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Summer is wonderful, of course — and much appreciated after that seeming endless winter — but it brings a bit of blues to the band room. That's because when the temperature's rising and the livin' is easy, Floodsters tend to scurry away in many different directions. New Orleans, Orlando, even France have been among the far-away places that lately temporarily scattered the old gang.In fact, the last time the Bowen House had a full boat for the band's weekly rehearsal was more than three weeks ago. One of the last tunes of that night was this cautionary tale. Think of this bon voyage as a quirky little trip advisory.About the Song“Deep Ellum Blues” isn't really a blues, not structurally, anyway; rather, it is more of a rollicking roadhouse song from deep in the heart of Texas.As reported here earlier, the tune celebrates — advertises? frets over? — a section of Dallas with a sketchy, colorful history. Back to the 1920s, it was down on Deep Ellum where you could rub shoulders with Blind Lemon Jefferson and Huddie Ledbetter, with Robert Johnson and Bessie Smith.Pigeon droppers, reefer men, crap shooters, card sharks and various purveyors of cocaine and bootleg whisky also populated those parts, not to mention the odd gangster (think Bonnie and Clyde and Pretty Boy Floyd).“It was the only place recorded on earth where business, religion, hoodooism, gambling and stealing go on at the same time without friction,” said Darwin Payne in his 1982 book Dallas, an Illustrated History.For more about the song's curious history, click here.Finding More Flood SongsIf there are other Flood songs you're in the mood for this morning, the best place to find them is in the free Flood Watch newsletter. The Song Stories department — click here to reach it — offers an alphabetized list of tunes featured in recent weekly podcasts.Once there, just scroll the page and click on a song title to reach an article that includes a recent performance along with a little of composition's history.Or are you in the mood for tunes from a particular time period? Got a 1920s jag going on or are you hankering for a bit of the ‘50s or ‘60s? Check out the “Tunes on a Timeline” section, which re-jiggers all those song links, sorting them into specific decades from pre-1910s up to the present.Click here to reach it. It's ideal for tuning up your time machine. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

The mood can change very quickly in The Flood band room, often depending on whatever is the next song that crosses Charlie Bowen's rattlin' brain.For instance, in the first few seconds of this week's podcast, you'll hear the guys still laughing from the inside jokes and joys of the previous tune, while Bowen is ready to conjure up a more somber mood with some opening chords.Almost at once, Danny Cox and Randy Hamilton recognize the lead-in and join in on the 1950s torch song, “Cry Me a River.” Seconds later, Jack Nuckols is slapping a rhythm and Sam St. Clair is offering moody accents.Anything But PlebeianThe story of this song's troubled childhood — rejected in its first bid for movie stardom, initially passed over by the queen of jazz ballad, etc. — in an earlier post, but let's take another swing at it, this time focusing on a single word in its otherwise rather pedestrian lyrics.The bridge of “Cry Me a River” contains what writer Molly Leikin, in her book How to Write a Hit Song called “the best multisyllabic internal rhyme I've heard.” Specifically, the song rhymes: You told me love was too plebeian with Told me you were through with me'n'…“‘Too plebeian' and ‘through with me'n',” Leikin wrote, “are just as delicious now as when they were first written. This quadruple rhyme isn't just four syllables that rhyme, but four unique syllables.”But Jack Said No, And So Said MitchCool enough, but it was not everybody's cup of tea. In fact, plebeian (which, of course, is a snooty way of saying “commoner”) was just too highfalutin for many show biz folks.For instance, director Jack Webb originally wanted the song for his 1955 movie Pete Kelly's Blues, but he hated the use of the word and when songwriter Arthur Hamilton refused to change it, Webb yanked the song from the film.The lyric had no better luck at Columbia Records where the A&R chief — one Mitch Miller (of early TV's “Sing Along with Mitch” fame) — joined the plebeian haters and blocked it from being recorded there by Peggy King.The Stubborn SongwriterStill the songwriter stood his ground and refused to change his lyric. Wonder why, given the riches promised to Hamilton by having his song included in a Hollywood film? Well, writer John E. Simpson in his online newsletter “Running After My Hat,” has an intriguing theory.As noted in the earlier Flood Watch article, 27-year-old singer and aspiring actress Julie London, who would ultimately record “Cry Me a River” and have a monster hit with it, was married to Jack Webb at the time he would working on Pete Kelly's Blues.When Webb thought it would be a great idea to have some original songs, not just old standards, wife Julie remembered Arthur Hamilton. He was a young guy she'd graduated from high school with; in fact, he'd taken her to the senior prom.She and Arthur had drifted out of touch since their school days in the mid-1940s, but Julie remembered he'd wanted to be a songwriter. She gave him a call, asked if he was still writing music.“I was,” Hamilton recalled years later, “but I was writing them on the backs of prescription blanks, working as a delivery boy for a prominent drugstore chain.”When got the call from Hollywood, Hamilton cranked out three tunes — “He Needs Me,” “Sing a Rainbow” and (ta-duh!) “Cry Me a River” — the first two of which Webb used in the picture, but then Webb blocked the winner of the bunch because of Hamilton's refusal to change that problematic rhyme. Was It Code?So, again, why?“I've got my own pet theory about this,” Simpson writes in his newsletter, “completely unsupported by anything except speculation and a taste for intrigue: I wonder if the word ‘plebeian' was an in-joke of some kind between Hamilton and London? Lord only knows what sort of in-joke it would be. But it's a fun idea, isn't it?”Indeed. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

Whenever The Flood appears in public — as it did at Bahnhof WVrsthaus & Biergarten earlier this month — it positions itself the way most bands do at gigs: in a simple straight line politely facing the audience.Nothing novel in that, of course, just the time-honored way of letting players and listeners make eye contact, feeding off each other's reactions as the music rolls along.However, an entirely different geometry — a circle, not a line — frames the music that has always been featured in The Flood's weekly podcasts.A Table at the Center of the SongsA table in the middle of the Bowen House's library has been the center of the Floodisphere's weekly rehearsal for more than three decades now. Almost all of the nearly 800 episodes of the podcast have been recorded in that room, with a recorder happily stationed at the center of the table and all the players and visitors gathered around it.More than one visitor to The Flood band room, imagining the years of music those walls have heard, has commented on the space's “vibe,” as if its years of music are somehow preserved in the walls and between the very pages of the books on the shelves.Honestly, that's a little too new-age-y for some of us. Still, there's no doubt that as much fun as the guys have at gigs, it never compares to the joy in the music made around that table each week. Here's a sample from last week's gathering.About the SongAs reported here earlier, “All of Me” — the featured song in this week's podcast — was an original “bad boy song” from the 1930s. "I peddled my song up and down the street,” composer Gerald Marks once noted, “and every single publisher turned it down.”The problem was Seymour Simons' lyric. Oh, its moaning over lonely lips and empty arms was pretty standard fare, but it was that follow-up line — "Why not take all of me?" — that publishers found, well, downright dirty by 1930s standards. It was not until a superstar of the day — songstress Belle Baker — embraced it that the song showed promise. Baker first incorporated “All of Me” it into her act in Detroit, where it received seven encores. A few days later, she introduced it on the radio in New York.After that, the song took off. In 1931, Mildred Bailey recorded it with Paul Whiteman's orchestra; it went to the top of the US pop charts. Within weeks, two more versions also were charting, including Louis Armstrong's rendition which reached No. 1 and Ben Selvin's and his orchestra, which hit No. 19. Now, of course, the song's a standard. Jazz critic Ted Gioia believes the definitive version was recorded in 1941 by Billie Holiday. Click here for more of the song's history, as reported in an earlier Flood Watch article.More About That TableBy the way, the table at the center of The Flood's world also was the starting point for the band's first legacy film, 2018's “Flood and Friends.” If you'd like to see the guys reminiscing about some of the many good people who have visited that room over the years, give this a view below: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

A storm system will bring widespread showers and thunderstorms to the area today. Some storms could produce damaging winds and large hail. A Flood Watch is in effect for North Texas, including Dallas and Fort Worth until 1 a.m. Wednesday with the possibility of 1 to 3 inches of rainfall. In other news, Dallas City Council and school board elections attracted few eligible voters, a decades long trend that has voting advocates trying to figure out how to make local contests more appealing. According to the county's elections department, Dallas County municipal elections attracted only 8.4% of 1.4 million registered voters; a second teenager has been arrested in connection with the March slaying of a 14-year-old boy in east Oak Cliff. 17-year old Juan Saucedo was arrested Sunday and booked into the Dallas County jail on a capital murder charge in the death of Adam Gutierrez; falling crude prices will eventually translate into lower prices at the gas pump for consumers, but that doesn't mean it's all good news ― especially for Texas-based oil producers; and Paige Bueckers might be getting ready for her rookie season with the Dallas Wings, but she is still on the receiving end of awards for her collegiate career. Bueckers was named the winner of the Collegiate Women Sports Awards' Honda Sport Award for basketball. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Roving thunderstorms did not deter a roomful of diehard Flood fans from coming out to party at Huntington's good ol' Bahnhof WVrsthau & Biergarten on Thursday night. And as usual, band manager Pamela Bowen was faithfully at a ringside table to capture some video. These three tunes illustrate the diversity of the evening's fare, opening with a century-old number that your sassy Grandpa probably sang, followed by a swinging instrumental on a 1940s jazz standard and wrapping up with a 1920s Charlie Poole tune that he had to have picked up in New Orleans.Backstories on each of the songs have been covered in previous Flood Watch articles. Here are those links if you want to bone up in case there's a pop quiz at the next Flood affair:* “I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone”* “Opus One”* “Didn't He Ramble?” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

This week on the LU Moment, we sit down with Dr. Liv Haselbach and Dr. Nicholas Brake from the LU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, to hear about a new flood monitoring program that will help streamline storm recovery efforts in Southeast Texas. For the full transcription of this episode, visit https://lamaru.us/lumomenttranscript.For updates on the latest news and events at Lamar University, visit lamar.edu/news.

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The National Weather Service-Austin/San Antonio has issued a Flood Watch through Friday morning, March 28, for Atascosa, Wilson, Karnes, Gonzales, De Witt, and Lavaca counties. This is due to several rounds of heavy rain moving in, caused by abundant Gulf moisture combined with a slow-moving storm system. This has the potential to cause flash flooding across the Coastal Plains area.  There may be lulls or periods of light rain. Rainfall amounts of 2 to 4 inches are possible, with isolated amounts up to 6 inches in some places. Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other...Article Link

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Rivers and creeks are flooding in south-east Queensland after days of torrential rain.

First Alert Weather Day for morning commute heavy rain/storms, Flooding Risk • We are tracking more heavy rainfall for the morning commute today. • A FLOOD WATCH is in effect for most of our viewing area thru this morning. • 1-4" inches of rain fell across our First Alert Neighborhood Weather Station network yesterday, with more adding up today. • Showers will lighten up in coverage near or after lunchtime today • A few isolated showers may redevelop this afternoon on the backside of this system as it moves east. • Highs today in the 60s in SE Georgia and lower to mid 70s in NE Florida • Overnight, we drop to the lower to mid 40s • Tomorrow will be sunny and mild with highs in the mid 70s • The Players Championship practice rounds through most of the weekend look dry and mild. o A few showers/storms are possible Sunday late afternoon / evening as a cold front approaches TODAY: First Alert Weather Day. Heavy showers and thunderstorms for the morning commute. Isolated afternoon showers. HIGH: 72 TONIGHT: Turning mostly clear and chilly. LOW: 46 TUESDAY: Sunny and nice. 46/76 WEDNESDAY: Sunny and warm. 45/80 THURSDAY: Partly sunny. 49/77 FRIDAY: Partly sunny. 55/79 SATURDAY: Partly cloudy and warm. 58/83 SUNDAY: Partly cloudy with late afternoon showers/storms arriving. 61/80

Rivers and creeks are flooding in south-east Queensland after days of torrential rain.

Rivers and creeks are flooding in south-east Queensland after days of torrential rain.

As of Tuesday, March 4th, 2025, A flood watch is in effect for the entire Western New York region, as temperatures are set to spike into the mid 50s Wednesday, accompanied by rain, which could lead to flooding and ice jams Wednesday into Thursday. Hear more about this from meteorologist Andy Parker.

We're preparing for flooding and ice jams as temperatures will enter the 50s Tuesday and potentially the 60s on Wednesday. Meteorologist Liz Jurkowski has the forecast.

MDJ Script/ Top Stories for February 12th Publish Date:  February 12th    Commercial: From the BG Ad Group Studio, Welcome to the Marietta Daily Journal Podcast.    Today is Wednesday, February 12th and Happy Birthday to Peter Gabriel ***02.12.25 - BIRTHDAY – PETER GABRIEL*** I’m Dan Ratcliffe and here are the stories Cobb is talking about, presented by Times Journal Cobb Under Flood Watch Until Thursday Morning South Cobb Library Seeking $3 Million from State for Upgrades Erick Allen, Jaha Howard Headed for Runoff All of this and more is coming up on the Marietta Daily Journal Podcast, and if you are looking for community news, we encourage you to listen and subscribe!  BREAK: Ringling Bros STORY 1: Cobb Under Flood Watch Until Thursday Morning Cobb County is under a flood watch until 7 a.m. Thursday due to heavy rainfall, with up to 4-5 inches expected by Thursday morning and additional showers through the weekend. Some areas could see 6-8 inches total. Cooler temperatures are forecasted due to "cold air damming," with highs in the 50s and 60s this week. The National Weather Service urges caution on roadways, especially at night, as heavy rain may cause limited visibility and potential road washouts. STORY 2: South Cobb Library Seeking $3 Million from State for Upgrades Cobb County is requesting $3 million from the state to expand the South Cobb Regional Library in Mableton. The $4.2 million project, with $1.2 million already locally funded, will add 5,000 square feet for community events, an expanded teen space, and a new computer lab. Opened in 2006, the library is heavily used, especially for computer access. State Rep. Terry Cummings emphasized the need for a larger, modern facility to better serve the community. The Cobb County Library System, with 15 branches and a $17 million budget, serves over 750,000 residents and boasts 418,000 active cardholders. STORY 3: Erick Allen, Jaha Howard Headed for Runoff The race for Cobb County’s District 2 Board of Commissioners seat heads to a runoff between Democrats Erick Allen and Dr. Jaha Howard, with Allen leading at 45.49% and Howard at 42.74%. The runoff is set for March 11, as no candidate secured over 50%. Republican Alicia Adams awaits the winner in the April 29 general election. The seat was vacated after former Commissioner Jerica Richardson was removed due to a court ruling on district maps. Low voter turnout marked the special primary, with only 3.74% of eligible voters participating. Early voting for the runoff begins March 3. We have opportunities for sponsors to get great engagement on these shows. Call 770.799.6810 for more info.    We’ll be right back  Break: Ringling Bros STORY 4: New Cobb County Fire Chief Named The Cobb Board of Commissioners appointed Michael Cunningham as the new fire chief on Tuesday. 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Incoming storm prompts the National Weather Service to issue a flood watch for the region. Also, volunteers collected information about Butte County's unhoused residents during what's called a Point-in-Time Count, and the Inspire School of Arts and Sciences could break ground on a permanent campus this year, after years of delays and funding woes.

If your mom (or your grandma or maybe great-grandmother) was a Bobby-soxer in the 1940s, she probably danced to this tune. Sociologists call the bunch born in the 1930s “The Silent Generation” — a term first used in a 1951 Time magazine story to describe their alleged cautious and passive nature — but, well, seriously? Anyone who ever saw them dance didn't think they were all that darn docile. After all, these “Silents” are the same folks who gave us the jitterbug, not to mention setting the stage for early rock ‘n' roll.About This SongAs reported here previously, Sy Oliver's composition “Opus One” was a hit on the radio for Tommy Dorsey in late 1944, but it was an even bigger smash a year later. That's when singer Anita O'Day recorded it with a rocking band fronted by drummer Gene Krupa and featuring legendary trumpeter Roy Eldridge.The song has gone on to be covered many times over the years, from versions by Harry James to those of The Mills Brothers and The Four Freshmen. For more on the song's history — including the story of those sassy lyrics added by Sid Garris — check out this earlier Flood Watch article.Meanwhile, here in The Flood Zone, the song is a perfect warmup for an evening of fun at the weekly rehearsal, offering solo space for everyone in the room.About the VideoThe sound in this video is audio from last week's rehearsal. Meanwhile, for the film footage thanks go out to Douglas K. Morris and Shane Finster of Armstrong Cable.As reported earlier, Doug and Shane dropped into a Flood rehearsal last summer to record an episode of their award-winning Armstrong Neighborhood Channel's Press Room Recordings series. It was a treat to revisit the video from that night to enhance this week's winter evening film.More Swing Tunes?Finally, if you'd like a little more from the “Swing” column on The Flood's menu, the free Radio Floodango music streaming feature has a channel just for you.Click here for a randomized playlist of swing tunes from over the band's decades. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

Several severe weather alerts will be taking effect as a strong winter storms system approaches Hawaii. The HNN First Alert Weather Team earlier declared a First Alert Weather Day statewide from Wednesday night through Friday morning. The National Weather Service says a Flood Watch will be in effect for all main Hawaiian islands from Wednesday evening through Friday morning.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Also, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick rolls out his top 25 bills for the State Senate, and the United Football League opens its headquarters in Arlington on Wednesday.

All kinds of stories are told at the weekly rehearsals. Some are shared for laughs. Others are merely melodies and improvisations. Some come with pictures. And some — like this one — are the tales that are many times older than all of us.As reported here earlier, traditional versions of “Pretty Polly” were on some of the first discs made by Appalachian musicians at the dawn of the recording industry. These included Eastern Kentuckian John Hammond's "Purty Polly" of 1925 and the "Pretty Polly" versions of B.F. Shelton and Dock Boggs, both in 1927.To read more about the song's fascinating origin story — it goes back nearly 300 years in Great Britain, had immigrated in the U.S. by the early 20th century to be collected by song hunter Cecil Sharp and obtained honored status in the folk song revival of the 1960s — check out the earlier Flood Watch article by clicking here.Floodifying It The Flood's version of this song lyrically follows the well-established narrative of Polly and Willie's fateful night, but melodically it takes a lot of liberties with the traditional tune. The rendition, in fact, is built on a musical idea that dates back a half century to pre-Flood days.When Charlie Bowen and David Peyton were just starting out as a duo in the early 1970s, they discovered that a repeated scale descending from an opening minor chord resonated nicely on the guitar-Autoharp accompaniment to their voices.Over the decades, each configuration of the band has found something new to contribute to this basic arrangement. And it is still happening. Just listen to what Dan Cox and Jack Nuckols brought to the song at a rehearsal earlier this month.More Folkiness?If you'd like more tunes from The Flood's dustier shelves, you can use Flood Watch's resources to find some. Visit the “Tunes on the Timeline” department; click here to reach it.Once there, scroll all the way to the bottom for links to timeless tunes and their stories, from “Barbara Allen” to “Wayfaring Stranger” listed in the Traditional category.Meanwhile, if you'd like to add even a little more Flood folkery to your wintry Friday, don't forget the free Radio Floodango music streaming service, where you can turn on the “Folk” channel for a randomize playlist of tunes.Click here to give it a spin.A Note about The GraphicsFinally, back to the video that tops this week's article, note that the graphics used to illustrate the performance were generated by artificial intelligence. As reported here earlier, nowadays we sometimes use free online AI software called ImageFX to create accommodating art for these pages. In this case, that software was asked to generate pictures that appeared to be in an old-fashioned quilt. Let us know what you think of the results. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

In the early 2000s, Joe Dobbs expanded his operations at his Fret ‘n Fiddle's music store in downtown St. Albans to include a recording studio that he and his young staff dubbed “The Bunker.”The idea was that at the very least Joe could use the facilities to record some or all of the episodes for his ongoing “Music from the Mountains” radio show. What he really hoped, though, was that the new studio would be used by area musicians to create their next albums.As usual, The Flood was to be the guinea pigs. And the band was primed, because the guys were eager to do a new album to follow up I'd Rather Be Flooded, which had been recorded three years earlier. So, with hopes high, the lads trouped into The Bunker 19 years ago this week.As it worked out, it didn't (work out, that is). That's because at the beginning of 2006, The Flood was still in a bit of a transition. That SongNonetheless, the guys did get a few good tracks from the session, including the one featured in the video at the top of this article. The backstory on this good old Lonnie Johnson tune, "Jelly Roll Baker" — which ultimately found its way to The Flood's self-produced bootleg album, "Hip Boots” — was reported in an earlier Flood Watch article. Click here to read it.Another reason that Jan. 11, 2006, was a memorable night in Flood Lore was because of the good work of Cincinnati fiddler/photograph Ed Strelau, who came along for the ride and took the pictures used in the above video. By then The Flood had known Ed for about four months. Meeting Ed StrelauThe friendship started one afternoon in September 2005 when Charlie Bowen got a phone call from a stranger, a man who identified himself as “Ed.” He was from Ohio, he said, was staying at the Ramada Inn here, was in town on business. He played a little fiddle, Ed added, had heard about The Flood's weekly jam sessions and wondered if he could stop by. In the course of the conversation, Ed dropped Joe Dobbs' name, which of course in Flood circles was as good as the “Open Sesame” got, so Charlie said, “Sure!” and gave him directions to the Bowen House.The following Wednesday night Strelau arrives at the door promptly at 7 with a bag of pork rinds as an offering for the assembled pickers. He was introduced all around the circle — everyone but Joe already had arrived — and the group learned that for nearly 40 years Ed had been an engineer with Turner Construction of Cincinnati. Ed would be in Huntington through the end of the year to oversee work on a building project at Cabell-Huntington Hospital. “We also learned that he played regularly with a band in Cincinnati that specialized in English country dance music,” Charlie later told his mom in an email. As the guys kicked into the evening's first tunes, Ed grabbed a seat near the front. They were playing loudly a short time later when Joe slipped in the back door and headed to the adjoining room to unpack his fiddle.“Hey, Joe,” Charlie called out between tunes, “your friend Ed Strelau is here!”“Who?” Joe called back.Hmmmm. Around the room, eyes turned toward Ed, who seemed equally confused.“Oh, wait,” Ed said finally, “I didn't mean to say I know Joe, only that I heard him on the radio!”More Introductions, More EdQuickly more introductions were exchanged, Joe had a pork rind or two and joined the mix. At one point, Joe even passed his fiddle to Ed, who hadn't brought one, but promised to come appropriately armed in future sessions.That he did. In fact, Ed Strelau was a faithful player at the weekly jams for the next four months, not only contributing tunes, but also occasionally taking pictures of the group. Here's an assemblage of his photos from the period:Last Ed JamThe band's last get-together with Strelau came in early 2006. “What an evening!” Charlie told his mom in an email. “Ed brought his family for a visit. They went skiing and hiking in the mountains over the past few days, and he wanted to wrap it up with the jam session here.“I was hoping the guys would come through for him and they really did,” Charlie added. “Bub delayed his trip to Florida by a day so he could be here, and Joe, who had an emcee job earlier in the evening, came about 10 to be here for the last hour or so. We also had listeners. Besides Ed's wife and son, we had Bill and Nancy Meadows and Tom and Sharon Pressman. It was midnight before Pamela and I got all those folks outa here.”Ed TodayEd Strelau has not been seen in the Huntington area for nearly 20 years now, but according to posts mined this week on the Internet, he's still fiddling regularly with his friends in the Cincinnati English Country Dancers. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

Often the first notes of the evening set the pace, the mood and the tone for the entire rehearsal. As you'll hear on this track, Danny Cox walked into last week's session ready to set the Floodometer on sizzle. And it certainly worked. The Flood has been doing this great old 1920s jazz standard for only a couple of years now, but it's already become one of the band's go-to tunes for a good time, especially whenever Danny has new musical ideas to explore.About the SongThis week's featured tune — “Am I Blue?” — has a special place at the intersection of jazz and movie histories. That's because in 1944 a sassy performance of the 1929 classic marked songwriter Hoagy Carmichael's big break in Hollywood.Hoagy is best known, of course, for performing his own compositions (“Stardust” and “Georgia on My Mind,” “Up a Lazy River,” “Memphis in June” and so many others).However, when Carmichael was cast to play the character “Cricket” in Humphrey Bogart's To Have and Have Not, director Howard Hawks wanted a scene in which Hoagy — as a honky tonk piano player in a Martinique dive — is doing the Harry Akst-Grant Clarke tune when a 19-year-old Lauren Bacall makes her film debut.“My first scene required me to sing ‘Am I Blue,'” Carmichael wrote in his 1965 autobiography Sometimes I Wonder. “‘Am I Nervous' would have been a more appropriate title. I chewed a match to help my jitters…. The match was a good decision, it turned out, because it became a definite part of the character.”With some comic results. One morning during the shooting, Carmichael had a scene with Bogart, who walked onto the set chewing on a match. “My heart sank,” Hoagy wrote. “What can you say to the star of the picture when he's apparently intent on stealing your stuff?”Only the next day did Carmichael learn it had all been a gag. “Bogey let me go on thinking they had actually shot the scene that way.”Meanwhile…Elsewhere in the film, Hoagy is seen playing an accompaniment for the very nervous young Bacall as her character, “Slim,” sings his and Johnny Mercer's song, "How Little We Know,” which they wrote specifically for the movie.A 16-year-old Andy Williams recorded the song as a possible alternative track to dub Bacall's low voice; however, Bacall always maintained that the producers ended up using her singing in the film rather the dub.“I'm not sure what the truth of it was,” Williams later wrote in his own autobiography, “but I'm not going to argue about it with the formidable Ms. Bacall!”Meanwhile, more films awaited Hoagy Carmichael. As he wrote, he was cast in "every picture in which a world-weary character in bad repair sat around and sang or leaned over a piano.… It was usually the part of the hound-dog-faced old musical philosopher noodling on the honky-tonk piano, saying to a tart with a heart of gold: 'He'll be back, honey. He's all man'."Song HistoriesIf you would like to read more about the history of “Am I Blue?” check out this earlier Flood Watch report on the song.And for the backstories on other songs in The Flood's repertoire, peruse the newsletter's Song Stories section. Click here to give it a look. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

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The wildfire in Jasper National Park is getting bigger. The weather is hot and dry, and the fire is still out of control. The risk to the town isn't over. And: Residents near B.C.'s Chilcotin River watch and wait as the water builds up behind a dam created by a landslide. If it breaks, it could flood land below it, and as far along as the Fraser River. Plus: Italian boxer Angela Carini says she wants to apologize to her opponent - Algeria's Imane Khelif - for how she conducted herself moments after their 46-second fight. Carini's reaction fueled an explosion of online accusations about Khelif's gender, much of it based on misinformation. Also…skin diseases in Gaza, prisoner diplomacy, luxury condos in B.C. and more.

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WWJ's Jonathan Carlson and Jackie Paige have your Wednesday morning news briefs with the latest on the heavy rain that hit Metro Detroit — with more to come — and one local fire station closed due to mold.  (Image credit: AccuWeather)

Minnesotans are on flood watch this week. After a two year drought and an abnormally dry winter, we've been hit with weeks of rain that's got soil saturated and rivers rising.Several cities including Delano, Henderson and Saint Paul have already closed roads near swollen rivers. Craig Schmidt, a senior hydrologist for the National Weather Service in Chanhassen joined Minnesota Now to talk about the unusual flooding.MPR News host Cathy Wurzer also talked to Lisa Hiebert, public information officer from the City of Saint Paul's Public Works department, about how the city near the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers is planning for high water.

As extreme heat spreads the U.S., 7 million people are under flood watch in Southern Florida. Also, President Biden and Pope Francis meet privately today after Biden secures new Ukraine support.  Plus, Trump meets with Republicans on Capitol Hill, marking his first trip back since the January 6th attack. And, FAA Administrator Whitaker testifies in Congress on aviation safety and Boeing's latest issues.

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Plus, Flood Watch remains in effect for counties southeast of DFW and new safety measures are in place today at DeSoto High School after an incident where a person with a handgun entered the school last week.

  Things have escalated quickly in Panguitch, Utah after a 60-ft horizontal crack was discovered in the Panguitch Lake dam. The town of Panguitch has been placed under a level 2 evacuation alert awaiting further details. David Walker, local residentof Panguitch and owner of American ATV Rentals joins D2 to share a snapshot of locals experience. Sam Webber from the National Weather Service and Meteorologist explain the latest on the flash flood watch. Wade Mattews with Utah Division of Emergency Management joins live from Panguitch on  what is being done to combat further damage.  

Central Pennsylvania remains under a flood watch through tomorrow morning -- as heavy rains batter the region. If you want to catch a total solar eclipse in Pennsylvania, you won't want to miss the big show on Monday. A grassroots environmental organization, is suing  a cryptocurrency plant and Governor Josh Shapiro. A federal judge has ruled New Mexico election leaders violated public disclosure provisions of the National Voter Registration Act by refusing to provide voter rolls to a conservative group and its public online database. How will this affect Pennsylvania? The remnants of two large tents -- used as a homeless encampment along the Schuylkill River -- have been taken down.    Support WITF: https://www.witf.org/support/give-now/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's another wet weekend as a rainstorm slams our already soggy region - what does this mean for our water supply? Also, the fast food industry is preparing for a wage hike that goes into effect Monday. Some baby boomers are taking on the shortage of affordable homes for millennials with kids. Plus, we check in on the Bunny Museum in Altadena this Easter Sunday.Support The L.A. Report by donating at LAist.com/join and by visiting https://laist.com. Support the show: https://laist.com

Rain and some of it heavy is on the way for today and overnight.

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One surgeon trapped inside Gaza's Nasser Hospital warns that “all the ICU patients will die” as Israel continues to raid the complex. CNN has exclusive details about Russia's efforts to develop a nuclear space weapon. More than 27 million people are under flood watches in California ahead of back-to-back storms. Former president Donald Trump will be in Michigan today ahead of the battleground state's primary. And, we'll explain why New York City is suing some social media companies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the "Today in San Diego" podcast, Mayor Todd Gloria has issued an evacuation warning for low-lying areas that endured flooding last week, a flood watch is in place for the entire county today and Museum Month is back with more than 60 locations across the county participating in the annual event. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Many areas in the North State are under a flood watch and wind advisory this morning as a strong storm system moves into the region. Also, a group seeking solutions to homelessness in Shasta County will hold several public meetings in the coming weeks, and the U.S. Forest Service is offering guided snowshoe hikes in Lassen National Forest.

MDJ Script/ Top Stories for Jan 25th          Publish Date:  Jan 24th          Commercial: Henssler :15   From the Henssler Financial Studio, Welcome to the Marietta Daily Journal Podcast.    Today is Thursday, January 25th and Happy 8th Birthday to Fine Young Cannibals guitarist Andy Cox.  ***01.25.24 – BIRTHDAY – ANDY COX*** I'm Dan Radcliffe and here are the stories Cobb is talking about, presented by Credit Union of Georgia.  Family Raising Funds After Mother of 4 Killed in Cobb Kennesaw Man Accused of Vehicular Homicide   Marietta Army Supply Store to Close After Almost 70 Years     Plus, Bruce Jenkins sits down with Leah McGrath from Ingles Markets to discuss economical snacking for kids.   All of this and more is coming up on the Marietta Daily Journal Podcast, and if you are looking for community news, we encourage you to listen and subscribe!    BREAK: CU of GA    STORY 1: Family Raising Funds After Mother of 4 Killed in Cobb In Marietta, the family of Melinda Jolly, a mother of four killed by an abusive boyfriend, is raising funds on GoFundMe for her three children and their new caretakers—Melinda's brother Tommy and his wife Stacey. Melinda moved to Georgia with her children after her husband's death in 2019. The fundraiser, organized by Melinda's sister Pamela, has raised over $20,000 of a $50,000 goal. Melinda was in an abusive relationship, and her family had requested welfare checks. Unfortunately, she was found dead during the last check. The alleged murderer, Charles Cook, had a history of endangering the children. Pamela fondly remembers Melinda as a kind and compassionate person. Those interested in donating can visit the [GoFundMe page](https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-of-melinda-jolly). STORY 2: Kennesaw Man Accused of Vehicular Homicide In Kennesaw, a 71-year-old man, Allan Craig Johnson, is accused of causing a fatal collision. Johnson, driving a Chevrolet Trailblazer, allegedly failed to yield to a Jeep Liberty driven by Randall Riggs while entering Dallas Highway. The collision resulted in Riggs suffering a fractured femur and multiple injuries. The medical examiner, Dr. Christopher Gulledge, opines that the injuries, captured on video, along with heart disease, contributed to Riggs' death. Johnson faces charges of second-degree vehicular homicide and failure to yield, both misdemeanors. He was arrested and released on $5,720 bond.   STORY 3: Marietta Army Supply Store to Close After Almost 70 Years After nearly 70 years, Hodge Army Navy, Cobb's iconic military surplus store, is closing. Founded in 1955 by John W. Hodge, it initially sold decommissioned tools from Lockheed. Post-9/11, changes in military camouflage technology affected their business. Owner Paul Earls adapted by sourcing from veterans' estates and abandoned storage units. The store, a staple in the community, served diverse clientele for decades. The closure is attributed to the shift towards online shopping, making it challenging for brick-and-mortar stores. Hodge Army Navy provided unique services, including recreating uniforms for veterans' burials. The store's Marietta location gained fame as a filming location for shows like "Stranger Things." Hodge Army Navy will close its doors for good after almost 70 years in business.   We have opportunities for sponsors to get great engagement on these shows. Call 770.799.6810 for more info.    We'll be right back  Break: ESOG – GCPS   STORY 4: Flood Watch for Cobb Through Friday The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for north Georgia, including Cobb County, with an expected 2-4 inches of rain from Wednesday night to Friday night. An active weather pattern will bring multiple rounds of rainfall, with higher amounts possible in isolated areas. Rain chances are 80% on Wednesday, 90% on Thursday, and 70% on Friday. Motorists are advised to be cautious of standing water on roads due to potential flash flooding. Temperatures will be in the 60s through Saturday, with no freezing temperatures. The forecast indicates 61 on Wednesday, 68 on Thursday, 66 on Friday, and 67 on Saturday. STORY 5: Chattahoochee RiverLands Project Approved for $3M State Grant The Georgia Board of Natural Resources approved funding for 13 land conservation, restoration, and parks projects, including $3 million for the Chattahoochee RiverLands Regional Trailhead in Cobb. The funding will develop a park at the corner of Mableton Parkway and Discovery Boulevard. The Trust for Public Land envisions the RiverLands Gateway Park as a key access point for the region, with a neighborhood park feel. The project includes ecological restoration, green infrastructure, woodland restoration, a parking lot, restrooms, entry plaza, trail connections, kayak launch, and boat ramp. Over $21.4 million for these projects comes from the Georgia Outdoor Stewardship Fund, approved by voters in 2018. The list now awaits final approval from Georgia House and Senate budget subcommittees.   We'll be back in a moment.  Break: DRAKE – INGLES 4   STORY 6: LEAH MCGRATH And now here is Bruce Jenkins' conversation with Leah McGrath from Ingles Markets to discuss economical snacks for kids.   STORY 7: LEAH INTERVIEW     Break: Henssler :60  Signoff-   Thanks again for hanging out with us on today's Marietta Daily Journal podcast. If you enjoy these shows, we encourage you to check out our other offerings, like the Cherokee Tribune Ledger Podcast, the Gwinnett Daily Post, the Community Podcast for Rockdale Newton and Morgan Counties, or the Paulding County News Podcast. Read more about all our stories and get other great content at MDJonline.com.     Did you know over 50% of Americans listen to podcasts weekly? Giving you important news about our community and telling great stories are what we do. 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Hundreds of thousands of homes and business have lost power as a powerful storm hits the East Coast. Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis are facing off in Iowa tonight for a CNN debate. The US has shot down an attack from Houthi Rebels in the Red Sea. The White House has responded to news that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Plus, China claims to have cracked an Apple encryption. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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SoCal is under a flood watch through early Friday from a forecasted mega El Niño winter. LA County delays rollout of a new law that expands criteria for involuntary mental health treatment. Tustin students take home dangerous debris from blimp hanger fire. Plus, more.  Support The L.A. Report by donating at LAist.com/join and by visiting https://laist.com.  Support the show: https://laist.com

Forecasters warn of wet roads, mud and debris flows, as a strong storm moves over SoCal. A developer is selected for General Hospital revamp. New CA law removes zoning hurdles for religious groups and nonprofit colleges wanting to build affordable housing. Support The L.A. Report by donating at LAist.com/join and by visiting https://laist.com.  Support the show: https://laist.com

Parts of the Southland are at risk of flooding, with heavy rain moving in. New funding announced for safety improvements along PCH, following the death of four Pepperdine students. A pod of Orcas has been spotted off the Orange County Coast. Support The L.A. Report by donating at LAist.com/join and by visiting https://laist.com.  Support the show: https://laist.com

This is the All Local 12 p.m. update for December 10, 2023.