This Week In Southern History, we go all the way back to March 18, 1934, and here’s what the world looked like then!: In Bienville Parish, Louisiana, America’s favorite outlaws, lovers, and abject f*ckin lunatics Bonnie and Clyde, were finally surrounded by police and killed.
Hey Corey, we didn't listen to very much country when I was a kid in the 70s, but Charley Pride was definitely one of our favorites. (My mom used to sing "Rose Garden", by Lynn Anderson to me and my bro). In case you weren't aware, at the height of his popularity in 1971 with "Kiss an Angel Good Morning" he also recorded the theme for the film "Sometimes a Great Notion", called "All His Children". You should check out this movie if for nothing else but the famous "drowning" scene with Paul Newman and Richard Jaeckel. Also stars Henry Fonda as the patriarch of a logging family on the Oregon Coast, so it's about people I grew up around in southern Oregon...that's right, Oregon rednecks!
Thanks for this. Charley Pride was my oldest brother’s favorite and he shared the music with me when I was little, so I love it, too. BTW, have to point out, it’s *Fond* du Lac. It’s a beautiful town in my home state of WI, on the shores of Lake Winnebago. Also, my Dad, who was himself a minor league ball player for the then Milwaukee Braves system, and my Mom started their family in the depression. They only had nine, though, so no free birthin’ for my Mom. 😂
Hey Corey, we didn't listen to very much country when I was a kid in the 70s, but Charley Pride was definitely one of our favorites. (My mom used to sing "Rose Garden", by Lynn Anderson to me and my bro). In case you weren't aware, at the height of his popularity in 1971 with "Kiss an Angel Good Morning" he also recorded the theme for the film "Sometimes a Great Notion", called "All His Children". You should check out this movie if for nothing else but the famous "drowning" scene with Paul Newman and Richard Jaeckel. Also stars Henry Fonda as the patriarch of a logging family on the Oregon Coast, so it's about people I grew up around in southern Oregon...that's right, Oregon rednecks!
Thanks for this. Charley Pride was my oldest brother’s favorite and he shared the music with me when I was little, so I love it, too. BTW, have to point out, it’s *Fond* du Lac. It’s a beautiful town in my home state of WI, on the shores of Lake Winnebago. Also, my Dad, who was himself a minor league ball player for the then Milwaukee Braves system, and my Mom started their family in the depression. They only had nine, though, so no free birthin’ for my Mom. 😂