The Joybells
27397 - I'm Gonna Walk Talk And Sing (Whitey Gleason)
The Joybells
Featuring Little Miss Joey
27398 - Led Out Of Bondage (Prather)
All Gospel Records
5738 Rosebury Dr.
Dayton, OH
Late 1970 or early 1971
"Motown was the heartbeat of young America," said Jerome Meriwether, griot and a tour leader at the Motown Historical Museum. "But these cats were the heartbeat of Motown."
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Though they get 33,000 visitors a year -- many from Europe -- there are likely to be only four or five other guests when you arrive to join a tour led by -- if you're lucky -- Jerome Meriwether.
Meriwether, it must be said, is the kind of guy who somehow manages to get away with wearing sunglasses on a dark and stormy day.
He calls the old musicians who once hit gold in these rooms "cats.". It also doesn't hurt that he went to school with Smokey Robinson and that his neighbors were "all the cats that were playing over here." He'll show you photos of Detroit-bred stars like Mary Wells ("My Guy"), the Supremes, the Contours and the Miracles, a display case with three pink sequined dresses worn by the Supremes, and five bright green sequined jackets from the Temptations.
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Richard Soliday
McAlester High School choir teacher , Oklahoma public school teaching
Worked full time as a teacher in the State Prison at Boley see |
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Maggie Culver Fry 1900-1997 Oklahoma Poet Laureate, Emeritus Maggie Culver Fry was born near Vian, Oklahoma in 1900 More |
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Helen Evelyn (Kay) Smith Whittaker Gardner March 7, 1923 - March 12, 2002 |
57 - Trepur 1002 : Darling How I Miss You / You Can't Hand Me That Line
61 - Moonbow 939 : The Bounce / Driftwood
63 - Trepur 1017 : Heartbreak Party / Second Chance
68 - Moonbow 1002 [Rite 18941/2] : It Must Be Love / Too Much Of Not Enough
69 - Loral 19069 [Rite 23757/8] : Love By The Golden Rule / Relax And Rare Back
?? - Nervous Breakdown, unissued (White Label LP 8943)
72 - Loral [Rite 29561/2] : Who Will I Will / You Cry Not Alone
Molly Roth sweet-talks a plant as she is interviewed for a TV show. 'Grow, or I'll .break your stem' By DOC HOLLOBAUGH
Molly Roth says she was the hit of the Transworld Home Horticulture Exhibit For the uninitiated, the exhibit was held this past spring at the International Amphitheater in Chicago, 111., and everybody who was anybody in the lucrative world of xxxg green houseplants, and the paraphenalia that goes with them, was then. Molly Roth's contribution to the exhibit was a record called "Plant Talk, Sound Advice for the Care and Feeding of House Plants." The tongue-in-cheek subtitle is "Do you speak English, Ivy?" and includes appropriate conversations with wandering Jew, African violets, palms, ferns, spider plants and others. "We knocked them out" said Roth from her Green Earth plant shop in Lafayette, Ind., where she deals in facts and superlatives. Roth's theory to that most people talk to the things they love. "You talk to your cat, right? Well, there are people who sincerely believe that by talking to plants they set up good vibes." "I've talked to plants all my life. Sometimes I say, 'Grow, or I'll break your stem.'" As for horticulturists who scoff at the talk-to-plants theory, Roth thinks many of them may have brown thumbs. "Raising house plants to like raising kids. I've seen parents who are not In control. Plants scare some people like "A plant has to know who is boss." Roth has a 92,000 stereo system in her shop, "A twenty-first century looking number with purple lights." A sign says, "Play the free juke box, the plants love it" "My plants are gorgeous. They hear everything — golden oldies, add rock, country western, classical" 'Roth said. "Let me tell you about the album cover, babe. You'll love it
By the way, I got a letter from Marion, la., wanting a record. Where is that? "Well, hell get it as soon as we get the shipment Anyway, the girl on the record Jacket looks like Lady Godiva. This girl with long blonde hair falling all over her shoulders. She's standing In back of my Juke box with a watering can in one hand and... it really looks like Eve in her bunch of plants. Terrific. "I think I'm so darn clever, so I wrote the script for the record. I said to myself, 'Molly, this is just pure dynamite.' "There is a plant music record out but it's just pure classical. You know, Bach, Beethoven. I don't have it My plants have to be versatile. "If an add rock freak comes in and buys one of my plants, what happens when he takes it home if that plant has grown upon Bach? Disaster, right?" Beside*, her theory goes, if you get close enough to talk to your plants you're close enough to see if they need water or they have bugs