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DEAR NNHS
NEWSLETTER READERS: We strive to bring you the best of many worlds. |
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08/21/16 - NNHS
Newsletter
Woman and men of retiring
timidity are cowardly only in dangers
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Jean Paul |
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Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
I must
admit once again that for forty-eleven or so years of my life I thought this song was
called, "Jim Daddy to the Rescue" - as in a Big Daddy. Or a Sugar Daddy. Or
something. I also thought it was a man singing it. It's a shocking thing to be thusly "edumacated" at my age. I always enjoy learning new things - except when they make me feel like a
complete and utter
idiot.....
BONUS - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqKTFFOqT-w - Jim Dandy to the Rescue - LaVern Baker, 1956
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Dandy_%28song%29:
"Jim Dandy" (sometimes known as "Jim Dandy to the Rescue") is a song written by Lincoln Chase, and was first recorded by American R&B singer LaVern Baker in 1956. It reached the top of the R&B chart[1] and #17 on the pop charts in the U.S. It was named one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll and was ranked #343 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[2]
The song is about a man (Jim Dandy) who rescues women from improbable or impossible predicaments.[1] It proved popular enough that Chase wrote a second song for Baker entitled "Jim Dandy Got Married.".[1]
The American English term jim-dandy for an outstanding person or thing predates the song; first attested in 1844, it may itself come from the title of an old song, "Dandy Jim of Caroline"...[3]
THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS:
Happy
Birthday today to
Bob Buchan ('61) of VA AND
Lynn Wright Hickman ('63) of VA!
Happy
Birthday tomorrow to
Suzanne Morris Oberlander ('63) AND
Happy Birthday this week to:
23 - Charles Allen ('57)
AND Pam Russell Hanzlik ('63) of NC
AND
26 -
27 - Pat Helmick Glover ('57) AND Nancy Timberlake Spencer ('57)
AND
28 -
Many Happy Returns, One and All! 
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THIS DAY IN WWII:
| August 21, 1942 - A
Nazi flag was installed atop the
Mount Elbrus in the western
Caucasus
mountain range. August 21, 1942 - Allied forces involved in the Guadalcanal campaign defeated an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru. August 21, 1944 - Canadian and Polish units captured the strategically important town of Falaise, Calvados, France. |
