A Letter from Summer Camp

Amilcare Ponchielli
(31 August, 1834 – 17 January 17, 1886)

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Allan Sherman (1963) - Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh

Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh
(adpated from the ballet music "The Dance of the Hours"
of Ponchielli's opera La Gioconda)

Vocal: Allan Sherman (1963)


Hello Muddah, hello Fadduh
Here I am at Camp Grenada
Camp is very entertaining
And they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining

I went hiking with Joe Spivy
He developed poison ivy
You remember Leonard Skinner
He got ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner

All the counselors hate the waiters
And the lake has alligators
And the head coach wants no sissies
So he reads to us from something called 'Ulysses'

Now I don't want this should scare ya
But my bunkmate has malaria
You remember Jeffrey Hardy
They're about to organize a searching party

Take me home, oh muddah fadduh, take me home, I hate Grenada
Don't leave me out in the forest where I might get eaten by a bear
Take me home, I promise I will not make
Noise or mess the house with other boys
Oh please don't make me stay, I've been here one whole day

Dearest Fadduh, darling Muddah
How's my precious little bruddah
Let me come home if ya miss me
I will even let Aunt Bertha hug and kiss me

Wait a minute, it stopped hailing
Guys are swimming, guys are sailing
Playing baseball, gee that's better
Muddah Fadduh kindly disregard this letter

The Breeze and I

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Enoch Light and The Light Brigade
The Breeze and I (Lecuona)

From My 2006 Travel Notes - 2 of x

Log Date: 17 May, 2006
Log Time: ~ 2300 H EDT
Location: Jekyll Island Club Hotel, GA
2nd Floor Guest Room

As we approached the turn-off on Route 520- Highway 17 North onto the Jekyll Island Causeway leading to the island, we saw an abundant growth of salt marshes and Spartina grasses along the road. These were the anchor plants of the marine-estuarine ecosystems commonly found in the Georgia and South Carolina low country. Surely, the early trans-Atlantic settlers had had to wade through the mud flats, marshes, insects, and what not to go ashore. Would they have been as beholden to these confounding natural wonders as we do today? Then again, when all things considered, having survived a long and perilous ocean voyage to reach the New World, muddy salt marshes and other natural impediments were of little significance to the settlers.

When we arrived at the Jekyll Island Club Hotel, William said, if we could, we should view the sunset at 8:18 PM. Why would a hotel shuttle driver bothered with celestial events, much less to impart such knowledge to strangers? He was a rare bird, indeed. As the twilight glare of a slowly consuming ember spreading wide and deep over the island, William’s invitation beckoned me to stray from checking in at the front desk...

Kiss of Fire

Georgia Gibbs
26 August, 1926 -  

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Georgia Gibbs (1952)
Kiss of Fire


Kiss of Fire (1952)
Georgia Gibbs
Music: AG Vilodo
Words: Lester Allen and Robert Hill

I touch your lips and all at once the sparks go flying
Those devil lips that know so well the art of lying
And though I see the danger, still the flame grows higher
I know I must surrender to your kiss of fire

Just like a torch, you set the soul within me burning
I must go on, I'm on this road of no returning
And though it burns me and it turns me into ashes
My whole world crashes without your kiss of fire

I can't resist you, what good is there in trying
What good is there denying you're all that I desire
Since first I kissed you my heart was yours completely
If I'm a slave, then it's a slave I want to be
Don't pity me, don't pity me

Give me your lips, the lips you only let me borrow
Love me tonight and let the devil take tomorrow
I know that I must have your kiss although it dooms me
Though it consumes me, your kiss of fire

Since first I kissed you my heart was yours completely
If I'm a slave, then it's a slave I want to be
Don't pity me, don't pity me

Give me your lips, the lips you only let me borrow
Love me tonight and let the devil take tomorrow
I know that I must have your kiss although it dooms me
Though it consumes me. your kiss of fire

From My 2006 Travel Notes - 1 of x

Log Date: 17 May, 2006
Log Time: 1930 H EDT
Carrier: Jekyll Island Club Hotel Shuttle
Ambient Temp: 80°F/27°C. Humid.
Destination: Jekyll Island Club Hotel, Jekyll Island, GA
ETA: 2030 H EDT
Present Ground Space: North Interstate 95, Jacksonville, FL

I am impressed. A Jekyll Island Club Hotel shuttle is waiting for its guests, while the passengers are disembarking the plane.

We are onboard the shuttle heading north on Interstate 95. It is about 60 miles from JAX to Jekyll Island. Tooling along on the expressway, both sides of the verdant freeway are pleasing the eyes. There is about three or four cars traveling north beside us. A hotel guest asks William, the driver, why the traffic is so sparse. On peak commute hours, William says, there would be about eight cars on the road. Funny man is he.

It's now 5:30 PM on the west coast. Here in Florida and the eastern seaboard, the evening tinct is already setting over the shores. It’s been a long day. Here we are, finally. Georgia's Jewel, Jekyll Island, awaits us.

Louis Teicher's Birthday

Jack Lemon & Shirley MacLaine in 'The Apartment' (1960)

Louis Teicher, pianist
Member of Ferrante & Teicher twin Piano team
24 August, 1924 -

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Ferrante & Teicher
Theme from 'The Apartment' (1960)

Back in the Saddle Again

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Big Band Larry Clinton's Birthday

Larry Clinton, His Orchestra, and Bea Wain
Larry Clinton, Big Band Leader and Musician
(17 August 1909 - 2 May, 1985)

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Larry Clinton and His Orchestra with Bea Wain (1941)
Because of You (Hammerstein & Wilkinson)

Because of You
Words: Arthur Hammerstein
Music: Dudley Wilkinson
1940

Larry Clinton and His Orchestra
Bea Wain, Vocal (1941)

Because of you there's a song in my heart
Because of you my romance had its start
Because of you the sun will shine

The moon and start will say you're mine
Forever and never to part
I only live for your love and your kiss
It's paradise to be near you like this

Because of you my life is now worthwhile
And I can smile
Because of you