Summer Tour: 17 May, 2006, Jekyll Island, GA

The Crane Cottage Dining Room, Wed., May 17, 2006, 21:05:38 Hours EDT
Place supped on first evening of arrival.


American Queen Anne style Club Hotel at Dusk, Wed., May 17, 2006, 20:23:08 Hours EDT
Place stayed for two nights.


Sunset, Wed., May 17, 2006, 20:21:12 Hours EDT
Just barely caught the sun setting upon arrival. 80°F/27°C. Humid.

My Favorite Rogue

Final Scene, 'The Music Man' (1962)

The former Secretary of State, Colin Powell, was once asked what was his favorite movie or show. He answered, "Music Man."

Robert Preston (8 June, 1918 - 21 March, 1987) will always be remembered as the Music Man on Broadway and on the silver screen. As Prof. Harold Hill, he was and is my favorite movie rogue of all time.

Here it is. Preston's inimitable song which he sang in "The Music Man":

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Robert Preston (1962) - Ya Got Trouble

June 6

Another day or everydayness for many of us.

The longest day and a horrific day for those who died or lived through this day, 62 years ago. As a country, this generation have already forgotten 9-11, must less D-Day, 1944. What's that?

June Is Bustin' All Over

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June is Bustin' All Over

Words: Oscar Hammerstein
Music: Richard Rodgers
Film Musical: Carousel (1956)

June is bustin' out all over
All over the meadow and the hill!
Buds're bustin' outa bushes
And the rompin' river pushes
Ev'ry little wheel that wheels beside the mill!

June is bustin' out all over
The feelin' is gettin' so intense,
That the young Virginia creepers
Have been huggin' the bejeepers
Outa all the mornin' glories on the fence!
Because it's June...

June, June, June
Just because it's June, June, June!

Fresh and alive and gay and young
June is a love song, sweetly sung

June is bustin' out all over!
The saplin's are bustin' out with sap!
Love hes found my brother, Junior,
And my sister's even loonier!
And my Ma is gettin' kittenish with Pap!
June in bustin' out all over

To ladies and men are payin' court.
Lotsa ships are kept at anchor
Jest because the captains hanker
Fer the comfort they ken only get in port!

Because it's June... June, June, June
Just because it's June, June, June!

The Symonds Visit

Received a surprised email yesterday. The Symonds of Wales are in California doing a documentary shoot. Sunday, tomorrow, is reserved for spending the day with them.

Good thing I have just finished the compilation of some recording by David Hughes, the Welsh tenor. It was to be a gift or sorts I would have sent to Bob and Carys this year.

Friendly Persuasion

Happy Birthday, Pat!
Pat Boone
June 1, 1934 -

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Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)

Words: Paul Francis Webster
Music: Dmitri Tiomkin
Film: Friendly Persuation (1956)
Vocal: Pat Boone (1956)

Thee I love
More than the meadow so green and still
More than the mulberries on the hill
More than the buds on the May apple tree
I love thee

Arms have I
Strong as the oak, for this occasion
Lips have I
To kiss thee, too, in friendly persuasion

Thee is mine
Though I don't know many words of praise
Thee pleasures me in a hundred ways
Put on your bonnet, your cape, and your glove
And come with me
For thee I love

(Interlude)

Friendly persuasion

Thee is mine
Though I don't know many words of praise
Thee pleasures me in a hundred ways
Put on your bonnet, your cape, and your glove
And come with me
For thee I love

Skylark

Helen Forrest

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Skylark
Words: Johnny Mercer
Music: Hoagy Carmichael
Date: 1942

Vocal: Helen Forrest (1942)
Orchestra: Harry James

Skylark, have you anything to say to me
Won't you tell me where my love can be
Is there a meadow in the mist
Where someone's waiting to be kissed

Skylark, have you seen a valley green with spring
Where my heart can go a-journeying
Over the shadows and the rain
To a blossom covered lane

And in your lonely flight
Haven't you heard the music of the night
Wonderful music, faint as the will-o'-the-wisp
Crazy as a loon, sad as a gypsy, serenading the moon

Oh, skylark, I don't know if you can find these things
But my heart is riding on your wings
So if you see them anywhere, won't you lead me there

Johnny Mercer: And the Angels Sing

General Sherman offered to President Lincoln the city of Savannah as a Christmas present in December 1864. Johnny Mercer proffered to the world his music and lyrics. If we are inclined to take in the wealth from these southern hospitalities, our lives would be that much richer.

As an "old" music lover, traveling through Savannah last week, its native son Johnny Mercer came to mind. Mercer died in 1976 and was buried in the family plot in Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah. The inscription on his headstone reads, "And the Angels Sing." That's Mercer plain and true.

Tomorrow, I will send to my friends in Virgina some songs with Johnny Mercer lyrics. These 32 songs are as follows:

Andy Williams (1986 rel) - Emily
Anne Shelton (1957) - I Remember You
Annie Ross (1958) - This Time the Dream's on Me
Audrey Hepburn (1961) - Moon River
Barbara Lea (1995) - I'm Old Fashioned
Crosby & Wyman (1951) - In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening
Diana Krall (1999) - Midnight Sun
Dick Haymes (1944) - Laura
Dinah Shore (2001 rel) - Blues in the Night
Doris Day (1958) - That Old Black Magic
Harry Connick Jr (1999) - Charade
Helen Forrest (1942) - Skylark
Henry Mancini (1962) - Days of Wines and Roses
Henry Mancini (1965) - The Sweetheart Tree
Johnny Mercer (1944) - G.I. Jive
Johnny Mercer (1945) - Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive
Johnny Mercer (1945) - On The Atchison, Topeka and the Sante Fe
Johnny Mercer (1952) - Glow Worm
Lynn Roberts (2005) - Goody Goody
Mario Lanza (1953) - Song of India
Marlene Dietrich (1997 rel) - Come Rain or Come Shine
Martha Tilton (1944) - And the Angels Sing
Michael Bublé (2003) - Summer Wind
Nancy Knorr (1992) - Tangerine
Nancy Lamott (1995) - Autumn Leaves - When October Goes
Nancy Lamott (1995) - Hit the Road to Dreamland
Nancy Lamott (1995) - P.S. I Love You
Nancy Lamott (1995) - Talk to Me Baby
Norma Winstone (1998) - When the World Was Young
Pat Boone (1957) - Bernadine
Pied Pipers, The (1945) - Dream
Ray Eberle (1940) - Fools Rush In

Remembrance

Remembering those who have died for our freedoms;
Honoring those who have served,
or continue to serve to keep us free;
Praising the One who set us Eternally Free.

Memorial Day Sunday, 2006, Part 2 of 2

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Eternal Father, Strong to Save

Words: William Whiting
Music: John Bacchus Dykes

Eternal Father, strong to save,
Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,
Who biddest the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!

Most Holy Spirit! Who didst brood
Upon the waters dark and rude,
And bid the angry tumult cease,
And give, for wild confusion, peace;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!

O Trinity of love and power!
Our brethen shield in danger’s hour;
From rock and tempest, fire and foe,
Protect us wheresoever we go;
Thus evermore shall rise to Thee
Glad hymns of praise from land and sea.