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Victoria Woodhull
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Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838-1927) was an American feminist reformer, stock broker, sex symbol, and advocate of free love.

She became a colourful and notorious symbol for womens rights, free love, and labour reform. Many of her speeches upon these subjects where not written by Claflin Woodhull herself, but her role as a figurehead in these movements was powerful and controversial nonetheless.

Woodhull was born into a poor family in Homer, Ohio; the only person in her family she really felt close to was her sister Tennessee (a.k.a. "Tennie C.") Claflin, who was seven years younger than her. She went from rags to riches twice, her first fortune being made on the road as a highly successful spiritualist.

She made another fortune on the New York stock exchange with Tennessee, as the first female Wall Street brokers. Woodhull, Claflin & Company opened in 1870. Many contemporary men's journals (e.g. The Day's Doings) published sexualised images of the pair running their firm (although they did not participate in the day-to-day business of the firm themselves), linking the concept of publicly-minded, un-chaperoned women with ideas of 'sexual immorality' and prostitution.

On May 14th, 1870, she and Tennessee established a paper, Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly, which stayed in publication for the next six years, and became notorious for publishing controversial opinions on taboo topics (especially with regard to sex education and free love). The paper is now known primarily for printing the first English version of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto in its 30th December 1871 edition.

George Francis Train once defended her. Other feminists of her time, including Susan B. Anthony, disagreed with her aggressive tactics in pushing for women's equality. She tended to be opportunisitic and unpredictable; in one notable incident, she attempted to seize the podium of a meeting of the increasingly conservative National Woman Suffrage Association from Anthony, using it to advertise the People's Party. The attempt worked; many listeners, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, turned up at the People's Party meeting the next day.

In the year that Anthony cast her vote in the 1872 presidential election, Woodhull became the first woman put forward as a presidential candidate, nominated by the Equal Rights Party (with ex-slave Frederick Douglass running for Vice-President; Douglass never acknowledged this nomination, and it is possible that he saw it as an attempt to get 'the colored vote' (black suffrage having been granted in the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1870)). Claflin Woodhull was 34 at the time, making her a year too young to legally run for U.S. President, and her name did not technically appear on the ballot; like many of Claflin Woodhull's protests, this was first and foremost a media performance, designed to shake up the prejudices of the day. It was not just that fact of her gender that made her campaign notable; her association with Frederick Douglass began a storm of controversy about the mixing of whites and blacks. The Equal Rights Party hoped to unite suffragists and civil rights activists with its choice of nominations, as the exclusion of female suffrage from the Fifteenth Amendment had caused a substantial rift.

Vilified in the media for her support of free love, Claflin Woodhull devoted an entire issue of Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly (November 2nd, 1872) to an affair between Elizabeth Tilton and Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, a prominent conservative figure (who incidentally was a supporter of female suffrage), in order to highlight what she saw as a sexual double-standard between men and women.

The next day, U.S.federal marshalls arrested Victoria and Tennessee for sending obscene material through the mail. The sisters where held in the Ludlow Street jail for the next month, a place normally reserved for murderers. The arrest was arranged by Anthony Comstock, the self-appointed moral defender of the nation at the time, and the event incited questions about censorship and government persecution. The Claflin sisters were found not-guilty six months later, but the arrest prevented Claflin Woodhull from being present during the 1872 presidential election. The publication of the Beecher-Tilton scandal led, in 1875, to Theodore Tilton (husband of Elizabeth Tilton) suing Beecher for 'alienation of affection'. The trial was sensationalised across the nation, eventually resulting in a hung jury.

She was an opponent of abortion, as were most feminists of her day, though what this entailed would confuse those familiar with the modern abortion debate. Being against abortion in her time meant being in favour of female reproductive freedom, a subject Claflin Woodhull spoke on extensively.

She stated in an 1870 issue of her weekly publication: "[t]he rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus". In an 1875 edition of the Wheeling, West Virginia Evening Standard she attacked the practice of abortion:

"Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child, nor think of murdering one before its birth."

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

Well, edgar. We understand, and our listeners appreciate your having explained things to us. We do miss your music, however.

And my goodness. There's our George back again. We do miss our Latin lover, but realize how time consuming and wearying a day after work can be. Just be happy that you don't have to grade lousy essays and try to be gentle. <smile>

Walter Pidgeon
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Walter Pidgeon (September 23, 1897 - September 25, 1984) was a Canadian actor.

Born near Saint John, New Brunswick, he began his career by studying at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He made several silent movies in the 1920s, then made some early talkie musicals, then played second fiddle to the main male star in such films as Saratoga and The Girl of the Golden West. It wasn't until he starred in How Green Was My Valley that he became well-known.

He starred opposite Greer Garson in Blossom in the Dust and in Mrs. Miniver (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor). He was nominated again in 1944 for Madame Curie, but he left Hollywood in the mid-1950s for the stage.

He retired fully in 1971, and died in Santa Monica, California, in 1984. In accordance with his wishes, his body was donated to the UCLA, Medical School for medical research.

Pidgeon has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6414 Hollywood Blvd.

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

Mickey Rooney
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Mickey Rooney Biography

Joseph Yule, Jr. (born September 23, 1920), better known as Mickey Rooney, is an American film actor. Born into a vaudeville family, Rooney began performing at the age of 17 months in 1922.

Entering the movie business in 1927, he literally made his name as the title character in the Mickey McGuire shorts. These were a series of over forty silent, two-reel comedies adapted from the Toonerville Trolley comic strip, in which he starred through 1936. For a time he billed himself as Mickey McGuire, but legally changed his name to Mickey Rooney in 1932. Also during this period he met Walt Disney, and later he would claim Disney had named Mickey Mouse after him.

In 1934 he signed to MGM and was educated at the studio's School for Professional Children.

Rooney's successful role as Andy Hardy in A Family Affair (1937) led to fourteen further films featuring that character from 1938 to 1958. His first role as the top-billed star in a feature film was as Shockey Carter in Hoosier Schoolboy (1937) with Edward Pawley playing his father. His breakthrough serious role came in 1938's Boys Town opposite Spencer Tracy as Whitey Marsh, which opened shortly before his 18th birthday. His fame peaked in World War II with a string of successful musicals with Judy Garland, including the Oscar nominated Babes in Arms (1939) as well as more serious roles in films such as The Human Comedy (1943) and National Velvet (1944).

In 1944 Rooney entered military service for 21 months during World War 2; after his return his career slumped. He appeared in a number of indifferent films, including Words and Music in 1948 which paired him for the last time with Garland on film (he appeared with her on one episode as a guest on her CBS variety series in the early 60's), and one final Andy Hardy film in the late 1950s. The Mickey Rooney Show, also known as Hey Mulligan, appeared on NBC for 39 episodes during 1954 and 1955. In the 1960s Rooney returned to theatrical entertainment. He still accepted film roles in undistinguished movies, but occasionally he would appear in better works such as Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) and The Black Stallion (1979).

He was awarded an Academy Juvenile Award in 1938, and in 1983 the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences voted him their Academy Honorary Award for his lifetime of achievement.

Rooney did the voices for three Christmas TV animated/stop action specials: Santa Claus is Coming to Town (1970), The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974), and Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July --- always playing Santa Claus.

He continued to be busy in stage and television work through the 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the acclaimed stage play Sugar Babies with Ann Miller beginning in 1979, starring in a long-running TV series based on The Black Stallion, touring Canada in a dinner theatre production of The Mind with the Naughty Man in the mid-1990s, and playing The Wizard in a stage production of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with Eartha Kitt. He also appeared in the documentary That's Entertainment III.

He also voiced Mr. Cherrywood in 1985's The Care Bears Movie.

Rooney continues to work in film in 2005.

Currently (9/05), Rooney tours with his wife, Jan Chamberlain, in a multi-media live stage production called "Let's Put On a Show!"

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

Speaking of back, folks. Here's Bio Bob with an entire group of celebs. Raggedy will be happy to know that.

Don't know Miss Victoria, Boston, but she sounds way ahead of her times. So many reformers are, you know.

Ray Charles
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Ray Charles (born Ray Charles Robinson, September 23, 1930 - June 10, 2004), was a pioneering American pianist and soul singer who helped shape the sound of rhythm and blues and brought a soulful sound to everything from country music to pop standards to a now-iconic rendition of "America the Beautiful." Frank Sinatra called him "the only genius in the business."


Early years

He was born Ray Charles Robinson in Albany, Georgia in 1930. His name was shortened to Ray Charles when he entered show business to avoid confusion with boxer Sugar Ray Robinson. Charles began going blind at around age five and was totally blind by age seven. He said that the causes were undiagnosed, but many believe it was as a result of glaucoma. Just before his eyes began to fail, he witnessed his younger brother, George, drown in a washtub. He attended school at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind in St. Augustine, Florida as a charity case; he learned how to read Braille, as well as to write music and play various instruments. While he was there, his mother, Aretha, who had raised him, died. His father, Bailey, died two years later.

After he left school, Charles began working as a musician in Florida in several bands that played in various styles including jazz and country, eventually moving to Seattle in 1947 at the age of sixteen. He soon started recording, first for the label, Swingtime Records, achieving his first hit song with "Baby, Let Me Hold Your Hand" (1951).

Early influences on his work were Nat King Cole (both his vocals and piano playing) and Charles Brown. While his first recordings were only skillful imitations of his heroes, Charles' music soon became more innovative. He toured with Lowell Fulson and worked with Guitar Slim and Ruth Brown. After joining Atlantic Records in 1952, Charles' sound became more original. For example, Charles controversially adapted secular lyrics to many gospel songs, and then played them with jazz backgrounds.

Middle years

His first hit in this mode was "Mess Around," which was based on the 1929 classic "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" by Pinetop Smith and written by Ahmet Ertegun, his producer at Atlantic Records. He had another hit with the rap-like urban jive of "It Should Have Been Me," but went into high gear with the gospel drive of "I Got A Woman." (1955) This was followed by "This Little Girl of Mine," "Drown in My Own Tears," "Hallelujah I Love Her So," and "Lonely Avenue," half of them were gospel songs converted with secular lyrics, and the others blues ballads.

Although Charles was criticized for singing gospel songs with secular lyrics, there is a long tradition of putting religious lyrics to popular songs and vice versa. See Thomas A. Dorsey, one of the founders of gospel music, who also had a significant career in secular music. Solomon Burke and Little Richard also moved between the two styles.

After an appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival he achieved mainstream success with "(The Night Time is) The Right Time" and his 1959 signature song, "What'd I Say." The essence of this phase of his career can be heard on his live album Ray Charles In Person, recorded before a mostly African American audience in Atlanta in 1959. This album also features the first public performance of "What'd I Say." It broke out as a hit in Atlanta from the tape, months before it was recorded in the studio in a two-part version with better fidelity.

Charles had already begun to go beyond the limits of his blues-gospel synthesis while still at Atlantic, which now called him The Genius. He recorded with large orchestras and with jazz artists like Milt Jackson and even made his first country music cover with Hank Snow's "I'm Movin' On."

Then, he moved on to ABC Records. At ABC, Charles had a great deal of control over his music, and broadened his approach, not on experimental side projects, but with pop music, resulting in such hits as "Unchain My Heart" and the No.1 hit on the Billboard pop charts, "Hit the Road, Jack." In 1962, Charles surprised his new, broad audience with his landmark album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, which included the numbers "I Can't Stop Loving You" and "You Don't Know Me." This was followed by a series of hits, including "You Are My Sunshine," "Crying Time," "Busted" and "Unchain My Heart."

In 1961, Charles cancelled a concert scheduled to take place in the Bell Auditorium in Augusta, Georgia to protest segregated seating. Contrary to what the biopic Ray says, he was never banned in Georgia, although he did have to pay the promoter compensation. [1] That same year he did a duet album with accomplished jazz vocalist Betty Carter.


Later years

In 1965, Charles was arrested for possession of heroin, a drug to which he had been addicted for seventeen years. It was his third arrest for the offense, but he avoided prison time after kicking the habit in a clinic in Los Angeles. He spent a year on parole and defiantly released Ashford and Simpson's "Lets Go Get Stoned." (1966)

After the 1960s, Charles' releases were hit-or-miss, with some massive hits and critically acclaimed work, and some music that was dismissed as unoriginal and staid. He concentrated largely on live performances, although his version of "Georgia On My Mind," a Hoagy Carmichael song originally written for a girl named Georgia, was a hit and soon was proclaimed the state song of Georgia on April 24, 1979, with Charles performing it on the floor of the state legislature. He also had success with his unique version of "America the Beautiful." In 1980 Charles made a cameo appearance in The Blues Brothers.

In the late 1980s, a number of events increased Ray's recognition among young audiences. In 1985, "Night Time is the Right Time" was featured in the episode "Happy Anniversary" of The Cosby Show. The cast members used the song to perform a wildly popular lip-synch that helped the show secure its wide viewership. In 1986, he collaborated with Billy Joel on "Baby Grand" for Joel's album The Bridge. In 1987, Charles guest-starred in the episode "Hit the Road, Chad," of Who's the Boss. Charles performed the song, "Always a Friend." He also appeared several times in guest appearances on the show The Nanny, playing Yetta's (Ann Guilbert) boyfriend. Charles' new connection with audiences helped secure a spokesmanship for Diet Pepsi. In this highly successful advertising campaign, Charles popularized the catchphrase "You've got the right one, baby!" At the height of his newfound fame in the early nineties, Charles did guest vocals for quite a few projects. These included the INXS song "Please (You've Got That...)," on the Full Moon, Dirty Hearts album, as well as the theme song for Designing Women in its sixth season. He also appeared (with Chaka Khan) on long time friend Quincy Jones' hit I'll Be Good To You in 1990. In 2004 Charles released a duets album, Genius Loves Company, which was nominated for a bundle of Grammy Awards for Best Pop Vocal Album, Album of the year and Record of the year. He won Album of the year and record of the year. A duet with Norah Jones, Here We Go Again, was nominated for Best Song.


Last performances

One of Charles' last public performances was in 2003 at a televised annual electronic media journalist banquet held in Washington, D.C. He performed "Georgia On My Mind" and "America the Beautiful," though the singer was a bit slower and had some more vocal difficulty than in his younger days. Ray Charles' final public appearance came on April 30, 2004, at the dedication of his music studio as an historic landmark in the city of Los Angeles.

He died at age 73 of liver disease at his home in Beverly Hills, surrounded by family and friends. He was interred in the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California.

His final album, Genius Loves Company, released after his death, consists of duets with various admirers and contemporaries: B.B. King, Van Morrison, Willie Nelson, James Taylor, Gladys Knight, Michael McDonald, Natalie Cole, Elton John, Bonnie Raitt, Diana Krall, Norah Jones, and Johnny Mathis.

Unlike a similar Frank Sinatra album, the duets were recorded face-to-face, with both performers in the studio at the same time.

Charles was significantly involved in the critically-acclaimed biopic Ray, an October 2004 film which portrays his life and career between 1930 and 1966 and stars Jamie Foxx as Charles. Foxx won the 2005 Best Actor Academy Award for the role.

Before shooting could begin, however, director Taylor Hackford brought Foxx to meet Charles, who heard that the younger man was an accomplished pianist and insisted that they sit down at two pianos and jam. For two hours, Charles challenged Foxx, who revealed the depth of his talent, and finally, Charles stood up, hugged Foxx, and proclaimed, "He's the one...he can do it," thus giving his blessing.

Charles was able to attend a showing of the completed film, but he died before it opened in theaters.

The film's credits note that he is survived by 12 children, 21 grandchildren, and five great grandchildren.

Many of today's artists continue to honor the legacy of Charles. The 2005 Grammy Awards were dedicated to him, and Alicia Keys performed a duet with Charles (via concert footage) of America the Beautiful at Super Bowl XXXIX.

Charles was posthumously awarded his Grammy for Genius Loves Company.

In August 2005, the United States Postal Service honored Charles by renaming the former West Adams Station post office in Los Angeles as the "Ray Charles Station." (In so doing, the USPS resolved a geographic misnomer, as the West Adams Station was not located in West Adams itself, but in the nearby Mid-City district.)

Charles's estate is worth an estimated $100 million.

Recognition in Halls of Fame

He was an original inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is also a member of the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame, the Blues Hall of Fame, the Songwriters' Hall of Fame, the Grammy Hall of Fame, the Jazz Hall of Fame, the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, and the Florida Artists Hall of Fame, and the Playboy Hall of Fame.


Controversies

Despite his support of Martin Luther King, Jr., in the 1960s and his support for the civil rights movement, Charles courted controversy when he toured South Africa in 1981 despite an international boycott of the country because of its apartheid policy. He faced pickets in South Africa and in 15 North American cities he toured subsequently including Albany, Los Angeles, New York and Toronto. The United Nations agency supporting the boycott asked him to apologize and promise not to visit South Africa until the abolition of apartheid to which he responded that they could "kindly kiss my ass." Despite having described himself as a "Hubert Humphrey Democrat," Charles accepted $100,000 to perform "America the Beautiful" at former U.S. president Ronald Reagan's second inaugural ball. In response to criticism, his manager, Roy Adams, commented: "For that kind of money he would have sung 'America the Beautiful' at a Ku Klux Klan rally."

A notorious ladies' man, Charles was married twice and fathered twelve children by seven different women. In a 60 Minutes profile, he admitted to Ed Bradley that he "auditioned" his female back-up singers. The saying was, "To be a Raelette, you've got to let Ray."

From the time of his switch from straight rhythm and blues with a combo, Charles was often accused of selling out. He left behind his classic formulation of rhythm and blues to sing country music, pop songs, and soft-drink commercials. In the process, he went from a niche audience to worldwide fame.


Quotations

* "When I started to sing like myself ?- as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while ?- when I started singing like Ray Charles, it had this spiritual and churchy, this religious or gospel sound. It had this holiness and preachy tone to it. It was very controversial. I got a lot of criticism for it." ?- (San Jose Mercury News, 1994)

* "Do it right or don't do it at all. That comes from my mom. If there's something I want to do, I'm one of those people that won't be satisfied until I get it done. If I'm trying to sing something and I can't get it, I'm going to keep at it until I get where I want it." ?- (Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, 1998)

* "The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done." ?- (Los Angeles Times, 1989)

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

Track Title: America The Beautiful
Album Title: Genius & Soul, The 50th Anv. Coll. Vol. 4

Prime Artist: Ray Charles (Robinson)
Arranger: Quincy Jones
Background Vocal: The Raeletts
Drums: Grady Tate

Guitar: Jim Hall
Guitar: Toots Thielemans
Guitar: Eric Gale
Bass: Bob Cranshaw

Bass: Chuck Rainey
Bass: Ray Brown
Saxophone: Jerome Richardson
Saxophone: Hubert Laws

Trumpet: Freddie Hubbard
Trumpet: Ernie Royal
Trumpet: Joe Newman
Producer: Ray Charles (Robinson)

Written by: Katherine Lee Bates
Written by: Samuel Ward
Conductor: Sid Feller
From the Album: A Message From the People 1972 (A)
Lyrics:
Oh beautiful, for heroes proved,
In liberating strife,
Who more than self, our country loved,
And mercy more than life,

America, America, may God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain devined.

And you know when I was in school,
We used to sing it something like this, listen here:

Oh beautiful, for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties,
Above the fruited plain,

But now wait a minute, I'm talking about
America, sweet America,
You know, God done shed his grace on thee,
He crowned thy good, yes he did, in a brotherhood,
From sea to shining sea.

You know, I wish I had somebody to help me sing this
(America, America, God shed his grace on thee)
America, I love you America, you see,
My God he done shed his grace on thee,
And you oughta love him for it,
Cause he, he, he, he, crowned thy good,
He told me he would, with brotherhood,
(From sea to shining sea).
Oh Lord, oh Lord, I thank you Lord
(Shining sea).

Transcribed by Todd Peach

http://www.thepeaches.com/music/

Julio Iglesias
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Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva (born September 23, 1943) in Madrid, Spain is Spain's best selling singer and one of the best-selling Spanish singers of all time. Julio Iglesias has sold 250,000,000 records in different languages and released 77 records. He has performed approximately 5,000 concerts during his career.

Early career to 1978

He was a professional soccer player with Real Madrid, where he played as goalkeeper. During this time, he also enrolled in law school. He had an accident that dashed his hopes of becoming a great soccer player, but during his period in bed, he started to compose songs. He received a certificate as a lawyer from Cambridge University a little later.

In 1968, he won the Benidorm International Song Festival, a songwriter's contest in Spain, and signed a contract with a Columbia Records Latin music label, Discos Columbia. He represented Spain at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1970, finishing fourth behind Northern Irish singer Dana Scallon, and the Welsh singer (and Cymraeg speaker) Mary Hopkin. His entry was the song "Gwendolyne" which was his first recording. During the 1970s he married the Spanish-mestiza Philippine socialite Isabel Preysler with whom he had three children: Chabeli Iglesias, who has been a show host and is now a news reporter in Washington D.C., Enrique Iglesias, now a world-famous singer who followed in his father's footsteps, and Julio José Iglesias, a model who has released two CDs. It was during the 1970s that the Iglesias family's private life became very public, with Julio and the rest of the family frequently featured on the covers of various international magazines.

Peak of success 1978-1990

In 1978, he signed a contract for CBS International, adding English, French, Portuguese, German and Italian to his language repertoire. He had his first hit in English with a cover of "Begin the Beguine" and released a collection Julio in 1983 building his reputation.

In 1984, he released the smash hit album 1100 Bel Air Place, which gave him considerable fame in English-language markets. The album sold three million albums in the US alone, with the first single "To All The Girls I've Loved Before", a duet with Willie Nelson reaching the top five on the Billboard Hot 100. The album also featured "All of You", a hit duet with Diana Ross.

In 1985, his father was kidnapped but found well and alive after two agonizing weeks. This prompted Julio, who had already divorced Preysler, to move his family to Miami, Florida, where they settled in a mansion at Miami Beach. That year he also recorded duets with Diana Ross and Willie Nelson. It was rumored in 1986 that Julio, perhaps seeking to get away from all the fame and hoopla for one week, was found walking around the streets of Cayey, Puerto Rico, after disappearing for seven days. Julio feels there is a deep connection between him and Puerto Rico because one of his grandmothers was Puerto Rican.

Iglesias won a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album in the 1988 Grammy Awards for the album Un Hombre Solo ("A Single Man"). He also recorded a duet with Stevie Wonder on "My Love" from his Non Stop album which achieved crossover success in 1988.

Stories of Julio's expensive private jets, boats, and houses became legendary during that decade, and his world tours took him to many countries and continents around the world performing in many sold out concerts among the vast women populations.

Career 1990-today

In the 1990s, Julio went back to his Spanish music roots, and in 1996, he released a CD nicknamed Tango. He is slowly stepping out of the limelight now and enjoying his son Enrique's popularity, together with his long-time companion Miranda and their 2 sons Miguel Alejandro (September 7, 1997), Rodrigo (April 3, 1999) and twin daughters Cristina and Victoria (May 1, 2001). Julio is very amenable to sign autographs, although he can be a little difficult to reach sometimes, due to his and his family's security detail, which they have had since the 1985 kidnapping of Julio's father.

Iglesias returned to the headlines in October, 2003, when he went to Argentina and kissed show host Susana Gimenez three times during a live telecast of her show.

Julio Iglesias obtained Dominican citizenship on August 30, 2005, possibly for tax purposes.

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



Julio Iglesias




TO ALL THE GIRLS I'VE LOVED BEFORE
with Willie Nelson

- Albert Hammond - Hal David -

To all the girls I've loved before
Who travelled in and out my door
I'm glad they came along
I dedicate this song
To all the girls I've loved before.

To all the girls I once caressed
And may I say I've held the best
For helping me to grow
I owe a lot I know
To all the girls I've loved before

The winds of change are always blowing
And every time I try to stay
The winds of change continue blowing
And they just carry me away.

To all the girls who shared my life,
Who now are someone else's wives
I'm glad they came along
I dedicate this song
To all the girls I've loved before.

The winds of change are always blowing
And every time I try to stay
The winds of change continue blowing
And they just carry me away.

To all the girls we've loved before
Who travelled in and out our door
We're glad they came along
We dedicate this song
To all the girls we've loved before.

To all the girls we've loved before
Who travelled in and out our door
We're glad they came along
We dedicate this song
To all the girls we've loved before.

© 1975, 84 April Music Inc. - Casa David.

Heh! Heh! Well, listeners. No more need be said. It seems that Bob's bios on Mickey (no, not the mouse) and Ray have been quite thorough.

Just a word to Reyn, if he's listening. Raggedy said that it would be fine to include her spotted pup in your collage. <smile>

Bruce Springsteen
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Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He has frequently recorded and toured with The E Street Band. Springsteen is most widely known for his brand of heartland rock, rock and roll infused with Americana sentiments. His eloquence in expressing ordinary, every-day problems has earned him a huge fan base. His most famous albums, Born to Run and Born in the USA, epitomize his penchant for writing about the struggles of a young man growing up in the streets of New Jersey. Comparisons are inevitably made between him and Bob Dylan [1] because of his folk rock roots. Springsteen, however has become popular in his own right because of the appeal of his songs.

Springsteen's lyrics often concern men and women struggling to make ends meet, and frequently denounce the rich and greedy. He has gradually become identified with progressive politics. Springsteen's "Born in the USA" was so popular that Ronald Reagan chose it to be the theme of his 1984 presidential campaign, misinterpreting it to be as a simply nationalistic song rather than one about the negative after-effects of the Vietnam War. Springsteen is also noted for his work for the relief effort after the September 11th attacks on which his album The Rising reflects.

Springsteen is nicknamed "The Boss", a term of endearment by his fans which he was initially reported to dislike but now seems to have come to terms with. He sometimes refers to himself as "The Boss" in concert.

Early years

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen was born September 23, 1949 in Freehold Borough, New Jersey. His father, Douglas, was a bus driver of Dutch and Irish ancestry and his mother, Adele Zirilli Springsteen, an Italian-American legal secretary. He was inspired to become a musician when he saw Elvis Presley on the Ed Sullivan Show. At the age of 13, he bought his first guitar for US$ 18. In 1965, he went to the house of Tex and Marion Vinyard, who sponsored young bands in his town. They helped him become the lead guitarist of The Castiles, and later became the lead singer of the group. The Castilles recorded two original songs at a public recording studio in Bricktown, New Jersey, and played a variety of venues, including Cafe Wha? in Greenwich Village. Marion Vinyard said that even when Springsteen was a young man, she believed him when he said he was going to make it big. [2]. Bruce's sister, Pamela Sue Springsteen, had a brief film career, but walked away from acting for good to pursue her still photography career full time.

He began performing in Richmond, Virginia in late 1969 and through 1970 with singer Robbin Thompson in a band called Steel Mill. They went on to perform some memorable shows at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Before being discovered nationally, he returned to Asbury Park, New Jersey, and performed regularly at small nightclubs there and along the Jersey shore. His New Jersey shows quickly gathered cult-like appeal for their energy, passion and longevity, most lasting in excess of three hours.


Even after gaining international acclaim, Springsteen's New Jersey roots would reverberate in his music, with him routinely praising "the great state of New Jersey" in his live shows. Drawing on his extensive local appeal, his appearances in major New Jersey and Philadelphia venues routinely would sell out for consecutive nights and, much like the Grateful Dead, his show's song lists would vary significantly from night to night. He would also make many surprise appearances at The Stone Pony and other shore nightclubs over the years. He began his recording career with the E Street Band in 1973. He signed a solo record deal with Columbia Records in 1972 with the help of John A. Hammond, who signed Bob Dylan to the same record label. Springsteen brought many of his New Jersey-based musician friends, including guitarist Steven Van Zandt, into the studio with him, many of them forming the E Street Band. His debut album, Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J., from January 1973, established him as a critical favorite [3], though sales were slow. Manfred Mann's Earth Band subsequently turned one song from the album, "Blinded by the Light", into a number one hit. Later in 1973 his second album, The Wild, The Innocent, & The E Street Shuffle came out, again to critical acclaim but no commercial profit. The long, full-of-life "Rosalita" from this album would go on to become one of Springsteen's most beloved concert numbers.


Commercial success

In Boston's The Real Paper May 22, 1974, music critic Jon Landau wrote, "I saw rock and roll future, and its name is Bruce Springsteen. And on a night when I needed to feel young, he made me feel like I was hearing music for the very first time" [4] (Landau subsequently became Springsteen's manager and producer). With the release of Born to Run in 1975, Springsteen made the covers of both Time Magazine and Newsweek the same week, on October 27 of that year. This was Springsteen's last ditch effort to make a commercially viable album; its wall of sound production had an enormous budget. It succeeded: while there were no real hit singles, the title track, "Thunder Road", and "Jungleland" all received massive FM radio airplay and remain perennial favorites on many classic rock stations to this day.

A legal battle with former manager Mike Appel kept Springsteen out of the studio for a while, and probably also contributed to the much more somber tone of his 1978 album, Darkness on the Edge of Town. Musically, this album was the turning point of Springsteen's career. Gone were the rapid-fire lyrics, out-sized characters, and long, multi-part musical compositions of the first three albums; now the songs were leaner and more carefully drawn and began to reflect Springsteen's growing intellectual and political awareness. Many fans consider Darkness Springsteen's most consistent and best record; tracks such as "Badlands" and "The Promised Land" became concert staples for decades to come. Other fans would always like the adventurous early Springsteen best. [5]

Springsteen continued to consolidate his thematic focus on working-class life with the double album The River in 1980, which yielded his first hit single, "Hungry Heart".

He followed this with the stark solo acoustic Nebraska in 1982. According to the Marsh biographies, Springsteen was in a depressed state when he wrote this material, and the result is a brutal depiction of American life. While this album did not sell especially well, it garnered him widespread critical praise. Springsteen did not go on tour with the release of this album.

Springsteen is probably best known for the multi-million selling Born in the U.S.A.(1984), and the massively successful world tour that followed it. The title track was a tribute to Springsteen's buddies that had experienced the Vietnam War, some of whom did not come back. The song was widely mis-interpreted on release as nationalistic. In later years Springsteen performed the song accompanied only with acoustic guitar to restore the song's original meaning. "Dancing in the Dark" was the biggest of seven hit singles from Born in the U.S.A., peaking at number two on the Billboard music charts. The music video for the song featured a young Courteney Cox dancing on stage with Springsteen. This famous appearance helped launch Cox's career.

The Born in the U.S.A. period represented the height of Springsteen's visibility in popular culture and the broadest audience demographic he would ever reach (this was further helped by releasing dance mixes of three of the singles). The three-disc Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Live/1975-85 summed up Springsteen's career to this point, and displayed some of the elements that made Springsteen shows so powerful to his fans: the switching from mournful dirges to party rockers and back; the communal sense of purpose between artist and audience; the long emotionally intense spoken passages before songs, including those describing Springsteen's difficult relationship with his father; and the instrumental prowess of the E Street Band, such as in the long coda to "Racing in the Street". Some felt the song selection on this album could have been better, but in any case, Springsteen concerts are the subjects of frequent bootleg recording and trading among fans.

After this commercial peak, Springsteen released the much more sedate and contemplative Tunnel of Love (1987), a mature reflection on the many faces of love found, lost and squandered. It coincided with the breakup of his first marriage to actress Julianne Phillips.

Reflecting the challenges of love, on Tunnel of Love's title song, Springsteen famously sang:

"Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough. Man meets woman, and they fall in love. But the house is haunted, and the ride gets rough. You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above."

1990s


In 1992, three years after breaking up with most of the E Street Band (Roy Bittan remained) and risking charges of "going Hollywood" by moving to Los Angeles (a radical move for someone so linked to the blue-collar life of the Jersey Shore), Springsteen released two albums simultaneously. Human Touch and Lucky Town were even more introspective than any of his previous work. Also different about these albums was the confidence he displayed. As opposed to his first two albums, which dreamed of happiness, and his next four, which showed him growing to fear it, these albums saw a finally satisfied and mature Springsteen. However, most fans view these albums (especially Human Touch) and the "Other Band" tour that followed as the low point in Springsteen's career; it was also during this tour that Springsteen first began using a teleprompter so as to not forget his lyrics, a practice he has continued with ever since. An abortive acoustic band appearance on the MTV Unplugged television program that was later released as In Concert/MTV Plugged further cemented fan dissatisfaction.

Springsteen seemed to realize this dissatisfaction a few years hence when he spoke humorously of his late father during his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame acceptance speech: "I've gotta thank him because -- what would I conceivably have written about without him? I mean, you can imagine that if everything had gone great between us, we would have had disaster. I would have written just happy songs -- and I tried it in the early '90s and it didn't work; the public didn't like it." [6]

A multiple Grammy Award winner, Springsteen also won an Academy Award in 1993 for his song "Streets of Philadelphia," which appeared in the soundtrack to the film Philadelphia. The song, along with the film, was applauded by many for its sympathetic portrayal of a gay man dying of AIDS, especially coming from a mainstream, heterosexual musician. Unusually, the music video for the song shows Springsteen's actual vocal performance, recorded using a hidden microphone, as he refused to lip-sync to a prerecorded vocal track.

In 1995, after temporarily re-organizing the E Street Band for a few new songs recorded for his first Greatest Hits album (a recording session that was chronicled in the documentary Blood Brothers), he released his second solo guitar album, The Ghost of Tom Joad. This was less well-received than the similar Nebraska, due to the minimal melody, twangy vocals, and didactic nature of most of the songs. The small-venue solo tour that followed successfully featured many of his older songs in drastically reshaped acoustic form, although Springsteen had to explicitly remind his audiences to be quiet during the performances.

In 1998, another precursor to the E Street Band's upcoming re-birth appeared in the form of a sprawling, four-disc box set of out-takes, Tracks.

In 1999, the E Street Band officially re-united and went on an extensive world tour, lasting over a year in length and finishing with ten sold out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden. The E-United World Tour resulted in an HBO Concert, with corresponding DVD and album releases as Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band: Live In New York City.

Drawing on his strong fan base in Philadelphia, Springsteen chose to celebrate his 50th birthday in September 1999 with a live show at the Philadelphia Spectrum, which he opened with his hit "Growing Up." Closing the song on that night, he quoted W. C. Fields: "All things being equal, I'd rather be in Philadelphia". This fantastic show also included a rare performance of "The Fever."

2000s


In 2002, Springsteen released his first studio effort with the full band in 18 years, The Rising, produced by Brendan O'Brien. The album, mostly a reflection on the September 11 attacks, was a critical and popular success, and hailed the return of "The Boss". The title track gained airplay in several radio formats, and the record became Springsteen's best-selling album of new material in 15 years. A massive tour was made to promote The Rising. While Springsteen's popularity has dipped over the years in some southern and midwestern regions of the U.S., it is still strong along the coasts, and he played an unprecedented 10 nights in outdoor football Giants Stadium in New Jersey, a ticket-selling feat that no other musical act can come close to. [7]. During these shows Springsteen thanked those fans who were attending multiple shows and those who were coming from long distances or out of the country; the advent of robust Bruce-oriented online communities had made these practices easier. The final Giants Stadium show concluded with an even better thank you: a performance of "Jersey Girl". The Rising tour would come to a final conclusion with 3 nights in Shea Stadium. Bruce Springsteen lost his police escort for the second night after performing "American Skin (41 shots)", a song about the police shooting of Amadou Diallo. Bob Dylan was a surprise guest on the last night, the two performing "Highway 61 Revisited" together.

During the 2000s Springsteen has become a visible advocate for the revitalization of Asbury Park, and has played an annual series of winter holiday concerts there to benefit various local businesses, organizations, and causes. These shows are explicitly intended for the faithful, featuring numbers such as the unreleased (until Tracks) E Street Shuffle out-take "Thundercrack", a rollicking group participation song that casual Springsteen fans would be mystified by. He also frequently rehearses for tours in Asbury Park; his most devoted followers stand outside the building to hear what fragments they can of the upcoming shows.

At the Grammy Awards of 2003, Springsteen performed The Clash's "London Calling" along with Elvis Costello, E Streeter Steven van Zandt, and Dave Grohl in tribute to the late Joe Strummer; Springsteen and the Clash had once been considered multiple-album-dueling rivals at the time of the double The River and the triple Sandinista!.

In 2004, Springsteen announced that he and the E Street Band would participate in a politically motivated "Vote for Change" tour, in conjunction with John Fogerty, the Dixie Chicks, R.E.M., Jurassic 5 and other musicians. All concerts were to be held in swing states, to benefit MoveOn.org and encourage people to vote against George W. Bush. A finale was held in Washington, D.C., bringing many of the artists together. Several days later, Springsteen held one more such concert in New Jersey when polls showed that state surprisingly close. While in past years Springsteen had played benefits for causes he believed in ?- against nuclear energy, for Vietnam veterans, Amnesty International, and the Christic Institute ?- these shows were the first time he was explicitly endorsing a candidate for political office, and this led to both criticism and praise from the expected partisan sources. Springsteen's "No Surrender" became the main campaign theme song for John Kerry's unsuccessful presidential campaign. In the last days of the campaign, he performed acoustic versions of a few of his songs at Kerry rallies. Whether Springsteen's stance causes a reduction in his fan base (now an older, more affluent demographic) remains to be seen as of 2005.

Springsteen's most recent album, Devils & Dust, was released on April 26, 2005 and was recorded without the E Street Band. It is a low-key, mostly acoustic album, in the same vein as Nebraska and The Ghost of Tom Joad although with a little more instrumentation. Some of the material was written almost ten years earlier during or shortly after the Tom Joad tour, a couple of them being performed then but never released. [8]. The title track concerns an ordinary soldier's feelings and fears during the Iraq War. Starbucks rejected a co-branding deal for the album, not only due to some sexually explicit content, but also because of Springsteen's anti-corporate politics. Nonetheless, the album entered the album charts at number 1 in ten different countries (United States, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, The United Kingdom, and Ireland).

Springsteen began a small-venue solo tour at the same time as the album's release. Most shows sold out in minutes, although attendance was sparse in a few regions. Unlike his mid-1990s solo tour, he performed on piano, electric piano, pump organ, banjo, electric guitar, and stomping board, as well as acoustic guitar and harmonica, adding variety to the solo sound. (Offstage synthesizer, guitar, and percussion are also used for some songs.) Unearthly renditions of "Reason to Believe", "The Promised Land", and Suicide's "Dream Baby Dream" jolted audiences to attention, while rarities, frequent set-list changes, and a willingness to keep trying even through audible piano mistakes have kept his loyal audiences happy.

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

BORN IN THE U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen

Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up

Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.

Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man

Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.

Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me"
Went down to see my V.A. man
He said "Son, don't you understand"

I had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone

He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go

Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A.

Let's pause a moment to honor Bob for his marvelous contributions, and after that very brief pause, let's listen to a song from Mickey:



You're out on the edge
But nobody sees you
You're out on the edge
But you're not in danger
Because You're only two feet
Above the ground

You're out on a mission
for recognition
You're out on a mission
A show to sell out
But you've already sold out
You (bleep) sellouts

(chorus)
No one... No one cares
How close you were to the end
No one... No one sees
The changes you've made for yourselves

You need to break
Apart from your egos
You need a break
To find a new image
Cause you're not ROCKSTARS
But you should be

You're out on a mission
For recognition
You're out on a mission
A show to sell out
I've figured you out
You're so complex

(chorus)

Oh yes...Oh yes...they're coming on strong
And maybe by monday
Their songs will live on..
But the MELTDOWN
The MELTDOWN
The MELTDOWN.....

(chorus)

yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah!

oops, folks. I forgot about the boss. <smile>Thanks, Boston.

Time for a station break:

This is cyber space, WA2K radio. (whew!)

What a day to be late. Letty my love ------- Heeeeeee's Baaaaackkkkk. Whoda thunk so many celebrities would pop up. Wuncha know it. Saw your note to our rabid (not rabbit, not vapid, not rapid) audience announcing my brief (yes, I wore briefs) disappearance. Was that applause I just heard? Fickle public. I promise I'll never do that again until next time.

Barely Back Boston Bob

ah, barely back Boston Bob. We always miss you when you're away, whether it's in brief or other things.

Air Jordan:

"Let's just say they're Haynes"

It is the season of party political conferences in Britain now. A comment came up again, an old chestnut, but a goodie:

"The gentleman's speech contained much that was good and original. Unfortunately, the good bits were not original, and the original bits were not good."

Well, McTag. It may be an old chestnut to you, but it's a delightful new nut to me. Love it, Brit!

Why do you suppose, listeners, that we refer to something passe as "an old chestnut"?

Anyone here ever heard of wormy chestnut?

What's the origin of "old chestnut"?

29-Sep-2000

Dear Straight Dope:

What's an old chestnut? I tried asking some others; all I got in response is more old chestnuts. --Irene Spencer

SDSTAFF Dex replies:

Well, we're all agreed that an old chestnut is a stale joke.

Eric Partirdge in Origins (1983 edition) says the probable origin is eating roasted chestnuts at the fireside while listening to old stories. The word chestnut itself, he says, derives from Middle English chesten nut, and ultimately from Latin castaneo, a translation of the Greek kastanea, meaning "chestnut." That helps, of course, a lot.

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable traces the origin to The Broken Sword, a forgotten melodrama by William Dimond (1816) in which one of the characters, Captain Xavier, is forever telling the same jokes, over and over, with slight variations. As he repeats a certain joke involving a tree, this time making it about a cork tree, Xavier is corrected by Pablo, who says, "A chestnut. I have heard you tell the joke twenty-seven times, and I am sure it was a chestnut."

--SDSTAFF Dex
Straight Dope Science Advisory Board

[Comment on this answer.]

Cecil's Mailbag is researched and written by members of the Straight Dope Science Advisory Board, Cecil's online auxiliary. Although the SDSAB does its best, these articles are edited by Ed Zotti, not Cecil, so accuracywise you'd better keep your fingers crossed.

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Thanks, Bob. Some things are untraceable, I suspect. In searching, I found this about wormy chestnut. I was curious, because I have a wormy chestnut picture frame which is beautiful:


Wormy Chestnut Wood
by William Lord

The subject of wormy chestnut is an intriguing one, and apparently much of the story is not yet in print. No definitive article pops up on the internet or resides in a canvas of the literature. What changes in public attitudes occurred to upgrade the status of wormy chestnut from a defective lumber to a prized collectible? Undoubtedly a major reason is its increasing rarity given the disappearance of mature chestnut trees. But it is tempting to also associate it with the affluence of our post War years and the spawning of interest in antiques and collectibles.

The cause of wormy chestnut is well known. The larvae of the chestnut timber borer a small, brown beetle spent several years of their lives nourishing themselves as they gnawed tunnels throughout the wood of standing trees. The adults emerged about the time of chestnut bloom, flying directly free from the tree to mingle and mate. The females deposited eggs in the cracks in the bark and, life's duty done, all soon expired.

The beetles had a feeding frenzy on the dead and dying chestnut trees smitten by the blight. "Lumber from such trees was downgraded to 'sound wormy,' resulting in sizeable losses." This quote relates to pre World War II. Now wormy chestnut is "character marked," a term I presume coined in recent decades by the cognoscenti of the antique industry. Now it sells for handsome prices for interior trim, furniture and picture frames.

It seems that wormy chestnut has found a highly regarded niche among those who treasure "antiqued" wood. An art has evolved where crafsmen give "character" to board lumber by denting it with a hammer, pounding in nail impressions, and making burn marks with a hot iron. Thus we derive the "distressed furniture" now in vogue. Wormy chestnut is ready made!

Jennifer slept in her little bed,
With dreams of her rabbit in her little head.

Jennifer's rabbit, brown and white,
Left the house and ran away one night,
Along with a turtle and a kangaroo,
And seventeen monkeys from the city zoo,
And Jennifer too.

They ran through the forest and they all held hands.
They came to the ocean with the cookie crumb sands.
They called it the sea of the very best dreams,
And all built a cstle of the best moonbeams,
And milky way streams.

And there on the sand where the star fish play,
The ship sailed in from the moonbeam bay,
And they all went sailing on the starlight sea,
Where they all had cookies and oolong tea,
And Jenny had three.

They danced on the decks of the red-sailed brig.
The monkeys and the sailors did a whirrling jig.
Turtle played the fiddle and the rabbit played kazoo,
And they bowed to each other like the white folks do.
And Jenny bowed too.

Then, "My!" said the turtle as the clock struck three,
"The hour is growing very late for me."
"Not at all," said the rabbit. "And I'll tell you why,
We still havn't counted every star in the sky".
Said Jenny "Let's try."

So they counted on the ship and they counted on the shore.
They counted through the forest to the bedroom door.
They counted in bed till they could count no more.
Then they all fell asleep and the final score,
Was a trillion and four.

Yes the rabbit and the turtle and the kangaroo,
And Jenny fell asleep like sleepy folks do,
Just like you.

Well, dys. Jenny is an interesting young girl. Either that song is simply literal, or there's a message somewhere hidden among the animals and the stars.

I guess dys' strange and arcane song requires another, listeners:


» I Only Have Eyes For You


Al Dubin / Harry Warren

My love must be a kind of blind love,
I can't see anyone but you
And dear, I wonder if you find love,
an optical illusion, too?

Are the stars out tonight?
I don't know if it's cloudy or bright cause I only
have eyes for you.
The moon may be high,
but I can't see a thing in the sky,
cause I only have eyes for you.
I don't know if we're in a garden,
or on a crowded avenue.
You are here, so am I.
Maybe millions of people go by but they all disappear from view,
and I only have eyes for you.

Incidentally, that's also the potato song

I get so dirty,
I get so dirty,
I get so dirty,
I get so dirty,
I get so dirty,
Gotta take a bath every night.
I wash my nose, scrub my toes,
Oh-oh Mama, forgot to take off my clothes.
Now I'm swish-swish-swishin',
splash, splash, splashin',
goosh, goosh, gooshin',
slipping and a-sliding,
running down the hallway-
My Mama's coming after me
Papa's coming after me
The dog is coming after me
I'm afraid they're going to catch me
Ob boy, am I in trouble- down the hall I go
I fell asleep. I fell asleep.
I was lying in the bathtub and I fell asleep.
Such a nice warm bathtub, I fell asleep.
Such a nice warm bathtub, I fell ...
When I woke up in the morning
I had turned into to a duck
All the kids at school said "Oh, what a fool!
He fell asleep in the bathtub!
He turned into a duck!"
Yea, but I just laughed and then I flew away.
I get so dirty,
I get so dirty,
I get so dirty,
I get so dirty,
I get so dirty,
Gotta take a bath every night.