Sunday, November 13, 2011
HP SPECIAL REPORT: WPSD Telethon of Stars
This is yet another Heath Post Special Report! ... What a special weekend we are having! ... WPSD's 55th "Telethon of Stars" is bringing the noise as we speak. Failing to walk the walk after I talked to talk, the Kentucky desk has pretty much whiffed on its promises of expanded telethon coverage. But I've got about 45 minutes before the little girl and I get on the road for church, so let's see what we can do to give proper props ...
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Eternal Vision, a southern gospel quartet from Knoxville, Tenn., is closing its 20-minute set with Bill Withers's "Lean On Me." I love Bill Withers and Beckley, W.Va., which is where he's from.
ReplyDeleteMike Mallory is hosting this morning's proceedings, and my heart just aches for Mike Mallory. I've don't know him, but, given that he has been on TV for the last 20 years in Bowling Green, Evansville and Paducah, I feel like I do. Can only imagine what Mike Mallory has been going through, and I wish he and his family nothing but grace and healing.
ReplyDeleteAnd now we have the pro, Terry Mike Jeffrey, opening his set with John Mellencamp's "Pink Houses," and it's the first time that I've ever been able to understand the lyrics to the song that I've always liked.
ReplyDeleteThe first real concert I ever saw was when I was at Heath in 1984 or '85, and Terry Mike Jeffrey and the Beach Boys played at the riverfront in Paducah. I was, of course, convinced that he was about to become a huge, worldwide rock-'n'-roll star.
ReplyDeleteI still think he's excellent. He's closing this 20-minute set with a very, very fast and sharp "Please, Please Me" by the Beatles.
A Kevin Paschall gave $50. I don't know if it's the same dude, but a Kevin Paschall quarterbacked Paducah Tilghman to the 1973 Class 2A state football championship. The younger of my two older brothers was cut from that team before it played a regular-season game--but not before he got to pose as part of the official team picture!
ReplyDeleteWell, such as it was, that's it for now. Please keep watching, and we'll close loops a little later.
ReplyDeleteThis was great, Eric. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThanks, GoHeath!
ReplyDeleteTaking the stage at 6:53 this morning was Steel Dove, a four-piece Christian rock band whose members might well have grown up listening to a little Jefferson Airplane on WKYX. The band is fronted by a Wal-Mart Pharmacy employee who is legally blind. He is married to the bassist/keyboardist, who has lost more than 100 pounds since 1999. The band's sound is dominated by a rich, soupy electric guitar played by Jimmy Duncan and robust, jazz drumming from Skip Shearhouse.
ReplyDeleteHere's part of Jimmy's story: "I traded a $15 K-mart telescope for my first guitar somewhere around 1974. I played through school, and as I neared completion of high school (1979), I noticed everyone was either dying their hair and breaking stuff or doing country. Either way -- it was time for me to walk."
And here's part of Skip's: "After I graduated from college, I traveled in the nuclear industry for 15 years. This made drumming take a back seat until I came to live permanently in Paducah, Kentucky, where I work as a Health Physics Technician for the United States Enrichment Corporation. During those years when I was traveling, I noticed that in most of the small towns, the young people would congregate in parking lots to hang out. I had a dream that some day I wanted to play in a Christian band on a flat-bed trailer in parking lots and tell them about Jesus. ... Since we have been together, God has put us on more flat-bed trailers than I can count, and I am still excited!"
At 7:42 appeared a young woman with asymmetrical hair, and she wore a gray turtleneck and a long black skirt that could've come straight out of my wife's closet. She was joined by a young fellow with an acoustic guitar, and he wore a baseball cap pulled down low over his eyes, a black shirt and ripped jeans. Liberal Christians, represent, I thought to myself, but, in fact, who knows? The duo played "Precious Memories" and "How Great Thou Art," great old hymns as likely to turn up in my mom's Southern Baptist congregation as my Disciples of Christ.
ReplyDeleteWhat I do know, though, is that Crissy Greer can really sing. This was her first appearance on the Telethon of Stars, and, in fact, her music career appears to be in its infancy. I didn't find much on the Internet about her.She ran for Marshall County clerk, but that didn't work out. Looks to me like her little brother might be trying to get her to give music a whirl. If so, I hope he's successful, and, whatever, I hope to see her again on the 56th Telethon of Stars.