Posted on 05/08/2022 6:15:47 AM PDT by devane617
Country star Mickey Gilly, whose eponymous Texas honky-tonk inspired the 1980 film “Urban Cowboy” and a nationwide wave of Western-themed nightspots, has died. He was 86 years old.
Gilly died Saturday in Branson, Missouri, where he helped run the Mickey Gilly Grand Shanghai Theater. He was performing recently like last month, but from last one week health was going bad.
According to a statement from Mickey Gilly Associates, “he passed away peacefully with his family and close friends.”
Gilly – a cousin of rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis – opened Gilly, “the world’s biggest honky tonk” in Pasadena, Texas, in the early 1970s. By the middle of the decade, he was a successful club owner and enjoyed his first commercial success with “Room Full of Roses”. They began to regularly turn to country hits, including “Window Up Above,” “She’s Pulling Me Back Again” and “Don’t the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time.”
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnationnews.com ...
...also a cousin to Jimmy Swaggart...
Gilley
Whatever World Nation News is, needs a new editor, it’s “Gilley”, not “Gilly”. You’d think they could get that right for an obit.
NYTimes has an excellent article today on Mickey Gilly.
And this mangled mess: “He was performing recently like last month, but from last one week health was going bad.”
They must be hiring fifth grade “reporters.”
Spent a few Saturday nights at Gilley’s. Great fun and great music.
My thought when I read this as well. Fortunately I scrolled down enough to see that you beat me to it.
Thank you.
Perhaps they were using "English as she is Spoke" to assist in their translation!
I had to triple read that line. I thought I was having a stroke.
“1 pm in the morning” — WHO had the few drinks?
“They must be hiring fifth grade “reporters.”
Not an English speaker.
“Not an English speaker.”
Then we agree — it was written by an American product of the American school system.
Text to Speech raises its ugly head again.
Is very common among what passes for reporters nowadays.
Siri and Goog have speech assistants that help us text, and help reporters that can’t type or spell, quickly finish their articles.
And they post it online before any editors actually read it.
Add in a foreign news aggregation website and the mangling is complete.
Humorous mangle! Context.... :) and reference to “English as she is Spoke” (q.v!)
Thanks! That would explain it!
I attributed it to some English-as-second-language off-shore website in Kerala or Botswana!
OK, I had to look up “English as she is Spoke.” Now I understand “to craunch a marmoset.”
“..also a cousin to Jimmy Swaggart...”
Also Jerry Lee Lewis.
Of the 3 and strictly thinking of just music, I like Swaggart the best something about that Boggie Woggie Gospel sound.
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