ONES LOST IN 2013

SO  TONIGHT  ON  NBC  NEWS  THEY  RUN  BY  US  SOME  WE  LOST  IN  2013....

MARGARET  THATCHER  AND  NELSON  MANDELA  ON  THE  POLITICAL  SCENE.

THEY  GAVE  GEORGE  JONES  FROM  THE  COUNTRY/WESTERN  WORLD.

WELL  THEY  MISSED  THE  GREAT  SLIM  WHITMAN!!

BLOWS  ME  AWAY  WHY  SO  MANY  IN  NORTH  AMERICA  GO  FOR  COUNTRY  SINGERS  LIKE  GEORGE  JONES.  NOW  NOT  WANTING  TO  OFFEND  YOU  WHO  LIKE  COUNTRY  SINGERS  AS  JONES,  BUT  FRANKLY  HE  AND  DOZENS  MORE  DOWN  THROUGH  THE  PAST  DECADES,  ARE  JUST  PLAIN  SING  THROUGH  YOUR NOSE  SINGERS.  MAY  BE  BECAUSE  SO  MANY  IN  NORTH  AMERICA  CAN'T  DO  ANY  BETTER  THAN  SING  THROUGH  THEIR  NOSE,  THEY  GO  FOR  SING  THROUGH  YOUR  NOSE  SINGERS.

WELL,  A  LACK  OF  KNOWING  "TONAL  PITCH"  IN  SO  MANY  PEOPLE  IS  ANOTHER  REASON;  THEN  AGAIN  MAYBE  IT'S  THE  BAR  DRINKING  SONGS,  "MY  GALS  GONE  AND  LEFT  ME  AND  I'M  CRYING  IN  MY  BEER....."  TYPE  SONGS.

THEN  TODAYS  COUNTRY  WESTERN  SCENE  COMPETES  AGAINST  THE  HEAVY  METAL  SOUND  OF  THE  ROCKERS,  SO  COUNTRY......WELL  YOU  JUST  LISTEN  AND  YOU'LL  FIND  MUCH  "HEAVY  METAL  ROCK"  SOUND  WITH  MANY  OF  THEM,  AS  WELL  AS  THE  DECADES  LONG  TRADITION  OF  "SING  THROUGH  YOUR  NOSE"  SOUND.

YA  BEING  SOMEWHAT  TOUGH  ON  YOU  FOLKS  INTO  THE  "COUNTRY  SCENE"  BUT  FEW  INDEED  HAVE  BEEN  "GOOD"  SINGERS.....THERE'S  BEEN  A  FEW  IN  THE  PAST.....LIKE  JIM  REEVES,  EDDIE  ARNOLD,  AND  A  FEW  OTHERS,  BUT  REALLY  NOT  THAT  MANY [JUST  TALKING  ABOUT  MALES].

FOR  ME  THE  TWO  THAT  STOOD  ABOVE  THE  PACK  OVER  THE  LAST  80  YEARS WERE  ROY  ROGERS  AND  SLIM  WHITMAN.

NOW  THEY  HAD  REAL  VOICE  TALENT,  NOT  ONLY  "TONALY"  BUT  ALSO  WITH  THEIR  YODELING  ABILITY.

WE  NOW  HAVE  "DEEZER"  [IF  YOU  DON'T  KNOW  OF  IT  TYPE  IT  IN  ON  GOOGLE  AND  LEARN  ABOUT  IT]  -  HAVE  NOT  CHECKED  IF  ROY  ROGERS  IS  LISTED  WITH  THEM,  BUT  I  KNOW  SLIM  WHITMAN  IS.  THEY  HAVE  DOZENS  AND  DOZENS  OF  SLIM'S  SONGS.

YOU  WANT  PROOF  THAT  SLIM  WHITMAN   WAS  WAY  ABOVE  IN  SINGING  FROM  THE  REST  OF  THE  COUNTRY/WESTERN  SINGERS  EVER.....THEN  GO  TO  "DEEZER"  AND  LISTEN  TO  SLIM  WHITMAN.....THE  PROOF  OF  THE  PIE  IS  IN  THE  EATING.

I  MAKE  NO  APOLOGY.... IT  IS  JUST  A  FACT  OF  PLAIN  SINGING  ABILITY  SLIM  WHITMAN  WAS  THE  GREATEST  of  them  all.
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