DOG ASIDE: Robert Shaw was an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist….best known for his 1963 album….The Ma Grinder. He learned his barrel house style of playing from musicians in the Fourth Ward in Houston. In the 1920’s….Shaw was part of the “Santa Fe Circuit” named after touring musicians utilizing the Santa Fe freight trains. Although…
DOG ASIDE: Cathy Rigby is an actress, speaker, and former world class gymnast. Her performance in the 1968 Summer Olympics at Mexico City helped to popularize the sport of gymnastics in the United States. She became the first American woman to win a medal at a World Gymnastics Championship…the silver medal on the balance beam. After her…
DOG ASIDE: Bone Daddy has told me the story on many occasions…..about him and Miss C going dancing at The Chula Vida Dance Hall outside of Dale, TX….as they would be the only Gringos….along with about 400 Mexicans cutting a rug on the dance hall floor….while listening to the Cajunto sounds of Flacco Jimenez….and having…
DOG ASIDE: Comedic Actor Walter Matthau hosts as salute to comedy in the movies…..with this video showing the comedy and magic that Mae West and W C Fields brought to the silver screen. West and Fields were incomparable in the annals of cinema as a female and male comedic team….as this video so aptly show…
DOG ASIDE: During the 1980’s there were two spoiled boys with bad attitudes on the court in the sport of professional tennis….Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe….as each were known to berate judges and opposing players alike…..but there was no denying the talent that each had. Connors won the Men’s Finals against Pat Cash in the…
DOG ASIDE: The 1979 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships from Phoenix, Arizona provided a look at some of the world class swimmers of that era….including Steve Lundquist, Peter Arvidsson, Brian Goodell and Andy Coan…..who would would not get a chance to swim in the 1980 Moscow Olympics…..due to the US President Jimmy Carter’s decision to…
DOG ASIDE: Deborah Ann “Debbie” Harry is an American singer-songwriter and actress….best known as the lead singer of the new wave and punk rock band Blondie…..when she recorded several worldwide number one singles during the 1970’s and 1980’s. She is sometimes considered the first rapper to chart at number one in the United States due to her work…
DOG ASIDE: In the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympic Games…..Russian Olga Korbut was the belle of the ball….known as the “Sparrow from Minsk”….who won four gold medals and two silver medals. In this video piece….Sportscaster Jim McKay and US Women Gymnastics Coach Gordon provide a great perspective of just how The Sparrow changed women’s gymnastics…