Also known as "Dust Storm Disaster" this was one of many songs Woody Guthrie wrote about the dust bowl storms leading to the migrations from eastern areas such as Oklahoma to California from 1935 to 1940. The storms were caused by over-cultivation of marginal land to grow cotton, wheat and corn. In the mid-1930s, there was a drought that turned the soil to dust, and, when the winds came, the dust rose and blew across the eastern half of the US, some as far as the Atlantic Ocean. During the worst of it, the sky was black all day and even blankets stuffed under doors and around the windows could not keep the dust out of people's homes. Millions of acres of marginal land were destroyed when the topsoil lifted and; when it fell, crops on well-tended acres were suffocated. Although it was a man-made catastrophe due to years of improper land use many preferred to view the storms as a judgment from God, as suggested by Guthrie in this song. Guthrie recorded an album of "Dust Bowl Ballads" in 1940. This was the first song on the album.

Author: raymondcrooke
Keywords: folk song dust bowl migration environment isaac woodard
Added: January 4, 2009

Lora gets ready for her 50th birthday party - the theme is 1940s Hollywood. Everyone who attends must wear black and white! Lora and Lynn also have some crazy times in the car on their way to errands. Lynn talks about her party which is possibly going to be a Hawaiian theme with a "leaky"-tiki punch bowl.

Author: Lsistershow
Keywords: 1940 hollywood rose flowers driving lynn lora sisters
Added: May 29, 2008

Biography Owens was born on a farm in Sherman, Texas to Maicie Azel Ellington and Alvis Edgar Owens, Sr. A shopping mall, (Midway Mall of Sherman, Texas), located at 4800 Texoma Parkway, now sits where his farm used to be in Sherman. [2] (U.S. Highway 82 through Sherman was named "Buck Owens Freeway" in his honor). "'Buck' was a mule on the Owens farm," Rich Kienzle wrote in About Buck, the biography at Owens' official website adapted from Kienzle's notes for Rhino Records' 1992 "The Buck Owens Collection" box set. "When Alvis, Jr., was three or four years old, he walked into the house and announced that his name was also Buck. That was fine with the family; the boy was Buck from then on."[3] In 1937, his family migrated to Mesa, Arizona, during the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. In 1945, Owens co-hosted a radio show called Buck and Britt. In the late 1940s, Owens became a truck driver and discovered the San Joaquin Valley of California. He was impressed by Bakersfield, where he and his wife settled in 1950. Soon, Owens was frequently traveling to Hollywood for session recording jobs at Capitol Records, playing backup for Tennessee Ernie Ford, Sonny James, Wanda Jackson, Del Reeves, Tommy Sands, Tommy Collins, Faron Young and Gene Vincent, and many others. Owens recorded a rockabilly record called "Hot Dog" for the Pep label, using the pseudonym Corky Jones. He used the pseudonym because he did not want the fact he recorded a rock n' roll tune to hurt his country music career. Owens' career took off in 1959, when his song "Second Fiddle" hit number 24 on the Billboard country chart. A few months later, "Under Your Spell Again" hit number 4, and then "Above and Beyond" hit #3. In the early 1960s, the "countrypolitan" sound was popular, with smooth, string-laden, pop-influenced styles used by Eddy Arnold, Jim Reeves, and Patsy Cline, among others. Owens went against the trend, utilizing honky-tonk hillbilly feel, mixed idiosyncratically with the Mexican polkas he had heard on border radio stations while growing up. Owens was named the most promising country and western singer of 1960 by Billboard and his Top-10-charting duets with Rose Maddox in 1961 earned them awards as vocal team of the year. 1963's "Act Naturally" became Buck Owens and the Buckaroos' first #1 hit. The Beatles later recorded a cover of it in 1965. It appears on their Help! album. Ringo Starr later re-recorded the song as a duet with Buck Owens in 1988. The 1966 album Carnegie Hall Concert was a smash hit and further cemented Buck Owens and the Buckaroos as more than just another honky tonk country band. Buck Owens and the Buckaroos achieved cross over success on to the pop charts. In 1967, Owens and the Buckaroos toured Japan, a then-rare occurrence for a country musician. The subsequent live album, appropriately named Buck Owens and His Buckaroos in Japan, is the first country music album recorded outside the United States.[4] At the White House the following year, Owens and the Buckaroos performed for President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Creedence Clearwater Revival, one of the biggest American rock bands of the period, often demonstrated a country flavor and even mentioned Owens in the hit, "Lookin' Out My Back Door

Author: oldcountrytunes
Keywords: music country Buck Owens Buckaroos
Added: May 28, 2008

This is a football card collection of Badgers that made it to the NFL that spans from 1948 to 2007. It includes rare items like an original ticket stub from the 1940's all the way to a 2000 Rose Bowl original program and ticket.

Author: brewcitybroker
Keywords: Football cards UW Bagers Cards NFL
Added: February 11, 2008

Howard Harding Jones August 23, 1885 - July 27, 1941 Under coach Howard Jones from 1925 to 1940, when the Trojans were just one of a few nationally dominant teams. It was during this era that the team achieved renown as the "Thundering Herd", Howard Jones coached in 1924 at Trinity College (now known as Duke University) before leaving for USC in 1925. In 16 seasons at USC, Jones coached seven Pacific Coast Conference Championship teams and four more national champions, and won each of the five Rose Bowls in which his Trojans played. In the 1920s, USC won two Rose Bowls -- in 1923 and 1930. Heading into the 1930 Rose Bowl Game, USC had defeated its crosstown rival UCLA 76-0 in their first meeting.

Author: SMJ77
Keywords: USC Trojans Howard Jones
Added: November 24, 2007