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Killing Me Softly
Roberta Flack

Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words.
Killing me softly with his song.

I heard he sang a good song
I heard he had a style
And so I came to see him
And listen for a while.
And there he was this young boy
A stranger to my eyes.

Chorus

I felt all flushed with fever
Embarrassed by the crowd.
I felt he found my letters
And read each one out loud.
I prayed that he would finish
But he just kept right on.

Chorus
He sang as if he knew me
In all my dark despair.
And then he looked right through me
As if I wasn't there.
And he just kept on singing
Singing clear and strong.

Chorus

Well, must say goodnight, now. I can't think of a better way than to do it with a parody, folks:

"Kiss On My List" Based on the performance by Daryl Hall & John Oates
"Frist On My List" Parody by William Tong
Satire about Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN) handpicked by Bush to succeed Trent Lott as Senate Majority Leader; as sung by Bush:

(instrumental intro)

Trent Lott's blunder was the biggest of all time; what can I say?
Trent Lott should have keep his racist secrets away.
You think maybe I need help, no, I know, I'm all right... all right.
Lott's now better off by listening to friends' advice.

If you insist, just know though I'm pissed,
Lott won't be missed.
If you want to know what the reason is,
I have to smile for my guy, he's the reason why...

(Because Bill Frist) Bill Frist is on my list.
(Because Bill Frist) Bill Frist is on my list.
Because Bill Frist is on my list, we've survived the knife.
(Because Bill Frist) Bill Frist is on my list.
(Because Bill Frist) Bill Frist is on my list.
Because Bill Frist is on my list, we're safe on the Right.

Lott was crazy, blundering 'bout Strom Thurmond's history.
With our right wing make up this time, full control is to be.
Sometimes you'll regret what I'm doing;
I don't regret what I want... I want.
Trent Lott is now done, so, boo-hoo... My coup will go on.

If you insist, just know, though I'm pissed,
Lott won't be missed.
If you want to know what the reason is,
I have to smile for my guy, he's the reason why...

(Because Bill Frist) Bill Frist is on my list.
(Because Bill Frist) Bill Frist is on my list.
Because Bill Frist is on my list, we've survived the knife.
(Because Bill Frist) Bill Frist is on my list.
(Because Bill Frist) Bill Frist is on my list.
Because Bill Frist is on my list, we're safe on the Right.

From Letty with love.

I'm not a big Bob Dylan fan myself.
We saw the first hour of the Scorsese film and I found it interesting in its historical perspective but a bit unbearable when a stoned young Dylan began to sing.
Maria Muldaur was there! And Woodie Guthrie. Marvellous.

Meat Loaf
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


Meat Loaf (born Marvin Lee Aday September 27, 1947 in Dallas, Texas) is an American actor and rock and roll performer who came to fame with his album Bat Out of Hell and for his movie performances such as Eddie in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.


Early life

Meat Loaf was the first child of Orvis Wesley Aday, a policeman, and Wilma Artie Hukel, a school teacher and a member of the Vo-di-o-do Girls gospel quartet. Orvis was an alcoholic who would go on drinking binges for days at a time. Meat Loaf and his mother would drive around to all the bars in Dallas, looking for Orvis to take him home. Because of this, Meat Loaf often stayed with his grandmother, Charlsee Norrod.

Although there have been various explanations for his stage name, according to his official website, his name started when his father called him "Meat" as a two-year-old. His schoolmates would later turn it into Meat Loaf as it has the same initials as his real name, M.L. In high school, he was on the football team until his senior year when his coach made him decide between being in the school play, "Plain and Fancy" and being on the team. Meat Loaf chose the school play.

Meat Loaf relates a story in his autobiography, To Hell and Back, about how he, a friend and his friend's father, drove out to Love Field to watch John F. Kennedy land. After watching him leave the airport, they decided to head to Market Hall which was on Kennedy's parade route. On the way they heard that he had been shot so they headed to Parkland Hospital where they saw Jackie Kennedy get out of the car and Governor John Connally get pulled out, but they never saw Kennedy taken out.

After attending college at Lubbock Christian College, Meat Loaf transferred to North Texas State University. While there he was called in for an Army physical which he tried to fail by gaining sixty-eight pounds in four and a half weeks. They determined that he was fit despite being color blind, having a trick shoulder and being very concussion prone (he's had seventeen of them). When his draft notice arrived two years later, he ignored it. In 1967, after seeing his mother wasting away in a hospital bed, Meat Loaf left Texas and moved to Los Angeles, where he became a bouncer at a teenage nightclub.

Shortly after Meat Loaf's mother died, his father, in a drunken rage, tried to kill him with a knife. He barely managed to escape after they had a huge knock down, drag out fight. After Meat Loaf got his inheritance from his mother's death, he rented an apartment in Dallas, bought some food and stayed there for three and a half months, never leaving. Finally a friend found him and got him out of there. Eventually he bought a car with his inheritance and drove to California.

Early musical career

In Los Angeles, he formed his first band, Meat Loaf Soul. During the recording of their first song, Meat Loaf hit a big note and blew the board. It left quite an impression because he was offered three recording contracts on the spot. Unfortunately, he turned them all down. Meat Loaf Soul's first gig was in Huntington Beach at the Cave, opening up for Them, Van Morrison's band. During their singing of cover of the Yardbirds' "Smokestack Lightning", the smoke machine they used made too much smoke and the club had to be cleared out. Then they were the opening act at California State University, Northridge for Renaissance, Taj Mahal and Janis Joplin. The band then underwent several changes at lead guitar, changing the name of the band each time - Popcorn Blizard, Floating Circus. As Floating Circus, they opened for The Who, The Fugs, The Stooges, MC5, Grateful Dead and The Grease Band. Their regional success led them to release a single, "Once Upon A Time" backed with "Hello".

Hair

After the break up of Floating Circus, Meat Loaf had several odd jobs, including being a body guard for Question Mark. Having no steady work, Meat Loaf decided to get a job as a parking lot attendant with a friend of his. A man pulled up in the parking lot that Meat Loaf thought might be the guy that was going to hire him. The man asked Meat Loaf what he did beside parking cars and Meat Loaf told him that he was a singer. The guy said that he should come in a audition for Hair. Not being prepared, Meat Loaf told the piano player to play the sixteen-bar blues in C. After singing the first sixteen-bars of "The World Is Alright, It's the People that Make It Bad", they asked him to stop and to come see the show that night because they wanted to hire him to sing "Aquarius", play General Ulysses S. Grant and the Young Recruit. When he went to the show that night, for some reason the sprinklers came on half way through and ended the show. Meat Loaf went on to do the show in Los Angeles and then for a six month run in Detroit, Michigan.


Meat Loaf, because of the publicity generated from Hair was invited to record with Motown. They suggested that he do a duet with Stoney Murphy and he agreed. They were given songs written by Motown's production team in charge of the album and only came in to lay down their vocals. The album, titled Stoney & Meatloaf (Meatloaf being shown as one word), was completed in the summer of 1971 and released in September of that year. A single was released in advanced of the album titled What You See Is What You Get managed to get to number thirty six on the R&B charts and seventy-one on Billboard Hot 100 chart. To support their album, Meat Loaf and Stoney toured with Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers, opening up for Richie Havens, Bob Seger, Alice Cooper and Rare Earth.

After the tour, Meat Loaf rejoined the cast of Hair, this time on Broadway. After he hired an agent, he auditioned for the Public Theater's production of More Than You Deserve. It was during the audition that Meat Loaf first met his future collaborator Jim Steinman. Meat Loaf got the part of Rabbit, a maniac that blows up his fellow soldiers so they can "go home". Also in the show were Ron Silver and Fred Gwynne. After it closed he appeared in "As You Like It" with Raul Julia and Mary Beth Hurt.


The Rocky Horror Picture Show

During the winter of 1973, after returning from a short production of Rainbow in New York in Washington, D.C., Meat Loaf received a call asking him to be in The Rocky Horror Show where he played both the parts of Eddie and Dr. Scott. The success of the play led to the filming of The Rocky Horror Picture Show where Meat Loaf just played Eddie. About the same time, Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman started work on Bat Out of Hell. Meat Loaf convinced Epic Records to shoot videos for four songs, "Bat Out of Hell", "Paradise by the Dashboard Light", "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" and "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad". He then convinced Lou Adler, the producer of Rocky Horror, to run the "Paradise" video as a trailer to the movie. Meat Loaf's final show in New York was Gower Champion's Rock-a-bye Hamlet, a Hamlet musical. It closed two weeks into its initial run.

Bat Out of Hell


Meat Loaf and Steinman started Bat Out of Hell in 1972, but didn't really get serious about it until the end of 1974. Meat Loaf decided that he wasn't going to do any more theater and concentrate only on the record. Then, the National Lampoon Show opened on Broadway and they needed an understudy for John Belushi, a close friend of Meat Loaf. He and Belushi had become friends in 1972 when they were doing Lemmings at the Village Gate. It was at the Lampoon Show that Meat Loaf met Ellen Foley who would end up singing "Paradise By a Dashboard Light" with him on the Bat Out of Hell album.

After the Lampoon show ended, Meat Loaf and Steinman concentrated on getting a record deal. They were rejected by every record company they approached. The record didn't fit into any of the moulds that record companies insisted that every album and artist should fit into. While doing this, Epic asked Meat Loaf to replace Ted Nugent's lead singer, Derek St. Holmes, on Nugent's album Free For All. Finally they performed the songs for Todd Rundgren who decided to produce the album. In addition to producing the album, Rundgren played lead guitar on several songs. They then shopped the record around but still had no takers until Cleveland International Records decided to take a chance. On October 21, 1977, "Bat Out of Hell" was released.

His first gig in support of the record was opening for Cheap Trick in Chicago, Illinois. The audience started out hostile, but by the end of the show he had mostly won them over. Their next stop came a couple of days after the release of the album in New Jersey. The show was a complete sell out and people were lined up to see it hours before it started. Things really started to take off after Meat Loaf appeared on Saturday Night Live as the Musical Guest on March 25, 1978. The huge success of the album caused a rift to open up between Meat Loaf and Steinman. Steinman started to resent the attention that Meat Loaf was getting.

During a May show in Ottawa, Meat Loaf fell off the stage and broke his leg. The injury caused the cancelation of the rest of the tour. To deal with all of the pressure, he started to do cocaine. It all culminated with a nervous breakdown where he threatened to commit suicide by jumping off the ledge of a building in New York. Then in December of 1978, he went to Woodstock to work on Bad for Good with Steinman. It was at the Bearsville studio that Meat Loaf met his future wife, Leslie Edmonds. They met and were married within a month. Leslie had a daughter from a previous marriage, Pearl, who has followed in her step-father's footsteps and become a singer. In the middle of recording his second album, Meat Loaf lost the ability to sing. His doctors said that physically everything was fine and that his problem was mental. Steinman decided to keep going with Bad for Good without Meat Loaf.

Just as it looked like life was going down the tubes for Meat Loaf, he managed to get the part of Travis Redfish in Roadie. The movie had cameos by Debbie Harry, Roy Orbison and Hank Williams, Jr., but still was a box office flop. To keep his sanity, Meat Loaf played a tremendous amount of softball. Over time, Meat Loaf got his singing voice back by getting off drugs and playing softball.


Life after Bat Out of Hell

In 1980, Meat Loaf got back in the studio and started working on Dead Ringer. Steinman wrote all of the songs, but had nothing else to do with the album. At the time his agent, David Sonenberg, brought in Al Dellentash to help manage Meat Loaf's career. The tour they planned to support the album was cancelled after one show because they ran out of the money that the studio advanced them. Sonenberg and Dellentash also convinced Sony Records and CBS and to advance more money for the making of Dead Ringer the movie. Dellentash and Sonenberg spent the money on extravagent furnishings for their office and personal chefs. The movie was shown at the Toronto Film Festival and got some favourable reviews, but Dellentash and Sonenberg re-edited the movie and it turned out terrible.

In 1981, Leslie gave birth to Amanda Aday, now a television actress. Also in 1981, Meat Loaf changed managers after finding out that Dellentash and Sonenberg were stealing his money. Things got really nasty when they had all of Meat Loaf's assets frozen and sued him for breach of contract. They also started spreading rumors about how Meat Loaf was violent and had threatened people with guns. Meat Loaf ended up declaring bankruptcy. In 1983, he released the self written Midnight at the Lost and Found. Even Meat Loaf himself, a poor song writer by his own admission, didn't like the songs he had written.

In 1984, Meat Loaf went to England, to record Bad Attitude, which included a duet with Roger Daltrey. The recording of the album was rushed. During the tour to support the album, Leslie had a nervous breakdown and had to check into Silver Hill rehab facility in Connecticut. Things finally looked like they were going to turn around in 1986 when Meat Loaf found a new writer, John Parr, and started recording a new album, Blind Before I Stop. Unfortunately, the producer put a dance beat underneath every song, which led to it being a critical failure.

To get his career back off the ground, Meat Loaf started touring small venues anywhere that would have him. Slowly, he developed a faithful following. Leslie studied to be a travel agent so they could save on travel expenses. They toured all over the United States, Germany, England, Scandinavia, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Abu Dhabi, Oman and Bahrain.


Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell

During the Christmas of 1990, Steinman and Meat Loaf reunited and started working on the sequel to Bat Out of Hell. Finally, after almost two years, "Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell" was finished and became a huge success. It sold over 10 million copies, and the single "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" reached number one in over twenty countries. Meat Loaf won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo in 1994 for "I'd Do Anything for Love". Also in 1994, he was honored by singing The Star Spangled Banner at the Major League Baseball All-Star Game (something he says was one of the two biggest highlights of his career).

On November 17, 2003, during a performance at London's Wembley Arena he collapsed of what was later diagnosed as Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. The following week he underwent a surgical procedure intended to correct the problem.

Other Activities

Meat Loaf went on a publicised celebrity diet in the late 1980's. In an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 1993, he claimed he'd lost 85 pounds, calling himself "Olive Loaf." He also regularly plays in home poker games where he has won $11,000 in a single night. He also participated in the season 1 World Poker Tour celebrity invitiational.

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

Meat Loaf
Paradise By The Dashboard Light

I. Paradise

Boy:
I remember every little thing
As if it happened only yesterday
Parking by the lake
And there was not another car in sight
And I never had a girl
Looking any better than you did
And all the kids at school
They were wishing they were me that night

And now our bodies are oh so close and tight
It never felt so good, it never felt so right
And we're glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife
C'mon! Hold on tight!
C'mon! Hold on tight!

Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night
I can see paradise by the dashboard light

Girl:
Ain't no doubt about it
We were doubly blessed
Cause we were barely seventeen
And we were barely dressed

Ain't no doubt about it
Baby got to go and shout it
Ain't no doubt about it
We were doubly blessed

Boy:
Cause we were barely seventeen
And we were barely dressed

Baby doncha hear my heart
You got it drowning out the radio
I've been waiting so long
For you to come along and have some fun

And I gotta let ya know
No you're never gonna regret it
So open up your eyes I got a big surprise
It'll feel all right
Well I wanna make your motor run

And now our bodies are oh so close and tight
It never felt so good, it never felt so right
And we're glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife
C'mon! Hold on tight!
C'mon! Hold on tight!

Though it's cold and lonley in the deep dark night
I can see paradise by the dashboard light
Paradise by the dashboard light

You got to do what you can
And let Mother Nature do the rest
Ain't no doubt about it
We were doubly blessed
Cause we were barely seventeen
And we were barely--

We're gonna go all the way tonight
We're gonna go allt he way
An tonight's the night...

Radio Broadcast:
Ok, here we go, we got a real pressure cooker
going here, two down, nobody on, no score,
bottom of the ninth, there's the wind-up and
there it is, a line shot up the middle, look
at him go. This boy can really fly!
He's rounding first and really turning it on
now, he's not letting up at all, he's gonna
try for second; the ball is bobbled out in center,
and here comes the throw, and what a throw!
He's gonna slide in head first, here he comes, he's out!
No, wait, safe--safe at second base, this kid really
makes things happen out there.
Batter steps up to the plate, here's the pitch--
he's going, and what a jump he's got, he's trying
for third, here's the throw, it's in the dirt--
safe at third! Holy cow, stolen base!
He's taking a pretty big lead out there, almost
daring him to try and pick him off. The pitcher
glance over, winds up, and it's bunted, bunted
down the third base line, the suicide squeeze in on!
Here he comes, squeeze play, it's gonna be close,
here's the throw, there's the play at the plate,
holy cow, I think he's gonna make it!

II. Let Me Sleep On It

Girl:
Stop right there!
I gotta know right now!
Before we go any further--!

Do you love me?
Will you love me forever?
Do you need me?
Will you never leave me?
Will you make me so happy for the rest of my life?
Will you take me away and will you make me your wife?
Do you love me!?
Will you love me forever!?
Do you need me!?
Will you never leave me!?
Will you make me so happy for the rest of my life!?
Will you take me away and will you make me your wife!?
I gotta know right now
Before we go any further
Do you love me!!!?
Will you love me forever!!!?

Boy:
Let me sleep on it
Baby, baby let me sleep on it
Let me sleep on it
And I'll give you my answer in the morning

Let me sleep on it
Baby, baby let me sleep on it
Let me sleep on it
And I'll give you my answer in the morning

Let me sleep on it
Baby, baby let me sleep on it
Let me sleep on it
And I'll give you my answer in the morning

Girl:
I gotta know right now!
Do you love me?
Will you love me forever?
Do you need me?
Will you never leave me?
Will you make me so happy for the rest of my life?
Will you take me away and will you make me your wife?
I gotta know right now!
Before we go any further
Do you love me?
And will you love me forever?

Boy:
Let me sleep on it
Baby, baby let me sleep on it
Let me sleep on it
And I'll give you my answer in the morning
Let me sleep on it!!!

Girl:
Will you love me forever?

Boy:
Let me sleep on it!!!

Girl:
Will you love me forever!!!

III. Praying for the End of Time

Boy:
I couldn't take it any longer
Lord I was crazed
And when the feeling came upon me
Like a tidal wave
I started swearing to my god and on my mother's grave
That I would love you to the end of time
I swore that I would love you to the end of time!

So now I'm praying for the end of time
To hurry up and arrive
Cause if I gotta spend another minute with you
I don't think that I can really survive
I'll never break my promise or forget my vow
But God only knows what I can do right now
I'm praying for the end of time
It's all that I can do
Praying for the end of time, so I can end my time with you!!!

Boy:
It was long ago and it was far away
and it was so much better than it is today

Girl:
It never felt so good
It never felt so right
And we were glowing like
A metal on the edge of a knife

Vocals: Meat Loaf
Written By: Jim Steinman
Featurend Female Vocal: Ellen Foley
Guitar: Todd Rundgren
Piano: Roy Bittan
Bass: Kasim Sultan
Drums: Max Weinberg
Saxophone: Edgar Winter
Keyboards: Jim Steinman, Roy Bittan
Synthesizer: Roger Powell
Background Vocals: Rory Dodd, Todd Rundgren, Ellen Foley, Marvin Lee
Lascivious Effects: Jim Steinman
Baseball Play-by-Play: Phil (Scotter) Rizzuto (All-star Yankee shortstop and voice of the New York Yankees)

Shaun Cassidy

Shaun Paul Cassidy was born on September 27, 1958 and travelled with his parents when he was only six months old while they were doing shows. His parents were stage and screen actors Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy whom were both heavily involved in the business. When he was a pre-teen he started a band called "Every Mothers Dream" and when his mother and half-brother, David Cassidy, were both starring in a musical TV sitcom called The Partridge Family, he asked his mom to put him in some episodes. However, she refused as she wanted to encourage him to concentrate on his schooling. He did appear as part of the chorus in many muscial theatre productions. In 1972 he then sang in a punk rock band called "The Longfellow" which was short-lived, as his parents transferred him to a private school in Beverly Hills.

He had a chance to star with his mother as James Preston in a summer stock stage musical production of "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever" to get a taste of acting. During his grad year he decided to make some records in Germany and had a hit there called "Morning Girl" and appeared in TV shows with his hit there as well as in Australia. Then, in late 1976 he signed up with agent Ruth Aarons and played Christopher Wentworth Hewlitt in a short independent film called Born of Water in 1976 and successfully auditioned for the role of Joe Hardy in The Hardy Boys Mysteries. On an episode of the show he sang some numbers as his character in a local disco, which led to a number of hit 45s and albums such as "Da Doo Ron Ron", "That's Rock N' Roll", "Hey Deanie" and "Teen Dream".

In the 80s he made acting a primarily focus and Dave Stohler in the series Breaking Away based on the popular movie but the series started in 1980 during a writers strike and only 8 episodes were made and then the show was axed but then decided to learn the true craft of acting and pursued it on stage by starring in such productions like "Mass Appeal", "The Subject Was Roses", "Diary of a Hunger Strike", "Dangerous Music", "Pass/Fail" and "Blood Brothers" with Petula Clark and his half brother David - in their first show together. He did however do a few more TV roles like his guest starring in American Playhouse, Murder She Wrote, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Matlock and he stint on the daytime soap General Hospital as well as a couple movies of the week, he left acting to produce and write TV shows and films, including the short-lived but well acclaimed American Gothic in 1995 and did the same for the other series The Agency, Tarzan and Cold Case.

http://www.tv.com/shaun-cassidy/person/9768/biography.html



Da doo ron ron

I met him on a Monday and my heart stood still.
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron ron.
Someboy told me that his name was Bill.
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron ron.

Yes, my heart stood still.
Yes, his name was Bill.
And when he walked me home
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron ron.

He knew what he was doin' when he caught my eye.
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron ron.
He looked so quiet but my oh my.
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron ron.

Yes, he caught my eye.
Yes, but my oh my.
And when he walked me home
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron ron.

Picked me up at seven and he looked so fine.
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron ron.
Someday soon I'm gonna make him mine.
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron ron.

Yes, he looked so fine.
Yes, I'll make him mine.
And when he walked me home
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron ron.

Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron ron.
(repeat & fade)

I loved that song.

Good day to all at WA2K:

Today's birthdays:

1275 - John II of Brabant (d. 1312)
1389 - Cosimo de Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1464)
1601 - King Louis XIII of France (d. 1643)
1627 - Jacques Benigne Bossuet, French bishop and author (d. 1704)
1643 - Solomon Stoddard, American minister
1696 - Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (d. 1787)
1719 - Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (d. 1800)
1722 - Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader (d. 1803)
1803 - Samuel Francis du Pont, American admiral (d. 1865)
1805 - George Müller, Prussian orphanage builder (d. 1898)
1818 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (d. 1884)
1821 - Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss writer (d. 1881)
1824 - William "Bull" Nelson, American Civil War general (d. 1862)
1830 - William Babcock Hazen, American Civil War general (d. 1887)
1840 - Thomas Nast, German-born political cartoonist (d. 1902)
1843 - Gaston Tarry, French mathematician (d. 1913)
1871 - Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1926)
1879 - Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician (d. 1934)
1879 - Cyril Scott, English composer (d. 1970)
1885 - Harry Blackstone, American magician (d. 1965)
1896 - Sam Ervin, U.S. Senator from North Carolina (d. 1985)
1906 - William Empson, British poet and critic (d. 1984)
1907 - Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and writer (d. 2003)
1907 - Bhagat Singh, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)
1913 - Albert Ellis, American psychologist
1918 - Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1984)
1919 - James H. Wilkinson, American mathematician (d. 1986)
1920 - William Conrad, American actor (d. 1994)
1920 - Jayne Meadows, American actress
1922 - Carl Ballantine, American actor
1922 - Arthur Penn, American director
1924 - Fred Singer, American environmental scientist
1927 - Romano Scarpa, Italian comic book artist
1929 - Sada Thompson, American actress
1932 - Roger C. Carmel, American actor (d. 1986)
1932 - Michael Colvin, Canadian tenor
1932 - Oliver E. Williamson, American economist
1933 - Greg Morris, American actor (d. 1996)
1933 - Will Sampson, American actor (d. 1987)
1934 - Wilford Brimley, American actor
1934 - Claude Jarman Jr., American actor
1934 - Dick Schaap, American sports reporter (d. 2001)
1936 - Gordon Honeycombe, British author, playwright, and actor
1936 - Don Cornelius, American television host
1939 - Delores Taylor, American actress
1939 - Kathy Whitworth, American golfer
1942 - Dith Pran, Cambodian-born photojournalist
1943 - Randy Bachman, Canadian musician
1945 - Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born artist (d. 2003)
1947 - Barbara Dickson, Scottish singer
1947 - Meat Loaf, American singer and actor
1948 - A. Martinez, American actor
1949 - Mike Schmidt, baseball player
1952 - Dumitru Prunariu, cosmonaut
1953 - Mata Amritanandamayi, Indian religious leader
1953 - Diane Julie Abbott, British politician
1958 - Shaun Cassidy, American singer and actor
1961 - Andy Lau, Hong Kong actor and singer
1965 - Peter MacKay, Canadian political leader
1965 - Steve Kerr, Lebanese-born basketball player
1972 - Clara Hughes, Canadian cyclist
1976 - Francesco Totti, Italian footballer
1977 - Andrus Värnik, Estonian athlete, javelin thrower
1978 - Brad Arnold, American singer and songwriter (3 Doors Down)
1981 - Lakshmipathy Balaji, Indian cricketer
1982 - Lil Wayne, American rapper and producer (Cash Money Records)
1984 - Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer and songwriter

I tried four different photos of The Yearling, but they just wouldn't post. Who didn't love "The Yearling"!

Claude Jarman Jr. (born September 27, 1934 in Nashville, Tennessee) is a American former child film actor.

Jarman was discovered in a nationwide talent search by MGM Studios, and was cast as the lead actor in the film The Yearling (1946). His performance received glowing reviews and he was awarded with an Academy Juvenile Award as a result. MGM found him difficult to cast, and by the time he reached his late teens his career was virtually over. Republic Studios cast him in a couple of "B" pictures, but discouraged, he moved back to Tennessee.

He returned to acting with a role in the television production Centennial (1978), and he was a special guest as a past award winner at both the 1998 and 2003 Academy Awards Ceremonies.

Good morning, WA2K radio fans and contributors.

McTag, I didn't watch the Dylan show because Medium, a regular that I enjoy, comes on at about that time. It's one of the better psychic shows. Sorry that I missed the "Midnight at the Oasis" lady and Woodie, however.

Once again, we appreciate Bob of Boston and his bio's. I briefly looked at the transcripts, and was particularly interested in Meat Loaf's background. Fascinating about his experience with the Kennedy assassination. Thanks, Bob.

nimh, you will have to play that song for our fans and listeners. I, for one, have never heard it.

I would like to let our listeners know that our husker is once again in the hospital, and we are very concerned.

It's still odd to me, folks, that so many coincidences occurred last evening.

The psychic show, after Bob's funny; The song on Medium that coincided with Region's thread on disco music. So I would like to play it for you:

I Will Survive Lyrics
by Gloria Gaynor

First I was afraid
I was petrified
Kept thinking I could never live
without you by my side
But I spent so many nights
thinking how you did me wrong
I grew strong
I learned how to carry on
and so you're back
from outer space
I just walked in to find you here
with that sad look upon your face
I should have changed my stupid lock
I should have made you leave your key
If I had known for just one second
you'd be back to bother me

Go on now go walk out the door
just turn around now
'cause you're not welcome anymore
weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye
you think I'd crumble
you think I'd lay down and die
Oh no, not I
I will survive
as long as i know how to love
I know I will stay alive
I've got all my life to live
I've got all my love to give
and I'll survive
I will survive

It took all the strength I had
not to fall apart
kept trying hard to mend
the pieces of my broken heart
and I spent oh so many nights
just feeling sorry for myself
I used to cry
Now I hold my head up high
and you see me
somebody new
I'm not that chained up little person
still in love with you
and so you felt like dropping in
and just expect me to be free
now I'm saving all my loving
for someone who's loving me

Once again, our Raggedy is faster than a speeding bullet. <smile> Thanks, gal, for being quick this morning. It seems to me that Marjorie K. Rawlings wrote that book, The Yearling, and I recall something about Cross Creek, but I'll have to check that out.

Well, folks. I did a bit of research about Marjorie and came up with the following info:



Cross Creek, a Literary Retreat
in Florida's Cracker Heartland
By Murray D. Laurie
The white frame Cracker house with its cypress-shingled roof that was the home of author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings in Cross Creek, Florida, was added to from time to time as need and her unsteady income permitted. Sitting on the open porch on a summer day, the sound of the electric fan in the bedroom forms a background hum, but the palm fans on the deerhide chair are reminders of the early days when there was no electricity. The old outhouse remains, but Rawlings rejoiced in the indoor bathroom she added with the proceeds of the sale of one of her first magazine stories.

When Marjorie Rawlings, reared in Washington, DC, came to the rural Florida village near Gainesville in 1928, during the Depression, she found not only the sense of place she yearned for, but a bounteous source of material for her writing. Her home in Cross Creek, which became a magnet for her friends and admirers even before the movie of the same name, starring Mary Steenburgen, came out in 1984, draws more than 30,000 visitors a year.

I knew there was something familiar about Cross Creek. <smile>

Here's the rest of the story:

http://www.travellady.com/Issues/Issue65/65G-crosscreek.htm

NEWS FLASH

Wouldja' Believe?.........................................Don Adams has passed, at the age of 82. R.I.P.,, funnyman.

boo. Welcome back. Yes, I saw that on the news, bro. Are you here to stay or at an internet cafe or library?

Dang, we miss you, honey.

I'm at a library now. Consider me like the proverbial bad penny. i'll keep popping up. :wink:

anyway, Boo. Here's a song for you:

Three Times a Lady

Thanks for the times
That you've given us
The memories are all in our mind
And now that we've come
To the end of our rainbow
There's something
I must say out loud
I'm once, twice
Three times a Letty.
Yes you're once twice
Three times a Boo

And we love you
When we are together
The moments we cherish
With every beat of the heart
To touch you to see you
To feel you to need you
There's nothing to keep us apart
I'm once twice
Three times a Letty
And you're once, twice,
Three time a Boo.

Well, listeners. We are now in search of our CalamityJane. Anyone seen her?

When last seen, she was on Reyn's collage thread.

Bad Penny
Billy Bragg

I have a letter from her
When she worked for the "Woman's Realm"
And all the things she promised me
She promised herself as well
She said, "I want my freedom"
And ran off along the beach
It's hard to love a girl so near
Yet so far out of reach

She came back when the tide came in
And introduced her friend to me
She said, "Don't ring while he is here"
And gave me back my poetry
She expected me to understand
As she's always done this before
And now she asks me
"Why don't you send me poems anymore?"

And she steals more than she buys
You can see it in her eyes
And she'll come back as soon as she's ready
She's a bad penny

Then she comes back and asks me
To sing all her favourite songs
As if she's never been away
As if she's done nothing wrong
But I've come to the conclusion
That she doesn't realise a thing
And she probably still thinks I love her
And she doesn't know that it's a sin

dj, You are the very bestest. I never understood that phrase, "turning up like a bad penny."

Anyway, listeners, I'm following suit:

I've Got Sixpence
by someone

I've got sixpence
Jolly. jolly sixpence
I've got sixpence to last me all my life
I've got twopence to spend
And twopence to lend
And twopence to send home to my wife-poor wife.
Chorus:
No cares have I to grieve me
No pretty little girls to deceive me
I'm happy as a lark believe me
As we go rolling, rolling home
Rolling home (rolling home)
Rolling home (rolling home)
By the light of the silvery moo-oo-on
Happy is the day when we line up for our pay
As we go rolling, rolling home.

I've got fourpence
Jolly, jolly fourpence
I've got fourpence to last me all my life
I've got twopence to spend
And twopence to lend
And no pence to send home to my wife-poor wife.

I've got twopence
Jolly, jolly twopence
I've got twopence to last me all my life
I've got twopence to spend
And no pence to lend
And no pence to send home to my wife-poor wife.

I've got no pence
Jolly. jolly no pence
I've got no pence to last me all my life
I've got no pence to spend
And no pence to lend
And no pence to send home to my wife-poor wife.

Jolly good song, no?

Just before that, she was ordering a hamburger on the "Deutsche anyone?" thread...........I hope it was cooked properly.