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SOLITARY MAN

CHERRY CHERRY

SWEET CAROLINE

One more time,  okay, one more time, take it from that section

SWEET CAROLINE

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SWEET CAROLINE REPRISE

One more time, no please.     Spare the poor man. Oh yes my sweet, you taking a picture. Yes you can do it, a photograph. Oh my eyes with those flash bulbs. I wonder if we can dare try it here. I don’t think so. Can we?

But you don’t even know what I’m going to suggest. Yes I’ve heard about you people in Adelaide. Okay, what we are going to do, everyone with a flash camera, put a flash bulb in your camera cause we are going take a shot all at the same time. 20,000 , everyone put in their flash bulbs, wiggle them around till they click, make sure you have a fresh bulb. Don’t do it till I count to three. Let’s do it with the lights off. Scott, can we turn all the lights off? All the lights off, (screams) oh yes, okay, all of you people in the front, this whole front section who don’t have cameras, I want you to turn around and see what I see. Okay. Flash cameras on the count of three, drum roll please. One two, three. (sounds of hundreds of flashes)

One more time

Extraordinary, I can’t see a thing. There’s enormous pink dots crossing in front of my eyes.

Now, okay oh my goodness one more time shall we do it one more time. Close the lights , okay flash cameras prepared. Are all your flash camera prepared, on the count of three, once twice not yet, there’s a girl in the audience not ready. Would you just get it in? Hold the light, are you prepared my dear, no she isn’t. Far out I’m sorry honey but you missed it. You’ll have to do it all by yourself, you’ve got the flash in, terrific. Got it in, position it in yet.

She’s still trying to get the bulb in.

Scott, put the flood light on that lady over there. Put a light on her so she can see what she is doing. See that, right over there, where that match is. Yes, Okay. My dear 20,000 anxious people are waiting. Do you have it in ? Put the lights out, Okay. This time this one girls goin' to do it. One flash bulb. On three my dear, no one else do it. Okay .This is her turn one two three. All right. You know how frustrating that can be, trying to get that flash cube in there. Its not easy. Okay. So now what were going to do is everybody took flash shots, and I can’t see anymore so we’ll hold the pictures for a while cause other wise I might just drop off the stage, so we’ll hold the photographs for a while.

When I was a young man about 15 years of age, I found that I had a knack or a talent or what ever you may call it to write little pieces of poetry, little bits of bland verse and I did that all over. I did in my class room, I did it at home, everywhere I was. And in class in particular. I would be writing a little piece of verse  would aim it a particular girl in class and there was one girl that I remember very well. Her name was Deborah. I loved her deeply as I have loved none since. Deborah, when she walked in the room my heart would pitter patter, I would turn all kinds of colours. I didn’t realise what it was. It was the first blossoming of my awareness of the other gender. Deborah would come in the room and I would just "oh my god, its Debbie." And I would write out and I did this I really did this I wrote out beautiful poem of four lines of some silly thing and I passed it over to her. And of course she looked at it . Are you kidding, I’m dating the captain of the football team, he has an automobile. And so I never did reach Debbie with poetic verses. I haven’t seen her since then its been a long time. Debbie if you’re out there. Debbie, where ever you are Debbie EAT YOUR HEART OUT.

And I found that I had a knack for this verse and it came to mind about three or four years ago when I began to write a song about a young cad who used the lyrics and poems of a very famous romantic poet named Henry Wandsworth Longfellow to woo and to win his women. And this is the story of Longfellow Serenade.

LONGFELLOW SERENADE

LAST PICASSO

MORNINGSIDE

Yes, I might just sit down for a moment.

You whistle pretty good. Okay everybody try it.

What was that? Was that us? Do it again.

Yes. Somehow, while we’re on the subject of whistling, I happen to be from the great borough of Brooklyn and in Brooklyn one of the basic things you have to learn as a wee child is how to whistle cause your ganged up by groups of people you have to whistle for your friends. So I’m protected. Er I would like to try to whistle also tonight cause everyone else had a shot. Dare I do it into the microphone, Stanley? Stanley, will you tell me. Will it destroy this whole system? Will it sizzle every speaker? Will it melt the speakers? Come on Stanley. No Problem. Okay gang, are you prepared for this one? All you will delicate eardrums, cover them up now. Big breath.

Whistle.

Off course its really not fair you know this system is 400 watts of sound and so you know, I have a terrific advantage.

Okay I give up on the whistling. Okay so we got whistle out of the way, we got flashbulbs out of the way. We got binoculars out of the way.

No.

Okay, I’m just curious. Okay binoculars. Can I borrow your binoculars my dear. I want to see what it looks like from this side. John, put some lights on the audience.You asked for it. I’m going to

  (undecipherable – too much laughter from the audience)

Yes you are, lets see what’s going on. More lights over here. Can you put more lights on the audience. Arh. More lights here. They're are a swell looking group on this side. This young lady, nice. Somebody jumped off the balcony. Are there any tree people here?

Are there any trees here. Lets just check out this side. You just wave so I can identify you. Yes. Very nice, a good looking group, very fine.

Yes ,up on the balcony, very fine. Yes. Oh look at that lady up there. I can see you up there , I really can. The girl with the blonde hair and the red shirt. Oh, that’s not girl, that’s a guy who’s selling drinks. Sorry, sir, I had no idea. It was nothing personal. Okay, I had best give these back to their owner. Thankyou.

Leave the lights on just for a moment so I can just pick out a few people.

So this is a cricket ground, is that right.

Hey I’m new here, give a guy a break. Football Park, You don’t have things like wickets or anything like that.

No wickets? So why does it say on that sign, Wickets. Oh tickets, I see. I got straightened out right away.

We were in Perth at a Football Park and there was a motorcycle near by, and I just had to climb right on. Fabulous. And this man came out this grounds keeper and he went crazy and he said "do you realise you’ve ridden over my wicket." And I got not the slightest idea what his wicket was. I said "gee I’m sorry, I’ll leave." And he said, "this is my life, my wicket is my life." I guess he lives a wicket life.

Change of guitars, this guitar. Give me this one, I like the colour of this one.

Murray Williams everybody. Oh yes, we will get to them my sweet, I promise, I promise.

Now let me check out this guitar.

Oh lets see how long ago, it was three or four years ago, I was sitting back in my home in Malibu which is not only a beach but turns out to be a sunscreen lotion as well. Anyway I was listening to a recording . It was a recording of Mozarts piano pieces Piano concerto no 21. It was very strange, I was really concentrating, I wasn’t really listening to it and suddenly it began to seep into my mind a melody which became very insistent. I thought, wouldn’t it be wonderful if I could write a lyric to that song. This is the melody I worked out. I liked the feeling of that song. Alan, just play the mozart piece.

SONG SUNG BLUE. (got the crowd to sing along, the men and then the ladies. He got a couple of guys up on stage to sing along with him, encouraging them to sing along and wave their arms and have a "chance to make a complete fool of themselves. " Got the audience to sing. Asked one young girl to stand up on her seat and sing. Told her not to turn her back on the audience, sang with her. )

Fantastic. You’re fabulous. What an audience, the girls with their beautiful angelic voices and the men …… you know, we all must show that we can drink and sing at the same time. Song sung blue, throw that man out of here…… one more time.

SONG SUNG BLUE REPRISE.

That was extra-ordinary. Just a sea of people. You can see from here. You just sang it beautifully as well.

I want to take just a moment out here now and introduce to you some of the most extra ordinary musicians from the United States of America. My Band. On synthesiser, Alan Lindgren, Tom Hensley on Piano, Reine Press on Bass, Lynda Press on vocal chords, Doug Rhone on guitar, Richard Bennett on Lead guitar , King Errisson from the island of Nassau on congo and the heartbeat of the band, my main man, Mr Dennis St John on Drums.

CRACKLIN ROSIE.

HOLLY HOLY

We travel all over the world and you get to understand there are very basis things about all of us. We get to know that all of us need and want and care, we are we are.

I AM I SAID.

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