Despite all that is wrong, there is sweet soul music – Dothan Eagle

* 1948 Arabs blew up Latrun pumping station in Jerusalem

* 1954 Sports Illustrated was first published

* 1961 Martin Luther King Jr. protested for black voting rights in Miami

* 1962 Ringo Starr replaced Pete Best as Beatles drummer

* 1969 Woodstock (NY) Music and Art Festivals second day

* 1988 IBM introduced software for artificial intelligence

* 2008 American swimmer Michael Phelps won the seventh of his eight Beijing Olympics gold medals

* 2012 Wikileaks founder Julian Assange granted political asylum by Ecuador

Now then, since we wont be watching or listening to the EHS Wildcats Friday, Aug. 21, what is there to do?

Wish Greg Walls a belated 70th birthday, celebrate Hawaii becoming the 50th state in 1959, opening day of the chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Grace Slick getting maced after calling police pigs in 1972, and the 1987 U.S. debut of the movie, Dirty Dancing, featuring one favorite song of Jimmy Carroll and the late Charles Henry DeJarnette, Cry to Me, by the incomparable Solomon Burke?

There were other fine tunes in Dirty Dancing, i.e. Be My Baby, Big Girls Dont Cry, Do You Love Me, Stay, These Arms of Mine, Hey Baby, etc.

Hey Baby first reached your scribes ears via a juke box in the old catfish camp on the banks of the Chattahoochee River in 1962.

A few years later, in the New Brockton home of 1968 EHS classmate Hamp Hogg, he and two more of our classmates, Burns Whittaker and Joe Bynum, and Joes younger brother, Dan, then-dba The Swingin Souls played the tune very well!

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Despite all that is wrong, there is sweet soul music - Dothan Eagle