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Jane Austin

(9,199 posts)
54. J. Frank Wilson was born in my hometown
Mon Jun 17, 2019, 06:53 PM
Jun 2019

a few years before me.

As small a place as it was, I didn't know him.

hashtag: brushes with fame

Sometimes they were refused air play, ala 'Teen Angel' empedocles Jun 2019 #1
Full disclosure: I owned that on a 45 when I was in high school. Arkansas Granny Jun 2019 #31
tell laura I love her msongs Jun 2019 #2
In 1960 in Catholic school our nun let us bring records to play on Fridays. One song was about a guy wasupaloopa Jun 2019 #3
Pearl Jam did a great cover of Last Kiss... Drunken Irishman Jun 2019 #32
J.Frank Wilson and Last Kiss. We have a winner. n/t. argyl Jun 2019 #37
J. Frank Wilson was born in my hometown Jane Austin Jun 2019 #54
Oh Jeez. That song still makes me tear up. nt LNM Jun 2019 #52
D.O.A. by Bloodrock House of Roberts Jun 2019 #4
I just came back to post this iwillalwayswonderwhy Jun 2019 #8
That is one song ChazII Jun 2019 #27
He says there's no chance for me. Arkansas Granny Jun 2019 #30
You're Dead -- Norma Tanega -- 1966 Freelancer Jun 2019 #5
Leader Of The Pack Ptah Jun 2019 #6
That song.. cannabis_flower Jun 2019 #20
The motorcycle guy is a dead-ringer for Stephen Colbert Zambero Jun 2019 #23
And the sequel ... sl8 Jun 2019 #25
Some Velvet Morning -- Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood -- 1966? Freelancer Jun 2019 #7
I think it was because we thought we were going to burn up in a mushroom cloud any day, wasupaloopa Jun 2019 #9
Slightly different. . . . . .but 1960s. Hoyt Jun 2019 #10
One of my favorite Byrds songs! I thought this 80's Ultravox song about a nuclear 50 Shades Of Blue Jun 2019 #26
One of those songs I had to jump up to replay it several times. Like song you posted. Hoyt Jun 2019 #33
Fever Ray -- Keep the Streets Empty for Me Freelancer Jun 2019 #11
Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Talahatchie Bridge about then right? JDC Jun 2019 #12
'67 Lochloosa Jun 2019 #22
Pull the Plug - Starz sl8 Jun 2019 #13
gooey teenage death songs we used to call them rurallib Jun 2019 #14
My parents called them Dead Teenager Songs. Iggo Jun 2019 #56
I think this is the first one I ever heard. japple Jun 2019 #15
This is from 2000, so it doesn't quite meet the criterion, but here it is anyway. cos dem Jun 2019 #16
Another spoof, this one obvious. Iggo Jun 2019 #57
Jan & Dean's Deadman's Curve japple Jun 2019 #17
Good eye! sl8 Jun 2019 #18
Run Joey Run Eugene Jun 2019 #19
Patches Zambero Jun 2019 #21
Last Kiss - J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers (1964) subterranean Jun 2019 #24
Seasons in the Sun oregonjen Jun 2019 #28
Laurie (aka Strange Things Happen in This World) dflprincess Jun 2019 #29
The long black veil! Mopar151 Jun 2019 #34
oh yeah Grasswire2 Jun 2019 #35
here's a cheesy death ballad for ya Amyishere Jun 2019 #36
"Billy and Sue" by BJ Thomas and the Dakotas, and "The Wreck on the Highway" by The Louvin Bros. NBachers Jun 2019 #38
"Tom Dooley" by Kingston Trio riverwalker Jun 2019 #39
Link riverwalker Jun 2019 #40
The Severed Garden... Aristus Jun 2019 #41
What's that song where she keeps wailing "Let it please be him, oh dear lord it must be him..." Grasswire2 Jun 2019 #42
"It Must Be Him" by Viki Carr; another in that vein is "Wives and Lovers" by Jack Jones, a Burt NBachers Jun 2019 #46
Vicki Carr '67 shanny Jun 2019 #53
"Town Without Pity" Gene Pitney KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2019 #43
That 'so felt' Pitney voice! empedocles Jun 2019 #44
Yes, and that song "Only Love Can Break A Heart"...... KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2019 #45
Excitable Boy and Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon DFW Jun 2019 #47
Thanks, those are favorites discntnt_irny_srcsm Jun 2019 #62
Classics DFW Jun 2019 #63
Bobby Goldsboro and "Honey". llmart Jun 2019 #48
Oops, I posted this one, too; didn't see your post. Laffy Kat Jun 2019 #66
This one pressbox69 Jun 2019 #49
Rupert Holmes wrote Timothy gratuitous Jun 2019 #50
Nervous Norvus - Transfusion (1956) WheelWalker Jun 2019 #51
I thought I posted this before, Corgigal Jun 2019 #55
Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald Mendocino Jun 2019 #58
Song for Adam -- Jackson Browne Zorro Jun 2019 #59
Everly Brothers-"Down in the River Garden" Doc_Technical Jun 2019 #60
Billy Don't Be a Hero... hunter Jun 2019 #61
Leadfoot Marthe48 Jun 2019 #64
"Honey" Bobby Goldsboro. Laffy Kat Jun 2019 #65
Wildfire TuxedoKat Jun 2019 #67
Here's a gloom and room song from the 60s cannabis_flower Jun 2019 #68
The End - The Doors Dire Wolf - The Dead. nt UniteFightBack Jun 2019 #69
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