Keeping you busy tonight - LOL. BTW, you can post any of these ya want on Poal ... I've been taking a hiatus from there the last week. They started to get to be nothing but competing shitposting subs going back and forth for awhile, so I backed off and am posting just a couple of links a day there.
Keeping you busy tonight - LOL. BTW, you can post any of these ya want on Poal ... I've been taking a hiatus from there the last week. They started to get to be nothing but competing shitposting subs going back and forth for awhile, so I backed off and am posting just a couple of links a day there.
Well, everyone keeps posting such good songs. Glad to see the Pub getting some love (except that guy in booth 4, I'm keeping an eye on him).
Well, everyone keeps posting such good songs. Glad to see the Pub getting some love (except that guy in booth 4, I'm keeping an eye on him).
LOL - We kinda made a deal with @InnocentBystander that we'd do theme nights at Paddy's and Cheers, Cheers was doing Thursdays, so we decided on Weds. Think it over and you can pick the theme next week if you'd like.
LOL - We kinda made a deal with @InnocentBystander that we'd do theme nights at Paddy's and Cheers, Cheers was doing Thursdays, so we decided on Weds. Think it over and you can pick the theme next week if you'd like.
“The End of the World” was written by composer Arthur Kent and lyricist Sylvia Dee; the latter drawing on sorrow from her father’s death, writing the lyrics when she was 14 years old. Skeeter Davis recorded the song on June 8, 1962 at the RCA Studios in Nashville, produced by Chet Atkins, and featuring Floyd Cramer on piano. Released by RCA Records in December 1962, “The End of the World” began its historic four-chart, Top Ten accomplishment in March 1963.
In later years, “The End of the World” came to be regarded as something of a modern standard, subsequently covered by acts as diverse as Loretta Lynn, the Carpenters, Nancy Sinatra, Johnny Mathis, and John Cougar Mellencamp. The Skeeter Davis version, however, the original “End of The World,” has been featured in a number of films, including: Girl, Interrupted, Riding In Cars With Boys, Daltry Calhoun, An American Affair, and others.
Skeeter Davis – Mary Frances Penick – was born in a two-room cabin at Dry Ridge, Kentucky near Glencoe in 1931. She was the first of seven children, and she grew up on a farm. Her grandfather, impressed by her energy, nicknamed her “Skeeter.” After 1947, the Penick family moved to Covington, Kentucky, and it was there that Skeeter began singing with high school classmate Betty Jack Davis. Adapting the name the Davis Sisters – when Skeeter Penick became Skeeter Davis – the two girls gained momentum in the early ’50s working at Detroit’s WJR radio station on the “Barnyard Frolics” show. The girls’ harmonies came to the attention of RCA’s Steve Sholes, who signed them to a recording contract in 1953. They were just a year or two out of high school by then. That summer, as their “I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know” headed to No. 1 and million-seller status, a violent car crash left Betty Jack dead and Skeeter injured. Betty’s stage mother, reportedly then coerced Skeeter into performing with Betty’s sister, Georgia, through 1956. Skeeter then married, in part to escape Mrs. Davis, and begin a solo career.