by Dana Reeve at the end of Christopher Reeve's directorial debut from the film of the same title.
Written by Anne F. Hamson & Meta Orred
Performed by Dana Reeve

Lyrics:

In the gloaming, oh my darling,
When the lights are dim and low,
And the quiet shadows falling,
Softly come, and softly go.

When the winds are sobbing faintly,
With a gentle lull of woe,
Will you think of me and love me,
As you did once long ago?

In the gloaming, oh my darling,
Think not bitterly of me,
Though I passed away in silence,
Left you lonely, set you free.

For my heart was crushed with longing,
What had been could never be,
It was best to leave you thus dear,
Best for you, and best for me.

sniff. Goodnight, my friends.

From Letty with love

That, dear Letty, was the first song I ever owned ... a 45 record.



Spinning Wheel, by Blood, Sweat & Tears

What goes up must come down
Spinnin' wheel got to go 'round
Talkin' 'bout your troubles it's a cryin' sin
Ride a painted pony let the spinnin' wheel spin

You got no money and you got no home
Spinnin' wheel all alone
Talkin' 'bout your troubles and you never learn
Ride a painted pony let the spinnin' wheel turn

Did you find the directing sign on the
Straight and narrow highway
Would you mind a reflecting sign
Just let it shine within your mind
And show you the colors that are real

Someone is waiting just for you
Spinnin' wheel, spinnin' true

So often it feels we're all alone. Maybe it's not so.

Glance at Global Aid Offers for Katrina

By The Associated Press

Dozens of nations have pledged assistance for victims of Hurricane Katrina. In addition, European governments agreed to release the equivalent of 2 million barrels of oil per day from strategic reserves.


Other forms of aid include:

_AFGHANISTAN: Offered $100,000.

_ALBANIA: $300,000 pledged.

_ARMENIA: $200,000 pledged.

_AUSTRALIA: Donating $8 million to
American Red Cross.

_AUSTRIA: Offered tarps and camp beds.

_AZERBAIJAN: tarps, camp beds

_BAHAMAS: Pledged $50,000.

_BANGLADESH: Offered $1 million and said it would send 160 disaster management experts, including doctors, nurses, engineers and others.

_BELGIUM: Offered medical teams, generators, water pumps.

_BRITAIN: Sending 500,000 ration packs.

_CAMBODIA: The king donated $20,000 to match the $20,000 government donation.

_CANADA: $5 million pledged to relief fund; sending planes, three warships and coast guard vessel with supplies, helicopters, search and rescue and security teams.

_CHINA: Offered $5 million to aid survivors, 1,000 tents, 600 generators, bed sheets. Said it would help with medical care and epidemic prevention if needed.

_CUBA: Offered 1,100 doctors.

_CYPRUS: Offered $50,000.

_CZECH REPUBLIC: Ready to send rescue teams, field hospital and pumps and water processing equipment.

_DOMINICA: Offered police to monitor hard-hit areas.

_DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Offered rescue workers, doctors and nurses.

_DJIBOUTI: Offered $50,000.

_EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Pledged $500,000.

_EL SALVADOR: Offered soldiers to monitor disaster areas.

_FINLAND: Sent a 30-member rescue team and three Red Cross logistics experts. Offered 300 tents, a water purification unit, sterile gloves, bed sheets, pillow covers, tarps and first aid kits.

_FRANCE: Flying in tents, blankets, cots, medical kits, generators and other supplies. Offered aircraft, ships and helicopters.

_GABON: Offered $500,000.

_GERMANY: Sending emergency food rations and water pumps. Offered medical supplies, vaccination teams, water purification equipment, medical evacuation aircraft and crisis management experts.

_GREECE: Offered two cruise ships to help house homeless, relief supplies and rescue crews.

_GUYANA: Organizing a telethon to raise money for victims.

_HONDURAS: Offered 135 flooding and sanitation experts.

_HUNGARY: Pledged $5,000 and offered to send in five doctors.

_ICELAND: Offered $500,000.

_INDIA: Donated $5 million to American Red Cross. Sent tarps, blankets and hygiene kits.

_INDONESIA: Offered 45 doctors and 155 other medical staffers and 10,000 blankets.

_IRAQ: $1 million pledged to Red Cross via the Red Crescent.

_IRELAND: $1.2 million pledged.

_ISRAEL: Sending medical team. Offered hundreds of doctors, trauma experts and other medical staff as well as field hospitals and other relief.

_ITALY: Sent military transport plane with blankets, cots and bed supplies for 15,000 people, plus inflatable dinghies, water purifiers and first-aid kits.

_JAPAN: Contributing $200,000 to American Red Cross. Prepared to provide up to $300,000 worth of tents, blankets, generators, portable water tanks and other equipment.

_KENYA: Offered $100 million plus an additional $400 million in petroleum products.

_KOSOVO: $327,131 pledged.

_KUWAIT: Providing $500 million worth of oil and other aid.

_LATVIA: Offered a disaster relief team.

_LUXEMBOURG: Sending five aid experts, two jeeps and 1,000 camp beds and 2,000 blankets.

_MALAYSIA: Pledged $1 million to Red Cross.

_MALDIVES: Sending $25,000 to Red Cross.

_MAURITANIA: Promised $200,000 to Red Cross.

_MEXICO: $1 million. Offered two navy ships, 15 amphibious vehicles, two helicopters, 15 heavy trucks, health brigades and rescue teams. Sent 45 truckloads of supplies and two field kitchens.

_MONGOLIA: $50,000 pledged.

_NATO: Ferrying supplies.

_NETHERLANDS: Sent navy frigate with helicopters, medical supplies, boats and marines. Sent levee inspection team, water pumps.

_NEW ZEALAND: Pledged $1.4 million to Red Cross. Offered search specialists and victim identification team.

_NIGERIA: Pledged $1 million.

_NORWAY: Promised $1.54 million in cash and supplies.

_OMAN: Pledged $15 million.

_ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES: Donated $25,000 to American Red Cross.

_PAKISTAN: $1 million pledged to Red Cross, offered to send doctors and paramedics.

_PALAU: $50,000 pledged.

_PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Promised $10,000 to Red Cross.

_PERU: Offered medical team of 80 to 100 people.

_PHILIPPINES: Philippines Red Cross donating $25,000. Government offered to send 25-man relief team.

_PORTUGAL: Offering tents, mattresses, blankets, hygiene kits. Lending 2 percent of its strategic oil reserve, equivalent to 500,000 barrels of oil.

_QATAR: Offered $100 million.

_ROMANIA: Sending two teams of medical experts.

_RUSSIA: Sending three transport planes with generators, food, tents, blankets, drinking water and medical supplies.

_SAUDI ARABIA: Promised $5 million from Aramco, $250,000 from AGFUND.

_SINGAPORE: Sent three transport helicopters and 38 soldiers.

_SLOVAKIA: Promised blankets, beds, first aid kits.

_SOUTH KOREA: Donating $30 million in government and civilian assistance and sending search team and relief supplies.

_SPAIN: Sent 16 tons of supplies, including food rations, tents and blankets. Also contributing a naval ship to a
NATO-led operation.

_SRI LANKA: Pledged $25,000 to American Red Cross.

_SWEDEN: Sending plane stocked with water-treatment equipment, plastic jugs, water-purification experts. Offered aircraft to help distribute supplies.

_SWITZERLAND: Offering 40-50 tons worth of supplies, including large tents, wool blankets, hygiene kits. Offered to send four doctors, two water experts, one environmental expert.

_TAIWAN: Pledged $2 million, supplies.

_THAILAND: Dispatching at least 60 doctors and nurses along with rice.

_TURKEY: Promised $2.5 million in cash and aid.

_UGANDA: $200,000 pledged.

_UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: $100 million pledged.

_VENEZUELA: Offered 1 million barrels of gasoline, $5 million in cash, water purification plants, rescue volunteers and more than 50 tons of canned food and water. Venezuela's Citgo Petroleum Corp. pledged $1 million.

_VIETNAM: Pledged $100,000.

_YEMEN: $100,000 promised to Red Cross.

___

Survivors stand by homes destroyed when the South Fork Dam collapsed May 31, 1889 in Johnstown, Pa. More than 116 years before a disaster left New Orleans underwater, another American city fought for its survival from rushing floodwaters. And like in New Orleans, the Johnstown Flood of 1889 exposed the cavern between rich and poor, the rush to assign blame, the kindness of strangers and, in the end, the power of the human spirit to rebuild and survive. (AP Photo)

You mean you can still see your watch? I'm envious.

Hey listeners, what is the difference between envy and jealousy? Some people (most people) kinda fudge them together.

I'd covet to know that :wink:

Hal B. Wallis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Hal B. Wallis (September 14, 1898 - October 5, 1986) was an American motion picture producer.

Born Harold Brent Wallis in Chicago, Illinois, his family moved in 1922 to Los Angeles, California, where he found work as part of the publicity department at Warner Bros. in 1923.

Within a few years, Wallis became involved in the production end of the business and would eventually become head of production at Warners. In a career that spanned more than fifty years, he was involved with the production of more than 400 feature-length movies.

Among the many great movies he produced was Casablanca, one of the most honored movies in Hollywood history. Wallis left Warner Bros. in 1944 to work as an independent producer, enjoying considerable success including a number of highly successful and acclaimed movies as well as the production of several of the Elvis Presley movies.

He was nominated for seven Golden Globe awards, winning twicfor Best Picture, plus in 1974 he received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. Hal Wallis received sixteen Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, winning for Casablanca in 1943. For his consistently high quality of motion picture production, he was twice honored with The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.

Hal B. Wallis was married twice:

* 1) The actress Louise Fazenda
* 2) The actress Martha Hyer (1966-1986)

Hal B.Wallis passed away in Rancho Mirage, California, aged 88. He is interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California.


As Time Goes By...

Lyrics and Music by Herman Hupfeld;
© 1931 Warner Bros. Music Corp., ASCAP


This day and age we're living in
Gives cause for apprehension
With speed and new invention
And things like fourth dimension
Yet we get a trifle weary
With Mr. Einstein's theory
So we must get down to earth at times
Relax relieve the tension
And no matter what the progress
Or what may yet be proved
The simple facts of life are such
They cannot be removed
You must remember this
A kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by
And when two lovers woo
They still say, "I love you"
On that you can rely
No matter what the future brings
As time goes by
Moonlight and love songs
Never out of date
Hearts full of passion
Jealousy and hate
Woman needs man
And man must have his mate
That no one can deny
Well, it's still the same old story
A fight for love and glory
A case of do or die
The world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by
Oh yes, the world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by

Audio clips of Dooley Wilson (Sam):
as_time.au or atgb1.wav
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_B._Wallis

Clayton Moore
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Clayton Moore (September 14, 1914 - December 28, 1999) was an American actor best known for playing the fictional western character The Lone Ranger.


Born as Jack Carlton Moore in Chicago, Illinois, Moore was a circus acrobat as a boy, who later spent time as a male model. Moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s, he began working as a stunt man and bit player between modelling jobs. According to his autobiography, around 1940, Hollywood producer named Edward Small convinced him to adopt the stage name "Clayton" Moore. He was an occasional player in western films and film serials for several years. His big break came in 1949, when he was cast in a low-budget Zorro serial. A new version of another masked Old West character, the radio staple The Lone Ranger, was being planned for the then-new medium of television, and Moore was soon cast for the role.

Moore then faced the challenge of training his voice to sound like the radio version of The Lone Ranger, which had then been on the air for many years. He succeeded, and along with co-star Jay Silverheels in the role of Tonto, with Fred Foy intoning the famous introduction, "...the Lone Ranger rides again!", and continuing the tradition of using Gioacchino Rossini's William Tell Overture as its dramatic theme music, the program soon became the highest-rated program to that point on the fledgling ABC network and its first true "hit".

After two successful years, which presented a new episode every week, 52 weeks a year, Moore left the role in a pay dispute and made a few more westerns and serials - sometimes playing the villain! The public was not very accepting of his replacement, actor John Hart, and the owners of the program relented and rehired Moore at his requested salary, who stayed with the program until it ended first-run production in 1957. He and Jay Silverheels also starred in two feature-length "Lone Ranger" theatrical motion pictures.

Moore thereafter retired from the motion picture industry, and became an accomplished real estate salesman. In the mid-sixties, however, during the first period of film and television nostalgia, his "Lone Ranger" episodes revived interest in him and Moore soon began to make his primary living in personal appearances as The Lone Ranger. He always expressed the highest regard for actor Jay Silverheels, who had portrayed the Ranger's sidekick Tonto on the program.

In 1975 the owner of the Ranger character, Jack Wrather, obtained an order enjoining Moore from future appearances as The Lone Ranger. They anticipated making a new film version of the story, and did not want the value of the character being undercut by Moore's appearances, nor anyone to think that the by-now somewhat elderly Moore would be playing the role in the new picture. This move proved to be a public relations disaster of the first order. Moore responded by changing his costume slightly and replacing the mask with similar-looking wraparound sunglasses, and then countersued Wrather. He eventually won the suit, and was able to resume his appearances in costume, which he continued to do until shortly before his death.

Some have attributed the incredible failure of Wrather's picture, finally released in 1981 as Legend of the Lone Ranger, to this move; in reality it was only one of the picture's many problems.

Moore was so identified, both in his own mind and in the public mind, with the Ranger that he is the only person on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, as of 2004, to have his character's name along with his on the star, which reads, "Clayton Moore - The Lone Ranger". He was inducted into the Stuntman's Hall of Fame in 1982 and in 1990 was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Moore's official date of birth is recorded as 1914 by the United States Social Security Death Index. However, according to his publicist was in June, 1914, but it is common practice for actors to shave years off of their age in order to continue to be considered for leading roles which they might otherwise be considered too old for, and many believe that the year sometimes given, 1908, is probably more accurate. Regardless, his autobiography adheres to official date of September 14, 1914, which (as he pointed out) was the 100th anniversary of The Star-Spangled Banner.

In keeping with the nature of the Ranger character, Moore is probably the only person or one of very few considered to have been a famous television actor whose face is largely unknown to the public. His full face was never shown in the TV series, although occasionally he would wear a beard as a disguise, revealing the upper half of his face in the process. However, there is no shortage of photos of Moore unmasked, including many in his autobiography.

Clayton Moore died in 1999 of emphysema and was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

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

Good morning, WA2K radio.

First let me say that I listened to John of Virginia's Andrea Cordescu's poetry reading. It was so moving, folks. I couldn't place the accent but I see that the man is Romanian.

I especially liked his diction describing New Orleans--"...a velvety sensuality..."

Tico, you got that song right, buddy. <smile>

Hey, McTag and Walter, I don't understand the use of the word, "fudge".

What has that to do with envy and jealousy? :wink:


Thanks, Boston Bob, for the bios and The William Tell Overture.

A "fudge" is a lack of clarity, a poor compromise, a muddle, a mixup.

I'm saying people often confuse "envy" with "jealousy", but they have distinct and separate meanings.

Just a little factiod for the radio today.

Here's your song quizline for today:

"I know darn well he'll convince me that he's right again"

I understand, McTag. Yes, I agree with you. Envy is just wanting to be someone else at the moment. Jealousy is wanting someone else all to yourself.

and the answer is:

"That Old Devil Called Love" (I cheated)

Yes. Billie Holliday did it so well, and a carbon-copy cover version was a hit here a few years ago for Alison Moyet.
She copied the phrasing exactly, and the orchestration was identical too. A total rip-off of a classic. But by definition, very nice.

Well, listeners. We do enjoy our togetherness here on WA2K radio, no?

Since the entire world is preoccupied with flesh and the devil, let's hear a song concerning it:

Old Devil Moon Lyrics



I look at you and suddenly,
Something in your eyes I see;
Soon begins bewitching me.
It's that old devil moon;
That you stole from the skies.
It's that old devil moon in your eyes.

You and you glance;
Make this romance;
Too hot to handle.
Stars in the night;
Blazing their light;
can't hold a candle;
To your razzle-dazzle.

You've got me flyin high and wide;
On a magic carpet ride;
Full of butterflies inside.
Wanna cry, wanna croon,
Wanna laugh like a loon.
It's that old devil moon in your eyes.

Just when I think, I'm
Free as a dove.
Old devil moon,
Deep in your eyes,
Blinds me with love.