Wally Amos
Wallace "Wally" Amos, Jr. (born July 1, 1936) is an American TV personality, entrepreneur and author from Tallahassee, Florida. He is the founder of the "Famous Amos" chocolate chip cookie brand. He also was the host of the adult reading program, Learn To Read. He later co-founded Uncle Wally's muffins. He currently resides in Kailua, Hawaii, and also Long Island, New York, where he runs the Chip & Cookie gourmet cookie brand and stores.
Biography
Amos lived in Tallahassee, Florida, until he was twelve. When his parents divorced, he moved to Manhattan, New York with his aunt, where he enrolled at the Food Trades Vocational High School. He showed his interest in cooking at a very young age, and it was from his aunt, who would bake cookies for him, that Amos would develop his chocolate chip cookie recipe. Amos would improve on his aunt's recipe, which was already uncommon because it included several ingredients not generally associated with chocolate chip cookies.
Shortly before graduation, Amos dropped out of high school to join the United States Air Force. He earned his high school equivalency diploma before being honorably discharged from the military, where he had a distinguished career.
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Rhapsodies in Black, Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
Released 2000- The Negro Speaks of Rivers (Poem by Langston Hughes)
- Cotton Club Stomp
- The Harlem Strut
- Brother Low Down
- Letter From Aaron Douglas to Langston Hughes (excerpt)
- There'll Be Some Changes Made
- Sounds of Africa
- Sweet Man O' Mine
- The Weary Blues (Poem by Langstron Hughes)
- Blues Ain't Nothin Else But!
- Kansas City Man Blues
- Indianola
- Hard Hearted Hannah
- Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem (Poem by Helene Johnson)
- St. Louis Blues
- Copenhagen
- Cake Walking Babies From Home
- Long Gone (Poem by Sterling Brown)
- Railroad Blues
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Charmed Life
by: Joy WilliamsJust sit tight
Don't you even think about going anywhere
Stay where you are
Open up your eyes to what's already there
What I'm about to tell ya
What I'm about to say
Don't even let it throw ya
It just might change your day
We're living in a charmed life
Charmed life
You and I
Charmed life
Oh oh ho ho
oh oh ho ho
oh oh ho ho
There's a well-lit sky
hanging over everyone that's walking by
It's plain to see
what we got is coloring a world of black and white
Don't even let it fool ya
We got everything we need
Don't even let it throw ya
I know it's hard to believe
We're living in a charmed life
Charmed life
You and I
Charmed life
Oh oh ho ho
Oh oh ho ho
Oh oh ho
It's easier said than done
It's true it's true
But count your kisses one by one
We're living proof
We're living in a
Charmed life
Charmed life
You and I
Charmed life
Oh oh ho ho
Charmed life
Charmed life
You and I
Charmed life
Oh oh ho ho
Oh oh ho ho
Oh oh ho ho
Ho ho ho
Just sit tight
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