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Yakov · #31 Post by **Yakov** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 9:06 am

you may notice there are no greasy Dinah Washington blues songs about basketball players

gatorgal · #32 Post by **gatorgal** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 9:10 am

Yakov wrote:you may notice there are no greasy Dinah Washington blues songs about basketball players

And that's an obvious hole in her career.

Tina

Nate Dogg · #33 Post by **Nate Dogg** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 10:00 am

Not sure what this has to do with anything. But, since we are discussing Dinah Washington's lack of productivity in terms of basketball player songs.

Some of you may remember that she was married to a football player for awhile, Dick "Night Train" Lane, he died last year and lived in Austin.

So, perhaps she did sing about at least one football player.

http://courses.unt.edu/shastings/Hastin ... l/dick.htm

gatorgal · #34 Post by **gatorgal** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 10:11 am

Nate, you scare me. You're like that kid in Jerry McGuire.

Tina

djstarr · #35 Post by **djstarr** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 2:28 pm

Nate Dogg wrote:Not sure what this has to do with anything. But, since we are discussing Dinah Washington's lack of productivity in terms of basketball player songs.

Some of you may remember that she was married to a football player for awhile, Dick "Night Train" Lane, he died last year and lived in Austin.

So, perhaps she did sing about at least one football player.

http://courses.unt.edu/shastings/Hastin ... l/dick.htm

and even more off topic -they named both their kids Richard? <tempted to make a tasteless joke here>. Hopefully they gave them better middle names - or perhaps their nicknames are 5:20 and 9:20 Special or something

Yakov · #36 Post by **Yakov** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 4:20 pm

we are on the topic of why it's better to be a trombonist than a basketball player.

Nate Dogg · #37 Post by **Nate Dogg** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 7:24 pm

djstarr wrote:
Nate Dogg wrote:Not sure what this has to do with anything. But, since we are discussing Dinah Washington's lack of productivity in terms of basketball player songs.

Some of you may remember that she was married to a football player for awhile, Dick "Night Train" Lane, he died last year and lived in Austin.

So, perhaps she did sing about at least one football player.

http://courses.unt.edu/shastings/Hastin ... l/dick.htm
and even more off topic -they named both their kids Richard? <tempted to make a tasteless joke here>. Hopefully they gave them better middle names - or perhaps their nicknames are 5:20 and 9:20 Special or something

George Foreman named all his sons George.

djstarr · #38 Post by **djstarr** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 12:12 am

Nate Dogg wrote: George Foreman named all his sons George.

really? that's also very very funny. Why would you do that? There are plenty of good names out there...

and Yakov, I still missed the joke about Dinah Washington and basketball players - I don't know her work at all, were you referring to a specific song?

Yakov · #39 Post by **Yakov** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 7:14 am

we were talkin about being a trombonist vs. being a basketball player.

dinah washington sings "big long slidin' thing" and it's about a trombonist

djstarr · #40 Post by **djstarr** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 1:27 pm

thanks - sounds like my kind of song; I always liked the trombone players when I was in marching band.