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• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Mon, Apr 28 2014 8:36 AM

  28 April,

  PGA Golfer John Daly is 48

  Today's tribute:

  Actress, singer and dancer Ann Margret is 73.

  Notables:

  • Author Harper Lee is 88 (wrote, To Kill a Mockingbird ... who didn't have to read that book?)
  • TV Show host Jay Leno is 64
  • TV Show host Drew Scott (not to be confused, of course, with Dred Scott)
  • Auto manufacturer Ferruccio Lamborghini (1916 - 1993) ... which brings up the question, who makes the better car ... Ferrari or Lamborghini?
  • Pianist Chuck Leavell is 62
  • Comic fantasy author Terry Pratchett is 66
  • Singer Wayne Osmond is 63

  Actors/Actresses:

  • Jessica Alba is 33
  • Penelope Cruz is 40
  • Nancy Lee Grahn is 56
  • Bridget Moynahan is 44
  • Carolyn Jones (1930 - 1983)
  • Mary Mcdonnell is 62
  • Marcia Strassman is 66

  Today's tribute:

  I could have picked a few song and dance numbers of Ann Margret, but chose this one instead.  She had performed a dance number prior to talking with the show's host:

  Does anyone know the host's name?  George ????.  I've never seen him before.

   

• newcastleb 1,813 Posts

  Mon, Apr 28 2014 10:00 AM

  George Burns - terrific entertainer from the old school IMO, saw him in the Reno/Tahoe casino's a few times back when I was still living in Ca., always a most enjoyable evening Thomas

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Mon, Apr 28 2014 10:54 AM

  newcastleb:

  George Burns - terrific entertainer from the old school IMO, saw him in the Reno/Tahoe casino's a few times back when I was still living in Ca., always a most enjoyable evening Thomas

   I am told that Nathan Birnbaum aka George Burns could handle a cigar like no other. That he made Mark Twain & U.S. Grant look butter-fingured. 

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Mon, Apr 28 2014 11:02 AM

  newcastleb:

  George Burns - terrific entertainer from the old school IMO, saw him in the Reno/Tahoe casino's a few times back when I was still living in Ca., always a most enjoyable evening Thomas

  Thank you Thomas.  I can now do a search on him.  I so love this thread ... it gives me the opportunity to check out the talents of singers and actors/actresses from prior eras.

  Edit:  I wonder ... how many of you guys had a crush on Ann Margret growing up?  And, who's prettier (all things being equal) ... Ann Margret or Angelina Jolie?

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Tue, Apr 29 2014 7:10 AM

  April 29

                               1947 - Johnny Miller, from "Frisco" ~ 1973 US Open ~ 1976 British Open

                               1960 - Billy Glassan ~ PGA

   534 - Taliesin ~ Welsh Poet

  1665 - James Butler ~ 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish Statesman & Soldier

  1686 - Peregrine Bertie ~ 2nd Duke of Ancaster, England

  1745 - Oliver Ellsworth ~ 3rd Justice of the Supreme Court

  1762 - Jean-Baptiste Jourdan ~ French Marshall

  1818 - Alexander II Romanov ~ Tsar of Russia

  1830 - Adolph Sutro ~ "Frisco" Mayor out in wgt-land & builder of renowned eatery "Cliff House" which, I think, is no longer there, but it was famous and good...like "Tavern on the Green" in Central Park NYC...also gone.

  1863 - William Randolph Hearst ~ Newspaper publisher also from "Frisco", with a nice little shack about 200 miles south...Why "Frisco" instead of the preferred and insisted upon "San Francisco"? Because it is preferred & insisted upon and "Frisco" drives them NuTz!!!

  1899 - Duke Ellington ~ one of my grandpappy's (so I'm told) favorites

  ~SP~

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Tue, Apr 29 2014 11:16 AM

  29 April,

  Today's Tribute:

  Edward Kennedy Ellington (1899 - 1974), but more widely known as "Duke".  

  Notables:

  • Race car legend Dale Earnhardt (1951 - 2001)
  • Tennis professional Andre Agassi is 44
  • Singer Tommy James is 67
  • Singer Tammi Terrell (1945 - 1970)
  • Hirohito (Emperor of Japan) (1901 - 1989)
  • Composer and director of Isreal Philharmonic Orchestra until he dies ... Zubin Mehta is 78

  Actors/Actresses:

  • Jerry Seinfeld is 60
  • Michelle Pfeiffer is 56
  • Uma Thurman is 44
  • Daniel Day Lewis is 57  ... he played such a great "Lincoln" IMO.
  • Celeste Holm (1917 - 2012)
  • Lane Smith (1936 - 2005)
  • Richard Kline is 70
  • Megan Boone is 31
  • Paul Adelstein is 45
  • Tom Ewell (1909 - 1994)

  Today's tribute:

  Duke Ellington had such a huge influence on American Jazz.  What's surprising is Duke never referred to the music as "Jazz", but called it "America's music" or "America's sound".  

  I've chosen two songs written for his lifetime band members, Johnny "Jeep" Hodges and Charles "Cootie" Williams.  These songs are not as well known as "A Train", but were written specifically for his friends and band members.  I truly hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

  Here's the song written for Hodges:

  And now, the song first called "Concerto for Cootie":

  
  

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Tue, Apr 29 2014 1:29 PM

  In a private conversation, Sister Kat has many times expressed her fondness for Abigail (Smith) Adams & husband John and the many letters they shared over lifetimes. Kat told me she didn't have much prior to 1800, and so I shall put one here from December 23, 1782 as I promised I would. I could have done so privately, but since I have to type it anyway, I decided to share it here.

  My dearest friend,

  ...should I draw you the picture of my heart it would be what I hope you would still love though it contained nothing new. The early possession you obtained there, and the absolute power you have obtained over it, leaves not the smallest space unoccupied. I look back to the early days of our acquaintance and friendship as to the days of love and innocence, and, with an indescribable pleasure, I have seen near a score of years roll over our heads with affection heightened and improved by time, nor have the dreary years of absence in the smallest degree effaced from my mind the image of the dear untitled man to whom I gave my heart.

  Abigail Adams

  Lily

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Tue, Apr 29 2014 1:29 PM

  In a private conversation, Sister Kat has many times expressed her fondness for Abigail (Smith) Adams & husband John and the many letters they shared over lifetimes. Kat told me she didn't have much prior to 1800, and so I shall put one here from December 23, 1782 as I promised I would. I could have done so privately, but since I have to type it anyway, I decided to share it here.

  My dearest friend,

  ...should I draw you the picture of my heart it would be what I hope you would still love though it contained nothing new. The early possession you obtained there, and the absolute power you have obtained over it, leaves not the smallest space unoccupied. I look back to the early days of our acquaintance and friendship as to the days of love and innocence, and, with an indescribable pleasure, I have seen near a score of years roll over our heads with affection heightened and improved by time, nor have the dreary years of absence in the smallest degree effaced from my mind the image of the dear untitled man to whom I gave my heart.

  Abigail Adams

  Lily

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Tue, Apr 29 2014 2:11 PM

  SweetiePie:

  she didn't have much prior to 1800, and so I shall put one here from December 23, 1782 as I promised I would

  Beautiful letter, Lily!  I so love the writings of the "unschooled Abigail".  I wish those educated with today's school system could write half as good as she did.

  Ever figure out who "Portia" was (not the Merchant from Venice)?

• newcastleb 1,813 Posts

  Tue, Apr 29 2014 2:52 PM

  SweetiePie:

  Why "Frisco" instead of the preferred and insisted upon "San Francisco"? Because it is preferred & insisted upon and "Frisco" drives them NuTz!!!

  SP, you have obviously spent far too much time in the 'wrong' 1/2 of the wonderful state of California.  Can go off people, you know  :)

  Thomas