PINNACLE COUNTRY MUSIC

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1 PINNACLE COUNTRY MUSIC 99 Rosebank Road Avondale Alternate Sundays from 1.30 until 4.30pm October 2016 AUCKLAND All correspondence to: Doug Phipps 109A Whitney St. Blockhouse Bay Auckland 0600 Ph: The Avondale Spider (Australian Huntsman)

2 Gidday, me again with the October news letter. Wow, only two more left for the year and spring has arrived, let s hope the wind and rain will go away. October Birthdays are shared with cm people Bonnie Owens, Susan Raye, Tanya Tucker, Dottie West, Alan Jackson, Dwight Yoakam, and our own Lynn, Vicki, Olive, Kath A, David G, Marriane S, Martin, Carol G, June A, Lyn L, Diane C. A popular month! Doug s Choice Joke. A woman was talking to a friend. I feel like my body has got totally out of shape so I got doctor s permission to join a fitness club to do some exercises. I decided to take an aerobics course for seniors. I bent, I twisted, gyrated, jumped up and down and perspired for an hour. By the time I got my leotards on the class had ended. News Letters from other clubs are on the back table along with photo albums. Please return them to the table when finished reading. It s a good way to keep in touch with other clubs and with members who have passed this way. Thanks to Red and Doreen for arranging we get one from Otago. Short country music articles and photos are welcome for our own news letter. The Wanted List is as usual. Goods for trading table. Food for afternoon tea. Photo s for our albums. Raffle prizes. PLUS A stage manager. Our sincere condolences go to Andrew Paterson and family for the loss of Geof, a fighter to the end. Club day 4 th Sept. We had enough people to make for a very good afternoon with two songs for most singers. The band Brownie, Lekay, Sonny, Marilyn, Red and Dave made good backing for very good singers. Our bus trips have been running every two months and are open to all comers. If you have a friend bring them along for a great afternoon bus trip. A full bus is essential to keep these good value trips going. We had 10 empty seats to Mt Pirongia and funds can t carry that loss too often. We also need people to pay on the club day before the trip. Please don t leave it until on the bus. Mt Pirongia Bus Trip. We left Avondale on a beautiful day and stopped at Bombay. Then on to Mt Pirongia s new venue and into the music. The new band, Alf and Willie on guitars, a new drummer and a lady bass player made the music and tea time soon came round. Wow, a banquet, thanks ladies, and to Mt Pirongia team for a lovely afternoon. We left at 4pm and enjoyed a safe trip back with Neil at the wheel again. Mt PIRONGIA

3 isclaimer. The Pinnacle Club, DDoug Phipps, or the organisers of its meetings, entertainment and bus trips, will not be held liable in any way for loss, damage to property, or personal injury whilst attending club functions. Persons causing disruption or displaying bad behaviour will be expected to leave if asked to do so. Magic artist Loretta Lynn is due to undergo minor surgery after a fall which led her to postpone three upcoming concerts over Labor Day weekend. Frequencies RADIO MAGIC Auckland 702 AM Tauranga 88.6 FM Rotorua FM Hawkes Bay 92.7 FM Kapiti 95.1 FM Wanganui 90.4 FM Wairarapa FM Wellington 891 AM Blenheim FM Nelson 99.2 FM Christchurch 738 AM Dunedin 99.8 FM Queenstown 104 FM Southland 106 FM Ask Dave(plays fiddle) for photo restorations, copies, typing, graphics etc, desktop publishing. Ph: dwardley@ihug.co.nz

4 Enough to send you really dotty! There are 12 dots placed at intersections. Your brain won t let you see more than one at a time properly. Well not to worry, I struggle to see any darned dots without my glasses on. If you do see more than one dot don t go running to the optician, they might want to sell you $400 specs. Club Day 18 th Sept. Another enjoyable afternoon and with numbers down a little but still just over the fifty mark. We really need sixty people to make ends meet and can be very grateful for the ladies on our trading table and for the items donated. For Dolly Parton fans. On August 19, 2016, Dolly released her 43rd studio album, Pure & Simple. The project is a collection of love songs, which touch on what Dolly calls the many colors of love. Is Brownie practising to be a man of the cloth? Looks like it. We appreciate his efforts with Sonny shifting the heavy furniture around. Thanks to all the helpers that arrive early at and set up all the chairs, band gear, door and trading tables, kitchen etc.

5 Waitemata CMC 45th Party KIWI ROAST 2057 Great North Road, Avondale. Phone orders: Roast meals complete with gravy/sauces, whole/half/quarter chickens. Roast rolls, sandwiches from $6 and not forgetting FISH & CHIPS. VERY good pricing and value. Check it out. WCMC members and visitors all enjoyed a good afternoon and evening on Sunday with good grub and good music. It was great to see some friends from the way back good old days about which we were able to reminisce. Fiddler Dave got to make a noise in the band and quite enjoyed himself. (Yes I did, thank you Andrew). I can t write all the names that were there, sorry. We do wish Rangi all the best with his pending operation. It was fitting that founder members Harold and Tina Kernot were asked to cut the cake as seen in the photo above. They had come down from their new Snells Beach abode for the birthday occasion. Pinnacle CMC had a bus trip to Pirongia so there were surely a few absentees. I was too busy talking to take many pics but did get one of Cindy, lovely as ever...see, and in good voice too. Male senior citizens only $8. Keepin it Country. More detail on the beginning of country music adding to the last NL. Country music is often traced back to folk songs played by immigrants that settled in the Appalachian Mountains. English ballads blended with Irish and Scottish jigs were played mostly on the fiddle. It took many years for the name country music to arrive. The first recording of such music was made by Texas fiddler Eck Robertson in 1922 who cut 16 tracks of old-time music from The genre struggled for both an identity and a star in those early years. It was often labeled hillbilly music and many of the early performers were sketch comedians.

6 A compilation of the 1922 record is still available. Many fiddlers have played a part in country music. A young brakeman in the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad Company, Jimmie Rodgers, was forced to give up life on the railway due to poor health from TB. Jimmie entered the music scene in 1927 and for six years until his death in 1933 became the very star the genre needed. Today, he is known as the Father of Country Music. Jimmie Rodgers Among early CM music superstars & pioneers, he was also known as "The Singing Brakeman", "The Blue Yodeler" Patsy Cline, Died in private plane crash. Very influential and successful vocalist. Patsy s hits began in 1957 with Donn Hecht's and Alan Block's "Walkin' After Midnight", Hank Cochran's and Harlan Howard's "I Fall to Pieces", Hank Cochran's "She's Got You", Willie Nelson's "Crazy" and ended in 1963 with Don Gibson's "Sweet Dreams". Millions of her records have sold since her death. By the mid-30s, the term hillbilly had taken on negative connotations. About this time Gene Autry started the first honky-tonk style songs to the genre. The first of the so-called singing cowboys, Autry made his Hollywood debut in Soon, others like Roy Rogers and Tex Ritter emerged. Gene Autry... September 29, 1907 Tioga, Texas, died October 2, 1998 (aged 91). The singing cowboy. With these stars the came the name country and western. Bob Wills introduced a jazz influence and then western swing came along. New instruments arrived, drums, electric guitars, and horns. The original Appalachia strings sound faded. Earnest Tubb, a Texan, was first to record with an electric guitar. Known as the Texas Troubadour. Born February 9, Died Kitty Wells also helped prove women were capable of producing great music. Stars of today may owe Kitty a debt.

7 Ellen Muriel Deason (August 30, 1919 July 16, 2012), known professionally as Kitty Wells, was a pioneering female country music singer. Kitty broke down a female barrier in country music with her 1952 hit recording, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" and which made her the first female singer to top the U.S. country charts and the first female country star. Her Top 10 hits continued until the mid 1960s and inspired a long list of successdful female country singers to follow. It is a little unfair to single out a half dozen stars when there are really dozens who contributed to making country music so popular especially during the 1960s to 1980s. Glancing down the list some names stand out...carter Family, Roy Acuff, Jenny Carson, Red Foley, Hank Snow, Hank Williams, Bill Monroe, Jimmy Dickens, Jean Shepard, Webb Pierce, Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell, John Denver, Loretta Lynn, Willie Nelson, Barbara Mandrell, Ray Price, Charlie Pride, Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins, Kenny Rogers, Mel Tillis, Conway Twitty, Dottie West, Don Williams, Tammy Wynette, Ferlin Husky, and I nearly forgot Dolly Parton. There are dozens more of course and if your favourite is missing, sorry. How about, June Carter Cash, Rosanne Cash, John Conlee, Earl Thomas Conley, Rodney Crowell, Charlie Daniels, Leon Everette, Janie Fricke, Larry Gatlin, Crystal Gayle, Vern Gosdin, Lee Greenwood, Merle Haggard, Reba McEntire, Ricky Skaggs, Conway Twitty, Anne Murray, George Strait, Faron Young. The best list is at Jock Hume In the News again. Our own "Singing Cowboy" plans to hang up his guitar. Jock Hume has been performing country and western songs with his acoustic guitar for 46 years and on the streets of Auckland since busking was permitted in the 1980s. Well Jock s welcome at the Pinnacle and was with us only last week. Our July news also included his photo after he had paid us a visit. We hope he takes his guitar off the hook a few more times yet and visits the Pinnacle as often as he can. Enjoy the retirement, you ve earned it. For an accurate real time check just Google up Time is.

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