George Jones, 1931-2013

Interesting that Nelly Furtado also sang this song.  I don't like her version, I guess because I'd always been a fan of her early song, "I'm Like a Bird," 2000.  Furtado, a Canadian, is a pop singer, but has tones like the British blue-eyed soul singer, Amy Winehouse, 1983-2011, who I liked.  

Find some biographies of George Jones.

"The Cold Hard Truth," George Jones, 1999. 

"Corvette Song," George Jones, 1985.

"White Lightning," 1959. 

"A Wound Time Can't Erase," George Jones, 1962.

"He Stopped Loving Her Today," George Jones, 1979. 

"Still Doin' Time," George Jones, 1981.

With Tammy Wynette, 1942-1998, "Milwaukee Here I Come," 1968.

"Stand by Your Many," Tammy Wynette, 1968.  One of Mrs. Parker's favorites.  

El Encanto

There are certain images that are so iconic to my upbringing that when I'm in their vicinity, I'm reminded what a happy youth I had growing up in Duarte and running up into and along the San Gabriel Foothills (Fish Canyon Falls, Van Tassel, Rincon, East & West Fork, & Crystal Lake) and the riverbed and the SG Canyon or Hwy 39 hiking & fishing. That was a great, adventurous, life explored with great friends and family.  

This park wasn't always a park with Duarte's Museum.  It was an empty field when we were kids.  And, in fact, there's one memory that stands out when Tom and Joe were walking along El Encanto Parkway, parallel to the field, when they came across a dead body.  So this field has a history that the new immigrants to the area would be shocked by.

John Facenda, 1913-1984, Narrator of NFL Films, 1967-1976

John Facenda, 1913-1984, narrator of NFL Films from 1966-1984, my absolute favorite show to watch and voice to listen to as a kid.  https://youtu.be/avUmLeoLubU?si=NKuy6DGn8o1vV5LA.  

 

More John Facenda.