Tony Duque Story

I have a story I tell people when I'm trying to give people a taste of what it was like, and Tony supplied the punchline.

One night in '66, Jose Feliciano was doing a late set at the hoot and quieted everybody down saying something to the effect of, "I want you to listen to this because I really mean it." And he floored us all by doing something that none of us had ever heard before. He did "The Star Spangled Banner" in a very Ray Charles soul style, the way he did when he messed with everybody's mind at the World Series a few years later.

OK, now everybody does it like that. Even Aretha. But in '66, in white suburban Orange County, just when Vietnam was blowing up in our faces and a number of us were afraid to go to the mailbox for fear of a letter from the government, nobody had ever done such a thing. It was unthinkable.

And he did mean it. He sang it from the heart, and everybody sat there, stunned. And Tony, who was sitting next to me, whispered, "Damn. It almost makes you want to enlist."

The Greatest Ringmaster.......

For the Greatest Show on Earth.
Master of Ceremonies **STEVE NOONAN**
sorts out precious stage time, wishing
this circus had at least 3 rings.
A tough job, done with expertise and laughter.

The Winner and Still Champion..

BOB SHEFFER and THE WILLOW VALLEY SINGERS.

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Y'all behave now

Norma and I will be up on Saturday and staying for the duration. Don't play all the good stuff on Friday.

SHAMELESS CHEAP PROMOTIONAL STUNT

DAVE ADDS MORE RADAR BEAMS TO RALPH'S FINAL MIX

Getting Ready to Hit the Road!

"WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON"