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We're on the Earl High noon today, well, every Sunday.
On the civic media radio network, good morning.
Oh, I said good morning.
What I didn't say is happy autumn and that's because it isn't.
Seems like it, but it isn't.
I'm a summertime sorta guy.
And then when Labor Day rolled over and suddenly it's the day after, the majority of people out there think it's autumn.
You know, little things kind of bug you.
Like that fly that's always buzzing around.
While there was a survey taken, do you think it's autumn?
The survey said the day after Labor Day, the majority said yes.
So I guess I'm in the minority, but still.
We're still a week away from autumn autumn.
And yet those mornings were the skies still darker than you would used to.
And that chill wind that we have this morning.
Oh, it'll warm up today as the afternoon wears on right now.
Those September breezes out there.
A red wear autumn smells like pencil shavings and note paper.
The music of the star.
not to rub it in or anything but you can't avoid
it kiss today goodbye the sweetness and the sorrow
before.
Burke.
Well I still remember you When the summer goes its way
we would take The moonlight on the lake The way we danced and hummed our favorite song
Last summer I...
summer rain the looks we got when we got back the leaves began to fade like promises we made
Julie.
the day that I met you newborn with her wills were calling from the hills summer was a coming in but fast the lights of David Hills were showing off the skills nodding all together I could almost hear them whisper go on kiss him go on
I had to choose one moment to live within my eyes.
It would be that tender moment
started, darling.
here.
Being in love with you No telling what I might do Even the moon isn't on our scheme This is my not-
A moment's bliss we took To talk of love Beneath the stars above I held your hand And it was grand because of
Was it just a dream?
An idle scheme of mine To fool my heart And yet it seemed divine It must be true I was with you
This is my no-
Your blue scarf rests beside the chair Still holding traces of your hair The kettle cools, the room turns gray
I count the words I couldn't say If memory could change its mind I'd leave the door unlocked
The paper smells...
Next change.
And summer comes again.
Slow and steady.
Straight and sure.
Catching us aware.
Here and ready to be caught.
That's easy, isn't it?
I love you.
Fall down in darkness.
Wake up in life.
Together we'll go running through the summer.
Stars in equal skies are Tell me someday you'll fulfill Their promise of a thrill Star eyes Flushing eyes in which my hopes rise Let me show you where
lies
That loveliness of yours
Contempt to stargaze at the skies, though I only want to build the stardust in your eyes.
Oh, star
of eyes, when and ever will my lips know?
If it's me for whom those eyes know, makes no difference where you are.
If it's me for whom those eyes glow Makes no difference where you are Your eyes still hold my wishing star
I happen to see the choir live one time in Parkside University in Kenosha.
They said, no recordings allowed, and I kind of, sorry, I didn't.
Yeah, when they say that, they mean it.
Well, for obvious reasons, royally and all that.
Here's one that's not copyrighted.
Go ahead, use it any way you want to.
It's got to do with...
The last days of summer in
Wisconsin.
The days begin to shorten, and the stars come out at night.
September in Wisconsin, there's a feeling in the air.
A little bit of summer, and a little autumn there.
From Green Bay to Milwaukee, from Kenosha to La-
And Oshkosh hears the geese fly as they gather by the pool.
Down in Jamesville, September paints the countryside with gold.
While Eau Claire hears the river tell the stories it has told.
And a little autumn there From Green Bay to
From Kenosha to La Crosse September in Wisconsin And soon comes winter's frost And up in Warsaw Shadows lengthen Superior meets the evening sky Stevens Point feels September
As the summer days go by Fondue lac is growing quieter The lake reflects the blue And every road through Wisconsin Feels like somewhere we once knew In Madison campus sidewalks Fill with footsteps once again While Milwaukee life
the shoreline
as the
evening starts to descend in Kenosha Lake Michigan carries summer far away and racing hears the gulls cry at the closing of the day September in Wisconsin there's a sweetness in the air
The warmth of days remembered And the promise autumn bears From Milwaukee to Madison
the summer and fall for September in Wisconsin is a memory in the making
a beautiful fleeting season we wish
morning.
By now you know, just before nine this morning, New York time, a plane crashed into the side of the World Trade Center, exploding on impact.
Minutes later, another plane crashed into the second tower and exploded.
Subsequently, both towers collapsed.
We were next to hear from the Pentagon that it had been hit.
Suddenly, we were in an undeclared war.
with enemies that are already dead.
Speculation is inevitable.
It's very difficult to guard against an enemy whose religion teaches him that to die for his convictions is a shortcut to heaven.
No presently known connection, but at the top of the list of avowed world terrorists, of course, is Osama bin Laden.
Osama bin Laden warned three weeks ago,
that he would carry out an unprecedented attack on the United States because of our support of Israel.
If somebody had a sadistic sense of humor, he might note that this date is 911.
President Bush flew home from Florida immediately.
will be a long time sorting out and confirming details as to casualties aboard the plane and in the buildings.
Any speculation is premature.
Of course the cost will be horrendous.
American Airlines says it lost two airplanes this morning carrying 156 people.
50,000 people are regularly employed in those twin towers.
Skyscrapers for all of our engineering cannot be made safe from crazy people in airplanes.
And with any upper-level damage, the elevators are the first.
People were immediately seen jumping from the towers before the towers collapsed.
In Washington, D.C., the White House, the Capitol, and the State Department have been evacuated.
The FBI, with responsibility for our nation's internal security, did have contingency plans for such as this.
As evidence mounted that one or more planes
had been an airliner commandeered by terrorists.
All planes in the United States were grounded for the duration.
Many of our airliners in flight are diverting to Canada, landing there.
For several years now, America has had a terrible, terrible nightmare relating to our vulnerability to fanatics.
This morning we awakened and the nightmare had come true.
From this day, the American safe haven for the world
will not be that anymore.
J. Edgar Hoover saw it coming.
It was he who said, quote, in our nation's most wanted tolerance for all peoples, our enemies have found our Achilles heel.
Now, page two.
Well, the world goes round and round just the same.
the bridges shining bright we walk these streets together through the day and through the night from Harlem down to Broadway from Queens to Old Stat Mile a million different stories but we meet
There's a cab beneath the avenue A subway rumbling below A saxophone
Yes,
it's an
80.
I already know if I look at it, that there's five people on the first floor, right?
Very high and smoky.
Sort of overlook you, OK, dear?
Can you?
Can you?
I already did that, ma'am.
Can you be on the line with me, please?
Yes, ma'am.
I am
going to stay with you.
Listen, let's just take you up.
They're
here?
Are they inside with you yet, dear?
No.
OK, stay calm till they get inside.
I don't
know where they are.
Ma'am, stay calm.
Ma'am, stay calm till they get inside.
Ma'am, this is the time that
you
have.
I have 727.
727?
Yes.
MES
note, a court order removed the voices of civilians, including Melissa Doi's voice from the remainder of the
call.
The summer sun grows softer, and there's autumn in the breeze.
From Milwaukee by the water, to
Madison
shining bright, the days begin to shorten, and the stars come out at
September in
there's a feeling in...
From Kenosha to La Crosse.
September
in
Wisconsin.
And soon comes Winter's Frost.
In Waukesha, leaves are turning.
In Appleton, the evenings cool.
And Oshkosh hears the geese fly as they gather by the pool.
Down in Jamesville, September.
paints the countryside with gold while Eau Claire hears the river tell the stories it has told September in Wisconsin there's a feeling in the air a little bit of summer and a little autumn there from Green Bay to Milwaukee from Kenosha to La Crosse
And soon comes winter's frost.
And up in Walsau, shadows lengthen.
Superior meets the evening sky.
Stevens Point feels September as the summer days go by.
Fond du Lac is growing quieter.
The lake reflects the blue.
And every road through Wisconsin
feels like somewhere we once knew.
In Madison campus sidewalks, filled with footsteps once again.
While Milwaukee lights the shoreline as the evening starts to descend.
In Kenosha, Lake Michigan, carries summer far away.
And Racine hears the gull-
cry at the closing of the day.
September in Wisconsin.
There's a sweetness in the air.
The warmth of days remember.
And the promise autumn bears.
From Milwaukee to Madison.
From Green Bay to Kenosha.
September's moonlight shine across the northern pines Let Wisconsin hold the moment between the summer and fall For September in Wisconsin is a memory in the making A beautiful fleeting sea
Now that's not for a couple days yet.
The end of it, that is.
People think that, yeah, the majority people think that summer's over and day after Labor Day.
Well, it isn't.
Oh, it's close, but... You know, the 21st, they say.
They say it because it's true, that's why.
Ralph Carmichael and the Nat King Cold Song.
That's Sunday, that's summer.
All right, stand by for news.
On the national broadcasting company.
Who's the last guy who said that?
Probably somebody in the 50s.
No, it's NBC News here on Civic Media.
And we're on to High Noon.
High Noon.
Notice how they're not a whole lot of happy, false songs.
To the contrary.
That kind of flies in the face of you, say, oh, I love autumn.
Such great memories of, and yet all the songs.
are sad, aren't they?
This is Lou Vergani and you're the best audience anywhere because you get it.
Be right
back.
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The music of the stars.
When did this program begin?
1992.
All over the world now at civicmedia.us.
Gotta love that internet.
We don't play favorites here.
More like the stuff that people have forgotten or...
Or that they never heard to begin with.
I think in my career here, I think I played one Brenda Lee song.
The gal's got a good voice.
Well here, here, you judge.
The music of the
stars.
No one knows the song Jambalaya probably from the Hank Williams version, but it's also been recorded a thousand times.
This
was an interesting situation.
I had the big band on it.
I had Jonathan on it.
I got about three quarters of the way through the arrangement and I didn't like it anymore.
I had like a New Orleans kind of a street beat underneath it and I started thinking about what I could do and I've been known to stop songs on stage when they don't sound good and just say that wasn't very good, we'll play something else.
Well that's essentially what I did.
I stopped the song right after Jerry Weldon's solo.
and decided that not only did it need to be another groove, but it needed to be another tempo, too.
So I had to play a very quick four-beat introduction to a straight-up big band swing version of Jambalaya, sort of two-thirds of the way through.
So it's cruising along with this nice New Orleans beat.
And then it just stops.
And then I say, Laissez-les-les-bonetons swing, because the Cajun expression, Laissez-les-bonetons rouler, let the good times roll.
I said, let the good times swing.
And then we went into a swing version, right in the middle.
Oh, Laissez-les-bonetons swing, man.
I think it actually really came out cool.
You know, it's a nice, it's a very different version of Jambalaya than I've ever
heard.
Harry's
Dushy
Brenda
Looked it up, what she doing now lives in Nashville with her husband.
Let's see, what's his name again?
Where did I put this?
Still spending the royalties from her holiday song rocking around the Christmas tree.
She's still out there in public and media appearances Spends a lot of time with her family there in Nashville.
I can't find See what happened to Brenda Lee.
Yeah that rockabilly lady first time I ever played Brenda Lee.
I think ever but this guy Harry Connick Jr.
Well
Revitalized swing.
Ever since when Harry met Sally, and he opened the movie, Harry Connick Jr., on the music of the star.
Connor Jr.
played a bad guy in contact film in Lake Geneva.
Check it out.
you know, just before nine this morning, New York time, a plane crashed into the side of the World Trade Center, exploding on impact.
Minutes later, another plane crashed into the second tower and exploded.
Subsequently, both towers collapsed.
We were next to hear from the Pentagon that it had been hit.
Suddenly, we were in an undeclared war with enemies
that are already dead.
Speculation is inevitable.
It's very difficult to guard against an enemy whose religion teaches him that to die for his convictions is a shortcut to heaven.
No presently known connection, but at the top of the list of about world terrorists, of course, is Osama bin Laden.
Osama bin Laden warned three weeks ago that he would carry out an unprecedented attack on the United States because of our support of Israel.
If somebody had a sadistic sense of humor, he might note that this date is 911.
President Bush flew home from Florida immediately.
will be a long time sorting out and confirming details as to casualties aboard the plane and in the buildings any speculation is premature of course the cost will be horrendous American Airlines says it lost two airplanes this morning carrying 156 people 50,000 people are regularly employed in those twin towers skyscrapers for all of our engineering cannot be made safe from crazy people in airplanes
And with any upper-level damage, the elevators are the first to go.
People were immediately seen jumping from the towers before the towers collapsed.
In Washington, D.C., the White House, the Capitol, and the State Department have been evacuated.
The FBI, with responsibility for our nation's internal security, did have contingency plans for such as this.
As evidence mounted that one or more planes
had been an airliner commandeered by terrorists.
All planes in the United States were grounded for the duration.
Many of our airliners in flight are diverting to Canada, landing there.
For several years now, America has had a terrible, terrible nightmare relating to our vulnerability to fanatics.
This morning we awakened and the nightmare had come true.
From this day, the American safe haven for the world
will not be that anymore.
J. Edgar Hoover saw it coming.
It was he who said, quote, in our nation's most wanted tolerance for all peoples, our enemies have found our Achilles heel.
Now, page two.
Well, the world goes round and round just the same.
On the political front, Elizabeth Dole is going to return to politics and in her home state, North Carolina, she will seek to replace retiring Senator Jesse Helms in the sport life.
Unless this is another Michael Jordan head fake, he will return to playing basketball for the love of the game, he says.
next day you turn around and it's fall and the springs and the wind
Wishing.
to
Yesterday All my trouble seemed so far away Now it looks as though they're here to stay Oh, I believe in yesterday Suddenly I'm not half the man I used to be There's a shadow
yesterday.
invented, without meaning to, a chord progression there that was never used before in that kind of music.
It was C and a seventh and a third and a sixth.
The first chords of the song yesterday.
Theoretically, it's a turnaround of the relative minor.
Oh, maybe I'm talking to a minor.
Let Perry Do a Latin version and the music of the stars
Something wrong now I longed for yesterday Yesterday All my troubles seemed so flowing Now it looks as though they're here to stay
Suddenly I'm not half the man I used to be There's a shadow hanging over me Oh,
Why she had to go
Something wrong now I longed for yesterday.
Yesterday, love was such an easy...
said I acted like a fool asked me who cut down the cherry tree I said teacher dear it wasn't me all my luck is bad my life is just one big mistake I'd go out
lesson.
When I was a young man caught in the girls, I played me a waiting game.
If a maid refused me with tossing clothes, I let the old out and take a couple of words.
While I play with tears and lure a pearl.
And as time came around, she came my way.
And as time came around, she came.
Oh, it's a long, long while from May to December.
But the days grow short when you
until September when the autumn weather turns the leaves to flame one hasn't got time for the waiting game all the days dwindled down
precious few September November and these few precious days I'll spend with you these precious days
I'll spend with you.
These precious days...
network.
to say in your understanding way what I've always known but never faced the truth there's a world that's for the young a time when golden songs are sung but age can very rarely mix with youth when a girl
Well 50 if you must to have a mind of 20 seems a little bit unjust Growing older Feeling younger What can we do?
so fleeting April fools us winter rules us
that you can't keep up the pace of a man who's maybe 20, 25.
But from time to time you find a man who has the kind of mind that makes you feel it's good to...
It's your body calls the tune.
Growing older, feeling younger.
What can we do?
Time is so flea-
But we begin with the 1968 film, The Swimmer, directed by Frank Perry, written by his wife, Eleanor Perry.
This is a film unlike any other movie.
Bert Langcaster, big star in his 50s at this point, and spends the entire movie moving from splendid suburban house to splendid suburban house.
I think it's a brilliant idea by John Cheever, who was sort of the sartre of the suburbs.
Cheever was a brilliant short story writer in many ways, one of the check-offs of American literature.
And he knew that there were lives of quiet desperation going on, which is also a theme that Hitchcock hit on in Shadow of a Doubt, or David Lynch hit on in Blue Velvet.
And so here we are.
There may not be murders happening.
However, there are lives of quiet desperation happening.
And it's a very inspired idea to have a guy regain his vitality by swimming across the county and seeing all of his old friends.
Right.
And part of the mystery of this is we don't ever know what exactly has happened to him in the day, week, month, or year prior to what we see happening.
During this single day where he's going from swing pool to swing pool, but what becomes clear is them before long at all is that he's going through something Substantive
he's had some cognitive shift.
Yeah,
but he's acting great.
He seems he looks great.
He's acting great.
He seems happy and you gradually realize Something's happened to him as you said, I don't know if he had a break if there was a cognitive slip We have so many chapters in our lives.
Yeah, life is amazing
And if you just pick up the needle and put it back to 10 years or 20 years, you think you're in that chapter.
And so he thinks he's in many chapters.
And you realize how abundant life is.
It's a little bit like Russian literature in that way.
This is one of them.
1968 Music by Marvin Hamlisch.
His first picture, score.
Bird Lancaster, Joan Rivers.
It was such a confusing picture at first.
The few who saw it would write to Columbia what's this movie about.
They put out a sheet explaining.
More on that when we come back.
Semi for news on NBC and the Civic Media Radio Network.
Well, I've got to be on my way.
I'm swimming home.
You're swimming home?
idea.
I think it's a brilliant idea.
Well, what are you doing it for?
Why do you want to do it?
I think it's very original.
I
mean, I think it's an adventure.
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Our thoughts turn to autumn, huh?
And yet all the songs that fly in the face of people who say they love fall are all sad and weepy and nostalgic.
Autumn leaves are ready to cry.
Walter Houston with his September song.
Look at the long version, I'll do that in a bit.
Even Spike Jonze jumped in.
The music of the stars were on till high noon, here on the Civic Media Radio Network, all over the world.
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for past programs on this or any other program on the network.
Bring your shoes.
a young man, courting the girls, I played me a waiting game.
If a maid refused me with tossing curls I'd let the old earth take a couple of words While I applied her with tears in place of pearls And as time came around she came my way As time came around she came But it's a long long while From May to December
Days grow short when you read September and the autumn weather turns the leaves to flame.
And I haven't got time for the waiting game.
And the wind wind goes down to a precious broom.
September.
November.
And these few vintages I'd share with you.
These vintages I'd share...
and the days grow short when you reach September and I have lost one too and I walk a little lame and I haven't got time for the waiting game and the days turn to gold as they
I'd spend with you These golden days I'd spend with you When you meet with the young men early in spring They caught you in song and rhyme They woo you with words and a clover ring But if you examine the goods they bring
They have little to offer but the songs they sing And a plentiful waste of time of day A plentiful waste of time But it's a long, long while From May to December Will the clovering last Till you reach September
and I'm not quite equipped for the waiting
game
but I have a little money and I have a little thing and the days dwindle down to a precious few September
And these few precious days I'd spend
with you.
These precious days I'd spend...
out in your school paper saying something effective.
Miss Pookie Adams is terrifically sorry.
I don't
know
if it's like a weirdo at the first... Pookie, don't do that.
Oh, Chair, I wasn't gonna do that.
Don't you know me by now?
Don't you know what I'm kidding?
But I am sorry.
Yeah, I know you aren't Pooh.
No, I'm not a manager.
I'll promise.
Double promise?
Double promise.
Oh, Chair, I love you.
I love you.
I
love you, Boogie.
Boy, you sound funny.
Like you want to say something.
You are mad at me, aren't you?
No, Boogie, I'm not mad at you.
It's just... I have to talk to you about Easter vacation.
We're going aren't we I mean you promised to take me remember I'm not gonna embarrass you in front
of your parents or anything
Listen, you won't believe what I've been doing this week.
You know, I've really
been making a terrific effort to be friends with some of the weirdos around here.
I mean, I haven't apologized to Helen upshot.
And I told Lola online that I didn't know that she wore dances and it was just an accident and a coincidence.
I don't even... I was saying I don't know Helen.
Just give me another chance, okay?
September.
see that golden world in all its splendor.
Maybe September
We don't
unmistakable.
Your song's beginning While mine's nearly sun Don't wait too long
The moments go by in such haste Don't wait too long Winter is coming, I've no time to waste Don't wait too long
And sing it song Share every precious moment with me Don't you wait too long
Don't wait too long
have a reason for being, meaning direction aim.
The wise and ware-force may sure
and rhyme.
What good is a bud that won't blossom?
A rose that refuses
The good sense to shower What purpose a brook that won't murmur A crocus that doesn't mean spring What good is a foam that just sits there and sits there?
just sits there and sits there and just
There's a feeling in the air A little bit of summer And a little autumn there From Green Bay to Milwaukee From Kenosha to La Crosse September in Wisconsin And soon comes winter's fro-
Your Kesha leaves upturned In Appleton the evening's cool And Oshkosh hears the geese fly As they gather by the pool Down in Jamesville, September Paints the countryside with gold While Eau Claire hears the river Tell the stories it has told
And a little autumn there From Green Bay to Milwaukee From Kenosha to La
Crosse September in Wisconsin And soon comes winter's
frost And up in Warsaw Shadows lengthen Superior meets the evening sky Stevens Point feels September
As the summer days go by, fun do lack is growing quieter.
The lake reflects the blue, and every road through Wisconsin
feels like somewhere we once knew.
In Madison campus sidewalks,
filled with footsteps once again.
While Milwaukee life...
It's the shoreline as the evening starts to descend In Kenosha Lake Michigan carries summer far
away And racing hears the gulls cry at the closing of
the
day September in Wisconsin There's a sweetness in the
air
from Milwaukee to Madison, from Green Bay to Kenosha, from racing to...
Hold the moment between the summer and fall For
September in Wisconsin Is a memory in the making A beautiful fleeting season We wish
Hi, what's your name darling?
My name is Susan Boyle.
Okay, Susan, and where are you from?
I am from Blackburn near Bathgate, West Lothian.
It's a big town.
It's a sort of collection of, it's a collection of villages.
I have to think there.
And how old are you Susan?
I am 47.
And that's just one side of me.
OK, what's the dream?
I'm trying to be a professional singer.
And why hasn't it worked out so far, Susan?
I've never been given the chance before, but he is hoping it will change.
OK, and who would you like to be as successful as?
Elaine Page.
Elaine Page.
What are you going to sing tonight?
I'm going to sing I Dream the Dream from the Miseraps.
OK.
Big song.
Yeah?
We're still the same.
the sea
Star.
let your dreams run wild for the years and the tears shed might claim you for the last time we have tasted love sweet tears by the fires glow
If our hearts are strong, they'll be no long goodbyes when it's time to go.
But the strongest hearts are sometimes broken, as the deepest vows aren't always spoken, and the greatest wounds we hide inside ourselves where they never show.
Let your dreams run wild For a lifetime of worries might claim you Dream away, child Let your dreams run wild For the years and the tears
When the winter wets the northern wind, a child they bear his snow.
And the branches bow like worried bridesmaids, but the trees will grow.
Sun and earth in time will come together.
God will give us back our summer.
But the memories of that first sweet taste of love pass away so slow.
When the tears shed might claim you When there's no room left to live inside ourselves Do we dream away?
Did you realize that you were playing to a particularly small audience?
It was excellent practice and a definite step up.
I hope you made a good impression.
I'm going to get into as many dreams as I can from now on.
It's no cinch.
You'll have to be very nice to the dreamers, or they won't let you in.
When they hear that I'm good, they'll beg me to be in their dreams.
You might never get your big chance.
I'll have to work hard for the right breaks.
It all sounds like an agonizing rat race.
If you make it, it's worth it.
So what if you are in dreams?
What then?
Remember him?
Dr. Seuss wrote this.
If we don't
Most of all, keep any doubt away.
Then you can make it stay.
I thought I'd do something from a picture that's got a lot of accolades from people who really like movies and rare flicks.
This one hardly anybody ever saw and it's pretty good to me.
I may I suggest That when the show is over on midnight your time You'll check into the five thousand fingers of Dr. T see I knew you never heard of it Well, it's got Peter Lynn Hayes haunts Conrad Mary Healy and Tommy Reddick I See you you never heard of the picture
Well, that's all right.
Let me do this.
And come after news with NBC News.
And
that.
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Talking about a motion picture I bet you never saw.
I bet you never will see it, only because you'll forget about it.
Don't forget about the 5,000 fingers
of Dr. T. Sounds like a horror movie.
It is, but it's not.
It's about a kid forced to take piano lessons.
Peter Lynn Hayes, Hans Conrad, Mary Healy, Tommy Redig, the 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. And Dr. Seuss wrote all the music, and nobody ever saw the movie.
This is the music of the stars.
Music of the
Stars.
The weather man's insisting This is weather beyond resisting This is get to get the weather together It's just what we've got to get What wonderful weather to
go on an outing
What
wonderful weather to run around shouting
What wonderful weather for love to be sprouting
It's
mighty
fine weather I hope
that it stays What glorious weather for zipping and zooming
What glorious weather for hearts to be
blooming
What
glorious weather for brining
and grooming It's
mighty fine weather we're having these days
Right for sporting and for lovin' assorted, porting together is just what we got to get.
What marvelous weather for cooing and dilling.
For
yodeling, wobbling, gargling, trilling.
What marvelous weather for dally down
dilling.
What marvelous weather, hey, hey, what a day.
What fabulous weather for loping and leaping.
What fabulous weather for bipping and beeping.
For snipping and snupping and snooping and sneaking.
What
weather, hey, hey, what a day.
announcing that the weather's right for flouncing and buh buh buh buh bouncing this is get together weather together is just what we got to get
Bouncing this is get together
For some reason, it didn't register with the audiences.
Well, now they talk about it fondly.
Dr. Seuss, nobody knew much about the guy, but he wrote a lot of music, a lot of music.
But I always liked Peter Lynn Hayes.
He was big on TV.
Star of the Family, their TV show.
Oh, about the weather.
Call me madam.
Door stay.
Tony Ward.
Irving Berlin musical.
1950.
Ethel Merman, I had the hint.
Oh, I'm not playing Ethel.
Remember Ethel Merman in Airplane?
George Saravo's Orchestra.
A lot of positive vibes in the 50s.
our first Amore album six years ago.
Andrea got on the piano and started doing a Neil Diamond song and it sounded great and it was amazing.
So I asked him if he would do it for this concert but I wanted to hear it in Italian.
So Andrea wrote a beautiful Italian lyric to this beautiful Neil Diamond
song.
Can I say something?
Please.
So the truth is that David
He hates my English.
He hates my English.
That's not
true.
For this reason, he told me, please sing this song in Italian.
That is
true.
And I
have written the lyrics.
I tried.
Okay?
Bocelli.
It was so sweet, the time with you, you took away all my happiness.
You've already decided and so it is.
Go with the summer, but September...
you will see, don't worry if my face seems a bit tired you know, I never slept because in front of you I had your eyes, those eyes that look beyond me
you
music of the
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
to your health and safe.
Salute!
In every palace, every home in general, I'm enrolled.
They drink to your health and safe.
Salute!
It's a song from the hill so far away.
It's a song you hear in every street cafe.
So pour the wine,
get in the swing, and toast the people as you sing.
And drink to their health and safe.
Salute!
First you have a drop of wine.
That's the automatic sign for the waiter to bring you the menu.
He will do his very best.
He will help you and suggest many dishes.
You take a breath and then you order.
the feeling is upon you try an order of lasagna
or some anti-pasto or a plate of chicken cacciatore
sauce caruso with linguine and some vila scallopini
garlic oysters on the shell of pizza with some mozzarella if the one is cool try some pasta for
In every palace, every home in gentle one, but I'm in Rome.
They drink to your health and say, Salute!
It's a song from the hills so far away.
It's a song you hear in every street cafe.
So pour the wine, get in the swing and toast with people as you sing.
And drink to their health and say, Salute!
waits for her each night beneath her balcony.
He begs to hold her tight, but no, she won't agree.
throws a kiss from up above.
Cherry Berry Bee.
Ch-cherry Berry Berry Bee.
Cherry Berry Bee.
They're so in love.
Bee Bee Bee.
Cherry Bee.
Bee Bee Bee.
Cherry Bee.
Cherry Bee.
Cherry Bee.
Cherry Bee.
Cherry Bee.
Cherry Bee.
Cherry Bee.
He blows the rose and blows the
kiss from above.
Being in the end, recessed her, huh?
Goodman.
What's this?
I see in the order of proceedings graduation ceremony
that Johnny Mercer is an event that makes us very proud here in the club One of our most worthy fellow members is starting out on his own in a couple of weeks and we all wish him the best of luck luck It's our trumpet player Harry James take a bow Harry
and I mean louder and louder.
How long has Harry been captain of the trumpet team, President Goodman?
Oh, for more than two
years.
And he's always been one of our star players.
And now, like our brilliant alumnus of last year, Gene Krupper, Harry is going to start a band of his own.
He tells me the theme song at his branch meetings of swing fans will be Cherry Berry Band.
I'd like to hear that.
OK, Harry.
Give them the cue for the theme of what we know will be a great band.
October and it's getting chilly.
But need you worry, don't be silly.
You'll get warm at the football game.
There's a cheerleader there, Jeanette's her
name.
Oh, what a spirit.
The whole town can hear it.
We're gonna go to the football game.
Let's all go to the football game.
Go into the football game.
Everybody give a shout.
Hear the voices ringing out.
Give a cheer, give a cheer, give a cheer.
If you really want to win, raise your head up and begin.
Give a cheer, give a cheer, give a cheer.
When you wake up with the sun, have a smile for everyone.
You'll find it.
It's lots of fun when you say, never let your spirits dive.
Gee, it's great to be alive.
Give a cheer.
Give a cheer.
Give a cheer.
Cheer, cheer, cheer, cheer, cheer.
Love is like a football game.
In fact, they're very much.
to pet.
He's got his single set.
Longest like a football
20 yards.
His hand is on your shoulder.
30 yards.
And now he's getting bolder.
40 yards.
He's got you in a huddle.
50 yards.
And you're about to fumble.
to shout hear the voices ringing out give a cheer give a cheer give a cheer if you really want to win raise your head up and begin give a cheer give a cheer give a cheer when you wake up with the sun have a smile for everyone you'll find it's lots of fun when you try never let your spirits dive gee it's great to be alive give a cheer
My old man's on the couch and getting plowed Game days are just the pits.
He scratches himself and spits Hanging around To watch a bunch of goons fall down NFL Sundays always make me frown I wish his friends would learn to wipe their shoes Someone should mow the lawn
I'm feeling like it's third and long They jump up and down Acting like a bunch of clowns And the past Sunday's on
like song
Future sociologists inevitably will judge our right now world, at least in part, by our product advertising.
Then one wonders, what will tomorrow say about today's ads, which sometimes literally sell soap with sex?
And what about cigarette ads?
I have before me a cross-section of cigarette advertising from roughly 50 years ago, representing five tobacco companies.
Compared to current ads, they are mostly straightforward, hard sell.
P. Laurelard Company's biggest item was Kent Cigarettes, boasting the trademarked Micronite filter.
Those were the days before even the filter itself was condemned for containing
asbestos.
She passes, she flicks her ass and goes When she smokes, she's like the chimney That shoots up clouds and smells so nasty That when she passes, she passes gas and goes Oh, but she wants to quit badly
And when she passes, she smiles with big ears.
Whisper.
No, don't speak.
Just kiss me.
Just kiss me.
Just kiss me.
Kiss me.
Just kiss me.
And I know you don't have to tell me.
Since I met you.
I'm a terrible physical wreck Each time you kiss me I wind up with holes in my neck
Just kiss me and forget all about that other stuff kiss me your big red lips I think will be enough don't worry
with your lipstick I'm gonna kiss it all away throw away your lipstick that ain't your color anyway When you kiss me I've got to know just how much you miss me kiss me and I'll take your lip the paradise kiss me
And paradise will never feel so nice, you're beautiful.
You don't need all that makeup, and you don't need to take up sugar.
All of your time in front of the mirror.
Can't you see that Joe Madeira?
Baby, can't you see we're in...
lips
First I kiss
First I kissed you, my heart was yours completely
Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney
Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Diney Dine
He has a way that makes the ladies feel exalted.
He'll take you out and treat you to a chocolate malted.
Then some pistachio nuts, a nickels worth unsalted.
And after that, little girl, you're through.
He'll try to lure you one night when stars are twinkly.
He'll call and say, come over.
We'll watch TV, my pet.
But I assure you.
You'll see no Huntley Brinkley.
Cause Meyer hasn't got a TV set.
What does he need it?
He'd never use it.
To him the late, late show is you.
The kiss of Meyer is so sweet that none is sweeter.
The girls can't wait for him to come and read their meter.
He's known all over.
as the Bronx La Dolce Vita, the Cary Grant of the Grand Concourse.
Whatever Maier wants, Maier gets.
And that's his name.
His name is Maier gets.
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really were catchy and specially those that said I love you so I used to beg you over and over just to set the wedding day to get you portable I'd bring my portable and melt your heart away with all those old records those old phonograph records the ones we used to play so long ago
I used to make you over and over Just to set the wedding
match your partable
songs and melt your heart away with all those old they were wonderful letters play them over again
the ones we used to play so long ago the ones we used to play so long
They told me begin as when now I know it's true.
Gosh, I'm fortunate this thing we've begun is much more than a pastime.
For this time is the one where the first time is the last time.
I've got beginners luck lucky through.
eyes are blue.
Miss Frigidaire, cause you're sensational.
Making love is quite an art.
What you require is the proper squire to fire your heart.
And if you say that one fine day
Let me come to call
And if you say that one fine day you let me come to call
But looking back on it at the age of 60, no, I wouldn't change anything because I like where I
am.
Was there a period though, Sammy, where you felt I must prove something to a certain group of people?
They've got to know something about me.
I guess the first 45 years of my life.
You were doing just that?
That's all I was doing.
And what were you trying to prove?
To
prove that I was worthy of, first, of their affection.
Secondly, I was worthy of the fact of being a star.
And if you let me, first of all, we're all ego maniacs, you know, to walk out on the stage and say, people, good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
I don't care where you came from.
I'm going to entertain you for the next hour and a half.
In my case, two hours and a half, you know.
I just...
But when you stop, you cannot have that kind of commitment, that kind of thing going without losing something on one side or the other.
If you devote that much time to anything, all of the other areas in which you're involved and suddenly become, you can't do it, you can't spread yourself that thin.
You've got to know what your priorities are, where
you lie.
for some kissing and I mean to kiss me a few.
Oh, those girls don't know what they're missing.
I've got a lot of livin' to do.
And there's wine already for tasting and there's
I was living with Diane Keaton at the time.
It was a long time ago and she was great.
I loved her so and we had a great relationship and she was out there and I would do whatever I wanted.
Al Pacino spent decades becoming one of Hollywood's most famous men, playing characters who controlled every room they entered.
Yet one relationship remained far less simple.
Diane Keaton was his co-star, his friend, and eventually the woman he loved off-screen.
Their lives separated.
But the memories did not.
When Keaton died in 2025, Pacino said those memories returned with painful force.
He called her someone who influenced the direction of his life.
At 86, one question remains.
Was she the love he never truly left behind?
The story begins before either of them knew how large their lives would become.
In 1971, Al Pacino was still trying to prove that he belonged on the screen.
He had talent.
He had theater experience.
He had intensity, but Hollywood was not yet convinced.
Francis Ford Coppola wanted him for a strange new crime film called The Godfather.
The studio did not share Coppola's confidence.
Pacino later remembered being told that he was not cutting it.
Then came the screen tests.
Pacino was asked to perform a scene with Diane Keaton, the young actress being considered for the role of Kay Adams.
It was not an exciting scene.
They sat at a plane table.
They pretended glasses of water were wine.
Pacino had to explain Sicilian wedding customs and his family's background.
On paper, it was almost painfully ordinary.
But something happened between the two actors.
They clicked.
Pacino later described Keaton as easy to talk to and
fight.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Well, that's why those
things.
Yeah, that's why.
Yeah.
I get about one cold a year is all.
One?
I've been very lucky.
Yeah?
I can't remember the last time, and it just shows up, and
that's it.
Well, I'm glad it only happens once a year.
Too bad at Christmas, right?
Yeah, it's bad time.
Yeah, well, you know, that's life again.
That's my gift for being lousy, I guess, the rest of the year.
No, there's a new strain, isn't there, coming in?
flu or doctors are worried about or something like the one they had the London flu one year and then the Asian flu and...
Oh, hey, I don't know.
I should, but I don't.
Well, I didn't mean it.
It
was a
rhetorical question anyway.
Yeah, well, I'm sure it's true.
How's your health?
My health, I feel pretty good.
I'm doing all right.
You ever been sick at all?
You ever get sick?
Yeah, I used to as a youth.
I had asthma.
You know, I was one of those ones.
Well, that's murder.
Yeah.
Oh, it is.
It's awful.
I mean, it's really awful.
Did you just grow out of it
or what?
Yeah, I grew out of it, yeah.
And then I got something else, you know?
What'd you get?
Neurotic.
Neurotic?
No,
Just to-
That's
good.
You like to sing now,
don't you?
You seem
to feel more comfortable sometimes when you're singing.
Yeah, I don't... I guess it's something that... I won't even try to explain it, yeah.
I feel more comfortable.
Do we have to know anything about the song you're gonna do for
us?
Because I know you have to leave
earlier tonight.
Yeah, she... I really thank you.
It's... It's a... It's a real...
Famous song.
Everybody knows it.
A famous song?
Yeah, so...
Okay.
Now, here's one of the famous songs.
Famous song.
You want to get over there and get
set?
Yeah.
Are you one of the people who think that it's fall already?
No, it's close, but no.
There was a survey taken here locally.
The question was something like, do you think it's fall the day after Labor Day?
And most answered, yes.
It's a matter of your summers too short.
They like autumn.
A lot of people do.
But then, why are all the autumn songs so sad?
Feel like autumn so much.
Oh, don't get me wrong there.
Some nice autumn songs.
Autumn in
Wisconsin.
From Milwaukee by the water To Madison shining bright The days begin to shorten And the stars come out at night September in Wisconsin There's a feeling in the air A little bit of sun
In Waukesha leaves a turn in Appleton the evening's cool and Oshkosh hears the geese fly as they gather
Down in Jamesville, September paints the countryside with gold.
While Eau Claire hears the river tell the stories it has told.
September in Wisconsin, there's a feeling in the air.
A little bit of summer and a little
from Kenosha to La Crosse.
September in Wisconsin and soon comes winter's frost.
And up in Warsaw, shadows lengthen.
Superior meets the evening sky.
Stevens Point feels September as the summer days go by.
And every road through Wisconsin Feels like somewhere we once knew In Madison campus sidewalks Fill with footsteps once again While Milwaukee lights the shoreline
As the
evening starts to descend In Kenosha Lake Michigan carries summer fog
Racing, here's the girls cry at the closing of the day September in Wisconsin, there's a sweetness in the air The warmth of days remembered and the promise autumn bears From Milwaukee to Madison
is on the
Mathis.
Non-Costa.
September in Wisconsin with a whisper through the trees The summer sun grows softer and there's autumn in the breeze From Milwaukee by the
Madison shining bright.
The days begin to shorten.
And the stars come out at
September it was awesome.
There's a feeling in the air.
A little bit of summer.
And a little autumn there.
From Green Bay to Milwaukee.
to La Crosse, September in Wisconsin, and soon comes winter's frost.
In Waukesha, leaves are turning, in Appleton the evening's cool, and Oshkosh hears the geese fly as they gather by the pool, down in Jamesville, September.
paints the countryside with gold while Eau Claire hears the river tell the stories it has told September in Wisconsin there's a feeling in the air a little bit of summer and a little autumn there from Green Bay to Milwaukee
Can all shuttle across September in Wisconsin And soon comes winter's frost And up in Walsh how shadows lengthen Superior meets the evening sky Stephen's point feels September As the summer days go by Fond du Lac is growing quieter
reflects the blue and every road through Wisconsin feels like somewhere we once knew in Madison campus sidewalks filled with footsteps once again while Milwaukee lights the shoreline as the evening starts to descend in Kenosha Lake Michigan
carries summer far away and Racine hears the gulls cry at the closing of the day September in Wisconsin there's a sweetness in the air the warmth of days remember and the promise autumn bears from Milwaukee to Madison from Green Bay
to Kenosha from racing to Eau Claire.
September's everywhere.
Let September's moonlight shine across the northern pines.
Let Wisconsin hold the moment between the summer and fall.
For September in Wisconsin is a memory in the
a beautiful fleeting season we wish could last all
That's not many in Wisconsin.
There's no other way.
A dairy man out of Eau Claire says cows know when spring fills the air.
They dance wearing silk.
WALTS ME AROUND AGAIN, WILLY!
A fisherman up in La Crosse...
kept snow boots all po-
A man from Wisconsin dels Soul cheese curds and giant cowbells When tourists would ask what's your favorite task He'd say with tourists it's whatever sells
teacher from Manitowoc or sandals with white winter socks.
When people would stare, she'd say, I don't care.
This fashion completely rocks.
There once was a moose deer superior.
look cheery.
This is Lou Vergani, and next month, October, look out.
God, that haunted month.
We'll have our fun.
If you dare.
No, it's gonna be a fun beginning.
At the end of October's programs, well, not for everyone.
Oh, you've tuned in last year.
Well, then you know what I speak.
The music of the stars.
From the great wide world out there of recorded music.
Boy, that's pretty pontifical, isn't it?
I mean it, though.
Keep your dreams alive.
Wishing you a happy autumn.
Oh wait, it's still summer.
Yeah, let's outrush
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