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“ALPHABETICALLY YOURS” SERIES 14 (N) by Des Kelly The man who was “Country’s Frank Sinatra (who was supposed to have been technically, the best singer in the World, in his time), George Jones, God rest his Soul, was always a great singer, but the one that made him ultra-famous, was a song that his Management did not want him to record, because, as they put it, this was far too sad a song, and the public would never buy it. George Jones, also nicknamed “the Possum”, told them, in no uncertain terms, that HE loved the song and would record it anyway (and that was that!!). “He stopped loving her today” became one of the biggest Country Hits in history, the Possum, married to Tammy Wynette (female “Star” of the same era), left her, temporarily(it seems), after having had to “ride” his motor mower to the bar in town, when ...

ALPHABETICALLY YOURS” (SERIES) 2 She was one of the prettiest “song-stars” to ever grace a stage, Linda Ronstadt features in A.Y.Elanka (2), with the song “BLUE BAYOU”, written originally (& recorded) by the late great Roy Orbison & Joe Melson, who incidentally is still considered to be one of America’s top songwriters. Two of his “hits” included Blue Bayou & “Crying” & still another titled “Blue Angel” was written by him on the day his daughter Michelle was born. Something else that most of my readers may not know was the fact that Linda Ronstadt was indeed one of the back-up singers to Roy Orbison when he recorded Blue Bayou in 1963, then, made it her own huge hit, when she recorded it in 1977. In my opinion, Linda was an absolutely superb Artiste who, tragically, had to give up performing in 2011 because of Parkinson’s disease. Ladies & Gentlemen, ...

“ALPHABETICALLY YOURS” (Especially for eLanka) – By Des Kelly This is a very special “Series” of musical-memories for all eLankan readers everywhere. The “title” tells the story. The music, both vocal and instrumental has been chosen by me, mainly to bring back precious memories to all of you, out there. The World, chaotic, as it is, cannot go on, without music. Of course, I do realize that music in general is entirely “catholic”, “to each, his own”(as the title of still another song admits), but, as the very proud editor of the best “on-line” website for Lankans in Australia, I now refer to “our mob” especially, and, for you, folks, I’d like to present you with all the very best of music, alphabetically. I am doing this for two very good reasons. Firstly, I LOVE good music, as does my good friend, Neil Jayasekera, the owner of the eLanka website. ...