From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V8 #224 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Wednesday, November 25 2009 Volume 08 : Number 224 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: [loud-fans] Bad Lieutenant (again) ["Vokes, Wesley" ] Re: [loud-fans] Bad Lieutenant (again) [Markwstaples@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:25:41 -0600 From: "Vokes, Wesley" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] Bad Lieutenant (again) I dunno.... I think The Best of Dolly Parton (Her second one on RCA, that begins with "Jolene" is one of the best records ever made.... Dang, what songs, what singing! There may be a line somewhere, but early Dolly is nowhere near it! - -----Original Message----- From: owner-loud-fans@smoe.org [mailto:owner-loud-fans@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Markwstaples@aol.com Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 6:43 PM To: loud-fans@smoe.org Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Bad Lieutenant (again) I KNOW. Sound probs with the computer--I was going to fix it, but my brother said that when we move I should just chunk it at the Goodwill and take Mom's 'cause she never uses hers and it is much nicer than mine! She'll just check her mail on their one in their breakfast nook. I'm scared. Listening to Patsy Cline is one thing, but if I buy a Dolly Parton CD, that's crossing a line. What will be next? Streisand? Cher??? Where's my clutch purse...I know I left it here somewhere, - --Mark In a message dated 11/23/2009 7:09:44 P.M. 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Her recent bluegrass-y records are good, too. - -- Tim Walters | The Doubtful Palace | http://doubtfulpalace.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:37:23 EST From: Markwstaples@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Bad Lieutenant (again) I took the plunge today--stopped by the record store on the way to the landfill and picked up the 2007 reissue of JOLENE for 5 dollars. No regrets. The extra track about her dog Cracker Jack had me blubbering for my dog. No beer to cry in, not even a diet Coke. I think Dolly Parton lies about her age. My Mom was in a talent show with her in Knoxville in the '50s and Mom came in third and Dolly won. My mom was born in '37 and her bio says she was born in '46. - --Mark In a message dated 11/24/2009 10:54:50 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, Wesley.J.Vokes@fnis.com writes: There may be a line somewhere, but early Dolly is nowhere near it! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:31:19 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Bad Lieutenant (again) On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:37 PM, wrote: > I took the plunge today--stopped by the record store on the way to the > landfill and picked up the 2007 reissue of JOLENE for 5 dollars. No regrets. Dude, there is no disgrace in liking Dolly Parton. Amazing voice and her accomplishment is even greater when you factor in that she wrote most of her own stuff - something that's rare for country artists even today, but for that day and age *and* being a woman? Seriously, Dolly could sing utter crap for her post-'70s career (thankfully, she hasn't been content to do that) and it wouldn't dent my admiration for her. Ditto for Loretta Lynn. "The Pill" is a greater revolutionary song than "God Save the Queen." >I think Dolly Parton lies about her age. My Mom was in a talent show with >her in Knoxville in the '50s and Mom came in third and Dolly won. My mom >was born in '37 and her bio says she was born in '46. Dolly performed on local East Tennesee radio and TV from childhood. There's too much Cas Walker Show footage of young Dolly for there to be any significant wiggle room on that birthdate. dollypologistically yours, Miles - -- over a year of feeling guilty about not blogging enough! http://readingpronunciation.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:51:45 EST From: Markwstaples@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Bad Lieutenant (again) OMG, I haven't heard that name since I was a little boy living in Knoxville when my parents separated for a time. He had supermarkets, right? I remember there was a Cas Walker jingle (I used to know it as a 5-year-old, but would have to get it from hypnosis now) and I remember seeing his name on billboards going to and coming home from kindergarten on Chapman Highway. Apparently my high school age mom on piano got beat out by a little kid on the gee-tar! (tough break, Mom) - --Mark In a message dated 11/24/2009 5:33:51 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, outdoorminer@gmail.com writes: There's too much Cas Walker Show footage ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:26:41 EST From: Markwstaples@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] gettin' yer Cas Walker stories straight Just to set the record straight, I asked my mom about the competition against Dolly. She told me it was when she was at UT, so she was in college--so it was the late '50s--my mom went to high school in a neighboring town called Lenoir City, so that would've been a possibility (my mom dreamed about going to France to study piano and music, but her somewhat humble upbringing put a damper on that--my TVA dam-building grandfather tolerated my mom's musical interests at best, as long as they didn't get in the way of "reality"), but the years didn't seem right in my head, considering Dolly's age, being if she's really 63. Mom told me a little while ago they were looking for someone to sing the Cas Walker song at this competition. Mom came in third and Dolly won (Mom was also a pretty good singer at church and sang lead in a little '50s rock band that went nowhere--when I tell her how cool and how rare it was for a rock band of that time to have a female vocalist she says, "That was a long, long time ago." I hate it when people dismiss stuff merely because of the passage of time). This would explain why no Parton record has ever been in this house, as well as why there's a picture of Parton's face made into a dart board by mom in the den. (yes, kidding--Mom has no bad feelings) - --Mark ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:15:24 -0800 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Bad Lieutenant (again) On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:51 PM, wrote: > OMG, I haven't heard that name since I was a little boy living in Knoxville > when my parents separated for a time. He had supermarkets, right? I > remember there was a Cas Walker jingle (I used to know it as a 5-year-old, but > would have to get it from hypnosis now) and I remember seeing his name on > billboards going to and coming home from kindergarten on Chapman Highway. Behold! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cas_Walker > Apparently my high school age mom on piano got beat out by a little kid on > the gee-tar! (tough break, Mom) Talent shows can break one in sensitive breakage places. The mythology, at least, of Girl Trouble (a band I always liked better than the Cramps even though I wasn't supposed to) states that they first got together for battle of the bands in their native Tacoma. Surprisingly enough, they came in second. Unsurprisingly enough, the band who won included the guy whose job it was to count the ballots. Or you take the Rejectors, a fine, loud and snotty punk band from Seattle in the 80's. They formed for a high school talent show, taught themselves enough chops to pull off "God Save The Queen," swallowed their stage fright, finished the song...and took second place to a couple of guys air-guitaring to "Rock And Roll" by Led Zeppelin. "I saw Jimmy laughing with delight..." Andy "delicacy pillion tussock complimentary square circularize touchstone" - --from some spam I got yesterday ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:51:00 -0800 From: Daniel Vallor Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Bad Lieutenant (again) Can someone on the list tell me the trick for converting to digest. I wrote the list owner but never heard back. Thanks- Dan Vallor ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:47:12 EST From: Markwstaples@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Bad Lieutenant (again) I have a Girl Trouble set of 7 inches titled GIRL TROUBLE PLAYS "Girls, Girls, Girls," "Kissin' Cousins," "Spinout" and "Viva Las Vegas" on the Sympathy for the Record Industry label (the Pooh Sticks had an album on that label I liked) I just came across them a few days ago--stuck in the back of the top shelf of my closet. They used to belong to my friend Wyatt (an old bandmate of mine who moved to Athens. I think it was "Here, listen to this." And, 17 years later, I still have them). You have these? You want them? I don't think, after all this time, he'd mind. I haven't spoken to the guy in like, 4 years, and, the last time I saw him, I gave him a cool antique globe (he now teaches Social Studies at a h.s. in Athens) so we're even. M In a message dated 11/24/2009 7:34:50 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, andrew.hamlin@gmail.com writes: Talent shows can break one in sensitive breakage places. The mythology, at least, of Girl Trouble (a band I always liked better than the Cramps ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V8 #224 *******************************