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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: dixierose on April 26, 2013, 09:23:03 AM
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This is breaking now on Foxnews.com
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/04/26/george-jones-dead-country-superstar-was-82/
Edited to add link to story. The headline says he was 82, but the text in the story says 81...not sure which is right.
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RIP, George.
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsm8cH7q_Mk[/youtube]
RIP.
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Hate to hear this. I was lucky enough to see him in concert a few times back in the 80s.
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RIP Possum.
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[youtube=425,350]/VExw77xJsBQ[/youtube]
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Henderson TN. Home of the Stars. EX MIL had a home right in the middle of the town. When she and her EX divorced the home was not that valuable. That home she had in the 80's would have sold for 3 times what she got had the home been north market.
After the divorce with the EX paying mortgage and taxes on the home, wasn't 5 years later that the up and coming Stars moved in. Good reason Hendersonvill is called the home of the stars.
Taxes when sky high for the every day home owner..Later, I will get to George and what my kids saw.
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[youtube=425,350]/VExw77xJsBQ[/youtube]
:bawl:
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:bawl:
He did look like a possum.
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He did look like a possum.
Yeah, but he sounded like White Lightning. :o
[youtube=425,350]http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=Onfce-UNmmE&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DOnfce-UNmmE[/youtube]
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Nobody does country tearjerkers like George. RIP
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I thought it ironic when he came out with this song. Who's gonna fill their shoes.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi3GgoLtlWk[/youtube]
Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes?
Written by: Max D. Barnes; Troy Harold Seals
You know this old world is full of singers
But just a few are chosen
To tear your heart out when they sing
Imagine life without them
All your radio heroes
Like the Outlaw that walks through Jessi's dream.
No, there will never be another
Red-headed stranger
A Man in Black and Folsom Prison Blues
The Okie from Muskogee
Or Hello, Darling
Lord, I wonder who's gonna fill their shoes?
Who's gonna fill their shoes?
Who's gonna stand that tall?
Who's gonna play the Opry
And the Wabash Cannonball?
Who's gonna give their heart and soul
To get to me and you?
Lord, I wonder who's gonna fill their shoes?
God bless the boys from Memphis
Blue Suede Shoes and Elvis
Much too soon left this world in tears
They tore up the Fifties
Old Jerry Lee and Charlie
And "Go, Cat, Go!" still echoes through the years.
You know the heart of country music
Still beats in Luke the Drifter
You can tell it when he sang I Saw the Light
Old Marty, Hank, and Lefty
Why, I can feel them right here with me
On this Silver Eagle rolling through the night.
Who's gonna fill their shoes?
Who's gonna stand that tall?
Who's gonna play the Opry
And the Wabash Cannonbal?l
Who's gonna give their heart and soul
To get to me and you?
Lord, I wonder who's gonna fill their shoes?
Yes, I wonder, who's gonna fill their shoes?...
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I always liked this one.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6j2YBD--1U[/youtube]
Last night I broke the seal on a Jim beam decanter
That looks like Elvis
I soaked the label off, a Flintstone jelly bean jar
I cleared us off a place on that one little table
That you left us
And pulled me up a big ole piece of floor
I pulled the head off Elvis
Filled fred up to his pelvis
Yabba dabba doo, the King is gone
And so are you
'Round about 10 we all got to talking
'Bout Graceland, Bedrock and such
The conversation finally turned to women
But they said they didn't get around too much
Elvis said, "Find 'em young"
And Fred said, "Old fashioned girls are fun"
Yabba dabba doo, the King is gone
And so are you
Later on it finally hit me
That you wouldn't be 'a comin' home no more
'Cause this time I know you won't forgive me
Like all of them other times before
Then I broke Elvis's nose
Pourin' the last drop from his toes
Yabba dabba doo, the King is gone
And so are you
Yabba dabba doo, the King is gone
And so are you
Last night I broke the seal on a Jim beam decanter
That looks like Elvis
I soaked the label off, a Flintstone jelly bean jar
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Old George visited his friends in Hendersonvill often, Barbara Mandrill lived up the street [My youngest went to school with her kids ].
One day my kids came storming in yelling that the police had pulled over George down the street and he was out of his car swinging a bottle at them. Who is George Jones I asked.
SIL was 13 and just rolled her eyes at me, ---Don't you Yankees listen to Country music ?----
I thought country was Roy Rogers or Gene Audrey music actually, so she gave me a crash course in
some of the music from the neighborhood. Behind us lived one of the Oak Ridge Boys.
The people that were in the music field lived on the next street on the shore of OLD Hickory, we lived across the road from them. The outsiders like us from the music field seldom came in contact with each other unless it was a school function for the children.
The outsiders showed little interest in their semi-famous neighbors, Old George just visited from time to time and when he did he usually caused some kind of ruckus. Never arrested no matter what he did, this part of TN. was built on the music industry and there was no way anyone wanted bad publicity.
I regret I never went out to watch Old George and his fight with the cops, never seen him in person, and only when SIL played some of his music did I recognise it.
I am not one to be impressed with show business so I pretty much ignored all this. Now My kids, well they went star crazy until I dragged them back to VA. with ordinary people people that live an ordinary life.
One thing I did learn from my little SIL was that I had indeed been raised on Country music, just didn't know it, never recognised the music as country, that 13 year old taught me a thing or two about music.