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Good morning, WA2K radio. It's good to see our contributors playing and reciting, right?

edgar, Odetta sang John Henry on that tape, and made the sounds of the hammer. She was fabulous. Thanks, Texas for that love and prayer melody. It was nice to read the lyrics this morning.

C. J., What's his name is delightful, both before and after. <smile> and I could psych out most of the lyrics to that song. Thanks, gal.

Hey, Bob of Boston. Thanks for the bios, buddy. Wharton's The Age of Innocence rang a distant bell but I will have to ring that bell once more, I fear.

Morning song for Edith.

Le Bel Age
Pat Benetar
There comes a time when you should see things clear
Free from my innocence, there is no circumstance too severe
Only the need for us, for us to believe again
There is a time, temptation's on the run
Dreamer you've had your way, soldier you've had your day in the sun
Now it's time, oh it's time for us to begin again

Le bel age, only our love will remain
Le bel age, close to the truth once again

There comes a time there comes a time when you must find your way
Baby has made his bed out in a silhouette of gold and grey
Now it's time, yes it's time for us to believe again

Le bel age, only our love will remain
Le bel age, close to the truth once again

Le bel age, only our love will remain
Le bel age, close to the truth once again

Standing so close to me, no possibility to change our destiny
I see it perfectly, moving so naturally, nothing can stand in our way

Le bel age, only our love will remain
Le bel age, close to the truth once again

Le bel age, only our love will remain
Le bel age, close to the truth once again

Le bel age, only our love will remain
Le bel age, close to the truth once again

Le bel age, only our love will remain
Le bel age, close to the truth once again

Le bel age, only our love will remain
Le bel age, close to the truth once again

Le bel age, le bel age

Good Morning WA2K'

Today's birthdays:

1414 - Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg (d. 1486)
1522 - Martin Chemnitz, German theologian (d. 1586)
1664 - Henry Wharton, English writer (d. 1695)
1721 - Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (d. 1770)
1731 - Benjamin Banneker, American scientist (d. 1806)
1802 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (d. 1837)
1810 - Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (d. 1887)
1818 - Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883)
1825 - A.P. Hill, American Confederate general (d. 1865)
1841 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)
1853 - Stanford White, American architect (d. 1906)
1869 - Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (d. 1934)
1873 - Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (d. 1941)
1877 - Enrico De Nicola, Italian politician (d. 1959)
1877 - Allama Iqbal, Indian philosopher and poet (d. 1938)
1879 - Milan Sufflay, Croatian politician (d. 1931)
1880 - Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect (d. 1960)
1883 - Edna May Oliver, American actress (d. 1942)
1885 - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian writer (d. 1922)
1885 - Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (d. 1955)
1886 - Ed Wynn, American actor (d. 1966)
1889 - Jean Monnet, French internationalist (d. 1979)
1892 - Mabel Normand, American actress (d. 1930)
1895 - Mae Marsh, American actress (d. 1968)
1897 - Ronald George Wreyford Norrish British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)
1902 - Anthony Asquith, British film director (d. 1968)
1905 - Erika Mann, German writer (d. 1969)
1913 - Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
1915 - Sargent Shriver, U.S. Vice Presidential candidate
1918 - Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (d. 1996)
1923 - Alice Coachman, American athlete
1923 - Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (d. 1965)
1928 - Anne Sexton, American poet (d. 1974)
1929 - Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1934 - Ingvar Carlsson, Swedish politician
1934 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (d. 1996)
1935 - Bob Gibson, baseball player
1936 - Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (d. 1992)
1936 - Daniel Robert Graham, Governor of Florida
1937 - Roger McGough, English performance poet ("The Scaffold")
1941 - Tom Fogerty, American musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival) (d. 1990)
1942 - Tom Weiskopf, American golfer
1951 - Lou Ferrigno, Italian bodybuilder and actor
1959 - Thomas Quasthoff, German bass-baritone
1959 - Tony Slattery, British actor and comedian
1961 - Jill Dando, British television presenter (d. 1999)
1964 - Robert Duncan McNeill, American actor
1965 - Bryn Terfel, Welsh baritone
1970 - Chris Jericho, American professional wrestler
1970 - Susan Tedeschi, American musician
1972 - Corin Tucker, American singer (Sleater-Kinney)
1974 - Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
1978 - Sisqó, American actor and singer (Dru Hill)
1979 - Martin Taylor, English footballer
1982 - Ina Arnautalic, Bosnian product designer
1984 - Delta Goodrem, Australian singer, songwriter, and actress
1987 - Rachel Ngan, Famous Filipina pornstar AKA Lechon

Hedy Lamarr Trivia from IMDb:

Hedy's credited invention was for a radio guiding system for torpedoes which was used in WWII. She supposedly gained the knowledge from her first husband, Fritz Mandl, A Viennese munitions dealer who sided with the Nazis. Hedy drugged her maid to escape her husband and homeland.

Sued Mel Brooks for mocking her name in his film Blazing Saddles (1974) (they settled out of court)

Sued software company Corel Corporation for using her photo on the cover of software product CorelDRAW. [April 1998]

Hedy Lamarr, under her married name Hedy Kiesler Markey, was awarded patent #2,292,387, along with co-inventor George Antheil, for a "Secret Communication System". This seminal invention was the first instance of spread-spectrum communications based on frequency-hopping techniques. [11 August 1942]

Sued Mel Brooks for mocking her name in his film Blazing Saddles (1974) (they settled out of court)

Sued software company Corel Corporation for using her photo on the cover of software product CorelDRAW. [April 1998]

Hedy Lamarr, under her married name Hedy Kiesler Markey, was awarded patent #2,292,387, along with co-inventor George Antheil, for a "Secret Communication System". This seminal invention was the first instance of spread-spectrum communications based on frequency-hopping techniques. [11 August 1942]

Frequency hopping; created by Lamarr and George Antheil, is now widely used in cellular phones and other modern technology. However neither profited from this fact, because their patents were allowed to expire decades before the modern wireless boom.

Extase (1932) was banned in Germany because Hedy was Jewish and Adolf Hitler was chancellor at the time.

The mansion used in The Sound of Music belonged to her at the time.



Dorothy Dandridge trivia, IMDb

Daughter of actress Ruby Dandridge.

At the time of her death, there was $2.14 in her bank account.

Dated Rat Packer and actor Peter Lawford, who appeared at her funeral.

Dated director Otto Preminger.

Now thought to have suffered from manic depression.

She was pursued for the role of Tuptim in "The King & I", but turned it down on the advice of Otto Preminger, who advised her not to accept a role in which she was not the star. Rita Moreno was then cast in the role.

First black woman to grace the cover of Life Magazine.

She was found dead in her West Hollywood apartment on September 8, 1965, the victim of a barbituate poisoning. She was only 41. Had she been born 20 years later, Dorothy Dandridge would no doubt be one of the most well-known actresses in film history.

In September 1965 the New York Times reported that her death was caused by bone marrow particles from a fractured metatarsal bone in her right foot entered her bloodstream and reached her brain and lungs.

First African-American actress to be Oscar-nominated for "Best Actress in a Leading Role" (Carmen Jones)

There's our Raggedy, listeners. Thanks, PA for the celeb updates. How very sad about Hedy and Dorothy. We appreciate those little know facts about the two; both were beautiful but ill fated women.

Here's a cute song for Benjamin Banneker who was, of course, a genius:

The syncopated clock

There was a man like you and me, as simple as a man could ever be;
And he was happy as a king, except for one peculiar thing.

He had a clock that worked all right,
It worked all right, but not exactly quite;
Instead of going "tick, tock, tick",
the crazy clock went "tock, tick, tock".

The poor old man just raved and raved, because nobody could say
Why his silly clock behaved that hickory dickory way.
But now a famous man is he, He owns a public curiosity;
>From far and wide the people flock To hear the syncopated clock.

Tick-a-tock, tick-a-tock,
There's a zing in the swing of that clock,
Tock-a-tick, tock-a-tick,
Don't you think it's a marvelous trick?

Ting-a-ling, ting-a-ling,
There's a zong in the bong of that ring,
Ling-a-ting, ling-a-ting,
Don't you think it's a wonderful thing?

The experts came to hear and see,
But none of them could solve the mystery.
They called Professor Einstein too,
He said "There's nothing I can do".

But soon the fickle human race will find another freak to take its
place,
And one fine day the man will hock the poor old syncopated clock.

Big smile at those lyrics.

Well, folks, lots of things to do today, so Letty can't come out and play.

Ed Wynn
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Ed Wynn (November 9, 1886 - June 19, 1966) was a popular United States entertainer, born Isaiah Edward Leopold in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was best known as a comedian, billed as The Perfect Fool (and starring in a musical revue of that name on Broadway in 1921). Wynn also wrote, directed, and produced shows.

He became a headliner on Vaudeville in the early 1910s, and was a star of the Ziegfeld Follies starting in 1914.

He hosted a popular radio show for most of the 1930s, heard in North America on Tuesday nights, sponsored by Texaco gasoline. He was often seen wearing a fireman's helmet, as the "Texaco Fire Chief".

Wynn founded his own short-lived radio network, the Amalgamated Broadcasting System, which lasted only five weeks in 1933.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, he hosted a television show, and won an Emmy Award in 1949.

After the end of his television show, Wynn worked as a dramatic actor in movies. His role in The Diary of Anne Frank won him an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor in 1959. His son, actor Keenan Wynn, had encouraged him to make the career change; the two appeared in the 1957 Playhouse 90 broadcast of Rod Serling's play Requiem for a Heavyweight.

Also in 1959, Wynn appeared on Serling's TV series The Twilight Zone in the episode "One for the Angels". Serling, a longtime admirer, had written the episode especially for him.

Wynn also provided the voice of the Mad Hatter in Walt Disney's film, Alice in Wonderland. One of his best-known performances in his later years was as "Uncle Albert" in Mary Poppins.

Ed Wynn died June 19, 1966 in Beverly Hills, California, of throat cancer.

The distinctive giggly wavering voice which Wynn created for his "Perfect Fool" character remains much imitated, especially by voice actors of animated cartoons.
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Quotations

* "A comedian is not a man who says funny things. A comedian is one who says things funny."

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

I Love To Laugh

Uncle Albert:
I love to laugh
Loud and long and clear
I love to laugh
It's getting worse ev'ry year

The more I laugh
The more I fill with glee
And the more the glee
The more I'm a merrier me
It's embarrassing!
The more I'm a merrier me!

Mary Poppins:
Some people laugh through their noses
Sounding something like this "Mmm..."
Some people laugh through their teeth goodness sake
Hissing and fizzing like snakes

Bert:
Some laugh too fast
Some only blast - ha!
Others, they twitter like birds
Then there's the kind
What can't make up their mind

Uncle Albert:
When things strike me as funny
I can't hide it inside
And squeak - as the squeakelers do
I've got to let go with a ho-ho-ho...
And a ha-ha-ha...too!

All:
We love to laugh
Loud and long and clear
We love to laugh
So ev'rybody can hear
The more you laugh
The more you fill with glee
And the more the glee
The more we're a merrier we!

Mabel Normand
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


Mabel Normand (November 10, 1892 - February 23, 1930) was a US film actress, who was a popular comedienne in silent films.


Early career with Mack Sennett


Born Mabel Ethelreid Normand in Staten Island, New York, before she entered films in 1909 Normand worked as an artist's model, which included posing for postcards illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson, creator of the Gibson Girl image. She met director Mack Sennett and embarked on a tumultuous affair with him. Her first films portrayed her as a bathing beauty but Normand quickly demonstrated a flair for comedy, and became a star of Sennett's short films. She appeared regularly with Fatty Arbuckle and Charlie Chaplin, and wrote and directed some of Chaplin's early films. She is frequently credited with being the first person to throw a cream pie on film.

In 1914 she starred with Chaplin and Marie Dressler in Tillie's Punctured Romance. She developed into a major film star and as her relationship with Sennett came to an end she signed a contract in 1918 with Samuel Goldwyn and opened her own film studio in Culver City.

However, by this time she was becoming increasingly capricious and volatile. Her alcoholism, combined with an addiction to narcotics damaged her health and career. Nonetheless, her breakup with Sennett seems to have caused Normand to re-evaluate her life and she embarked on a program of self-education, developing keen and lasting interests in reading and books.


Career destroyed

Director William Desmond Taylor shared these interests and also tried to help in her battle against addiction. The two formed a close relationship. He was murdered in 1922 just fifteen minutes after Normand had left his home. As the last person to see him alive, Normand was closely scrutinised by police and the media. Reports of her drug use became public and her reputation suffered. Her past appearances in many films with Fatty Arbuckle, who was also involved in a widely reported scandal, did further damage. The following year she was involved in yet another scandal when her chauffeur shot and wounded one of Normand's lovers with her own pistol. For a few years she made no films but was signed by Hal Roach Studios in 1926 after director/producer F. Richard Jones, who had directed her at Keystone, offered her a second chance. At Roach, she made the film Raggedy Rose plus four others. Despite publicity support from the Hollywood community (including Mary Pickford), moviegoers did not respond and after more than 250 films her career was essentially over.

She also married actor Lew Cody in 1926 but her health was in decline. After an extended stay in a sanitarium she died from tuberculosis in Monrovia, California and was interred in the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles.

Mabel Normand has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures, at 6821 Hollywood Boulevard.

In 1974, Michael Stewart and Jerry Herman wrote the musical Mack & Mabel, chronicling the romance between Normand and Mack Sennett.


Humorous quote

Say anything you like, but don't say I love to work. That sounds like Mary Pickford, the prissy bitch.

(Normand and Pickford were close friends)

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

Dorothy Dandridge
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


Dorothy Jean Dandridge (born November 9, 1922 or 1923 in Cleveland, Ohio; died September 8, 1965 in West Hollywood, California) was an American actress. Born in Cleveland, Ohio to Cyril Dandridge and Ruby Jean Butler (both of whom were of African descent), she was the first African American to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Dandridge began singing in her church's choir and, with the prodding of her mother, she and her sister began to perform as "The Wonder Children." After the Depression Ruby, Vivian, Dorothy and Neva (Ruby's lesbian lover/friend) moved to Hollywood. Her first on-screen appearance was as an extra in a 1935 Our Gang short called Teacher's Beau.

Dorothy's first important role was a small part in the Marx Brothers' A Day at the Races (movie) in 1937 which her sister, Vivian and Etta Jones appear as "The Dandridge Sisters". The Dandridge Sisters traveled all over the world and even perfomed at the world famous Cotton Club with the Nicholas Brothers; Dorothy would eventually marry Harold Nicholas on September 6, 1942, who was abusive towards her, and they had one child, Harolyn Nicholas, Dandridge's only child, who was born severely handicapped, before they divorced in October, 1951. After this marriage, Dorothy became involved with her director, Otto Preminger, while he was still married. This affair lasted for years, but Otto had refused to divorce his wife and marry Dorothy.

Dorothy Dandridge did not receive another role until 1940, when she appeared in Four Shall Die a so-called "race film" in which she played a murderer at the age of 19. All of her early roles were stereotypical parts for African American actresses, but her singing ability brought her popularity in nightclubs around the country. During this period, she starred in several "soundies", video films designed to be displayed on juke boxes, including Paper Doll by the Mills Brothers Cow Cow Boogie, "Jig In The Jungle," "Mr. & Mrs. Carpenters (Rent Party)".

In 1954, Dandridge was cast in Carmen Jones, the remake of the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet. For this performance, she received an Academy Award nomination. The Negro community had high hopes for Dorothy Dandridge at this time because of the Civil Rights Movement. Dorothy worked tirelessly to help the Movement in any way that she could. When Carmen Jones was released it was a financial success but despite the Oscar nomination, she had to go to Italy to make her next movie, Tamango, in 1956. Dorothy agreed to play "Tuptim" in The King and I but later changed her mind; Rita Moreno got the part instead. This may have led to her lack of work in Hollywood and she was once again forced to go on tour and perform at clubs across the nation. In 1957 she made Island in the Sun and in 1959 Porgy and Bess.

In 1965, Dandridge was found dead at the age of 41 or 42 in her home from an overdose of Imipramine, a tricyclic antidepressant. Modern analysts believe that she may have suffered from bipolar disorder, commonly called manic depression. Depressed and apparently destitute, there is great speculation that her death was a suicide but the official coroner's report did not make a final determination. [1]

She is interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in Glendale, California. After her mother Ruby passed away she was interred with Dorothy at Forest Lawn.

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6719 Hollywood Blvd.

Fellow Clevelander Halle Berry played Dandridge in the made-for-TV movie, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999), for which she won an Emmy Award.

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

Good morning WA2K listeners. Here is a song getting to know your subject:

by Paul Simon
If you want to write a song about the moon
Walk along the craters of the afternoon
When the shadows are deep
And the light is alien
And gravity leaps like a knife off the pavement
And you want to write a song about the moon
You want to write a spiritual tune
Then nah nah nah
Presto
Song about the moon
If you want to write a song about the heart
Think about the moon before you start
Because the heart will howl Like a dog in the moonlight
And the heart can explode
Like a pistol on a June night
So if you want to write a song about the heart
And its ever longing for a counterpart
Write a song about the moon
The laughing boy
He laughed so hard
He fell down from his place
The laughing girl
She laughed so hard
The tears rolled down her face
Hey Songwriter
If you want to write a song about
A face
Think about a photograph
That you really can't remember
But you can't erase
Wash your hands in dreams and lightning
Cut off your hair
And whatever is frightening
If you want to write a song
About a face
If you want to write a song about
The human race
Write a song about the moon
If you want to write a song about the moon
You want to write a spirituaI tune
Then do it
Write a song about the moon

Ah, Bob of the bios is still hawking his notables, listeners. Thanks, Boston.

Diane, I would write Moon Shadow, but someone beat me to it. <smile> Thanks, honey. Lovely song by Paul.

News update in the political arena:




Democrats Win Elections in N.J. and Va. By ROBERT TANNER, AP National Writer
1 hour, 54 minutes ago



Democrats cleaned up big in off-year elections from New Jersey to California, sinking the candidate who embraced President Bush in the final days of the Virginia governor's campaign. They also turned back all four of GOP Gov.Arnold Schwarzenegger's efforts to reshape state government.



Democratic Sen. Jon Corzine (news, bio, voting record) easily won the New Jersey governor's seat after an expensive, mudslinging campaign, trouncing Republican Doug Forrester by 10 percentage points. Polls in the last week had forecast a much closer race.

Democratic Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine won a solid victory in GOP-leaning Virginia, beating Republican Jerry Kilgore by more than 5 percentage points. Democrats crowed that Bush's election-eve rally for the former state attorney general only spurred more Kaine supporters to the polls.

In California, Schwarzenegger failed in his push to rein in the Democrat-controlled Assembly. All four of his ballot measures flopped: Capping spending, removing legislators' redistricting powers, making teachers work five years instead of two to pass probation, and restricting political spending by public employee unions.

At last, folks, the Old Dominion has become the young dominion. <smile>

Hi Letty
This is the first time i have been to this thread, it looks good. well, could i be hired as the correspondent from India?

Welcome to WA2K radio, spidergal. It would be our pleasure to have you be our Indian reporter.

That would make, listeners, another wonderful country, and that has always been the intent of our station.

Any requests?

Thanks Letty, I'm glad to be a part of this thread.
what do you mean by requests, i mean?

Name a song that you would like for us to play, spidergal, to welcome you aboard.

Ha, Ok
My Heart will go on....
If you please, dear Letty.

With pleasure, India. <smile>

Artist: Celine Dion Lyrics
Song: My Heart Will Go On Lyrics



Click here to send Celine Dion polyphonic ringtone to your cell phone.

- (Love Theme From "Titanic")

Every night in my dreams
I see you. I feel you.
That is how I know you go on.

Far across the distance
And spaces between us
You have come to show you go on.

Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that the heart does go on
Once more you open the door
And you're here in my heart
And my heart will go on and on

Love can touch us one time
And last for a lifetime
And never go till we're one

Love was when I loved you
One true time I hold to
In my life we'll always go on

Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that the heart does go on
Once more you open the door
And you're here in my heart
And my heart will go on and on

There is some love that will not
go away

You're here, there's nothing I fear,
And I know that my heart will go on
We'll stay forever this way
You are safe in my heart
And my heart will go on and on

We have royalty on our forum as well, spidergal, and Raggedyaggie and I have been searching for the lyrics to Song of India. Maybe you can help.

here's some latebreaking news:

Evolution Critics Score Win in Kansas

By JOHN HANNA, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 56 minutes ago

Critics of evolution won a big victory with the approval of new public school science standards that cast doubt on Darwinism.

The standards were approved Tuesday by the Kansas Board of Education on a 6-4 vote that was lauded by "intelligent design" advocates, who helped draft them. Intelligent design holds that the universe is so complex that it must have been created by a higher power.

SourceThe Origin of Species says thus,

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. (italics mine)

If one takes Darwin at his word, he did not believe in a common origin of life through natural chemical processes, so to characterize such a position as "fundamental" to Darwinian theory is specious.

I keep breaking up, listeners, so please send my messages via cell phone. <smile>

UhOh, Mr. Turtle. Click your fins together three times and.....

Okay, listeners, if Joni can look at clouds from both sides, so can we:

You say you want a revolution
Well you know
we all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know you can count me out
Don't you know it's gonna be alright
Alright Alright
You say you got a real solution
Well you know
we'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well you know
We're doing what we can
But when you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is brother you have to wait
Don't you know it's gonna be alright
Alright Alright
You say you'll change the constitution
Well you know
we all want to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well you know
You better free your mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow
Don't you know know it's gonna be alright
Alright Alright

Hi Boss!
.....I have for a while considered askink for an occasional commentary spot called .....2 cents PLAIN...... BTW, for the last two days I have had trouble posting on this site, on two different PC's. Has anyone else had this trouble. If you like, when I return on Friday, I can post a sample spot for you.

hey! it's the booman.

Boo, my word. We've all had a bit of trouble today. I, for one, have that old dialing problem. Good to see you, buddy, problems or no.

Come on back and bring your book. <smile>