One of my favorites
RIP
Posted on 03/18/2010 4:08:52 PM PDT by stillafreemind
And then, Fess Parker embarked on his second career. A winery. If you go to the Fess Parker Winery and Vineyard link, you will see the Parker families business.
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I still remember him as a 5-6 year old boy with B/W TV...I knew the song well....think I even had the coon skin cap....great show.
He really was. He was good looking the way movie stars used to be good looking. Very manly and yet kind looking. This is very sad.
Requiscat in pacem.
Love Fess Parker Chardonnay. I’ll pick up a bottle of it this weekend, and toast his memory. RIP
I was just thinking the same thing this afternoon! He was 85 and my mother is 84!
I met him at his hotel in Los Olivos, CA. He’d often hang out in the lobby in the evenings entertaining people.
Classy man.
RIP
Sorry to hear of his passing. The image of him as Davy Crockett,the last man standing at the Alamo,swinging Old Betsy at the enemy, has been strongly etched in my memory,since I first saw it as a kid in the 50’s. My life-long interest in the Alamo was born then.
Born on a mountain in Tennessee
Greenest state in the land of the free
Raised in the woods so’s he knew every tree
He killed him a b’ar when he was only three
Davy, Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier
Fought single-handed thru the Injun war
‘Till the Creeks was whipped and the peace was in store
And while he was a’handlin’ this risky chore
Made hisself a legend forever more
Davy, Davy Crockett, the man who don't know fear
When he lost his love, his grief was gall
In his heart, he wanted to leave it all
And lose hisself in the forest tall
But he answered, instead, his country's call
Davy, Davy Crockett, the choice of the whole frontier
He went off to Congress and served a spell
Fixin’ up the government and laws as well
Took over Washington, so I hear tell
And patched up a crack in the Liberty Bell
Davy, Davy Crockett, seein’ his duty clear
When he came home, his politickin’ done
Why, the big western march had just begun
So he packed his gear and his trusty gun
And lit out a’grinnin’ to follow the sun
Davy, Davy Crockett, leadin’ the pioneer
His land is the biggest, his land is the best
From grassy plaines to the mountain crest
He's ahead of us all and meetin’ the test
And a’follern’ his legend right into the west
Davy, Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier
Davy, Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier
One of my favorites
RIP
I’m sorry.
Well, darn.
“D a v i e D a v i e Crockett...King of the wild frontier” and “Dan’l Boone was a man...yes a biggg man...”
I was eight years old watching the battle of the Alamo depicted on the Disney show and Davie Crockett got killed. Like so many young boys my age back then, we just couldn’t accept that. Noooooooo! It can’t be!!!!!! This takes me back to those same emotions. It just can’t be. I am very saddened to lose such a legend of Americana.
Happy trails Fess. We will miss you!
We baby boomers are feeling our years tonight.
He was a very nice guy. Was somewhat involved in Republican politics in the 1980s.
I hope that he is buried wearing a coonskin hat, that he made so famous.
Really? Never heard of it.
He was in a lot of Disney movies and like everyone else, I thought he was great.
Probably not his fault but I did think the Daniel Boone TV series devolved into a pretty PC show.
Another good role was the the “Great Locomotive Chase”.
Rest in peace to a true and real actor.
DANG! Just when you think things couldn’t get any worse, “Davey Crocket” dies...this has been a nasty week for America.
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