From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V4 #42 Reply-To: lucy-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk lucy-list-digest Sunday, February 17 2002 Volume 04 : Number 042 In this issue: [lucy-list] Emerlin part 1 [lucy-list] He still think I Care [lucy-list] Happy BIrthday LUCY [lucy-list] Babes Re: [lucy-list] Babes [none] [lucy-list] Re: Babes [lucy-list] Lucy's Birthday in Mamaroneck [lucy-list] molly moment ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 09:25:49 EST From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] Emerlin part 1 Benay so aptly described the show at the emerlin last This band out Spyboy'd spyboy.. Ben Butler seems to blend with the subtle drums of BEN Wittman and it was soooo nice soooo nice to see Ben-Zev Katz Back on bass it was the primo LK band... Benay gave us the setlist Astroid.. well LK turned this band into a 30's jazz trio- and with LK on vocals she transformed that song.. she remarked she needed to call her dad on her phone and let him listen in.. she did the arrangements and IT was stellar He still thinks i care - this arrangement was a country swing version of that old george jones song. i think its time for the reprinting of the lyrics- The highlights were : the Bonny Banks, The new revised version of Crazy dreams( which is sped up and has a crazy drum beat)..Land of the Living and Wayfaring Stranger all in the same set.. LK used the band well and they were around for about 3/4ths of the show there was a stunning version of hte KID and BRoken Things.. thought i was waiting for by way of sorrow... Lucy did Promise Me.. i was waiting for steve earle and got buddy miller.. HOLE IN HEAD.. which rocks.. with this band... Lucy was in Brown leather jacket and black leather pants and new shoes (they were not red) well on to tonight.. IT is the birthday night of the DOC. someone last night yelled Happy birthday Lucy and she said it was tomorrow There will be a surprise for her tonight at the emerlin. Sharon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 09:28:49 EST From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] He still think I Care She Thinks I Still Care Written by Dickey Lee (As performed by George Jones) Just because I ask a friend about her Just because I spoke her name somewhere Just because I rang her number by mistake today She thinks I still care Just because I haunt the same old places Where the mem'ry of her lingers ev'rywhere Just because I'm not the happy guy I used to be She thinks I still care But if she's happy thinkin' I still need her Then let that silly notion bring her cheer But how could she ever be so foolish Oh where would she get such an idea Just because I ask a friend about her And just because I spoke her name somewhere Just because I saw her then went all to pieces She thinks I still care She thinks I still care ) Glad Music Co. (BMI) There's a gypsy down on Bleecker Street I went in to see her as a kind of joke And she lit a candle for my love luck And eighteen bucks went up in smoke ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 09:33:56 EST From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] Happy BIrthday LUCY If anyone wants to send LUCY Birthday wishes - I will make sure they are delivered- send them to everysingleday1@aol.com and i will make sure your wishes get to LK for her birthday sharon There's a gypsy down on Bleecker Street I went in to see her as a kind of joke And she lit a candle for my love luck And eighteen bucks went up in smoke ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 11:02:50 -0500 From: Jeff Bernstein Subject: [lucy-list] Babes Someone mentioned something about all of the Bitchin Babes getting together for a show. Details, please! Jeff ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 15:36:19 -0500 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Babes Let's see...in simplest terms, the Bitchin' Babes (as related to the world of Lucy) are four New York/NJ Lucy fans---Sharon Goldberg, Donna Myers, Renee Polgar, and yours truly---who ended up chatting with Lucy all together after a Bottom Line concert last spring and had our picture taken with her...we then ended up seeing her all together after ANOTHER concert, at which point Lucy exclaimed, "It's the Four Bitchin' Babes!" So named by Lucy, we have retained the title amongst ourselves and keep seeing each other at shows in various combinations (we are not exclusive, though...the group expands and contracts to include various honorary "babes" as circumstances dictate!). Occasions when we original four end up ALL at a show together are relatively rare these days...hence, when it happens (as it should tonight), it becomes a noteworthy event! Benay ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 13:41:22 -0800 (PST) From: Deb Woodell Subject: [none] Hello, everyone, I apologize for another cross-post. Just wanted to report in with my "dispatch" from the Great Backyard Bird Count. I realize not everyone is into nature, but for those who are, this weekend is a great way to get totally in touch. From now through Monday, people across the United States (world, maybe) are asked to spend a bit of their time to count the ornithological visitors to their back yards, and report the information at www.audubon.org or www.birdsource.org. Scientists are able to extrapolate the data from your time and place and determine whether the myriad bird species are showing significant population changes and, from there, can work on determining the causes. Trust me on this, if you try this, you will realize how much "company" you really have in this world. Deb (who thinks that even the ubiquitous mourning dove deserves to stand up and be counted!) ===== You can take the rock band away from the girl and think you've tamed her. But, she'll just pick up an acoustic, give you that innocent little girl grin, quietly laugh and say? "Nevah!" Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 16:56:21 -0500 From: Phil Kalina <76106.566@compuserve.com> Subject: [lucy-list] Re: Babes At 16 Feb 2002 15:36:19 -0500 (est), Benay Bubar wrote: > > Let's see...in simplest terms, the Bitchin' Babes (as related > to the world of Lucy) are four New York/NJ Lucy fans---Sharon > Goldberg, Donna Myers, Renee Polgar, and yours truly > ... I see, so not to be confused with the ladies referenced at http://www.fourbitchinbabes.com/ Apparently those babes' next show will be on March 16. See http://www.wcc.co.westchester.ny.us/WELCOME/CULTURE/Culture.htm#xtreme Have fun in Mamaroneck tonight and please tell Lucy we said hi and happy b'day. Phil Kalina Reston, Virginia ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 02:26:22 -0500 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy's Birthday in Mamaroneck OK, so you know how it is when you've had a really incredibly great time doing something once and so you do it again and you have such high expectations for it to be perfect that there's a good chance the second time around will be a little bit of a letdown? Well, having just returned from seeing Lucy in Mamaroneck for the second time in a row, I am glad to say it WASN'T like that...last night was so great that I thought tonight couldn't possibly beat it, but I was wrong! If anything, Lucy outdid herself in tonight's show. The set list was very similar to yesterday's, so I won't do a whole new one. The only changes to the main set were the replacement of The Kid with a knockout version of I Know What Kind of Love This Is, and also the addition of Nowhere (if it replaced another song from last night, I couldn't tell which, because the others all seemed to me to still be there). The encores were What's So Funny About Peace, Love, & Understanding (with the band called on at the last minute, one by one, to play on it---they hadn't done it all together before and Lucy seemed concerned about that, but from the audience it sounded great) and Song for Molly again. So the show was spectacular, with sound as magnificent as last night's. But the story that especially needs to be told here is of Lucy's birthday celebration. Right from when Lucy was introduced by Dennis Elsas of WFUV, the subject of today's being her birthday came up---the theater had given her flowers that were on the front of the stage, and she joked periodically during the show about this being a great way to spend her birthday. After one of those birthday references, someone in the audience yelled, "Where's the cake?" Lucy said, "There isn't one, as far as I know. But don't worry, my husband gave me a cake earlier." Key words: "as far as I know." In fact, some of us were giggling under our breath because we knew a little more than Lucy at this point. A group of us (Bitchin' Babes and cohorts) had been planning for Lucy's birthday to some extent for months, and we had procured a big chocolate sheet cake that said HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUCY. (I had the somewhat terrifying honor of carrying it from Donna's car into the theater before the show---I prayed I wouldn't drop it and also that Lucy was safely ensconced in soundcheck as I scuttled in with it, because if she suddenly appeared for any reason before I got to the kitchen, I wasn't sure how I was going to hide the thing! Luckily, all went smoothly.) So the show went on, Lucy being her usual delightful self with the birthday references sprinkled in. First set...intermission...second set. Sharon sneaked out two songs from the end of the second set, and those of us in the know began holding our breaths and trying not to let on that we knew anything unusual was going on---though even if she had looked at us, Lucy was surely too busy singing to try to read our faces! During the last song, End of the Day, I began smelling burning candles from my front-row seat...I wondered momentarily if Lucy noticed, but she was clearly too involved in the song. Finally, End of the Day came to a close. Lucy stopped playing, and the band stopped playing...except Ben Wittman on drums, who immediately started playing again, drumming with a vengeance. We saw Lucy turn to look back at him for a long moment---I couldn't see her face, but her body language obviously stated that she was trying to figure out what the heck he was doing. Later she said she thought he was randomly starting The Swimming Song all on his own (it did sound a little like that at first) and what could she do, she was just going to go with it...but then Ben Butler on guitar started in with what was clearly NOT The Swimming Song, and Zev Katz on bass joined in on what quickly became (thanks to some earlier clever planning with the band) a rollicking version of Happy Birthday. Just at the moment when the song became recognizable, Lucy caught sight of Sharon walking out on stage with the cake, candles blazing. Lucy was obviously TOTALLY overwhelmed, and of course the whole audience applauded like mad! She quickly managed to pull herself together to blow out the candles, then said, "I'm speechless!" before walking offstage and then on again for the encores. All through the two encores, you could still read the surprise and delight on her face. We plotters had been so worried she'd somehow discover the carefully crafted surprise, but it all went just as well as we could have hoped. Big thanks go to Sharon and Donna for doing the lion's share of the planning and procurement to make it all happen (not to mention the presentation)...and also to Rick and the band for helping us out. Most of all, though, thanks to Lucy for sharing her birthday with us and providing us with such good reason to celebrate! Luckily, I think we succeeded in giving her a birthday evening to remember. And though I can't really speak for anyone but myself, I would venture to say that while Lucy was the one who had the birthday, those of us who were at tonight's show were really the ones who felt like we got the gift...and we will remember this night too. Benay ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 03:09:04 -0500 (EST) From: "Elizabeth (Libby) Wiebel" Subject: [lucy-list] molly moment I'm thoroughly exhausted after a couple of very long days and a long drive home tonight... but I just had to write a quick note and share a Lucy moment from the day... Pardon me if there are parts of this that seem to make less sense than others... I spent all of Friday in a recording studio... and then spent a lot of time today driving... and well... I'm physically and mentally burned out! It's about 3:00 a.m.... and as soon as this message is off, I'm headed to bed. It's been a bit stressful on the family-front lately, as my great grandmother has been ill for the last few weeks... As I told the people at the open mic I played at tonight (I'll come back to that), I'm not normally one of those who leads such a lifestyle that I can't turn my cell phone off for an evening... but I've had it with me and on constantly for the last few days just waiting for any news from all of my Iowa relatives. Well on the drive up to DC for this open mic, I called my mother... and just asked what the latest was. Most of the communication from her had been email, and I hadn't been able to check for several hours... and wouldn't be able to check until I got home from DC. So... we chatted and proceeded to fight... when I just decided... no... I don't want to fight right now. So I steered the conversation away... and asked my mother what she had been up to that afternoon. Well... she told me... that my grandmother had called and asked her to see if she could find a blouse for my great grandmother to be buried in... something to wear under her pants suit... since when she moved into the nursing home, most of her clothes were given away... or weren't in any shape for a funeral. So... my mother had gone out and looked for some kind of blouse... but couldn't find one that worked... so instead, she told me, she was sewing something for her... sewing something for her grandmother, my great grandmother, to be buried in. My immediate response was... "Well that's depressing..." And my mother stopped... and said... actually no, it wasn't depressing... my great grandmother had been the one who taught her to sew... And I realized... it was kind of a grieving experience for her... sewing something to say goodbye. I hung up the phone with my mother... and right there on the CD player was Lucy singing "Song for Molly"... and I've always loved the song... but this time it was very real... And it just struck me... the things we pass from generation to generation... my mother sewing... and the things passed to me... she taught me to play cards... and how to bake a cake... the white kind with the red jello poked in it... and so many things more... Well tonight... halfway through the open mic, my phone rang (I had it on silent... so it _flashed_ instead of ringing, actually)... and I got the news that she had passed away. I apologized later to the person whose song I walked out on to take the call! I felt a little guilty that I had played a song I'd written earlier in the evening called "Midwestern Funerals" sort of making fun of all the midwestern-specific funeral lore and ritual and stuff... But then I realized... that finally, my 98-year-old great grandmother was probably able to enjoy it... She never was one for fuss and order and following the rules... Yes, of course, there's sadness about her passing... but at the same time, I know that she's finally at a place, wherever, however, that might be, taht she can walk again... taht she has her independence again... that she can drive her big green buick again... and where she is probably smiling proudly at my mother's buttonholes in her new blouse. So there's my Lucy/Molly moment... one that I just really wanted to share! Good night, all... and take good care -- Libby - -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Libby Wiebel | ewiebel@cs.wm.edu | http://www.cs.wm.edu/~ewiebel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ there is a hope that's been expressed in you the hope of seven generations maybe more and this is the faith that they invest in you it's that you'll do one better than was done before inside you know, inside you understand inside you know what's yours to finally set right and i suggest, and i suggest to you and i suggest this is the best part of your life ~ susan werner ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V4 #42 ****************************** This has been a posting from the Lucy Kaplansky mail list digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe lucy-list-digest" in the body of the message