Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!

Subject: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: karen k
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 11:32 AM

Happy Birthday to my dear friend. Celebrate and enjoy the day. I hope you know how much you mean to so many people. See you tomorrow.

Much love,
k

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 11:33 AM

Happy b'day Sandy! you're two days younger than my baby brother! - well - your b'day is two days later!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: Nancy King
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 11:36 AM

Have a fantastic birthday, Sandy -- and many more to follow!

Love to you and Caroline,
Nancy

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: Amos
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 11:43 AM

Well, best of BDs to ya, Sandy!! Proud to see you carrying on!

A

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: Glen Reid
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 11:55 AM

Have a good'n Sandy!
All the best,
Glen

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: GUEST,bbc at work
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 11:59 AM

We won't mention age, but, suffice it to say that the world has been graced by the presence of this warm, eloquent man for 3/4 of a century. To say I'm thankful for his friendship & that of his delightful wife is surely an understatement! I hope to extend birthday greetings in person soon!

love,

Barbara

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: Big Mick
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 12:21 PM

I miss you, buddy. It has been far too long since I have had the pleasure of your company, and that of that beautiful woman you are married to. But know that you are thought of often and with love.

All the best on the successful completion of the first half of your life,

Mick

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 12:38 PM

I've put off writing or calling you too long and this allows me to sneak in my personal congratulations on your having achieved yet another trip around the sun. I hope you have a great day---and so many more like it !!

Dennis now has my selections for possible inclusion in a new A.T. CD and we'll be in touch when and if enough songs are decent enough quality to be included.

A question: Did you get the photo I e-mailed you of yourself in Middletown, Connecticut (with a very interesting looking fan of yours)?? If not, I can print it up and send it to you !!

Love to you and Caroline and the boys and theirs,

Art

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: Big Mick
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 12:40 PM

Art,

I blew up that photo, used photoshop to remove Sandy, and have it posted in a prominent spot in my office...............hahahahahaha. Very nice looking fan

Mick

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: KathWestra
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 01:05 PM

Much, much love to you, dear Sandy. Happy birthday, and many, many more. Your presence in my life has been a precious gift these last 33 years. Thanks for being you! Love and hugs from the kid you rescued from Michigan all those years ago. XO Kathy

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: kendall
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 01:11 PM

What can I say, except, STOP IT! everytime you have a birthday, I have one four months later.
Anyway, congratulations my dear friend.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: Tinker
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 01:39 PM

Kenall, behave !! You and Sandy are not to stop having birthdays for a very, very long time. You're both too much fun to have around. Happy Birthday Sandy. I'll be sending you special wishes as we cut my Mister's cake tonite.

Tinker

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: Mark Ross
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 01:44 PM

Happy Birthday, Sandy, Long May You Wave!

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 01:46 PM

Aw go on, Sandy: Have a joyful birthday! Why settle for Happy?

We send all of our love;

Jerry and Ruth

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: Deckman
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 01:56 PM

Sandy ... As Walt always said: "Keep On Keepin' On." Merry Birthday. Bob(deckman)Nelson

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: Dahlin
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 02:02 PM

Sandy
    Have a Grand Birthday!! Now that I'm counting my years in decades, seems like some folks are counting yours by the century. More power to Ya!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: Justa Picker
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 02:08 PM

I'd sing you a happy birthday Sandy ... but oops ... I don't sing. :-)

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 02:59 PM

Elaine and I send you our greetings and fondest thoughts Sandy. Love to caroline too. We hope it won't be too long before we meet you all again. ROY

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: Vixen
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 03:00 PM

A VERY Happy Day to you, Good Sir!

Here's to Many Many More!

Love from Vixen and Reynaud

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: Dan Schatz
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 03:09 PM

Happy Birthday and all the best, Sandy! Keep on singing and keep on recording!

Dan Schatz

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 03:18 PM

Happy Birthday, SandyGramps!

Thanks for being who you are and for sharing so much with us, to you and Caroline, both! You are both inspirations.

luvyakat'leen & Rog

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 03:28 PM

Sandy, I'm so glad you're on this planet! Blessings on the day!
Love,
Allison

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 04:06 PM

Happy Birthday, Sexy! You're not getting older, you're getting better!
Mary

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: Padre
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 06:15 PM

Sandy,
A very Happy Birthday to you. Thanks for all the good times and the great recordings. Many more of both, I pray. Gail joins me in this wish.

Tom+

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: bbc
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 06:35 PM

Yes, Art, Sandy received that photo. He mentioned it to me. Quite a shot! I'm appreciating seeing them, too!

best,

Barbara

P.S.--Sandy, sorry to hijack your bd thread! XXOO

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 08:08 PM

Me too !!

Art

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: CET
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 09:10 PM

Happy Birthday, Sandy. We haven't met, but I have fond memories of the song circle you led at Old Songs a couple of years ago.

Edmund

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 10:04 PM

Sooner or later, we ignore years and count decades. Happy half-decade.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: bbc
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 10:15 PM

Gee, Dick, that was tougher for my math skills than fractions! Guess it just shows there's more than 1 way to reckon a man's life!

best,

Barbara

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 10:18 PM

I think Sandy knows what I'm talking about. You have to be there.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 10:23 PM

Happy birthday! Thank you for helping keep folk music going strong.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 11:35 PM

Aw, Happy Birthday!

~S~

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 23 Jan 04 - 04:21 AM

To all of you good people -- my deepest thanks.

MMario: If I'm two days younger than your brother, by the same calculating process, I'm a month older than George Washington! Some days, by golly, I feel that I am.
    In fact, though, I'm one week younger than the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been, and look at what he was able to accomplish in his tragically brief span, and think how much more he would have done had he not been murdered. So let us all try to carry on his work until we at last reach his goals.
    Hello, Glen! How good it is to have you here in the Mudcat stream. I saw a book recently about steamboats on your Ontario rivers, and thought again of you and of your grandfather. Hope you're still making songs as well as those fine instruments.
    Ah, Mick, m'lad. How we do need to talk with you these days. You're right; it has been much too long. And Kathy: the Calvinists may never forgive us, but their loss has been the FSSGW's gain, which proves that I have actually accomplished something with my life. Thanks for the telephonic birthday song, my dear. See you at NEFFA? Suzanne has asked us to share a workshop with her that conflicts with one that you are doing, so we're trying to adjust the schedule a bit.
    Jerry and Ruth: how sad that we live so close yet see you so rarely! Please help us to arrange to correct that.
    And Art, old friend: Yes, I got the photo and was delighted by it. I can't imagine being unaware of the pre-Brittany charmer in the background who now graces the wall of Big Mick's den. Funny, she really looks familiar to me, and that lean character in the foreground of the shot reminds me of someone I once knew. I'm working on regaining some of that, having successfully "de-gained" the first 32 pounds of the project, courtesy of Dr. Atkins. I've enjoyed and appreciated all of the photos you are circulating by way of your new scanner, and I've meant to write and tell you so, but haven't quite found the time. Almeda, Pete, George with his pipes, Gerry with her smile, and all the rest -- good and frequently very moving memories. Thank you for them all, and keep 'em coming!
    BBC: I'll see you in the coming week, and tell you how grateful I am. Hope you like the Shrimp Pecan they serve at the Golden Wok! I'll bust my diet if you'll let me have just one small bite in trade for a share of my Beef and Steamed Brocolli -- no rice. I'll read my fortune, but you'll have to eat the cookie.
    Sinsull, m'luv, I wish you could be here for our great dinner getaway, too. And you, too, Allison. We're hoping to see you both at NEFFA. Hugs all around!
    Dear Kat'leen: I hope all is well with you and yours. I miss the occasional letters from your adventurous kinsman, and hope he has returned safely from the Middle East. Send me an update! And when are you coming east to visit those handsome grandsons?
    Sorry to have missed out on the big Seattle "gathering to recall the good old days of the early 50s," Bob. Maybe we can get there in a year that makes fewer demands on our time.
    Padre: I'm so pleased that you are staying in touch via the Mudcat. Our regards to you and Gail. Please come by whenever you get up this way. We'll leave a light in the window and a kettle on the stove.
    Too many of you to reply to each in kind, but know this, all of you: I am touched by your messages and very grateful to all of you. Getting old's not much fun, but it does beat the hell out of the alternative.
    Sandy

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 23 Jan 04 - 05:36 AM

Sandy, you're up waaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy too early! What a thoughtful response from a thoughtful man. I'll be at NEFFA with bells on (literally)and a big hug.
Love,
Allison

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 23 Jan 04 - 05:21 PM

Not me, luv! What I am is late to bed, not up early. The late hours, quiet, no phone calls, allow me to work without interruption, and I enjoy that.
    See you at NEFFA, my dear, bells and all.
    Sandy

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: Gorgeous Gary
Date: 23 Jan 04 - 10:30 PM

Happy Birthday Sandy!

-- Gary

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: open mike
Date: 24 Jan 04 - 01:06 AM

I have certainly been enjoying the collecltion of music I got from Folk Legacy--and so have my radio listeners been able to hear some wonderful musicians due to efforts by you, Sandy, and Caroline and crew! I especially am glad to get to hear and play your wonderful group, or rather gathering of friends, the Golden Ring, of these Gordon Bok, Ed Trickett, and Sara Grey have the most recognizeable names. Another performer whose songs I have been happy to hear again is Jim Ringer, whose songs are even more treasured now that he is no longer with us. These collected or "caught" songs are available to all of us due to your foresight and efforts! Thank you!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Jan 04 - 01:20 AM

Well damn! I missed this the first time around. Now that I think about it, I've missed a lot of things the first time around.............Anyway a belated Happy Birthday Sandy! And as I know Joe approves of this birthday thread, I will not have to appease him by making sure it's different by suggesting various and insulting sexual predilections with other species. Speaking of other species, Cletus, Paw, Buford, and the Reg Boys send their......uh......thir, uh...........well whatever it is they send, they're sending it..........And whatever it is, don't handle it!

Hope it was a great day.......and a kiss to your far better half.

Pat

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From:
Date: 24 Jan 04 - 03:09 AM

Hi There Sandy,
You and Caroline have made a great impact upon our lives since the early 70s when you spent time with us all in Nassau. You opened a new direction for us to follow with all those lovely songs that you taught us. Thanks for enriching our lives and you keep on doing it every time we listen to one of your Folk Legacy albums. Please give our love to Caroline, Robin and David and their families and of course you can have a big hug. Happy Belated Birthday!
Your Aussie friends in Brisbane
Love June & Don

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: Hrothgar
Date: 24 Jan 04 - 03:48 AM

I'm late on the bandwagon, Sandy, but happy birthday, anyway!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: Carly
Date: 24 Jan 04 - 03:08 PM

See what happens when you don't get to Mudcat for a couple of weeks? People Important to Your Life go ahead and have birthdays without you! Belated but heart-felt huzzahs and hoorays! My love to both of you; if not before, we will see you in the spring!

Carly Gewirz

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 24 Jan 04 - 06:08 PM

Meep Meep!
Late poster coming thru!

Hippo Birdies Two Ewes,
Hippo Birdies Two Ewes,
Hippo Birdies, Hippo Birdies,
Hippo Birdies Two Ewes.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: karen k
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 12:00 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: Liam's Brother
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 08:06 PM

Happy belated birthday!

All the best,
Dan

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Sandy Paton 1/22!!!
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 09:56 PM

Delighted to discover that Don and June are Mudcatters! Those were the glory days, weren't they? Wish we could visit you in Brisbane as easily. Please be sure to keep us on your mailing list.
    See you at NEFFA, Carly, for sure. Let's encourage other 'Catters to show up, as well.
    Haven't seen you for awhile, Dan. I hear the new Johnson Girls CD is coming along nicely. Jolly good show! We're looking forward to adding it to our catalog.
    Thanks for keeping me posted, Hrothgar, on the recovery of our mutual friend.
    Caroline and I hope to see you on your next visit, Roy.
    And a grateful thanks to 'Spaw for such an unusually dignified message. Give my best to all them others and tell 'em to behave theirownselves, not that such a reminder will ever produce positive results.
    Karen K spent the weekend here with us, although she buried herself in the library most of the time, doing her research, so we only saw her at a few meals. That kind of dedication is to be admired. Someday, we'll all benefit from the work she is doing right now, updating the late Florence Bruning's index of published folk songs. What a major undertaking!
    And to all the rest of you, thanks and thanks again. Now let's let this thread pass into well-deserved oblivion. I hardly need to be reminded of how bloody old I am!
    Stay well, y'all!
    Sandy