Robin Williams was in the middle of his USO show when Retreat and Evening Colors started. He stopped immediately and stood in quiet respect for the troops.
Chicago White Sox minority owner Justin Ishbia released some renderings for a new stadium that would sit alongside the Chicago River called The Railyards
Dolly Parton says she turned down Elvis Presley and later made millions from the same song.
“He loved the song. He wanted to do it, and it had nothing to do with him. I never met him, but I was invited to the session in Nashville where he was going to record it.”
“The day before the session, I got a call from Colonel Tom Parker. They said, ‘We don’t record anything with Elvis unless we have the publishing.’ I said, ‘Well, that’s my most important copyright right now, so you can’t have it.’”
“He said, ‘Well, then Elvis can’t sing it.’ I thought, ‘Well, so be it.’ And I cried. I had told everybody Elvis was going to sing the song.”
“But I couldn’t give it up. It had already been a big hit for me, and I had just started my own publishing company. When you’re new in the business, you have to compromise until you can get to where you can own your things.”
“Since then, I’ve gotten back whatever songs I had scattered around through the years. But at that time, that was the big one. I thought, ‘I can’t do it.’ It was a heartbreaker.”
“But look what happened when Whitney recorded it. I made millions of dollars from the publishing.”
@thejohnettecruz Sad story. People who abuse the elderly are the worst. I’m always amazed at people who can sleep at night while committing these types of crimes.
@girdley Would be interesting to see if a company can actually make twinkies with the original ingredients and actually make it work on a full industrial scale and still make money