Wednesday, October 11th, 2017 Music Thread...All Music Is Welcome, Rock, Jazz, You name it....Let's look at some birthdays today, overall, a rather lowkey day I believe...
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_todayhttp://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.phpAndrew Woolfolk, Saxophonist for Earth, Wind and Fire:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQxr_srTFN4Daryl Hall of Hall and Oates, these two still perform:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYEpFJhuu1EAnd now, it is Dottie West's birthday, I have to say, to me, it looks like she became a bit of the Cher of country music in the 1970s/early '80s, per her performance costumes in some cases. I think she did it for commercial reasons, there is reason to believe because she was very straight laced in the 1960s.
To this:
Her hair kind of reminds me to the feathery Farrah Fawcett look of back then but make no mistake about it, a lovely woman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dottie_WestHer bio; she was in a car wreck in the Nashville area, she did not think she was hurt badly and she insisted others get medical attention first. The truth is the accident caused some damage to her internal organs that sadly, she ended up dying from.
She co-wrote the coca-cola jingle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIISuDG7lIsMany have certainly heard this, "I was raised on country sunshine."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSramdE4B6UDottie West singing "Paper Mansions" from 1967.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KejwR7ugMmsWednesday, check, the 11th, check, October, check. Trying to proof read what goes on here.