WA2K Radio is now on the air

Too Many Daves
Dr. Seuss

Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave
Had twenty-three sons, and she named them all Dave?

Well, she did. And that wasn't a smart thing to do.
You see, when she wants one, and calls out "Yoo-Hoo!
Come into the house, Dave!" she doesn't get one.
All twenty-three Daves of hers come on the run!

This makes things quite difficult at the McCaves'
As you can imagine, with so many Daves.
And often she wishes that, when they were born,
She had named one of them Bodkin Van Horn.
And one of them Hoos-Foos. And one of them Snimm.
And one of them Hot-Shot. And one Sunny Jim.
And one of them Shadrack. And one of them Blinkey.
And one of them Stuffy. And one of them Stinkey.
Another one Putt-Putt. Another one Moon Face.
Another one Marvin O'Gravel Balloon Face.
And one of them Ziggy. And one Soggy Muff.
One Buffalo Bill. And one Biffalo Buff.
And one of them Sneepy. And one Weepy Weed.
And one Paris Garters. And one Harris Tweed.
And one of them Sir Michael Carmichael Zutt.
And one of them Oliver Boliver Butt.
And one of them Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate . . . .
But she didn't do it. And now it's too late.


Daves I Know
Kids in the Hall

Bruce: [Spoken] Hi, I'm Bruce McCulloch. I'd like to tell you about the Daves I know.

[Singing: ]
These are the Daves I know, I know
These are the Daves I know
These are the Daves I know, I know
These are the Daves I know

David Hoffman
He works in my dad's store
He's worked here for 12 years
He'll probably work here for more

These are the Daves I know, I know
These are the Daves I know
These are the Daves I know, I know
These are the Daves I know

Dave Gort
I've known since I was six
In grade eight he broke his leg
So we got drunk and sick

These are the Daves I know, I know
These are the Daves I know
These are the Daves I know, I know
These are the Daves I know

Some of them are Davids
[Dave Gort: But most of us are Daves]
They all have their own hands
But they come from different moms

These are the Daves I know, I know
These are the Daves I know
These are the Daves I know, I know
These are the Daves I know

Dave Jadiski
Man, this cat can swing
He weighs almost 50 pounds
And he delivers my paper on time

These are the Daves I know, I know
These are the Daves I know
These are the Daves I know, I know
These are the Daves I know

Dave Capisano
I hardly know him
...
[Bruce stands around, looking vaguely uncomfortable for the rest of the measure]

These are the Daves I know, I know
These are the Daves I know
These are the Daves I know, I know
These are the Daves I know

[Next two measures sung by the Daves Bruce knows: ] We are the Daves he knows, he knows
We are the Daves he knows
We are the Daves he knows, he knows
We are the Daves he knows

Some of us them are Davids
But most of us are Daves
We all have our own hands
But we come from different moms

These are the Daves I know, I know
[Daves: We are the Daves he knows, he knows]
[All: These are the Daves]

Good morning, WA2K radio listeners and contributors.

dj, I think Dr. Seuss is probably more than just a writer of children's stories, and I particularly like that one, Canada, along with the Kids in the Hall. Funny dialogues there, dear.

Speaking of Daves:

Raven Lyrics (Dave Mathews Band)



Dave Mathews Band - Raven Lyrics
Lies and reason you give
Too much is not enough
Leave, what you see leave alone
Someone else to go

Romance holds you to tea, yeah
Sip it like you're typical
My love is what you make of it
Brothers and sisters, it's not enough...
Not enough

Talk, call, talking of leading the way
Won't ya give any lie?
Of all the ways
Won't ya lie with me?

Man, I've no Raven to see here
Flies the blackest way
What you give when you get nothing
Is everything you give

All been tossed away
Read, light your morning candles
Make your way
All wise men today grieve
It knows no better thing

All I leave here, a way to send you all down, down, down
All my worries is where the girl will be found, found, found
All my worries of all those things that I dreamed and dreamed
and dreamed
All I leave is, I have to say
It's nothing more than my point of view

It's hard and cold tonight
You're warming by a fire

Oh, sweet juice
Drink tonight
Take me while I'm out

No, no Raven to see here
It imitates beauty well
Black bird from a dark Heaven
Oh, won't you keep living a lie

All God tossed away
Read while you know
You know things fade to grey
Oh, what came of grace
Oh, the morning and the rain

All my worries warn enough to roam, roam, roam
Fade away here, the girl will go round and round and round
Hey, love...
What was the greatest thing you
Moments in the cold rain
Here to say there's nothing great that you wouldn't do

Fly, Raven...
Won't you guide me?
Oh, what's the reason?
Won't you guide me?
Wait, now, what is the Raven?
Won't you come to me?
What you did with the same grace at all
Won't you keep living a lie

All been tossed away
Read all you'll have ever known
I believe
All I know today
Read all to believe

Anyone here understand that song?

Good morning WA2K.

Sorry Letty, "Raven" lyrics? Too deep for me.


Let's wish Ry Cooder a happy 59th Birthday. I first heard his guitar in the movie "Paris Texas" and loved it.




Ryland "Ry" Peter Cooder (born on March 15, 1947) is a guitarist especially well known for his slide guitar work. He was born in Los Angeles, California.

Cooder first attracted attention in the 1960s, playing with Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, after previously having worked with Taj Mahal in The Rising Sons.

Throughout the 1970s, Cooder released a series of Warner Brothers albums that showcased his guitar work, to some degree. In this respect, Cooder's guitar work on these records is not unlike the guitar playing of Robbie Robertson on the Band's albums: Both virtuosos emphasized song over solo. Cooder's '70's albums spotlight, more than anything, a wide-ranging taste in music. Cooder has been seen as almost a musicologist, excavating obscure genres with personalized and sensitive, updated reworkings that, truth be told, often improve on the revered originals. Cooder's '70s albums (with the conspicuous exception of Jazz) cannot quite be neatly pidgeonholed as each-album-showcases-distinct-genre. But ?- to generalize broadly ?- it might be fair to call Cooder's first album blues; Into the Purple Valley, Boomer's Story, and Paradise and Lunch, folk + blues; Chicken Skin Music and Showtime, a unique melange of Tex-Mex and Hawaiian; Jazz, 1920s jazz; Bob till You Drop '50's R&B; and Borderline and Get Rhythm, eclectic rock-based excursions.

Cooder has worked as a studio musician and has also scored many film soundtracks, of which perhaps the best known is that for the 1984 Wim Wenders film Paris, Texas. Ry Cooder based this soundtrack on Blind Willie Johnson's "Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground)," which he described as "The most soulful, transcendent piece in all American music." His other film work includes Walter Hill's The Long Riders (1980) and Southern Comfort (1981).

In recent years, Cooder has played a role in the increased appreciation of traditional Cuban music, due to his collaboration as producer in the Buena Vista Social Club (1997) recording, which was a worldwide hit. Wim Wenders directed a documentary film of the musicians involved, Buena Vista Social Club (1999) which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000. Cooder worked with Tuvan throat singers for the score to the 1993 film Geronimo: An American Legend.

Cooder's solo work has been an eclectic mix, taking in dust bowl folk, blues, Tex-Mex, soul, gospel, rock, and almost everything else. He has collaborated with many important musicians, including the Rolling Stones, Little Feat, the Chieftains, John Lee Hooker, Gabby Pahinui, and Ali Farka Toure. He formed the Little Village supergroup with Nick Lowe, John Hiatt, and Jim Keltner.

Cooder's 1979 album Bop Till You Drop was the first popular music album to be recorded digitally.

Cooder is mentioned in one of The Tragically Hip's songs entitled "At the 100th Meridian".

Rolling Stone magazine named Ry Cooder the 8th Greatest Guitarist of All Time in their "100 Greatest Guitarists" list. Immediately behind Cooder in the list were Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards. Ry Cooder was a guest session guitarist on several Rolling Stones albums in the 1960s, including Beggar's Banquet, Let It Bleed, and (most significantly) contributing the haunting slide guitar solo to "Sister Morphine" on Sticky Fingers. He even turned down an offer to join the Rolling Stones at one point. Cooder notably taught Keith Richards how to play in the "open-G" tuning; Richards has used the tuning ever since, including on many of the Stones' greatest songs.

Cooder also stepped in for the recording of the slide guitar parts in the 1986 film Crossroads, a take on the infamous tale of the blues legend, Robert Johnson.

Macdonald Carey
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Macdonald Carey (born March 15, 1913 in Sioux City, Iowa; died March 21, 1994 in Beverly Hills, California) was an American actor best known for his role as the patriarch Dr. Tom Horton on NBC's soap opera Days of our Lives. For almost three decades, he was the show's central cast member.

He first made his career starring in various B-movies of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. He was known in many Hollywood circles as "King of the Bs", sharing the throne with his "queen", Lucille Ball. A most unlikely leading man, even in his earliest films, Carey surely owed what screen success he enjoyed to some mysterious "everyman" appeal that overshadowed his vapid appearance and seemingly diffident manner.

A successful radio actor and stage performer whose credits included the hit Broadway show "Lady in the Dark," Carey joined the Marines in 1943, staying in uniform for four years. He returned to Paramount in 1947 in Suddenly, It's Spring. He continued with Paramount into the 1950s; by this time he had slipped into more noticeable character roles. Carey played patriot Patrick Henry in John Paul Jones (1959). He also appeared in Blue Denim (1959), The Damned (1962), Tammy and the Doctor (1963), and End of the World (1977).

Carey also played a crusading attorney in the 1950s syndicated series Lock-Up. He played the starring role of attorney Herb Maris. A total of 78 episodes (then considered to be only two full seasons) were made 1959-1961, but apparently Carey did not appear in all of them.

For the remainder of his career, he played Tom Horton on Days of our Lives, from 1965 until his death from lung cancer in 1994.

He is most recognized today, over a decade after his passing, as the voice who recites the epigram each day before the program begins: "Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives". From 1966 to 1994, he would also intone, "This is Macdonald Carey, and these are the days of our lives." (After Carey's passing, the producers, out of respect for Carey's family, decided not to use the second part of the opening tagline). At each intermission, his voice also says "We will return for the second half of Days of our Lives in just a moment". Since the Horton family is still regarded as the core of Days of our Lives, his memory has been allowed to remain imprinted on the show by the voiceovers remaining intact.

Carey wrote several books of poetry and a 1991 autobiography, "The Days of My Life." He is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California, alongside his daughter Lisa, who died in infancy.

For his contribution to television, Macdonald Carey has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6536 Hollywood Boulevard.

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

Harry James
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Harry Haag James (March 15, 1916 - July 5, 1983) was a popular United States musician and band leader, and a well known trumpet virtuoso.

Harry James was born in Albany, Georgia, the son of a bandleader of a traveling circus. By age 10 he was taking trumpet lessons from his father. His father had him on a very strict practicing schedule everyday. He was given one page to learn out of the Arban's book (a trumpet drill book) every day and could not do anything until he learned that page.

In 1931 the family settled in Beaumont, Texas and James began playing with local dance bands. James joined the nationally popular Ben Pollack in 1935. At the start of 1937 he left Pollack to join Benny Goodman's orchestra, where he stayed through 1938.

In February of 1939 Harry James debuted his own big band in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He continued touring with the band into the 1960s.

His was the first "name band" to employ vocalist Frank Sinatra, in 1939.

In 1943 he married actress Betty Grable.

You can hear his trumpet playing in the 1950 film Young Man with a Horn, dubbing Kirk Douglas. His recording of "I'm Beginning to See the Light" appears in the motion picture My Dog Skip (2000). James recorded many popular records and appeared in many Hollywood movies.

In 1983, James was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer, but he continued to work, playing his last professional job on 26 June 1983 in Los Angeles just nine days before his death in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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

Well, listeners. Here's our Raggedy with a bio and picture of Cooder. Sorry, PA, don't know him any better than I understand the Raven.

Will now wait until Bio Bob finishes his stuff.

Judd Hirsch
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Judd Hirsch (born March 15, 1935 in The Bronx, New York) is an American actor, best known for playing the character Alex Reiger on the acclaimed television comedy series Taxi.

For his performance in Taxi, in 1981 and again in 1983, Judd Hirsch won the Emmy Award for Lead Actor In A Comedy Series. Hirsch went on to play the title character on the modestly successful sitcom Dear John and in 1989 won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series in a Comedy or Musical for this role. He later teamed with Bob Newhart in the short-lived comedy George and Leo. He had also previously starred for one season in the series Delvecchio, playing a police detective (1976-77).

In motion pictures, Hirsch received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in 1980's Ordinary People. More recently, in 1996 he portrayed the father of Jeff Goldblum's character in Independence Day and in 2001, appeared in the acclaimed A Beautiful Mind. He has also appeared in the Family Guy episode Blind Ambition as himself.

He is currently co-starring on the CBS Television drama NUMB3RS.

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

Mike Love
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Michael Edward Love (born March 15, 1941 in Los Angeles, California) is an American singer and songwriter who was one of the lead singers and lyrical composers of The Beach Boys, along with Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, and a school friend Al Jardine. Mike Love is first cousin to the Wilson brothers.

Role in The Beach Boys

Love was the lead vocalist for many of the early Beach Boys hits, including "Surfin'", "409", "Surfin' Safari", "Surfin' USA", "Little Deuce Coupe", "Fun Fun Fun", "Be True To Your School", "Little Saint Nick", "When I Grow Up To Be A Man", "I Get Around", and "California Girls". His role as lead vocalist subsequently diminished, but included sections of Pet Sounds (including the bridge of "Wouldn't It Be Nice") and the hit "Do It Again". Onstage, Love has always served as the Beach Boys' "MC".

Love also wrote or co-wrote many of the Beach Boys hit lyrics, mostly for songs with the themes of surfing and love; the band's early car song lyrics were generally by Gary Usher or Roger Christian, although a lawsuit, the result of which is still controversial, established Love's composing credits on many of these hits.

In the late Sixties, as founder Brian Wilson was sidelined by mental illness and drug problems, Love played an increasingly contentious role in the Beach Boys career, and rightly or wrongly, he has often been identified as one of the "villains" in the band's story.

Despite his conservatism in other areas, Love was one of the first pop musicians to become involved in the practice of Transcendental Meditation, through his meeting with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and as a result he accompanied The Beatles and Donovan on their famous trip to the self-styled guru's ashram at Rishikesh in India in early 1968. Love has been a lifelong advocate of the benefits of TM and contributed a song on the subject to the Beach Boys' 1968 album Friends.

In the late sixties, with Brian no longer touring, Carl Wilson took over leadership of the band (with contracts reading that venues hired "Carl Wilson plus four other musicians"), but by the early 80s, Love grew to increasingly dominate the band, who fell in line with his desire to play the early 60s hits and record new material dealing with similar lyrical subjects.

While Love has sometimes been perceived as a negative force in the Beach Boys creatively, there is no doubt that he has on occasion exhibited sound commercial instincts, as for example on his co-writing and singing lead on the 1988 US number one hit "Kokomo", the only number one the band had that wasn't co-written by Wilson. Mike Love (along with "Kokomo" co-writers Scott Mackenzie, Terry Melcher, and John Phillips) was nominated for a Golden Globes Award (1988) in the Original Song category.

After the death of Carl Wilson in 1998 the Beach Boys split up, and Love took over the name, touring with no other original members but with longtime member Bruce Johnston and various musicians formerly of tribute bands.

The Beach Boys were the introductory act in the televised 2005 Fourth of July celebration on the grounds in front of the United States Capitol. The Beach Boys performance featured five hits originally sung by Love and was their first Fourth of July appearance there since 1985. While detractors criticize Love for carrying on The Beach Boys name, supporters point to shows such as this as evidence of Mike Love's dedication to the millions of people who love the hit music of The Beach Boys.

Pet Sounds/Smile controversies

Probably motivated in part by anxiety over his replacement as Wilson's writing partner (as Wilson increasingly relied on Pet Sound lyricist Asher and, later, SMiLE collaborator Van Dyke Parks), Love became increasingly hostile towards Wilson and his new material between late 1965 and early 1967, a period that critics and fans now widely acknowledged as the most creative phase of Wilson's career.

He reportedly led the group's opposition to the Pet Sounds material and particularly objected to the song "Hang On To Your Ego", which, at his insistence, was partly re-written and re-titled; it was eventually released as "I Know There's An Answer". However, at this stage Brian Wilson still held sufficient sway to overrule his opponents and the album was completed more or less as Brian had intended.

Another factor that is likely to have influenced Love's views is that, while Brian had withdrawn from touring in late 1964, Love and his bandmates had to perform Brian's increasingly complex music on stage. There is no doubt that Brian's rapid musical development placed the group in an increasingly difficult position, since they were being asked to perform material that, in the case of "Good Vibrations" Brian had recorded over a period of many months using the best musicians available. While the Beach Boys were of course equal to the task as vocalists, Brian's intricate arrangements were becoming all but impossible for them to perform as a five-piece band.

Love's trenchant opposition to Wilson's new direction came to a head over the songs they were recording for their follow-up to Pet Sounds, the legendary SMiLE album, which was begun in mid-1966 but was eventually shelved in mid-1967. Some who have listened to Smiley Smile, the album that was released after Pet Sounds, concur that Love's (possibly apocryphal) pleas to Brian to not "**** with the formula" made plenty of sense.

Love is reported to have vehemently objected to Parks' oblique lyrics, reserving particular scorn for the song "Cabinessence". During a heated argument at a recording session, Love demanded that Parks explain the song's meaning; Parks demurred and walked out; some few weeks later he officially terminated his partnership with Wilson, effectively scuttling the album only weeks before its scheduled release. Although Love clearly had a strong personal dislike for Parks' writing he has often said that he was concerned that the band risked losing popularity by abandoning their successful formula.

Many critics feel that Love's dogged opposition to Smile was the major reason that Brian finally abandoned it, and that his opposition was motivated in part by professional jealousy, as well as the fear that Wilson's departure from the Beach Boys' proven formula would cause them to lose ground. In a 2004 interview with Mojo magazine, Love argued that he was not opposed to Smile, as claimed, and that he liked and respected Parks' work, but this claim was strongly denied by Parks himself, who wrote to the magazine to protest at what he described as Love's "revisionism" and stated unequivocally that Love's hostility to Smile was indeed the chief reason why the project was shelved. Love wrote the lyrics to their famous 1966 single "Good Vibrations", although the song also has an earlier set of lyrics written by Wilson's main Pet Sounds collaborator, Tony Asher, which Wilson restored on the 2004 SMiLE version.

Partly in response to the band's concerns, articulated by Mike, Brian began writing songs that were easier to perform live, which turned up on the late 1967 album Wild Honey.

Legal controversies

In the late 1990s Brian Wilson went to court to regain his rights to the publishing company, Sea of Tunes, which owned the copyrights to most of the Beach Boys' hit songs. The suit stemmed from Wilson's forced decision to sign over his publishing rights to his father Murry Wilson in 1969, but when the suit came to court it was found that the contract Wilson had signed was not valid because of the mental problems he was suffering from at the time. (It was even suggested that Murry had signed his son's name on the document.) Wilson failed to regain the copyrights, but won a $25 million settlement.

Following Wilson's win, Love launched his own lawsuit, claiming that he had made significant writing contributions to many Beach Boys songs, including two titles on Pet Sounds and "California Girls", and never received due credit (or the accompanying royalties). Love won the case, due in no small part to Brian's statements that Mike's assertions were correct (although Tony Asher has unequivocally stated that Love had no input into at least one song involved, Wouldn't It Be Nice). As a result, he was granted $13 million of Wilson's award, and his name was retrospectively added to the writing credits on all subsequent releases of those songs. (Love and Wilson reportedly had no malice toward each other in the lawsuit; unable to come to terms, they resorted to going to court to settle matters.)

Love has also initiated successful lawsuits against Al Jardine (mostly the Beach Boys' company, Brother Records, suing Jardine at Love's instigation, but also personal lawsuits) for Jardine's use of the band name Beach Boys Family And Friends in his solo work.

Most recently, Love initiated a lawsuit on November 3, 2005 against Brian Wilson and the Mail On Sunday newspaper, arguing that both misused the Beach Boys' name and Love's image in a promotional CD that was given with the paper to promote the 2004 Smile release, and also arguing that Wilson has misused the Beach Boys' name in other promotions relating to Smile, resulting in loss of income for the band. He is seeking several million dollars in damages, and also a million dollars to cover costs of advertising to correct the perceived damage to the band's reputation.

Mike has stated: "Once again the people around Brian, my cousin and collaborator on many hits, who I love and care about, have used him for their own financial gain without regard to his rights, or my rights, or even the rights of the estates of his deceased brothers, Carl and Dennis, and their children... Unfortunately, history repeats itself. Because of Brian's mental issues he has always been vulnerable to manipulation. I simply want to stop the infringers and stop the deception!"

The legal document filed is purported to contain many half-truths and inaccuracies. Among these it credits Mike Love as the primary force behind the Beach Boys, accuses Al Jardine of mental instabilities and inncorrectly refers to one of Brian Wilson's songs as ?'Love and Money' instead of ?'Love and Mercy'.

Brian Wilson's website listed the following statement in response: "The lawsuit against Brian is meritless. While he will vigorously defend himself he is deeply saddened that his cousin Mike Love has sunk to these depths for his own financial gain."

Solo career

Love has attempted several times to have a career outside the Beach Boys. In the mid 1970s he recorded two albums with side band Celebration, including the top 20 hit single Almost Summer (cowritten by Brian Wilson and Jardine). In the late 1970s he also recorded two unreleased solo albums, First Love and Country Love.Some tracks from First Love were used on later Beach Boys releases. In 1981 he released a solo album, Looking Back With Love. Consisting mostly of cover versions, this was neither critically nor commercially successful, and is often cited by Beach Boys fans as the worst release by any band member. After that point he confined himself to guest spots on recordings by people like Dean Torrence of Jan And Dean and to rerecordings of old hits released on packages like Mike Love, Bruce Johnston and David Marks of the Beach Boys salute NASCAR and Union 76 Gasoline (a CD that in fact featured neither Johnston or Marks, but did feature Torrence and longtime Beach Boys sideman/falsetto singer Adrian Baker), released to petrol stations as promotional items on Love's own MELECO label. However, in 2003 he announced plans for a new solo album, consisting mostly of rerecorded First Love and Country Love material. This album, which has been announced under the working titles Unleash The Love and Mike Love Not War (not to be confused with the Beach Boys bootleg of the same name), has been completed (and bootleg recordings circulate among fans, the consensus of whom is that it is Love's best solo work, released or otherwise), but has yet to find a label or be released.


Miscellaneous

The Fall's song "Mike's Love Xexagon", from their "The Real New Fall LP" album, alludes to Mike Love in its title and lyrics, calling him "the worm in the bacon of BB" and mentioning "Good Vibrations", no doubt referring to the aforementioned legal controversies.

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


California Girls :: Beach Boys

Time: 2:34 Irving Music, Inc. BMI
Master #53865 Recorded 4/6/65
Single released 7/??/65 (Capitol-5464)
Charted 7/24/65 Reached #3
A side with Let Him Run Wild
Brian Wilson/(Mike Love uncredited lyricist)

Well East coast girls are hip
I really dig those styles they wear
And the Southern girls with the way they talk
They knock me out when I'm down there

The Midwest farmer's daughters
Really make you feel alright
And the Northern girls with the way they kiss
They keep their boyfriends warm at night

I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California girls

The West coast has the sunshine
And the girls all get so tanned
I dig a french bikini on Hawaii island dolls
By a palm tree in the sand

I been all around this great big world
And I seen all kinds of girls
Yeah, but I couldn't wait to get back in the states
Back to the cutest girls in the world

I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California girls

I wish they all could be California
(Girls, girls, girls yeah I dig the)
I wish they all could be California
(Girls, girls, girls yeah I dig the)
I wish they all could be California
(Girls, girls, girls yeah I dig the)
I wish they all could be California
(Girls, girls, girls yeah I dig the)

Sly Stone
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Sly Stone (born Sylvester Stewart in Denton, Texas on March 15, 1944) is an African-American musician, songwriter, and record producer, most famous for his role as frontman for Sly & the Family Stone, a band which played a critical role in the development of soul, funk and psychedelia in the 1960s and 1970s.

Biography


Early career

Sylvester Stewart was the second of five children. After the family moved from Dallas, Texas to Vallejo, California (near San Francisco), he and his brother Freddie and their sisters Rose and Vaetta formed "The Stewart Four" as children, performing gospel music in the Church of God in Christ and even recording a single in 1952. All of the Stewart children except oldest sister Loretta would later adopt the surname "Stone" and become members of Sly & the Family Stone.

As he got older, Sylvester learned to play a number of instruments, settling primarily with the guitar, and joined a number of high school bands. One of these was The Viscaynes, a doo-wop group which, excepting Sylvester and his Filipino friend, Frank Arelano, was all-white. The fact that the group was integrated made the Viscaynes "hip" in the eyes of their audiences, and would later inspire Sylvester's idea of a multicultural Family Stone. The Viscaynes released a few local singles, including "Yellow Moon" and "Stop What You Are Doing"; during the same period, Sylvester also recorded a few solo singles under the name "Danny Stewart".

In the mid-1960s, Sly worked as a DJ for San Francisco radio station KSOL and also as a record producer for Autumn Records, working with such bands in the San Francisco area as The Beau Brummels and The Mojo Men. Adopting the stage name "Sly Stone," he then formed "The Stoners" in 1966 which included Cynthia Robinson on trumpet. Robinson went on to join Sly & the Family Stone as well, when it was formed in 1967. Freddie Stone (guitar and vocals), Larry Graham (bass guitar and vocals), Greg Errico (drums), Jerry Martini (saxophone) and Rosie Stone (piano and vocals) were also in the original line-up. On backup vocals were Little Sister: Vet Stone, Mary McCreary, and Elva Mouton. Sly himself played guitar, piano, and harmonica, among other instruments, for the band's records and performances. Their debut single as Sly & the Family Stone was "I Ain't Got Nobody", a major regional hit for Loadstone Records.

Sly & the Family Stone's early success

The Loadstone single attracted the attention of Epic Records, who got Sly & The Family Stone to sign to their label. After a mildly received debut album, A Whole New Thing (1967), Sly & The Family Stone had their first hit album and single in Dance to the Music (1968) and its title track. Although their third album, Life (also 1968), also suffered from low sales, their fourth album, Stand! (1969), became a runaway success, selling over three million copies and spawning a number one hit single, "Everyday People." By the summer of 1969, Sly & The Family Stone were one of the biggest names in music, releasing three more top five singles, "Hot Fun in the Summertime" and "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" / "Everybody is a Star", before the end of the year, and appearing at Woodstock.

Personal problems and decline

In the fall of 1969, Sly moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Not long after the move, he found himself crushed under stress from a number of sources: record executives wanted more product; the Black Panther Party and other black activist groups wanted Sly's music to become more militant and reflective of the black power movement (as well as demanding the removal of white musicians Errico and Martini from the band); and personal conflicts within the band. Sly developed ulcer problems because of the stress, and began turning to a variety of drugs, primarily cocaine and PCP, for relief.

Sly's intense drug abuse soon began to affect his career; he became notorious for missing interviews and concerts, and his demeanor became insolent, erratic and unpredictable. Sly's friend Hamp "Bubba" Banks, a former pimp became his aide-de-camp, and brought in gangsters rfrom the streets to become Sly's bodyguards and personal managers. The band's fifth album, There's a Riot Goin' On (1971), reflected the turmoil. Most of Riot was recorded with overdubbing as opposed to The Family Stone all playing at the same time; in fact, Sly played most of the parts himself and performed more of the lead vocals than usual.

The band's cohesion slowly began to erode, and its sales and popularity began to decline as well. Errico withdrew from the group in 1971 and was eventually replaced with Andy Newmark. Larry Graham and Sly were no longer on friendly terms, and Graham was fired in early 1972 and replaced with Rusty Allen. The band's later releases, Fresh (1973) and Small Talk (1974), featured even less of the band and more of Sly. The band's shaky reputation for not showing up at concerts caused promoters to avoid booking them, and after a disastrous engagement at the Radio City Music Hall in January 1975, The Family Stone broke apart completely.

Later years

Sly Stone went on to record four more albums as a solo artist (only High on You (1975) was released under just his name; the other three were released under the "Sly & The Family Stone" name). He also collaborated with Funkadelic on The Electric Spanking of War Babies (1981), but was unable to reinvigorate his career.

Bobby Womack, who had worked with Stone in the early 1970s, arranged for Stone to enter a drug rehabilitation program in 1984, but Stone was never able to fully overcome his addictions. However, he continued to make sporadic appearances on compilations and other artists' records. In 1986, Stone was featured on a track from The Time member Jesse Johnson's solo album Shockadelica called "Crazay". The music video featured Stone on keyboards and vocals, and received some airplay on the BET music network.

In 1987, Stone released a single, "Eek-a-Boo Static Automatic", from the Soul Man soundtrack. He also co-wrote and co-produced "Just Like A Teeter-Totter," which appeared on a Bar-Kays album from 1989. By the end of the year, he was arrested and jailed for cocaine use and possession.

After his release, Stone went into semi-retirement and became a recluse. In 1990, he gave an energetic vocal performance on the Earth, Wind and Fire song, "Good Time." In 1991, he appeared on a cover of "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" performed by the Japanese band 13CATS. And he shared lead vocals with Bobby Womack on "When the Weekend Comes" from Womack's 1993 album, "I Still Love You." His last major public appearance until 2006 was during the 1993 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony where Stone, much to the surprise of everyone (including his former bandmates), showed up onstage to be entered into the Hall of Fame along with the Family Stone. In 2003, the other six members of the original Family Stone entered the studio to record a new album. Stone was invited to participate, but declined.

Stone reportedly lives near Beverly Hills with two female assistants, where he records at a home studio and rides his motorcycle. A few home-studio recordings (most likely from the late 1980s) with Stone's voice and keyboards over a drum machine have made their way onto a bootleg. One Sly-penned demo called "Coming Back for More" appears to be autobiographical and includes the verse: "Been so high, I touched the sky and the sky says 'Sly, Why you tryin' to get by?' Comin' back for more." His son, Sylvester Jr., told People Magazine in 1997 that his father had composed an album's worth of material, including a tribute to Miles Davis called "Miles and Miles." His son also said Sly had just completed a 45-day stay at L.A.'s Brotman Medical Center, at least his third formal attempt at rehab and was temporarily residing in a Marina Del Rey hotel.

On August 15, 2005, Stone drove his younger sister Vet Stone on his motorcycle to Los Angeles' Knitting Factory, where Vet was performing with her Sly & the Family Stone tribute band, the Phunk Phamily Affair. Sly kept his helmet on during the entire performance, and was described by one concertgoer as looking a little like Bootsy Collins. A film crew doing a documentary on Sly & the Family Stone was at the show and apparently captured this rare sighting on film. Sly, according to his Web site, is producing and writing material for the group's new album. In addition, Sly renamed the group "Family Stone."

Freddie Stone said in February 2006 that the Family Stone might tour this year, possibly with Sly, adding that his brother is "jazzed" about the idea. Friends and family say Sly continues to write songs and record in his home studio. Family Stone drummer Greg Errico told Rolling Stone in the March 2006 issue, "Sly's been calling two or three times a day lately, singing over the phone."


Mid-2000s tributes

A Sly & the Family Stone tribute took place at the 2006 Grammy Awards on February 8, 2006, at which Sly gave his first live musical performance since 1987. Sly & the original Family Stone lineup (minus Larry Graham) performed briefly during a tribute to the band, for which the headliners included Steven Tyler, John Legend, Van Hunt, and Robert Randolph. Sporting an enormous blonde mohawk, thick sunglasses, a "Sly" beltbuckle and a silver lamé suit, he joined in on "I Want To Take You Higher." Hunched over the keyboards, he wore a cast on his right hand (the result of a recent motorcycle mishap), and a hunched back caused him to look down through most of the performance. His voice, though strong, was barely audible over the production. Sly walked to the front of the stage toward the end of the performance, sang a verse and then with a wave to the audience, sauntered offstage before the song was over. "He went up the ramp [outside the theater], got on a motorcycle and took off," Ken Ehrlich, executive producer of the Grammy Awards show told the Chicago Sun-Times. "Yes -- there was a motorcycle there."

Ehrlich said Sly refused to leave his hotel room until he was given a police escort to the show and then waited in his car until the performance began.

A Sly & The Family Stone tribute album, Different Strokes By Different Folks, was released on July 12, 2005 by Starbucks' Hear Music label, and on February 7, 2006 by Epic Records. The project features both cover versions of the band's songs and songs which sample the original recordings. Among the artists for the set are The Roots ("Star", which samples "Everybody is a Star"), Maroon 5 ("Everyday People"), John Legend, Joss Stone & Van Hunt ("Family Affair"), the Black Eyed Peas' Will.I.Am ("Dance to the Music"), and Steven Tyler and Robert Randolph ("I Want to Take You Higher"). Epic Records' version of the tribute album (to include two additional covers: "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey" and "Thank You (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" were released in January 2006.

Personal

Sly Stone was married to Kathleen Silva for five months in 1974. They were wed onstage during a Sly & The Family Stone concert at Madison Square Garden on June 5 before a crowd of over twenty thousand people, and divorced on October 30 after Sly's pit bull Gun attacked their son, Sylvester Bubba Ali Stewart, Jr. Sly, Silva, and Sly, Jr. all appear on the cover of Small Talk together. Sly also has a daughter, Sylevette Phunne Robinson, with Family Stone member Cynthia Robinson, born at about the same time as Sly, Jr.

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

Hot Fun in the Summertime :: Sly And the Family Stone

All: End of the spring and here she comes back
Hi Hi Hi Hi there
Them summer days, those summer days

That's when I had most of my fun, back
high high high high there
Them summer days, those summer days

Rose: I "cloud nine" when I want to

Freddie: Out of school, yeah

Larry: County fair in the country sun

Sly: And everything, it's true, ooh yeah

All: Hot fun in the summertime x 4

All: First of the fall and then she goes back
Bye bye bye bye there
Them summer days, those summer days

Rose: "Boop-boop-ba-boop-boop" when I want to

Freddie: Out of school, yeah

Larry: County fair in the country sun

Sly: And everything, it's true, ooh yeah

All: Hot fun in the summertime x 4

Top 20 ways to say "Your Fly Is Open"

20) The cucumber has left the salad.
19) I can see the gun of Navarone.
18) Someone tore down the wall, and your Pink Floyd
is hanging out.
17) You've got Windows in your laptop.
16) Sailor Ned's trying to take a little shore leave.
15) Your soldier ain't so unknown now.
14) Quasimodo needs to go back in the tower and tend to his bell.
13) Paging Mr. Johnson.. Paging Mr. Johnson..
12) You need to bring your tray table to the upright and
locked position.
11) Your pod bay door is open, Hal.
10) Elvis Junior has LEFT the building!
9) Mini Me is making a break for the escape pod.
8) Ensign Hanes is reporting a hull breach on the lower deck, Sir!
7) The Buick is not all the way in the garage.
6) Dr. Kimble has escaped!
5) You've got your fly set for "Monica" instead of "Hillary."
4) Our next guest is someone who needs no introduction...
3) You've got a security breach at Los Pantalones.
2) I'm talking about Shaft, can you dig it?

AND THE NUMBER ONE WAY TO TELL SOMEONE THEIR FLY IS UNZIPPED...

1) I thought you were crazy; now I see your nuts.

Well, folks, we now know that our hawkman has just finished all his background checks.<smile>

Hilarious, Bob, and I think my favorite is "Elvis junior has left the building."

Back later to review all of Bob's celebs.

Before I forget, listeners. Here is a poem for our Walter from the land of the boondocks. <smile>


Originally from Switzerland
There came a German
revered as the finest
No, make that
The Greatest Clock Maker
The likes of which
our worlds ever seen

Now he
was wound up tight
he was precise
Knew every time zone
like the back of his hand
But he never had any time
Spent his life around it
Sadly it ran out on him

Remember
The Great Clock Maker
Revere
His delicate fingers
Which would make no more hands
Woe is the unsung hero
No time for a woman
Spent his life around it
Sadly it ran out on him

You could weep,
or take pleasure
in his handiwork
All around us
His life ambition
The Great Clock Maker
He knew the right gears
To get a pendulum to swing
When it came to time keeping
There was nothing
he didn't know
Oh oh oh oh
The Great Clock Maker

The Great Clock Maker

Now he
was wound up tight
he was precise
Knew every time zone
like the back of his hand
But he never had any time
Spent his life around it
Sadly it ran out on him.

So there, brat.

Sorry to hear about the rain, been there, done that, now it closes automatically when the alarm is set.

Singing in the Rain Lyrics
Jamie Cullum


I'm singing in the rain
Just singing in the rain
What a glorious feeling
I'm happy again
I'm laughing at clouds
So dark up above
The sun's in my heart
And I'm ready for love

Let the stormy clouds chase
Everyone from the place
Come on with the rain
I've a smile on my face
I'll walk down the lane
With a happy refrain
Singing, singing in the rain

I'm singing in the rain
Just singing in the rain
What a glorious feeling
I'm happy again
I walk down the lane
With a happy refrain
I'm singing, singing in the rain
singing in the rain

talk about a memory, listeners, I had forgotten about the sun roof. Try as we might, we can't do without our riddle man.<smile>

This is an interesting poem:

RAINDANCE
By : Phil Cerasoli
I saw a raindance long ago around a bonfire's light
As six young braves danced 'round the flames and tried to catch the sight
Of rain to soothe their arid land and quench the desert's thirst;
But no rain was forthcoming nor no clap of thunder burst.

But now and then that memory comes floating back to me
And, in a way, I think that dance is my analogy.
Because I've raindanced all my life by taking poet's pen
And trying to bring redemption to the tribes of lonely men.

'Cause we all need redemption's rain to wash away the dust
Of all our self-indulgence and the years of our mistrust.
But despite my years of dancing, there's been no sign of rain.
I still see inhumanity and I see no loss of pain.

And quiet desperation still exists in most I know
And pieces of their shattered dreams lay at their feet below.
And each fight their own demons in prisons with no key
And no amount of poet's words can seem to set them free.

So I guess I've made no difference 'cause I haven't eased their load;
And it tempts a man to give it up and try another road.
But there's this voice inside of me that tells me that I'm right.
So I guess I'll keep on dancing and trying to catch the sight

Of rain to soothe their arid minds and quench their tired soul's thirst.
And hope that some hang onto... the words they read here first.
So if you try to find me and to tell me why you came
I'm that tired and hopeful poet dancing 'round the fire's flame.

Phil Cerasoli

Speaking of rain, where is our Reyn/reign

"Just shari and me, and tryster makes three"

Woooow, you don't hear me complaining.

My Blue Heaven Lyrics
Smashing Pumpkins


Day is ending
Birds are wending
Back to their shelter of
Each little nest they love

Nightshade's falling
Lovebirds calling
What makes the world go round
Nothing but love

When Whippoorwills call
And evening is nigh
I hurry to my blue heaven
I turn to the right
A little white light
Will lead you to my blue heaven

You'll see a smiling face
A fireplace, a cozy room
A little nest
That's nestled where the roses bloom

Just Molly and me
And baby makes three
We're happy in my blue heaven

You'll see a smiling face
A fireplace, a cozy room
A little nest
That's nestled where the roses bloom

Just Molly and me
And baby makes three
We're happy in my blue heaven

Smashing Pumpkins sang that?

Try, you bad boy. Did you know that Fats Dominio also did that oldie?

Well, listeners, we try our best to bring our listeners a variety of things on our radio.

Here's a song for just two:

This version by Ringo Starr

By J. Keirn Brennan and Ernest R. Ball

WITH SOMEONE LIKE YOU,
A PAL SO GOOD AND TRUE,

I'D LIKE TO LEAVE IT ALL BEHIND AND GO AND FIND
SOME PLACE THAT'S KNOWN TO GOD ALONE,
JUST A SPOT TO CALL OUR OWN.



WE'LL FIND PERFECT PEACE
WHERE JOYS NEVER CEASE
OUT THERE BENEATH THE KINDLY SKY.
WE'LL BUILD A SWEET LITTLE NEST,
SOMEWHERE IN THE WEST
AND LET THE REST OF THE WORLD GO BY.
.

Oops, missed your contribution, George. Did Ringo Starr do "Let the Rest of the World go by"? I thought my father-in-law did. <smile>

My Blue Heaven lyrics:

George wrote, "Smashing Pumpkins sang that?"

They sure did, and so did…
Frank Sinatra
Pogues
Harry Connick Jr.
Fats Domino
Rudy Valee
Pizzicato Five
John Stevens
Elvis Presley

Heck, it's easier to list those that haven't sung it.


Artist: FANNY BRICE
Song: DON'T REYN ON MY PARADE - Lyrics

Don't tell me not to live, just sit and putter
Life's candy and the sun's a ball of butter
Don't bring around a cloud to rain on my parade
Don't tell me not to fly, I simply got to
If someone takes a spill, it's me and not you
Who told you you're allowed to rain on my parade
I'll march my band out, I'll beat my drum
And if I'm fanned out, your turn at bat, sir
At least I didn't fake it, hat, sir
I guess I didn't make it
But whether I'm the rose of sheer perfection
A freckle on the nose of life's complexion
The Cinderella or the shine apple of its eye
I gotta fly once, I gotta try once,
Only can die once, right, sir?
Ooh, life is juicy, juicy and you see,
I gotta have my bite, sir.
Get ready for me love, 'cause I'm a "comer"
I simply gotta march, my heart's a drummer
Don't bring around the cloud to rain on my parade,

I'm gonna live and live NOW!
Get what I want, I know how!
One roll for the whole shebang!
One throw that bell will go clang,
Eye on the target and wham,
One shot, one gun shot and bam!
Hey, Mr. Arnstein, here I am ...

I'll march my band out, I will beat my drum,
And if I'm fanned out, your turn at bat, sir,
At least I didn't fake it, hat, sir,
I guess I didn't make it
Get ready for me love, 'cause I'm a "comer"
I simply gotta march, my heart's a drummer
Nobody, no, nobody, is gonna reyn on my parade!

hi letty --- I am officialy retired from work. It's time to put down my blanket, sit down in my armchair & listen to my CDs, watch the world go by
& smile at what has been. Love it.

Beatles - In My Life Lyrics
(Lennon/McCartney)


There are places I'll remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all

But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more

Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more
In my life I love you more