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Mama Look A Boo-Boo Lyrics
Harry Belafonte

I wonder why nobody don't like me
Or is it the fact that I'm ugly?
I wonder why nobody don't like me
Or is it the fact that I'm ugly?

I leave my whole house and home
My children don't want me no more
Bad talk inside de house dey bring
And when I talk they start to sing:

Mama, look a boo-boo they shout
Their mother tell them shut up your mout'
That is your daddy, oh, no
My daddy can't be ugly so

Shut your mout', Go away
Mama, look at boo-boo dey
Shut your mout', Go away
Mama, look at boo-boo dey

I couldn't even digest me supper
Due to the children's behavior
John (Yes, pa)-come here a moment
Bring de belt, you're much too impudent
John says it's James who started first
James tells the story in reverse
I drag my belt from off me waist
You should hear them screamin' round de place

Mama, look at boo-boo they shout
Their mother tell them shut up your mout'
That is your daddy, oh, no
My daddy can't be ugly so

Shut your mout', Go away
Mama, look at boo-boo dey (uh)
Shut your mout', Go away
Mama, look at boo-boo dey (uh)

So I began to question the mother
These children ain't got no behavior
So I began to question the mother
These children ain't got no behavior

They're playing with you my wife declared
You should be proud of them, my dear
These children were taught too bloomin' slack
That ain't no kind of joke to crack

Mama, look at boo-boo they shout
Their mother tell them shut up your mout'
That is your daddy, oh, no
My daddy can't be ugly so

Shut your mout', Go away
Mama, look at boo-boo dey (uh)
Shut your mout', Go away
Mama, look at boo-boo dey (uh)
Shut your mout', Go away

Big bamboo
Merrymen

Money in the hand is the Yankee dollar bill
Money in the hand is the Yankee dollar bill
Money in the hand is the Yankee dollar bill
Money in the hand is the Yankee dollar bill

Oh, with the big big bamboo bamboo
O la la la la la la la la la
Working for the Yankee dollar

Well I asked my lady what should I do
To make her happy and make love true
She said: 'The only thing that I want from you
Is a little, little piece of a big bamboo'

With the big big bamboo, bamboo
O la la la la la la la la la
Working for the Yankee dollar

Well, I gave my lady a sugar cane
Sweet up the sweets I did explain
She gave it back to my surprise
She liked the flavor but not the size

She wants the big big bamboo, bamboo
O la la la la la la la la la
Working for the Yankee dollar

Well, I gave my lady a coconut
She said: 'I like it, it's OK but
The only thing that worries me
What good are the nuts without the tree?'

I want the big big bamboo, bamboo
O la la la la la la la la la
Working for the Yankee dollar

Now I gave my lady a banana plant
She said: 'I like it, it's elegant
You must not let it go to waste
It's much too soft to suit my taste'

I want the big big bamboo, bamboo
O la la la la la la la la la
Working for the Yankee dollar

Now I met a Chinese mongool Dig Hung Do
He got married, went to Mexico
His wife divorced him very quick
She wants bamboo and not chopstick

It is the big big bamboo, bamboo
O la la la la la la la la la
Working for the Yankee dollar

Money in the hand is the Yankee dollar bill
Money in the hand is the Yankee dollar bill
Money in the hand is the Yankee dollar bill
Money in the hand is the Yankee dollar bill

Thanks, dj. Funny song, right folks? Reminds me of Mamma don't allow no music played in here.

I'll just sit back for a moment and let the good songs roll. <smile>

Yeah, Mama don't allow no guitar playing 'round here
Yeah, Mama don't allow no guitar playing 'round here
I don't care what mama don't allow I'll play my guitar anyhow
Mama don't allow no guitar playing 'round here
Hey, Mama don't allow no bass in this place
Yeah, Mama don't allow no bass in this place
I don't care what mama don't allow I'll play my bass anyhow
Mama don't allow no bass in this place
Yeah, Mama don't allow no drumming going on
Yeah, Mama don't allow no drumming going on
I don't care what mama don't allow
Gonna play my drums anyhow
Mama don't allow no drumming going on
Yeah, Mama don't allow no piano players in here
Mama don't allow no piano players in here
I don't care what mama don't allow
Gonna play my piano anyhow
Mama don't allow no piano players in here
Yeah, Mama don't allow no reefer-smoking round about
Yeah, Mama don't allow no reefer-smoking round about
Yeah, I don't care what mama don't allow I'm gonna smoke my reefer anyhow
Mama don't allow no reefer in here
Mama don't allow us all playing at the same time
Mama don't allow us all playing at the same time
I don't care what mama don't allow
We're all gonna play all at the same time anyhow
Mama don't allow us all playing at the same time

If life's little downs they keep coming around
Carry on, carry on
With darkness all about, you want to scream and shout
Carry on, carry on
Don't cry baby, look at where you've been
Everybody knows you just need a friend
Please, please, please, if you're down on your knees
Carry on, carry on
Your head is full of doubt, you can't figure it out
Carry on, carry on
Between the time it takes to make all those mistakes
Carry on, carry on
It don't matter what you say or do
It just seems to work out if you want it to
Let out all the slack, take it off your back
Carry on, carry on
Let me bend your ear, never shed a tear
Carry on, carry on
Carry on, carry on

God's Hotel
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

Everybody got a room
Everybody got a room
Everybody got a room
In God's Hotel.
Everybody got a room.
Well you'll never see a sign hanging on the door
Sayin 'No vacancies anymore'.


Everybody got wings
Everybody got wings
Everybody got wings
In God's Hotel.
Everybody got wings.
You'll never see a sign hanging on the door
Sayin 'At no time may both feet leave the floor'


Everybody got a harp
Everybody got a harp
Everybody got a harp
In God's Hotel.
Everybody got a harp.
You'll never see a sign hanging on the wall
Sayin 'No harps allowed in the hotel at all'.


Everybody got a cloud
Everybody got a cloud
Everybody got a cloud
In God's Hotel.
Everybody got a cloud.
You'll never see a sign hanging on the wall
Sayin 'Smoking and drinking will be thy downfall'.


Everybody hold a hand
Everybody hold a hand
Everybody hold a hand
In God's Hotel.
Everybody hold a hand.
You'll never see a sign hung up above your door
'No visitors allowed in rooms, By law!'


Everybody's halo shines
Everybody's halo shines
Everybody's halo shines
In God's Hotel.
Everybody's halo lookin' fine.
You won't see a sign staring at you from the wall
Sayin 'Lights out! No burnin the midnight oil!'


Everybody got credit
Everybody got credit
Everybody got credit
In God's Hotel.
Everybody got good credit.
You'll never see a sign stuck on the cash-box drawer
Sayin 'Credit tommorow!!' or 'Want credit?!? Haw, haw haw!!'


Everybody is blind
Everybody is blind
Everybody is blind
In God's Hotel.
Everybody is blind.
You'll never see a sign on the front door
'No red skins. No Blacks. And that means you, baw!'


Everybody is deaf
Everybody is deaf
Everybody is deaf
In God's Hotel.
Everybody is deaf.
You'll never find a sign peeling off the bar-room wall
'Though shalt not blaspheme, cuss, holler or bawl'.


Everybody is dumb
Everybody is dumb
Everybody is dumb
In God's Hotel.
Everybody is dumb.
So you'll never see on the visiting-room wall
'Though shalt not blaspheme, cuss, holler or bawl'.


Everybody got Heaven
Everybody got Heaven
Everybody got Heaven
In God's Hotel.
Everybody got Heaven.
So you'll never see scribbled on the bathroom wall
'Let Rosy get ya Heaven, dial 686-844!'

Well, folks, I guess dys' song sorta defined me tonight, so I had better eat and say goodnight.

Cute song, dj. thanks for playing it, Canada.


From Letty with love

My Garden of Love
Benny Hill

Chorus
The sun and the rain fell from up above,
And landed on the earth below, in my garden of love.

Now there's a rose for the way my spirits rose when we met,
A forget-me-not to remind me to remember not to forget,
A pine tree for the way I pined over you,
And an ash for the day I ashed you to be true. And

[chorus]

Now there's a palm tree that we planted when we had our first date,
A turnip for the way you always used to turn up late,
Your mother and your cousin, Chris, they often used to come,
So in their honour I have raised a nice Chris-and-the-mum. And

[chorus]

Now there's a beet root for the day you said that you'd beet root to me,
A sweat pea for the sweet way you always smiled at me,
But you had friends who needed you, there was Ferdi, there was Liza,
So just for them I put down a load of Ferdi-Liza. And

[chorus]

But Gus the gardener's left now, and you went with him too,
The fungus there reminds me of the fun Gus is having with you.
Now the rockery's a mockery, with weeds it's overgrown,
The fuchsia's gone, I couldn' t face the fuchsia all alone.
And my tears fell like raindrops from the sky above,
And poisoned all the flowers in my garden of love.


Those Days
Benny Hill

Man: Now down on the farm, everything that you did, it seemed so right somehow,
Like the way you always warmed your hands before you milked the cow.
Woman: And that old mule, he upped and kicked me in the head one day,
Man: The tears rolled down my cheeks as I saw the poor mule limp away.

Woman: That day you helped the poor old lady across the street in the snow,
Man: Believe me it wasn't easy, she didn't wanna go.
Woman: I said I didn't smoke or drink, and that necking was unwise,
Man: I said, "What do you do then?" and you answered, "I tell lies."

Chorus
Both: Ah, but those days are far behind me,
They're in the long ago,
They only serve to remind me,
Just how I love you so.

[repeat introduction]

Man: I came 'round your house a-courtin', late on a Saturday night,
Woman: I said, "I don't wanna see you," Man: So I switched out the light.
Woman: Later that night you banged on my door and started to holler and shout,
You kicked up such a rumpus that I had to let you out.

Into that faithful wedding by my father you were goaded,
Man: That marriage was illegal, the shotgun wasn't loaded.
Last week I caught you with the butcher, you were kissin' and cuddlin' and such,
Oh how could you kiss the butcher when we owe the milkman so much.

[repeat chorus to fade]

Greer Garson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.



Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson (September 29, 1904 - April 6, 1996) was an Academy Award winning actress, most known for being the leading lady in many pictures co-starring Walter Pidgeon.

Known in childhood as "Eggy" and supposedly born in County Down, Ireland, in 1908, she was actually born in London, the only child of George Garson (1865-1906), a clerk from the Orkney Islands, who was himself the son of a Protestant Irish-born cabinetmaker, and his Scottish wife, Nancy ("Nina") Sophia Greer.

She was educated at the University of London, where she earned degrees in French and 18th-century literature. She intended to become a teacher, but instead began working with an advertising agency, and appeared in local theatrical productions. She also appeared on television during the 1930s, most notably in a thirty-minute production of an excerpt of Twelfth Night in May 1937, alongside Peggy Ashcroft, which was the first known instance of a Shakespeare play being performed on television. She was discovered by Louis B. Mayer while he was in London looking for new talent. Garson was signed to a contract with MGM and appeared in her first American film, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, in 1939. She received her first Oscar nomination for the role.

She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1942 for her role as a British matron pluckily surviving in the midst of war in Mrs. Miniver, and she received more nominations during the 1940s. In 1951, she became a naturalized citizen of the United States. By the end of the decade, and through the 1950s, however, her roles were becoming less appreciated. In 1960, however, she again received an Oscar nomination for Sunrise at Campobello, in which she played Eleanor Roosevelt.

The actress was married three times:

* Her first husband, whom she married on September 28, 1933, was Edward (later Sir Edward) Alec Abbot Snelson (1904-1992), a British civil servant who became a noted judge and expert in Indian and Pakistani affairs; the real marriage reportedly lasted only a few weeks, but was not formally dissolved until the 1940s.
* Her second husband, whom she married in 1943, was Richard Ney (born in either 1914, 1915, 1917, or 1918, sources differ), the young actor who played her son in "Mrs. Miniver"; they divorced in 1949, with Garson claiming that Ney had called her a "has-been" and belittled her age. Ney eventually became a respected stock-market analyst and financial consultant.
* That same year (1949) she married a millionaire Texas oilman and horse breeder, E. E. "Buddy" Fogelson (died 1987), and in 1967, the couple retired to the Forked Lightning Ranch in New Mexico. They also lived in Dallas, Texas, where Garson funded the Greer Garson Theater facility at Southern Methodist University (SMU).

She died of heart failure in Dallas on April 6, 1996, at the age of 91, and is interred there in the Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery.

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

Gene Autry
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


Gene Autry (September 29, 1907 - October 2, 1998) was an American performer who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on the radio, in movies and on television.


Early life

Christened Orvon Gene Autry, the son of a preacher, near Tioga, Texas, his family moved to Ravia, Oklahoma in the 1920s. After leaving high school in 1925, Autry worked as a telegrapher for the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway.


Career


Radio

An amateur talent with the guitar and voice led to his performing at local dances. After an encouraging chance encounter with Will Rogers, he began performing on local radio in 1928 as "Oklahoma's Yodeling Cowboy".


Singing

He signed a recording deal with Columbia Records in 1931. He worked in Chicago, Illinois on the WLS (AM) radio show National Barn Dance for four years with his own show where he met singer/songwriter Smiley Burnette. His first hit was in 1932 with That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine, a duet with fellow railroad man, Jimmy Long.


In films

Discovered by film producer Nat Levine in 1934, he and Burnette made their film debut for Mascot Pictures Corp. in In Old Santa Fe as part of a singing cowboy quartet; his was then given the starring role by Levine in 1935 in the 12-part serial The Phantom Empire. Shortly thereafter, Mascot was absorbed by the formation of Republic Pictures Corp. and Autry went along to make a further 44 films up to 1940, all B westerns in which he played under his own name, rode his horse Champion, had Burnette as his regular sidekick and had many opportunities to sing in each film. He became the top Western star at the box-office by 1937, reaching his national peak of popularity from 1940 to 1942.

He was the first of the singing cowboys, succeeded as the top star by Roy Rogers when Autry served as a flier with the Air Transport command during World War II. From 1940 to 1956, Autry also had a weekly radio show on CBS, Gene Autry's Melody Ranch. Another money-spinner was his Gene Autry Flying "A" Ranch Rodeo show which first aired in 1940.

He briefly returned to Republic after the war, to finish out his contract, which had been suspended for the duration of his military service and which he had tried to have declared void after his discharge. Thereafter, he formed his own production company to make westerns under his own control, which were distributed by Columbia Pictures, beginning in 1947. He also starred and produced his own television show on CBS beginning in 1950. He retired from show business in 1964, having made almost a hundred films up to 1955 and over 600 records. He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1969 and to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.

Post-retirement he invested widely in real estate, radio and television, including buying the copyrights from dying Republic Pictures for the films he had made for them.

As baseball executive

In 1960, when Major League Baseball announced plans to add an expansion team in Los Angeles, Autry - who had once declined an opportunity to play in the minor leagues - expressed an interest in acquiring the radio broadcast rights to the team's games; baseball executives were so impressed by his approach that he was persuaded to become the owner of the franchise rather than simply its broadcast partner. The team, initially called the Los Angeles Angels upon its 1961 debut, moved to suburban Anaheim in 1966 and became known as the California Angels, then the Anaheim Angels from 1997 until 2005, when it became the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. In 1995 he sold a quarter share of the team to The Walt Disney Company, and a controlling interest the following year, with the remaining share to be transferred after his death. Earlier, in 1982, he sold television station KTLA (Los Angeles) for $245 million.

Personal life

In 1932 he married Ina May Spivey (who died in 1980), who was the niece of Jimmy Long. He married his second wife, Jackie Autry, in 1981.

He had no children by either marriage.


Legacy

In 1972, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

His autobiography was published in 1976, co-written by Mickey Herskowitz; it was titled Back in the Saddle Again after his 1939 hit and signature tune. In 1988 he opened the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum (now called the Museum of the American West) in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, featuring much of his collection of Western art and memorabilia. Included for many years on Forbes magazine's list of the 400 richest Americans, he slipped to their "near miss" category in 1995 with an estimated net worth of $320 million.

Gene Autry died of lymphoma at age 91 at his home in Studio City, California, and is interred in the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.

He was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 2003. He is also the only person to date to receive stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for contributions in all five possible categories: the motion picture star is located on 6644 Hollywood Blvd., the radio star is located on 6520 Hollywood Blvd., the recording star is located on 6384 Hollywood Blvd., the TV star is located on 6667 Hollywood Blvd. and the live theatre star is located on 7000 Hollywood Blvd.

In 2004, the Starz Entertainment Corporation joined forces with the Autry estate to restore all of his films, which have been shown on Starz's Encore Western Channel on cable television on a regular basis to date since.

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

Autry, Gene - Back in the Saddle Lyrics


I'm back in the saddle again
Out where a friend is a friend
Where the longhorn cattle feed
On the lowly gypsum weed
Back in the saddle again

Ridin' the range once more
Totin' my old .44
Where you sleep out every night
And the only law is right
Back in the saddle again

Whoopi-ty-aye-oh
Rockin' to and fro
Back in the saddle again
Whoopi-ty-aye-yay
I go my way
Back in the saddle again

I'm back in the saddle again
Out where a friend is a friend
Where the longhorn cattle feed
On the lowly gypsum weed
Back in the saddle again

Ridin' the range once more
Totin' my old .44
Where you sleep out every night
And the only law is right
Back in the saddle again

Whoopi-ty-aye-oh
Rockin' to and fro
Back in the saddle again
Whoopi-ty-aye-yay
I go my way
Back in the saddle again

Stanley Kramer
(September 29, 1913 - February 19, 2001)

Birth name
Stanley Earl Kramer
Spouse
Karen Sharpe (1 September 1966 - 19 February 2001) (his death) 2 children
Anne P. Kramer (1950 - 1963) (divorced) 2 children
Marilyn Erskine (1945 - 1945) (annulled, after three months)
Trivia

Has a street in Berwick, Australia where part of On the Beach (1959) was filmed, named in his honour - Kramer Drive.

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 538-544. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.

Directed 13 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Cara Williams, Spencer Tracy, Maximilian Schell, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift, Oskar Werner, Simone Signoret, Katharine Hepburn, Cecil Kellaway and Beah Richards. Hepburn and Schell won Oscars for their performances in one of Kramer's movies.
Personal quotes

"I'm always pursuing the next dream, hunting for the next truth."

[On Humphrey Bogart] "He was playing Bogart all the time, but he was really just a big sloppy bowl of mush."
Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:

Although unfashionable with latter-day film critics who find some of his "message movies" to be simplistic, Stanley Kramer can take credit for producing (and later directing) some of Hollywood's boldest, most so cially conscious movies-at a time when much of the industry was reverting to formula and cowering in the wake of the Communist witch-hunts. Moreover, his projects consistently attracted the top talent working on both sides of the cameras in Hollywood. Making his pictures independently gave Kramer freedom from studio interference, and he produced a run of powerful films, among them the gritty boxing drama Champion a study of Army racism, Home of the Brave (both 1949); a drama of paralyzed war veterans, The Men (1950, Marlon Brando's first film); a notable adaptation of Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman (1951); and the antiMcCarthy Western, High Noon (1952). He then signed with Columbia, where he produced the first "biker" film, The Wild One and The Caine Mutiny (both 1954), as well as a Dr. Seuss musical fantasy, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953), a notorious flop in its day but now a cult classic. Kramer finally began directing with, oddly, a glossy soap opera, Not as a Stranger (1955).

After helming a large-scale actioner, The Pride and the Passion (1957), he returned to social commentary, attacking racism in The Defiant Ones (1958, Oscar-nominated for Best Picture and Best Director), nuclear proliferation in On the Beach (1959), creationism in Inherit the Wind (1960), and Nazi war criminals in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961, Oscar-nominated for Best Picture and Director). Challenged to make something "a little less serious," he vowed to make the "comedy to end all comedies," and almost pulled it off with the elephantine, overproduced, all-star blockbuster It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), still his most popular film. After a lavish adaptation of Ship of Fools (1965), Kramer made Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967, Oscar-nominated for Best Picture and Director), which dealt head-on with interracial marriage. His later films, including The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969), R.P.M (1970), Bless the Beasts and Children (1971), the underrated Oklahoma Crude (1973), and The Domino Principle (1977), were not successful, to say the least. The Runner Stumbles (1979), a particularly aloof and unconvincing thriller, was dismissed by critics and audiences alike, making it a dismal swan song to Kramer's career. In 1980 he retired and moved to Seattle, where he taught and wrote a newspaper column; a decade later he was back in Hollywood, planning new film projects.

Copyright © 1994 Leonard Maltin, used by arrangement with Signet, a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006452/bio

High Noon
Tex Ritter

Do not forsake me O my darlin'
On this our wedding day.
Do not forsake me O my darlin'
Wait, wait along.

The noonday train will bring Frank Miller.
If I'm a man I must be brave
And I must face that deadly killer
Or lie a coward, a craven coward,
Or lie a coward in my grave.

O to be torn 'twixt love and duty!
S'posin' I lose my fair-haired beauty!
Look at that big hand move along
Nearin' high noon.

He made a vow while in State's Prison,
Vow'd it would be my life or his and
I'm not afraid of death, but O,
What will I do if you leave me?

High Noon
Do not forsake me O my darlin'
You made that promise when we wed.
Do not forsake me O my darlin'
Although you're grievin', I can't be leavin'
Until I shoot Frank Miller dead.

Wait along, wait along
Wait along
Wait along

- "Do Not Forsake Me [The Ballad of High Noon]", words by Ned Washington, music by Dmitri Tiomkin

Jerry Lee Lewis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935) is an American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and pianist, as well as an early pioneer of the rock and roll movement. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.

Early life and career at Sun Records

Born in Ferriday, Louisiana, Jerry Lee Lewis showed an early natural talent for the piano. His parents were poor but took out a loan to buy a third-hand upright piano for him. Sharing piano lessons with his cousins Mickey Gilley and Jimmy Lee Swaggart, ten-year old Jerry Lee Lewis is said to have shown remarkable aptitude for the instrument. A visit from piano-playing older cousin Carl McVoy revealed the methods for the boogie-woogie styles Jerry Lee was hearing on the radio and across the tracks at Haney's Big House, which was owned by his uncle Lee Calhoun and catered exclusively to blacks. Lewis mixed boogie-woogie with gospel and country and developed his own style. He combined genres in the way he syncopated his rhythms on the piano: His left hand generally played boogie while his right played the high keys with flamboyant elaboration and show. By all family accounts, by the time Lewis was 14 he was "as good as he was ever going to get."

Like Elvis Presley he was raised singing the Christian gospel music of integrated southern Pentecostal churches. In 1950 he attended Southwestern Bible Institute in Texas but was expelled for misconduct, including playing rock and roll versions of hymns in church.

Leaving religious music behind he became a part of the burgeoning new rock and roll sound, cutting his first record in 1954. Two years later, at Sun Records studio in Memphis, Tennessee, producer and engineer Jack Clement discovered and recorded Lewis for the Sun label while owner Sam Phillips was away on a trip to Florida. As a result, Lewis joined Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash as stars who began their recording careers at Sun Studios around this same time.

Lewis' first recording at Sun studios was his own distinct version of the country ballad "Crazy Arms". In 1957 his piano and the pure rock and roll sound of "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" propelled him to international fame. "Great Balls of Fire" soon followed and would become his biggest hit. Watching and listening to Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis said if he could play the piano like that, he'd quit singing. Lewis' early billing was Jerry Lee Lewis and his Pumping Piano.


Lewis's performances were dynamic. He kicked the piano bench out of the way to play standing (a stunt later adopted by admirer Elton John), raked his hands up and down the keyboard for dramatic accent and even sat down on it. His frenetic performance style can be seen in films such as High School Confidential (he sang the title song from the back of a flatbed truck) and Jamboree.


Scandal

Lewis' turbulent personal life was hidden from the public until a 1958 British tour when reporters learned about the twenty-three year old star's third wife Myra Gale Brown, who also happened to be his thirteen year old second cousin. Jerry didn't consider this odd because marrying distant cousins was acceptable in the South at the time and Jerry's sister had been married at fourteen. The publicity however caused an uproar and the tour was cancelled after only three concerts.

The scandal followed Lewis home to America and as a result he almost vanished from the music scene. His only hit during this period was a cover of Ray Charles' "What'd I Say" in 1961. His popularity recovered somewhat in Europe, especially in the UK and Germany during the mid 1960s. A live album, Live at the Star Club, Hamburg (1964) recorded with The Nashville Teens, is widely considered one of the greatest live rock and roll albums ever. However, any comeback eluded him in the USA. In 1968 Lewis began focusing on country and western music, achieving several No. 1 and Top 10 country hits. Although he toured and played many sold-out concerts, he never regained the heights of success he had prior to the 1958 scandal although he had a major international hit with "Chantilly Lace" in 1972).


Drug addiction and personal tragedies

Plagued by alcohol and drug problems after Myra divorced him in 1970, tragedy struck when his 19-year-old son Jerry Lee Lewis Jr. was killed in a road accident in 1973. Earlier during the sixties his second son Steve Allen Lewis had drowned in a swimming pool accident. Lewis' own erratic behaviour during the 1970s led to his being hospitalized after near-death from a bleeding ulcer. Following this his fourth wife drowned in a swimming pool under suspicious circumstances. Little more than a year later, his fifth wife was found dead at his home from a methadone overdose. Again addicted to drugs, Jerry Lee Lewis checked himself into the Betty Ford Clinic.

While celebrating his 41st birthday in 1976 Lewis playfully pointed a gun at his bass player Butch Owens and thinking it was not loaded, pulled the trigger, shooting him in the chest. Owens miraculously survived. A few weeks later (November 23) he was involved in another gun-related arrest at Elvis Presley's Graceland residence. Lewis had been invited by Presley but security was unaware of the visit. When questioned about why he was at the front gate, Lewis displayed a gun and jokingly told the guard he had come to kill Presley.


Later career


In 1989 a major motion picture based on his early life in rock & roll, Great Balls of Fire, brought him back into the public eye. The film was based on the book by Lewis' ex-wife Myra and starred Dennis Quaid as Lewis, with Winona Ryder and Alec Baldwin.

The very public downfall of his cousin, television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, resulted in more adverse publicity to an already troubled family. Swaggart is also a piano player, as is another cousin, country music star Mickey Gilley. Jerry Lee's sister Linda Gail Lewis is also a piano player and has recorded with Van Morrison.

Despite the personal problems his musical talent is widely acknowledged. Nicknamed The Killer for his forceful voice and piano production on stage he was described by fellow artist Roy Orbison as the best raw performer in the history of rock and roll music. In 1986 Jerry Lee Lewis was part of the first group inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

That same year he returned to Sun Studios in Memphis to team up with Orbison, Cash, and Perkins to create the album Class of '55. This was not the first time he had teamed up with Cash and Perkins at Sun. On December 4, 1956 Elvis Presley dropped in on Phillips to pay a social visit while Perkins was in the studio cutting new tracks with Lewis backing him on piano. The three started an impromtu 'jam session' and Phillips left the tapes running. He later telephoned Cash and brought him in to join the others. These recordings, almost half of which were gospel songs, survived and have been released on CD under the title Million Dollar Quartet. Tracks also include Chuck Berry's "Brown Eyed Handsome Man", Pat Boone's "Don't Forgive Me" and Elvis doing an impersonation of Jackie Wilson (who was then with Billy Ward and the Dominoes) singing "Don't Be Cruel".

Lewis has never stopped touring and fans who have seen him perform say he can still deliver unique concerts that are unpredictable, exciting, and personal. In February of 2005 he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Recording Academy (which also grants the Grammy Awards). At the presentation it was announced a new album would be made with a line-up including Eric Clapton, B. B. King, Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Later that year, after several years of inactivity in the studio, Lewis put out a new album. Titled The Pilgrim, it features an all-star cast of guests [1].

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

Great balls of fire
Jerry Lee Lewis
Music & Lyrics : Jerry Lee Lewis

You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain
Too much love drives a man insane
You broke my will, oh what a thrill
Goodness gracious great balls of fire

{ band joins }

I learned to love all of Hollywood money
You came along and you moved me honey
I changed my mind, looking fine
Goodness gracious great balls of fire

You kissed me baba, woo.....it feels good
Hold me baba, learn to let me love you like a lover should
Your fine, so kind
I'm a nervous world that your mine mine mine mine-ine

I cut my nails and I quiver my thumb
I'm really nervous but it sure is fun
Come on baba, you drive me crazy
Goodness gracious great balls of fire

{ piano solo }

Well kiss me baba, woo-oooooo....it feels good
Hold me baba
I want to love you like a lover should
Your fine, so kind
I got this world that your mine mine mine mine-ine

I cut my nails and I quiver my thumb
I'm real nervous 'cause it sure is fun
Come on baba, you drive me crazy
Goodness gracious great balls of fire

I say goodness gracious great balls of fire...oooh...

Madeline Kahn
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


Madeline Kahn (September 29, 1942 - December 3, 1999) was an American actress of movie, television, and theater.

Kahn was born in Boston, Massachusetts, as Madeline Gail Wolfson to a Jewish family. Her mother, Paula, was 17 when Kahn was born. Although Kahn's parents were high-school sweethearts, they divorced when she was 2. After the divorce was finalized, Kahn and her mother moved to New York City. A few years later, her mother remarried and this union gave Kahn two half-siblings (Jeffrey and Robyn). In 1948, Kahn was sent to a progressive boarding school in Pennsylvania and stayed there until 1952. During that time, her mother pursued her ambition as an actress. Ironically, Kahn soon began acting herself and performed in a number of school productions. In 1960, she graduated from the Martin Van Buren High School in Queens, NY where she earned a drama scholarship to Hofstra University. At Hofstra, she studied music, drama, and speech therapy and also performed in several campus productions. After changing her major a number of times, Kahn graduated in 1964 with a degree in speech therapy.

Kahn began auditioning for professional acting roles shortly after her graduation from Hofstra; on the side, she briefly taught public school in Levittown, NY. Just before adopting the professional name of Madeline Kahn (Kahn was her stepfather's last name), she made her stage debut as a chorus girl in a revival of Kiss Me, Kate which led her to join the Actors' Equity. In 1968, she earned her first break on Broadway with New Faces of 1968 and then performed her first lead role in the musical Candide. She debuted in the movies that same year with a role in De Düva: The Dove. Her most famous roles followed in the 1970s: she appeared in What's Up, Doc? (1972), Paper Moon (1973), Young Frankenstein (1974), Blazing Saddles (1974), and High Anxiety (1977). The final three films were all directed by Mel Brooks, who many Hollywood observers claimed was able to bring out the best of Kahn's comic talents. For her work in Paper Moon and Blazing Saddles, the young comedienne received nominations for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Kahn's roles were primarily comedic rather than dramatic. After her success in Brooks's films, she played in a number of less successful films in the 1980s. At the end of her career, she returned to the stage and won a Tony Award for her role in The Sisters Rosensweig, a play by Wendy Wasserstein. In the final years of her life, she played a major role on the sitcom Cosby and voiced Gypsy the moth in A Bug's Life, before succumbing to ovarian cancer on December 3, 1999. She was only 57 years old.

She was survived by her husband (John Hansbury), mother (Paula Kahn), brother (Jeffrey Kahn), and niece (Eliza Kahn).

In the early 1990s, Kahn recorded a voice for the animated movie The Magic 7; along with John Candy, she will be one of two deceased actors with voices in that movie.

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

Good morning, WA2K radio listeners and contributors.

First, I would like to commend dj for those hilarious Benny Hill songs. There's always someone out there who turns love songs into mash instead of mush. Funny, Canada and thanks.

Well, folks, here's our Bio Bob with all sorts of background on notables and excellent and informative info it is, too. I was particularly interested in Jerry Lee Lewis, as I knew absolutely nothing of his sad escapades.

We are all familiar with Cervantes and his windmill philosophy. The adventures of Don Quixote is probably one of the most universally touted stories of all times.

It's very still here, and a wonderful time for quiet meditation.

For the imminent morning:



I am lost in meditation
And my reverie
Brings you back to me
For, in my imagination
Love has lingered on
As though you'd never gone

This is just a dream that can not last
When the magic of this mood has passed
So, I sit in meditation
Trying to pretend, this mood will never end

Lost in meditation
And my reverie
Brings you back to me

Good day WA2K.

Great choices of bios, Bob, and so many choices for pictures, but unfortunately I am leaving for an appointment in a few minutes. But you all know what those folks look like. Greer had gorgeous red hair and Anita had a shape, and Gene - well he had a handsome horse.
Today's birthdays:

106 BC - Pompey, Roman statesman and general (d. 48 BC)
AD 1328 - Joan of Kent (d. 1385)
1511 - Michael Servetus, Spanish humanist (d. 1553)
1547 - Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (d. 1616)
1548 - William V, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1626)
1561 - Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (d. 1615)
1636 - Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1715)
1639 - Lord William Russell, English politician (d. 1683)
1640 - Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (d. 1720)
1678 - Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (d. 1766)
1691 - Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (d. 1781)
1725 - Robert Clive, British general and statesman (d. 1774)
1758 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)
1786 - Guadalupe Victoria, first president of Mexico (d. 1843)
1810 - Elizabeth Gaskell, British novelist (d. 1865)
1864 - Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer and philosopher (d. 1936)
1895 - J.B. Rhine, American parapsychologist (d. 1980).
1901 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)
1901 - Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher, poet, and activist (d. 1981)
1904 - Greer Garson, British actress (d. 1996)
1907 - Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and businessman (d. 1998)
1908 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (d. 1967)
1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director
1913 - Trevor Howard, English actor (d. 1988)
1913 - Stanley Kramer, American film director (d. 2001)
1931 - James Watson Cronin, American nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1931 - Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress
1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician
1936 - Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy
1938 - Wim Kok, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
1939 - Larry Linville, American actor (d. 2000)
1942 - Madeline Kahn, American actress (d. 1999)
1942 - Bill Nelson, U.S. Senator from Florida
1942 - Jean-Luc Ponty, French jazz violinist
1943 - Lech Wałęsa, Polish trade union activist and politician
1948 - Bryant Gumbel, American television personality
1951 - Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (d. 1977)
1951 - Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler
1952 - Max Sandlin, American politician
1956 - Sebastian Coe, British athlete
1957 - Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian and actor
1960 - Jennifer Rush, American singer
1961 - Rebecca DeMornay, American actress
1963 - Dave Andreychuk, Canadian hockey player
1964 - Les Claypool, American bassist (Primus)
1964 - Tom Sizemore, American actor
1966 - Jill Whelan, American actress
1970 - Emily Lloyd, British actress
1976 - Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer
1978 - Kurt Nilsen, Norwegian singer
1981 - Siarhei Rutenka, Belarusian handball player
1982 - Ariana Jollee, American actress and director

Thanks, Raggedy, for the celeb updates.

First, I would like to explain something to everyone. I am trying to learn how to create pictures here, and although many of you may know about Gene and his mighty horse, I wanted a picture to tack on our bulletin board for the sake of nostalgia. <smile>

(also because he was among Raggedy's celebs)

We no longer have a geek squad, so I'm on my own; nor am I Greek, so that complicates things as well.

Until the moment that my cognitive awareness, or flash of insight occurs, We play this song:


Artist: Kurt Nilsen


Lyrics:

She's blood, flesh, and bone. No tucks or silicone
She's touch, smell, sight, taste and sound.
But somehow I can't believe that anything should happen
I know where I belong and nothing's gonna happen

Cause, She's so high, high above me. She's so lovely
She's so high, like Cleopatra, Joan of Ark or Aphrodite
Too-too-too….
She's so high, high above me

First class and fancy free, she's high society
She's got the best of everything
What could a guy like me ever really offer?
She's perfect as she can be, why should I even bother, a-hah…

[Chorus]

She comes to speak to me, I freeze immediately
Cause what she says sounds so unreal
Cause somehow I can't believe that anything should happen
I know where I belong and nothings gonna happen

[Chorus]