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Stagger Lee has gone through many incarnations. The original is pretty rough. The version quoted here is the Lloyd Price version, which was watered down by Dick Clark for his rock n roll audience for Price.

Good morning, WA2K radio fans.

First, I would like to thank Eva and edgar for the information on the songs and the artists. There are many things to learn in cyber radio, and many memories which help us to cope and look back and ahead with fondness.

Our bi-bear is waving goodbye, and we will certainly miss him, but I'm certain that squinney will keep us informed.

Back later with the eyes and ears of the world.

Celebrity time. Born on February 1:

1859 Victor Herbert, composer/conductor/cellist (Ireland; died 1924)
1878 Hattie Wyatt Caraway, Arkansas senator who was the first woman elected to the Senate (Bakersville, TN; died 1950)
1895 John Ford, director (Cape Elizabeth, ME; died 1973)
1901 Clark Gable, actor (Cadiz, OH; died 1960)
1902 Langston Hughes, poet (Joplin, MO; died 1967)
1926 Stuart Whitman, actor (San Francisco, CA)
1931 Boris Yeltsin, Russian president (Sverdlovsk, Russia)
1937 Don Everly, singer/musician (Brownie, KY)
Garrett Morris, comedian (New Orleans, LA)
1938 Sherman Helmsley, actor (Philadelphia, PA)
1967 Laura Dern, actress (Santa Monica, CA)
1968 Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis Presley and ex-wife of Michael Jackson (Memphis, TN)
1970 Pauly Shore, actor (Los Angeles, CA)

Remember him?

Ah, Mr. Gable. His last movie was The Misfits, Raggedy. Hollywood called it a jinxed movie because all three stars, Marilyn Monroe; Montgomery Clift, and Clark died after it was released.

For Mr. Gable:

You made me love you,
I didn't want to do it,
I didn't want to do it.
You made me love you,
And all the time you knew it,
I guess you always knew it.

You made me happy sometimes,
You made me glad.
But there were times, dear,
You made me feel so sad.

You made me cry for,
I didn't want to tell you,
I didn't want to tell you.

I need a love that's true,
Yes, I do, deed I do, you know I do.
Give me, give me, give me, give me,
What I'd die for,
You know you've got the brand of kisses,
That I'd die for,
You know you made me,
Love you.

That was from the memory of Ms. Letty.

Listeners, that was sung by Judy Garland to Mr. Gable's picture.
(supposedly)

A really, really slow swingin' song.

and a very eerie film it was too Ms Letty.

So it was, dys. I think Arthur Miller directed it, and of course, he went down the tubes financially. Clark had no doubles, as I recall, in the work that he did with the wild mustangs. (think they were mustangs). Now this is more memory work for me, so I can't be certain of every detail.

Yes indeed Letty. Judy sang it to Mr. Gable in a movie. And offhand I don't remember the movie.

Whenever the Misfits is on, I turn away from the scene in which Gable is trying to rope the wild horse. You can almost feel Gable's pain. He insisted upon doing the stunt work himself and suffered his heart attack shortly after. Arthur Miller was married to Monroe at the time and wrote the screenplay. John Huston directed. Thelma Ritter played a good part in that one, too. And I thought Monroe was at her best.

Wow, Raggedy. You remembered more of the details. That's right. Miller wrote the screenplay. I do recall that Clark Gable never got to see his only child, because he died before his wife gave birth.

Listeners, we have fun and love to learn here on WA2K radio.

I only saw the Misfits for the first time about six months ago. It's a real experience all right.

I recall with fondness the days when western shows ruled the air. My favorites were Have Gun Will Travel, Cheyenne, Maverick, Gunsmoke (with Chester) and The Westerner (with Brian Kieth)


WESTERN MOVIES
THE OLYMPICS

To save my soul I can't get a date,
Baby's got it tuned on channel eight.
Now Wyatt Earp and the Big Cheyenne
They're comin' thru the T.V. shootin up the land.
Ah...um...my baby loves the Western movies.
My baby loves the Western movies,
Bam, bam, shoot 'em up Pow.
Ah..um..My babe loves the Western Movies.
I call my baby on the telephone
To tell her half my head was gone
I just got hit by a great big brick
She says thanks for reminding me about that Maverick
Ah..um...my baby loves the Western movies.
My baby loves the Western movies,
Bam, bam, shoot em up pow.
Ah...um...
My baby loves the Western movies.
Well there's Jeremy Roller and Old Cochise
Jim Hardy, Jim Bowie and Sugarfoot.
They all have gun will travel
Give me back my boots and saddle uh huh.
Here's the story of the certain Wagon Train Mccord
A broken arrow has broken my heart.
A Jefferson Thomas with Bat Masterson
Unties my baby and the fight was won.
Ah..um...my baby loves the Western movies.
My baby loves the western movies.
Bam bam shoot em up pow.
Ah um, my baby loves the western movies.


Note:
(Jim Hardie was a character in the TV show "Tales of Wells Fargo" which ran
from 1957 to 1962) Jim Bowie was the famous frontiersman portrayed in the
show Adventures of Jim Bowie which ran from 1956-1958.

My word, edgar. I remember some of the songs that introduced those old Westerns.

Have gun will travel,
Reads the card of a man,
A knight without armour,
In a savage land.

(da da da da da, etc)
Is the man called Paladin

I do know the words to Maverick's theme, but I don't have the time right now to post them.

Incidentally, edgar. I love the words to that song of yours.

Listeners, it just occurred to me that we may have some little ears out there, so for them:

I am the sister of him,
And he is my brother.
He is still too little for us to talk to each other.
So every morning, I show him my doll and my book,
And every morning, he's still too little to look.

Tender memories.

My favorite Western

The Lawman came with the sun.
There was a job to be done.
And so they sent for the badge and the gun
Of the Lawman.

And as he silently roved,
Where evil violently ploved
They knew he'd live or he'd die by the code
Of the Lawman.

The man who rides all alone
And all that he'll ever own,
Is just a badge and a gun and he's known
As the Lawman.

(Ploved?)

The eight-minute adagio of a previously unknown piano concerto by Ludwig van Beethoven, discovered at the British Museum, will get its world premiere today in Rotterdam.

Oh? hey, I'm ready to hear that...

Hey, all.

Sheeze. The man who was the Lawman also did the bad guy in one of Eastwood's movies. Pale Horse, Pale Rider?

Hey, dys. I guess the British Museum just lost its charm.

Just wanted to say that AMC has the original Munity on the Bounty starring:

Guess Who.

Osso, wouldn't mind to hear it myself.

Signing off for now.

Charles Laughton.

Does anyone remember when C. Laughton held his hand up with a raised index finger (I think it was). Was that in Mutiny? Or something else? (My dad had a cast of that, but it's long gone...) I barely remember that as a childhood detail.

Aha, I'm wrong, it was Errol Flynn in 1933 -
http://www.filmsite.org/muti.html

I found the perfect new location for me to live, as noted in my profile, it's Wolfs Hole Ariz and matches my personality to a tee. this is a pic of the downtown area:

I'm sure you'll miss Starbucks..

right, well we all have to make sacrifices.