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Covering the 1996 National Conventions
“Plus
ça change, plus c'est la même chose!”
Other
than the ad nauseum 24/7 news cycle which may be doing more harm than good to this country’s political process, if that’s
possible, the old adage above still applies: “The more things change, the more they remain the same.”
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| DON AND MOST EXCELLENT NEWS HOUND, HOLLY |
This
is how it sounded in 1996 when Don Dornberg, the News Monster’s best political reporter, covered both national conventions. News
junkies will find the observations about Newt Gingrich particularly insightful given the current political
theater that's unfolding. Along with Don on these highlights, Tom Hughes and Denis O’Hayer.
| 1996 GOP/DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION HIGHLIGHTS |
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| LISTENING TIME = 13 MINUTES |
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| ALEXIS SMITH- 1921-1993 |
Alexis Smith’s
impressive film, stage and t-v career spanned fifty years. The Canadian native may be best remembered for her
critically acclaimed singing and dancing in Stephen Sondheim’s production of Follies ***
. It would mark Smith’s long awaited Broadway debut and put her on the 1971 cover of Time Magazine.
Smith died of brain
cancer in Los Angeles in 1993 survived by actor, Craig Stevens, her husband of 49 years.
The News Monster’s Entertainment Editor,
John Kramer, interviewed Ms. Smith while she and Joel Grey were in Atlanta for the 1982 touring production of “Pal Joey”
at the Atlanta Civic Center.
| JOHN KRAMER WITH ALEXIS SMITH-1982 |
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| LISTENING TIME = 11 MINUTES, 30 SECONDS |
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Peach of a City
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| DEKALB COUNTY'S FERNBANK SCIENCE CENTER |
| STEVE GOSS EXPLORES THE MANY WONDERS AT FERNBANK, |
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| LISTENING TIME = 2 MINUTES |
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The Song Writers
Blessed are the music-makers, for they shall be called the heralders of God. (From A Choir Director’s Beatitudes)
| FROM WADE MEDLOCK'S "SIDESTREETS" LEGACY SERIES |
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| PRODUCED FOR THE NEWS MONSTER, OCTOBER 1983 |
| SONG WRITERS |
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| LISTENING TIME = 2 MINUTES, 45 SECONDS |
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The Peach Classic
Saturday Night special archive remembers an American folk music icon.
| KINGSTON TRIO FOUNDING MEMBER, DAVE GUARD |
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| PHOTO COURTESY, TONY LAY |
Donald David "Dave"
Guard along with Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane, was one of the founding members of The Kingston Trio. Guard was born in San Francisco but began his schooling in Honolulu’s Punahou School in the then U.S.Territory of Hawaii. After finishing his final year of high school in
1952 at Menlo School, a private prep school in Menlo Park, California, Guard matriculated at nearby
Stanford
University
where he graduated in 1957 with an economics degree. While still a Stanford undergraduate, Guard started a pickup group with Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane. Guard called his group Dave Guard and the Calypsonians.
It incorporated a Weavers-style signature sound that was principally two guitars, a banjo, and rollicking
vocals. Guard kept the group together after Reynolds and Shane left, changing the name of the Calypsonians to The Kingston Quartet. In 1957, when Reynolds and Shane teamed-up with Guard once again, the group finally settled on the name The
Kingston Trio. The rest, as they say, was history! While under contract to Capitol Records, the Kingston Trio attained huge commercial success with an extremely loyal following. On March 23rd, 1991, the evening
after Dave Guard died, WPCH-FM 95’s Ted Vigodsky on the Peach Classic Saturday Night talked to Banks Burgess
of Banks and (Paul) Shane, an extremely popular Atlanta musical duo themselves, about their association with Dave Guard and
The Kingston Trio and their rich musical legacy. (Edited from Wikipedia entry)
| REMEMBERING DAVE GUARD |
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| LISTENING TIME = 12 MINUTES *** |
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Citations and editor's notes:
*** John Kramer with Alexis Smith:
"Could I leave you?" from "Follies". Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
*** Remembering Dave Guard and the Kingston Trio. “To Morrow”. Written by Lew Sully;
arranged by Bob Gibson. Performed by the Kingston Trio from “String Along With the Kingston Trio” on Capitol Records, 1960.
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