The Green Leaves of Summer

This MP3 Selection Expired on 08-03-2006:
Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra
The Green Leaves of Summer (Dmitri)

Summer Tour: 20-21, May 2006, Savannah, GA contd.

Sunday, May 21, 2006, 07:56:50 Hours, EDT
Some houses inside the Savannah Histooric District. The notable Spanish Moss (Tillandsia usneoides), like grey beards, draped over the Southern Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora).

Savannah Theatre, Sunday, May 21, 2006, 07:44:54 Hours, EDT
Many stage and silver screen actors from the 19th and 20th centuries had graced this old playhouse. Among these luminaries were: Oscar Wilde (1882), Lionel Barrymore (1890s), Sarah Berhardt(1892 & 1906), George M Cohen (1903), Florenz Ziegfeld (1900). And the year before he became the 28th President, Woodrow Wilson (1912).

The church steeple seen behind the trees is the tallest church structure in Savannah. It is of the Independent Presbyterian Church.


'64 Landau T-Bird, Savannah Theatre, Across from Chippewa 'Forrest Gump' Square
Saturday, May 20, 2006, 19:51:10 Hours, EDT

And she'll have fun, fun, fun, 'til her daddy takes her T-bird away.

The Father of Nocturnes

John Field, Irish composer and pianist
(26 July, 1782 – 23 January, 1837)

This MP3 Selection Expired on 07-30-2006:
John O'Coner (piano)
Nocturne in A Major - Poco Adagio (John Field)

Hot Tin Roof Now In Service

But where is my neighbor's cat, Mocha?

Current outdoor temperture: 110°F/43°C.

Bob Eberly's Birthday

Bob Eberly (Robert Eberle)
(Older brother of Ray Eberle)
Big Band Vocalist
(24 July, 1916 - 17 December, 1981)

This MP3 Selection Expired on 07-26-2006:

Green Eyes
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra
Vocals: Bob Eberly & Helen O'Connell
  with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra
Recorded on: May 17, 1941

Bob Eberly:
Well, Green Eyes with their soft lights
Your eyes that promise sweet nights
Bring to my soul a longing, a thirst for love divine
In dreams I seem to hold you, to find you and enfold you
Our lips meet and our hearts, too, with a thrill so sublime

Those cool and limpid Green Eyes
A pool wherein my love lies
So deep that in my searching for happiness - I fear
That they will ever hold me
All through my life they'll taunt me
But will they ever want me
Green Eyes, make my dreams come true

[Bridge]

Helen O'Connell:
Soft lights, and eyes that promise sweet nights
Bring to my soul a longing, a thirst for love divine
In dreams I seem to hold you, to find you and enfold you
Our lips meet and our hearts, too, with a thrill so sublime

Those cool and limpid Green Eyes
A pool wherein my love lies
So deep that in my searching for happiness - I fear
That they will ever haunt me
All through my life they'll taunt me
But will they ever want me
Green Eyes, I love you

Heat Wave Continues

Current outdoor temperture: 112°F/44°C.

Carminul Felix

Romania was the last country to break away from the defunct Soviet controlled Eastern European communist bloc in the late 1980s. During the last gasps of the Nicolae Ceauşescu regime, the state had decreed that each married couple must produce seven children by the age of forty, or else they would be taxed heavily. The scheme was to have increased Romanian's population with sufficient manpower to work at the state-run factories. Any couple who have bored the children but couldn't support them, the state would raise them. That was the plan.

Yet, the harmful communistic ideology in general with Ceauşescu population mandates in particular, have literally spawned generations of orphans and abandoned children. One of the tragic results of the failed communist utopian dream. Today, it is estimated there are 400,000 of these homeless children in a country of 20 million people. Romania provides the equivalent of $10 USD per month per institued orphan.

Founded in 1990, the non-sectarian Christian organization, Carminul Felix (The Happy Home) was setup to ameliorate the spiritual and physical depravities of these unclaimed and unwanted young souls. In the latter part of June 2006, one of our church groups and two-chapter representatives of the California and Nevada Rotary went to the Carminul Felix Village at Oradea, Romania.

For nine days, this team of twenty-one people, including some young people and three physicians, helped finished and furnished two apartment houses for orphans-now-turned adults (18-years and older). These are transitional housing for the young adults who would eventually leave the Village and find their ways about the world. The two buildings finished just in time to receive at least twenty-five young adults, as they are preparing to leave the children-side of the orphanage in September.


'For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.' -- Matthew 25:35. New American Standard Bible (NASB)

A Tad Warm Today

The outside temperture at this moment is: 112°F/44°C.

Jimmy Kennedy's Birthday

Jimmy Kennedy
(20 July, 1902 - 6 April 6, 1984)
Jimmy Kennedy, an Irish sognwriter who was more popular in the United States than in his native Emerald Isle on the other side of the Atlantic. He wrote nearly 2000 songs in his career, among which were: Harbor Lights, April in Portugal, South of the Border, and My Prayer.

Harbor Lights was the background theme played in the 1940 film "The Long Voyage Home." Sammy Kaye recorded this sentimental hit in 1950. A decade later, The Platters immortalized it in the collective American songbook.

This MP3 Selection Expired on 07-24-2006:
Sammy Kaye and His Orchestra (1950)
with Don Cornell and the Kaydets

Harbor Lights
Words and Music by Hugh Williams and Jimmy Kennedy

I saw the harbor lights
They only told me we were parting
The same old harbor lights that once brought you to me

I watched the harbor lights
How could I help if tears were starting
Goodbye to tender nights beside the silv'ry sea

I long to hold you near and kiss you just once more
But I was on the ship and you were on the shore

Now I know lonely nights
For all the while my heart is whispring
Some other harbor lights will steal your love from me

[Interlude]

I long to hold you near and kiss you just once more
But I was on the ship and you were on the shore

Now I know lonely nights
For all the while my heart is whisp'ring
Some other harbor lights will steal your love from me

Till There Was You

She was tickled pink to have found her love (car) in Rapid City, SD.

This MP3 Selection Expired on 07-20-2006:
Victor Silvester and His Orchestra - Till There Was You (Willson)

Some Enchanted Evening

Richard Rogers (left) and Oscar Hammerstein II (right)

Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist
(12 July, 1895 - 23 August, 1960)

This MP3 Selection Expired on 07-16-2006:
Christine Andreas and Joel Higgins (2002):
Some Enchanted Evening -Younger Than Springtime
(Rodgers & Hammerstein)


'Some Enchanted Evening' from "South Pacific" (1958 musical film)
'Younger Than Springtime' from "South Pacific" (1958 musical film)

Jerry Herman

Today, 10 June, is American musical composer and lyricist Jerry Herman's birthday.

This MP3 Selection Expired on 07-12-2006:
Ray Conniff and Singers (Live Recording) - Mame (Herman)


Mame (Theme Song)
Original Broadway Production (1966)
Words and Music: Jerry Herman
The Ray Conniff Singers

You coax the blues right out of the horn, Mame
You charm the husk right off of the corn, Mame
You've got the banjoes strummin'
And plunkin' out a tune to beat the band
The whole plantation's hummin'
Since you brought Dixie back to Dixie land

You make the cotton easy to pick, Mame
You give my old mint julep a kick, Mame
Who ever thought a Yankee would put
A little Dixie belle to shame
You've made us feel alive again
You've given us the drive again
To make the South revive again, Mame

You've brought the cake-walk back into style, Mame
You make the weepin' willow tree smile, Mame
Your skin is Dixie satin
There's rebel in your manner and your speech
You may be from Manhattan
But Georgia never had a sweeter peach

You make our black-eyed peas and our grits, Mame
Seem like the bill of fare at the Ritz, Mame
You came, you saw, you conquered
And absolutely nothing is the same
You're special fascinational, prove to be inspirational
We think you're just sensational, Mame

A Stroll In A Country Garden

"After sitting long enough to admire every article of furniture in the room, from the sideboard to the fender, to give an account of their journey, and of all that had happened in London, Mr. Collins invited them to take a stroll in the garden, which was large and well laid out, and to the cultivation of which he attended himself. To work in his garden was one of his most respectable pleasures;"
-- Chapter 28, "Pride and Prejudice", Vol. III, Part 2, Jane Austen.

8 June is composer Percy Grainger's birthday.

This MP3 Selection Expired on 07-10-2006:
Percy Grainger's - Country Garden

Summer Tour: 20-21, May 2006, Savannah, GA

The Georgia Queen on the Savannah River, Sat., May 20, 2006, 15:58:44 Hours EDT

Col. James Olgethorpe Statue, Founder of Georgia, Chippewa Square,
Sat., May 20, 2006, 15:01:50 Hours EDT
Locale for the recurring bench dialog of 'Forrest Gump (1994)'. Behind the prop bench was this statue. The studio removed the bench after the film was made.

The Mercer Williams House, Sat., May 20, 2006, 12:55:10 Hours EDT
Locale for Eastwood's 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)'

Juliette Gordon Low's House, Sat., May 20, 2006, 08:41:34 Hours EDT
Birthplace of the founder of the American Girl Scout. She also died here in 1927.

America, Why I Love Her

This MP3 Selection Expired on 07-07-2006:
John Wayne - America, Why I Love Her

The Stars and Stripes Forever!

This MP3 Selection Expired on 07-03-2006:
Henry Mancini Drum Corps
The Stars and Stripes Forever (Souza)