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JimF
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 Posted - 04/23/2003 : 01:50:12
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Ahhh. Tony Bennett.
Now there's one of my favorites.
Did you ever hear the wonderful song especially written for him entitled: "I Wanna Be Around To Pick Up The Pieces, When Somebody Breaks Your Heart"? (Yes, that's the title)
There is an interesting and poignant story behind that song, and if you will permit me to go off topic, I would like to share the story:
There was a widowed grandmother in Youngstown, Ohio who had spent her life working behind the cosmetic counter in a Youngstown department store. Her name was Sadie Vimmerstedt.
One day in February of 1957, Mrs. Vimmerstedt scribbled a handwritten 2 page letter on the back of pages from an old calendar and sent it to that great songwriter Johnny Mercer suggesting that Mercer write a song entitled “When Somebody Breaks Your Heart,” suggesting the theme “I want to be around to pick up the pieces when somebody breaks your heart.”
In February of 1959, Mercer responded to Mrs. Vimmerstedt’s suggestion, and wrote the song, saying when he wrote it, he just knew it was a song made in heaven for Tony Bennett.
Surprising Mrs. Vimmerstedt, Johnny Mercer shared authorship with her on a 50/50 basis and it is said, that her half of the shared royalties, which were over $100,000 from this one song, paid Mrs. Vimmersted more money than she otherwise had made in her whole life.
Tony Bennett’s recording of the song “I Wanna Be Around” was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1963 and Mrs. Vimmerstend attended the Awards ceremony at the invitation of Mercer and Bennett.
Today, if you look at the label on any recording of "I Wanna Be Around," you'll notice that the credits for words and music are shared by Johnny Mercer and Sadie Vimmerstedt.
Johnny Mercer and Mrs. Vimmersted exchanged Christmas cards and correspondence until death.
It always impressed me that by his act of sharing proper credits, Johnny Mercer showed as a wonderfully honest man, the class act he was on top of being one of America's most talented songwriters.
Pretty neat story heh?
A great song. And no one sings better than Tony Bennett.
Ahhhh. Now those were the days when we had 'real music' playing on the radio.......
To hear the song click the weblink:
http://home.istar.ca/~townsend/pop_standards/i_wanna_be_around.htm
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Edited by - JimF on 04/23/2003 02:19:33 |
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Ghostbuster
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Posted - 04/23/2003 : 08:10:51
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Geeez...this is a tough one.
Howz about a little poetic mangling, 'Fester in Asbester'? Or, We're gonna do the 'Asbester Fester'?
No, that doesn't pass the smell test, either.
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aquajoc
USA
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Posted - 04/27/2003 : 13:12:44
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Since the predominant (99.9%)type of asbestos were dealing with is in the form of "chrysotile" white colored asbestos i got ya all beat. "Chrysotile is now in style" or "white gold thats better than mold" or just the "white mold"
By the way, in reply to the contractors sanding the texture.....thats the biggest no-no..... |
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CatDaddy
USA
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Posted - 04/28/2003 : 08:46:14
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Jim, I agree with your figures of $5000 to $10000 on an average home. AJ's $100K sounds high but then the story would not been as hipnotic without all the zeros.
How about 'Asbestos Loco'?
Isnt Chrysotile a fast food mexican resturant chain?
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JimF
USA
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Posted - 04/28/2003 : 08:57:18
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Father CatDaddy, perhaps the extra $90 thousand was tacked on to bring to our First Church of the Gooey Death and Discount House of Evil down here in Del Rio as a donation in our collection plate?
I note that Father CD is having to serve a much cheaper brand of fruit of the vino from the altar chalice which should remind Ghostbuster he is behind in his tithes.
Father CD keeps laundering that money to make it free from sin.
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CatDaddy
USA
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Posted - 04/28/2003 : 09:09:55
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The Church is trying not to let these lean times affect it's services. We are serving the finest box of wine that Food Giant has to offer. When its cold enough, you can hardly tell the difference as it passes from the paper Dixie cup to your lips. We still can't afford the wafers but most members of the First United CADO Church of the Ozarks come for just the wine anyway.
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Asbestos the next mold?
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