July 13th, 2011

This story of a convict who told his love to tie a ribbon to a tree is an American folk tale, dating to before 1959. In October 1971, newspaper columnist Pete Hamill wrote a piece for the New York Post called “Going Home”. In it, he told a variant of the story. The [...]

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May 6th, 2011

Gulf Coast Hideaway         Bolivar Ferry
Ever since my children were young our family has endeavored to have an annual beach week vacation on the Texas Gulf coast. At first it was just our immediate family. Then as the girls grew older, some of their friends were included in the [...]

April 26th, 2011

Here are two songs that were inspired by listening to the rhythm of the rain. The first song—a lonely boy’s lament for a lost love—was a number three pop hit in early 1963. The second—a celebration of the simple joys of love at hand—was a country chart-topper in the summer of 1986.

Little does [...]

THE FOUR ACES lyrics - Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
(Words by Paul Frances Webster and Music by Sammy Fain)
Love is a many splendored thing
It’s the April rose
That only grows in the early spring
Love is nature’s way of giving
A reason to be living
The golden crown that makes a man a king
Once on a [...]

There’s a yellow rose in Texas, that I am going to see,
Nobody else could miss her, not half as much as me.
She cried so when I left her, it like to broke my heart
And if I ever find her, we nevermore will part.
She’s the sweetest little rosebud,
That Texas ever knew
Her eyes are bright as diamonds,
They [...]

In 1954, Bill Haley and His Comets recorded “Rock Around the Clock”. It was re-released later in 1955, in conjunction with the film Blackboard Jungle. The song rose to the top of the Billboard musical charts that summer and stayed there for eight weeks, the first rock and roll record to do so.

One, two, [...]