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  • OT : Kris Kristofferson

    From Roger@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 30 15:01:09 2024
    Not really relevant in our time period I know but sad news nevertheless
    on the passing of Kris Kristofferson who wrote several songs I like and
    maybe you do too.

    Here's the ones I like best and in my favorite versions

    FOR THE GOOD TIMES - Al Green – 1972 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2dEwY0xzcI

    HELP ME MAKE IT THRU THE NIGHT - Gladys Knight & The Pips - 1972 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX66ZtKnmYU

    ME AND BOBBIE McGHEE - Jerry Lee Lewis - 1971 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEg4BPKl7K4

    NOBODY WINS - Brenda Lee – 1973
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IdDXD0GebI

    SUNDAY MORNIN' COMING DOWN - Johnny Cash – 1970 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPiSYVLFCM8

    R.I.P.

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  • From Bruce@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 30 15:15:57 2024
    Why him, lord?

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  • From Bruce@21:1/5 to Mark D. on Tue Oct 1 02:46:16 2024
    On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 2:15:43 +0000, Mark D. wrote:

    On Sep 30, 2024 at 10:15:57 AM CDT, "Bruce" <Bruce> wrote:

    Why him, lord?

    He was 88.

    --md

    Maybe you are not as much of a lyrics guy as you say. This is his
    biggest hit record.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzVycgM8XHQ

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  • From Mark D.@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 1 02:15:43 2024
    On Sep 30, 2024 at 10:15:57 AM CDT, "Bruce" <Bruce> wrote:

    Why him, lord?

    He was 88.

    --md

    remove "xx" for email

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  • From DianeE@21:1/5 to Bruce on Tue Oct 1 08:51:43 2024
    On 9/30/2024 10:46 PM, Bruce wrote:
    On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 2:15:43 +0000, Mark D. wrote:

    On Sep 30, 2024 at 10:15:57 AM CDT, "Bruce" <Bruce> wrote:

    Why him, lord?

    He was 88.

    --md

    Maybe you are not as much of a lyrics guy as you say. This is his
    biggest hit record.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzVycgM8XHQ
    ---------
    I never heard of it before either.

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  • From Bruce@21:1/5 to DianeE on Tue Oct 1 16:10:36 2024
    On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 12:51:43 +0000, DianeE wrote:

    On 9/30/2024 10:46 PM, Bruce wrote:
    On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 2:15:43 +0000, Mark D. wrote:

    On Sep 30, 2024 at 10:15:57 AM CDT, "Bruce" <Bruce> wrote:

    Why him, lord?

    He was 88.

    --md

    Maybe you are not as much of a lyrics guy as you say. This is his
    biggest hit record.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzVycgM8XHQ
    ---------
    I never heard of it before either.

    It was only the Billboard Hot 100 for 38 weeks. Actually I stole the
    line from Rowan who posted it in the baseball forum we are both on.

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  • From Bruce@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 2 15:19:52 2024
    From a 1958 Sports Illustrated---

    This dashing young man in the Rugby outfit plays standoff on the team at
    Pomona College in California, where he is a senior. But this is only a
    small facet of 21-year-old Kris Kristofferson's amazing record. He is
    also starting left end on the varsity football team, a Golden Gloves
    boxer, sports editor of the college paper, outstanding cadet in the ROTC battalion of which he is cadet commander. As an English major he is an
    honor student and member of the four-man senior honor society on campus.
    Kris won four of the top 20 awards recently given in a creative writing
    contest for college students. He composes folk songs which he sings to
    his own guitar accompaniment. And to crown this varied list of
    accomplishments Kris is a Rhodes scholar-elect, one of 32 young
    Americans chosen to go to Oxford this fall. As the eldest of three
    children of Major General and Mrs. Henry Kristofferson, Kris will find
    travel familiar. The family has done a lot of it keeping up with their airline-executive father (the senior Kristoffersons are in Saudi Arabia,
    where the general is operations manager for Aramco Airlines), and Kris
    has lived in Texas, Washington, New York and California. It was in San
    Mateo that he attended high school and distinguished himself as a
    distance runner. At Oxford he will study English literature to prepare
    for a writing career.

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  • From Steve Mc@21:1/5 to Bruce on Wed Oct 2 08:56:36 2024
    On 10/2/2024 8:19 AM, Bruce wrote:
    It was in San
    Mateo that he attended high school and distinguished himself as a
    distance runner.

    I wonder if he went to Serra, like Barry Bonds, Tom Brady, and fucking
    Lynn  Swann.

    --
    Steve Mc

    DNA to SBC to respond

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  • From DianeE@21:1/5 to Bruce on Wed Oct 2 14:35:44 2024
    On 10/2/2024 11:19 AM, Bruce wrote:
    From a 1958 Sports Illustrated---

    ...Kris is a Rhodes scholar-elect, one of 32 young
    Americans chosen to go to Oxford this fall....At Oxford he will study
    English literature to prepare
    for a writing career.
    ----------------
    His obituary mentioned that while at Oxford, he recorded for Top Rank
    Records under the name Kris Carson, but was not successful in launching
    a music career at that time. Since that would fall in our era, I wonder
    if anyone (named Roger) knows anything about these records. Were they released?

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  • From Roger@21:1/5 to DianeE on Wed Oct 2 19:18:50 2024
    On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 18:35:44 +0000, DianeE wrote:


    On 10/2/2024 11:19 AM, Bruce wrote:
    From a 1958 Sports Illustrated---

    ...Kris is a Rhodes scholar-elect, one of 32 young
    Americans chosen to go to Oxford this fall....At Oxford he will study
    English literature to prepare
    for a writing career.
    ----------------
    His obituary mentioned that while at Oxford, he recorded for Top Rank Records under the name Kris Carson, but was not successful in launching
    a music career at that time. Since that would fall in our era, I wonder
    if anyone (named Roger) knows anything about these records. Were they released?

    I knew he recorded for Top Rank whilst at Oxford University (he got a
    Masters Degree there BTW) but I know nothing of these unreleased
    recordings save that they were supervised by one Tony Hatch (the maestro
    behind Petula Clark's "Downtown")

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