Bobby Goldsboro,,,singer,, is he dead,?
Jake
I am pretty sure he is,,, what was his cause of death, and how old was
he?
Laurie D. T. Mann
> I am pretty sure he is,,, what was his cause of death, and how old was
> he?
Now that's a blast from the past!
I'm pretty sure he's still alive. He was helping with a children's
show in 1997, and I haven't heard anything else. (I did a search
and found a single fan page - based in Japan!)
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John Stone
Trying to think of his songs, lets see there was of course "Honey"
oh my god what a sentimental piece of tripe that song was. "Watching
Scotty Grow" and maybe one other that I can't remember now.
jke...@voicenet.com
>Trying to think of his songs, lets see there was of course "Honey"
>oh my god what a sentimental piece of tripe that song was. "Watching
>Scotty Grow" and maybe one other that I can't remember now.
The Smothers Brothers did a skit based on "Honey" that skewered it
perfectly.
Jack
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Fauxorb
>John Stone <sto...@pilot.msu.edu> wrote:
>
>
>>Trying to think of his songs, lets see there was of course "Honey"
>>oh my god what a sentimental piece of tripe that song was. "Watching
>>Scotty Grow" and maybe one other that I can't remember now.
>
>
>The Smothers Brothers did a skit based on "Honey" that skewered it
>perfectly.
>
>
There were a few parodies of that song, but my favorite came from a
Massachusetts-based group called The Bobby Darling Show which included the line
"Honey, I miss you and I'm doing fine. I'd love to be with you, but you're
packed in pine."
Wanderer
>
> I am pretty sure he is,,, what was his cause of death, and how old was
> he?
I'm pretty sure he is still alive but back in the 80's something
happened. I am not sure of the details BUT, he was allegedly charged
and/or convicted of either sexually molesting his own daughter or her
friend, or both! (they were around 13 years old). Again, no details, but
he was involved in a sex scandal with an underaged girl.
W
Steve & Jamie
ago he is a police officer now.
Mikar
Vinton? Not sure, just wondering.
GSU wrote:
> I'm not too sure about this. But, I was watching the Crook and Chase
> show on TNN recently and I seem to remember Laurieanne or Charlie or
> one of the guests saying something about Goldsboro having a theater in
> Branson, Mo.
>
> On Fri, 05 Mar 1999 06:48:08 -0500, "Laurie D. T. Mann"
> <lm...@city-net.com> wrote:
>
> >Jake wrote:
> >> I am pretty sure he is,,, what was his cause of death, and how old was
> >> he?
> >
K.F. Raizor
According to every country music encyclopedia I have, Goldsboro is alive and
well.....just his career is dead <g>. (J/K, he does perform in Branson
quite frequently.)
Jake wrote in message <36dfb51b.9234264@news>...
Jake
%Thanks, I think I got him mixed up with Bobby Darin,,, I
BKeith9508
beth
Remember, if God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it!!
When God calls you does he get a busy signal?
"Snap out of it!" -- Cher, Moonstruck
Uhhuh47300
theater in Branson, Goldsboro may too. Goldsboro is alive for sure. Does
anyone remember David Letterman's hysterical "version" of Goldsboro's "The
Straight Life"?
Trace
Melora
Jake wrote in message <36dfb51b.9234264@news>...
>
>I am pretty sure he is,,, what was his cause of death, and how old was
>he?
He might as well be as far as having a showbiz carreer goes. Last I heard
about him he was being accused of molesting his daughter's friend. That was
in the 1970's I think.
Melora
David Samuel Barr
>
>
> Trying to think of his songs, lets see there was of course "Honey"
> oh my god what a sentimental piece of tripe that song was. "Watching
> Scotty Grow" and maybe one other that I can't remember now.
>From 1962 through 1973 he put 26 songs into the pop charts.
The ones most people are likely to recall are:
Honey (1968, 15 weeks on chart, five of those at #1)
See the Funny Little Clown (1964, 13 weeks, peaked at #9)
Little Things (1965, 12 weeks, peaked at #13)
Watching Scotty Grow (1970, 13 weeks, peaked at #11)
Autumn of My Life (1968, 9 weeks, peaked at #19)
Summer (The First Time) (14 weeks, peaked at #21)
The Straight Life (1968, 8 weeks, peaked at #36)
In 1991 he created "Easter Egg Mornin'" for the Disney Channel.
In 1993 he wrote and performed the theme song for the Burt Reynolds
CBS sitcom, "Evening Shade".
In 1996 he created the TV series "The Swamp Critter of Lost Lagoon".
seen on The Learning Channel and PBS stations.
This year he was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame with a
Lifework Award for Performing Achievement.
GossipHo
kids, which gives a whole new meaning to his song "Watching Scotty Grow." Sad
but true.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
GossipHo
"Sic gorgiamus alles subjectatus nunc"
We Gladly Feast on Those Who Would Subdue Us. Not just pretty words.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
David Samuel Barr
>
> I am almost certain that Bobby Goldsboro ended up doing time for
> molesting his kids, which gives a whole new meaning to his song
> "Watching Scotty Grow." Sad but true.
Can you provide any reliable citation for this?? I have never found any
such allegation in any reference source discussing him.
Wanderer
It was in the newspaper several years ago. Since Goldsboro had already
declined as any kind of credible talent, it only made it to page 15 or
so. Nevertheless, it was a sexual molestation charge involving him with
either his own daughter or a friend of hers....both around 13 years old.
His career and morality may be dead, but he still walks the planet, the
putz.
W
Brad Ferguson
<Dean...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
> Wanderer wrote in message <36E560A0...@hotmail.com>...
>>David Samuel Barr wrote:
>>>
>>> GossipHo wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I am almost certain that Bobby Goldsboro ended up doing time for
>>> > molesting his kids, which gives a whole new meaning to his song
>>> > "Watching Scotty Grow." Sad but true.
>>>
>>> Can you provide any reliable citation for this?? I have never found any
>>> such allegation in any reference source discussing him.
>>
>>It was in the newspaper several years ago.
>>
>>
>>
> Hey Wanderer, telling somebody it was " in the newspaper" is not really any
> help to anybody looking for an actaul source. It's as good as saying " I
> heard about it somewhere". If you're going to slander somebody at least have
> the courtesy of providing some proof..
> Deano
It really sucks that an anonymous someone can say he/she/it is "almost
certain" that Goldsboro committed a horrendous crime and then grandly claim
the whole things is "sad but true."
I also note that GossipHo and his/her/its defender Wanderer are both filing
from hotmail.com. Color me suspicious.
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David Samuel Barr wrote
>Can you provide any reliable citation for this?? I have never found any
>such allegation in any reference source discussing him.
No, but I remember hearing about it in the news when he was accused.
I do not however know what the conclusion was. As I recall the allegation
was that he molested a daughter's friend who was staying overnight.
gjw
> It was in the newspaper several years ago. Since Goldsboro had already
> declined as any kind of credible talent, it only made it to page 15 or
> so. Nevertheless, it was a sexual molestation charge involving him with
> either his own daughter or a friend of hers....both around 13 years old.
> His career and morality may be dead, but he still walks the planet, the
> putz.
I just did a scan on "The Electric Library", which contains stories from
numerous news sources (such as the L.A. Times) for years back. I found
nothing to support your allegations, despite the fact that I scanned for
his name linked with the words "molestation" and "abuse". There wasn't
a single story about him being charged in such a case, and chances are
strong that if it happened, it would show up in this library. In fact,
the stories it did retrieve seemed to indicate the exact opposite: that
he is currently working on projects for kids TV. That would be unlikely
to happen if people had suspected him of child abuse. In fct, there's a
follow up story (a "where is he now?" sort of thing) about Goldsboro
from 1997 that tells about his life, but has no mention of any scandals
- again, something unlikely if it had made the news as you claim. So,
unless you can come up with at least one reliable source for the rumor,
I think we must to assume that nothing of the sort ever happened.
Dean Schaefer
Wanderer wrote in message <36E560A0...@hotmail.com>...
>David Samuel Barr wrote:
>>
>> GossipHo wrote:
>> >
>> > I am almost certain that Bobby Goldsboro ended up doing time for
>> > molesting his kids, which gives a whole new meaning to his song
>> > "Watching Scotty Grow." Sad but true.
>>
>> such allegation in any reference source discussing him.
>
>
>
>
Wanderer
> Hey Wanderer, telling somebody it was " in the newspaper" is not really any
> help to anybody looking for an actaul source. It's as good as saying " I
> heard about it somewhere". If you're going to slander somebody at least have
> the courtesy of providing some proof..
> Deano
Hey Dean,
First of all, this info was posted by more than one person. Secondly,
I would be in a shitload of trouble for slandering (even with a hotmail
account). I'm telling you dude, this really happened. Goldsboro's PR
people may have done a good job of throwing dirt on top of it but I read
it. I don't know when and where I read the fuckin thing, but I read it
somewhere sometime. I don't give a shit if you believe it or not.
W
Wanderer
>
>
> I just did a scan on "The Electric Library", which contains stories from
> numerous news sources (such as the L.A. Times) for years back. I found
> nothing to support your allegations, despite the fact that I scanned for
> his name linked with the words "molestation" and "abuse". There wasn't
> a single story about him being charged in such a case, and chances are
> strong that if it happened, it would show up in this library. In fact,
> the stories it did retrieve seemed to indicate the exact opposite: that
> he is currently working on projects for kids TV. That would be unlikely
> to happen if people had suspected him of child abuse. In fct, there's a
> follow up story (a "where is he now?" sort of thing) about Goldsboro
> from 1997 that tells about his life, but has no mention of any scandals
> - again, something unlikely if it had made the news as you claim. So,
> unless you can come up with at least one reliable source for the rumor,
> I think we must to assume that nothing of the sort ever happened.
Sorry gjw, not EVERYTHING is on the Internet. Now go use your "skills"
and explore other channels of communication. You WILL find it if you
look hard enough.
W
Zachariah Love
Oh yeah? I've been looking for TWO YEARS trying to find still photos OR
video footage in ANY FORMAT of then-President George Bush vomiting on
the Japanese Prime Minister. No dice. Reward hereby offered for any
substantive leads. All suggestions welcome.
Thank you,
Zachariah Love, Commissioner
The Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool
http://stiffs.com
"If you build it, they will die."
MACFARB
>> help to anybody looking for an actaul source. It's as good as saying " I
>> heard about it somewhere". If you're going to slander somebody at least
>have
>> the courtesy of providing some proof..
>> Deano
>
>certain" that Goldsboro committed a horrendous crime and then grandly claim
>the whole things is "sad but true."
>
>I also note that GossipHo and his/her/its defender Wanderer are both filing
>from hotmail.com. Color me suspicious.
>
>
>
I DID read these charges mentioned in a newspaper article, but I can't
rememberexactly when they were made and I don't recall seeing what the follow
up to the allegations were. Incidentally ,the article was not in the Star or
Enquirer tabloid type rag but a Scripps-Howard newspaper.
Whirlwynde
>>> > I am almost certain that Bobby Goldsboro ended up doing time for
>>> > molesting his kids, which gives a whole new meaning to his song
>>> > "Watching Scotty Grow." Sad but true.
>>>
>>> Can you provide any reliable citation for this?? I have never found any
such allegation in any reference source discussing him.
People Magazine did a "Where are they now" on Goldsboro in November of last
year. It's apparently online, but since I'm not an AOHell subscriber, I
can't access it. If there's something like that in his past, People would no
doubt mention it.
Whirlwynde
Whirlwynde
http://www.iknewthemwhen.com/where.html
Bobby Goldsboro (singer/songwriter) -- Mr. Goldsboro, hit-maker of the
1960s, is now in his late 50s. He has been writing children's stories since
1969 and is now a children's television producer. Recently, he produced
"Bobby Goldsboro's The Swamp Critters of Lost Lagoon,", in which Goldsboro
provided every "Swamp Critter's" voice as well as composed 120 songs for the
series.
Whirlwynde
(I've gotta get a life)
Brad Ferguson
<stage...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> gjw wrote:
>>
>>
>> I just did a scan on "The Electric Library", which contains stories from
>> numerous news sources (such as the L.A. Times) for years back. I found
>> nothing to support your allegations, despite the fact that I scanned for
>> his name linked with the words "molestation" and "abuse". There wasn't
>> a single story about him being charged in such a case, and chances are
>> strong that if it happened, it would show up in this library. In fact,
>> the stories it did retrieve seemed to indicate the exact opposite: that
>> he is currently working on projects for kids TV. That would be unlikely
>> to happen if people had suspected him of child abuse. In fct, there's a
>> follow up story (a "where is he now?" sort of thing) about Goldsboro
>> from 1997 that tells about his life, but has no mention of any scandals
>> - again, something unlikely if it had made the news as you claim. So,
>> unless you can come up with at least one reliable source for the rumor,
>> I think we must to assume that nothing of the sort ever happened.
>
> Sorry gjw, not EVERYTHING is on the Internet. Now go use your "skills"
> and explore other channels of communication. You WILL find it if you
> look hard enough.
How utterly lame. "I read it in the paper. Duh. You can look it up if you
try hard enough."
You and your bud GossipHo made the charge, and so you and your bud can
provide the source -- one we can look up for ourselves.
gjw
> Sorry gjw, not EVERYTHING is on the Internet. Now go use your "skills"
> and explore other channels of communication. You WILL find it if you
> look hard enough.
You were the one who made the (apparently false) accusation. It is up
to you to prove that it is true. Without proof, we should assume that
the claim is false. And so far you haven't offered an once of evidence
to back up your claims, nor has any other user reported hearing anything
to support your views.
Daniel Shields
We have just watched the creation of yet another Urban Legend visa-vi
Bobby Goldsboro and child molestation.
Has all the ear marks...I read it the paper...my cousin told me...well,
just coz the LA Times didn't print it, don't mean it ain't true...
Geez, what a great day.
Computers come to the trailer parks.
Dean Schaefer
Daniel Shields wrote in message <7c71hl$j...@freenet-news.carleton.ca>...
he was convicted or even ACCUSED of child molestation ,that he would be
working on children's shows right now!!!! And Wanderer, I do think you care
what I say!!!
Deano
King Daevid MacKenzie, UltimaJock!
<zl...@mediaone.net> sez:
□ Oh yeah? I've been looking for TWO YEARS trying to find still photos OR
□ video footage in ANY FORMAT of then-President George Bush vomiting on
□ the Japanese Prime Minister. No dice. Reward hereby offered for any
□ substantive leads. All suggestions welcome.
...get a hold of video artist Phil Patiris in San Francisco...he
incorporated footage of the Bush puking incident into one of his satirical
mocumentary pieces...dunno if it shows Bush actually puking *on* the
Japanese PM, but he's certainly doing it in the PM's presence (and,
theoretically, on Japanese-American relations in the process)...
--
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Wanderer
>
> We have just watched the creation of yet another Urban Legend visa-vi
> Bobby Goldsboro and child molestation.
>
> Has all the ear marks...I read it the paper...my cousin told me...well,
> just coz the LA Times didn't print it, don't mean it ain't true...
>
> Geez, what a great day.
>
> Computers come to the trailer parks.
Listen all,
I am not one to go around calling people child molesters. When I first
saw the post, it was one of the first things that came to mind along
with Goldsboro's horrible songs. I too have tried to do a search for
this news item from several Internet sources but came up with nothing. I
asked my wife the other day just to make sure I wasn't crazy, thinking I
may have dreamed this, but she too remembers the article. I believe it
was in the early eighties. It was in our local paper and I remember
being quite shocked because Goldsboro seemed to be so innocuous and so
unlikely to be charged with such a heinous crime. Perhaps the charges
were dropped and Bobby goes on, not guilty as charged, but for whatever
it's worth, I would hope to die a slow painful death if I am lying. And
THIS just may be the place to do it!
BTW Shields, my good man, I have quite a nice spread on a few acres of
land. Got a good job, wife, and kids. There isn't a trailer park within
40 miles of my palace.
W
Wanderer
>
> We have just watched the creation of yet another Urban Legend visa-vi
> Bobby Goldsboro and child molestation.
>
W
GossipHo
>You and your bud GossipHo made the charge, and so you and your bud can
>provide the source -- one we can look up for ourselves.
>
Brad, Honey,
I don't know the other guy, and I'm not making any "charges," only repeating
something I read in the newspaper more than 20 years ago. Frankly, I don't give
a sh*t about bobby goldsboro or who he has or hasn't f*cked. You're the one
that seems to be in a frenzy about this. Perhaps too close to home.
Brad Ferguson
<stage...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Daniel Shields wrote:
>>
>> We have just watched the creation of yet another Urban Legend visa-vi
>> Bobby Goldsboro and child molestation.
>>
>> Has all the ear marks...I read it the paper...my cousin told me...well,
>> just coz the LA Times didn't print it, don't mean it ain't true...
>>
>> Geez, what a great day.
>>
>> Computers come to the trailer parks.
>
> Listen all,
>
> I am not one to go around calling people child molesters.
But you did exactly that. Worse, you did it anonymously.
Provide a cite we can check, or go away and leave us alone. Your
credibility here has gone below zero.
Brad Ferguson
(GossipHo) wrote:
>>"Brad Ferguson" tried to pick up an electronic crayon and scrawl:
>
>>You and your bud GossipHo made the charge, and so you and your bud can
>>provide the source -- one we can look up for ourselves.
>>
> Brad, Honey,
>
> I don't know the other guy, and I'm not making any "charges," only repeating
> something I read in the newspaper more than 20 years ago. Frankly, I don't
> give a sh*t about bobby goldsboro or who he has or hasn't f*cked.
It's strange, then, that you're the person who brought all this up in the
first place.
> You're the one that seems to be in a frenzy about this. Perhaps too close to
> home.
You have no citation to make, and you never did. All you can say is that
you read it in the paper "more than twenty years ago." Then you obliquely
accuse me of committing the same crime simply for telling you and your
fellow choirboy to put up or shut up.
Are you naturally this lame, or is it the result of long, careful practice?
Wanderer
> >
> > Listen all,
> >
> > I am not one to go around calling people child molesters.
>
> But you did exactly that. Worse, you did it anonymously.
It's a figure of speech, Brad. I actually don't accuse anyone of
anything without due cause. If I have broken the a.o. bylaws by not
providing a source for this accusation then I extend my deepest
apologies. Child molestation , to me, is one of the worst crimes anyone
can commit. Anything to do with abusing children makes me absolutely
cringe in disgust, so I hope you can understand that this item I posted
was not hatched for attention. Someday, perhaps, I will find the source
for this accusation and I will post it accordingly. BTW, there are other
reasons for posting anonymously.
>
> Provide a cite we can check, or go away and leave us alone. Your
> credibility here has gone below zero.
I read you loud and clear. End of thread.
>
W
Melora
Brad Ferguson wrote
>
>How utterly lame. "I read it in the paper. Duh. You can look it up if
you
>try hard enough."
>
>provide the source -- one we can look up for ourselves.
I read it too. Maybe you did a poor search or maybe it's not on the
"electronic library. I know I did not imagine reading about it because
I was quite shocked at the time given his clean cut image.
Melora
Melora
Brad Ferguson wrote
>It's strange, then, that you're the person who brought all this up in the
>first place.
Actually I think I brought it up first, but I'm not sure. I know I read it
and it appears other people read it. Whether he was found
guilty, I have no idea. But it was reported. Are you his cousin
or something?
Melora
Melora
Whirlwynde wrote
>People Magazine did a "Where are they now" on Goldsboro in November of last
>year. It's apparently online, but since I'm not an AOHell subscriber, I
>can't access it. If there's something like that in his past, People would
no
>doubt mention it.
People occurred to me as a possible source too, because I think it
may have mentioned Goldsboro in the past too. Is People indexed
in the "electronic library" you searched, Brad?
Melora
Melora
>Bobby Goldsboro and child molestation.
No we don't. I read it first hand. No one told me. He was accused
of child molestation. Whether he was formally charged or convicted
I do not know, but he was accused.
Melora
Zachariah Love
>
> In article <36E66B...@mediaone.net>, Zachariah Love
> <zl...@mediaone.net> sez:
>
> □ Oh yeah? I've been looking for TWO YEARS trying to find still photos OR
> □ video footage in ANY FORMAT of then-President George Bush vomiting on
> □ the Japanese Prime Minister. No dice. Reward hereby offered for any
> □ substantive leads. All suggestions welcome.
>
> ...get a hold of video artist Phil Patiris in San Francisco...he
> incorporated footage of the Bush puking incident into one of his satirical
> mocumentary pieces...dunno if it shows Bush actually puking *on* the
> Japanese PM, but he's certainly doing it in the PM's presence (and,
> theoretically, on Japanese-American relations in the process)...
Thanks, Daevid. You just might be the king.
Brad Ferguson
No, I'm not. Are you his bitter ex-wife or something?
I don't know why you're pursuing this without bothering to provide
verifiable information about it. Until and unless someone does, the matter
should be dropped.
Laurie D. T. Mann
> > □ Oh yeah? I've been looking for TWO YEARS trying to find still photos OR
> > □ video footage in ANY FORMAT of then-President George Bush vomiting on
> > □ the Japanese Prime Minister. No dice. Reward hereby offered for any
> > □ substantive leads. All suggestions welcome.
You can probably find it at a video clipping service. I remember
seeing the event on at least two different networks. (You don't
see anything "gross" though - it looked more like Bush fell into
the man's lap while they sat at a head table during a banquet.)
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> I am pretty sure he is,,, what was his cause of death, and how old was
> he?
Here's something. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19831024&id=16YyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Mu8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1489,2175801
If you just enter bobby goldsboro molestation charge you find things.
R H Draney
the tree, how big it's grown"...sometimes the jokes just write themselves....r
--
Me? Sarcastic?
Yeah, right.
Brad Ferguson
two people (or possibly one using a sockpuppet to "agree" with him/her)
who insisted Goldsboro had done time for molesting kids, and it was up
to the rest of us to look up the citations. Some of us were accused of
being molesters ourselves because we asked for cites, which were never
provided.
This being 2013, yes, you can type in bobby goldsboro molestation
charge and "find things." Mostly what you'll find is that Goldsboro
was accused by his ex-wife during a bitter divorce proceeding in 1982,
but he was never arrested or charged. One of his daughters testified
against him. By 1991 Goldsboro had remarried, said he'd forgiven the
daughter who'd testified against him, and had moved on. Make of all of
it what you will.
BTW Goldsboro, who's now 72, is not dead.
Roy DeLoon
>
> I had no idea jokes write themselves.
>
We gathered.
susan....@gmail.com
> GossipHo wrote:
> >
> > I am almost certain that Bobby Goldsboro ended up doing time for
> > molesting his kids, which gives a whole new meaning to his song
> > "Watching Scotty Grow." Sad but true.
>
> Can you provide any reliable citation for this?? I have never found any
> such allegation in any reference source discussing him.
It was reported by newspapers at the time; unfortunately, I cannot find ANYTHING on the internet which discussed this.
Goldsboro was going through an extremely nasty divorce some thirty years ago, and the charges were made at the time. His ex-wife got the kids.
radioacti...@gmail.com
More specifically, that "his" "Watchin' Scotty Grow" is a lame song. I'm informed--by the late Mac Davis himself, actually, in some crowd-talk during an overflow performance at Six Flags Over Mid-America (now "St. Louis") during the late summer of 1975--that Davis actually penned the much-hated song.
But what's so wrong about a minor pop (or soft-rock) hit about loving your offspring? Judging by the comments herein, you'd have thought Davis (or Goldsboro) had committed as serious a lyrical crime as did Ice-T when he rapped in favor of killing police officers. I don't even believe there exists necessarily any G-d much less THE One, yet I still enjoy hearing Goldsboro softly croon, "Me and G-d, watchin' Scotty grow".
Incidentally, I don't even find Goldsboro's voice objectionable*. And barring some clearly damning evidence, I shall try to forget I ever heard the Goldsboro child-abuse charge.
BRYAN STYBLE/Florida
* Then again, I regard the guy with the funny nose, the funnier hair and the funniest voice history's GREATEST voice, so my judgment in this narrow regard is admittedly skewed, if not downright suspect.
R H Draney
>
>More specifically, that "his" "Watchin' Scotty Grow" is a lame song. I'm i=
>nformed--by the late Mac Davis himself, actually, in some crowd-talk during=
> an overflow performance at Six Flags Over Mid-America (now "St. Louis") du=
>ring the late summer of 1975--that Davis actually penned the much-hated son=
>g.
I once won a pair of movie tickets from a weekly tabloid when I was able to
answer their Father's Day contest "According to a certain 'pop' song, what does
BRLFQ spell?"...
A few years earlier, we used to amuse ourselves by messing with the lyrics of
the "other" Bobby's "Saturday Morning Confusion" (Bobby Russell, who wrote
Goldsboro's hit "Honey") by changing one word in each line to "screw": "Cousin
Jack, you screwed the leaf rake, tool kit, that's it" and "Popeye screws Pluto,
Batman screws Bozo"...by the time we got to the last verse, we could leave the
original line "Sis on her date" unchanged and still laugh ourselves silly about
*that*....r
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Yes, Mac Davis--born Wednesday, January 21, 1942 in Lubbock, just four days after Cassius Clay in Louisville--is still very much alive. Upon reflection, I was clearly confusing him with another Mac-who-died-young, Bernie Mac.
And punctuatingly-punctilious me also added an unwarranted apostrophe to the title and lyric of "Watching Scotty Grow", which I still insist ain't such a bad song, and in fact, given its genre (Top 40), was a first-rate hit, at least when compared with other songs (say, "Chick-a-Boom"* by Daddy Dewdrop, or "1900 Yesterday" by Liz Damon's Orient Express) which charted about as highly.
BRYAN STYBLE/Florida
* And no, "Daddy", since you melodically inquired, as a matter of fact, I DIDN'T "jus' love it".
Sauve Maria
>
> Incidentally, I don't even find Goldsboro's voice objectionable*. And barring some clearly damning evidence, I shall try to forget I ever heard the Goldsboro child-abuse charge.
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> * Then again, I regard the guy with the funny nose, the funnier hair and the funniest voice history's GREATEST voice, so my judgment in this narrow regard is admittedly skewed, if not downright suspect.
radioacti...@gmail.com
> * Then again, I regard the guy with the funny nose, the funnier hair and the funniest voice history's >GREATEST voice, so my judgment in this narrow regard is admittedly skewed, if not downright suspect.
> Who is this?
The same guy who inexplicably opened a landmark 1970 double-record entitled "Self-Portrait" with a track that featured an endlessly-repeated single lame lyric ("All the tired horses/In the sun/How-I-am supposed to get/Any ridin' done?") in the voices of a bunch of his back-up singers, but never his OWN "funny" voice.
BRYAN STYBLE/Florida
Sauve Maria
So you're going with Zimmerman, huh?
radioacti...@gmail.com
Phil Spector
as "the guy with the funny nose, funnier hair and funniest voice",
and then realized:
So you're going with Zimmerman, huh?
Of course. As for Spector, I doubt he's even the greatest voice of his current cell block*.
BRYAN STYBLE/Florida
* There are many pretty talented rappers behind bars nowadays, though not nearly enough.
homes...@netburner.net
> I am pretty sure he is,,, what was his cause of death, and how old was
> he?
Tommie Hicks
lord.ne...@gmail.com
> I am pretty sure he is,,, what was his cause of death, and how old was
> he?
RH Draney
away....r
norabbi...@gmail.com
MJ Emigh
> Bobby Goldsboro is alive; it's this newsgroup that's dead.
Which reminds me....are all of the Marx Brothers still dead?