Quite a career.
"Though we're apart
You're part of me still
For you were my thrill
On Blueberry Hill"
RIP.
Quite a career.
"Though we're apart
You're part of me still
For you were my thrill
On Blueberry Hill"
RIP.
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Didn't he have a tie-in to Duke basketball? Didn't one of his relatives play for the women's team or something?
Perhaps you're thinking of this connection and have things a bit "twisted":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistie_Bass
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Here's a more-detailed obit.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...-at-89-w473594
He made his first record in 1949!! There are still some folks around who recorded in the 1950s-Jerry Lee Lewis, Willie Nelson, Sonny Rollins, Don Everly, et. al--but there can't be many left from the 1940s.
Ain't that a shame.
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I remember that he was missing for awhile after Katrina, and was glad to hear that he had made it through the storm.
A full life and great career.
Thanks for the thrills.
That jam session in heaven just welcomed a great keyboardist.
Nothing incites bodily violence quicker than a Duke fan turning in your direction and saying 'scoreboard.'
There was a bar in Durham, back in the 70's, called "Blueberry Hill". My father found himself there, once upon a time, with a crowd he really wasn't expecting. Live and learn! (though he often struggled with that pairing)...
I've never heard the song the same way since.
-jk
The most trouble I ever got in as a child was telling my mother a dirty joke I'd heard from some neighborhood kid about a girl named "Blueberry Hill." The beginning of the song's lyrics can clue you in to what the point of the joke was.
My mother dragged me down the street to the boy's house and then his mother was notified of what kind of things we boys thought were "humorous."
I didn't play with him so much after that. He ended up being a baseball player. Played a couple seasons in the majors, but I don't know what happened to him after he left the sport.
Probably hadn't been there in 15 years or more but I remember a pretty good tap list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebe...l_(restaurant)
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One of my many memories from Happy Days:
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My father's trip was to a very different Blueberry Hill.
-jk
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust