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Burr Tillstrom
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Burr Tilstrom (October 13, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois - December 6, 1985 in Palm Springs, California) was a puppeteer and the creator of "Kukla, Fran and Ollie."

Tillstrom was born in Chicago and attended the University of Chicago. He turned his attention to puppetry in the early 1930s and created Kukla in 1936. Kukla remained nameless until the Russian ballerina Tamara Toumanova referred to him as kukla, the Russian term for doll.

Other famous puppets from the group included Oliver J. Dragon, Beulah Witch, and Fletcher Rabbit.

In 1939, he was invited to present his "Kuklapolitan Players" at the New York World's Fair. The following year, RCA sent him to Bermuda to perform on the first ship-to-shore broadcast.

From 1948 through 1957, Tillstrom was involved with the "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" show which starred his puppets and Fran Allison. It is widely regarded as being the first children's show to appeal to both children and adults. With only a few exceptions, all of the shows were improvised.

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

Yves Montand
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Yves Montand (October 13, 1921 - November 9, 1991) was a French/Italian actor, born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Alto, Italy.

Shortly after his birth, Montand's family left Italy for France. (Later, when they applied for French citizenship, his father pretended that they did so in order to escape Mussolini's regime, in fact they emigrated in 1921, whereas Mussolini didn't come into power until 1922.) Montand came to grow up in Marseille, where as a young man he worked in his sister's barber shop, and later on the docks. He began a career in show business as a music-hall singer. In 1944 he was discovered by Edith Piaf in Paris and she made him part of her act, becoming his mentor and lover.

He would go on to international recognition, starring in numerous films. In 1951 Montand married the actress Simone Signoret, and they co-starred in several films throughout their respective careers. The marriage was by all accounts was fairly harmonious, lasting until her death in 1985, although Montand had a number of well-publicised affairs.

During his career he acted in a number of American motion pictures as well as on Broadway. He was nominated for a Cesar Award for "Best Actor" in 1980 for the film "I comme Icare" and again in 1984 for "Garçon !"

In 1986, after his international box-office draw power had fallen off considerably, the 65-year-old Montand gave one of his most memorable performances as the scheming uncle in the two-part film: Jean de Florette co-starring Gérard Depardieu and Manon des Sources co-starring Emmanuelle Béart. The film was a world-wide critical hit and raised Montand's profile somewhat in the US, which he took in stride, even making an appearance on "Late Night with David Letterman".

His only child, Valentin Montand, the son of his assistant Carole Amiel, was born in 1988.

In his later years, he maintained a home in Provence until his death. He is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France.

In 2004, his stepdaughter Catherine Allégret (Simone Signoret's daughter from her first marriage) published a book titled World Upside Down where she contended that Montand had abused her sexually since she was five years old.

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

Nipsey Russell
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Nipsey Russell (born October 13, 1924 in Atlanta, Georgia, died October 2, 2005 in New York City from stomach cancer at age 80), was an African American comedian, best known for being a guest panelist on many 1970s and 1980s game shows, such as Match Game, To Tell the Truth and Pyramid.

In addition to his sharp game-playing skills, Russell also delighted audiences with short poems, earning him the nickname "the poet laureate of television."

Russell went to high school in Atlanta and received a BA in English from the University of Cincinnati. He also served in the United States Army.

He got his start in the 1940s as a car hop at the Atlanta drive-in The Varsity, where he would earn his tips by making his customers laugh. He moved his act to nightclubs in the 1950s, when he was discovered and subsequently made many "party albums", which were essentially a compilation of his stand-up routines, not unlike what Redd Foxx was doing at the very same time.

In the late 1950s, he was featured on The Ed Sullivan Show, which led to a small part in the comedy Car 54, Where Are You? in 1960. Russell became the first black performer to become a regular panelist on a weekly network game show when he joined ABC's "Missing Links" in 1964. A year later, he became a co-host of ABC's "Les Crane Show." During the 70's, he was a co-star in the ABC sitcom "Barefoot in the Park" and appeared regularly on "The Dean Martin Show" and "The Dean Martin Comedy World." Scattered appearances on television series followed, as well as performing guest host duties on The Tonight Show during the Johnny Carson era.

In 1971, he started as a featured panelist on To Tell the Truth, which led to him being hired for The Match Game when Goodson-Todman Productions revived it two years later. Today, he is most known for these game show appearances -- not only for his wit, but his seriousness in playing the games (or in Truth's case, questioning the civilian contestants). Producer Bob Stewart used him regularly as a panelist on Pyramid throughout its 1970s and 80s runs.

He was also a trained dancer, and appeared in the 1978 film The Wiz as the Tin Man.

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

Bob, Thanks for the bio on Cornel Wilde. Saw Naked Prey on one of the classic film TV stations, but can't remember which one. I can still hear that small African child singing that funny little song. Also, the bio on the puppet man. <smile>

spendius, you must direct us to Lola's birthday party, Brit.

Lenny Bruce
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Lenny Bruce (October 13, 1925 - August 3, 1966), born Leonard Alfred Schneider, was a controversial Jewish-American stand-up comedian and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s.


Overview

Bruce, like his contemporary Mort Sahl, helped change stand-up comedy from the practice of telling jokes to a more daring and experimental form of entertainment.

His routines took the form of stories, skits, and commentary, often venturing into subject areas considered profane, obscene and otherwise controversial. His penchant for material with high shock value caused his career to be plagued by constant trouble with the law. His obscenity trials are now considered to be significant benchmarks in the case for preservation of First Amendment freedoms.

Bruce was born in Mineola, Long Island, New York. He served in the US Navy from 1942 to 1945. Two years later, he changed his name from Leonard Schneider to Lenny Bruce. In 1951 he was arrested in Miami, Florida for impersonating a priest. He was soliciting donations for a leper colony in British Guiana after he legally chartered the "Brother Mathias Foundation" (a name of his own invention), and, unknown to the police, stole several priest's clergy shirts and a clerical collar while posing as a laundry man. He was found not guilty due to the legality of the NY state-chartered foundation, the actual existence of the Guiana leper colony, and the inability of local clergy to expose him as an imposter. Later in his autobiography, he revealed that he had made approximately $8,000 in three weeks, sending $2,500 to the leper colony and keeping the rest.

Bruce's early comedy career including writing the screenplays for "Dance Hall Racket" 1953 (which featured Lenny and his wife, Honey Harlow, in roles); "Dream Follies" 1954, a low-budget burlesque romp; and a children's film, "The Rocket Man" 1954. He also released four albums of original material, with rants, comic routines and satirical interviews on the themes that made him famous: jazz, moral philosophy, politics, patriotism, religion, law, race, abortion, drugs, the Ku Klux Klan, Jewishness, and the Roman Catholic Church. These albums were later compiled and re-released as The Lenny Bruce Originals.

His growing fame led to an appearance on the nationally televised Steve Allen Show. On February 3, 1961, in the midst of a severe blizzard, he gave an historic performance at Carnegie Hall in New York. Recorded and later released as a double-disc set, the Carnegie Hall Concert was considered by many to be the zenith of his creative powers; critic Albert Goldman described it as follows:

"This was the moment that an obscure yet rapidly rising young comedian named Lenny Bruce chose to give one of the greatest performances of his career... The performance contained in this album is that of a child of the jazz age. Lenny worshipped the gods of Spontaneity, Candor and Free Association. He fancied himself an oral jazzman. His ideal was to walk out there like Charlie Parker, take that mike in his hand like a horn and blow, blow, blow everything that came into his head just as it came into head with nothing censored, nothing translated, nothing mediated, until he was pure mind, pure head sending out brainwaves like radio waves into the heads of every man and woman seated in that vast hall. Sending, sending, sending, he would finally reach a point of clairvoyance where he was no longer a performer but rather a medium transmitting messages that just came to him from out there - from recall, fantasy, prophecy. A point at which, like the practitioners of automatic writing, his tongue would outrun his mind and he would be saying things he didn't plan to say, things that surprised, delighted him, cracked him up - as if he were a spectator at his own performance!"


Trials and Tribulations

In 1961 Bruce was arrested for obscenity at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco; he had used the words ********** and to come (for orgasm). Although the jury acquitted him, other communities began monitoring his appearances, resulting in frequent arrests under charges of obscenity. The increased scrutiny also led to an arrest in Philadelphia for drug possession in the same year, and again in Los Angeles, California two years later.

By the end of 1963, he had become a target of the Manhattan district attorney, Frank Hogan, who was working closely with Francis Cardinal Spellman, the Archbishop of New York. In 1964, he appeared at the Cafe Au Go Go in Greenwich Village, with undercover police detectives in the audience. Shortly after he left the stage, he was arrested; the complaint again rested on his use of various obscenities. Three judges and no jury presided over his widely-publicized six-month-long trial. Lenny Bruce and club owner Howard Solomon were convicted, in spite of positive testimony and petitions of support from Jules Feiffer, Norman Mailer, William Styron, and James Baldwin as well as Manhattan journalist and television personality Dorothy Kilgallen and sociologist Herbert Gans. Bruce was sentenced to four months in the workhouse; he was set free on bail during the appeals process and died before the appeal was decided. Solomon's conviction was eventually overturned by New York's highest court, the New York Court of Appeals, in 1970.

In his later performances, Bruce was known for relating the details of his encounters with the police directly in his comedy routine; his criticism encouraged the police to eye him with maximum scrutiny. These performances often included rants about his court battles over obscenity charges, tirades against fascism and complaints of his denial of his right to free speech.

He was banned outright from several U.S. cities, and in 1962 he was banned from performing in Australia, having already commenced a tour there. By 1966 he had been blacklisted by nearly every comedy club in the U.S., as owners feared prosecution for obscenity. His last performance was on June 26, 1966 at the Fillmore in San Francisco, on a bill with Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention.

At the request of Hugh Hefner, Bruce (with the aid of Paul Krassner) wrote his autobiography, which was serialized in Playboy in 1964 and 1965, and later published as the book How to Talk Dirty and Influence People.

In 1966, Lenny Bruce was found dead at the age of 40 from a self-administered morphine overdose, in the bathroom of his Hollywood Hills home. He is interred in the Eden Memorial Park Cemetery in Mission Hills, California.

Bruce was survived by his daughter Kitty Bruce, who now resides in Pennsylvania. His former wife, Honey Harlow Friedman lived in Honolulu, Hawaii, until her death on September 12, 2005. His mother, Sally Marr, a comedienne and talent agent, died on December 14, 1997, in Los Angeles at the age of 91.


Posthumous Credits


In 1971 one of his comedy routines was developed into a short animated film, Thank You Masked Man (often cited as "Thank You, Mask Man") which parodied The Lone Ranger. Bruce received credit for co-writing and co-directing this seven minute cartoon and providing his unique narration which included all of the voice characterizations.

The 1974 film Lenny, starring Dustin Hoffman, presents a dramatized account of Bruce's life. Eddie Izzard portrayed the comedian in the 1991 stage show Lenny. Similarly, the comedian inspired songs by Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Nico, Chumbawamba, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, R.E.M., Steve Earle, and Genesis.

The 1998 documentary Lenny Bruce: Swear To Tell the Truth, written and directed by Robert B. Weide, was nominated for an Oscar. Robert De Niro provided the narration.

In response to a petition filed by Ron Collins and David Skover, on December 23, 2003, Lenny Bruce was posthumously pardoned by New York Republican Governor George Pataki for the obscenity conviction arising from his New York appearance. It was the first posthumous pardon in the state's history. Pataki called his decision "a declaration of New York's commitment to upholding the First Amendment."

In 2004, Bruce was voted #3 of the "Greatest Standup Comedians of All Time" by Comedy Central behind Richard Pryor and George Carlin. He was also the subject of a six CD retrospective entitled Let The Buyer Beware, overseen by record producer Hal Willner.


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

Nana Mouskouri
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Nana Mouskouri (born Ioanna Mouskouri on October 13, 1934 in Crete, Greece) is a Greek singer and politician. She is the world's highest-selling female recording artist, recording many of her songs in many different languages, including Greek, French, English, Spanish, Italian, German, and Portuguese. She is France's number one selling artist. She is noted for her trademark eyeglasses and her songs of melancholy, longing, and sentimental musings upon love, for which the emotion of her voice is exceptionally suited.

When Mouskouri was 3, her family moved to Athens. In 1950, she was accepted at the Athens Conservatory, but she was expelled in 1957 after it was discovered that she was singing with a jazz group at night. She won first prize at the 1959 Greek Song Festival singing Manos Hadjidakis's "Kapou Iparchi Agapi Mou".

Her first hit was "The White Rose of Athens" (1961). The Girl from Greece Sings, a 1962 album produced by Quincy Jones, followed. In 1963, Mouskouri was Luxembourg's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest with "À Force de Prier". Following that, she released the English-language album Nana Sings (1965) and the French album Le Jour où la Colombe (1967).

Mouskouri was appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in October 1993. She represented Greece in the European Parliament from 1994 until 1999 as a member of the largely centrist New Democracy in the European People's Party. She currently lives in Switzerland with her second husband, André Chapelle, and she still performs about 100 concerts each year. In 2004, her French record company released an unprecedented 34-CD box set of more than 600 of Mouskouri's mostly French songs. For 2005 and 2006, she plans a farewell concert tour of Europe, Australia, Asia, South America, the United States, and Canada. Mouskouri has sold more than 190 million(*) records internationally, recording about 1,500 songs in 15 languages. She has more than 300 gold and platinum albums worldwide. She started a world farewell tour in 2005, going from Europe to Australia...

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

Nana Mouskouri - Come And Sing (Ode to Joy)
(written by: L.V. Beethoven / J.Lewis / Y.Ludwig)



From the album "Ode To Joy"

Come and sing a song of joy
For peace a glory gloria
Sing this song of hope rejoice
For freedom hallelujah

Angel voices pray for wisdom
Heaven sends eternity
Come and sing the song of joy
For glory hallelujah

Angel voices pray for wisdom
Heaven sends eternity
Come and sing the song of joy
For glory hallelujah

Freude schöner Götterfunken
Tochter aus Elysium
Wir betreten feuertrunken
Himmlische, dein Heiligtum

Deine Zauber binden wieder
Was die Mode streng geteilt
Alle Menschen werden Brüder
Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt

Deine Zauber binden wieder
Was die Mode streng geteilt
Alle Menschen werden Brüder
Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt

Come and sing a song of joy
For peace a glory gloria
Sing this song of hope rejoice
For freedom hallelujah

Angel voices pray for wisdom
Heaven sends eternity
Come and sing the song of joy
For glory hallelujah

Angel voices pray for wisdom
Heaven sends eternity
Come and sing the song of joy
For glory hallelujah

Paul Simon
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Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941 in Newark Heights, New Jersey) is a renowned Jewish American songwriter, receiving Kennedy Center Honors in 2002. He graduated Queens College and briefly attended Brooklyn Law School. Simon has been married three times; he is currently married to Edie Brickell whom he wed on May 30, 1992. He has four children, and his first son Harper Simon is a guitarist.


Early Career

Paul Simon's musical career began in high school in Queens, New York City, when he and his friend Art Garfunkel began singing together as a duo, occasionally performing at school dances. Their idols were the Everly Brothers, and in many ways the duo tried to imitate the Everly Brothers' style. Simon and Garfunkel fashioned themselves "Tom & Jerry," and it was under this name that the duo first tasted success. In 1957, they recorded the single "Hey, Schoolgirl," on Big Records which hit #49 on the pop charts while they were high school seniors.

After graduation, Simon went off to Queens College in Queens, New York, while Garfunkel matriculated to Columbia University in Manhattan. Though Simon earned a degree in English literature, his real passion was rock 'n roll. Between 1957 and 1964, Simon wrote, recorded, and released more than thirty songs, occasionally reuniting with Garfunkel as Tom & Jerry for some singles, including "Our Song," "That's My Story," and "Surrender, Please Surrender," among others.

Most of the songs Simon would record over the six years after 1957, however, would be performed either by himself or with musicians other than Garfunkel, and released on a multitude of minor record labels, such as Amy, ABC-Paramount, Big, Hunt, Ember, King, Tribute, and Madison. He used several different pseudonyms for these recordings, including Jerry Landis, Paul Kane (taken from Orson Welles' film Citizen Kane), and True Taylor. Simon enjoyed some mediocre success in recording a few singles under the pseudonym Tico as part of a group called Tico and the Triumphs. He wrote the song "Motorcycle," which was recorded by Tico and the Triumphs and reached #99 on the Billboard charts in 1962. That same year, he reached #97 on the pop charts with the hit "The Lone Teen Ranger" as Jerry Landis; both singles were released on Amy Records.

During this period Simon also met Carole King, with whom he recorded several unreleased demos as a duo called "The Cosines" to be recorded and released by other groups. In addition, Simon's experience in the studio led him to produce many singles for other acts, including The Vels, Ritchie Cordell, The Fashions, and groups with names such as "Jay Walker and the Pedestrians" and "Dougie and the Dubs." It was also at this time that he began to be attracted to the New York folk music scene, and in 1963 he produced two songs, "Carlos Dominguez," and "He Was My Brother," recorded on the Tribute label, that show his first efforts at a folk-rock musical style.


Simon & Garfunkel

In early 1964, Simon and Garfunkel got an audition with Columbia Records, whose executives were impressed enough to sign the duo to a contract to produce an album. Columbia decided that the two would be called simply "Simon & Garfunkel," which, according to Simon, was the first time that ethnic names (both Simon and Garfunkel are of Jewish descent) were used in pop music [1].

Simon & Garfunkel's first LP, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., released on 19 October 1964, consisted of a set of twelve songs in the folk vein, five of them written by Simon. The album initially flopped, but radio stations on the east coast of the USA began receiving requests for one of the songs on the LP that Simon wrote called "The Sound of Silence". Simon & Garfunkel's producer, Tom Wilson, overdubbed the track with electric guitar, bass, and drums, and released it as a single that eventually went to #1 on the pop charts in the United States. Simon had gone to England after the initial failure of Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., and there had pursued a solo career, releasing the album The Paul Simon Song Book in the United Kingdom in 1965, but he returned to the USA to reunite with Garfunkel after "The Sound of Silence" began to enjoy commercial success. Together they recorded several influential albums, including 1966's Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme, and Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970). Simon and Garfunkel also contributed extensively to the soundtrack of the 1967 film The Graduate (starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft). They recorded an early version of "Mrs. Robinson" specifically for the film; other songs by the duo were also used in the film.

Simon pursued solo projects after the duo released their very popular album Bridge Over Troubled Water. Occasionally, he and Art Garfunkel would reunite, such as in 1975 for their Top Ten single, "My Little Town". In 1981, they reunited for the famous concert in Central Park. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991.

In 2003, he reunited, again, with Garfunkel when Simon and Garfunkel received Grammy's lifetime achievement award. This reunion led to the U.S. tour, the acclaimed "Old Friends" Concert series, followed by a 2004 international encore, which culminated in a free concert at the Roman Coliseum. That final concert drew 600,000 people--100,000 more than attended Paul McCartney's concert at the same venue, one year earlier.


Solo career

After Simon and Garfunkel split in 1970, Paul Simon began to write and record solo material. He released Paul Simon in 1972, although this was not his first solo album. He continued to release remarkable material during the seventies, and in 1986 released the ground-breaking and immensely popular Graceland.

In 2000, Simon released an album titled "You're the One" backed up by concerts, one which was filmed in Paris, is available on DVD.

Simon has also dabbled in acting. He played music producer Tony Lacey in the 1977 Woody Allen film Annie Hall. He wrote and starred in 1980's "One-Trick Pony," playing Jonah Levin, a journeyman rock and roller.

During the mid-1960's, Paul Simon co-wrote the song "Red Rubber Ball" with Bruce Woodley of the Australian pop group The Seekers. When the American group The Cyrkle recorded a cover of the song, it reached #2 in America.


2004 reissues

In 2004, his record company announced the release of expanded editions of each of his solo albums, individually and together in a limited-edition nine-disc box set, "Paul Simon: The Studio Recordings 1972-2000". Each of the expanded individual albums feature a total of 30 bonus tracks, including original song demos, live recordings, duets, six never-before-released songs and outtakes from each of his nine solo albums.

Among the bonus tracks included in the release are an acoustic demo of "Homeless," recorded prior to his sessions in South Africa with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, from Graceland; "Shelter Of Your Arms," a previously unreleased song featuring a solo acoustic performance from the Hearts and Bones sessions; demos of "Me & Julio Down By The Schoolyard" and "Duncan" recorded in San Francisco in 1971 by Paul Simon; the original demo of "Gone At Last," with the Jessy Dixon Singers, from Still Crazy After All These Years; "Spiral Highway" and "All Because Of You," unreleased performances from One Trick Pony (which use the same music as "How the Heart Approaches What it Yearns" and "Oh Marion," respectively); a work-in-progress called "Let Me Live In Your City," which eventually became the track "Something So Right" from There Goes Rhymin' Simon; early versions of "The Coast" and "Spirit Voices" from The Rhythm of the Saints; a duet with José Feliciano on "Born In Puerto Rico" plus outtakes from Songs From the Capeman, live cuts from the You're the One concert tour, and much more. Paul was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000, for his solo career and for the second time in his life.

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


Simon and Garfunkel Lyrics:
The Sound of Silence



Hello, darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision
That was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
Beneath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed
By the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share...
And no one dare
Disturb the sound of silence.

"Fools," said I, "you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows."
"Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you."
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed in the wells of silence.

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming.
And the signs said: "The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls,
And whisper'd in the sound of silence."

Marie Osmond
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Olive Marie Osmond (born October 13, 1959 in Ogden, Utah) is an American entertainer and a member of the show business family, The Osmonds.

The only daughter of George and Olive Osmond and the 8th of their 9 children, Marie has released many albums and appeared on television for over 40 years. At age 13, her song Paper Roses reached #1 on the country music charts, making her the youngest female artist in history to top the chart. She has charted with her brother Donny ("I'm Leaving It All Up To You" and "Deep Purple"), Dan Seals ("Meet Me in Montana"), and Paul Davis ("You're Still New to Me"). Other solo hits included "This is the Way That I Feel," "There's No Stopping Your Heart", "Read My Lips", and "I Only Wanted You". She and Donny also had a hit variety show, Donny & Marie (1976-1979).

In October 1999, she disclosed that she suffered from severe postpartum depression following the birth of her son. She became so despondent that she left her family and planned never to return. She eventually returned to her family and shared her postpartum experiences with other women. In 2005, Marie spoke out in support of Brooke Shields after Tom Cruise attacked Brooke's use of pharmaceuticals to treat her postpartum depression.

She is a regular on QVC where her "Marie Osmond Fine Porcelain Collector Dolls" is the top-selling line. Marie has eight children (five of whom are adopted). Perhaps the only dent in her squeaky-clean image is her divorce after two years of marriage (her religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, discourages divorce).

Marie played her mother, Olive, in the TV movie Side by Side: The True Story of the Osmond Family. She also starred in the TV movies The Gift of Love and I Married Wyatt Earp. She garnered rave reviews as Anna in the Broadway musicals The King and I and Maria in The Sound of Music in the mid-1990s. She returned to television with brother Donny in 1998 to cohost The Donny and Marie Show, a talk/entertainment show that lasted two seasons.

She appeared as herself in the 2001 TV movie Inside the Osmonds, which showed how the brothers' egos, their father's fiscal mismanagement, and the family's quest to build a multi-media empire led to their downfall. The film was produced by Jimmy Osmond.

Currently, Marie hosts her own radio show, Marie and Friends, a nationally syndicated program. Along with actor John Schneider, Marie is the co-founder of Children's Miracle Network.

In early August 2005, a fire destroyed the garage and office of her Utah home; nobody was injured in the blaze.

Marie has launched her own embroidery machine, sewing machine and embroidery designs through Bernina www.berninausa.com.

Marie has recently been featured on the cover of Designs in Machine Embroidery, a national magazine for machine embroidery enthusiasts www.dzgns.com. The cover article featured an interview with Marie where she discussed how she got involved in embroidery.

Marie Osmond

Paper Roses

I realize the way your eyes deceived me
With tender looks that I mistook for love;
So take away the flowers that you gave me
And send the kind that you remind me of.

Your pretty lips look warm and so appealing

They seem to have the sweetness of a rose;
But when you give a kiss there is no feeling

It's just a stiff and artificial pose.

I thought that you would be a perfect lover

You seemed so full of sweetness at the start;
But like a big red rose that's made of paper

There isn't any sweetness in your heart.

Paper Roses
paper Roses

Oh how real those roses seem to be!
But they're only imitation
Like your imitation lover for me.

My word, Boston Bob, We have some catching up to do. Thanks again for the bios and the accompanying songs, buddy.

What was Thatcher's epithet? Iron maiden or something like that. I do know that Mrs. Carter's was "the steel magnolia."

Need to find a song that will salute both ladies. <smile>

I met her in a club down in old soho
Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry-cola [lp version:
Coca-cola]
C-o-l-a cola
She walked up to me and she asked me to dance
I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said lola
L-o-l-a lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola

Well I'm not the world's most physical guy
But when she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine
Oh my lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola
Well I'm not dumb but I can't understand
Why she walked like a woman and talked like a man
Oh my lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola

Well we drank champagne and danced all night
Under electric candlelight
She picked me up and sat me on her knee
And said dear boy won't you come home with me
Well I'm not the world's most passionate guy
But when I looked in her eyes well I almost fell for my lola
Lo-lo-lo-lo lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola
Lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola

I pushed her away
I walked to the door
I fell to the floor
I got down on my knees
Then I looked at her and she at me

Well that's the way that I want it to stay
And I always want it to be that way for my lola
Lo-lo-lo-lo lola
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It's a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for lola
Lo-lo-lo-lo lola

Well I left home just a week before
And I'd never ever kissed a woman before
But lola smiled and took me by the hand
And said dear boy I'm gonna make you a man

Well I'm not the world's most masculine man
But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man
And so is lola
Lo-lo-lo-lo lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola
Lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola



HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Lola!

if nothing more apropos turns up, there's Mr. Dylan:

I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.
No, I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.
Well, I wake in the morning,
Fold my hands and pray for rain.
I got a head full of ideas
That are drivin' me insane.
It's a shame the way she makes me scrub the floor.
I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.

I ain't gonna work for Maggie's brother no more.
No, I ain't gonna work for Maggie's brother no more.
Well, he hands you a nickel,
He hands you a dime,
He asks you with a grin
If you're havin' a good time,
Then he fines you every time you slam the door.
I ain't gonna work for Maggie's brother no more.

I ain't gonna work for Maggie's pa no more.
No, I ain't gonna work for Maggie's pa no more.
Well, he puts his cigar
Out in your face just for kicks.
His bedroom window
It is made out of bricks.
The National Guard stands around his door.
Ah, I ain't gonna work for Maggie's pa no more.

I ain't gonna work for Maggie's ma no more.
No, I ain't gonna work for Maggie's ma no more.
Well, she talks to all the servants
About man and God and law.
Everybody says
She's the brains behind pa.
She's sixty-eight, but she says she's twenty-four.
I ain't gonna work for Maggie's ma no more.

I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.
No, I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.
Well, I try my best
To be just like I am,
But everybody wants you
To be just like them.
They sing while you slave and I just get bored.
I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.

My God, Walter. That was one funny song. Laughing, now.

Hey, Yit. Liked yours for Maggie.

Could do Maggie Mae by Rod, but perhaps something by a maiden in cast iron might be better, right listeners?

Have you ever felt the future is the past, but you don't know how...?
A reflected dream of a captured time, is it really now, is it really happening?

Don't know why I feel this way, have I dreamt this time, this place?
Something vivid comes again into my mind
And I think I've seen your face, seen this room, been in this place
Something vivid comes again into my mind

All my hopes and expectations, looking for an explanation
Have I found my destination? I just can't take no more

The dream is true, the dream is true
The dream is true, the dream is true

Think I've heard your voice before, think I've said these words before
Something makes me feel I just might lose my mind
Am I still inside my dream? is this a new reality
Something makes me feel that I have lost my mind

All my hopes and expectations, looking for an explanation
Coming to the realization that I can't see for sure


I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, to save me from myself
I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, please save me from myself

The dream is true, the dream is true
The dream is true, the dream is true

I get up put on the light, dreading the oncoming night
Scared to fall asleep and dream the dream again
Nothing that I contemplate, nothing that I can compare
To letting loose the demons deep inside my head

Dread to think what might be stirring, that my dream is reoccurring
Got to keep away from drifting, saving me from myself


I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, to save me from myself
I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, to save me from myself

Lost in a dream of mirrors, lost in a paradox
Lost and time is spinning, lost a nightmare I retrace
Lost a hell that I revisit, lost another time and place
Lost a parallel existence, lost a nightmare I retrace


I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, to save me from myself
I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, to save me from myself

I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, to save me from myself
I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, to save me from myself

The dream is true, the dream is true
The dream is true, the dream is true
iron maiden lyrics

Miss Maggie by Renaud

Femme du monde ou bien putain
Qui bien souvent êtes les mêmes
Femme normale, star ou boudin,
Femelles en tout genre je vous aime
Même à la dernière des connes,
Je veux dédier ces quelques vers
Issus de mon dégoût des hommes
Et de leur morale guerrière
Car aucune femme sur la planète
N' s'ra jamais plus con que son frère
Ni plus fière, ni plus malhonnête
A part peut-être Madame Thatcher

Femme je t'aime parce que
Lorsque le sport devient la guerre
Y a pas de gonzesse ou si peu
Dans les hordes de supporters
Ces fanatiques, fous-furieux
Abreuvés de haines et de bières
Déifiant les crétins en bleu,
Insultant les salauds en vert
Y a pas de gonzesse hooligan,
Imbécile et meurtrière
Y'en a pas même en grande Bretagne
A part bien sûr Madame Thatcher

Femme je t'aime parce que
Une bagnole entre les pognes
Tu n' deviens pas aussi con que
Ces pauvres tarés qui se cognent
Pour un phare un peu amoché
Ou pour un doigt tendu bien haut
Y'en a qui vont jusqu'à flinguer
Pour sauver leur autoradio
Le bras d'honneur de ces cons-là
Aucune femme n'est assez vulgaire
Pour l'employer à tour de bras
A part peut être Madame Thatcher

Femme je t'aime parce que
Tu vas pas mourir à la guerre
Parc' que la vue d'une arme à feu
Fait pas frissonner tes ovaires
Parc' que dans les rangs des chasseurs
Qui dégomment la tourterelle
Et occasionnellement les Beurs,
J'ai jamais vu une femelle
Pas une femme n'est assez minable
Pour astiquer un revolver
Et se sentir invulnérable
A part bien sûr Madame Thatcher

C'est pas d'un cerveau féminin
Qu'est sortie la bombe atomique
Et pas une femme n'a sur les mains
Le sang des indiens d'Amérique
Palestiniens et arméniens
Témoignent du fond de leurs tombeaux
Qu'un génocide c'est masculin
Comme un SS, un torero
Dans cette putain d'humanité
Les assassins sont tous des frères
Pas une femme pour rivaliser
A part peut être Madame Thatcher

Femme je t'aime surtout enfin
Pour ta faiblesse et pour tes yeux
Quand la force de l'homme ne tient
Que dans son flingue ou dans sa queue
Et quand viendra l'heure dernière,
L'enfer s'ra peuplé de crétins
Jouant au foot ou à la guerre,
A celui qui pisse le plus loin
Moi je me changerai en chien si je peux rester sur la Terre
Et comme réverbère quotidien
Je m'offrirai Madame Thatcher

Well, here is our Francis with a tribute to Maggie, the woman of the world. <smile>

Thanks, Paris. If we read carefully, we may be able to decipher a few of those French phrases. :wink:

Time for a station break:

This is cyber space, WA2K radio.

When I was younger (which means: decades ago) and I heard the name 'Renaud' for the first time, I understood 'Renault' and thought, it was a commercial for that car brand :wink:

Which brings to this chanson

L'auto-stoppeuse


Elle s'emmerdait Place Saint-Michel, avec des cons,
elle descendait place de l'Horloge, en Avignon,
s'emmerder avec des vieux chnoques,
de vingt-cinq berges
qui r'viennent des Indes ou du Maroc
et qui s'gobergent,
assis sur des sacs de couchage
plutôt cradoques.
Sous leurs pavés, c'est p't'être la plage,
mais elle est moche !

Elle était un p'tit peu campeuse,
un p'tit peu auto-stoppeuse,
j'l'aurais préférée vicieuse, voire allumeuse !

J'l'ai prise en stop à la porte de Vanves, un soir de juin,
l'est montée dans ma Ford Mustang, avec son chien,
un dobermann complètement barge
qu'avait très faim,
qu'a mis des poils et pi d'la bave
plein mes coussins.
Elle a r'tiré ses charentaises,
bonjour l'odeur,
pour roupiller super à l'aise
pendant trois heures !

Elle était un p'tit peu campeuse,
un p'tit peu auto-stoppeuse,
j'l'aurais préférée vicieuse, voire allumeuse !

En s'reveillant l'avait la frite, elle m'a parlé
d'un pote à elle qu'est journaliste à V.S.D,
qu'écrit parfois dans Rock and Folk,
sous un faux nom,
pi qui s'rait pédé comme un phoque,
mais loin d'être con.
J'lui ai dit : boucle-là, tu m'emmerdes
avec tes salades,
pi tu m'enfumes avec ton herbe
ça m'rend malade !

Elle était un p'tit peu campeuse,
un p'tit peu auto-stoppeuse,
j'l'aurais préférée vicieuse, voire allumeuse !

On s'est arrêté pour bouffer après Moulins,
et Jacques Borel nous a chanté son p'tit refrain :
le plat pourri qui est le sien,
j'y ai pas touché,
tiens, c'est pas dur, même le clébard
a tout gerbé !
Ma stoppeuse s'est rempli l'tiroir
sans rien moufter,
elle était raide, comme par hasard,
j'ai tout casqué !

Elle était un p'tit peu campeuse,
un p'tit peu auto-stoppeuse,
j'l'aurais préférée vicieuse, voire allumeuse !

Quand j'lui ai proposé la botte, sans trop y croire,
elle m'a dit : cause toujours, mon pote, t'est qu'un ringard !
Alors, pour détendre l'atmosphère,
très glauque, très punk,
j'mets une cassette se Starshouter
dans mon Blaupunkt.

Ell' m'dit : j'préfère le rock'n-roll,
c'est plus l'éclate.
Je l'ai gerbé de ma bagnole
à grands coups d'lattes.

Elle était un p'tit peu campeuse,
un p'tit peu auto-stoppeuse,
j'l'aurais préférée vicieuse, voire allumeuse !

Elle s'est r'trouvé sur l'macadam avec ses gamelles,
son sac à dos, son dobermann, bien fait pour elle,
terminé pour moi les campeuses,
j'ai eu ma dose,
me parlez plus d'auto-stoppeuse
ça m'rend morose !
J'veux plus personne dans ma bagnole,
j'suis mieux tout seul,
j'conduit d'une main, d'l'autre j'picole
j'me fends la gueule !

Elle était un p'tit peu campeuse,
un p'tit peu auto-stoppeuse,
j'l'aurais préférée vicieuse, voire allumeuse !


(And you must admit, "l'auto-stoppeuse" sounds much nicer than e.g. 'female hitch-hiker' :wink: )

And the English version...

Miss Maggie

Women of the world or street
So very often just the same
I love every one I meet
Have they fame or be they plain

Down to the last stupid crow
I praise with every word I utter
I'm disgusted by men now
With their morals from the gutter

'Cause there's no woman in this land
Quite so stupid as her brother
Nor so vain or underhand
Except maybe Madame Thatcher

Lady I love you now I do
'Cause when a sport becomes a war
There's no girls or very few
Amongst those fans who yell for more

Those with no marbles left to lose
Up to here with hate and beer
Deifying fools in blue
Insulting bastards with a sneer

There is no female hooligan
Imbecilic filled with murder
No not even in Britain
Except for sure Madame Thatcher

I love woman just because
When she's sitting at the wheel
There's no man-like sense of loss
No urge to kill is yours to feel

For a slightly damaged headlight
Or for two fingers in the air
There are those who wish to fight
To the death if they but dare

An "up yours" their favourite sign
There's no woman so vulgar
To use this symbol all the time
Except perhaps Madame Thatcher

How I love you dear woman
You don't go to war to die
Because the vision of a gun
Does not make you pant and sigh

Amongst those hunters of the night
Who jump on creatures that are frail
And occasionnally an Arabite
I've yet to see a female

There is no woman low enough
To spit and polish a revolver
Just to feel so bloody tough
Except for sure Madame Thatcher

The atom bomb was never made
By a human female brain
And no female hand has slayed
Those US peoples of the plain

Palestinians or Armenians
Bear their witness form the grave
That a genocide is masculine
Like a SS or a Green Beret

In this bloody mass of man
Each assassin is a brother
There's no woman to rival them
Except of course Madame Thatcher

And lastly Woman above all
I love hour gentleness so mild
A man draws strength from his own balles
Wich like his gun he shoots from wild

And when the final curtain draws
He'll join the cretins in the harvest
Playing football playing wars
Or who can piss the farthest

I would join the doggic host
And love my days on earth
As my day to day lampost
I would use Madame Thatcher

People say I'm crazy doing what I'm doing
Well they give me all kinds of warnings to save me from ruin
When I say that I'm o.k. well they look at me kind of strange
Surely you're not happy now you no longer play the game

People say I'm lazy dreaming my life away
Well they give me all kinds of advice designed to enlighten me
When I tell them that I'm doing fine watching shadows on the wall
Don't you miss the big time boy you're no longer on the ball

I'm just sitting here making the wheels go round and round
I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go

Ah, people asking questions lost in confusion
Well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions
Well they shake their heads and they look at me as if I've lost my mind
I tell them there's no hurry
I'm just sitting here doing time

I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go
I just had to let it go
I just had to let it go
John Lennon

Whatever Lola Wants
Sarah Vaughan

Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets
And little man, little Lola wants you
Make up your mind to have
(Make up you mind to have)
No regrets (no regrets)
Recline yourself
Resign yourself, you're through

I always get, what I aim for
And your heart and soul
Is what I came for

Whatever Lola wants (Lola wants)
Lola gets (Lola gets)
Take off your coat
Don't you know you can't win
You're no exception to the rule
I'm irresistible you fool .. give in
(Give in, you'll never win)

Whatever Lola wants
Lola gets

I always get, what I aim for
And your heart and soul
Is what I came for

Whatever Lola wants (Lola wants)
Lola gets (Lola gets)
Take off your coat
Don't you know, you can't win

You're no exception to the rule
I'm irresistible you fool ... give in
(Give in, you'll never win)

Give in (give in, you'll never win)
Give in (give in, you'll never win)

Speaking of the British, there is this young 17 year old
beautiful girl from England, Joss Stone with this incredible
voice that reminds one of Janis Joplin. That girl is great.
Here is one of her songs....

"I've Fallen In Love With You"

I've fallen in love with you
Please, tell me, tell me what else was there to do
When feelin lips like yours and looking into eyes like yours
Oh, I might as well face it
Cause it's true
Yes, I've fallen in love with you

Oh, my beating heart wants you
And my empty arms need you
Don't you go, please stay
And never try to send me away

I've fallen in love with you (ooh baby, please stay)
I've fallen in love with you

I've fallen in love with you
And you've just got to feel the same way too
When you embraced me last night
Lord knows it was pure, such pure delight

Oh, my beating heart wants you
And my empty arms need you
Don't you go, please stay
And never try to send me away

Oh yes, my love
Oh yes, my love
My darlin
I've fallen in love with you
I've fallen in love

I've fallen so deep in love you see
Until you become the very soul of me
Let me tell you something,
I don't care enough anyway
All over, hey, all over my face it shows
Said I'm talkin bout love this time
Oh, yes I am
And you know what?
It's not a schoolgirl crush

Oh no, no [x12]

Ooh, baby, yea
Oh my beating heart wants you
And my empty arms need you
Don't you go, please stay
And never try to send me away
My beating heart wants you
And my empty arms need you
Don't you go, please stay
And never try to send me away

I've fallen in love with you (yes, my love)
I've fallen in love with you (in love with you, in love with you)
I've fallen in love with you (it's not infatuation cause I would really know)
I've fallen in love with you
(My beating heart wants you, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know it wants you)
I've fallen in love with you
(I've fallen for you)
I've fallen in love
(I'm falling in love)
I've fallen in love with you
(Tell me, what else was there to do?)
I've fallen in love