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...and one time holder of the Australian land speed record. R.A.C.Q Motorfest, Brisbane.

St. Louis, MO (est. 1764. pop. ~300K) • Carondelet neighborhood

 

• approximate construction dates according to property records (R-L):

 

• No. 7801 (1887)

• No. 7805 (1897)

• No. 7807 (1897)

• No. 7809 (1897)

Falling in line with most contemporary militaries across the globe, the Yugoslav's People Army (JNA) quickly inspired a competition for a primary wheeled combat vehicle capable of rapidly transporting combat personnel as well as offering some form of fire support. Hence, the M-88PNV (or ICV [Infantry Carrier Vehicle] in English) was introduced with a record R&D time lasting under seven months from start to en masse production. Many have rightly speculated that this short development time is due to the fact that design is more or less an import from Ukraine; in other words, the M-88 is almost entirely analogous to the Ukrainian KMDB BMPK-12. This theory works well considering the JNA refers the M-88 by the name Haidamaka, a term referring to a band of Ukrainian paramilitants that had a nasty habit of harassing and rebelling against Polish nobility.

 

At any rate, the M-88 comes into two forms principally: the standard ICV and then the IFV variant. The ICV naturally is naturally less armed and armored than the IFV variant given it is merely meant to taxi troops from A to B; however, the IFV features the 40mm chain gun turret found on other JNA vehicles and has slat and steel plate applique in order to sustain a fair amount of damage whilst remaining operable.

Near mint condition LP Found at an estate sale for $1.00

 

BUDDY KNOX with the RHYTHM ORCHIDS /Self-Titled (aka Party Doll) ROULETTE R-25003 – Released June 1957 / Black Label with Track B4: "I'm In Love With You" on back jacket and "'Cause I'm In Love" on label.

 

Photo Credit Chuck Stewart.

Liner Notes - F. Scott Gross.

Recording Supervision- Hugo & Luigi.

 

Buddy Knox (From Wikipedia – see Wikipedia for more, including track & albums listings)

 

Buddy Wayne Knox (July 20, 1933 – February 14, 1999) was an American singer and songwriter, best known for his 1957 rock hit song, "Party Doll".

 

Biography

 

Knox was born in the tiny farming community of Happy, Texas, United States, and learned to play the guitar in his youth. In his teens, he and some high-school friends formed a band called the "Rhythm Orchids". After they performed on the same 1956 radio show as fellow Texan Roy Orbison and his "Teen Kings" band, Orbison suggested that Knox go to record producer Norman Petty, who had a recording studio in Clovis, New Mexico, the same studio where Buddy Holly recorded several of his early hits, including "That'll Be the Day".

 

Knox's song "Party Doll" was released on the Roulette record label, and went to number one on the Cash Box record chart in 1957 (after being picked from the tiny Triple-D label). It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA. This success was followed by "Rock Your Little Baby To Sleep", a number-17 hit, and "Hula Love", a number-9 hit.

 

While he never achieved the same level of artistic success as Holly or Orbison, Knox outlived both and enjoyed a long career in music. For his pioneering contribution, Knox was elected to the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. "Party Doll" was voted one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.

 

In the early 1960s, Knox signed with Liberty Records and released several more mainstream pop records, featuring string arrangements and backing vocalists. "Lovey Dovey" and "Ling-Ting-Tong" were the most notable recordings from this era.

 

The sound captured on these recordings was a distinct departure from his earlier rockabilly work for Roulette.

Liberty and principal record producer Snuff Garrett successfully employed the same production techniques for their other mainstream pop artists of the time, which included Johnny Burnette and Bobby Vee.

 

In 1968, Knox, who had been living in semiretirement in Macon, Georgia, while running his publishing company, moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and signed a new recording contract with United Artists Records. Working with producer Bob Montgomery (songwriter), Knox honed his traditional rockabilly style more toward the modern country sound of the day.

 

His first album on United Artists earned him the nickname by which he would be known for the remainder of his life. The title song of the album, Gypsy Man, written by Sonny Curtis and featuring Curtis' acoustic guitar work, received airplay on country music radio stations.

 

Several singles recorded by Knox between 1968 and 1974 were notable for his experimenting with a variety of sounds and styles, and from a creative and critical standpoint, may have been his most productive era.

 

His version of Delaney Bramlett's "God Knows I Love You", along with his self-penned "Salt Lake City", placed Knox firmly in the midst of the new pop-music genre, being populated by artists such as Delaney & Bonnie, Eric Clapton, and others who were on the leading edge of the developing Southern rock style such as Black Oak Arkansas and the Allman Brothers Band.

 

His cover version of James Hendricks' "Glory Train" was another stylistic stretch and featured a gospel-like chorus of backing vocalists. His cover of the Fleetwoods' "Come Softly to Me" demonstrated a vocal range not heard on his older recordings. He also reached out to the new generation of songwriters who would become prominent during Nashville's "Outlaw era" of the 1970s, as he was one of the first artists to record Mickey Newbury's "I'm Only Rockin'".

 

Several other major country music artists later recorded this song, but under the alternate title of "T. Total Tommy". Knox also recorded songs by Alex Harvey, John D. Loudermilk, and Gary Paxton. On several of these recordings, Knox experimented with multitracking, something few artists had done up to that time.

 

For many decades from the 1970s to the 1990s, Knox was based in the small town of Dominion City, Manitoba, Canada and toured primarily in Western Canada and upper Midwest U.S. with occasional European appearances. In 1981, he starred in an independent Canadian movie Sweet Country Road.

 

He said the fame took a toll on his family life. Traveling 250 days a year for 35 years, he was voted "the most traveling entertainer in the world" by Billboard magazine, but he said it cost three marriages for him.

In 1992, he divorced and moved to British Columbia, where he was involved in several business ventures including a partnership in a local British Columbia nightclub.

His son, Michael Knox, is a record producer.

 

Death

 

Moving to Port Orchard, Washington, in 1997 to be with his fiancée, he experienced a fall and injured his hip. The doctor informed him at that time that he had terminal lung cancer. Knox scheduled a farewell show, but died just a few weeks later on February 14, 1999, in Bremerton, Washington. He is interred in Dreamland Cemetery, in Canyon, Texas.

 

Near mint condition LP Found at an estate sale for $1.00

 

View on Large to read liner notes.

 

BUDDY KNOX with the RHYTHM ORCHIDS /Self-Titled (aka Party Doll) ROULETTE R-25003 – Released June 1957 / Black Label with Track B4: "I'm In Love With You" on back jacket and "'Cause I'm In Love" on label.

 

Photo Credit Chuck Stewart.

Liner Notes - F. Scott Gross.

Recording Supervision- Hugo & Luigi.

 

Buddy Knox (From Wikipedia – see Wikipedia for more, including track & albums listings)

 

Buddy Wayne Knox (July 20, 1933 – February 14, 1999) was an American singer and songwriter, best known for his 1957 rock hit song, "Party Doll".

 

Biography

 

Knox was born in the tiny farming community of Happy, Texas, United States, and learned to play the guitar in his youth. In his teens, he and some high-school friends formed a band called the "Rhythm Orchids". After they performed on the same 1956 radio show as fellow Texan Roy Orbison and his "Teen Kings" band, Orbison suggested that Knox go to record producer Norman Petty, who had a recording studio in Clovis, New Mexico, the same studio where Buddy Holly recorded several of his early hits, including "That'll Be the Day".

 

Knox's song "Party Doll" was released on the Roulette record label, and went to number one on the Cash Box record chart in 1957 (after being picked from the tiny Triple-D label). It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA. This success was followed by "Rock Your Little Baby To Sleep", a number-17 hit, and "Hula Love", a number-9 hit.

 

While he never achieved the same level of artistic success as Holly or Orbison, Knox outlived both and enjoyed a long career in music. For his pioneering contribution, Knox was elected to the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. "Party Doll" was voted one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.

 

In the early 1960s, Knox signed with Liberty Records and released several more mainstream pop records, featuring string arrangements and backing vocalists. "Lovey Dovey" and "Ling-Ting-Tong" were the most notable recordings from this era.

 

The sound captured on these recordings was a distinct departure from his earlier rockabilly work for Roulette.

Liberty and principal record producer Snuff Garrett successfully employed the same production techniques for their other mainstream pop artists of the time, which included Johnny Burnette and Bobby Vee.

 

In 1968, Knox, who had been living in semiretirement in Macon, Georgia, while running his publishing company, moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and signed a new recording contract with United Artists Records. Working with producer Bob Montgomery (songwriter), Knox honed his traditional rockabilly style more toward the modern country sound of the day.

 

His first album on United Artists earned him the nickname by which he would be known for the remainder of his life. The title song of the album, Gypsy Man, written by Sonny Curtis and featuring Curtis' acoustic guitar work, received airplay on country music radio stations.

 

Several singles recorded by Knox between 1968 and 1974 were notable for his experimenting with a variety of sounds and styles, and from a creative and critical standpoint, may have been his most productive era.

 

His version of Delaney Bramlett's "God Knows I Love You", along with his self-penned "Salt Lake City", placed Knox firmly in the midst of the new pop-music genre, being populated by artists such as Delaney & Bonnie, Eric Clapton, and others who were on the leading edge of the developing Southern rock style such as Black Oak Arkansas and the Allman Brothers Band.

 

His cover version of James Hendricks' "Glory Train" was another stylistic stretch and featured a gospel-like chorus of backing vocalists. His cover of the Fleetwoods' "Come Softly to Me" demonstrated a vocal range not heard on his older recordings. He also reached out to the new generation of songwriters who would become prominent during Nashville's "Outlaw era" of the 1970s, as he was one of the first artists to record Mickey Newbury's "I'm Only Rockin'".

 

Several other major country music artists later recorded this song, but under the alternate title of "T. Total Tommy". Knox also recorded songs by Alex Harvey, John D. Loudermilk, and Gary Paxton. On several of these recordings, Knox experimented with multitracking, something few artists had done up to that time.

 

For many decades from the 1970s to the 1990s, Knox was based in the small town of Dominion City, Manitoba, Canada and toured primarily in Western Canada and upper Midwest U.S. with occasional European appearances. In 1981, he starred in an independent Canadian movie Sweet Country Road.

 

He said the fame took a toll on his family life. Traveling 250 days a year for 35 years, he was voted "the most traveling entertainer in the world" by Billboard magazine, but he said it cost three marriages for him.

In 1992, he divorced and moved to British Columbia, where he was involved in several business ventures including a partnership in a local British Columbia nightclub.

His son, Michael Knox, is a record producer.

 

Death

 

Moving to Port Orchard, Washington, in 1997 to be with his fiancée, he experienced a fall and injured his hip. The doctor informed him at that time that he had terminal lung cancer. Knox scheduled a farewell show, but died just a few weeks later on February 14, 1999, in Bremerton, Washington. He is interred in Dreamland Cemetery, in Canyon, Texas.

 

Ann Corio presents How to Strip for Your Husband:

Music to Make Marriage Merrier

Roulette Records R 25186, 1963

Cover illustration by Howard Nostrand

Orchestra conducted by Sonny Lester

Van Nicholas ASTRAEUS

Titanium frame Bike

2012.4

 

Handlebar: Cinelli Neo Morphe 420mm

Stem: THOMSON Elite-X2 100mm

Front Fork: WOUND UP ROAD FORK 700C

Seat: Specialized Romin Expert 130mm

Seat Post: BONTRAGER Race XXXlite

Levers: Campagnolo SUPER RECORD (R:EQUAL-PULLEY)

Brakes: MAVIC SSC

Front Derailers: Campagnolo SUPER RECORD

Rear Derailers: Shimano Dura-Ace RD-7800SS

Crank: EASTON EC90 52(Dura-Ace7800)/39 170mm

BB: Chris King - Road

Cassette: Shimano Dura-Ace CS-7800 12-23

Chain: KMC X10SL GOLD

Pedals: Shimano M959

Wheel: MAVIC R-SYS SLR

1888 Scott 79 4p brown "Captain Cook" (perf 11 x 12)

1899 Scott 104B 4p orange brown

The "Captain Cook" design from the 1888 "One Hundred Years" issue is found in a brown color, while the 1899 reissued stamp is an orange brown. LINK - bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.com/2014/05/TheClassicStampsofN...

 

New South Wales / 1850 - 1910 / SIMPLIFIED LISTING - LINK - www.acsc-history.info/State1-NSW.aspx

 

1888 -1889 - The 100th Anniversary of the British Crown Colony / WM: 7 - Engraving: W. Bell Perforation: 11 x 12

 

New South Wales 1888-89 / Orange-brown / Purple-brown / used Scott 79a 4 pence - Captain Cook - Perf 12 x 11.5 (?)

 

SG: 255e / YT: 61 / Michel: 65

 

1897 - 1903 Coat of Arms, Queen Victoria, Lyrebird

 

WOLLONGONG, colloquially referred to as The Gong, is a city located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. The name is believed to originate from the Dharawal language, meaning either 'five islands/clouds', 'ground near water' or 'sound of the sea'. Wollongong lies on the narrow coastal strip between the Illawarra Escarpment and the Pacific Ocean, 85 kilometres (53 miles) south of central Sydney. Wollongong had an estimated urban population of 302,739 at June 2018, making it the third-largest city in New South Wales after Sydney and Newcastle and the tenth-largest city in Australia by population.

 

In 1849 when the stamps were issued, 96 post offices existed. Each of them was assigned a number based on the pattern of roads going out of Sydney. Apparently new numbers were still allocated up to about 1904. Some numbers also were re-located to other towns as time passed. Sydney itself used cancels without any number. The numeral cancels were first issued with horizontal bars (barred cancel), later numeral cancels with rays were introduced. From many of the later issued numbers, it is not clear to which town they actually belonged. The following numbers correspond to the towns: (only a few are listed here).

 

1: Ryde

2: Parramatta

3: Windsor

4: Richmond

5: Gosfored

6: St.Mary's

7: Penrith

8: Hartley

9: Bathurst

10: Carcoar

11: Canowindra

12: Cowra

13: O'Connell

14: Orange

15: Molong

16: Wellington

17: Dubbo

18: Mudgee

19: Rylstone

20: Liverpool

21: Campbelltown

22: Appin

23: Wollongong

24: Dapto

25: Kiama

26: Shoalhaven

27: Huskisson

28: Ulladulla

29: Broulee

30: Camden

31: Picton

32: Berrima

33: Marulan

34: Bugonia

35: Goulburn

36: Braidwood

37: Bungendore

38: Queanbeyan

39: Cooma

40: Bomballa

41: Collector

42: Gundaroo

43: Gunning

44: Yass

45: Binalong

46: Gundagai

47: Tumut

48: Tarcutta

49: Wagga-Wagga

50: Albury

51: Deniliquin

52: Moulamain (later Bourke)

53: Balranald

54: Carrington (later Pyrmont)

55: Newcastle

56: Hexham

57: Raymond Terrace

58: Clarence Town

59: Dungog

60: Paterson

61: Gresford

62: Morpeth

63: East Maitland

64: West Maitland

65: Wollombi

66: Singleton

67: Muswellbrook

68: Scone

69: Murrurundi

70: Packataroo (later Blayney)

71: Tamworth

72: Wee Waa

73: Warialda

74: Callandoon (later Jembaicumbene)

75: Jerry's Plains

76: Merton

77: Merriwa

78: Cassilis

79: Coolah

80: Coonabarabran

81: Warwick (later Lambing Flat)

82: Armidale

83: Wellingrove

84: Tenterfield

85: Drayton (later Booligal)

86: Gayndah (later Pennant Hills)

87: Ipswich

88: Port Macquarie

89: Kempsey

90: Grafton

91: Tabulam

92: Richmond River Casino

93: Boyd (later Gerringong)

94: Eden

95: Brisbane (later Brownlow Hill)

96: Maryborough

890: Edgecliff

893: Smith Town

897: Upper Burragorang

898: Belmont (near Newcastle)

908: Werris Creek

910: Homebush

914: Miller's Point

917: King Street (Sydney)

919: Granville (Sydney)

922: Arncliffe (Syndey)

924: Park Street (Sydney)

1601: Elizabeth Street South, (rated common)

2099: Toolijooa

 

The list of numerals that can potentially be read upside down -

6/9, 16/91, 18/81, 19/61, 66/99, 68/89, 86/98, 106/901, 108/801, 109/601, 116/911, 118/811, 119/611, 161/191, 166/991, 169/691, 186/981, 188/881, 189/681, 196/961, 198/861, 199/661, 606/909, 608/809, 616/919, 618/819, 666/999, 668/899, 669/699, 686/989, 688/889, 696/969, 698/869.

 

LINK to much more on the numeral cancels from NSW - www.stampcommunity.org/topic.asp?topic_id=58014&which...

 

Hugh Freeman's rating system is as follows:

 

NNR = Number Not Recorded

RRRRR = 1 to 2 recorded

RRRR = 3 to 6 recorded

RRR = 7 to 10 recorded

RR = 11 to 14 recorded

R = 15 to 19 recorded

SS = 20 to 30 recorded

S = 31 to 49 recorded

Not Rated = 50 plus recorded

 

R = rare and S = scarce

 

LINK to his book - The Numeral Cancellations of New South Wales, 2nd Edition. - bexleystampaccessories.com.au/product/the-numeral-cancell...

Linda Jones

 

Linda Jones (December 14, 1944 – March 14, 1972)[1] was an American soul singer with a strong gospel-influenced style

  

Biography[edit]

 

Jones was born in Newark, New Jersey. She started singing in her family's gospel group, the Jones Singers at the age of six. Her first recording was "Lonely Teardrops" under the name of Linda Lane on Cub Records in 1963. She was found performing at a local club by songwriter Jerry Harris who introduced her to producer George Kerr. After unsuccessful singles on Atco Records in 1964 and Blue Cat Records the following year, Kerr took her to Warner Bros. Records' R&B subsidiary, Loma Records in 1967. The first Loma release proved to be her biggest success, the ballad, "Hypnotized" reached #4 on the Billboard R&B chart and #21 on the Hot 100. This proved to be the label's best-selling record and it was followed by two further hits, including "What've I Done (To Make You Mad)" (#8 R&B, #61 pop), and an album.

 

After Loma closed in late 1968, Linda had a final single on the main Warner label before joining Neptune Records, run by Philadelphia producers, Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. Two singles, both produced by Kerr, saw some R&B success before she signed for All Platinum subsidiary, Turbo Records, in New Jersey in 1971. A powerful revamped version of the former Jerry Butler hit, "For Your Precious Love" reached both the R&B (#15) and pop (#74) charts in 1972 and saw her career take off again. Reviewing her 1972 album Your Precious Love in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote: "Jones isn't too long on artistry—she likes to dispense with formality and just start at the climax throwing her emotions and her high notes all over material like 'Dancing in the Street' and 'I Can't Make it Alone.' Pretty amazing, in its way, and definitely recommended to people who always get out of their cars to look at waterfalls and strange rock formations."[2]

 

Shortly after the end of her national tour supporting the album, Jones died at her mother's home at the age of 27 while resting between matinee and evening shows at New York City's Apollo Theater in Harlem. She had been a diabetic for most of her life and slipped into a coma (or more likely, insulin shock) while sleeping.[3]

 

All Platinum put out three albums of previously issued and unreleased material after Linda's death and in 2008, her daughter, Terry Jones, along with Helen Bruner, produced an album featuring her mother's vocals. One of the tracks, "Baby I Know" was nominated for a Grammy award at the end of 2008.

 

Discography[edit]

 

Albums[edit]

Hypnotized (Loma Records, LS 5907 1967) U.S. R&B Albums #26[4]

A Portrait Of Linda Jones (Turbo Records,TU-7004)

For Your Precious Love (Turbo Records,TU-7007 1972) U.S. R&B Albums #35

Let It Be Me (Turbo Records,TU-7008 1972)

Soul Talkin (Record Label: Phil\'erzy Productions 2008)

 

These pics were taken between 1998 and 2001. I know that the quality is not great, but at least some kind of METRO history was recorded.

 

R.I.P. David Sayers. He was killed in a crash involving this bus in August 2011.

Rego Irish Records R-20,000, Elmhurst, N.Y. 1978

Otis Blackwell Story

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8F_qhTA9OY

  

Otis Blackwell on David Letterman, January 10, 1984

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgzzJ-eV8JY

 

One of the greatest songwriters unsung.

Shows how great songwriters and singers

of the era were ripped up. God Bless -James Arturo

 

Otis Blackwell Inducted in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk0syxX0EqE

  

Otis Blackwell

  

Otis Blackwell (February 16, 1931 – May 6, 2002) was an American songwriter, singer, and pianist, whose work influenced rock and roll. His compositions include "Fever", recorded by Little Willie John; "Great Balls of Fire" and "Breathless", recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis; "Don't Be Cruel", "All Shook Up" and "Return to Sender" (with Winfield Scott), recorded by Elvis Presley; and "Handy Man", recorded by Jimmy Jones.[1]

  

Contents

1Biography

2Awards and recognitions

3Legacy

4Songs

5Selective discography

6References

7Sources and further reading

8External links

Biography

Blackwell was born in Brooklyn, New York.[citation needed] He learned to play the piano as a child and grew up listening to both R&B and country music.[citation needed]

 

His first success was winning a local talent contest ("Amateur Night") at the Apollo Theater, in Harlem, in 1952.[2] This led to a recording contract with RCA and then with Jay-Dee. His first release was his own composition "Daddy Rolling Stone",[3] which became a favorite in Jamaica, where it was recorded by Derek Martin.[4] The song later became part of the Who's mod repertoire.[4] Enjoying some early recording and performing success, he found his first love was songwriting and by 1955 had settled into the groove that he would ride for decades.[5] His first successes as a songwriter came in 1956, when Little Willie John's R&B hit with the sultry "Fever" was an even bigger pop success for Peggy Lee, and "Don't Be Cruel" began a highly profitable association with Elvis Presley.[4]

 

Blackwell was one of the leading African-American figures of early rock and roll, although he was not well known by the public. His own records never cracked the Top 40, yet he wrote million-selling songs for Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Dee Clark and others. He also recruited other songwriters to write for Presley, such as Winfield Scott.[6]

 

In the liner notes of Elvis' Golden Records (1958), Anne Fulchino, of RCA, wrote,

 

While sipping coffee, Steve Sholes pulled out a demonstration record of 'Don't Be Cruel' and told Elvis it was a new song written by Otis Blackwell, whom Elvis had long admired as a rhythm and blues artist. It took just a few bars to convince Presley that it was a perfect song for him, and he decided to cut it right away. Presley learned the song within minutes—he had an inherent musical sense—and in short order a great master was put on tape. It isn't often that the title of a song will create a whole new expression in Americana. 'All Shook Up' did exactly that. Youngsters and adults alike have made the phrase a common part of everyday usage. The background to the song itself is a rather interesting one. Since the huge success of 'Don't Be Cruel', Elvis had been anxious to record another song from the pen of Otis Blackwell. Eventually, Blackwell came around with 'All Shook Up' (first recorded by David Hill on Aladdin). Presley wasn't completely satisfied with the song, and with Blackwell's consent re-wrote part of the lyrics. Thus, as co-writer as well as artist, Presley produced his ninth consecutive gold record, his first in the year 1957.

 

During an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman, Blackwell said he never met Presley in person. When he was having a contract dispute with his publishing company, he also wrote under the white-sounding pen name John Davenport.[2] Blackwell composed more than a thousand songs, garnering worldwide sales of close to 200 million records.[7] Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, asked Blackwell to appear in the Presley movie Girls! Girls! Girls!, for which he had written "Return to Sender", but a superstition about meeting Presley kept him from accepting.[8]

 

In 1956, Blackwell gave "Don't Be Cruel" to friend Frankie Valli's group, the Four Lovers, but as they were recording it he asked to take it back and in turn gave it to the up-and-coming Presley. In exchange for this song he gave them "You're the Apple of My Eye", which became a chart hit for the Four Lovers (Billboard number 64). The song was performed on Ed Sullivan's television show that same year and was probably instrumental in at least shaping events for the group to eventually becoming the Four Seasons. A shortened version of "You're the Apple of My Eye" is also featured in the Broadway show "Jersey Boys".

 

As the tide of rock and roll receded, Blackwell recorded R&B songs for numerous labels, including Atlantic, MGM and Epic. In later years he was in semi-retirement, making only occasional live appearances.[4]

 

In the 1980s, Blackwell toured and recorded with the Smithereens as his backing band for both live shows and studio recordings. The partnership produced two self-funded albums, "Let's Talk About Us" and "From the Beginning," which were released independently on Blackwell's ROC-CO imprint.[citation needed]

 

In 1991, Blackwell was paralyzed by a stroke. Three years later, Shanachie released the album Brace Yourself! A Tribute to Otis Blackwell, containing 15 songs written by Blackwell and recorded by the likes of Kris Kristofferson ("All Shook Up"), Blondie's Debbie Harry ("Don't Be Cruel"), the Smithereens ("Let's Talk About Us"), Graham Parker ("Paralyzed"), and Ronnie Spector ("Brace Yourself").[9]

 

Blackwell died of a heart attack in 2002, in Nashville, Tennessee, and was interred in Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in that city.[10]

 

Awards and recognitions

Otis Blackwell was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1986 and in 1991 into the National Academy of Popular Music's Songwriters Hall of Fame.[2] Blackwell's crowning moment came in the late 1980s when the Black Rock Coalition, a prominent organization of black rock musicians, led by Vernon Reid, the lead guitarist of the band, Living Colour, held a tribute for him at the Prospect Park Bandshell in his native Brooklyn. Many prominent musicians and singers took part including Blackwell himself, who performed an assortment of his best songs, including "One Broken Heart for Sale," "Back Trail," "Don't Be Cruel" and "Daddy Rolling Stone."[citation needed]

 

Blackwell was named one of the 2010 recipients of Ahmet Ertegun Award in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[11] This category encompasses those who primarily work behind the scenes in the music industry.[citation needed]

 

Legacy

Blackwell was one of the greatest R&B songwriters of all time.[12] His songwriting style is as uniquely identifiable as that of Leiber and Stoller, Chuck Berry, or Willie Dixon and helped redefine popular music in America in the 1950s.[7] This is true even though he often collaborated with such partners as Winfield Scott, Eddie Cooley, and Jack Hammer. Blackwell was one of the most important innovators who helped invent the musical vocabulary of rock and roll at its very beginning.[1] His works have been recorded by a host of major artists, including Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, James Brown, the Who, Johnny Thunders, Billy Joel, James Taylor, Dolly Parton, Conway Twitty, the Judds, Carl Perkins and Peggy Lee, among numerous others. At other times in his career, Blackwell was also successful as a record producer, having helped turn out hits for artists as diverse as Connie Francis, Mahalia Jackson and Sal Mineo.[13]

 

Songs

Songs composed by Blackwell, with the performers who made them famous, include the following:[4]

 

"All Shook Up" (Elvis Presley)

"Don't Be Cruel" (Elvis Presley); inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002

"Fever" as "John Davenport" with Eddie Cooley (Peggy Lee, inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998; Little Willie John, Madonna, the McCoys, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Over the Rhine, and numerous other performers).

"Great Balls of Fire" (Jerry Lee Lewis); inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998

"Breathless" (Jerry Lee Lewis, X)

"Let's Talk About Us" (Jerry Lee Lewis)

"Hey Little Girl" (Dee Clark)

"Handy Man" (Jimmy Jones, Del Shannon, James Taylor)

"Return to Sender" (Elvis Presley)

"One Broken Heart for Sale"(Elvis Presley)

"Nine Times Out Of Ten" with Waldense Hall (Cliff Richard,[14] Ral Donner)

Selective discography

YearTitleGenreLabel

1955Otis Blackwell 1953–55Blues, rock & roll, R&BFlyright

1978These Are My SongsBlues, rock & roll, R&BInner City

20051952–1954Blues, rock & roll, R&BClassics R&B

References

"Otis Blackwell – Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved November 20, 2006.

"Otis Blackwell (1931–2002)". Spectropop. Retrieved November 20, 2006.

"Otis Blackwell, 70; Wrote Hits for Presley and Others". The New York Times. May 9, 2002. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 10, 2017.

Colin Larkin, ed. (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Concise ed.). Virgin Books. p. 143. ISBN 1-85227-745-9.

Trager, Oliver (2004). Keys to the Rain: The Definitive Bob Dylan Encyclopedia. Billboard Books. p. 700. ISBN 0-8230-7974-0.

"Winfield Scott". Elvis.com.au. Retrieved November 20, 2006.

"Otis Blackwell – Biography". Songwriters Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on October 1, 2006. Retrieved November 20, 2006.

Giddins, Gary (2000). Riding on a Blue Note: Jazz and American. Da Capo Press. p. 37.

"Songwriter Otis Blackwell Dies". Billboard. Retrieved September 20, 2019.

"Otis Blackwell (1931–2002)". Findagrave.com. Retrieved September 20, 2019.[non-primary source needed]

"Congratulations to the 2010 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees!". Web.archive.org. Archived from the original on December 23, 2009. Retrieved December 15, 2009.

Holly George-Warren &, Anthony Decurtis (Eds.) (1976). The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll (3rd ed.). New York: Random House. p. 27. ISBN 0-679-73728-6.

"Song Writers Hall Of Fame info". Songwritershalloffame.org. Retrieved September 20, 2019.

"Cliff Richard and the Shadows – Nine Times Out Of Ten". 45cat.com.

Sources and further reading

Wilmer, Val. "Rock and Roll Genius" [interview with Otis Blackwell]. Melody Maker. February 5, 1977, Vol. 52: pp. 8, 44.

Wilmer, Val. "'I'm Happy as All Hell that the Man Took My Songs'" [interview with Otis Blackwell]. Time Out. March 6–12, 1981, pp. 12–13

External links

Spectropop obituary

1979 interview

Otis Blackwell, 1931–2002

View full discography

Grammy Hall of Fame

"Otis Blackwell". Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The cover illustration is by Jim Jonson.

The music is arranged and conducted by Neal Hefti.

The liner notes are by Lawrence D. Stewart.

I have recently inherited some train registers.

 

This one is of particular interest as it covers a period about four months before the final closure of Birmingham Snow Hill station.

 

I have chosen the pages for Thursday 21st / Friday 22nd October 1971 to scan, as the entries were made by Bill Bradbury and Ted Breakwell, two railwaymen who I later worked with.

 

There are no entries in the 'Rear Section' columns on the Down page, nor 'Advance Section' columns on the Up page as the station was a terminus by then, 'up' trains from the Handsworth direction returning as 'down' trains to Wolverhampton or Langley Green.

 

Bill has entered times in the 'Is Line Clear' and 'Train out of Section' columns, as was custom and practice, whereas Ted has entered times in the 'Description Sent' and 'Description Received' columns, this was technically correct as the 'Method of Working' was 'Track Circuit Block' and there was no requirement to 'Accept' trains or send 'Train out of Section'.

 

3-1 in the 'Description of Train' column is the bell signal for an 'Ordinary Passenger Train' and 2-2-1 is for 'Empty Coaching Stock'. Ted has suffixed these bell signals with 'W' or 'L', for Wolverhampton or Langley Green, these origin/destination descriptions were transmitted on Tyer's 'Clockwork' train describers at the same time as the train's class was rung out on the single stroke bell.

 

The 'Line' column on each page records 'R' for Relief Line (arrival on the up or departure on the down) and the numbers 3 or 4 for the platform used.

  

The End on Bongos

Burger, Jack

HIFI Records R-804

1958?

 

The cover illustration is by Jim Jonson.

The album is produced by Jimmy Bowen.

Company A, 7th Illinois Cavalry

The Quenemo News, Friday, May 16, 1913, Pg. 1

 

R. B. McFerren.

______

The Life History of an Old Settler

Reviewed.

______

 

Reynolds B. McFerren was born at Ripley, Ohio, November 14th, 1836. He moved to Illinois in 1852.

When the war broke out he enlisted in the Union Army August 10th 1861 in company A, 7th Illinois Regiment. He re-enlisted at Germantown, Tennessee, February 9th, 1864, and was mustered out at the close of the war, November 1865, having served over 4 years.

On March 7th, 1869, he was married at Cressman, Illinois to Miss Catherine Liggett. They came to Kansas in February, 1872 and participated in all the early struggles and hardships of the settlement of this section of the country. He was an enterprising and prosperous farmer, a friend of more than ordinary attachments and to many a friend in need. He united with the Presbyterian church of Quenemo, February 28th, 1878 and was always devoted to it's interests and contributed liberally to it's support. He had a long lingering illness, being in poor health for several years. He passed away to the great beyond on May 8th, 1913, being 76 years, 5 months and 25 days old. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Catherine McFerren and seven children, Mrs. Grant Fine, Mrs. Tom Rankin, Mrs. Chas. Wiley of Washington, Mrs. Edith Collins, George McFerren of Sterling, Kansas and Miss Tillie McFerren and Calvin McFerren of the home place. There are 12 grand-children also a brother S. D. McFerren and a sister, Mrs. Almira Athon both residing in this vicinity. A large family and circle of friends and relatives were devoted to him and deeply feel their loss.

The funeral services were held at the home three and one-half miles west of Quenemo on Saturday afternoon, May 10, at 2 o'clock. The services were conducted by Rev. W. C. Templeton of Emporia, former pastor of the Presbyterian church of this place and an especial friend of the family. Rev. Templeton was assisted by Rev. J. K. Miller, present pastor of the church. Many friends assembled to pay their last tribute to this man who was a good friend and neighbor. Interment was made in Oak Hill cemetery.

 

HIS WAR RECORD.

 

R. B. McFerren, enlisted in Company A, 7th Illinois Cavalry in 1861 and re-enlisted as a veteran in 1864. He was mustered out near the close of 1865, having served over four years. His regiment belonged to the army of the Cumberland and was in many hard fought battles, including Shiloh, Corinth and Nashville.

In May, 1863, the 6th and 7th Illinois Cavalry made the famous "Greirson Raid" from LaGrange, Tennessee, to Baton Rogue, Louisiana, 800 miles in 16 days. The last day and night they went over 80 miles. The object of the Raid was to tear up the rail road, burn bridges and destroy supply trains going to Vicksburg. The Raid was successful and contributed much to the fall of Vicksburg. He came to this county in 1872 and has resided here until the 8th inst. he passed away to "The Silent Camping Ground, where no bugle sounds reveille."

 

Date: 1907

Source Type: Postcard

Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Unknown (#112)

Postmark: May 14, 1907, Pullman, Washington

Collection: Steven R. Shook

Remark: Written on the front of the postcard - "I'm behind the pole. Look for me. Doodles. Cowgill winning the pole vault for Pullman. Soapy" According to Washington State University records, R. Cowgill served a the captain of the 1907 Washington State College track and field team.

 

Copyright 2014. Some rights reserved. The associated text may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of Steven R. Shook.

US LP, Jan 1958 (Roulette Records R-52003); later retitled "The Atomic Mr. Basie" but just called "Basie" on its initial release. From-scratch recreation using original photo elements.

 

The Hood shot took place early on July 5, 1957 at the Nevada Test Site as part of Operation Plumbbob; it fired a two-stage balloon-suspended thermonuclear device and was the highest-yield atmospheric test ever to take place within the continental United States at 74 kt.

Instruction sheet included with "Ann Corio presents How to Strip for Your Husband:

Music to Make Marriage Merrier"

Roulette Records R 25186, 1963

Dear Congressional Cemetery,

 

Thought you might find these two photos (public domain) of Almira Virginia Brown and related biographical information with citations of service .

 

Regards John G. Sharp

 

PHOTOS

Almira Virginia Brown at the time of her retirement, image from The Recreator a publication of the Washington Navy Yard 1920.

 

Almira Virginia Brown and her son William Francis Brown standing together from Washington Times July 11, 1920 p.16 William F. Brown also worked for the

navy yard for 42 years!

 

BIOGRAPHY

 

Almira Virginia Brown (nee Rudd) was born 8 August 1839 in Washington

DC's 6th Ward. She was one of the the first woman to work at the Washington Navy

Yard and was employed at the yard for over fifty years. Her mother

Elizabeth Lewis Rudd was widowed early and left with three young daughters of

whom Almira (AKA Elmira) was the eldest. On 20 April 1858, at Christ Church

Washington DC, she married Francis C. Brown, age 22, a painter and

plasterer and a native of Pennsylvania. Francis and Almira continued to

live in the 6th Ward. Francis Brown went to work for the Washington Navy Yard on 15 March 1861 and was killed in a tragic explosion in the

Yard's Ordnance Laboratory on 27 July 1861. Francis had been assigned to work in one of the most dangerous assignments in the 19th century

Washington Navy Yard the "Rocket House." Here naval rockets and ordnance were armed. The arming process of placing gun powder and fuse together

was fraught with peril; an errant spark or light could ignite stockpiles of rockets and ordnance. On at least three separate occasions, namely, 7 September 1841, 27 July 1861, and 21 October 1881, there were premature explosions of gun shells and rockets which resulted in fatalities. In

each instance and investigation was conducted afterward.

 

Navy Yard Commandant John A. Dahlgren later described the 27 July 1861 explosion that killed Francis Brown and another workman as follows:

 

An accidental explosion in the Rocket House of the Laboratory on Saturday

last by which two of the workmen killed and the building much destroyed.

 

I

recommend that immediate provision be made to replace the building by

several others of smaller size, so that several operators shall be

separated as much as possible.

 

I also recommend that provision be made for the wives and children of those killed.

 

Respectfully

 

As

her husband Francis Brown was a civilian, no pension was available under the civil

service regulations of the 19th century for his widow. Despite a plea,

by then Commandant John Dahlgren that she be granted a pension, due the

tragic service related death of her husband, her claim for a pension was

denied as Francis Brown was "not in the (naval) service" and there were

no legal provision to pension a spouse of former civilian workers.

 

To

sustain herself and her two children, a daughter, Mary E. Brown born 21

October 1859 and son William H. Brown born 15 February 1862 she was

given employment as a seamstress the Yard in March 1864. According to

the early yard payroll records, she was the first woman to work at the

Washington Navy Yard. Mrs. Brown primary task was to sew powder bags for

naval ships and she also made flags and ship pendants. After the death

of her husband Francis, Almira Brown remained a widow and never

remarried. Working the Yard she was able to buy a small house and to

provide for her children.

 

In 1920, Almira Brown was 81 years of

age. She had worked continuously at the Navy Yard since 1864. For over

50 years of those years she had continually sewed heavy canvass material

using an industrial sewing machine where she had made thousands of

canvass powder bags, flags and awnings for surface ships. In 1907 in a

move to promote greater efficiency, the Navy Department, tried

unsuccessfully to release Brown and about fifty other women who worked

as seamstresses, by moving their work to another government arsenal. The

yard seamstresses directly petitioned then President Theodore Roosevelt

who reversed the decision and Brown managed to stay on (Washington

Post, 11 January 1907, 4).

 

By 1920 she had become a fixture of

the yard, she was one of the few employees on the yard payroll who had

worked there in the civil war, she loved her job and even in her eighth

decade and despite her poor health, she petitioned the Department of

Navy that she desired to stay on working at the Yard. Her request to

remain on the rolls however was denied due to the passage of the new

Civil Service System of 1920. This new law which went into effect that

year meant for the first time government employees were able to retire

but the law also had a mandatory retirement age (70yrs). In her

retirement she lived with her daughter and son in law and her seven

grandchildren. Brown died 26 February 1926 at age 86. She is buried at

Congressional Cemetery next to her husband Francis (Congressional

Cemetery Records R-86/184.

 

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Official Personnel Folder ( OPF) , Brown, Almira V. National Archives and Records Service, St Louis Missouri

 

National Archives and Records Administration, Pension Application Brown , Almira V. # 2171

www.discogs.com/Mozart-S%C3%BCddeutscher-Madrigalchor-Con.... Gramophone Review:

 

Although recorded as long ago as 1966 (in Stuttgart), this performance of Mozart's Requiem has not been issued before in this country. In the days of 78s it would have qualified for a 'plumlabel' issue, as a perfectly decent but not particularly distinguished interpretation. GOnnenwein emphasizes the devotional aspect of the work, which works well enough in movements such as "Tuba mirum", "Recordare", "Hostias" and "Benedictus", but less so in movements like "Dies irae", "Rex tremendae majestatis" and "Domine Jesu Christe", where one is distinctly conscious of a lack of intensity and drama, and this is not helped by the rather distant quality of the recording itself. The solo team is a capable one, the most distinguished member of which is perhaps Peter Schreier, and this fact gives extra point to the comparison with the recent Philips issue in which Schreier conducts what is possibly the most eloquent and moving account of the Requiem in the traditional edition completed by Sassmayr that has yet been recorded. R.G.

This is the Record top knuckle that Jim Merz removed to graft on the Sport knuckle.

 

I'd never seen that logo before, it's pretty well hidden in use. Whataya think, a maker's mark for the place that did the casting for Campy? Pretty sure it's an F, in a V, in a circle.

Those apprentices had good taste! The Soul Agents were from Southampton and recorded R&B singles for Pye. The local support (Diplomats) is incorrect as they had split a few months earlier. It may have been the Rampant operating as the Diplomats (??)

Raymond Lennard Brickhill was born 18 June 1917 in Perth. He and his father were foundation members of the Fremantle Amateur Cycling Club in 1931 and Ray broke many cycling records.

 

Ray’s father was L. B. BRICKHILL.

And was among the Port's cycling fraternity.

There was no more popular personality

than Mr. Brickhill, the genial and

hard-working president of the Fremantle

Amateur Cycling Club. Mr.

Brickhill first took an interest in

cycling when the Fremantle Junior.

Amateur Club was sponsored by Mr.

Howard Baldwin, of Swansea Cycles.

Two years ago (1931), when the senior club

was formed, Mr. Brickhill was unanimously

elected president. He is the

father of Ray, the noted backmarker

in the juniors

 

Accolades-

 

30 Sep 1933 FIVE MILE RECORD- R. L. Brickhill, the promising Fremantle cyclist created a five miles unpaced junior amateur record at the Fremantle Oval this morning.

 

5 Oct 1933 R. Brickhill set the times of 13 min. 8 secs, as a junior 5 mile unpaced standing start track record when on Saturday morning, against troublesome winds he set out to establish figures for the journey. Brickhill, who rode an 84 inch gear is only 16 years of age, and his time compares favorably with the senior professional record of 12.33 3-5, considering the conditions under which he rode.

 

9 Feb 1935 FELL FROM CYCLE. While training for bicycle races at Richmond Park, Fremantle, today, Ray Brickhill (17), of 8 Irwin street, East Fremantle, fell when his machine struck a piece of wood lying on the track. Brickhill was taken to the Fremantle Hospital by the St. John ambulance suffering from concussion and abrasions to his arms

 

18 Jan 1936 Cycling. BRICKHILL WINS AT THE PORT. By a margin of one point R. Brickhill today won the main cycling event at the fixture conducted at Richmond Park by the Fremantle Amateur Cycling Club.

 

18 Jun 1945 CYCLING. R. BrickhiIl's Success. In a thrilling finish in which six riders took part and in which three were within half a wheel of one another, R. Brickhill (Fremantle) gained first and fastest time on Saturday afternoon in the 15-mile handicap conducted by the Fremantle club. This was his second win this season and the third time that be has gained time honours.

On the front pastedown of both volumes:

party per chapé, or and sable, a bell of the first; crest, a cockwith bell in beak; arms dated 1512.

 

Bodleian Library, Auct. 1 Q inf. 2.20,21:

Rainerius de Pisis, Pantheologia, sive Summa universae theologiae. Nuremberg: Johann Sensenschmidt and Heinrich Kefer, 8 Apr. 1473.

See Bodleian Incunable catalogue R-001(1).

City Jungle Part 1 / Part 2

 

RPR Records R-101

 

Posted with mp3 to my blog:

dynamitebrain.blogspot.com/

Long before Sam Kinison was the bad boy of comedy, he was in the family trade: his father was a minister, and his brothers were in a travelling evangelical show. He himself became an ordained minister as an adult. His older brother Bill and sister-in-law Sherry put out this album, and Sam played guitar, bass, and drums on it. I've never played it so I couldn't tell you if he did any backing vocals. Doesn't he look kinda like Danny Bonaduce? Years later, Bill became Sam's manager and biggest fan.

 

You are missed, Brother Sam.

 

Rainbow Records R-2134-LPS, 33rpm 12"

The Two Sides of Peter Banks, 1973 Capitol Records - R.I.P. Peter Banks (1947 - 2013). I love this album.

records r meant to be broken.. on 8th mar 09, we broke two.. 'the longest wait' n 'the smallest ang bao'! and they all happened at the end of this corridor.. well done bros!! =P

Dear Congressional Cemetery,

 

Thought you might find these two photos (public domain) of Almira Virginia Brown and related biographical information with citations of service .

 

Regards John G. Sharp

 

PHOTOS

Almira Virginia Brown at the time of her retirement, image from The Recreator a publication of the Washington Navy Yard 1920.

 

Almira Virginia Brown and her son William Francis Brown standing together from Washington Times July 11, 1920 p.16 William F. Brown also worked for the

navy yard for 42 years!

 

BIOGRAPHY

 

Almira Virginia Brown (nee Rudd) was born 8 August 1839 in Washington

DC's 6th Ward. She was one of the the first woman to work at the Washington Navy

Yard and was employed at the yard for over fifty years. Her mother

Elizabeth Lewis Rudd was widowed early and left with three young daughters of

whom Almira (AKA Elmira) was the eldest. On 20 April 1858, at Christ Church

Washington DC, she married Francis C. Brown, age 22, a painter and

plasterer and a native of Pennsylvania. Francis and Almira continued to

live in the 6th Ward. Francis Brown went to work for the Washington Navy Yard on 15 March 1861 and was killed in a tragic explosion in the

Yard's Ordnance Laboratory on 27 July 1861. Francis had been assigned to work in one of the most dangerous assignments in the 19th century

Washington Navy Yard the "Rocket House." Here naval rockets and ordnance were armed. The arming process of placing gun powder and fuse together

was fraught with peril; an errant spark or light could ignite stockpiles of rockets and ordnance. On at least three separate occasions, namely, 7 September 1841, 27 July 1861, and 21 October 1881, there were premature explosions of gun shells and rockets which resulted in fatalities. In

each instance and investigation was conducted afterward.

 

Navy Yard Commandant John A. Dahlgren later described the 27 July 1861 explosion that killed Francis Brown and another workman as follows:

 

An accidental explosion in the Rocket House of the Laboratory on Saturday

last by which two of the workmen killed and the building much destroyed.

 

I

recommend that immediate provision be made to replace the building by

several others of smaller size, so that several operators shall be

separated as much as possible.

 

I also recommend that provision be made for the wives and children of those killed.

 

Respectfully

 

As

her husband Francis Brown was a civilian, no pension was available under the civil

service regulations of the 19th century for his widow. Despite a plea,

by then Commandant John Dahlgren that she be granted a pension, due the

tragic service related death of her husband, her claim for a pension was

denied as Francis Brown was "not in the (naval) service" and there were

no legal provision to pension a spouse of former civilian workers.

 

To

sustain herself and her two children, a daughter, Mary E. Brown born 21

October 1859 and son William H. Brown born 15 February 1862 she was

given employment as a seamstress the Yard in March 1864. According to

the early yard payroll records, she was the first woman to work at the

Washington Navy Yard. Mrs. Brown primary task was to sew powder bags for

naval ships and she also made flags and ship pendants. After the death

of her husband Francis, Almira Brown remained a widow and never

remarried. Working the Yard she was able to buy a small house and to

provide for her children.

 

In 1920, Almira Brown was 81 years of

age. She had worked continuously at the Navy Yard since 1864. For over

50 years of those years she had continually sewed heavy canvass material

using an industrial sewing machine where she had made thousands of

canvass powder bags, flags and awnings for surface ships. In 1907 in a

move to promote greater efficiency, the Navy Department, tried

unsuccessfully to release Brown and about fifty other women who worked

as seamstresses, by moving their work to another government arsenal. The

yard seamstresses directly petitioned then President Theodore Roosevelt

who reversed the decision and Brown managed to stay on (Washington

Post, 11 January 1907, 4).

 

By 1920 she had become a fixture of

the yard, she was one of the few employees on the yard payroll who had

worked there in the civil war, she loved her job and even in her eighth

decade and despite her poor health, she petitioned the Department of

Navy that she desired to stay on working at the Yard. Her request to

remain on the rolls however was denied due to the passage of the new

Civil Service System of 1920. This new law which went into effect that

year meant for the first time government employees were able to retire

but the law also had a mandatory retirement age (70yrs). In her

retirement she lived with her daughter and son in law and her seven

grandchildren. Brown died 26 February 1926 at age 86. She is buried at

Congressional Cemetery next to her husband Francis (Congressional

Cemetery Records R-86/184.

 

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Official Personnel Folder ( OPF) , Brown, Almira V. National Archives and Records Service, St Louis Missouri

 

National Archives and Records Administration, Pension Application Brown , Almira V. # 2171

In lower margin of fol. a1r of vol. 1 and A2v of vol. 2:

argent, three pales gules.

 

Bodleian Library, Douce 300,301:

Rudimentum novitiorum [French] La Mer des histoires. Paris: Pierre Le Rouge, 1488-9.

See Bodleian Incunable catalogue R-143(1).

Group of soldiers of the Tasmanian Battalion (40th) in England.

Photo (with above caption) printed in Weekly Courier, Tasmania, 30th November 1916, page 23 with these names given:

Soldiers identified......

Back row (left to right):

Privates L W Hyland = Leslie William Hyland #1646

F Rector = Fred Rector #1669

G Smith = James Smith #1710 (only Smith named in records)

R E Gilbert = Roy Erwin Gilbert #1643

E G Currier = Cyril Garnet #1647

J Curran = James Curran #1695

Second row:

L W J Livingstone = Henry Walter John Livingstone #1654

... Ferrall = Norman William Ferrall #1636

Sergeant H R Donalson = Herbert Roy Donaldson #1634

A G Fowler = Alfred George Fowler #1633

O W Swenny = Oscar William Sweeney #1674

In Front:

A Anderson = Alexander Anderson #1697

J A Robertson = Joseph Alexander Robertson #1706

L J Westerbrook = Louis James Westbrook #1686

L M Duggan = Louis Montreal Duggan #1632

C W Chick = Charles William Chick #1699

 

Pte Leslie William Hyland #1646 (rear left)

Place of birth - Bagdad, Tasmania

School - State School, Tasmania

Religion - Congregational

Occupation - Farmer

Address - Broadmarsh, Tasmania

Marital status - Single

Age at embarkation - 25

Next of kin - Father, William Yates Hyland, Broadmarsh, Tasmania

Enlistment date - 18 April 1916

Rank on enlistment - Private

Unit name - 40th Battalion, 1st Reinforcement

AWM Embarkation Roll number - 23/57/2

Embarkation details - Unit embarked from Hobart, Tasmania, on board HMAT A35 Berrima on 1 July 1916

Rank from Nominal Roll - Private

Unit from Nominal Roll - 40th Battalion

Fate - Died of wounds 16 December 1917

Place of death or wounding - Belgium

Age at death - 26

Place of burial - Wimereux Communal Cemetery (Plot VIII, Row B, Grave No. 5A), France

Panel number, Roll of Honour,

Australian War Memorial - 132

Miscellaneous information from

cemetery records - Parents: WIlliam Gates and Catherine Elizabeth HYLAND, Springfield, Broadmarsh, Tasmania. Native of Bagdad, Tasmania

Family/military connections - Cousin Henry Bertram Eddingtan died of wounds 19/8/16 and Ernest Fredrick Berica killed in France 11/7/17.

War service: Western Front

 

reverse of photo: www.flickr.com/photos/hwmobs/54030656951/in/photostream/

 

This was taken on 6.26.2K4, the last day of business for Rebound Records (Main Street, F-burg, MD).

 

Sad to see this go, as it was Rob's dream (being a vinylaholic and musician) -- but he indeed lived that dream for a while, and cheers to Rob! He still plays music around, and I don't believe that here is where the story ends...

Cassette audio de l'album milkyway du groupe LUCIE VACARME ...

 

LUCIEVACARME :

PATRICE, MICHEL, VALÉRY, DAVID :

BASSE, CLOCHE, GUITARE, BATTERIE,

GUITARE, CHANT, VIOLONCELLE.

 

PRODUIT PAR LUCIEVACARME

ENREGISTRÉ EN FEV/MARS 92

PAROLES ET MUSIQUES : LUCIEVACARME

PHOTOS : VALÉRY LORENZO

CONCEPTION ARTISTIQUE : LUCIEVACARME

P+C LITHIUM RECORDS

R MUSIC DEMO

KIM GORDON COURTESY DGC

Der Recorder R 160 wurde vom Kombinat Stern Radio Berlin in den 1970er Jahren produziert. Er zeichnete sich durch ein robustes Gehäuse und einen guten Klang aus.

 

(Inventarnummer: 1018064)

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