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08/17/16
- NNHS Newsletter -
Blue Skies
“Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can
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Carl Sandburg |
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Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
I really like
this golden oldie...
BONUS #1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=andb46kjf0g - Blue Skies - Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra, 1941 - C'mon, you had to know I'd give Frank star billing!
BONUS #2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8IZx7i8qHg - Blue Skies - Betty Hutton, 1945
BONUS #3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epRXoS_P0lk - Blue Skies - Ella Fitzgerald
BONUS #4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkjXieeVSJk - Blue Skies - Jim Reeves
BONUS #5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSCplj40uuY - Blue Skies - Willie Nelson
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Berlin:
Written after his first daughter's birth as a song just for her. In it he distilled his feelings about being married and a father for the first time: "Blue days, all of them gone; nothing but blue skies, from now on."[23] #1 for Ben Selvin with five other hits in 1927 besides being the first song performed by Al Jolson in the first feature sound film, "The Jazz Singer," that same year. In 1946 it returned to the top 10 on the charts with Count Basie and Benny Goodman. In 1978, Willie Nelson made the song a #1 country hit—52 years after it was written.[16] |
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Skies_%28song%29:
| "Blue Skies" is a
popular
song that was written by
Irving Berlin in 1926. The song was composed in 1926 as a last-minute addition to the Rodgers and Hart musical Betsy. Although the show ran for 39 performances only, "Blue Skies" was an instant success, with audiences on opening night demanding 24 encores of the piece from star Belle Baker.[1] During the final repetition, Ms. Baker forgot her lyrics, prompting Berlin to sing them from his seat in the front row.[2] In 1927, the music was published and Ben Selvin's recorded version was a #1 hit. That same year, it became one of the first songs to be featured in a talkie, when Al Jolson performed it in The Jazz Singer. Another version of the song was recorded by Benny Goodman and his Orchestra in 1935 [Victor Scroll 25136]. 1946 was also a notable year for the song, with a Bing Crosby/Fred Astaire film taking its title along with two recorded versions by Count Basie and Benny Goodman reaching #8 and #9 on the pop charts, respectively. Crossing genres, Willie Nelson's recording of "Blue Skies" was a #1 country music hit in 1978. It was a major western swing and country standard already in 1939, by Moon Mullican, and in 1962 by Jim Reeves. "Blue Skies" is one of many popular songs whose lyrics use a "Bluebird of happiness" as a symbol of cheer: "Bluebirds singing a song -- Nothing but bluebirds all day long." |
THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS:
Happy Birthday today to
Carole Smith Bennett ('57) AND Eugene
Chapman ('57) AND
 Ruth Ann Reece Horace ('67) of FL!
Happy
Birthday tomorrow to
Etta L. Baker ('57) AND Happy Birthday this week to:
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
Many Happy Returns, One and All! 
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August 17, 1940 - Adolf Hitler declared a blockade of the British Isles.
August 17, 1941 - Soviet Army left Nikolaev and Krivoi Rog.
August 17, 1942 - U.S. Marines raided the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin (Butaritari).
August 17, 1942 - The U.S. Eighth Air Force began regular combat operations in Europe with an attack on the marshalling yards at Rouen-Sotteville.
August 17, 1943 - The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffered the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission.
August 17, 1943 - The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrived in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
August 17, 1943 - The First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King began.
August 17, 1961 - The Communist East German government completed the construction of the Berlin Wall.
August 17, 1962 - East German border guards killed 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempted to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin becoming one of the first victims of the wall.
August 17, 1987 - Rudolf Hess (b. 26 Apr 1894 in Alexandria, Khedivate of Egypt, Ottoman Empire) died in Spandau, West Berlin, Allied Occupied Berlin at the age of 93 after apparently committing suicide. Hess was the last member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle.
