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Good-night, sweet Letty. You do play some wonderful songs.

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NOBODY DOES IT BETTER

From the film "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977)
(Marvin Hamlisch / Carol Bayer Sager)

Recorded by:
Julie Andrews; David Arnold; Joe Augustine; Shirley Bassey;
The Broadway Theatre Players; John Cacavas; Captain & Tennille;
City of Prague Philharmonic Orch.; Flavor;
Golden State Orch. & Singers; Hit Crew; James Bond Orch.;
Plas Johnson; Justus Kohncke; Erich Kunzel;
Las Vegas International Philharmonic; Tom Lellis; LeVert;
London Pops Orch.; London Symphony Orch.; London Theatre Orch.;
London Westend Singers; Aimee Mann; The Mantovani Orch.;
Paul Mauriat; Me First & the Gimme Gimmes; Anita O'Day;
David Osborne; Russ Pay; Ingrid Peters; Mike Renzi;
Royal Philharmonic Orch.; David Sanborn; Sex Mob; Carly Simon;
The Starlite Orch. & Singers; Stars at Studio 99; Starsound Orch.;
Toots Thielemans; Gina Thompson; Too Short; Allen Toussaint Orch.

Nobody does it better.
Makes me feel sad for the rest.
Nobody does it half as good as you.
Baby you're the best.

I wasn't looking. But somehow you found me.
I tried to hide from your love light.
But like heaven above me,
The spy who loved me,
Is keeping all my secrets safe tonight.

And nobody does it better.
Though sometimes I wish someone could.
Nobody does it quite the way you do.
Why d'you have to be so good?

The way that you hold me, whenever you hold me.
There's some kind of magic inside you.
That keeps me from running.
But just keep it coming.
How d'you learn to do the things you do?

And nobody does it better.
Makes me feel sad for the rest.
Nobody does it half as good as you.
Baby baby,
Baby you're the best...

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I'll take it, dj. Thank you.

When that song first came out, it was my favorite. I bought the album and played it often, especially "Your Song". That was Elton John's first LP, if I'm not mistaken. To me, his original music was so much better than his later works. But now I think he's returning to a more thoughtful way of writing, again.

Help The Beatles

Help, I need somebody
Help, Not just anybody
Help, You know I need someone
Help
When I was younger, so much younger than today
I never needed anybody's help in any way
But now these days are gone I'm not so self assured
Now I find
I've changed my mind, I've opened up the doors

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate you being 'round
Help me get my feet back on the ground
Won't you please, please help me

And now my life has changed in oh so many ways
my independence seems to vanish in the haze
But every now and then I feel so insecure
I know that I just need you like I've never done before

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate you being 'round
Help me get my feet back on the ground
Won't you please, please help me

When I was younger, so much younger than today
I never needed anybody's help in any way
But now these days are gone I'm not so self assured
Now I find
I've changed my mind, I've opened up the doors

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate you being 'round
Help me get my feet back on the ground
Won't you please, please help me
Help me. Help me, oooh

Pleasant Valley Sunday The Monkeys

Your local rock group down the street
Is trying hard to learn this song
To serenade the weekend squire
Just came out to mow his lawn

Another pleasant valley sunday
Charcoal burnin everywhere
Rows of houses that are all the same
And no one seems to care

See Mrs. Gray she's proud today
Because her roses are in bloom
And Mr. Green he's so serene
He's got a TV in every room

Another pleasant valley sunday
Here in status symbol land
Mothers complain
About how hard life is
And the kids just don't understand

Creature comfort goals
They only numb my soul
And make it hard for me to see
My thoughts all seem to stray
To places far away
I need a change of scenery

(Ta ta ta ta....)

Another pleasant valley sunday
Charcoal burning everywhere
Another pleasant valley sunday
Here in status symbol land
Another pleasant valley sunday (repeat)

Instant Karma John Lennon

Instant Karmas's gonna get you
Gonna knock you right on the head
You better get yourself together
Pretty soon, you're gonna be dead
What in the world you thinking of
Laughing in the face of love
What on earth you tryin' to do
It's up to you, yeah you

Instant Karma's gonna get you
Gonna look you right in the face
You better get yourself together darlin'
Join the human race
How in the world you gonna see
Laughin' at fools like me
Who in the heck d'you think you are
A super star
Well, alright you are

Well, we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well, we all shine on
Ev'ryone
Come on

Instant Karma's gonna get you
Gonna knock you off your feet
Better recognize your brothers
Ev'ryone you meet
Why in the world are we here
Surely not to live in pain and fear
Why on earth are you there
When you're ev'rywhere
Gonna get you share

Well, we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah, we all shine on
Come on, and on, and on
On, on
Yeah, yeah
Alright
Aaah-ha
Well, we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah, we all shine on
Come on, and on, and on
On, and on......

Good morning, WA2K fans and listeners. It is going to be a lovely day in my small studio.

Thanks to dj for the delightful Valentine song by Sir Elton.

edgar, the Beatles and the Monkeys were welcome to our ears. <smile>

and, P.S. you are always on our minds, dear.

Now Letty must stumble into the coffee cafe and get something hot.

Is that cafe a small cafe, Mamselle? Are there violins warm and sweet as you, Mamselle Letty?

Before I take advantage of a beautiful day and some fresh air, I'd like to wish a Happy 75th Birthday to Claire Bloom who was so sweet as the ballerina in Charlie Chaplin's "Limelight", a movie that was banned in the fifties (witchhunt days). My date and I and another couple were the only people in the theatre when it played in Pa. It closed the next day. 21 years later it received an Oscar for best music and dramatic score. ("And that's the way it is." )

Well, there's our Raggedy with a Blooming lady. <smile> Actually, PA. I have been serenaded with a roving violinist, but then he was paid to do it.

My word, gal. I had no idea about Limelight. Now you've aroused a curiosity and sent me to the archives. I do, of course, know of the McCarthy era.

Who in the world is Ray Dorey:

Mam'selle
Ray Dorey

A small cafe, Mam'selle;
a rendezvous, Mam'selle.
The violins were warm and sweet
And so were you, Mam'selle.
And as the night danced by
Your kiss became a sigh.
Your lovely eyes seemed to sparkle just as wine does.
No heart ever yearned as much as mine does for you.
And yet I know, Mamselle
Some day you'll say "Goodbye"
Then violins will cry, and so will I
Mam'selle.

John Barrymore
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

John Sidney Blythe (February 15, 1882 - May 29, 1942), better known as John Barrymore, became famous as a Shakespearean actor, lauded for his Hamlet, and was frequently regarded as the greatest actor of his generation, playing a wide variety of roles on stage and in films. Barrymore was the grandfather of actress Drew Barrymore and brother of acting legends Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore.



Background

Barrymore was born in Philadelphia into an extremely illustrious theatrical family and graduated from Georgetown University in 1898. His classic nose and distinguished features won him the nickname "The Great Profile." He was a hard drinking adventurer with a jaunty personality but a troubled personal life that probably cut his life short. Barrymore delivered some of the most critically acclaimed performances in cinema history. He was regarded by many as the screen's greatest actor during a movie career spanning 25 years as a leading man in more than 60 films. His movie roles included Sherlock Holmes (1922), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), Captain Ahab in both The Sea Beast (1926) and Moby Dick (1930), Don Juan (1926), Svengali (1931), Raffles the Amateur Cracksman (1917), Hamlet (1933), and the leading man in the great ensemble classics Grand Hotel (1932) and Dinner At Eight (1933), among many others. He continuously worked opposite many of the foremost leading ladies, including Greta Garbo, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford, and Carole Lombard. Alcoholism or possibly Alzheimer's Disease encroached on his ability to remember his lines, and by the late 1930s his career was winding down from its earlier heights, with supporting roles in Bulldog Drummond films--Drummond was the James Bond of his day.


Lionel, Ethel, and Drew Barrymore

Barrymore was the younger brother of actor Lionel ("Mr. Potter" in It's A Wonderful Life) and actress Ethel Barrymore, and the grandfather of actress Drew Barrymore (the similarities in facial structure between the profiles of John Barrymore and Drew Barrymore remain eerily striking).


Philandering

A notorious ladies' man, he courted the actress Mary Astor and also the showgirl Evelyn Nesbit (as her involvement with married architect Stanford White was waning). When she became pregnant, Barrymore proposed marriage. But White intervened, and arranged for the still-teenaged Evelyn to undergo an operation for "appendicitis." White was later murdered by Nesbit's vengeful husband, Pittsburgh millionaire Harry K. Thaw.

Marriages

Barrymore married

* 1) Katherine Corri Harris (1891-1927), an actress who starred in the 1918 film The House of Mirth, on September 1, 1910 and divorced in 1916.
* 2) Blanche Marie Louise Oelrichs (1890-1950), a New York mining heiress who wrote under the pseudonym "Michael Strange," on August 5, 1920 and divorced her in 1925. They had one child:
o Diana Blanche Barrymore (1921-1960), whose tragic life ended at age thirty-eight.
* 3) Dolores Costello (1903-1979), an actress and model best known for her role as Dearest in the movie Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936); they married on November 24, 1928 and divorced in 1935. They had two children:
o Dolores Ethel Mae Barrymore
o John Drew Barrymore (father of Drew Barrymore).
* 4) Elaine Barrie (née Elaine Jacobs), (1916-2003), an actress; they married on November 9, 1936 and divorced in 1940.



Dying Words

His dying words were "Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him." According to Errol Flynn's memoirs, film director Raoul Walsh "borrowed" Barrymore's body after the funeral, and left his corpse propped in a chair for a drunken Flynn to discover when he returned home from The Cock and Bull Bar. Other accounts of this classic Hollywood tale substitute actor Peter Lorre in the place of Walsh.

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, John Barrymore has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6667 Hollywood Boulevard.

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

Cesar Romero
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Cesar Julio Romero, Jr. (February 15, 1907 - January 1, 1994) was a Cuban-American actor. He was born in New York to wealthy Cuban parents and played "Latin lovers" in films from the 1930s until the 1950s, usually in supporting roles. He starred as Cisco Kid in six westerns made between 1939 and 1941. Romero's Hollywood earnings allowed him to support his large family after his parents lost their sugar import business and suffered losses in the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Romero lived on and off with various family members, especially his sister, for the rest of his life.

Romero's skill at both dancing and comedy can be seen in the classic 20th Century Fox films he starred in opposite Carmen Miranda and Betty Grable, such as A Night in Havana and Springtime in the Rockies, in the 1940s.

Romero served admirably in various capacities in the United States Coast Guard in the Pacific for several years during WWII.


In 1966, Romero achieved icon status when he played The Joker in ABC-TV's Batman television series. He refused to shave his trademark mustache and so it was covered with white makeup when playing the supervillain throughout the series' run. Romero also portrayed The Joker in the spinoff movie version of the show.

Romero later appeared as Peter Stavros in the television series Falcon Crest (1985-1987).

Romero always claimed his grandfather on his mother's side was Cuban poet and patriot José Martí although his mother's parents were legally Carmen and Manuel Mantilla with Jose Martí as his godfather. There was some speculation that Maria was fathered by Martí who was a boarder in the Mantilla household but he never claimed Maria as his daughter in his lifetime. Romero was a believer in liberation theology. Romero, who never married, was also openly gay, according to the more discreet standards of his generation. He was a mainstay of the Hollywood social circuit until his death in 1994.

Cesar Romero's cremated remains were inurned at the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California.

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

Nat King Cole and Sinatra did Mam'selle. But Ray Dorey - never heard of the guy. (lol)

Hope you find some info on Limelight in the archives.

And, of course, you'll recognize the ballerina's theme (written by Charlie Chaplin) of the movie, Limelight.

I'll be loving you eternally
With a love that's true eternally

From the start within my heart,
It seems I've always known
The sun would shine when you were mine
And mine alone

I'll be loving you eternally
There'll be no one new, my dear, for me
No

Though the sky should fall,
Remember I shall always be
Forever true and loving you eternally

(Very popular hit for Vic Damone back in the fifties. )

Harvey Korman
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Harvey Herschel Kormen, professionally known as Harvey Korman (b. February 15, 1927) is an actor born in Chicago, Illinois. He has performed in television and movie productions in the U.S. since 1960. His first big break was being a featured performer on The Danny Kaye Show (1963-1967), but he is probably best remembered for his performances on The Carol Burnett Show (1967-1978) and in the comedy films of Mel Brooks, most notably Blazing Saddles (1974).

His early television work included voice-over work on Tom and Jerry (1965) and The Flintstones (1965-1966). Recently he has done voice work for the live-action version of The Flintstones (1994) as well as the animated The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue (1998).

Korman has been nominated for six Emmy Awards, and won four (in 1969, 1971 (for Outstanding Achievement By a Performer in Music or Variety), 1972, and 1974). He was also nominated for four Golden Globes, winning in 1975.

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

Claire Bloom
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Claire Bloom (born Patricia Claire Blume on February 15, 1931) is a British actress.

She was born in the North London suburb of Finchley, to Edward Blume (the son of Jewish immigrants, originally named Blumenthal, from Russia and Latvia) and Elizabeth Grew (a descendant of Jewish immigrants from Poland originally named Griewski).

She is known for playing Shakespearean roles, as well as for appearing in movies, for example Charlie Chaplin's movie Limelight, Laurence Olivier's Richard III and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Look Back In Anger with Richard Burton and A Doll's House.

She had a love affair with Richard Burton, a fling with Laurence Olivier, and was married to both Academy Award winning actor Rod Steiger and the American author Philip Roth, both of which marriages ended in divorce. In her memoir, Leaving a Doll's House, she writes how Roth - with a lifelong terror of commitment - reserved the right in a brutal pre-nuptial agreement to terminate their marriage at any time and how he endlessly pinballed between gentleness and cruelty, one day sending her flowers for a fine performance and the next day serving her with separation papers. Such was her love for him, her passivity, and the pattern of her relationships, that she was unable to leave, always seduced again. The book records how Roth ended their cohabitation, and effectively their marriage, whilst in hospital suffering from depression. A litany of her supposed unreasonable behaviour provided his ostensible reason but it hid a new affair.

She has a daughter, opera singer Anna Steiger, by her marriage to the late Rod Steiger.

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

Ah, there's Boston Bob with bio's. Thanks, honey. I am familiar with them all so far.

I'll comment later, folks, when Bob is finished. I want to say something about Raggedy's song from Limelight.

Jane Seymour
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jane Seymour, OBE (born 15 February 1951) is an English-born American actress probably best known today as the star of the TV series and movie Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.


Early life

Born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg in Hayes, Hillingdon, England to John Frankenberg, a British Jewish obstetrician and his Dutch wife Mieke van Trigt, she took the stage name of Jane Seymour at the age of 17.


Acting career


She has had a long career in both film and television, beginning in 1969 with an uncredited role in Richard Attenborough's film version of Oh! What a Lovely War. Soon afterward she married Attenborough's son, Michael Attenborough. Her first major film role was as Lillian Stein, a Jewish woman seeking shelter from the Nazis with a Danish Christian family in the 1970 war drama The Only Way.

From 1972 to 1973 she played her first major TV role as Emma Callon in the successful 1970s series The Onedin Line. During this time she appeared as female lead Prima in the two-part TV mini-series Frankenstein: The True Story and as Winston Churchill's lover Pamela Plowden in another of her father-in-law's films, Young Winston. She also drew her first major international attention as Bond girl Solitaire in the Bond film Live and Let Die.

Seymour divorced Michael Attenborough in 1973. She then took only two minor TV roles until cast as Princess Farah in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, the third part of Ray Harryhausen's Sinbad trilogy, in 1975. (The film was not released, however, until its stop motion animation sequences had been completed in 1977.) For the remainder of the 1970s, she played minor TV roles.

In 1980, Seymour returned to the big screen in the comedy Oh Heavenly Dog opposite Chevy Chase and as Elise McKenna in Somewhere in Time opposite Christopher Reeve. Following her appearance opposite Tom Selleck in the unsuccessful 1984 film Lassiter, however, she made no further major movie appearances until 2005.

Seymour continued to take numerous roles in TV movies and series, most notably as Dr. Michaela Quinn in the TV series and movie Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993-2001), through which she met her present husband, director James Keach. In 2004 she made several guest appearances in the hit WB Network series Smallville, playing the role of Genevieve Teague, the wealthy, scheming mother of Jason Teague (Jensen Ackles).

She returned to the big screen again in 2005 with the major role of Kathleen Cleary, wife of Treasury Secretary William Cleary (Christopher Walken), in the hit comedy The Wedding Crashers. She is due to return to TV in the series Modern Men, scheduled for broadcast in 2006.

Seymour was named an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth II on New Year's Eve, 1999. She became a U.S. citizen on February 11, 2005.


Marriages and children

* 1971-1973 : Michael Attenborough
* 1977-1978 : Geoffrey Planer
* 1981-1992 : David Flynn (with two children, Katherine, born 1981; and Sean, born 1986)
* 1993 to date : James Keach (with twins Johnny and Kris, born 1995, named after family friends Johnny Cash and Christopher Reeve)

Miscellany

* Her eyes are different colours. Her right eye is green and her left eye is brown. (See Heterochromia.)
* Thanks to her mother, she is fluent in Dutch as well as English.
* The music bands The Cure and Radiohead (OK Computer) have recorded at her house in England.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Seymour_%28actress%29

1. You Know You've Had Too Much Coffee When....

* Juan Valdez names his donkey after you.
* You get a speeding ticket even when you're parked.
* You grind your coffee beans in your mouth.
* You sleep with your eyes open.
* You have to watch videos in fast-forward.
* You lick your coffeepot clean.
* Your eyes stay open when you sneeze.
* The nurse needs a scientific calculator to take your pulse.
* You can type sixty words a minute with your feet.
* You can jump-start your car without cables.
* Your only source of nutrition comes from "Sweet & Low."
... You don't sweat, you percolate. ... more below



2. PART II You Know You've Had Too Much Coffee When....
* You've worn out the handle on your favorite coffee mug.
* You go to AA meetings just for the free coffee.
* You've worn the finish off you coffee table.
* The Taster's Choice couple wants to adopt you.
* Starbuck's owns the mortgage on your house.
* You're so wired you pick up FM radio.
* Your life's goal is to "amount to a hill of beans."
* Instant coffee takes too long.
* You want to be cremated just so you can spend eternity in
a coffee can.
* You name your cats "Cream" and "Sugar."
* Your lips are permanently stuck in the sipping position.
* Your first-aid kit contains two pints of coffee with an
I.V. hookup.

laughing at Bob's wind up coffee funnies, folks. Hey, hawkman. I most assuredly will comment on all those wonderful bio's when I get the chance, buddy.

Raggedy and all, if you are interested in hearing eternally:

http://www.clown-ministry.com/Articles/Poetry/chaplin-theme-limelight.html

I knew totally nothing about Limelight, PA, but I do remember this song that I thought was YOUR Eternally:

I'll be loving you always,
With a love that's true always,
When the things you planned,
Need a helping hand,
I will understand always, always.
Things may not be fair always.
That's when I'll be there always.
Not for just an hour,
Not for just a day,
Not for just a year,
But always.

I think that most of us know about Rob Lowe's portrayal of The Little Tramp, but I don't recall much of the movie, unfortunately.

Now, Miss Letty will have to find out why Limelight was a victim to the idea of communism.