Allegheny Moon

Al Hoffman
Russian-born American lyricist
(25 September, 1902 - 21 July, 1960)

This MP3 Selection Expired on 10-01-2006:
Patti Page (1956) - Allegheny Moon (Hoffmann & Manning)


Allegheny Moon (1956)
Words: Al Hoffmann
Music: Dick Manning
Vocalist: Patti Page

Allegheny moon I need your light
To help me find romance tonight
So shine, shine
Shine on tonight

Allegheny moon your silver beams
Can lead the way to golden dreams
So shine, shine, please shine
Shine

High among the stars so bright above
The magic of your lamp of love
Can make him mine

Allegheny moon it's up to you
Please see what you can do
For me and for my one and only love
Allegheny moon

[Harmonica Interlude]

So shine, shine, shine

High among the stars so bright above
The magic of your lamp of love
Can make him mine

Allegheny moon it's up to you
Please see what you can do
For me and for my one and only love

Shine on me tonight
Allegheny moon

Autumn, 2006

Autumn Equinox Occurred on:
22 September, 2006, 2103 Hours PDT

This MP3 Selection Expired on 09-25-2006:
Jenny Evans (1997) - The Song of Autumn

The Wayward Wind

Gogi Grant, vocalist
(20 September, 1924 -   )

This MP3 Selection Expired on 09-22-2006:
Gogi Grant (1956)
The Wayward Wind (Lebowsky & Newman)

The Wayward Wind

The wayward wind is a restless wind
A restless wind that yearns to wander
And he was born the next of kin
The next of kin to the wayward wind

In a lonely shack by a railroad track
He spent his younger days
And I guess the sound of the outward-bound
Made him a slave to his wand'rin ways

And the wayward wind is a restless wind
A restless wind that yearns to wander
And he was born the next of kin
The next of kin to the wayward wind

[Short Instrumental Interlude]

Oh I met him there in a border town
He vowed we'd never part
Though he tried his best to settle down
I'm now alone with a broken heart

And the wayward wind is a restless wind
A restless wind that yearns to wander
And he was born the next of kin
The next of kin to the wayward wind

The next of kin to the wayward wind

Hey, Venus!

Frankie Avalon, vocalist
(18 September, 1939 -   )

This MP3 Selection Expired on 09-20-2006:
Frankie Avalon (1959)
Venus

Venus (1959)
Frankie Avalon

Hey Venus
Oh Venus

Venus if you will
Please send a little girl for me to thrill
A girl who wants my kisses and my arms
A girl with all the charms of you

Venus make her fair
A lovely girl with sunlight in her hair
And take the brightest stars up in the skies
And place them in her eyes for me

Venus goddess of love that you are
Surely the things I ask
Can't be too great a task

Venus if you do
I promise that I always will be true
I'll give her all the love I have to give
As long as we both shall live

Venus goddess of love that you are
Surely the things I ask
Can't be too great a task

Venus if you do
I promise that I always will be true
I'll give her all the love I have to give
As long as we both shall live

Hey Venus
Oh Venus
Make my wish come true

Al-Di-La

Ray Charles (the white guy)
(13 September 1918 - )

This MP3 Selection Expired on 09-18-2006:
The Ray Charles Singers (1964) - Al-Di-La

Al-Di-La
The Ray Charles Singers
(1964)

La la la la...

Al-Di-La, means you're far above me
Very far     very far
Al-Di-La, as far as the
Lovely evening star     very far

Where you walk, flowers bloom
When you smile all the gloom
Turns to sunshine

And my heart opens wide
When you're gone, it fades
And seems to have died

Al-Di-La, I asked as I drifted
Where you were     where you were
Al-Di-La, and when the fog lifted
There you were     there you were

In the kiss that I gave
Was the love I had saved
For a lifetime

Then I knew, it was true
And I knew all of you
Was completely mine

La la la la...

Al-Di-La, I asked as I drifted
Where you were     where you were
Al-Di-La, and when the fog lifted
There you were     there you were

In the kiss that I gave
Was the love I had saved
For a lifetime

Then I knew     then I knew
It was true     it was true
And I knew all of you
Was completely mine

La la la la...
You were completely mine

La la la la...
You were completely mine

Thank Heavens for Little Girls

Maurice Chevalier, singer-actor
(12 September, 1888 - 1 January, 1972)


This MP3 Selection Expired on 09-13-2006:
Maurice Chevalier
Thank Heaven for Little Girls
(The 1958 Musical 'Gigi')

The 9-11 War and Remembrance

This MP3 Selection Expired on 09-12-2006:
André Gagnon (piano) - Peine Perdue (The Pain of Lost)

From My 2006 Travel Notes - 3 of x

Excerpts from 17 May, 2006, travel journal.

The esplanade laid below the gentle grassy slope a short distant from the Club Hotel. In about a minute I was ready upon the seawall. The glow of sunset was fast dissolving; silhouetted black against the shorelines were the thick quills of the salt marshes. With the distant Ocean Highway-Bridge still in view, I drank in this unfettered moment of serenity from God’s cup. Photo: Sunset at Jekyll Island.

Tucked away here on Jekyll Island, the Club Hotel is the epitome of the Industrial Age’s edifice complex; le style du moment, the Queen Anne style architecture. Walking back from the seawall under the farewell gleam of the evening light, I saw for the first time the solitary and peerless grandeur of the hotel. Photo: The Jekyll Island Club Hotel.

Curiously, the Queen Anne architectural style bore little attributes or connection to the 18th century English monarch other than her name sake. Nevertheless, this vogue came into being and flourished splendidly a century ago on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

The Club Hotel was built between 1872 and 1902 in the American Queen Anne style. Charles Alexander, the principle architect of the building, incorporated in the design extensive verandas, a medieval-like turret, oak wainscoting, heart-of-pine floors, bay windows, and leaded art glass panes, and 93 fireplaces. I should not hesitate to mention, one such fireplace had been cozily settled...

...The evening air carried a whiff of flourishing bloom and fragrance; perhaps a tribute to the nourishing bosom of the subtropical clime. Sans the din and winged insects of the night, a dreamy quietness crept over the landscape...

You and Night and the Music

Howard Dietz, American lyricist
(8 September, 1896 - 30 July, 1983)

This MP3 Selection Expired on 09-10-2006:
You and the Night and the Music (Schwartz & Dietz)

You and the Night and the Music (1934)
Music: Arthur Schwartz
Words: Howard Dietz

Debroy Somers Band
Vocal: Gerry Fitzgerald (1934)

You and the night and the music
Fill me with flaming desire
Setting my being completely on fire

You and the night and the music
Thrill me but will we be one
After the night and the music are done

Until the pale light of dawning and daylight
Our hearts will be throbbing guitars
Morning may come without warning
And take away the stars

If we must live for the moment
Love till the moment is through
After the night and the music die
Will I have you