Good Morning, Class of '64
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| St. Lawrence River Spring Sunshine - Robert P. Hedden |
said Piglet, feeling him.
Eeyore shook himself,
and asked somebody to explain
to Piglet what happened when
you had been inside a river
for quite a long time
A.A. Milne
Life is like the river, sometimes it
sometimes the rapids
come out of nowhere.
Emma Smith
Love is like a river flowing
through your heart.
I’ll bring the boat,
if you bring the bridge.
Jarod Kintz,
Love quotes for the ages.
And the ageless sages.
through your heart.
I’ll bring the boat,
if you bring the bridge.
Jarod Kintz,
Love quotes for the ages.
And the ageless sages.
Pat Boone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Boone
Pat Boone was a popular singing artist in our early growing years and into our teens. He sang some fast rocking tunes and some slower paced love songs. Most of the tunes that jumped were good, but his ballads of love rested easy on the ears. He could also whistle. Listen to Love Letters in the Sand. That's him.
He was also an actor and starred in several movies. Because of his Christian beliefs, he turned down an offer to star in a movie with Marilyn Monroe - would have been an interesting pairing. When filming April Love, he was asked to kiss his co-star, Shirley Jones, but before giving his co-star Shirley a smackaroo he got permission from Shirley (Foley), his wife. The kiss had to be all right with her.
He was a writer who penned several books for young people. Twixt Twelve and Twenty was a number one best seller in the fifties. It is interesting to learn that he wrote the lyrics for the instrumental theme song for the movie Exodus. He titled his lyrics This Land is Mine.
Pat Boone claims to be descended from the pioneer Daniel Boone. Richard Boone of Have Gun Will Travel is a cousin, as well as Randy Boone of The Virginian and Cimarron Strip. He also has a brother, Cecil Altman Boone, who made recordings under the name of Nick Todd instead of his own name. The record executives thought another Boone would be too confusing.
During his career, Pat Boone sold over 45 million albums and had 38 top 40 hits. In the late fifties he was the second biggest charting artist, behind Elvis Presley and ahead of Ricky Nelson. He is ranked number nine in Billboard's listing of the Top 100 Top 40 Artists of 1955-1995. His Billboard record still stands of spending 220 consecutive weeks on the charts with one or more songs each week.
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| Wearing the White Bucks |
Moody River
(a teen tragedy song)
Number-one Billboard Hot
100 song from June 1961
Pat Boone - 1961
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| In the Garden - Renoir |
From
To You
Walt Whitman
Whoever you are,
now I place my hand upon you,
that you be my
poem,
I whisper with my lips close to your ear.
I have loved many women and men,
I whisper with my lips close to your ear.
I have loved many women and men,
but I love none better than you.
O I have been dilatory and dumb,
I should have made my way straight to you long ago,
I should have blabb'd nothing but you,
I should have made my way straight to you long ago,
I should have blabb'd nothing but you,
I should have chanted nothing but you.
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| Young Love - Albert Neuhuys |
April Love
Became a number-one hit
in December 1957.
In 1958, it was nominated for an
Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song
From a movie by the same name
starring Pat Boone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Love_%28song%29
Pat Boone - 1957
She Tells Her Love While
Half Asleep
Robert
Graves
She tells her love while
half asleep ,
In the dark hours,
With half words whispered low;
As earth stirs in her wintersleep
And puts out grass and flowers
Despite the snow,
Despite the falling snow.
In the dark hours,
With half words whispered low;
As earth stirs in her winter
And puts out grass and flowers
Despite the snow,
Despite the falling snow.
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| Siesta - Van Gogh |
Friendly Persuasion - Thee I Love
(Absolute Favorite)
Theme song for the movie
Friendly Persuasion from 1956.
Based on the 1945 novel
The Friendly Persuasion
by Jessamyn West
(second cousin to Richard Nixon)
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 of a May apple tree, I love thee
More than the mulberries on the hill
More than the buds of a 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
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
Thee pleasures me in a hundred ways
Put on your bonnet, your cape, and your glove
And come with me, for thee I love
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
Thee pleasures me in a hundred ways
Put on your bonnet, your cape, and your glove
And come with me, for thee I love
Scene from Friendly Persuasion
Gary Cooper
O Mistress Mine
William Shakespeare
O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O, stay and hear; your true love's coming,
That can sing both high and low:
Trip no further, pretty sweeting;
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.
What is love? 'Tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies not plenty;
Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty,
Youth's a stuff will not endure.
Pat Boone's Brother
They were born exactly one year apart.
Pat was born on June 1, 1934 and
Cecil Altman Boone on June 1, 1935.O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O, stay and hear; your true love's coming,
That can sing both high and low:
Trip no further, pretty sweeting;
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.
What is love? 'Tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies not plenty;
Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty,
Youth's a stuff will not endure.
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They were born exactly one year apart.
Pat was born on June 1, 1934 and
He recorded under the name "Nick Todd"
and had two hit records
called Plaything and At The Hop,
which reached #41 and #21
on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Todd
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=13120
Love's Philosophy
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The
And the rivers with the ocean;
The winds of heaven mix forever,
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one another's being mingle;--
Why not I with thine?
See! the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister
If it disdained it's brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea;--
What are all these kissings worth,
If thou kiss not me?
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| Kiss - Edvard Munch |
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