“STORIES IN SONG” SERIES 2019 – “CARROLL COUNTY, IN SAGINAW MICHIGAN” – By Des Kelly Talk of “Stories in Song”, here are two beauties. Walter Browning’s son, Porter discovers the old man’s wedding ring in a little matchbox (circled by a rubber band), in the glove-box of Mary-Ellen’s car which was smashed up in an accident, which killed Walter & almost killed Mary-Ellen as well. Both were highly respected in Carroll County & both were married (but not to each other), so what they were doing together was anybody’s guess. Mary-Ellen testified that he’d flagged him down, saying he was sick & could she drive him into town, and she verified this. Porter, however did a bit of thinking and realizing what might have been going on, threw the little matchbox containing his dad’s wedding ring into a deep well, and the finale’ of this story is that the County ...
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“STORIES IN SONG” SERIES 2019 – “ANOTHER DON” – By Des Kelly In Australia, the name Don immediately brings to mind, the greatest Cricketer (Batsman/Captain) in the World, Sir Donald Bradman, the head of the Italian Mafia was always known as “Don”, no matter what his original name was. Then, there was the late Don Knotts (Actor), the late Don Rickles (Comedian), & the not so late Don Hinds, only 25 years old & already an “You-tube” Star. Congratulations to the final Don. May you go onto greater things on You-Tube. Stop digressing Des, & go on with your “Stories in Song”, featuring, this time, the late, great Don Ho, a Hawaiian “great” who started very small, really. His first “hit” in fact, was “Tiny Bubbles”, born Donald Tai Loy Ho on August 13th 1930, died of a heart-attack on April 14th 2007. Don Ho has the distinction of being, in just ...
“STORIES IN SONG” SERIES 2019 – “RHONDA & GENE—-GONE FOR GOOD”!! Only joking, folks. This is Rhonda Vincent & Gene Watson I am talking about. Rhonda would have to be one of the finest female Country Singers, I have had the pleasure of listening to, recently. As for Gene, well, there isn’t a single song,recorded by this man, that I have not enjoyed. As everyone knows, there are hundreds of very good Country Singers, most of them, from America, but then, the very best Country Musicians also hail from the U.S.A., and their “backing” of people such as Rhonda & Gene only help them to sound even better (if this is possible). As I have said (& written), many times, my taste in Music is catholic. I live for the love of good music, but as all my eLanka readers will already know, Country Music is my forte’. Still, good music ...
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“STORIES IN SONG” SERIES 2019 – “Going to Pot” – By Des Kelly They have sung around the World as individuals, entertaining millions of fans, making lots of money, writing superb songs (both of them), true Icons of Country Music, now teaming up to tell us that the World is “going to pot”, and, how true it is. Merle Haggard, who passed away on the 6th of April, 2016, & his buddy Willie Nelson, happily, still with us, tell us, in no uncertain terms, the state of the World, as it was, when they were recording the song. Well, it hasn’t got any better friends, as a matter of fact, it steadily got worse. Our Universe has certainly “gone to pot”, our Politicians have all gone “potty”, and that is the understatement of the year 2019. The only consolation is the fact is that ordinary folk everywhere are beginning to ...
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“STORIES IN SONG” SERIES 2019 – By Desmond Kelly “An elephant never forgets”, an amazing but true saying as regards this huge, still gentle animal, used for various manual labours, especially in Asia. While on the subject, I must make mention about the Pinnawella Animal Sanctuary in Sri Lanka, which tourists from all over the World, never fail to visit primarily to see many adult and baby elephants looked-after, with love, by the “mahouts”(elephant carers’) over there. This is exactly how it should be. Animals are also God’s creatures and must be looked after, because, as time goes by, their living areas keep getting smaller, forests are being stripped of trees mainly for the wood they produce, and robbing the homelands of fauna, in general. “What has this got to do with “Stories in Song”?, you ask. Well, let me tell you. We are in Thailand now. Paul Barton, an ...
“STORIES IN SONG” SERIES 2019 – By Des Kelly I wouldn’t call him a great singer, especially as he was surrounded by some of the greatest “voices” in history, during this genre’ of Country Music, but Kris Kristofferson made up for this by being one of the greatest Country Music Songwriters of all time. Born on the 22nd of June 1936, into a military family (his father was once an Air Force General), and Kristoffer (naturally), also served as a helicopter pilot, after graduating as an Oxford Scholar, he decided that songwriting was his “calling”, came to Nashville and the rest is history. Tall, ruggedly good-looking, with what is known as a gravelly voice, Kris was also an “Actor” in great demand (It seems, that even in America, one needs more than a single string to their bow), or, in a word, “multi-talented”, and Kris Kristofferson was surely one ...
“STORIES IN SONG” SERIES 2019 – By Des Kelly “Music hath charms”, to soothe a savage breast, to soften knots, or bend a knotted oak”, wrote the poet Congreve, in “The Mourning Bride”, just as William Shakespeare wrote from “The Twelfth Night”, “If music be the food of love, play on”. This writer LOVES Music. Really does not matter which Country it comes from, does not matter which language it entails, does not matter who the Composer is/or was, just as long as the music is “easy on the ear”, can be enjoyed, brings a few minutes of peace and wellbeing to the listener, better still, someone who will want to hear it, perhaps, over & over again. I first heard Samoan & Cook-Island music, around the & 1970’s after arriving in Australia, immediately fell in love with it, in it’s simplicity, musicality & the fact that I then ...
“STORIES IN SONG” SERIES 2019 – By Des Kelly On the other hand, Randy Bruce Traywick (better known as Randy Travis), yet another great Country Singer, songwriter, guitarist & part-time “actot” as well, was born in Tennessee on the 4th of May, 1959, active, in the recording business since 1978, scoring no less than 20 superb Country Albums, as he “toured” around the World, and I was privileged to see him on stage in Melbourne many long years ago, was impressed with his style of singing, plus some of the songs he picked on to entertain us. He married Elizabeth Hatcher, a film producer & nightclub owner in 1991, after a rather long “engagement” of 9 years. Elizabeth was 20 years older than Randy, but age is just a number, folks. It all depends on how you “feel”. When she met him, Randy was just 17 years old & if ...
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“SOUTH OF THE BORDER” – By Des Kelly Love him or loathe him, we have to admire the solid persistence of the man. I watched President Trump in the most recent “live” event taking place in America as regards their total border security, including perhaps a “pure steel wall””completely separating America from Mexico, to STOP unlawful entry through wide and varied “gaps” in the system, at the moment. He has asked Congress to grant him 5.2 Billion dollars with which to build this “wall”, in either steel or concrete, preferring a steel product which, in turn, will enhance the American Steel Industry, itself. If this be the case, we can forget about a concrete wall. The money wasn’t forthcoming via the Congress or the Democrats (his main opponents), in spite of many meetings called specifically for this purpose, and so, President Trump has “shut-down” the Government of America ...
“Stories in Song” 2019 – By Des Kelly Yes folks, she was “Easy to love” too. Just as the recently late Aretha Franklin was, and rightfully so, Ella Fitzgerald, who was born in America in 1917, started her career in 1934 at “sweet seventeen” (and kissed often), after all, SHE went on to be known as the “First lady of song” another Jazz legend, during the times of Louis Armstrong & Frank Sinatra, to name just two, lauded for her precise intonation, her “feeling” for every song she sang, she passed on to her special jazz platform in the sky, on the 15th of June 1996. To all our readers of eLanka, here she is, in my book, “The Queen Of Song” Ella Fitzgerald. Please enjoy. Desmond Kelly (Editor-in-Chief) eLanka. ...
