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LENA HORNE, CHANTEUSE, ACTRICE ET ACTIVISTE

Née le 30 juin 1917 à Bedford–Stuyvesant, près de Brooklyn, Lena Mary Calhoun Horne était la fille d’Edwin Fletcher "Teddy" Horne Jr. (1893–1970) et d’Edna Louise Scottron. L’arrière-grand-mère maternelle de Horne était originaire du Sénégal.

Le père de Horne était co-propriétaire du Belmont Hotel sur l’avenue Wylie avec son associé Gus Greenlee, un parieur et philanthrope. Joueur lui-même, le père de Lena avait abandonné sa famille alors qu’elle était âgée de trois ans. Après le départ de son père, Horne avait principalement été élevée par ses grand-parents, Cora Calhoun et Edwin Horne.

À l’âge de cinq ans, Horne était allée habiter avec sa mère en Georgie. Horne avait voyagé avec sa mère durant plusieurs années. Horne était âgée de douze ans lorsqu’elle était retournée à New York avec sa mère. À New York, Horne avait étudié à la St Peter Claver School de Brooklyn. Par la suite, elle avait fréquenté le Girls High School, une école publique pour filles à Brooklyn, mais elle avait abandonné ses études à l’âge de seize ans afin de venir en aide à sa mère.

De 1927 à 1929, Horne a vécu avec son oncle, Frank S. Horne, qui était doyen du Fort Valley Junior Industrial Institute (maintenant intégré à la Fort Valley State University). Plus tard, Frank avait été conseiller du président Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

À l’âge de dix-huit ans, Lena avait rejoint son père à Pittsburgh, en Pennsylvanie. À Pittsburgh, Horne avait habité dans le quartier de Little Harlem durant environ cinq ans. C’est là qu’elle avait appris la musique avec des musiciens originaires de Pittsburgh comme Billy Strayhorn et Billy Eckstine.

DÉBUTS DE CARRIÈRE

À l’automne 1933, Horne s’était jointe aux choristes du Cotton Club de New York. Au printemps suivant, Horne avait obtenu un rôle dans la revue Cotton Club Parade aux côtés de la chanteuse Adelaide Hall, qui était rapidement devenue son mentor. En 1935, Horne avait fait ses débuts au cinéma dans le court-métrage de Cab Calloway ''Jitterbug Party.’’ La même année, Horne s’était jointe à l’orchestre de Noble Sissle, avec lequel elle était partie en tournée et avait enregistré ses premiers disques sur étiquette Decca.

Après s’être séparée de son premier époux Louis Jordan Jones qu’elle avait épousé à l’âge de dix-neuf ans en 1937, Horne avait fait une tournée avec le groupe de Charlie Barnet en 1940-41 sous le nom de scène d’Helena Horne.

Horne, qui n’avait pas tellement apprécié la tournée, avait quitté le groupe pour aller travailler au Cafe Society de New York. Horne avait obtenu une des plus grandes chances de sa carrière lorsqu’elle avait remplacé Dinah Shore comme chanteuse vedette de la populaire série du réseau NBC The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street. Les deux chefs d’orchestre résidents de l’émission, Henry Levine et Paul Laval, avaient enregistré avec Horne pour les disques RCA Victor en juin 1941. Horne avait quitté l’émission après six mois lorsqu’elle avait été recrutée par l’ancien gérant du Cafe Trocadero de Los Angeles, Felix Young, pour aller jouer dans une revue de style Cotton Club au Sunset Strip d’Hollywood. Après avoir été découverte par le producteur John Hammond, Horne s’était produite par la suite en solo à Carnegie Hall.

En 1946, Horne avait joué le rôle de Julie LaVerne dans la revue ‘’Till the Clouds Roll By’’, dans laquelle elle avait interprété la chanson "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man". En janvier 1942, Horne avait également fait ses débuts dans la revue ‘’Little Troc’’ de Felix Young qui était présentée au Sunset Strip à Hollywood. En novembre 1944, Horne avait aussi été en vedette dans un épisode de la populaire série radiophonique ‘’Suspense’’ dans lequel elle incarnait une chanteuse de club fictive. En plus de chanter, Horne avait également eu d’importantes répliques comme actrice. En 1945-46, Horne avait aussi été chanteuse dans l’orchestre de Billy Eckstine.

À l’époque, Horne avait déjà joué dans deux films à petit budget: une comédie musicale intitulée ‘’The Duke is Tops’’ (1938) et ‘’Boogie Woogie Dream’’ (1941) mettant en vedette les pianistes Pete Johnson et Albert Ammons. Les chansons que Horne avait interprétées dans ce dernier film avaient plus tard été publiées sur disque. Horne avait décroché son premier rôle important au cinéma dans le film ‘’Panama Hattie’’ en 1942. L’année suivante, Horne avait interprété la chanson-titre du film ‘’Stormy Weather’’ qui était devenue son plus grand succcès en carrière. Le film était largement inspiré de la vie de son mentor Adelaide Hall.

Horne avait également fait des apparitions dans plusieurs comédies musicales de MGM, dont ‘’Cabin in the Sky’’ (1943), qui avait été tourné avec une distribution principalement afro-américaine. Horne n’avait cependant pas obtenu un rôle principal dans le film en raison de sa couleur, et aussi parce que la production devait être présentée dans des villes dont les cinémas refusaient de diffuser des films mettant en vedette des artistes de couleur. Une des scènes du film avait aussi été coupée avant sa présentation parce qu’elle avait été considérée trop suggestive par les censeurs (la scène montrait Horne en train d’interpréter la chanson "Ain't It the Truth" dans son bain). La scène et la chanson avaient été éventuellement reprises dans le film ‘’That’s Entertainment ! III’’ en 1994 qui comprenait aussi des commentaires de Horne dans lesquelles elle expliquait pourquoi la scène avait été coupée avant la publication du film. Horne avait également été la première personne de couleur à avoir été élue sur le bureau de direction de la Screen Actors Guild.

Dans le film ‘’Ziegfeld Follies’’ (1946), Horne avait interprété la chanson "Love" de Hugh Martin et Ralph Blane. En 1951, Horne avait présenté sa candidature pour jouer le rôle de Julie LaVerne dans la comédie musicale ‘’Show Boat’’, car elle avait déjà interprété le rôle dans le film ‘’Till the Clouds Roll By’’, mais on lui avait préféré Ava Gardner. Horne avait prétendu plus tard qu’on lui avait refusé le rôle en raison de l’interdiction des relations interraciales dans l’industrie du cinéma. Pour leur part, les dirigeants de MGM s’étaient défendus en déclarant que Horne n’avait jamais été sérieusement considérée pour le rôle. Ironiquement, les producteurs du film avaient demandé à Gardner de pratiquer les chansons en utilisant les enregistrements de Horne, ce qui avait insulté les deux actrices. Horne et Gardner étaient d’ailleurs de grandes amies. Éventuellement, la voix de Gardner avait été doublée par l’actrice Annette Warren Smith.

Découragée des rôles stéréotypés que lui offraient les producteurs d’Hollywood (et ce, même si une clause dans ses contrats prévoyait qu'on ne lui ferait jamais jouer des rôles de domestique) et plus particulièrement de l’attitude des studios MGM, Horne avait commencé à se concentrer sur sa carrière dans les clubs. Horne avait fait seulement deux apparitions majeures au cinéma dans les années 1950: d’abord dans le film ‘’Duchess of Idaho’’ (1950) aux côtés de l’actrice Eleanor Powell dont c’était le dernier rôle en carrière, puis dans la comédie musicale ‘’Meet Me in Las Vegas’’ (1956). Horne avait déclaré par la suite qu’elle en avait eu assez ‘’of being typecast as a Negro who stands against a pillar singing a song. I did that 20 times too often."

Mise sur une liste noire dans les années 1950 pour s’être impliquée dans des organisations appuyées par le Parti communiste, Horne avait éventuellement coupé tout lien avec ce dernier. Après avoir repris sa carrière au cinéma, Horne a joué le rôle de Claire Quintana, une tenancière de maison close, dans le film ‘’Death of a Gunfighter’’ (1969) aux côtés de Richard Widmark. C’était la première fois de la carrière de Horne qu’on lui offrait un rôle qui ne faisait aucune référence à la couleur de sa peau. Horne a fait deux dernières apparitions au cinéma dans les films ‘’The Wiz’’ (1978), qui était dirigé par son beau-fils Sidney Lumet, et ‘’That's Entertainment! III’’ (1994), une rétrospective dans laquelle elle avait témoigné de la façon disgracieuse dont elle avait été traitée par MGM.

Après avoir quitté Hollywood, Horne s’était établie comme une des principales chanteuses de l’après-guerre, se produisant dans les clubs et les hôtels tant aux États-Unis qu’au Canada et en Europe, plus particulièrement au Sands Hotel de Las Vegas, au Cocoanut Grove de Los Angeles et au Waldorf-Astoria de New York. En 1957, Horne a d’ailleurs publié un album live intitulé ‘’Lena Horne at the Waldorf-Astoria’’, qui était devenu l’album le plus vendu par une artiste féminine dans l’histoire des disques RCA. L’année suivante, Horne était aussi devenue la première Afro-Américaine à obtenir une nomination aux Tony Awards dans la catégorie de la meilleure actrice dans une comédie musicale pour son rôle dans la revue "Jamaica ". À la demande de Horne, la revue mettait également en vedette son amie de longue date et mentor Adelaide Hall. La performance de Horne lui avait mérité un Drama Critics’ Poll Award en 1958.

De la fin des années 1950 jusqu’aux années 1960, Horne était devenue une incontournable de plusieurs émissions de variétés à la télévision. Elle a fait de nombreuses apparitions dans des émissions comme le Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Dean Martin Show, et The Bell Telephone Hour. Parmi les autres émissions auxquelles Horne avait collaboré, on remarquait The Judy Garland Show, The Hollywood Palace et The Andy Williams Show. En plus de deux spéciaux télévisés de la BBC, Horne a été en vedette en 1969 dans une émission spéciale de télévision aux États-Unis intitulée ‘’Monsanto Night Presents Lena Horne.’’ Durant la même décennie, l’artiste Pete Hawley avait peint le portrait de Horne dans une oeuvre qui reflétait le style de ses performances sur scène.

DERNIÈRES ANNÉES

En 1970, Horne a partagé la vedette avec Harry Belafonte dans un spécial d’une heure intitulé ‘’Harry & Lena’’ sur le réseau ABC. Trois ans plus tard, Horne avait également été en vedette dans un spécial avec le chanteur Tony Bennett intitulé ‘’Tony and Lena.’’ Horne et Bennett avaient fait par la suite une tournée aux États-Unis et au Royaume-Uni. Dans le cadre d’un hommage au compositeur Richard Rogers intitulé ‘’America Salutes Richard Rodgers’’ en 1976, Horne avait également interprété un medley des chansons de Rodgers aux côtés de Peggy Lee et Vic Damone. Horne avait aussi fait de nombreuses apparitions dans le cadre du Flip Wilson Show. Dans les années 1970, Horne avait également interprété son propre rôle sur des émissions de télévision comme The Muppet Show, Sesame Street et Sanford and Son. En 1985, Horne a aussi été en vedette sur The Cosby Show. En 1993, Horne avait également fait une apparition sur l’émission A Different World. À l’été 1980, à l’âge de soixante-trois ans, Horne, qui se préparait à prendre sa retraite du showbusiness, avait présenté une série de concerts bénéfice d’une durée de deux mois. La tournée était commanditée par la compagnie Delta Sigma Theta. Même si ces concerts avaient été publicisés comme la tournée d’adieu de Horne, sa retraite avait duré moins d’un an.

Le 13 avril 1980, Horne, Luciano Pavarotti et l’animateur Gene Kelly devaient faire une apparition dans un gala de la Metropolitan Opera House qui avait pour but de rendre hommage à la Joffrey Ballet Company. Malheureusement, l’avion de Pavarotti était en retard et le chanteur n’avait pu se présenter. James Nederlander, qui était l’invité d’honneur du gala, avait plus tard déclaré que seulement trois spectateurs avaient exigé d’être remboursés. Après la performance de Horne, Nederlander avait demandé à lui être présenté. En mai 1981, la Nederlander Organization, Michael Frazier et Fred Walker avaient engagé Horne pour participer à un contrat de quatre semaines au nouveau Nederlander Theatre situé sur la 41e rue Ouest de New York. L’événement, qui avait remporté un succès immédiat, avait finalement été prolongé pendant un an et avait valu à Horne un Tony Award spécial ainsi que deux prix Grammy pour l’enregistrement de son concert intitulé ‘’Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music.’’

Horne avait présenté le concert à 333 reprises. L'événement s’était terminé le jour-même du 65e anniversaire de Horne, le 30 juin 1982. Plus tard la même semaine, Horne avait de nouveau présenté le concert dans le cadre d’un enregistrement pour la télévision et sa publication sur vidéo. Quelques jours plus tard, Horne avait inauguré une tournée à Tanglewood au Massachusetts qui lui avait fait parcourir quarante et une villes aux États-Unis et au Canada jusqu’au 4 juillet 1982. Horne s’était par la suite produite à Londres durant un mois. La tournée avait pris fin à Stockholm, en Suède, le 14 septembre 1984. Malgré l’énorme succès remporté par la tournée (Horne détient toujours le record pour la plus longue performance en solo à Broadway), la chanteuse avait décidé de ne pas profiter du regain d’intérêt pour sa carrière et de ne pas se lancer dans de nouveaux projets. Un enregistrement avec Frank Sinatra qui devait être produit par Quincy Jones en 1983 avait même été abandonné. Le seul enregistrement de Horne durant cette décennie avait été l’album de 1988 ‘’The Men in My Life’’, qui comprenait des duos avec Sammy Davis Jr. et Joe Williams. L’année suivante, la carrière de Horne avait été couronnée par la remise d’un Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. En 1984, le Kennedy Center avait également décerné un prix à Horne pour souligner sa contribution dans le domaine des arts.

En 1995, un album live reproduisant la performance de Horne au Supper Club a été publié. L’album s’était éventuellement mérité un prix Grammy dans la catégorie du meilleur disque de jazz vocal. En 1998, Horne a publié un autre album studio intitulé ‘’Being Myself.’’ Après la publication de l’album, Horne s’est retirée de la scène. Elle a fait de rares apparitions publiques jusqu’en 2000, alors qu’elle a collaboré à un album-hommage de Simon Rattle intitulé ‘’Classic Ellington.’’

L’ACTIVISTE

Impliquée depuis longtemps dans le mouvement des droits civiques, Horne a chanté au Café Society, le premier club multi-racial de New York. Elle a aussi travaillé avec Paul Robeson. Alors qu’elle assurait le divertissement des troupes dans le cadre de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Horne avait catégoriquement refusé de se produire devant des auditoires où prévalait la ségrégation. L’armée américaine refusant d’autoriser les auditoires multi-raciaux, Horne avait présenté son spectacle devant une assistance mixte composée de soldats de couleur et de prisonniers allemands. Après s’être aperçue que les soldats noirs étaient forcés de s’asseoir à l’arrière, Horne était descendue de scène pour se rendre jusqu’aux sièges où les soldats de couleur étaient assis. Après avoir cessé de se produire devant les soldats en 1945, Horne a financé de sa poche des tournées des camps militaires.

Durant le weekend précédant l’assassinat du militant des droits civiques Medgar Evers en 1963, Horne avait participé à un ralliement de la National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) à Jackson, au Mississippi. Lors de la Marche sur Washington la même année, Horne avait prononcé un discours et s’était produite à la demande de la NAACP, du Student Non Violent Committee (S.N.C.C. ) et du National Council of Negro Women. Horne avait également collaboré avec Eleanor Roosevelt dans une tentative visant à faire adopter des lois anti-lynchage. L’auteur-compositeur Tom Lehrer avait d’ailleurs mentionné Horne dans sa chanson "National Brotherhood Week" dans laquelle il avait dénoncé le Sheriff Jim Clark, qui avait été responsable de la répression des marcheurs lors de la manifestation de Selma, en Alabama, en 1965. En 1983, la NAACP a honoré Horne en lui décernant la Spingarn Medal.

Deux jours avant l’assassinat du président John F. Kennedy, Horne lui avait rendu visite à la Maison-Blanche le 20 novembre 1963. Participaient également à la visite le président du Democratic National Committee (D.N.C.) John Bailey, la vice-présidente Margaret B. Price, la secrétaire Carol Lawrence, Richard Adler et Sidney Salomon.

VIE FAMILIALE ET DÉCÈS

En janvier 1937, Horne a épousé à Pittsburgh Louis Jordan Jones, un homme politique. Le 21 décembre 1937, Horne a donné naissance à une fille Gail, une future écrivaine qui s’était fait connaître plus tard sous le nom de plume de Gail Lumet Buckley. En 1940, le couple avait aussi eu un fils, Edwin Jones, qui est mort d’une maladie des reins en 1970. Après s’être séparé en 1940, Horne et Jones avaient divorcé en 1944. Horne s’était remariée par la suite à Lennie Hayton, un directeur musical qui avait été un des premiers chefs d’orchestre et arrangeur des studios MGM à Paris en 1947. Le couple s’est séparé au début des années 1960, mais n’avait jamais divorcé. Hayton est décédé en 1971. Dans son autobiographie écrite en collaboration avec Richard Schickel, Horne a raconté les énormes pressions auxquelles elle et Hayton avaient dû faire face comme couple interracial. Même si Horne avait reconnu en mai 1980 dans une entrevue accordée au magazine Ebony qu’elle avait épousé Hayton afin de faire avancer sa carrière et de briser la barrière raciale, elle avait tenu à préciser qu’elle avait appris à l’aimer progressivement. Horne a aussi eu des liaisons avec le champion poids-lourd Jos Louis, le chef d’orchestre et clarinettiste Artie Shaw, l’acteur Orson Welles et le réalisateur Vincente Minnelli. Horne avait également eu une longue relation avec le musicien et arrangeur Billy Strayhorn qui étai.t rapidement devenu un de ses mentors. Strayhorn, qui était homosexuel, avait déclaré qu’il aurait épousé Horne s’il avait eu une orientation sexuelle différente.

La scénariste Jenny Lumet, qui avait remporté un Oscar pour le scénario du film ‘’Rachel Getting Married’’ (2008), était la petite-fille de Horne. Lumet était la fille du réalisateur Sidney Lumet et de la fille de Horne, Gail. Parmi les autres petits-enfants de Horne, on remarquait l’autre fille de Gail, Amy, et les quatre enfants de son fils Edwin: Thomas, William, Samadhi et Lena. Horne avait aussi des arrière-petits-enfants, dont l’acteur Jake Cannavale.

Catholique, Horne a habité à St. Albans, dans le Queens, de 1946 à 1962. À St. Albans, Horne avait comme voisins des sommités du jazz com àme Count Count Basie et Ella Fitzgerald. Dans les années 1980, Horne s’est installée au cinquième étage du Volney, un hôtel transformé en coopérative de logements, qui était situé sur la 74e rue.

Lena Horne est morte d’une crise cardiaque le 9 mai 2010. Elle était âgée de quatre-vingt-douze ans. Horne a été inhumée à la St. Ignatius Loyola Church à New York. Des milliers de personnes ont assisté à ses funérailles, dont Leontyne Price, Dionne Warwick, Liza Minnelli, Jessye Norman, Chita Rivera, Cicely Tyson, Diahann Carroll, Leslie Uggams, Lauren Bacall, Robert Osborne, Audra McDonald, et Vanessa Williams. Horne a été incinérée.

De nombreux artistes ont rendu hommage à Horne. En 2003, le réseau ABC avait annoncé que Janet Jackson interpréterait le rôle de Horne dans un film tourné pour la télévision. À la suite de l’incident qui s’était produit lors du spectacle de la mi-temps du Super Bowl de 2004, le magazine Variety avait rapporté que Horne avait demandé que Jackson soit retirée du projet. Même si les dirigeants du réseau ABC avaient manifesté des réticences à accéder à la requête de Horne, les représentants de Jackson avaient d��claré que la chanteuse avait décidé de respecter la demande de Horne. Au cours d’une entrevue avec la chanteuse Alicia Keys en 2005 dans le cadre de son talk show, l’animatrice Oprah Winfrey avait indiqué qu’elle projetait de produire le film elle-même, avec Keys dans le rôle de Horne.

Le 24 janvier 2006, les disques Blue Note, qui avaient produit les disques de Horne durant plus d’une décennie, avaient publié de nouvelles versions des chansons de la chanteuse. L’album intitulé ‘’Seasons of a Life’’, comprenait notamment les chansons "Something to Live For", "Chelsea Bridge" et "Stormy Weather". En 2009, le personnage de Horne a été incarné par Leslie Uggam et Nikki Crawford dans une nouvelle version de la comédie musicale Stormy Weather, qui a été présentée à la Pasadena Playhouse en Californie de janvier à mars 2009. En 2011, l’actrice Ryan Jillian a également joué le rôle de Horne dans son one-woman show intitulé ‘’Notes from A Horne.’’ Le spectacle a été présenté au Susan Batson studio de New York, de novembre 2011 à février 2012. L’actrice Halle Berry a aussi rendu hommage à Horne dans le cadre des 83e Academy Awards le 27 février 2011. En 2018, le Service postal des États-Unis a également émis un timbre en l’honneur de Horne, qui était devenue la 41e personne à être honorée dans le cadre de la série Black Heritage.

En juin 2021, le Prospect Park Bandshell de Brooklyn a été rebaptisé le Lena Horne Bandshell. En juin 2022, la Nederlander Organization avait également annoncé que le Brooks Atkinson Theatre de Broadway serait renommé le Lena Horne Theatre en l’honneur de Horne, qui devenait ainsi la première femme de couleur à avoir un théâtre de Broadway nommé en son honneur.

Artiste très charismatique, Horne avait été une des chanteuses les plus remarquables de son époque. Femme de conviction, un peu comme son amie la pianiste Hazel Scott, Horne n’avait pas hésité à risquer sa carrière pour défendre ses idées, notamment dans le cadre du mouvement des droits civiques.

SOURCES:

‘’Lena Horne.’’ Wikipedia, 2024. ‘’Lena Horne, American singer and actress.’’ Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2024. ‘’Lena Horne, American singer and actress.’’ Condé Nast, 2024. ‘’Lena Horne Biography.’’ Biography.com, 26 mars 2021é

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THE FRANK DERRICK TOTAL EXPERIENCE "YOU BETCHA!" (1974)

Drummer Frank Derrick III (born 1950) grew up in Harvey, Illinois in a musical family…his father Frank Derrick Jr. was a professional musician and arranger who played with notables such as Duke Ellington and Earl Hinges. Frank Derrick III began playing the drums when he was ten years old and at the age of nineteen, he was already playing professionally in the renowned Chicago jazz scene. Frank has led a multifaceted national and international music career. He is a virtuoso performer, composer, and educator. Next to his own recordings he has performed and recorded with numerous legends and artists including Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, Eartha Kitt, Roberta Flack, Donna Summer…and countless others.

Frank Derrick III toured worldwide with Cab Calloway for ten years and was the drummer for ‘The David Letterman Show’ on NBC. He is also no stranger to symphonic fans around the world (he was a member of many renowned symphonic ‘giants’ such as The Royal Philharmonic). As an educator, he served as Chairman of Percussion at ‘Henry Street Settlement’ in New York, presents master classes, is the respected author of ‘Focus On Technique For Drummers’, is a contributing author to various educational publications, and is the Drum set editor for ‘The Percussive Arts Society’. Last but not least…he was honored with an A.S.C.A.P. Special Award.

Frank has a WIDE range of musical experience…his precision, driving rhythmic style and “Straight Ahead” jazz compositions make him unique and a master of his craft. He is a powerfully swinging (yet tasteful) drummer who always makes sure his skills ‘serve’ the music he’s performing.

On the album we are proudly presenting you today (You Betcha!) you’ll find recordings written by both Frank Jr. and Frank III. All songs are performed by one of his many incarnations: “THE FRANK DERRICK TOTAL EXPERIENCE”. Some serious all-star players from the likes of Bill Payne (John Cale-Lionel Richie) and Edwin Williams (Syl Johnson) can also clearly be heard backing up Frank here on this exceptional album.

You Betcha! was recorded in 1974 at the legendary Chicago nightclub Fiddler’s. The sound quality is top-notch and intimate with a noticeable vibe that conveys the enthusiasm of the audience. Only 1000 copies of this album were privately pressed back in 1974, so it comes as no surprise that this record continues to be one of the rarest sought-after vinyl albums by jazz collectors worldwide.

If you enjoy uplifting and hard-swinging jazz, slightly mysterious at times (bordering on the spiritual), lots of funky/soul influences and bouncing energetic grooves…then this is a highly recommended gem for your record collection (and a must-have for seekers of rare grooves).

Tidal Waves Music now proudly presents the FIRST ever vinyl reissue of this fantastic album (originally privately pressed and released in 1974 on PS Records). This rare record (original copies tend to go for large amounts on the secondary market) is now finally back available as a limited 180g vinyl edition (500 copies) complete with the original artwork and sleeve notes by jazz bassist extraordinaire Eldee Young (Prince Billy Mahdi Wright, Ramsey Lewis).

Available worldwide May 28, 2021. Pre-order now from www.lightintheattic.net

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Lena Horne

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned over 70 years, appearing in film, television, and theater. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of 16 and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood.

Returning to her roots as a nightclub performer, Horne took part in the March on Washington in August 1963 and continued to work as a performer, both in nightclubs and on television while releasing well-received record albums. She announced her retirement in March 1980, but the next year starred in a one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, which ran for more than 300 performances on Broadway. She then toured the country in the show, earning numerous awards and accolades. Horne continued recording and performing sporadically into the 1990s, disappearing from the public eye in 2000. Horne died of congestive heart failure on May 9, 2010, at the age of 92.

Early life

Lena Horne was born in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. She was reportedly descended from the John C. Calhoun family, and both sides of her family were through a mixture of African, Native American, and European descent and belonged to the upper stratum of middle-class, well-educated people. Her father, Edwin Fletcher "Teddy" Horne Jr. (1893–1970), a numbers kingpin in the gambling trade, left the family when she was three and moved to an upper-middle-class African American community in the Hill District community of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her mother, Edna Louise Scottron (1894–1976), was a granddaughter of inventor Samuel R. Scottron; she was an actress with a black theatre troupe and traveled extensively. Edna's maternal grandmother, Amelie Louise Ashton, was a Senegalese slave. Horne was raised mainly by her grandparents, Cora Calhoun and Edwin Horne.

When Horne was five, she was sent to live in Georgia. For several years, she traveled with her mother. From 1927 to 1929, she lived with her uncle, Frank S. Horne, dean of students at Fort Valley Junior Industrial Institute (now part of Fort Valley State University) in Fort Valley, Georgia, who later served as an adviser to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. From Fort Valley, southwest of Macon, Horne briefly moved to Atlanta with her mother; they returned to New York when Horne was 12 years old. She then attended Girls High School, an all-girls public high school in Brooklyn that has since become Boys and Girls High School; she dropped out without earning a diploma. Aged 18, she moved to her father's home in Pittsburgh, staying in the city's Little Harlem for almost five years and learning from native Pittsburghers Billy Strayhorn and Billy Eckstine, among others.

Career

Road to Hollywood

In the fall of 1933, Horne joined the chorus line of the Cotton Club in New York City. In the spring of 1934, she had a featured role in the Cotton Club Parade starring Adelaide Hall, who took Lena under her wing. Horne made her first screen appearance as a dancer in the musical short Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party (1935). A few years later, Horne joined Noble Sissle's Orchestra, with which she toured and with whom she made her first records, issued by Decca. After she separated from her first husband, Horne toured with bandleader Charlie Barnet in 1940–41, but disliked the travel and left the band to work at the Cafe Society in New York. She replaced Dinah Shore as the featured vocalist on NBC's popular jazz series The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street. The show's resident maestros, Henry Levine and Paul Laval, recorded with Horne in June 1941 for RCA Victor. Horne left the show after only six months when she was hired by former Cafe Trocadero (Los Angeles) manager Felix Young to perform in a Cotton Club-style revue on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood.

Horne already had two low-budget movies to her credit: a 1938 musical feature called The Duke is Tops (later reissued with Horne's name above the title as The Bronze Venus); and a 1941 two-reel short subject, Boogie Woogie Dream, featuring pianists Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons. Horne's songs from Boogie Woogie Dream were later released individually as soundies. Horne made her Hollywood nightclub debut at Felix Young's Little Troc on the Sunset Strip in January 1942. A few weeks later, she was signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In November 1944, she was featured in an episode of the popular radio series Suspense, as a fictional nightclub singer, with a large speaking role along with her singing. In 1945 and 1946, she sang with Billy Eckstine's Orchestra.

She made her debut at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Panama Hattie (1942) and performed the title song of Stormy Weather based loosely on the life of Adelaide Hall, (1943), at 20th Century Fox, while on loan from MGM. She appeared in a number of MGM musicals, most notably Cabin in the Sky (1943), but was never featured in a leading role because of her race and the fact that her films had to be re-edited for showing in cities where theaters would not show films with black performers. As a result, most of Horne's film appearances were stand-alone sequences that had no bearing on the rest of the film, so editing caused no disruption to the storyline. A notable exception was the all-black musical Cabin in the Sky, although one number from that film was cut before release because it was considered too suggestive by the censors: Horne singing "Ain't It the Truth" while taking a bubble bath. This scene and song are featured in the film That's Entertainment! III (1994) which also featured commentary from Horne on why the scene was deleted prior to the film's release. Lena Horne was the first African-American elected to serve on the Screen Actors Guild board of directors.

In Ziegfeld Follies (1946), she performed "Love" by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane. Horne lobbied for the role of Julie LaVerne in MGM's 1951 version of Show Boat (having already played the role when a segment of Show Boat was performed in Till the Clouds Roll By, 1946) but lost the part to Ava Gardner, a personal friend in real life. Horne claimed this was due to the Production Code's ban on interracial relationships in films, but MGM sources state she was never considered for the role in the first place. In the documentary That's Entertainment! III, Horne stated that MGM executives required Gardner to practice her singing using Horne's recordings, which offended both actresses. Ultimately, Gardner's voice was overdubbed by actress Annette Warren (Smith) for the theatrical release.

Changes of direction

By the mid-1950s, Horne was disenchanted with Hollywood and increasingly focused on her nightclub career. She made only two major appearances for MGM during the 1950s: Duchess of Idaho (which was also Eleanor Powell's final film); and the 1956 musical Meet Me in Las Vegas. She was blacklisted during the 1950s for her affiliations in the 1940s with communist-backed groups. She would subsequently disavow communism. She returned to the screen three more times, playing chanteuse Claire Quintana in the 1969 film Death of a Gunfighter, Glinda in The Wiz (1978), which was directed by her then son-in-law Sidney Lumet, and co-hosting the MGM retrospective That's Entertainment! III (1994), in which she was candid about her unkind treatment by the studio.

After leaving Hollywood, Horne established herself as one of the premier nightclub performers of the post-war era. She headlined at clubs and hotels throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe, including the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles, and the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. In 1957, a live album entitled, Lena Horne at the Waldorf-Astoria, became the biggest-selling record by a female artist in the history of the RCA Victor label at that time. In 1958, Horne became the first African-American woman to be nominated for a Tony Award for "Best Actress in a Musical" (for her part in the "Calypso" musical Jamaica) which, at Lena's request featured her longtime friend Adelaide Hall.

From the late 1950s through to the 1960s, Horne was a staple of TV variety shows, appearing multiple times on Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Dean Martin Show, and The Bell Telephone Hour. Other programs she appeared on included The Judy Garland Show, The Hollywood Palace, and The Andy Williams Show. Besides two television specials for the BBC (later syndicated in the U.S.), Horne starred in her own U.S. television special in 1969, Monsanto Night Presents Lena Horne. During this decade, the artist Pete Hawley painted her portrait for RCA Victor, capturing the mood of her performance style.

In 1970, she co-starred with Harry Belafonte in the hour-long Harry & Lena special for ABC; in 1973, she co-starred with Tony Bennett in Tony and Lena. Horne and Bennett subsequently toured the U.S. and U.K. in a show together. In the 1976 program America Salutes Richard Rodgers, she sang a lengthy medley of Rodgers songs with Peggy Lee and Vic Damone. Horne also made several appearances on The Flip Wilson Show. Additionally, Horne played herself on television programs such as The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, and Sanford and Son in the 1970s, as well as a 1985 performance on The Cosby Show and a 1993 appearance on A Different World. In the summer of 1980, Horne, 63 years old and intent on retiring from show business, embarked on a two-month series of benefit concerts sponsored by the sorority Delta Sigma Theta. These concerts were represented as Horne's farewell tour, yet her retirement lasted less than a year.

On April 13, 1980, Horne, Luciano Pavarotti, and host Gene Kelly were all scheduled to appear at a Gala performance at the Metropolitan Opera House to salute the NY City Center's Joffrey Ballet Company. However, Pavarotti's plane was diverted over the Atlantic and he was unable to appear. James Nederlander was an invited Honored Guest and noted that only three people at the sold-out Metropolitan Opera House asked for their money back. He asked to be introduced to Lena following her performance. In May 1981, The Nederlander Organization, Michael Frazier, and Fred Walker went on to book Horne for a four-week engagement at the newly named Nederlander Theatre on West 41st Street in New York City. The show was an instant success and was extended to a full year run, garnering Horne a special Tony award, and two Grammy Awards for the cast recording of her show Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music. The 333-performance Broadway run closed on Horne's 65th birthday, June 30, 1982. Later that same week, she performed the entire show again to record it for television broadcast and home video release. Horne began a tour a few days later at Tanglewood (Massachusetts) during the weekend of July 4, 1982. The Lady and Her Music toured 41 cities in the U.S. and Canada until June 17, 1984. It played in London for a month in August and ended its run in Stockholm, Sweden, September 14, 1984. In 1981, she received a Special Tony Award for the show, which also played to acclaim at the Adelphi Theatre in London in 1984. Despite the show's considerable success (Horne still holds the record for the longest-running solo performance in Broadway history), she did not capitalize on the renewed interest in her career by undertaking many new musical projects. A proposed 1983 joint recording project between Horne and Frank Sinatra (to be produced by Quincy Jones) was ultimately abandoned, and her sole studio recording of the decade was 1988's The Men in My Life, featuring duets with Sammy Davis Jr. and Joe Williams. In 1989, she received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

In 1995, a "live" album capturing Horne's Supper Club performance was released (subsequently winning a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album). In 1998, Horne released another studio album, entitled Being Myself. Thereafter, Horne retired from performing and largely retreated from public view, though she did return to the recording studio in 2000 to contribute vocal tracks on Simon Rattle's Classic Ellington album.

Civil rights activism

Horne was long involved with the Civil Rights Movement. In 1941, she sang at Cafe Society and worked with Paul Robeson. During World War II, when entertaining the troops for the USO, she refused to perform "for segregated audiences or for groups in which German POWs were seated in front of black servicemen", according to her Kennedy Center biography. Because the U.S. Army refused to allow integrated audiences, she staged her show for a mixed audience of black U.S. soldiers and white German POWs. Seeing the black soldiers had been forced to sit in the back seats, she walked off the stage to the first row where the black troops were seated and performed with the Germans behind her. After quitting the USO in 1945 because of the organization's policy of segregating audiences, Horne financed tours of military camps herself.

She was at an NAACP rally with Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi, the weekend before Evers was assassinated. She also met President John F. Kennedy at the White House two days before he was assassinated. She was at the March on Washington and spoke and performed on behalf of the NAACP, SNCC, and the National Council of Negro Women. She also worked with Eleanor Roosevelt to pass anti-lynching laws. Tom Lehrer mentions her in his song "National Brotherhood Week" in the line "Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark are dancing cheek to cheek" referring (wryly) to her and to Sheriff Jim Clark, of Selma, Alabama, who was responsible for a violent attack on civil rights marchers in 1965. In 1983, the NAACP awarded her the Spingarn Medal.

Horne was a registered Democrat and on November 20, 1963, she, along with Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman John Bailey, Carol Lawrence, Richard Adler, Sidney Salomon, Vice-Chairwoman of the DNC Margaret B. Price, and Secretary of the DNC Dorothy Vredenburgh Bush, visited John F. Kennedy at The White House, two days prior to his assassination.

Personal life

Horne married Louis Jordan Jones, a political operative, in January 1937 in Pittsburgh. On December 21, 1937, their daughter, Gail (later known as Gail Lumet Buckley, a writer) was born. They had a son, Edwin Jones (February 7, 1940 – September 12, 1970) who died of kidney disease. Horne and Jones separated in 1940 and divorced in 1944. Horne's second marriage was to Lennie Hayton, who was music director and one of the premier musical conductors and arrangers at MGM, in December 1947 in Paris. They separated in the early 1960s, but never divorced; he died in 1971. In her as-told-to autobiography Lena by Richard Schickel, Horne recounts the enormous pressures she and her husband faced as an interracial couple. She later admitted in an interview in Ebony (May 1980) that she had married Hayton to advance her career and cross the "color-line" in show business.

Horne had affairs with Artie Shaw, Orson Welles, Vincente Minnelli, and the boxer Joe Louis.

Horne also had a long and close relationship with Billy Strayhorn, whom she said she would have married if he had been heterosexual. He was also an important professional mentor to her. Screenwriter Jenny Lumet, known for her award-winning screenplay Rachel Getting Married, is Horne's granddaughter, the daughter of filmmaker Sidney Lumet and Horne's daughter Gail. Her other grandchildren include Gail's other daughter, Amy Lumet, and her son's four children, Thomas, William, Samadhi, and Lena. Her great-grandchildren include Jake Cannavale.

From 1946 to 1962, Horne resided in a St. Albans, Queens, New York, enclave of prosperous African Americans, where she counted among her neighbors Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, and other jazz luminaries.

Death

Horne died of congestive heart failure on May 9, 2010. Her funeral took place at St. Ignatius Loyola Church on Park Avenue in New York. Thousands gathered and attendees included Leontyne Price, Dionne Warwick, Liza Minnelli, Jessye Norman, Chita Rivera, Cicely Tyson, Diahann Carroll, Leslie Uggams, Lauren Bacall, Robert Osborne, Audra McDonald, and Vanessa Williams. Her remains were cremated.

Legacy

In 2003, ABC announced that Janet Jackson would star as Horne in a television biographical film. In the weeks following Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" debacle during the 2004 Super Bowl, however, Variety reported that Horne had demanded Jackson be dropped from the project. "ABC executives resisted Horne's demand", according to the Associated Press report, "but Jackson representatives told the trade newspaper that she left willingly after Horne and her daughter, Gail Lumet Buckley, asked that she not take part." Oprah Winfrey stated to Alicia Keys during a 2005 interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show that she might possibly consider producing the biopic herself, casting Keys as Horne.

In January 2005, Blue Note Records, her label for more than a decade, announced that "the finishing touches have been put on a collection of rare and unreleased recordings by the legendary Horne made during her time on Blue Note." Remixed by her longtime producer Rodney Jones, the recordings featured Horne with a remarkably secure voice for a woman of her years, and include versions of such signature songs as "Something to Live For", "Chelsea Bridge", and "Stormy Weather". The album, originally titled Soul but renamed Seasons of a Life, was released on January 24, 2006. In 2007, Horne was portrayed by Leslie Uggams as the older Lena and Nikki Crawford as the younger Lena in the stage musical Stormy Weather staged at the Pasadena Playhouse in California (January to March 2009). In 2011, Horne was also portrayed by actress Ryan Jillian in a one-woman show titled Notes from A Horne staged at the Susan Batson studio in New York City, from November 2011 to February 2012. The 83rd Academy Awards presented a tribute to Horne by actress Halle Berry at the ceremony held February 27, 2011.

In 2018, a forever stamp depicting Horne began to be issued; this made Horne the 41st honoree in the Black Heritage stamp series.

#06/30 #05/09

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I promised I’d make a name masterlist when I reached 200 followers, and even though it’s been a while and I’m about to reach my next hundred, I finally did it. Here are some “elegant” sounding names (for both males & females) + surnames. Feel free to give it a like & a reblog if you found this helpful in any way, and thank you for everything!

FEMALE NAMES:

Adelaide

Alessandra

Anastasia

Angelica

Annabelle

Anne

Antoinette

Antonella

Ariella

Audrey

Aurora

Beatrice

Bernadette

Beverly

Brianna

Bridget

Camilla

Carlotta

Caroline

Catherine

Charlotte

Clementine

Colette

Cordelia

Cynthia

Daisy

Delilah

Diana

Dorothy

Eleanor

Elizabeth

Eloise

Emilia

Emmaline

Emmanuelle

Esme

Evangeline

Felicity

Fleur

Gabrielle

Genevieve

Georgina

Gwendolyn

Gwyneth

Harriet

Harper

Helena

Isabella

Ivy

Jacqueline

Josephine

Juliette

Laurel

Louisa

Madelaine

Margaret

Margot

Marianna

Marie

Melinda

Meredith

Nadine

Natalie

Octavia

Odette

Olivia

Ophelia

Penelope

Petunia

Pippa

Poppy

Renee

Rosalie

Rosalind

Savannah

Scarlett

Sienna

Simone

Sophia

Stephanie

Susan

Sylvia

Tabitha

Tatum

Theodora

Valentina

Veronica

Victoria

Violet/Violetta

Virginia

Vivienne

Willa

Wren

MALE NAMES:

Albert

Alec

Alexander

Alfred

Alistair

Amadeus

Archibald

Arthur

Ashby

Atticus

Augustus

Bartholomew

Benjamin

Bertram

Bradley

Byron

Caesar

Caleb

Callum

Carson

Charles

Colin

Conrad

Dalton

Damien

Daniel

Dane

David

Dominic

Douglas

Edmund

Edward

Edwin

Egbert

Ezra

Felix

Finn

Frederick

Gabriel

Garrett

George

Gordon

Gregory

Harris

Harrison

Holden

Ian

James

Jasper

Jeremiah

Jonathan

Jude

Lance

Landon

Leonardo

Logan

Louis

Lucien

Malcolm

Matthew

Maurice

Maximillian

Miles

Milo

Nathaniel

Nicholas

Norman

Oliver

Orson

Paul

Peter

Phillip

Pierce

Quinn

Raphael

Richard

Robert

Roderick

Rufus

Rupert

Sebastian

Seth

Silas

Theodore

Thomas

Tobias

Vincent

Wesley

William

Xavier

Zachary

SURNAMES:

Abbott

Abernathy

Addington

Alderidge

Astor

Barnes

Baudelaire

Beaumont

Benson

Bentham

Berkshire

Bishop

Black

Bradford

Bradshaw

Buchanan

Burton

Cabot

Caldwell

Calloway

Campbell

Carraway

Caulfield

Chadwick

Chamberlayne

Compton

Cooper

Cromwell

Darling

Davenport

Donahue

Drummond

Fairchild

Fairfield

Fitzgerald

Fitzroy

Franklin

Grimaldi

Harding

Hastings

Hawthorne

Hearst

Hill

Hilton

Hollingsworth

Humphries

Lancaster

Lauder

Lexington

Lincoln

Locke

Lockwood

McCoy

Meyers

Montague

Montgomery

Pembroke

Pierce

Pratt

Pruitt

Radcliffe

Redfield

Reid

Reyes

Rhodes

Robinson

Rockingham

Rothchild/Rothschild

Schopenhauer

Schulz

Sinclair

Somers

Stone

Stratford

Talbot

Thompson

Townsend

Vanderbilt

Watson

Williams

Windsor

Wright

Wyndham

#name masterlist #name help #rph #rpc #rpt #mine

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Over time, there have probably been more songs referring to news and newspapers than you might at first think. For instance, you doubtless remember STAYIN' ALIVE by The Bee Gees but you may not immediately recall that its lyric contained a reference to The New York Times!

There were also songs about magazines such as THE COVER OF THE ROLLING STONE by Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show in '72 and CENTERFOLD by The J. Geils Band in '81; going even further back, The Four Lads charted with a song in ‘59 called THE GIRL ON PAGE 44 that referred to the Sears, Roebuck & Co. mail order catalog.

However, I'm focusing in this blog on newspapers and the printed word. Rap artists such as Public Enemy (in their song A LETTER TO THE NEW YORK POST) and hip-hop artists like T-Pain (in his composition SOUNDS BAD) have made news references, but the following is a selective list of just a few of the many rock, pop and country songs of yesteryear which fit the category.

Certain relevant lyric lines are included in italics.

COLD DARK WATERS

(Don Owens)

by Porter Wagoner

Pro: Chet Atkins

(RCA: 1962) US #10 Country

"In tomorrow's newspaper you'll read about me"

https://youtu.be/7ix9iCIGazg

DAILY NEWS

(Tom Paxton)

by Tom Paxton

Pro: Paul Rothchild

(Elektra: 1964) "How do I know? I read it in the Daily News"

From Tom Paxton's second album containing his topically-inspired folk songs.

https://youtu.be/802F7aZIWfk

A DAY IN THE LIFE

(John Lennon/Paul McCartney)

by The Beatles

Pro: George Martin

(Capitol: 1967)

From their glorious "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album."I read the news today, oh boy" (In addition, LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS refers to "Newspaper taxis appear on the shore" and THE BALLAD OF JOHN AND YOKO contains the line "The newspapers said")

DID YOU SEE HIS NAME?

(Ray Davies)

by The Kinks

Pro: Ray Davies

(Reprise: 1972)

from 'The Kink Kronikles" double-album.

"Did you see his name in the local paper"

https://youtu.be/ji72Ginv1T8

FRONT PAGE NEWS

(Bill Payne/Fran Payne)

by Little Feat

Pro: Lowell George

(Warner Bros: 1980)

"Front page right through to back page"

https://youtu.be/9oLgCNmSbBQ

GET A JOB

(Earl Beal/Raymond Edwards/William Horton/Richard Lewis)

by The Silhouettes

Pro: Kae Williams

(Ember: 1958) US #1 R&B, #1 Pop.

A definitive doo-wop classic.

"After breakfast ev'ry day/She throws the want ads right my way"

https://youtu.be/p-7uIs3SvRA

GOOD ROCKIN' TONIGHT

(Roy Brown)

by Roy Brown w/Bob Ogden & His Orchestra

(DeLuxe: 1947) US #13 R&B in '48

"I heard the news There's good rockin' tonight"

https://youtu.be/DpOF4DZ6wDA

This is the original of Roy Brown's classic song which was memorably covered

by Wynonie Harris in '48 and Elvis Presley in ’54.

HEADLINE NEWS

(Albert Hamilton/Richard Morris/Charles Hatcher)

by Edwin Starr

Pro: Al Kent & Richard Morris

(Ric-Tic: 1966) US #84 Pop, UK #39

https://youtu.be/g-za5o1l7Yo

HEADLINES

(John Fogerty)

by John Fogerty

Pro: John Fogerty

(Warner Bros: 1986)

HEADLINES

(Reggie Calloway/Vincent Calloway/Melvin Gentry/Belinda Lipscomb/

Bobby Lovelace/Bill Simmons)

by Midnight Star

Pro: Reggie Calloway & Midnight Star

(Solar: 1986) US #3 R&B, #69 Pop, UK #16.

'Extra, extra, read all about it'

https://youtu.be/FWlL44LOOG4

HEROES

(Jennifer Kimball/Thomas Kimmel)

by Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings

(Columbia: 1986)

"That old newspaper headline"

https://youtu.be/yoD0XxTSN2k

JIMMIE BROWN, THE NEWSBOY

(A.P. Carter)

by Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys

(Columbia: 1951)

“I sell the morning paper sir”

Written by A.P. Carter, founder of The Carter Family

https://youtu.be/iVZ8u7BP1ws

Song was a #5 country hit in ’59 by Mac Wiseman.

A LITTLE GOOD NEWS

(Charlie Black/Rory Bourke/Tommy Rocco)

by Anne Murray

Pro: Jim Ed Norman (Capitol: 1983)

US #1 Country, #74 Pop.

"Not much to print today/Can't find nothin' bad to say"

https://youtu.be/HQYS8gRL7zw

IT'S GOOD NEWS WEEK

(Jonathan King)

by Hedgehoppers Anonymous

Pro: Jonathan King (Parrot: 1965)

UK #5 in '65, US #48 Pop in '66.

https://youtu.be/Q4KzGKnuUuc

NEWS OF THE WORLD

(Bruce Foxton)

by The Jam

Pro: Vic Smith & Chris Parry

(Polydor: 1978) UK #27.

News Of The World is a British weekly paper.

https://youtu.be/UTbPnOZYxl8

NEWSPAPER BOY BLUES

(Tiny Bradshaw/Jesse Kennedy)

by Tiny Bradshaw/Vocal by Little Tiny Kennedy

(King: 1952)

https://youtu.be/C3I7LPDbq0Q

NOTHING HAS BEEN PROVED

(Neil Tennant/Chris Lowe)

by Dusty Springfield

Pro: Pet Shop Boys

(UK Parlophone: 1989) UK #16.

From the soundtrack of the film "Scandal" (Miramax: 1989) about the Profumo political scandal in Britain. "Mandy's in the papers 'cause she tried to go to Spain", referring to Mandy Rice-Davis.

https://youtu.be/hFxUFXGMgRY

ODE TO BILLIE JOE

(Bobbie Gentry)

by Bobbie Gentry

Pro: Kelly Gordon & Bobby Paris

(Capitol: 1967)

US #1 Pop, #17 Country, #7 AC, UK #13.

"I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge"

https://youtu.be/-_E3UIeZUCs

OLD FRIENDS

(Paul Simon)

by Simon & Garfunkel

Pro: Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel & Roy Halee

(Columbia: 1968)

From their album "Bookends".

"A newspaper blown through the grass"

https://youtu.be/7A76lTte8qE

ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN

(Chuck Berry)

by Chuck Berry & His Combo

Pro: Leonard Chess

(Chess: 1956)

US #2 R&B, #29 Pop.

"Roll over Beethoven and tell Tchaikovsky the news"

https://youtu.be/nhYLpHakuVY

SUNDAY PAPERS

(Joe Jackson)

by Joe Jackson

Pro: David Kershenbaum

(A&M: 1979)

From Joe Jackson's debut chart album "Look Sharp!"

https://youtu.be/Tfo2-3MDxBw

SUNDAY TIMES

(Loudon Wainwright III)

by Loudon Wainwright III

from the 1998 compilation "BBC Sessions"

containing his earlier BBC performances.

TELL ME WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

by Elton John

Pro: Gus Dudgeon

(Rocket: 1985)

"I spy headlines, newsprint tells lies"

https://youtu.be/gq-dYKY5nZg

TOP FORTY, NEWS, WEATHER AND SPORTS

(John D. Loudermilk)

by Mark Dinning

(MGM: 1961) US #81 Pop

https://youtu.be/DsfE8g1rAQw

(see note on Mark Dinning below*)

WANT ADS

(Norman Johnson/Greg Perry/Barney Perkins)

by The Honey Cone

Pro: Greg Perry (Hot Wax: 1971)

US #1 R&B, #1 Pop.

Darlene Love’s sister Edna Wright was lead singer of this girl group trio who recorded for Hot Wax, the label owned by ex-Motown songwriters Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland.

https://youtu.be/r0V9K0ERzRo

WHAT'S HAPPENING BROTHER

(James Nyx/Marvin Gaye)

by Marvin Gaye

(Tamla: 1971)

From Marvin's landmark album "What's Going On".

"Are things really gettin' better, like the newspaper said?"

https://youtu.be/ucRg02jQz7g

YESTERDAY'S PAPERS

(Mick Jagger/Keith Richard)

by The Rolling Stones

Pro: Andrew Loog Oldham

(London: 1967) From their LP "Between The Buttons"

https://youtu.be/_7mkOy-TfPI

*Mark Dinning was the brother of three sisters (Jean, Lou and Ginger) who formed the vocal trio The Dinning Sisters; they clocked up best-selling records in the late 40's including BUTTONS AND BOWS on Capitol in '48. Jean co-wrote TEEN ANGEL which was Mark Dinning's major hit single on MGM that topped Billboard's Hot 100 in February 1960. The Dinning Sisters' accompanist and arranger was songwriter and pianist Don Robertson who had his own Top 10 success on Capitol in '56 with his composition THE HAPPY WHISTLER. Don married Lou and they recorded several singles together.

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Gold Dust In The Gears

The Windows Media Player thumbed through my bins of 5000+ dusty mp3s, and selected some oldies and goldies to lube the gears of my work afternoon. Here’s the playlist:

Reefer Man -- Cab Calloway

On Jordan’s Stormy Banks We Stand -- Seventh Day Adventist Choir

Sam The Hot Dog Man -- Lil Johnson

Voodoo Woman -- Koko Taylor

T-Model Boogie -- Rosco Gordon

Your Funeral And My Trial -- Sonny Boy Williamson

Jive I Like -- Pearl Traylor & Howard McGhee

A Chicken Can Waltz The Gravy Around -- Stovepipe #1 & David Crockett

After You’ve Gone -- Benny Goodman

Shake That Thing -- Jimmy O’Bryant’s Famous Original Washboard Band

Route 90 -- Johnny Winter

Ain’t Done Nothing If You Ain’t Been Called A Red -- Faith Petric & Mark Ross

Tiger Rag (Part 1) -- Duke Ellington & the Jungle Band

Bad To The Bone -- George Thorogood

Tell Mama -- Etta James

Preachin’ Blues -- Sidney Bechet & His New Orleans Feetwarmers

I’m Hard To Satisfy -- Alberta Hunter

War -- Edwin Starr

Party Time -- Bald Bill Hagen

Thinking of Baby (from Johnny Staccato) -- Elmer Bernstein

Ol’ Bobcat -- Hillbilly Hellcats

One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer -- Amos Milburn

Selling That Stuff -- McKinney’s Cotton Pickers

Mona -- Bo Diddley

I Need It Bad (Groove Juice) -- Buddy Banks Sextette

Who Do You Love -- John Hammond

Camel Cigarettes (Old Time Radio Commercial)

Four Or Five Times -- King Oliver & His Dixie Syncopators

Lead Pencil Blues -- Johnny Temple

Long Time Gone -- Crosby, Stills & Nash

Phonograph Blues -- Robert Johnson

Pig Meat On The Line -- Memphis Minnie

Chicken Plucker -- Jimmie Ballard

Quaker Puffs Good Luck Mascots (Old Time Radio Commercial)

Eggs And Sausage -- Tom Waits

Jumpin’ At The Woodside -- Count Basie

Wipe It Off -- Lonnie Johnson & Clarence Williams

Lorraine -- Les Sampou

Bang Bang -- David Sanborn

Claudette -- Roy Orbison

Flying Saucer Rock ‘n’ Roll -- Billy Lee Riley

Spider Web -- Joan Osborne

Move Up To Heaven -- Pilgrim Travelers

It’s Tight Like That -- Clara Smith

It Don’t Mean A Thing -- Boswell Sisters

Honeymoon On A Rocket Ship -- Hank Snow

Messin’ -- Chris Harrod

Nettie’s Cafe -- Dean Krippaehne

Champagne Charlie Is My Name -- Blind Blake

JUBILEE RADIO SHOW (11/15/1943) with the Delta Rhythm Boys -- Armed Forces Radio Service

Christine’s Tune (aka Devil In Disguise) -- Flying Burrito Brothers

Pastures Of Plenty -- Woody Guthrie

#blues #swing #rockabiily.hokumblues #oldtimeradio

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Jan. 16, 2019: Obituaries

Franklin Delano Bell, age 85

Franklin Delano Bell, age 85, of Millers Creek, passed away Saturday, January 12, 2019, at Wake Forest Baptist Health-Wilkes Regional. He was born July 27, 1933 in Wilkes County to Clay H. and Grace McNeil Bell. Mr. Bell was a US Army Veteran and was previously employed with the United States Postal Service. He was preceded in death by his parents; and a son, Jerry Bell.

Surviving are his wife, Frances Childress Bell; daughters, Kimberly Johnson and husband Chris of North Wilkesboro, Donna Smith and husband Rev. Randy of Deep Gap; sister, Sara Sowers of Greensboro; eight grandchildren; fourteen great grandchildren; and two great great grandchildren

Funeral service will be held 2:00 p.m. Thursday, January 17, 2019, at Congo Pentecostal Holiness Church with Rev. Luke Pyles and Rev. Randy Smith officiating. Burial with military honors by Veterans of Foreign Wars Honor Guard Post 1142 will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends at Congo Pentecostal Holiness Church from 12:00 until 2:00 on Thursday, prior to the service. Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Congo Pentecostal Holiness Church Building Fund, c/o Linda Huffman, 287 Cactus Lane, Wilkesboro, NC 28697. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements. Online condolences may be made to www.millerfuneralservice.com

Evelyn Taylor, 90

Mrs. Evelyn Marie Steele Taylor, age 90, widow of Vernest Elwood Taylor, died Saturday, January 12, 2019 at her home.

Funeral services were January 15, at Cub Creek Baptist Church with Rev. Brian Sampson, Rev. Scotty Roten, and Rev. Virgil Woodie officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.

Mrs. Taylor was born on September 4, 1928 in Rocky Mount, VA to Ivey and Carrie Lou Minton Steele. She was a secretary at Texaco Oil Company in North Wilkesboro as well as at other businesses. She enjoyed cooking, quilting, traveling and spending time with her children and grandchildren. She was a member of Cub Creek Baptist Church.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Vernest Taylor, and two brothers, Charles Robert (Bobby) Steele of Zionville and Ivey Steele, Jr. of Athens, GA.

She is survived by one son, Edwin Taylor of the home; one daughter, Elizabeth (Susie) Harris of Wilkesboro; one granddaughter, Charly Harris of Wilkesboro; two great grandchildren, Tre` and Kassidy Lowe of Wilkesboro; a brother, Raymond Steele, and wife, Lulabelle, of Hiddenite; and several nieces and nephews.

Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Cub Creek Baptist Church, P.O. Box 86, Wilkesboro NC 28697, or to the donor's choice.

Mauvreen Combs, 89

Mrs. Mauvreen Gentry Combs, age 89 of Wake Forest, formerly of Wilkes County, died Saturday, January 12, 2019 at Hillside Nursing and Rehabilitation in Wake Forest.

Funeral services will be held 11:00 AM Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at Pleasant Home Baptist Church in the Lomax community, with Rev. Danny Bauguess and Rev. Mike Ester officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Mrs. Combs was born March 19, 1929 in Wilkes County to Carmel and Vallie Sparks Gentry. She was a member of Pleasant Home Baptist Church.

Mrs. Combs was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Roy Mastin Jack Combs; and three sisters, Jean Tucker, Inez Ester, and Sybil McCann.

She is survived by two daughters, Gail Combs Uzzell of Raleigh, and Terry Combs Lopez and husband, Antonio, of Freeport, Bahamas; one son, Reginald F. Combs and wife, Dianne, of Lewisville; five grandchildren, Chandler Minton Conklin and husband, Ronald Dean Conklin, Zachary W. Minton, Emily Combs Yeatts and husband, John, Edward F. Combs and wife, Laurel, and maria Isabella Lopez; six great-grandchildren, Ashley R Conklin, Shelby D. Conklin, John "Jack" Yeatts, Jr., Walter F. Yeatts, Clara P. Combs, and Madeline A. Combs; and one sister, Rebecca Gentry Cauthren and husband, Shelbie D. Cauthren, of Roaring River.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Pleasant Home Baptist Church, 162 Byrd Road, Roaring River NC 28669.

James Wilborn, 63

Mr. James Henry Wilborn, age 63 of North Wilkesboro, died Friday at Hospice of the Piedmont in Highpoint.

Funeral services will be held 1:00 PM Thursday, January 17, 2019 at New Damascus Baptist Church with Rev. Keith Knox, Rev. Brent Bailey, and Rev John A. Speaks officiating. Burial will be in High View Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 12:00 until 1:00 prior to the service at the church.

Mr. Wilborn was born January 7, 1956 in Wilkes County to Charles William and Cora Alice Barber Wilborn. James began his career at Wilkes ADAP, Inc. on June 9, 1977. And he truly lived a full life!! He called ADAP - "school" but it was truly work. James was a member of the yard/janitorial crew. he mastered over the years - using the riding mower - even loading it on the trailer, push mower, weed eater, and the leaf blower. He also worked hard when the crew went out to rake leaves and stack logs. James also loved working with the janitorial crew. He would vacuum tirelessly - till the job was done. James loved to work - but he also loved earning money and going to the bank to cash his check. This was his pattern for 42 years!!! He also loved gospel music and especially the song, "Oh Happy Day".

Mr. Wilborn was preceded in death by his parents; one brother, Rufus Wilborn; and two sisters, Wilma Calloway and Janice Eller.

He is survived by three sisters, Billie Cuffee and husband, Lonnie, of Wilkesboro, Cora Ellen Simpson and husband, Keith, of North Wilkesboro, and Melissa Richardson and husband, Danny, of North Wilkesboro; and four brothers, Spencer Wilborn and wife, Veronica, Lawrence Wilborn, Alvin Wilborn and wife, Norma, and Clyde Wilborn, all of North Wilkesboro. He also held a special place in his heart for his nieces and nephews.

Flowers will be accepted or memorials made to Wilkes ADAP, P.O. Box 698, North Wilkesboro NC 28659.

Joan Porter, 79

Joan Huffman Porter, age 79, of North Wilkesboro, passed away Thursday, January 10, 2019 at Wake Forest Baptist Health-Wilkes Regional. She was born June 22, 1939 in Wilkes County to James Wayne and Edith Beshears Huffman. She was a member of Welcome Home Baptist Church in North Wilkesboro. Ms. Porter was preceded in death by her parents; and a brother, Charlie Huffman.

Surviving are her daughter, Sharri Porter and husband Stephan Lackey of North Wilkesboro; grandchildren, Jennifer Foster and husband Chad, Ryan Lackey all of North Wilkesboro; and brother, Jerry Huffman and wife Lydia of Boone.

Funeral service was January 12, at Miller Funeral Chapel with Rev. John Triplett officiating. Burial was in Welcome Home Baptist Church Cemetery. Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Ruby Pardue Blackburn Adult Day Care, PO Box 984, North Wilkesboro, NC 28659 or to Wake Forest Baptist Health & Hospice, 126 Executive Drive, Suite 110, Wilkesboro, NC 28697.

Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

Bill Wolfe, 84

Mr. Bill Turner Wolfe, age 84 of Ferguson, passed away Wednesday, January 9, 2019 at his home.

Funeral services were January 11, at Lewis Fork Baptist Church with Pastor Dwayne Andrews officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.

Mr. Wolfe was born January 20, 1934 in Wilkes County to Blaine James and Mary Ann Cardwell Wolfe. He was retired from Broyhill Furniture. Bill enjoyed coon hunting, working with his Honey Bees and being outside. He was a member of Elk Creek Baptist Church.

He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife; Dorothy Marie Goforth Wolfe, an infant daughter; Sharon Kay Wolfe, a brother; Willie Wolfe, a sister; Hattie P. Wolfe and a granddaughter; Brittany Caudill.

Mr. Wolfe is survived by five daughters; Sandra Wolfe Harless, Patty Wolfe, Susan Wolfe Ratliff and Janet Wolfe Milam all of Ferguson and April Wolfe Johnson and husband Scott of North Wilkesboro, a son; Billy Wolfe and wife Alicia of Ferguson, ten grandchildren; LeAnn Church, Jessica Younce, BJ Younce, Sydney Church, Brandon Sturgill, Miranda Carter, Kayla Burchette, Presley Caudill, Nathan Johnson and Hannah Johnson, thirteen great grandchildren; Mackenzie Berk, Skyler Kluttz, Gavin Gilbert, Trinity Absher, Hayden Absher, Jade Wolfe, Draken Wolfe, Cayden Wolfe, Ember Wolfe, Cody Burchette, Grayson Carter, Emma Caudill and William Caudill and three brothers; Willard Wolfe of Ferguson, JB Wolfe and wife Mary of TN and Fred Wolfe of North Wilkesboro.

Altha McNeil, 93

Mrs. Altha McNeil, age 93 affectionately known to her friends and family as "Granny" passed away after an extended illness on Tuesday, January 8, 2019. A native of Wilkes County, NC, she and her first husband Charles Faw moved to Damascus, VA around 1947 to manage a Smithey's Department Store. She lived in Damascus until Charles died on July 1978. She remarried her second husband Thomas McNeil in 1981. They moved to Maryland for a short period of time before they returned to Damascus. After Thomas died in 1996, she moved back to Wilkes County, NC where she lived in her childhood home until 2016. With failing health she moved to Thomasville, NC to live with her daughter Judy until her death.

Altha "Granny" was preceded in death by her parents; Odell and Ella Moore, a brother, Paul Moore, an infant brother, Howard, her first husband, Charles Faw and her second husband, Thomas McNeil. Altha is survived by her children; Judy Butler (Roger) of Thomasville, NC and Eddie Faw (Ann) of Burnsville, NC. She is also survived by her four granddaughters; Christi Bryant of Abingdon, VA, Shana Holcombe of Myrtle Beach, SC, Kimberly Greene (Steve) of Cary, NC, and Jennifer Guilfoil (John) of Harrisburg, NC, eight great-grandchildren and one great-great-granddaughter and a brother; Jack Moore of Yadkinville, NC, a sister; Georgia Faw of North Wilkesboro.

Altha loved her family and was proud to host a semi-annual family get together where she included family and friends from all facets of her life. She was a warm loving person who never met a stranger and always a had a smile and a positive attitude. And most importantly she loved her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Funeral services was January 15, at Reins-Sturdivant Chapel, 270 Armory Road, North Wilkesboro, NC with Rev. Jonah Parker and Mr. Sid Crunk officiating. The family will receive friends from 11:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. prior to the service at Reins-Sturdivant Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Calloway Cemetery in West Jefferson, NC.

In lieu of flowers the family asks that memorials be made to Hospice of the Piedmont, 1801 Westchester Drive, Highpoint, NC 27262.

The family wishes to thank Hospice for their care of Granny with a special thank you to her nurse Rachel and the Chaplain Chris and Social Worker Kat.

Patsy Johnson, 83

Mrs. Patsy Mae Johnson, age 83 of Wilkesboro passed away Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at Wake Forest Baptist-Wilkes Medical Center.

Funeral services were January 11, at Reins-Sturdivant Chapel with Rev. Ken Boaz officiating. Burial was in Oak Forest Baptist Church Cemetery.

Mrs. Johnson was born October 29, 1935 in Wilkes County to Fred Gales and Minnie Church Gales. She was a member of Oak Forest Baptist Church.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband; Rex Edwin Johnson, one son; Rex Allen Johnson, two sisters; Doshie Anderson and Trilby Johnson and one brother; Carlie Gales.

She is survived by one daughter: Ginger J. Barker, one son; Mark E. Johnson and wife JoAnn all of Wilkesboro; eight grandchildren and one great grandchild.

Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Wake Forest Care At-Home Hospice, 126 Executive Drive, Suite 110, Wilkesboro, NC 28697.

Carol Kennedy, 74

Carol Johnson Kennedy, age 74, of Hays, passed away Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at her home, surrounded by her husband, children and family. Mrs. Kennedy was born December 22, 1944 in Wilkes County to Rev. Lester and Eulala Church Johnson. She was preceded in death by her parents; and seven siblings.

Surviving are her husband, Johnny D. Kennedy; her children, Karen Shumate and husband Gene of McGrady, Jon Kennedy and wife Tera of Hays, Wendy Porter and husband Brian of North Wilkesboro, Hank Kennedy and husband Brent Ridenour of Kernersville; brothers, Allen Johnson of North Wilkesboro, Dale Johnson of Roanoke, Virginia, Claude Johnson of Hays; sister, Carrie Billings of Traphill; grandchildren, Rusty Shumate, Kendall Shumate, Michelle Porter, Troy Porter; great grandchildren, Kayden Morgan, Kamryn Scott, Keria Hayes and Sydney Ellis.

Funeral service was January 11, at Miller Funeral Chapel with Rev. David Key and Carlton Johnson officiating. Burial was in the Kennedy Family Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Mountain Valley Hospice, 688 North Bridge Street, Elkin, NC 28621. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

Steven Anderson, 66

Mr. Steven Jack Anderson, age 66 of Boomer passed away Monday, January 7, 2019 at his home.

A graveside service with full Fire Fighters Honors was January 10, at Scenic Memorial Gardens with Dr. Chris Hefner, Rev. Robert Duncan, and Rev. Gary Watson officiating.

Mr. Anderson was born April 3, 1952 in Caldwell County to Doris June Anderson. He worked for Lowes' Companies, Inc. and was a member of Wilkesboro Baptist Church and the Ferguson Volunteer Fire Department.

In addition to his mother, he was preceded in death by a brother, Jerry Wayne Anderson.

He is survived by his wife; Joyce Adams Anderson of the home, his son and daughter-in-law; Steven Patrick and Andrea Watson Anderson of Deep Gap, one grandson; Jackson Garrett Anderson of Deep Gap; nephews Captain Jerry Wayne Anderson, Phillip W. Smith, Eric F. Smith, Douglas A. Smith,

Norman Adams, 76

Mr. Norman Adams, age 76 of Winston-Salem, passed away Sunday, January 6, 2019 at his home.

Mr. Adams, a retired Personnel Director of the Fulton County Human Services Department, served his country proudly as a veteran of the US Armed Forces. He also earned an Associate of Science degree at Essex County College, a Masters of Arts in Counseling Psychology at Southwest University, and a Bachelor of Arts at Jersey City State College. Mr. Adams will be remembered as an avid civil and social activist and educator. He was awarded for his involvement with Volunteering in Service to America by US Vice President Hubert Humphrey and served on the Forsyth Board of Elections.

Memorial services with Military Honors by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1142 will be held 3:00 PM Sunday, January 13, 2019 at Reins-Sturdivant Chapel with Rev. John Speaks, Pastor V.C. Crawford, and Kenneth Turner officiating. The family will receive friends from 2:00 until 3:00 PM prior to the service at Reins-Sturdivant Funeral Home.

Mr. Adams was born August 3, 1942 in Wilkes County to Donald and Frances Glenn Adams.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother: Harry Adams.

He is survived by a sister: Gyllie Edge of Maryland; one son: Dwayne Adams; one nephew: Brian Adams and two nieces: Tianna Adams and Meanna Adams; one great nephew and two great nieces; fiance' Eva Johnson King.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Wounded Warrior Project.

Online condolences may be made at www.reinssturdivant.com.

Edward Ray Osborne, age 66

Edward Ray Osborne, age 66, of Millers Creek, passed away Saturday at Wake Forest Baptist Health-Wilkes Regional. He was born February 15, 1952 in Wilkes County to Roscoe Brantley and Maudie Williams Osborne. Mr. Osborne was a member of Cricket Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his parents; and a sister, Joan Adams.

Surviving are his wife, Pam Miller Osborne; daughter, Amanda Hopkins and husband Matthew of Wilkesboro; granddaughters, Elsa Hopkins and Greta Hopkins; sisters, Ethel Sheets and husband Carl of Millers Creek, Claire O. Donaldson, Velma Sturgill both of North Wilkesboro; several nieces and nephews.

Funeral service will be held 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, January 9, 2019 at Cricket Baptist Church with Rev. Randall Millsaps, Rev. Burl Jones and Rev. Gary Benesh officiating. Burial will follow in Mtn. Park Cemetery. The family will receive friends at Cricket Baptist Church from 12:00 until 1:00 on Wednesday, prior to the service. Flowers will be accepted. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements. Online condolences may be made to www.millerfuneralservice.com

Kayla Melissa Dubuque, age 25

Kayla Melissa Dubuque, age 25, of North Wilkesboro, passed away, Sunday, January 6, 2019. She was born March 29, 1993 in Wilkes County to Kyle Dubuque and Kimberly Sheppard. Kayla enjoyed spending times with her nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her sister, Kristal Gale Dubuque.

She is survived by her father and step mother, Kyle and Charlene Dubuque of North Wilkesboro; her mother, Kimberly Sheppard Young of Wilkesboro; brothers, Jamie Anderson, Joshua Evan Dubuque both of Elizabethton, Tennessee; sister, Kimberly Nicole Dubuque of North Wilkesboro, brothers, James Wyatt, William Wyatt both of North Wilkesboro, William Hairston of Wilkesboro.

Memorial service will be held 3:00 p.m. Friday, January 11, 2019 at Miller Funeral Chapel with Pastor Lane Roark officiating. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements. Online condolences may be made to www.millerfuneralservice.com

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The arrival of the newborn created new routines in the household. It also involved a lot of new learning, but with Frances' help, the new parents grew more confident as the days passed. Fortunately, Norma was a happy baby, who always smiled at whoever held her.

Since there were still no jobs to be found in the newspaper, Ruben started going into a neighbouring town to find work that way. It was a long commune, but he felt he had to do everything he could to provide for his family.

At the same time, Edwin and Silvia's dissatisfaction began to grow. They were delighted that their respective siblings were doing so well here with their newborn, but to them, Moonwood Mill was just a desolate town with no future.

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Buncombe Co. NC Genealogies and Histories #northcarolinapioneers

Buncombe County Wills and Estates

Buncombe county was formed in 1791 from parts of Burke County and Rutherford Counties. It was named for Edward Buncombe, a colonel in the American Revolutionary War, who was captured at the Battle of Germantown. The large county originally extended to the Tennessee line. Many of the settlers were Baptists, and in 1807 the pastors of six churches including the revivalist Sion Blythe formed the French Broad Association of Baptist churches in the area. In 1808 the western part of Buncombe County became Haywood County. In 1833 parts of Burke County and Buncombe County were combined to form Yancey County, and in 1838 the southern part of what was left of Buncombe County became Henderson County. In 1851 parts of Buncombe County and Yancey County were combined to form Madison County. Finally, in 1925 the Broad River township of McDowell County was transferred to Buncombe County. Genealogy Records available to members of North Carolina Pioneers Images of Will Book B, 1869 to 1899 Names of Testators:

Images of Buncombe County Will Book C, 1887 to 1897 Names of Testators:

Images of Will Book A, 1831 to 1868 Names of Testators:

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Wills 1831 to 1868; Wills 1868 to 1899; Wills 1887 to 1897

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Fragmented IoT Ecosystems Are Destined for Connectivity, Interoperability and Security Problems | Drake

She has since increased to an average of 10,000 steps per day. Drake Resources Limited currently has a total float of 6.94M shares and on average sees shares exchange hands each day. In succession to Uncharted: The Lost Legacy's release last month, Naughty Dog has revealed its second limited edition statue of the franchise, featuring the dashing yet daring adventurer Nathan Drake. Four-Star '19 DL Hearing From Pac-12/MWC Schools.

The Calloway County Lakers took down Livingston Central on Monday afternoon in windy conditions at Drake Creek. Lyman Drake, 88, of Lake Monticello, Virginia passed away on Friday, September 8, 2017. He was born on October 29, 1928, in Boonton, New Jersey, son of the late Lyman Edwin and Catherine Regina Drake.She sets an alarm to get up and be active for 10 minutes every hour. Look out world, Drake is back in the booth, and no one is safe.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Right now, there are two skate parks within the city of Sioux Falls; Drake Springs Park and Kuehn Park. Drake averaged fewer than 4,000 steps per day before starting her current exercise routine.This concert is the 22nd instalment of the Skin And Bones Music Series. Corona Centennial looks to have a much improved defense from previous years and junior defensive lineman Drake Jackson is a big reason for that. I think the closest thing I've experienced to a hurricane was six years ago when Davis County experienced a severe windstorm. Master drummer Hamid Drake and Toronto's virtuosic saxophonist Brodie West will perform in concert Sept. 27 in the Pyramid at the Summerhill Winery. Dani's lifelong crush, the popular swimmer, Cameron Drake , finally notices her after his relationships ends, leaving him wanting more than a pretty face.

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UM Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter welcomes the crowd at the dedication of the new and renovated Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College. Photo by Kevin Bain/Ole Miss Communications

A line of blustery, threatening weather moving through the area didn’t stop more than 100 University of Mississippi students, faculty, staff, administrators and alumni from celebrating the successes of the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College on Thursday (March 30) afternoon.

The crowd squeezed into the Honors College’s great room to dedicate the expanded and renovated building, putting the cap on a two-year project. The ceremony, which was relocated from outdoors because of the weather, also marked the 20th anniversary of the Honors College and was followed by a reception and open house.

“The Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College is an incredible asset to our university,” Chancellor Jeffery Vitter said. “It distinguishes us among peer institutions and allows Ole Miss to offer exceptional personalized opportunities to extremely talented students. I am very excited to be celebrating its expansion and renovation today.”

Others making remarks during the ceremony were Dean Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez; David Buford, director of risk management for the State Institutions of Higher Learning; Honors College alumni Dr. Marc Walker and Christin Gates Calloway; and Jim Barksdale, who helped launch the Honors College when he and his late wife, Sally McDonnell Barksdale, donated funds to expand the university’s Honors Program in 1997.

Moving into the new space was “a 10-year dream come true,” Sullivan-Gonzalez said.

“The new building represents a great blend of classroom and study space to go deep into conversation with peers on the tough questions of the day,” he said. “We are grateful for the new and renovated space at the SMBHC.”

The $6.9 million project added 15,000 new square feet to the existing building, bringing the total to 32,290 square feet. The renovated section includes seven new classrooms, a new kitchen, study area, a great room, computer lab, three new study rooms and new faculty offices.

“This is great and I’m so proud of what has been accomplished here during the past 20 years,” Barksdale said. “In life, you always want the chance to do something significant and different.

“This opportunity came along at the right time, the right place and with the right people. What a wonderful return upon our investment.”

Both Calloway and Walker said their Honors College experiences have proven invaluable to their careers.

“My professional path for the past 11 years has been built upon my Freshman Ventures at Weyerhaeuser Paper in Seattle and my medical missions trips to Bolivia, all made possible through the Honors College,” said Walker, a 2006 alumnus who earned his bachelor’s degree in biology with minors in chemistry, religion and philosophy. He earned degrees from both Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School and is set to become chief resident in plastic and reconstructive surgery at Yale-New Haven Hospital next year.

“I’ve learned that surgery is a lot easier with the right tools and a committed team. That’s exactly what the Honors College offers.”

A Kosciusko native who earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology in 2011, Calloway said the Honors College is where she “grappled with some of the toughest social, educational and political challenges of our time.”

“The Honors College is one of the most unique and enriching opportunities I’ve ever experienced,” said the doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. “Had I not attended here, I wouldn’t have had the courage, determination and tenacity to continue my education at some of the nation’s most prestigious institutions of higher learning.”

The Honors College has grown tremendously from its humble beginnings. Opening with an initial class of 121 students in 1997, its student body has grown to more than 1,400.

The program annually attracts high-performing students from across the state and country. The average ACT score for incoming scholars last fall was 30.9, and their average high school GPA was 3.92.

For the last two years, more than 400 freshmen have joined the SMBHC each year. To accommodate the growing student body, the Honors College broke ground on its expansion in 2014, and the new addition opened in March 2016. The original building was then renovated, and work was completed in December.

“Our students enjoy deep conversations, and this is a welcoming space that encourages us to take time to engage in meaningful discussion,” Sullivan-Gonzalez said. “This provides the needed infrastructure to assure that this program will be the ‘tip of the spear’ to lead the university’s academic charge for years to come.”

The Barksdales made the idea of an Honors College possible, enabling the purchase and renovation of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority building to house the new program. That first gift also endowed 16 scholarships and provided funding for operating expenses.

Other generous donations include endowments from the Parker estates to fund scholarships, and from Lynda and John Shea to support study abroad fellowships.

With the death of Sally McDonnell Barksdale in December 2003, the Honors College was renamed in her memory in spring 2004.

“The University of Mississippi and, indeed, all of the state’s citizens are indebted to the Barksdales for their continued and transformative support,” Vitter said. “For 20 years now, the impact of the Honors College has been far-reaching, helping create a vibrant legacy of attracting the best and brightest to Ole Miss.”

For more information on the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College, go to http://ift.tt/19h52gd.

By Edwin Smith

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