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1 posted on 04/19/2016 5:38:20 AM PDT by simpson96
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music *ping*


2 posted on 04/19/2016 5:38:34 AM PDT by simpson96
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Memories there! Thanks!


3 posted on 04/19/2016 5:53:06 AM PDT by nclaurel
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That’s not the end of the world as we know it.


5 posted on 04/19/2016 6:00:40 AM PDT by I-ambush (Don't let it bring you down, it's only castles burning.)
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And That, Bless Her Heart, Is Skeeter Davis.

You Are Listening to DAIMOND CITY RADIO!


6 posted on 04/19/2016 6:01:16 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Everyone Does Know that after the Last Brokered Republican Convention, They Lost, Right?)
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To: simpson96

That song is so beautiful. Always have loved it.


7 posted on 04/19/2016 6:04:18 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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A pretty woman, she was not.

10 posted on 04/19/2016 6:24:29 AM PDT by Lazamataz (When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.)
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To: simpson96

Skeeter Davis was very popular in Jamaica. I remember reading about the Montego Bay World Music festival in 1982 where she played on a bill with, among others, the Grateful Dead. The local taxi drivers were over the moon that Skeeter Davis was actually going to be performing.

They did have questions about this “Grateful Dred” guy, though. They wanted to know why his fans were dirty and ill-mannered.


12 posted on 04/19/2016 7:00:11 AM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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I saw Skeeter Davis perform at the Grand Ole Opry in 1992. She seemed like a very nice person, in stark contrast to the enormous ego of Porter Wagoner, who was also on the bill.


13 posted on 04/19/2016 7:06:33 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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“And that was ‘The End of the World’ by Skeeter Davis, a name I still... find... confusing...”


21 posted on 04/19/2016 10:28:48 AM PDT by Lazamataz (When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.)
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...from when Skeeter was about 50
23 posted on 04/19/2016 10:34:07 AM PDT by gg188 (Ted Cruz, R - Goldman Sachs)
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It is said that “The End of the World” may have been inspired by the Cuban Missile Crisis, which occurred a few weeks before the song was released.


34 posted on 04/19/2016 8:19:53 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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