A Million Tomorrows Shall All Pass Away

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The Johnny Mann Singers (1964)
- Today (Sparkes)
TODAY
Film: Advance to the Rear (1964)
Composer: Randy Sparkes (1964)
Singers: The New Christie Minstrels

The Johnny Mann Singers rendition:

Today while the blossoms still cling to the vine
I'll taste your strawberries
I'll drink your sweet wine
A million tomorrows shall all pass away
Ere I forget all the joy that is mine today

I'll be a dandy and I'll be a rover
You'll know who I am by the song that I sing
I'll feast at your table
I'll sleep in your clover
Who cares what the morrow shall bring

Today while the blossoms still cling to the vine
I'll taste your strawberries
I'll drink your sweet wine

I can't be contented with yesterday's glory
I can't live on promises winter to spring
Today is my moment and now is my story
I'll laugh and I'll cry and I'll sing

Today while the blossoms still cling to the vine
I'll taste your strawberries
I'll drink your sweet wine
A million tomorrows shall all pass away
Ere I forget all the joy that is mine today

Eric Coates Birthday Anniversary

Eric Coates
English composer of Light Music
(27 August 1886 – 21 December 1957)
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Frank Chacksfield and Orchestra (1964)
- By the Sleepy Lagoon (Coates)

A Sweet Nightbloomers Jazz Concert

These ain't the Cestrum nocturnum (Night Blooming Jasmine)
They are The Night Blooming Jazzmen Dixieland Band
Performining at Central Park
Huntington Beach, CA
21 August, 2011

George Shearing Birthday Anniversary

George Shearing, OBE
UK-born jazz pianist
(13 August 1919 - 14 February 2011)
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George Shearing Trio (2004)
- So Rare (Herst)

Spring and Summer Reading 2011

Initial Post: 2011-07-15 1757
Status To Date: 2011-08-09 1436

Books read:

1. Brenner Assignment, The - Patrick K. O'Donnell
2. Gold Age Trilogy, The - John C. Wright
3. Dreadnought - Cherie Priest
4. Perfect Bride for Mr. Darcy, The - Mary Simonsen
5. Guns of Navarone, The - Alistair MacLean
6. Black Wolf - Dale Brown
7. Queen's Play (Book 2 of the Lymond Chronicles) - Dorothy Dunnett
8. Key to Rebecca, The - Ken Follett

Two of these read books with written reviewes posted at Amazon.com

1. Brenner Assignment, The - Patrick K. O'Donnell
2. Golden Age, Book 1 - John C. Wright

André Gagnon's Birthday

André Gagnon
Canadian-born pianist and composer-conductor
2 August 1939 -
André Gagnon, piano (1996)
True Love (Porter)
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Robert Farnon Birthday Anniversary

Robert Farnon
Canadian-born conductor, composer
and strings arranger par excellence
(24 July 1917 - 23 April 2005)

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Robert Farnon and His Orchestra (1989)
- How Beautiful Is Night (Farnon)

Chili Out

First crop of Anaheim chili, 20 July 2011.

Keep That Breathless Charm

Dorothy Fields
American-born lyricist
First woman elected to the Songwriters' Hall of Fame
(15 July, 1905 - 10 July, 1974)
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Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano (1993)
- The Way You Look Tonight (Fields & Kern)

The Way You Look Tonight
Movie: Swing Time (1936)
Music: Jerome Kern
Words: Dorothy Fields

Some day
When I'm awfully low
When the world is cold
I will feel a glow just thinking of you
And the way you look tonight

Oh, but you're lovely
With your smile so warm
And your cheeks so soft
There is nothing for me but to love you
And the way you look tonight

With each word your tenderness grows
Tearing my fear apart
And that laugh that wrinkles your nose
Touches my foolish heart

Lovely
Never, never change
Keep that breathless charm
Won't you please arrange it 'cause I love you
Just the way you look tonight

With each word your tenderness grows
Tearing my fears apart
And that laugh that wrinkles your nose
Touches my foolish heart

Lovely
Never, never change
Keep that breathless charm
Won't you please arrange it 'cause I love you
Just the way you look tonight

Just the way you look tonight

Comes Blue-eyed Summer Like a Girl Along

Summer

Hang out your loveliest star, O Night! O Night!
Your richest rose, O Dawn!
To greet sweet Summer, her, who, clothed in light,
Leads Earth's best hours on.
Hark! how the wild birds of the woods
Throat it within the dewy solitudes!
The brook sings low and soft,
The trees make song,
As, from her heaven aloft
Comes blue-eyed Summer like a girl along.

-- Madison Cawein, Summer I