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03-28-2019, 05:51 PM | #42 |
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My World in 1950
Since I was a disc jockey for 32 years, you know I love music... here's the number one song in the whole wide USA on Monday, March 13, 1950... it's a catchy little ditty by Red Foley... a pop country singer, not the twangy hillbilly type... he liked to jazz it up, too... was a great gospel singer with songs like "Peace in the Valley"... listen to Grady Martin on the guitar interlude on "Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy"... he was one of the greats... the video is pretty creative, too. Oh, yes indeed... I love twangy hillbilly country, too... that's what real country music is... steel guitars, fiddles and twangy hillbilly voices... ain't nothin' better than traditionalists like Hank Williams,George Jones, Dolly Parton, Alan Jackson, George Strait, Randy Travis, Merle Haggard. Also love pop country like Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, Ronnie Milsap, Brenda Lee, Kenny Rogers… progressive country like Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Eagles, Marshall Tucker Band, Charlie Daniels, Allman Brothers, Poco… and of course, the great group Alabama and Hank Williams, Jr. could do it all... traditional, pop, progressive. Modern Day Country is terrible... not a country artist in the whole bunch... Country Radio ain't country no more... and hasn't been for the last 5-10 years... all they play is bad pop, bad rock and bad hip hop... real country music is dead... you can have Kenny Chesney, Jason Aldean, Georgia Florida Line, Luke Bryan, Keith Urban... they are just "rock wannabes"... not a country bone in the their entire bodies. Sorry for the tirade... it just hurts real bad to know that we will have no more George Joneses, Merle Haggards, Dolly Partons… they were destroyed in the 1990s by the record company execs that didn't know or appreciate country music... also the infusion of rock programmers and rock jocks into country radio greatly aided "The Murder on Music Row" and the destroying of traditional country music. Listen to Red Foley and his #1 Song "Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy"... here at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEClMiOp6OY Last edited by Eugene Church; 07-23-2019 at 06:34 PM. |
03-30-2019, 05:54 PM | #43 |
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THE NORTH ISLAND VIEW
Monday, March 20, 1950 3 TEAMS TIED FOR TOP SPOT IN FIRST DIVISION After the first three weeks of action in the new North Island Recreational League New Yerby, Union Heights and Wafford are deadlocked atop the First Division with 2-1 records. This past Sunday New Yerby got by Avalon 4-1... Union Heights knocked Wafford from the ranks of the unbeaten, belting them 12-6... and Kofa won its first game of the year with an easy 10-5 drubbing of the Stockdale Mustangs. NIRL FIRST DIVISION |
03-30-2019, 09:37 PM | #52 |
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My Life in 1950
On March 10, 1950... After considering the arguments of Edward Teller and John Archibald Wheeler that the Soviet Union would work on developing the hydrogen bomb even if the United States delayed, U.S. President Truman issued a secret Executive Order for immediate development of the thermonuclear weapons as "a matter of the highest urgency". Truman approved budgeting sufficient funds for research and for production of up to ten "H-bombs". And on March 18, 1950... in the far more important world of "Music, Music, Music"...Teresa Brewer replaced Red Foley and "Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy" at the top of the Billboard charts... "Music, Music, Music" would stay there for six weeks. Some radio stations refused to play the record because of the thought that the lyric "I'd do anything for you...anything you'd want me to" might be construed as indecent. The "come closer" bridge is from Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. Here she is... cute as the dickens... itsy bitsy teenie weenie little bitty Teresa Brewer... a little lady with the big voice, who could sing the heck out of a song. Enjoy! https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...6963&FORM=VIRE Last edited by Eugene Church; 03-30-2019 at 09:48 PM. |
03-31-2019, 02:15 PM | #53 |
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THE NORTH ISLAND VIEW
Monday, March 20, 1950 JACKS UNBEATEN, TOP NIRL SECOND DIVISION In the third weekend of action in the new North Island Recreational League, the Jackson Jackalopes took over the top spot in the Second Division with a spotless 3-0 mark... they walloped West Chester 15-4, while Kinston prevailed over Joliet 7-0 and Dutton whipped Theodore 7-5... the Jolly Green Giants and the Bobcats are both winless so far this season. 1950 NIRL Second Division |
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