Because I can't bear the news, not wanting to hear about the tragic limousine crash or the Supreme Court debacle, I turned the channel, at bedtime, to CM Country Choice. Did you ever realize Dave Dudley's "The Pool Shark" sounds just like Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue?" Me neither, but then I didn't know I could remember the words to songs I haven't heard in decades. "It's almost like a song, but just too sad to write." "Heaven's Just One Sin Away" and many many more.
If the regular TV news was too sad to watch, the music nostalgia was even sadder. All those semi-forgotten talents and replaced by what. O the Horror! And to see that Tammy Wynette was born in 1942, and she's been gone for a very long time. I remember being in the maternity ward at St. Mary's and my roommate had just given birth to her 4th daughter. She and her husband were trying to pick a name for her, and Tammy Wynette was singing on some TV show. The husband said "What about Tammy?' and that's what they named her. Dave got a kick out of that.
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