Deflection

It just keep raining and it is hard to get my exercise in everyday and it stays cool at 55 degrees and below.

Regarding the passing of Naomi Judd, I did see the Judds on stage. In August of 1983 I moved to Red Oak, Iowa. Since my landlords just bought the apartment building that I was living in and they we cleaning the place up after I move in to the building. As I got to know them, they owned a law office and he was a lawyer. They had a son in high school that it seems like they wanted my to mentor. In 1984, I bought season tickets to Aksarben (Nebraska spelled backwards), as the Billings did every year. There was like six concerts a year in a large arena that could hold up to 7,200 people. The large entertainers would have been been Elvis Presley and Frank Sentra. I was exited to see the Statler Brothers, since I was enjoying their music, with their opening act was the Judds. I can still remember Scott Billings stating that it hard to determine which one was mother or daughter from our location in the areas. From the current information, there was only seventeen years between them and they were both slender at the time. With the affection of the audience, we were able to bring the Statler Brothers back for four to five occur presentations. My great evening with the Statler Brothers.

There was a couple of other significant happenings that I remember from the concerts. One concert was with Sammy Davis Junior and Bill Cosby, and I feel that each one was to have 90 minutes on stage. With the audience so responsive, Sammy Davis was up there over two hours and we know that I was going to be a long evening. Apparently he had been preforming in night clubs were the audience was not responsive and he got to enjoying his time on this stage. Bill came up and talked about his “brain dead Kidds,” and he was hilarious.

One an other night, and this time I in the arena by myself setting in the balcony around the outside of the arena, and John Davison and Shirley Jones was there. With a mobile microphone, he got on the stage floor, was three-fourths of the way back on the floor, and he sat on this women’s lap. He stated that he was setting on something other than her lap and she brought out her binoculars from the top of her lap. It was like she really need the binoculars to see him setting on her lap. But, Shirley Jones put on a great performance and she talked about making the Music Man, since Omaha is not that far from Mason City, Iowa. But, I can tell you one thing that is hard to pick up from the movies or television, she has a voice, not to mention that she is a very beautiful person. Although they had a great sound system for the event, she did not need it. Her voice could fill that 7,200 person arena without any amplification. That was a perform that I will not forget. And, for some reason, she never really recorded songs, since I have checked. This is really sad of have a voice like her and not have it recorded.

But when it comes to Naomi, there is a saying show me a hero and I will show you a tragedy. This can be seen in our military personnel come home from war. My first thoughts go to Audie Murphy and James Stewart. Audie’s Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) cost him his first marriage to Wanda Hendrix, like him sleeping with a hand gun under his pillow every night, and she loved him until that day that he was killed, she attended his funeral, and she never remarried. (you talk about love.) Jimmy’s PTSD can be easily recognized in the movies that he made after his service in WWII. But, the Judd’s had instantaneous success in the mid to late 1980s with their music. By 2005, Naomi was suffering from server depression. It is almost impossible to believe that the Judds were planning to start touring later in this year. Apparently, the induction into the County Music Hall of Fame was too much for her and she committed suicide the day before the induction. A story that can be as sad as our military personnel coming home with PTSD.

Roger