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Well, Bob, I knew all except Leo McKern. Thanks for allowing us to meet him.

Tryingagain, <smile> to show our royalty the real me:



of course, listeners, that was in my younger years.

AN EVEN BIGGER SMILE

Only Mr. Google knows for sure.

Good morning, by the way.

and good morning to you, Mr. Reyn.

Only Mr. Google knows? How about this guy, B.C.

Search me, but she's a looker.

McTag, you are a wonder, Manchester. Love your sense of humour, Brit.

Incidentally, Alec Baldwin was a looker as well.

"What evil lurks in the hearts of men. Only the shadow knows."

and to follow that theme, another from RLS:



My Shadow
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.

The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow
Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;
For he sometimes shoots up taller than an india-rubber ball,
And sometimes he's so little that there's none of him at all.

He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play,
And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.
He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see;
I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me

One morning, very early, before the sun was up,
I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;
But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,
Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed

Wishing all a good day.
Thanks for posting one of my favorite RLS childhood poems, Letty.

Remembering Mercedes McCambridge today:

Mercy" McCambridge was born in Joliet, Illinois to Irish Catholic immigrant parents; she later falsely claimed to have been born on March 17, 1918.

McCambridge began as a radio performer in the 1940s and also performed on Broadway. Her big break in Hollywood came when she was cast opposite Broderick Crawford in the 1949 film All the King's Men. McCambridge cemented her fame when she won the 1950 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film, which also won Best Picture for that year. McCambridge also won the Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actress and Most Promising Newcomer - Female for that film.

In 1954, McCambridge co-starred with Joan Crawford and Sterling Hayden in the offbeat western drama, Johnny Guitar, now a cult classic. McCambridge and Hayden publicly declared their dislike of Crawford, with McCambridge labeling Crawford "a bad egg". The cast also included a fresh faced, but close to 40 years old, actor named Ernest Borgnine.

Her performance in "Johnny Guitar" led to her co-starring with Burt Lancaster and Walter Matthau in "The Kentuckian", in which she played, yet again a woman of evil intent.

McCambridge was also well-known for providing the dubbed-in voice of the demonically possessed character in The Exorcist, acted by Linda Blair. McCambridge, however, was not originally credited for the voice in the film's initial release, probably so as to heighten the film's initial mystique. McCambridge later went public in the 1970s in her dispute with the film's creator William Friedkin and the Warner Bros. brass over her exclusion, and with the help of the Screen Actors Guild, she was ultimately properly credited for her vocal work in future releases of the film. In interviews with E!'s True Hollywood Story regarding the supposed "Curse of the Exorcist", it was said that McCambridge's already deep voice was made raspy and frightening-sounding and it "really became the Devil's" via sleep deprivation, cigarettes, and drinking raw egg yolks and liquor.

McCambridge has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one for motion pictures, located at 1722 Vine Street, and one for television located 6243 Hollywood Boulevard.

McCambridge told the story of her life in The quality of mercy: an autobiography (published in NYC by Times Books c1981;ISBN 0812909453), the title making use of her childhood nickname.

Private life
McCambridge's only child, her son John Lawrence Fifield (who later adopted his step-father's surname and became known as John Markle), killed his family and then himself in a murder/suicide in 1987.

McCambridge died on March 2, 2004 in La Jolla, California, of natural causes aged 87.

Filmography
All the King's Men (1949)
Inside Straight (1951)
The Scarf (1951)
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Awards (1951)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
The Kentuckian (1955)
Giant (1956)
A Farewell to Arms (1957)
Touch of Evil (1958) (Cameo)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
Cimarron (1960)
Angel Baby (1961)
Run Home Slow (1965)
99 Women (1969)
Justine (1969)
The Last Generation (1971)
The Other Side of the Wind (1972) (unfinished)
Sixteen (1973)
The Exorcist (1973) (voice only)
Thieves (1977)
The Concorde: Airport '79 (1979)
Echoes (1983)

Well, there's our Raggedy. I can almost remember every single verse in RLS's "Child's Garden of Verse." More about that later, however.

My word, PA. Mercy was the voice in The Exorcist. I had forgotten that. Thanks for the memory, honey.

Following the mercy theme, listeners:

Buckinghams


My baby, she made out of love,
Like one of those bunnies out of a playboy club,
But she's got somethin' that's greater than gold,
Crazy 'bout that girl, 'cause she got so much soul!

I said she got the kind o' lovin', kissin' and a-huggin'
Sure is mellow, glad that I'm her fellow, and I know
That she knocks me off my feet, have mercy on me!
'Cause she knocks me off my feet!

There is no girl in the whole world
That can love love me like you do!

Well, oh, my baby, when she walks by
All the fellows go "Ooh!" and I know why.
Is it because that girl she looks so fine,
And if she ever leaves me I will lose my mind.

She got the kind o' lovin', kissin' and a-huggin'
Sure is mellow, glad that I'm her fellow, and I know
That she knocks me off my feet, have mercy on me!
'Cause she knocks me off my feet!

There is no girl in the whole world
That can love love me like you do!

Hey! Everybody, the neighborhood,
Now testify that my girl, she look so good, yeah,
She's so fine, she's built, I'm startin' to go blind,
Yeah, If she ever leaves me I will lose my mind!

She got the kind o' lovin', kissin' and a-huggin'
Sure is mellow, glad that I'm her fellow, and I know
That she knocks me off my feet, have mercy on me!
'Cause she knocks me off my feet!

There is no girl in the whole world
That can love love me like you do!

Baby, yeah,
You gotta, gotta have some mercy, yeah!
Alright

My word, folks, The Buckinghams? I don't think so.

Ah, try, the Peter Pan syndrome. That's really me. (the song, that is.)

I just found out, folks, that Cannonball Adderly did Mercy, Mercy, Mercy. I didn't think it was them Brits. <smile>

Hmmm. Where is the turtle? Still playing chess somewhere.

It seems that our Dutchy will also be away for fifteen days. Certainly will miss him on the Where Am I Thread along with Francis and C.J.

Well, let's move to a new theme, listeners:

I got a whole lotta loving for you true true loving for you

I got a whole loving for you I got a whole love for you I got a whole love for you

I got a whole love and kisses for you

We got a whole lot to do a whole lot to do and I'm so glad to see you

[ piano ]

I got a whole lotta loving for you...

I got a whole lotta loving for you...

I got a whole lotta loving for you...

Hank Williams, Jr. did NOT do that originally. Guess who did. <smile>

Guees who, the Canadian group? reminds me of who's on first a bit. or even, Hu's on first, if anyone wants to hear that again.

Yit, you bratty turtle. I was wondering if someone would come up with that and not Fats. <smile>

Now, folks, shall we dub our turtle, Horton? He might be able to find the Who.

What's this song <from memory>

How would you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue.
Oh, I do think it's the pleasantest thing,
Ever a child can do.

Up in the air, and over the wall,
Til I can see so high.
Rivers and valleys and trees and things,
Over the country side.

Then I'd look down on the garden so green
Down on the roof so brown.
Up in the air I'd go flying again,
Up in the air and down.

Swing then; swing then, up in the air so blue.
Oh, it's the pleasantest thing,
Ever a child can do.

I read that, Bob. Hoorah for Jerry. Is he Irish, do you suppose?<smile>

I think Jerry sang What Kind of Fool am I. but I'm not certain



Tomorrow is the day of the Irish, so salute to ye all in advance.

A little tune from paddy O'Try -

Artist: The Little Mermaid
Song: Kiss The Girl Lyrics

Percussion
Strings
Winds
Words

There you see her
Sitting there across the bay
She don't got a lot to say
But there's something about her
And you don't know why
But you're dying to try
You wanna kiss the girl

Yes, you want her
Look at her, you know you do
It's possible she wants you, too
There is one way to ask her
It don't take a word
Not a single word
Go on and kiss the girl

Sing with me now
Sha-la-la-la-la-la
My, oh, my
Look at the boy too shy
He ain't gonna kiss the girl
Sha-la-la-la-la-la
Ain't that sad
Ain't it shame, too bad
You gonna miss the girl

Now's your moment
Floating in a blue lagoon
Boy, you better do it soon
No time will be better
She don't say a word
And she won't say a word
Until you kiss the girl

Sha-la-la-la-la-la
Don't be scared
You got the mood prepared
Go on and kiss the girl
Sha-la-la-la-la-la
Don't stop now
Don't try to hide it how
You wanna kiss the girl
Sha-la-la-la-la-la
Float along
Listen to the song
The song say kiss the girl
Sha-la-la-la-la-la
Music play
Do what the music say
You wanna kiss the girl

You've got to kiss the girl
Why don't you kiss the girl
You gotta kiss the girl
Go on and kiss the girl

Love that one, Try. My Irish friend in Virginia told me that most songs were Irish/American. Not certain of that, but I know some are beautiful and will steal your heart away.

Love this one, folks, but I am not certain it is Irish

RICHARD TAUBER lyrics
SMILIN THROUGH


There's a little brown road winding over the hill
To a little white court by the sea
There's a little green ga-ate
At whose railings I wai-ait
While two eyes of blue
Come smiling through a-at me

There's a grey lock or two in the brown of the hair
There's some silver in mine too, I see
But in all the long year-ears
When the cloud brought their tear-ears
Those two eyes of blue
Kept smiling through at me

And if ever I'm left in this world all alone
I shall wait for my call patiently
For if heaven be ki-ind
I shall wait there to fi-ind
Those two eyes of blue
Come smiling through... a-at me.

Is Madonna Irish, Try? It doesn't matter, however, 'cause it's just the music that counts. Thanks, honey. I like green no matter what color it is.<smile>

Sing me a love song for my Irish boy;
Take from me my heart, my head, my home;
Pass to him my body, life, and joy;
Add to his my fields of fertile loam.
To him I am and will be earth and heaven,
Resting in the sanctum of his fire;
In me he'll find all his gods have given,
Creating dynasties of his desire.
Know, my love, that I will come to you
'Ere this sun has set on Patrick's Day;
So you must find the courage to be true,
Daring to give other dreams away.
After this leap, all loneliness is past:
Years may come and go, but love will last.

Chris Rea › Shamrock Diaries

In waves of people you can lose your feet
You've got to stay hard, to the ground
It gets so easy now to lose your way
When you're ever outward bound
A church bell ringing in the fading light
Stops you dead like a cold steel wall
The ghost of yesteryears is toughing you
And as sure as God you'll fall
And I see me and I see you
I see it all just like it used to be
And all the reasons why it started out
Hit you hard with every bell
The choir practice in the empty hall
Is a sound that you know so well
Like something lost inside your overcoat
You find it later, by mistake
You lost it all a thousand years ago
And you pray it's not too late
And I see me and I see you
I see it all just like it used to be
And I see me and I see you
I see it all just like a diary

Now I remember everything
Yea I remember how it used to be
With every note that choirboy sings
And I see me and I see you
I see it all just like it used to be