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08/16/16 - NNHS Newsletter - For Your Love
“Love has no desire but to
fulfill itself. To melt and be
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Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
Another great old love
song, this one from 1958 - YAY!
BONUS #1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5jGHZzpQ9k - For Your Love - Ed Townsend
BONUS #2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtogO5G3vKk&NR=1&feature=fvwp - For Your Love - Johnny Mathis
BONUS #3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1dvr0lEVUw&NR=1 - For Your Love - The Lettermen
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Townsend:
Ed Townsend - Edward Benjamin Townsend - (April 16, 1929 - August 13, 2003) was an African American attorney, songwriter, and producer. He was best known for performing his composition, "For Your Love," a rhythm and blues doo wop classic, and as the co-writer of "Let's Get It On" with Marvin Gaye.[1]
Although he was born in Fayetteville, Tennessee, his family soon moved to Memphis where his father was called to pastor an African Methodist Episcopal church.
The year Townsend graduated from high school, he was elected to the International American Methodist Episcopal Youth Council (IAMEYC). The honor let him travel worldwide before enrolling in college the next year at Arkansas State College.
After graduating, he taught for a year. Although he never formally practiced law, he frequently used his law training to assist other entertainers in negotiating their recording and performance contracts.
In 1951, Townsend joined the United States Marine Corps and served in Korea. After his discharge, he recorded a number of singles for various labels, none of which made the charts. Ironically, in 1958 he took his ballad, "For Your Love" to Capitol Records, hoping to interest Nat “King” Cole, but, impressed with his voice, Capitol signed him to record it himself.
Dick Clark had just started American Bandstand on television and invited Townsend to sing the very first month the show aired. He was an overnight success and the song shot up the charts, reaching #13 on the US pop chart.....
NEWBIES:
1.
Kay Kelly Edmundson
('58) of VA via her son,
Scott Coombe of VA -
08/15/16, 10:17 PM - "Class of '58":
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Ms. Harty, My mother would like to reconnect with her graduating class of 1958. Her maiden name was Kay Kelly as a student and her name now is Kay Kelly Edmundson. She lives in Poquoson, VA. She is a 1958 graduate, but graduated in the summer of 1958 so she may not be in the 1958 yearbook. She does not have an email address so I’d like to ask that my email address, scottcoombe@me.com, be included instead. I will let her know when there are any news or calendar item updates. Not sure if you contact alumni via phone but, just in case, her phone is 757-868-7402. Please let me know if you have any questions. Sincerely, Scott Coombe
How
exciting! Thank you, Scott, and welcome aboard, Kay!
Kay and I were not
in school at the same time, but she was in the Senior Chorus
with my sister,
I've added Kay to the Alumni and Contact pages for the Class of 1958: http://www.nnhs65.com/alumni-1959-n-before.html http://www.nnhs65.com/contact-1958.html If you'll send me her birthday, I'll add her there as well! http://www.nnhs65.com/Happy-Birthday.html
Her portrait was
indeed in the 1958 Anchor, and I scanned it into my
files nearly five years ago when your father,
I see you
already took the most important step in reconnecting Kay to her
classmates by contacting
I, on the
other hand, am supposed to announce the daily
NNHS Newsletters on
Tuesdays and Fridays, but somehow that rarely seems to happen
just that way.
By the way, Scott, I was fascinated by your videos concerning Kangan Water, to which I will admit complete ignorance heretofore. |
THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS:
Happy Birthday
tomorrow to Carole Smith Bennett ('57) AND Eugene
Chapman ('57) AND
Ruth Ann Reece Horace ('67) of FL!Happy Birthday this week to:
18 - Etta L. Baker ('57) AND
19 -
Former
President Bill Clinton of NY
AND
 Jimmy DeBerry ('64) of VA AND
 
 Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA;
20 -
21 -
22 - Suzanne Morris Oberlander ('63)
AND
23 - Charles Allen ('57)
AND Pam Russell Hanzlik ('63) of NC
AND
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Many Happy Returns, One and All!
http://www.nnhs65.com/Happy-Birthday.html
| THIS DAY IN WWII: |
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August 16, 1940 - The
Communist Party was banned in
German-occupied
Norway. August 16, 1942 - The two-person crew of the U.S. naval blimp L-8 disappeared without a trace on a routine anti-submarine patrol over the Pacific Ocean. The blimp drifted without her crew and crash-landed in Daly City, California. August 16, 1944 - The first flight of the Junkers Ju 287. August 16, 1945 - An assassination attempt was made on Japan's prime minister, Kantaro Suzuki. August 16, 1945 - Puyi, the last Chinese emperor and ruler of Manchukuo, was captured by Soviet troops. August 16, 1945 - Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright was
freed by Russian forces from a POW camp in Manchuria, China. He had been
captured by the Japanese on the island of Corregidor, in the
Philippines.
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