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and here, folks, is a song for those who are addicted to sunshine from the generation gap era.

by Jonathan Edwards

Sunshine go away today,
I don't feel much like dancin'
Some man's gone, he's tried to run my life
Don't know what he's askin'

He tells me I'd better get in line
Can't hear what he's sayin'
When I grow up, I'm gonna make it mine
These ain't dues I been payin'

How much does it cost? I'll buy it.
The time is all we've lost. I'll try it.
He can't even run his own life,
I'll be damned if he'll run mine
Sunshine

Sunshine go away today,
I don't feel much like dancin'
Some man's gone, he's tried to run my life
Don't know what he's askin'

Working starts to make me wonder where
fruits of what I do are going
He says in love and war all is fair
He's got cards he ain't showin'

How much does it cost? I'll buy it.
The time is all we've lost. I'll try it.
He can't even run his own life,
I'll be damned if he'll run mine
Sunshine

Sunshine come on back another day
I promise you I'll be singin'
This old world she's gonna turn around
brand new bells'll be ringin'

Jonathan Edwards? My word, folks. He wrote "Sinners in the hands of an angry god."

I love "sinners in the hands of an angry god" it's soo dramatic/theatrical.

dys, you brat. Actually, folks, Edwards was a good writer in spite of his topic.

Here's a neat song:

Lambert Hendricks And Ross Lyrics - Sermonette Lyrics

I heard me a sermonette Have you heard it yet?
With that soulful message that you won't soon forget
It tells about real true love people lost sight of
through their sinful livin' and scornin' Heaven above

It tells you to love one another, To feel that each man's your brother
Live right, 'cause you know that you reap (just) what you sew
And so to have no regrets, and to find what you're missin,
Bow your head and listen to this sermonette

Grant Wood
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Grant Wood (February 13, 1891 - February 12, 1942) was a United States painter, born in Anamosa, Iowa. He is best known for his painting depicting the rural American Midwest.

Wood's most famous work is his 1930 painting American Gothic. The two who posed for the painting were Wood's sister, Nan Wood Graham, and the family dentist, Dr. Byron McKeeby. The cottage in the background was located in Eldon, Iowa. The painting was first exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago where it won a $300 prize. The painting gained instant fame after newspapers across the country reported the story. In current times, the painting is often satirized, though it remains one of the top examples of Regionalism and American Art.

Wood founded the Stone City art colony in 1933, near his hometown. He became a great proponent of regionalism in the arts, lecturing throughout the country on the topic. He is considered Cedar Rapids' patron artist. He taught art at the University of Iowa.

One of his designs is depicted on the 2004 Iowa State Quarter.

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

Tennessee Ernie Ford
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Ernest Jennings Ford (February 13, 1919 - October 17, 1991), better known by the stage name Tennessee Ernie Ford, was a pioneering U.S. recording artist and television host who enjoyed success in the country & western, pop, and gospel musical genres.


Born in Bristol, Tennessee, Ford began his radio career as an announcer at station WOPI in Bristol, leaving in 1939 to study classical music and voice at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. After serving in World War II, Ford worked at radio stations in San Bernardino and Pasadena, Calif. before signing a recording contract with Capitol Records in 1949 when he became a local TV star over Cliffie Stone's popular Southern California "Hometown Jamboree" TV show. He released almost 50 country singles through the early 1950s, several of which made the charts. Many of his early records, including "The Shot Gun Boogie," "Blackberry Boogie," and so on were exciting, driving boogie-woogie records featuring exciting accompaniment by the Hometown Jamboree band which included Jimmy Bryant on lead guitar and pioneer pedal steel guitarist Speedy West. "I'll Never Be Free," a duet pairing Ford with Capitol Records pop singer Kay Starr, became a huge country and pop crossover hit in 1950.

Ford eventually moved on from Hometown Jamboree. He took over from bandleader Kay Kyser as host of the TV version of NBC quiz show "College of Musical Knowledge" when it returned briefly in 1954 after a four-year hiatus. He also portrayed the 'country bumpkin' "Cousin Ernie" on I Love Lucy.

Ford scored an unexpected hit on the pop charts in 1955 with his rendition of Merle Travis' "Sixteen Tons," a sparsely arranged coal-miner's lament that Travis wrote in 1946, based on his own family's experience in the mines of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Its fatalistic tone contrasted vividly with the sugary pop ballads and the Rock and roll just starting to dominate the charts at the time:

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go;
I owe my soul to the company store...

With a unique clarinet-driven pop arrangement by Ford's Musical Director, Jack Fascinato, "Sixteen Tons" spent ten weeks at number one on the country charts and eight weeks at number one on the pop charts, and made Ford a crossover star. It became Ford's 'signature song.'

Ford subsequently helmed his own primetime variety program, "The Ford Show," which ran on NBC from 1956 to 1961. Ford's program was notable for the inclusion of a religious song at the end of every show; Ford insisted on this despite objections from network officials who feared it might provoke controversy. It quickly became the most popular segment of the show. He earned the nickname "The Ol' Pea-Picker" due to his catch-phrase, "Bless your pea-pickin' heart!"

In 1956 he released "Hymns," his first gospel album, which remained on Billboard's "Top Album" charts for a remarkable 277 consecutive weeks; his album "Great Gospel Songs" won a Grammy Award in 1964. After the NBC show ended, Ford moved his family to Northern California and from 1962-65, hosted a daytime talk show The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show from San Francisco, broadcast over the ABC TV network.

Over the years, Ford has been awarded three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for radio, records, and television. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1984 and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1990.

Ford, who offstage contended with a serious alcohol problem that never affected his professional work, began to suffer from increasing liver problems. He fell ill in 1991 after leaving a state dinner at the White House hosted by President George H. W. Bush, and died in a Virginia hospital on October 17, exactly thirty-six years after "Sixteen Tons" was released and one day shy of the first anniversary of his induction into the Hall of Fame.

Ford was posthumously recognized for his gospel music contributions by adding him to the Gospel Music Association's Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1994.

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

Sixteen Tons :: Tennessee Ernie Ford

Some people say a man is made out of mud
A poor man's made out of muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
A mind that's weak and a back that's strong

Chorus:
You load sixteen tons, and whattaya get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter don'cha call me, cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

I was born one morning when the sun didn't shine
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
I loaded sixteen tons of number-nine coal
And the store boss said, "Well bless my soul!"

Chorus

I was born one morning, it was drizzlin' rain
Fightin' and trouble are my middle name
I was raised in the cambric by an old mama lion
Cain't no high-toned woman make me walk the line

Chorus

If you see me comin' better step aside
A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died
One fist of iron, the other of steel
If the right one don't getcha then the left one will

Chorus

Kim Novak
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kim Novak (born February 13, 1933) is an American actress.

She was born Marilyn Pauline Novak in Chicago, Illinois, a Roman Catholic of Czech extraction. Her father was a railroad clerk and former teacher; her mother was also a former teacher, and she has a sister.

After graduating high school, she began her career modeling teen fashions for a local department store. She later received a scholarship at a modeling school and continued to model part time. She also worked as an elevator operator, a sales clerk, and a dental assistant.

After a job touring the country as a spokesman for refrigerators, "Miss Deepfreeze," Novak moved to Los Angeles, where she continued modeling. She then appeared as a model standing on some stairs in the RKO motion picture The French Line (1954) starring Jane Russell and Gilbert Roland. Novak's bit received no screen credit.

She was seen by a Columbia Pictures talent agent and made a screen test. Studio chief Harry Cohn was looking for someone to replace the rebellious and difficult Rita Hayworth. Novak was signed to a six-month contract. Columbia decided to make the blonde and buxom actress their version of Marilyn Monroe. She was still using the name Marilyn Novak, and they wanted to change it to Kit Marlowe. She wanted to keep her surname, however, and resisted pressure to change it. She and the studio finally settled on the stage name Kim Novak.

Cohn told her to lose weight, and he won the battle to make her wear brassieres. She took acting lessons, which she had to pay for herself, then debuted as Lona McLane in Pushover (1954) opposite Fred MacMurray and Philip Carey. Though her role was not the best, her beauty caught the attention of fans and critics alike.

She then played the femme fatale role as Janis in Phffft! (1954) opposite Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, and Jack Carson. Novak's reviews were good. More people were eager to see the new star, and she received an enormous amount of fan mail. She went on to appear in a number of successful movies.


After playing Madge Owens in Picnic (1955) opposite William Holden, Novak won a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer and for World Film Favorite. She was also nominated for the British BAFTA Film Award for Best Foreign Actress.

She played Molly in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) opposite Frank Sinatra and Eleanor Parker on loan-out to United Artists. The movie was a big hit. She was paired opposite Sinatra again in Pal Joey (1957), which also starred Rita Hayworth.

Her popularity became such that she made the cover of the July 29, 1957, issue of Time Magazine. That same year, she went on strike, protesting her current salary of $1,250 per week.

In 1958, Novak appeared in a dual role as Madeleine Elster and Judy Barton in Hitchcock's classic thriller Vertigo opposite James Stewart. In it, Stewart's character, a detective named Scottie Ferguson, who suffers from a fear of heights, is hired to follow a friend's blonde wife, Elster (Novak), and falls in love with her. He then witnesses her suicide. He then sees a red-haired woman, Barton (Novak), who bears a striking resemblance to the deceased. He finds that he was deceived in an elaborate murder scheme.

Vertigo was followed with her role as Gil Holroyd in Bell Book and Candle (1958) opposite James Stewart and Jack Lemmon, with Ernie Kovacs, Hermione Gingold, and Elsa Lanchester, a comedy tale of modern-day witchcraft that did not do well at the box-office.

By the early 1960s, Novak's career had begun to slide. She then played the vulgar waitress Mildred Rogers in a remake of Somerset Maugham's drama Of Human Bondage (1964) opposite Laurence Harvey and Robert Morley, and received good reviews. She showed a cunning sense of humor in Billy Wilder's cult classic Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) opposite Dean Martin, though the film was critically disastrous.

After playing the title role in The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) opposite Richard Johnson and Angela Lansbury, with George Sanders and Lilli Palmer, Novak took a break from acting, seeing as little of Hollywood as possible.

She has had two husbands, English actor Richard Johnson (married March 15, 1965-divorced April 23, 1966) and veterinarian Dr. Robert Malloy (married March 12, 1976-present).

Novak made a comeback in a dual role as a young actress, Elsa Brinkmann, and an early-day movie goddess who was murdered, Lylah Clare, in producer-director Robert Aldrich's The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968) opposite Oscar winners Peter Finch and Ernest Borgnine for MGM. It failed miserably.

After playing a forger, Sister Lyda Kebanov, in The Great Bank Robbery (1969) opposite Zero Mostel, Clint Walker, and Claude Akins, she stayed away from the screen for four years. She then played the minor role as Auriol Pageant in the comedy/horror Tales That Witness Madness (1973). In 1979, she played Helga in Just a Gigolo starring David Bowie. She played Lola Brewster in Agatha Christie's mystery/thriller The Mirror Crack'd (1980) opposite Angela Lansbury, Geraldine Chaplin, Tony Curtis, Edward Fox, Rock Hudson, and Elizabeth Taylor. In it, she and Taylor, screen actress rivals, have good scenes where they insult each other. During a break between scenes on a movie they are both appearing in, Brewster (Novak) says, "I could eat a roll of Kodak and PUKE a better picture!"

Novak has also made occasional appearances on TV over the years. She starred as aging showgirl Gloria Joyce in the made-for-TV movie The Third Girl From the Left (1973); played Eve in Satan's Triangle (1975); the role as Billie Farnsworth in Malibu (1983); the role as Rosa in a revival of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985). She also joined the cast of the series Falcon Crest in the role of Kit Marlowe during the 1986-1987 season.

Her last appearance on the silver screen was as Lillian Anderson Munnsen in the mystery/thriller Liebestraum (1991) for MGM, however her scenes were cut from the movie due to her battles with the director over how to play the role. Novak later admitted that she had been "unprofessional" in her conduct with director Mike Figgis, as recounted by gossip columnist Liz Smith (journalist).

In 1995, Novak was chosen by Empire Magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history, being number 92.

Her home in Eagle Point, Oregon, went up in flames July 24, 2000, and Novak watched helplessly as it burned. A deputy Fire Marshall said the blaze was probably caused by a tree falling across a power line. Among the loss of mementos were scripts of some of her movies, including Vertigo and Picnic, as well as her computer containing her long awaited autobiography.

For her contribution to motion pictures, Kim Novak has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It is at 6336 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood.

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

Oliver Reed
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Oliver Reed (February 13, 1938 - May 2, 1999) was an English actor known for his macho image on and off screen.

He was born in Wimbledon, London, England. The nephew of film director Sir Carol Reed, the young Oliver was dyslexic and was expelled from many different private schools.

Reed never had any acting training and had very minimal theatrical experience. His films included Women In Love, The Assassination Bureau, The Devils, I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname, Oliver!, Tommy, The Three Musketeers, Zero Population Growth, The Brood, Castaway, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen,Lion of the Desert, and Gladiator.

A major international star in the late 1960s and 1970s, Reed's career declined in the 1980s. Some of his contemporaries have ascribed his frequent appearances in films which wasted his talent to his desire for financial security: when the UK government raised taxes on personal income, Reed initially declined to join the exodus of major British film stars to Hollywood and other more tax-friendly locales, although his Daily Telegraph obituary noted that in the late seventies he was obliged to relocate to the Channel Islands as a "tax exile".

Reed married three times. In 1959 he wed Kate Byrne, they had one son, Mark, before their divorce in 1969. He then lived with the dancer Jackie Daryl from 1969, but they later parted, after having a daughter, Sarah. His widow was his second wife Josephine Burge, whom he married in 1985.

Burly and with a 48 inch chest, he began his career playing romantic leads, but gradually acquired a tougher image. He was famous for his excessive drinking, and was once forced to leave the set of a television discussion programme after arriving drunk and attempting to kiss feminist writer Kate Millett.

Reed's drinking bouts fitted in with the "social" attitude of many rugby teams in the sixties and seventies, and there are numerous anecdotes such as Reed and 36 friends drinking, in an evening, 60 gallons of beer, 32 bottles of Scotch, 17 bottles of gin, four crates of wine and one bottle of Babycham. He minimised the story that he drank 106 pints of beer on a 2-day binge before marrying Josephine; "The event that was reported actually took place during an arm-wrestling competition in Guernsey about 15 years ago, it was highly exaggerated." Despite occasional reports in publications such as The Sydney Morning Herald, Reed never played for the Sunday rugby team the Entertainers.

Reed was often irritated that his appearances on TV chat shows concentrated on his drinking feats, rather than his latest film.

He died suddenly from a heart attack in Valletta, Malta reportedly after drinking three bottles of rum and after beating five sailors at arm wrestling. His death came while he was in the middle of filming Gladiator, and his remaining scenes were completed using a body double and digitally manipulating previously shot footage. Alex Higgins, himself suffering from throat cancer, was one of a number of celebrities including Michael Winner, the film director, and one of Oliver's closest friends who attended the funeral in Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland. "Consider Yourself", a song from the hugely successful Oliver!, was played at the funeral.

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

The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello".
"Mrs. Ward, please."
"Speaking."
"Mrs. Ward, this is Doctor Jones at the Medical Testing Laboratory.
When your doctor sent your husband's biopsy to the lab yesterday, a
biopsy from another Mr. Ward arrived as well, and we are now
uncertain which one is your husband's. Frankly the results are either bad or terrible."
"What do you mean?" Mrs. Ward asks nervously.
"Well, one of the specimens tested positive for Alzheimer's and the
other one tested positive for AIDS. We can't tell which is your husband's."
"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Ward.
"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
"Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
"The people at Medicare recommend that you drop your husband off
somewhere in the middle of town. If he finds his way home, don't sleep with him."

and that, listeners, is a signal that Bob is finished with his bio's. My second real laugh of the day, hawkman.

Couldn't resist the Grant Wood Gothic folks. As one of my professors in undergrad college studied under him. His last name was Herbert, but he pronounced it ebert(a bear)

The new American Gothic

What does Hebert do in the woods?

Well, there's our tico, folks. What do you think they do, Kansas? Is the Pope a Catholic?<smile>

Might as well have some fun, right? We'll catch hell when we get home anyway.

"If I Were A Carpenter" Based on the performance by Bobby Darin, later by Johnny Cash
"I Was A Car Bender" Parody by Airfarcewon
Oh, I Was A Car Bender,
She was a fine lady
But she married me, anyway
Her name was Sadie

I craned in a salvage yard
A dead car jungle
Droppin' in old Pontiacs
Pullin' out small bundles

She hailed from Ireland
Sailed from Dublin City
Met and married her in Oregon
College teacher, pretty

No two were so far apart
On the social ladder
She would feast on caviar
I was more, bean chowder

I worked as that Car Bender
She stayed the fine lady
Went with her to the opera
Watched, with me, "Bunch, Brady"

Big love means big family
Four sons and three daughters
For our gold anniversary
Cruised the Irish Sea waters

Yes, I Was A Car Bender
Now we're close to eighty
Ask me what was my biggest crush
I'll say it was Sadie

Ask me what was my biggest crush
I'll say it's still Sadie..

"He is an imp, that one is, but be careful, he is also a bounty hunter. <smile>"


Oh Letty, what a sense of fun you have, I am sure the person referred 2 is a non smoking, non drinking, church attending good old hometown boy, carrying a banner with a strange device; A warning to all those who don't floss…


Artist: Pogues
Song: Worms
Album: If I Should Fall From Grace With God
[" If I Should Fall From Grace With God " CD]

The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out
The ones that crawl in are lean and thin
The ones that crawl out are fat and stout
Your eyes fall in and your teeth fall out
Your brains come tumbling down your snout

Be merry my friends
Be merry…

Tryagain, welcome back, honey. I tried again and again to get my old avatar back without much success, and here I see you play a song about DOA and the result thereafter.

Well, here's one for you:

Careless
Now that you've got me loving you
You're careless
Careless in everything you do
You break appointments and think you are smart
If you're not careful
You'll break my heart

Careless
Now that my bridges all are burned
You're careless
Careless in things where I'm concerned
Are you just careless as you seem to be
Or do you just care less for me?

Not so funny, listeners:

Epilepsy jokes stir up anger By Kim Painter, USA TODAY
Mon Feb 13, 7:22 AM ET



Are seizures funny?



Joy Bardwell doesn't think so. The Daytona Beach, Fla., woman has epilepsy - repeated seizures. So does her 3-year-old daughter. So when a recent Two and a Half Men episode on CBS featured womanizer Charlie (played by Charlie Sheen) faking epilepsy and describing himself as "damaged goods" whose wedding was canceled because he was "flopping around on the altar like an epileptic trout," Bardwell wasn't laughing.

Where in the world is our Raggedy?

DOA?

Delusions of Adequacy. Yup! I resemble that remark.

Thanks for the welcome, and the song made me think:


There is something in the air tonight.

I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord
I've been waiting for this moment all my life, oh Lord
Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord, oh Lord
Well if you told me you were drowning, I would lend a hand
I've seen your face before my friend, but I don't know if you know who I am
Well I was there and I saw what you did, I saw it with my own two eyes
So you can wipe off that grin, I know where I've been
It's all been a pack of lies



And I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord
I've been waiting for this moment all my life, oh Lord
I can feel it in the air tonight, oh Lord, oh Lord
And I've been waiting for this moment all my life, oh Lord, oh Lord
Well I remember, I remember, don't worry, how could I ever forget
It's the first time and the last time we ever met
But I know the reason why you keep your silence, oh no you don't fool me
Because the hurt doesn't show, but the pain still grows
It's no stranger to you and me

Ah, Mr. Imp, I love Phil Collins. Thank you for that song. It's a wonderful memory.

Another memory, listeners:


Artist: Glen Campbell
Song: Have i stayed away too long
Album: New Place In The Sun


Have I stayed away too long have I stayed away too long
If I came home tonight would you still be my darling or have I stayed away too long
The love light that shone so strong sweet sweet love light that shone so strong
If I came home tonight would that same light be shining
Or have I stayed away too long or have I stayed away too long

My sister and I sang that together in conjunction with Love or Love oh Carless love, but I can't find the traditional to that one, folks

Listeners, if you know the melody to either of those songs, you will be able to appreciate how beautifully they intertwine:

Here is what I can remember of the other traditional lyrics:

Love oh love oh careless love,
Love oh love oh careless love,
Love oh love oh careless love,
Just see what careless love has done.

Once I wore my apron down.
Once I wore my apron down,
Once I wore my apron down,
Now the strings they won't go round.

And I guess everyone here is too young to remember Perry Como singing "Have I Stayed Away Too Long" (written in 1943).

I was here earlier, but I couldn't get a picture of Kim Novak, who is celebrating her 73rd birthday today, to take. Then I was going to post American Gothic, but Letty beat me to it.

I think I'll try again:



Oh well.