Jerry Wallace Dead at 79
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VICTORVILLE, Calif. | Jerry Wallace, who shot to fame in the late
1950s with a pair of hit songs including “Primrose Lane,” died Monday.
He was 79.
One of his three sons, Jerry Wallace Jr., said his father died of
congestive heart failure at his home in Victorville.
The senior Wallace began recording in 1951 and scored his first major
hit in 1958 with the release of “How the Time Flies,” followed a year
later with the upbeat “Primrose Lane” written by Wayne Shanklin.
Gene Kennedy, owner of Tennessee-based Door Knob Records, which
released several of Wallace’s records in the late 1970s, said
“Primrose Lane” sold more than a million copies. Kennedy said it was
Wallace’s biggest-selling record.
Born in Kansas City, Mo., on Dec. 15, 1928, Wallace was the son of a
grocery store owner. He grew up in Missouri and Arizona before moving
to Hollywood.
Wallace effectively retired in the late 1970s and stopped recording. A
Navy veteran who served around the time of World War II, Wallace
stopped performing too, with the exception of some low-key concerts
for Victorville veterans.
According to the Hit Parade Hall of Fame Web site, Wallace scored more
than 45 chart successes on both the pop and country music hit parades.
In 1972, Wallace was nominated for the Country Music Association Award
as male vocalist of the year and “To Get To You” was nominated as
single of the year. The song stayed on the hit parade for 22 weeks
straight.
The first 45 I ever purchased was by Wallace. I think it was called
"Little Coco Palm." A sad commentary on my musical tastes at the
time!
Ray Arthur
KingCountryI@aol.com (Noah Tall)
>
> The first 45 I ever purchased was by Wallace. �I think it was called
> "Little Coco Palm." �A sad commentary on my musical tastes at the
> time!
>
> Ray Arthur<
PUH - LEEZE ! "AT THE TIME" ???????????
Jethro, you're the idgit who's spent a lifetime worshipping at the
shrine of Conway Twitty !!
The ONLY fans of Conway Twitty were 250 lb women, in spandex and
beehive hairdos, who traveled the country chasing Conway when Liberace
was out of town ! : )
Let me get this straight :
You're a 60 year old man with altars to Conway Twitty in every room in
your house, and you somehow think your musical tastes have improved
with time ??????
LOL !!!!!!!!! Too funny !!!!!
Thanks !!!!!!!
P.S. - Wait till you hear Brittney Spears new album ! :)
LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tr...@iwvisp.com
<KingCount...@aol.com> wrote:
Good to know you're still alive. Let me know when that changes.
Ray
KingCountryI@aol.com (Noah Tall)
> Good to know you're still alive. �Let me know when that changes.
>
> Ray
<
Please. No one will have to tell you. : ) That's your job, you're the
internet's version of the Grim Reaper. : ) Since radio gave you the
boot 15 years ago, you're the sad old dwarf nobody pays attention to
anymore so you trip all over yourself every time somebody dies, to
post their obituary, usually before they're even cold. Were you under
the impression that nobody else would report it, or do you have some
sort of Napoleonic complex, based on your lack of "stature" ? :)
LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (That's a rhetorical question, son ! No need
to answer what everybody already knows) :) LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Besides, technically, you probably could have posted your OWN obituary
15 years ago when radio kicked you to the curb. True, you're probably
still sucking air,and maybe even those rolled up cigarettes you used
to carry in your cute little Fonzie sleeves :) , but anyone who posts
here can certainly attest that the light might still be on, but
honestly Bunky, you and Henry Winkler have a lot in common !. : )
LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I mean c'mon, let's be honest. We've been here almost 15 years, and
99% of your posts are death notices. You've got about as much business
posting in here as you do posting to tall man's NG ! : ) . Isn't
there a dwarf tossing NG you could be posting to ?
P.S. - Don't be so hard on yorself. Christams is coming , so be sure
and ask Santa for a "Mr Microphone", some elevator shoes, and a wall
full of mirrors. : )
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<KingCount...@aol.com> wrote:
Congrats esker. Pretty enteretaining. Not your usual boarish &
boring drivel. Considering you make these supposed character flaws up
out of whole cloth, about once a year you show a tiny spark of
compositional ingenuity. Have you ever thought about returning to Jr.
H. S. and finishing that 8th grade English class?
Ray
KingCountryI@aol.com (Noah Tall)
> On May 14, 3:24�pm, "KingCount...@aol.com (Noah Tall)"
>
> <KingCount...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> Congrats esker. �Pretty enteretaining. �Not your usual boarish &
Please. If you weren't frequently the butt of my jokes you'd find them
ALL "pretty entertaining":, like the rest of my devoted subjects. : )
> Considering you make these supposed character flaws up out of whole cloth, about once a year you show a tiny spark of compositional ingenuity.<
Please. I don't "make up" anything, which is why they're so efffective
and as we say across the pond "spot on" . : )
> Have you ever thought about returning to Jr. H. S. and finishing that 8th grade English class?<
Please. Have you ? English class ? Is there a bigger waste of time in
the life of a student than 16 years of English classes ? If all you
get out of college is an "A" in an English class, you get a liberal
arts degree, which enabled you to dodge the draft in your day, and
allows you to pump gas for a living today ! Are you saying most Rhode
Scholars use their degrees to become disc jockeys "
LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No wonder nobody will hire you,
huh ? :) LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!
Look Bunky, ask Bill Gates or even Billy Joel for that matter , a
high school diploma isn't worth the paper it's written on. Unless you
have a trade or a college education you're wasting your time staying
in school, and you're gonna end up like you, unemployable at 50 !