What had us sitting on the edge of seats back then? Or what had us laughing or crying? Let's take a look.
3rd -- New York City's population is set at 7,964,200
4th -- John Lindsay is relected mayor of New York
5th -- Black Panther leader Bobby Seale was given 4 years for contempt of court during the Chicago Seven trial
7th -- Israel allows TV broadcasts on the Sabbath for the first time.
8th -- North Vietnamese troups strike deep into the Mekong Delta
14th -- Apollo 12 is launched
16th -- South Vietnamese villagers claim American GIs killed 567 unarmed civilians at My Lai
17th -- US and USSR hold SALT talks in Helsinki
19th -- Apollo 12 astronauts walk on the moon
19th -- US sergeant says he witnessed the massacre at My Lai
20th -- Henry Cabot Lodge resigns as US delegate to the Paris peace talks
21st -- First British satellite is launched from Cape Kennedy
23rd -- US steps up bombing raids over Laos
24th -- US orders murder charges against Lt William Calley as a result of the My Lai massacre
24th -- US and USSR sign nuclear non-proliferation treaty
25th -- John Lennon returns the Order of the British Empire award to protest UK support of the Vietnam war
25th -- President Nixon orders the destruction of germ warfare weapon stockpile
27th -- The Rolling Stones play at Madison Square Garden
Friday, October 30, 2009
One Hit Wonders
I assume everyone knows what a one hit wonder is, I know Tony does. I thought it might bring back a few buried memories if I listed the one hit wonders from our high school years and only from our high school years, in chronological order, from day one to day... well.. whatever it was. This isn't my list. I "borrowed" it from Wikipedia, and there are one or two I would disagree with, but by strict definition, if one song was a monster hit, then even if there were other minor hits it doesn't count. So without further ado....
Psychotic Reaction -- Count Five
Winchester Cathedral -- The New Vaudeville Band
Music to Watch Girls By -- Bob Crewe Generation
It Takes Two -- Kim Weston
Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye -- The Casinos
Friday On My Mind -- The Easybeats
Come On Down to My Boat -- Every Mother's Son
Little Ole Man (Uptight–Everything's Alright) -- Bill Cosby
Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out) -- The Hombres
Next Plane To London -- The Rose Garden
Judy In Disguise (With Glasses) -- John Fred and His Playboy Band
Green Tambourine -- The Lemon Pipers
Nobody But Me -- The Human Beinz
Love Is Blue -- Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra
I'm Gonna Make You Love Me -- Madeline Bell
Skip a Rope -- Henson Cargill
Born Free -- The Hesitations
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly -- Hugo Montenegro
Master Jack -- Four Jacks and a Jill
MacArthur Park -- Richard Harris
Reach Out of the Darkness -- Friend and Lover
The Horse -- Cliff Nobles and Co.
Angel of the Morning -- Merrilee Rush
Tip Toe Thru' The Tulips With Me -- Tiny Tim
Grazing in the Grass -- Hugh Masekela
Classical Gas -- Mason Williams
Journey to the Center of the Mind -- The Amboy Dukes
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida -- Iron Butterfly
Harper Valley PTA -- Jeannie C. Riley
Girl Watcher -- The O'Kaysions
Fire -- Crazy World of Arthur Brown
All Along the Watchtower -- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
I Got a Line On You -- Spirit
Worst That Could Happen -- Brooklyn Bridge
Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' -- Crazy Elephant
Love (Can Make You Happy) -- Mercy
Morning Girl -- The Neon Philharmonic
More Today Than Yesterday -- Spiral Starecase
Israelites -- Desmond Dekker and the Aces
Black Pearl -- Checkmates, LTD.
Medicine Man -- Buchanan Brothers
In the Year 2525 -- Zager and Evans
Color Him Father -- Winstons
My Pledge of Love -- Jeffrey Group
Yesterday, When I Was Young -- Roy Clark
Salad Annie --Tony Joe White
Sugar On Sunday -- Clique
Get Together -- The Youngbloods
Baby It's You -- Smith
Smile a Little Smile For Me Rosemarie -- The Flying Machine
Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye -- Steam
Evil Woman -- Crow
Venus -- Shocking Blue
One Tin Soldier -- Original Caste
Hey There Lonely Girl -- Eddie Holman
Ma Belle Amie -- Tee Set
The Rapper -- The Jaggerz
Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) -- Edison Lighthouse
Mississippi Queen -- Mountain
Long Lonesome Highway -- Michael Parks
Reflections of My Life -- Marmalade
Mississippi -- John Phillips
Vehicle -- The Ides of March
Psychotic Reaction -- Count Five
Winchester Cathedral -- The New Vaudeville Band
Music to Watch Girls By -- Bob Crewe Generation
It Takes Two -- Kim Weston
Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye -- The Casinos
Friday On My Mind -- The Easybeats
Come On Down to My Boat -- Every Mother's Son
Little Ole Man (Uptight–Everything's Alright) -- Bill Cosby
Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out) -- The Hombres
Next Plane To London -- The Rose Garden
Judy In Disguise (With Glasses) -- John Fred and His Playboy Band
Green Tambourine -- The Lemon Pipers
Nobody But Me -- The Human Beinz
Love Is Blue -- Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra
I'm Gonna Make You Love Me -- Madeline Bell
Skip a Rope -- Henson Cargill
Born Free -- The Hesitations
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly -- Hugo Montenegro
Master Jack -- Four Jacks and a Jill
MacArthur Park -- Richard Harris
Reach Out of the Darkness -- Friend and Lover
The Horse -- Cliff Nobles and Co.
Angel of the Morning -- Merrilee Rush
Tip Toe Thru' The Tulips With Me -- Tiny Tim
Grazing in the Grass -- Hugh Masekela
Classical Gas -- Mason Williams
Journey to the Center of the Mind -- The Amboy Dukes
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida -- Iron Butterfly
Harper Valley PTA -- Jeannie C. Riley
Girl Watcher -- The O'Kaysions
Fire -- Crazy World of Arthur Brown
All Along the Watchtower -- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
I Got a Line On You -- Spirit
Worst That Could Happen -- Brooklyn Bridge
Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' -- Crazy Elephant
Love (Can Make You Happy) -- Mercy
Morning Girl -- The Neon Philharmonic
More Today Than Yesterday -- Spiral Starecase
Israelites -- Desmond Dekker and the Aces
Black Pearl -- Checkmates, LTD.
Medicine Man -- Buchanan Brothers
In the Year 2525 -- Zager and Evans
Color Him Father -- Winstons
My Pledge of Love -- Jeffrey Group
Yesterday, When I Was Young -- Roy Clark
Salad Annie --Tony Joe White
Sugar On Sunday -- Clique
Get Together -- The Youngbloods
Baby It's You -- Smith
Smile a Little Smile For Me Rosemarie -- The Flying Machine
Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye -- Steam
Evil Woman -- Crow
Venus -- Shocking Blue
One Tin Soldier -- Original Caste
Hey There Lonely Girl -- Eddie Holman
Ma Belle Amie -- Tee Set
The Rapper -- The Jaggerz
Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) -- Edison Lighthouse
Mississippi Queen -- Mountain
Long Lonesome Highway -- Michael Parks
Reflections of My Life -- Marmalade
Mississippi -- John Phillips
Vehicle -- The Ides of March
Thursday, October 22, 2009
What's Wrong with Basketball?
I'm a little frustrated. I've tried for a week to find anything about the 69-70 basketball team and cannot --- neither the boys or girls team. I'm not trying to downplay the accomplishments of the football team at all, heck you don't win a state championship every year, but you would think I'd be able to find a won-loss record or something like that somewhere on the internet, but not so far.
I did find this when I was looking:
Most Points in a Half - Team
158 Loudon vs. McMinn County February 14, 1956
Most Points in a Quarter - Team
94 Loudon vs. McMinn County February 14, 1956
Most Points in One Game - Team
197 Loudon vs. McMinn County February 14, 1956
Most Points Scored in a Quarter - Individual
46 Reed Stamey Loudon February 14, 1956
But heck, we hadn't even made the first grade when that happened.
Does anyone know at least the won-loss record? I would like to post something about the teams, championships or not.
I did find this when I was looking:
Most Points in a Half - Team
158 Loudon vs. McMinn County February 14, 1956
Most Points in a Quarter - Team
94 Loudon vs. McMinn County February 14, 1956
Most Points in One Game - Team
197 Loudon vs. McMinn County February 14, 1956
Most Points Scored in a Quarter - Individual
46 Reed Stamey Loudon February 14, 1956
But heck, we hadn't even made the first grade when that happened.
Does anyone know at least the won-loss record? I would like to post something about the teams, championships or not.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
The River
The other day I got to thinking about the Tennessee River and how it affects Loudon. We all, in one way or another, have used it or dealt with it in some way or another. It doesn't flood like it used to but I'm sure it doesn't take a very big increase in water to back up the creeks feeding into it; so even if you lived away from it, sometimes it came visiting. Several times it rearranged the left field boundary of the baseball field, if it didn't put the whole field under water.
When I was a kid I lost 3 friends to the river. One behind the hosiery mill, one where Ferry Street runs into the river and one behind what would now be the Senior Center. The first place I remember living is with my grandparents there were Ferry Street meets the river, just below the old Chair Factory. I learned to swim right off the bank and there used to be one heck of a drop off there at the mouth of Steekee Creek.
I remember when the lake there used to be lined with houseboats, and when the Coast Guard used to dock there (and more than once they ate their fill of my Grandma's fried chicken). On weekends a lot of people went fishing there off the bank or out in a boat. Mrs. Ross (my 1st grade teacher) and her family, among others, had a motor boat they brought down a lot, and it wasn't unusual to see someone waterskiing down under the bridge.
I was also baptized in the river there at Ferry Street, as were hundreds of others.
Whether it was in town, somewhere along Steekee Creek or down where the little river came in there at Davis Ferry, the river had a major effect on the town and on each one of us.
When I was a kid I lost 3 friends to the river. One behind the hosiery mill, one where Ferry Street runs into the river and one behind what would now be the Senior Center. The first place I remember living is with my grandparents there were Ferry Street meets the river, just below the old Chair Factory. I learned to swim right off the bank and there used to be one heck of a drop off there at the mouth of Steekee Creek.
I remember when the lake there used to be lined with houseboats, and when the Coast Guard used to dock there (and more than once they ate their fill of my Grandma's fried chicken). On weekends a lot of people went fishing there off the bank or out in a boat. Mrs. Ross (my 1st grade teacher) and her family, among others, had a motor boat they brought down a lot, and it wasn't unusual to see someone waterskiing down under the bridge.
I was also baptized in the river there at Ferry Street, as were hundreds of others.
Whether it was in town, somewhere along Steekee Creek or down where the little river came in there at Davis Ferry, the river had a major effect on the town and on each one of us.
Friday, October 09, 2009
That Championship Season
Record: 11-0-1
LHS 20 Alcoa 7
LHS 27 Clinton 0
LHS 35 Lenoir City 6
LHS 56 Everette 6
LHS 25 McMinn Central 0
LHS 20 Cleveland 0
LHS 9 Maryville 6
LHS 7 Kingston 7
LHS 45 Rockwood 6
LHS 28 Sevierville 0
Playoffs
LHS 28 Knox South 0
LHS 30 Humbolt 0
Points Loudon 330 Opponent 38
Average Loudon 27.5 Opponent 3.1
No matter how you look at it, that was one helluva season.
Except for a tie to Kingston it would have been perfect.
Six of the 12 opponents were shut out.
Loudon outscored them almost 10 to 1.
Opponents averaged just 3 points a game.
If you take out the two close games, Loudon outscored them by an average score of 31-2.
In ten of the 12 games Loudon scored 20+ points.
Loudon didn’t allow a score at all in the last 3 games, two of which were playoff games.
What got me thinking about this was last Friday night. I to the Loudon football game on the internet. I didn’t know until game time that it was homecoming and I was very surprised when they paid tribute to the 69 team. Our team. That team at the top of this post.
The lady called out the names of the members of the team who were present and I found myself initially remembering them as they were, but then trying to figure out how they had changed over the years. There weren’t many there, but the seniors she called out were Dickie Blankenship, Gordo Watson, Wayne Poole, Buddy Guider, Bo Carey, Mike Littleton and Mike Skinner (I hope I remembered them all).
It would have been fun be there to see them again. I haven’t seen Mike Skinner and Wayne Poole in 25 years, or at least 20, and I haven’t seen the others much more than that.
Great memory guys!
LHS 20 Alcoa 7
LHS 27 Clinton 0
LHS 35 Lenoir City 6
LHS 56 Everette 6
LHS 25 McMinn Central 0
LHS 20 Cleveland 0
LHS 9 Maryville 6
LHS 7 Kingston 7
LHS 45 Rockwood 6
LHS 28 Sevierville 0
Playoffs
LHS 28 Knox South 0
LHS 30 Humbolt 0
Points Loudon 330 Opponent 38
Average Loudon 27.5 Opponent 3.1
No matter how you look at it, that was one helluva season.
Except for a tie to Kingston it would have been perfect.
Six of the 12 opponents were shut out.
Loudon outscored them almost 10 to 1.
Opponents averaged just 3 points a game.
If you take out the two close games, Loudon outscored them by an average score of 31-2.
In ten of the 12 games Loudon scored 20+ points.
Loudon didn’t allow a score at all in the last 3 games, two of which were playoff games.
What got me thinking about this was last Friday night. I to the Loudon football game on the internet. I didn’t know until game time that it was homecoming and I was very surprised when they paid tribute to the 69 team. Our team. That team at the top of this post.
The lady called out the names of the members of the team who were present and I found myself initially remembering them as they were, but then trying to figure out how they had changed over the years. There weren’t many there, but the seniors she called out were Dickie Blankenship, Gordo Watson, Wayne Poole, Buddy Guider, Bo Carey, Mike Littleton and Mike Skinner (I hope I remembered them all).
It would have been fun be there to see them again. I haven’t seen Mike Skinner and Wayne Poole in 25 years, or at least 20, and I haven’t seen the others much more than that.
Great memory guys!
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