Love *is* Extraordinary

Peter Ustinov actually has written that? I remember hearing it, it's beautiful, but wasn't
aware who said it.
Irregardless, Peter Ustinov, an American/Russian actor, writer - respected, and the
dark underbelly of Follywood didn't drag him under. Peter, I 'usti-luv' him.......

OR is he still alive? Just instantaneously, I 'tink he's still in this dimemsion.
If not, he is at least out of this DENSE dimension.

Wonder what he has on his tombstone, if he has one? Dead People Server/Dead
Celebretaries' Cemetaries.

Gotta check............thanx, incredulous, for remembering this lovely line on love.

Your welcome, td. However, all I did was to post the words to the song that Asta chose and performed.

Some of us have free will which we can exercise and use to love that which we value.

That's beautiful, SFirman.

Both of your contributions to this wonderful thread are beautiful, SFirman.

Thank you

Thank you Leen

Hippo-crate. Not Lennon.

Matka! What's shakin' bacon? Delightful to see you here ...

Ya, like I believe dat. And I've been around here and posting on this webpage !
Ding-dong.

I would like to say to anyone who cares about another Love song: youtube:
The Pretenders, 'Back on the Chaingang'.
Used to be my late younger sister and my song when she was incarcerated
in Taycheedah C.I. for Women. It most beautiful song !

I can't submit from youtube as I work on rebuilt PC and it doesn't always
work. Maybe someone, like Tanz, will do for me. She did one once. I
dohn know where she is tonight. :(

Wow and holay ! Didn't know U where u was, so I tried to submit one myself.
It worked ! Lawrencia helped me ! And YOU helped me do this....... I shed
tears listening to this. God smiles upon you, Tanz. A big Polish Thank You !

Proszę bardzo, matka.
I'm happy you were able to find and post the remastered version above. That's fantastic!

It was right there on youtube 'selections'........ looked at the 'views' and the remastered had
over 100,000 more, so I clicked on that one.
The ReMastered is more recent, cuz the last time I went over to youtube a few months
ago, it wasn't there.

They're changin' everyday, just like all of us, just like Change is inevitable.

P.S. Ya wanna help Bulraybet? On Epitaphs, he's grievin' a mile and twenty meters.
There's a song on youtube by OUTLANDISH - very popular. I Only Ask of God. I want
to try and post it, like I did The Pretenders, for Laurie.

If you see this, please try and post it, and I will too. Race for time I tell ya. It's 11:36
p.m. here in the Midwest........it's only 9:36 p.m. by you in San Diego.

Can't see a reference to that film without thinking of the MAD Magazine spoof: On a Clear Day You can See A Funny Girl Singing Hello Dolly Forever.

But I like her films and love to hear that lady sing.

There's no no love here for spammers like you.

Unless there is love for everyone, there is no love. :)

You are truly in the spirit today!

I always am - and I also practice tough love when necessary, in the spirit of the Buddhist compassion which is not giving people what they want (that's known as "idiot compassion") but giving them what they need.

Aw, come on, feel the love. : )

This is precious.

Awww.... super cute.

Same here.

Perfect. That guy sorta had a way with words..

One of my favorite quotes from Corinthians !

"Love sees like a child sees." ;)

Exactly, coolplanet. Totally pure and innocent.

Nice. : )

"Love is patient and kind;
love is not jealous or conceited or proud,
love is not selfish, or ill-mannered, or irritable,
love does not keep a record of wrongs;
love is not happy with arguing, but is happy with the truth.
Love never gives up; its faith, hope, and patience
never fail. Love is eternal . . .

Coronthians - 13:1

"Love is born from spiritual affinity."

I so believe this.

Another writer put it like this: ( paraphrased ) Love, or
what seems to us as the most fortunate of coincidences, was realy planned by
God before time began, and is but another term for the benevolence of His
Grace. Hence the idea that Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity as Kahlil
Gibran said. 2 souls are reincarnated with the task of finding one another in
every sojourn of life. For 2 souls are but the other half of each other, seeking
to become whole & one again.

Beautiful words. I will listen to this again.

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

This is beautiful as well.

youngdebater, thanks for the music!

Ooops, I was paraphrasing Ghandi who said "There is no way to peace, peace is the way."

My bad!

What an uplifting song. The accompanying pics are beautiful as well.

Thank you, cpad. I googled that song and found that video and I thought "perfect!" A great song from 1969.

Beautiful song. I hear there are no photos of this band performing this song anywhere. Lost to history.

That must be very rare! I haven't seen this. Good find.

I nearly missed this hidden under the 'show more'. Interesting story.

Published on Jul 16, 2012
Mercy was a group started by Jack Sigler, Jr., with former members of his high school, Brandon High in Brandon, near Tampa, Florida. They spent about a year after graduating performing from Tampa to Miami. After several personnel changes, Mercy settled in as an eight-person congregation consisting of Jack Sigler, Brenda McNish, Debbie Lewis, Ronnie Caudill, Ann Sigler, John Hudson, Roy Schultz, and Lou Vasenda.

Jack's father knew a Hollywood movie producer who in 1968 had come to Tampa to shoot a movie called Fireball Jungle. The producer, George Roberts, heard Mercy through the senior Sigler and asked them to perform a song in his movie. Jack had written "Love (Can Make You Happy)" in high school and the group performed it for the movie. . The movie was finished in 1969, but apparently not released to theaters. It was a car crash and violence extravaganza, and several clips and trailers are available on the internet.

Jack's father put up some cash for the group to record their songs as a single (it may be this recording that was used for the group to lip-synch to in the film).

sourced from Sundi Album Discography By Mike Callahan, Randy Watts, Patrice Eyries and David Edwards

Very rare, dirtman. I was so glad to find this.

I clicked on this too. Great story behind the song and the group. I enjoyed it very much.

Click on 'To Rise Above'.......Gogol Bordello, youtube. One of the best 'love'
songs there be. He sings to God. "........ to rise above, of what is godless and
misleading. And touch the world.......where it's not bleeding."
Go......huliganjetta < ( "listen" in Russian ).

Wow I hadn't heard this in a LONG time. Thx for sharing it.

You're welcome :)

Funny!

HA!

I want that cat!! : )

Oh yeah!
Perfect pick, Vierotchka.

As John Lennon sang: " All you need is Love " If I recall
correctly that was 1st aired during the Summer of 1967.

Yes - I was twenty years old, and the years that followed were magical. :)