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| From | Jocelyn Geboy <smussyolay@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | what celebrity does your dad look like? |
| Date | Fri, 18 Jul 2003 10:52:38 -0700 (PDT) |
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~~~my grandma has several pics of my dad where he
looks stunningly like ricky nelson. unbelievably so.
nicely enough, my dad digs ricky and can sing him
fairly well. dad likes the oldies, and i'm ever
grateful for growing up with all the stuff 'magic'
oldies radio could put up for my consumption. i think
there was a lot more variety in what they'd play back
in the...80's (?) on oldies radio, too. my dad still
will have 3 radios all tuned to the same station
throughout the house on a saturday, so he can have
music wherever he is working on the house. garage,
basement, house. i grew up with a great love for
music, even if my dad stopped somewhere around 1965.
jocelyn, who also got a great love for buddy holly and
chuck berry thanks to dad.
--- stevedurben2000 <sdurben@msn.com> wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> Nice story. Funny, there are old photo's of my dad
> where he looks a
> lot like Elvis too. The photos even appear to
> capture this very cool,
> kind of "calm of Elvis". Photos that look like
> Elvis at leisure. I
> remember looking at them with admiration and
> confusion. Not trying
> to "dis" my dad but neither cool nor calm were ever
> confused with
> being part of his make up (as far as I can tell).
> Also, he HATED
> Elvis and let it be known any time he heard his
> songs or saw him on
> the TV. My dad's fav song, I'm pretty certain, is
> "Beer Barrell
> Polka". He doesn't dance but boy could he "sing"
> it...well, he sure
> could belt it out loudly.
> Anyway and on an old theme, I guess for me as a
> boy, those photos
> represented one of my "frozen" wishes.
>
> Steve "Who thinks it's very cool that his dad is 74
> years old and
> still bails hay for a little extra money, but really
> does it more per
> his passion".
>
>
>
> My old man was a rock'n'roller during his early teen
> years. He was a
> real greaser who loved Elvis and even *looked* a lot
> like the E-man,
> judging
> by my grandmother's old photos. But something
> happened to him during
> adolescence, and he became a big Pat Boone fan. He
> even started
> wearing
> white bucks. I can't figure out if it was a need to
> fit in with the
> other
> players on his high school's football team (never
> underestimate the
> peer
> pressure that jocks impose upon each other) or if he
> was just being
> canny
> about the fact that the girls in his high school
> preferred Pat Boone
> to
> Elvis, but for years I had a curious sense of
> indignation towards my
> father
> because of this. I guess that most people want to
> run as far away
> from the
> music of their parents as possible; but me, I wished
> that my dad had
> liked
> cooler music when he was young and had access to
> some of the really
> great
> rock'n'roll of his day. Even the fact that my dad
> was also a big Fats
> Domino
> fan was compromised in my eyes, because Fats
> Domino's rolling New
> Orleans
> boogie-woogie was designed for a dance called the
> Stroll, and the
> Stroll was
> the favorite dance of my dad's high school
> sweetheart (my mom).
>
>
>
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