On 9/30/2024 10:46 PM, Bruce wrote:

On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 2:15:43 +0000, Mark D. wrote:

On Sep 30, 2024 at 10:15:57 AM CDT, "Bruce" <Bruce> wrote:

Why him, lord?

He was 88.

--md

Maybe you are not as much of a lyrics guy as you say. This is his
biggest hit record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzVycgM8XHQ

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I never heard of it before either.

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On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 12:51:43 +0000, DianeE wrote:

On 9/30/2024 10:46 PM, Bruce wrote:

On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 2:15:43 +0000, Mark D. wrote:

On Sep 30, 2024 at 10:15:57 AM CDT, "Bruce" <Bruce> wrote:

Why him, lord?

He was 88.

--md

Maybe you are not as much of a lyrics guy as you say. This is his
biggest hit record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzVycgM8XHQ

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I never heard of it before either.

It was only the Billboard Hot 100 for 38 weeks. Actually I stole the
line from Rowan who posted it in the baseball forum we are both on.

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From a 1958 Sports Illustrated---

This dashing young man in the Rugby outfit plays standoff on the team at
Pomona College in California, where he is a senior. But this is only a
small facet of 21-year-old Kris Kristofferson's amazing record. He is
also starting left end on the varsity football team, a Golden Gloves
boxer, sports editor of the college paper, outstanding cadet in the ROTC battalion of which he is cadet commander. As an English major he is an
honor student and member of the four-man senior honor society on campus.
Kris won four of the top 20 awards recently given in a creative writing
contest for college students. He composes folk songs which he sings to
his own guitar accompaniment. And to crown this varied list of
accomplishments Kris is a Rhodes scholar-elect, one of 32 young
Americans chosen to go to Oxford this fall. As the eldest of three
children of Major General and Mrs. Henry Kristofferson, Kris will find
travel familiar. The family has done a lot of it keeping up with their airline-executive father (the senior Kristoffersons are in Saudi Arabia,
where the general is operations manager for Aramco Airlines), and Kris
has lived in Texas, Washington, New York and California. It was in San
Mateo that he attended high school and distinguished himself as a
distance runner. At Oxford he will study English literature to prepare
for a writing career.

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On 10/2/2024 8:19 AM, Bruce wrote:

It was in San
Mateo that he attended high school and distinguished himself as a
distance runner.

I wonder if he went to Serra, like Barry Bonds, Tom Brady, and fucking
Lynn  Swann.

--
Steve Mc

DNA to SBC to respond

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On 10/2/2024 11:19 AM, Bruce wrote:

From a 1958 Sports Illustrated---

...Kris is a Rhodes scholar-elect, one of 32 young
Americans chosen to go to Oxford this fall....At Oxford he will study

English literature to prepare

for a writing career.

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His obituary mentioned that while at Oxford, he recorded for Top Rank
Records under the name Kris Carson, but was not successful in launching
a music career at that time. Since that would fall in our era, I wonder
if anyone (named Roger) knows anything about these records. Were they released?

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On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 18:35:44 +0000, DianeE wrote:

On 10/2/2024 11:19 AM, Bruce wrote:

From a 1958 Sports Illustrated---

...Kris is a Rhodes scholar-elect, one of 32 young
Americans chosen to go to Oxford this fall....At Oxford he will study

English literature to prepare

for a writing career.

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His obituary mentioned that while at Oxford, he recorded for Top Rank Records under the name Kris Carson, but was not successful in launching
a music career at that time. Since that would fall in our era, I wonder
if anyone (named Roger) knows anything about these records. Were they released?

I knew he recorded for Top Rank whilst at Oxford University (he got a
Masters Degree there BTW) but I know nothing of these unreleased
recordings save that they were supervised by one Tony Hatch (the maestro
behind Petula Clark's "Downtown")

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