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You all seem to be having troubles about release dates. Did you know a radio station in southern Illinois was airing Beatles tunes in 1962? Records were being shipped from the UK to the station...G. Harrison's sister, an area resident, pressured the station to play them.

Humorist Dave Barry once ranked Richard Harris' version of a song (whose title I've forgotten) as the worst one ever recorded. No way. THIS is by far the WORST song ever to take up air time on radio. I can't even get through it....at 1:53 I am bailing out.

Today I met an elderly man with a memory loss problem (vet of three wars with 9 Purple Hearts)...played tenor sax before and after his long military career. His nurse said there was a picture of him (maybe back in the 90s) taken with "someone famous" ...after finding out he was Italian-American, ...

TRUE Harry Caray story. In 1997 he got in the habit of figuring out how a player's last name would be pronounced if it were spelled backwards. At an Expos game, Mark Grudzielanek comes up to bat...so Harry says, "You know, if Grudzielanek spelled his name backwards (then a few seconds of silence)...

Jim Gaffigan's the funniest guy around now.

My wife and I stayed at the Inn outside Middlebury where the exterior shot you saw weekly was filmed. There's a photo of the entire cast in the inn's parlor.

Like Hill Street Blues, Northern Exposure, Dynasty, I looked forward to theme and stayed for the whole program. But St. Elsewhere led the pack in my mind all those years. What a great cast working with great scripts.

No song pays better homage to the incurable optimism that the Folk Era exuded. I never tire of listening to this.

young people are going to miss the 24-karat satire of the Folk era.....right down to the nonsense lyrics..."Potato's in the Paddy Wagon?"

The Trio's homage to the Civil Rights movement......still great to listen to, after all of these years.

@jess3237. Wait til you discover the music of the '40s. But first you need to put on a few years. Wait til you relish the lyrics of tunes like "Skylark" and "Stardust". Songs like that will never be written again. Listen to Linda Ronstadt's "What's New?" It's a good way to get your ears accustome...

Silowhore is right. Haggard would have made a wonderful addition to The Highwaymen. In fact I would have jettisoned Kris for Merle.

This is the kind of song that will transcend generations. Our grandchildren will love this, too. It is a tribute to the collective talent of these wonderful guys.

This is NOT the original. It's close....it's a re-recording. I have the original at home stored away.

Getting a haircut from Angel Delgadillo is a true honor. I got one. And Angel had me on his Xmas card list. We're good friends. Seligman is a Great stop. Juan was a true cut-up; I'm glad I got to know him before he died.

He's wrong, of course. The Oatman region is one of the least picturesque stretches of AZ 66. You have to get to Williams (where Dennis Hopper shot footage for Easy Rider) and the hilly surrounding areas among the pines.

The Road Food gang rate Red's Eats the best lobster roll in New England.

It was SO much nicer before the big changes in the '70s. No parking lot. No visitors center. If you knocked on the white home's front door, you'd expect Grace or Cal to come to the door. One docent at the Visitors Center said Tom Skeritt's character in the film "A River Runs Through It" was inspi...

such a pretty kimono

attractive kimono

@timothyJ1966 ...but I didn't write Her Majesty personally...I just dashed off my note and addressed it to the Palace...it was just dumb luck it reached the Lady of the House. Try to get to Cambridge on a Sunday...Sunday choir concerts, called Evensong, begin around 3 or 4 in the afternoon...not ...

Sounds better in a live performance than on a recording.

I'm sorry but, along the Mass Pike, Burger King or Sbarro will never even come close to a visit to HoJo's. As far as I know it was the only chain to offer Indian Pudding (in the '50s and '60s), a New England dessert. And the clam chowder was almost as good as home-made.

This chain had no business going out of business. The chicken and biscuits and chocolate cake were only two of the reasons this was a great place to dine out. If they had located in Wisconsin, they'd still be going strong.

Thumbs up!

Around 1981, twenty years after the first skyjacking (from Havana), I was approaching Logan in Boston, flying over downtown, and marveling at the vulnerability of skyscrapers. A bomber had rammed into the Empire State Building in the fog in 1945, but who in the media remembers that?

I have a problem with the Corvair calling an "orphan," too. It was just a discontinued line of a very significant (and surviving) make. Nice to see that Nash Healey though, still gorgoeus after all these years.

Coming home from college classes in the mid-60s, I found her music could always lift my spirits...this is one of my favorites....but I think Number One will always be "Hold On To What You've Got", never released as a single but on one of her albums.

The secret of a Great lobster roll is very little filler. Lobster meat and not much else. In the Midwest you have to pay $20 for a lobster roll, much more than you'd have to shell out in New England.

Always liked the phrase "concrete Christ"