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Jimi

Jimi

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Good mornin Family :wave:
Got a lot of things to do today just haven't decided where to start:giggle:
Gonna start my pepper plants today and in 2 weeks I'll start mater plants
I hope the day is bein kind to everyone:)

Born 100 years ago, Cordell Jackson was an American guitarist thought to be the first woman to produce, engineer, arrange and promote music on her own rock and roll music label.
Jackson founded the Moon Records label in Memphis in 1956. Unable to break into the Sun label's stable of male artists, she received the advice and assistance of RCA Records' Chet Atkins in forming this new label to release her music. She began releasing and promoting on the label singles she recorded in her home studio, serving as engineer, producer and arranger. The artists recorded included her and a small family of early rock and roll, rockabilly, and country music performers she recruited from several Southern states.
Her Moon Records label was the oldest continuously operating label in Memphis at the time of her death in 2004. The 50s Rock on the Moon of Memphis, Tennessee + an Oddity, a compilation album of the label's 1950s singles, was released on vinyl in the early 1980s and was later sold on compact disc until her death in 2004.
She died in Memphis in 2004, aged 81.
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Good thing for today is I spent the afternoon planning my summer garden and clearing out some of the cool weather plants that were bolting or getting ready to or dying off. Got some fresh lettuce and carrots picked for dindin tonight as well.
 
Jimi

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Good mornin Family :wave:
Well I can see the forum is runnin like a constipated hippo:rolleyes: I wish there was something we could do to help urge a change for the better, I see more and more members complainin and leavin this wonderful forum, sad, this used to be a very busy forum with lots of active members:(
I hope the day is bein kind to everyone:)

Happy heavenly birthday to singer Nat "King" Cole 1919-1965. Salute. God bless.

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Jimi

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In May of 1969, Peter Cetera and three other members of the rock band Chicago (then known as The Chicago Transit Authority) were at Dodger Stadium for a game between the Dodgers and the Cubs.
The Cubs won the ballgame 7-0, and at some point four disgruntled Dodgers fans - U.S. Marines no less - decided to take out their angst on Cetera, who was unabashedly celebrating. They broke Cetera's jaw in three places sending him to intensive care.
Fast forward to later that summer, with Cetera's jaw still wired shut, the band was slated to re

cord the song "25 or 6 to 4." It couldn't wait, and only Cetera could pull off the vocal. He recorded "25 or 6 to 4" - one of the great songs on the era - through gritted teeth. You may have heard this song hundreds of times and never known. But if you listen closely you can hear the words getting a little slurry at times. Surprisingly little, considering. But noticeable, given that Cetera's vocals are normally very clean.
Anyway, if you like that song just how it is, you can thank four crabby Dodgers fans and Peter Cetera for his unflinching support for the Cubs.


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Also Today in Cool History:
Mar. 19, 1957 - Elvis Presley put a down payment on a mansion and 13.8 acre estate in Memphis, Tennessee called "Graceland". Presley bought this estate in 1957 for $102,000, and immediately spent over $500,000 carrying out many opulent and extensive modifications to suit his needs ($602,000 in '57 = ~$6.7 million in today's dollars).
Hundreds of thousands of people visit Graceland each year, and during "Elvis Week" (the anniversary of his death) it hosts as many as 40,000 people. It currently serves as a museum, and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graceland
<ed. note:> Graceland is the second most-visited house in the U.S. (after the White House), with over 650,000 visitors a year.
https://www.graceland.com/

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