Changes


    "There'll Be Some Changes Made"

    I have done a handful of memorials dedicated to special individuals.  I admired Ed Bradley of the TV show, 60 Minutes, for many years.  Ed was born on June 22, 1941 almost three weeks after my brother, Bill.  Ed loved music and was a war correspondent during the Viet-nam era.  Ed was critically wounded in Viet-nam but did not receive a Purple Heart for his willingness to put himself at risk for his fellow comrades.  Ed died on the 9th of this month just 2 days before Veterans Day.  Since I had already created a Veterans Day tribute for all veterans, I created this work to honor Ed.  The music selection was easy to make thanks to Ed's love of jazz.  He also knew and paid for the educations of many youngsters who will be responsible for changing the course of human events.  May God keep him.



    Don Hewitt, the creator of 60 minutes, said the following about Ed Bradley: "He recalled one newsroom meeting where he told those gathered that he hired Ed Bradley for 60 Minutes because he’s a member of a minority." Everyone gasped.

    “He’s a great gentleman and a great reporter,” Hewitt told them. “If that doesn’t make him a member of a minority, I don’t know what does.”

    Life is an ever changing cycle of birth, living, and death.  It is so precious that those that take it for granted are not living life to its full limits.  May God help them before it is too late.  The following is offered to those who appreciate the wonderful world that we live in and to commerate the life of Ed Bradley from a different perspective than the standard obituaries that you can find on the Internet.

     "A wise man changes his mind, a fool never."

    -Proverb


    "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

           - Andy Warhol


    "No matter how far you have gone down the wrong road, turn back."

                -Proverb


    "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."

           - Nelson Mandela


    "Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason."

                - Unknown


    "We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance."

           - Harrison Ford


    "Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it."



    "Change is a challenge and an opportunity; not a threat."

           - Prince Phillip of England


    "Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.""

           - B. Tracy


    "Nothing endures but change.""

           - Jeraclitus



    There'll Be Some Changes Made
        by
    William Benton Overstreet / Billy Higgins - 1921
    Performed by Ethel Waters

    They say don't change the old for the new
    But I found out that this will never do
    When you grow old, you don't last long
    You're just here my honey, then you're gone

    I loved a man for many years gone by
    I thought his love for me would never die
    He made a change and said I would not do
    For now I'm gonna make some changes too

    Why there's a change in the weather, there's a change in the sea
    So from now on there'll be a change in me
    My walk will be different, my talk and my name
    Nothing about me's goin' be the same

    I'm gonna change my long tall one for a little short fat
    I'm gonna change my number where I'm livin' at
    Because nobody wants you when you're old and gray
    There'll be some changes made today
    There'll be some changes made

    Why there's a change in the weather, there's a change in the sea
    So from now on there'll be a change in me
    Why my walk will be different, my talk and my name
    Nothing about me gonna be the same
    I'm gonna change my way of living, and that ain't no bluff
    Why I'm thinkin' about changing the way I'm gonna strut my stuff
    Because nobody wants you when you're old and gray
    There'll be some changes made today
    There'll be some changes made

    As Performed by Billie Holiday

    They say don't change the old for the new
    But I've found out that this will never do
    When you grow old don't last long
    You're here today and then tomorrow you're gone

    I loved a man for many years gone by
    I thought his love for me would never die
    He made some changes that would never do
    From now on I'm going to make some changes too

    For there's a change in the weather
    There's a change in the sea
    So from now on there'll be in change in me
    My walk will be different, my talk and my name
    Nothin' about me is going to be the same

    I'm goin' to change my wayof livin'
    If that ain't enough
    Then I'll change the way that I strut my stuff
    'Cause nobody wants you when you're old and gray
    There'll be some changes made today
    There'll be some changes made

    The say the old time things are the best
    That may be very good for all the rest
    But I'm goin'g let the old things be
    'Cause they are certainly not suited for me
    There was a time when I thought that way
    That's why I'm all alone here today

    Since every one these days seeks something new
    From now on I'm goin' to seek some new things too
    For there's a change in the fashion
    Ask the femine folks
    Even Jack Benny has changed jokes

    I must make some changes from old to new
    I must do things just the same as others do
    I'm goin' to change my long, tall daddy for a little short fat
    Goin' to change the number where I live at
    I must have some lovin' or I'll fade away
    There'll be some changes made today
    There'll be some changes made

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