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Deep down, you know this stings. fricking Golden has 2 playoff wins and Lane has yet to sniff one.

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TRUTH. They'll try to dick ride this success as if it's their own (it's what they do), but they've been ready to dance on Ole Miss' grave for weeks now and all the Rebs do is keep winning... without Kiffin. Bwahahaha!!

Great song Kafka. Mark James had an interesting career...

Francis Rodney Zambon (November 29, 1940 – June 8, 2024), known professionally as Mark James, was an American songwriter. He wrote hits for B.J. Thomas, Brenda Lee and Elvis Presley, including "Hooked on a Feeling", "Always on My Mind", and Presley's hit single "Suspicious Minds".

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James befriended singer B.J. Thomas when both were young

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After his discharge, he moved to Memphis in 1968 and worked as a staff songwriter for Memphis producer Chips Moman's publishing company. In 1968 and 1969 Moman produced Thomas’s versions of "The Eyes of a New York Woman", "Hooked on a Feeling", and "It's Only Love", all of which were successful. "Hooked on a Feeling", inspired by Karen Taylor his high school sweetheart who had inspired "Suspicious Minds", was his first top ten hit

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In 1972 James signed a long-term contract with Screen Gems-Columbia Music. In 1973, his song "Sunday Sunrise" was recorded by American Country singer Brenda Lee. Lee's version was a huge hit and became a top ten single on charts in the US. In 1975, Canadian musician Anne Murray covered "Sunday Sunrise". Elvis Presley recorded more of James's songs, "Raised on Rock", "It's Only Love" and "Moody Blue", which was the title track to Presley's last studio album.

James's greatest success came with "Always on My Mind", which he wrote with Johnny Christopher and Wayne Carson. It was issued as a b-side by Presley in 1972. In 1973, jazz-rock group Blood, Sweat & Tears released James’s "Roller Coaster" as a single from their album No Sweat. The song was recorded by David Cassidy in the same year for the last Partridge Family album Bulletin Board, which contained two other James songs, "Where Do We Go From Here" and "Alone Too Long", which he wrote with Cynthia Weil.

Not too often did someone cover Elvis and have the hit when he didn't.

It's always cool to see a young Richard Sterben of The Oak Ridge Boys in these videos.

I don't think so.

Overrated.

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This I swear sucks balls.

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That's ok. To each his own. I came to appreciate the music by going backward from the stuff I grew up on, including country, blues, the crooners like Bing, Frank, Dean and Tony Bennett, Big Band, folk, jump blues, doo wop, etc. IMO modern popular music with vocal harmony started with barber shop but really solidified with The Ink Spots and Mills Brothers.

I could be wrong on this but I think Elvis was the confluence to which current popular music led up to and then spread out from. He digested and assimilated country, blues, pop standards and country and distilled it down to it's rawest form of two guitars and a bass (eventually a drummer was added). It set the world on fire and then his offspring started adding instruments and vocals to it again as it radiated away from him. The Beatles will tell you.

A huge part of The Beatles success was McCartney's wide spread of musical knowledge from his father, but it was Elvis who embodied the spark. I've always been amused at my friends who love Led Zepplin and the like, but ignore who Led Zepplin liked. The same with my Beatles fan friends who hate country, but ignore that they were buying every Buck Owens release. But as I said, to each his own. People can love and hate what they want.

Most of the hit makers in all forms of music have always listened to a much broader palate than their fans.

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Thank God, the Beatles put the final nail in its coffin.

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Merry New Year!! :cheers:

Hmmm... No mentions of earrings in this thread.

I'm too old school to wear a gold chain, let alone an earring, but I can't believe how many people do. The earring / ear stud, in particular, still strikes me as slightly homo but it's so common (especially in the AA community) it's no longer viewed that way.

That said, when I see some old white dude with an earring I laugh. Embrace your age and don't look the fool gramps.

This is becoming the ultimate WTF?

Why even bother recruiting high schools is the jack-offs have the attention span and commitment of a gnat?

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- My wife's health (liver issues) has stabilized so hopefully she can live for many more years.
- I've become friends with a group of football/hockey loving guys who will do road trips. Fun-fun.
- My guitar buddy and I have met new people to where we're playing with others like a band. Very cool.