This was another one of those weekends where I got behind the power curve and am playing catch-up. I expect that next weekend will be closer to what passes for normal around here.<\/p>\n
Mickey Gilley<\/a>.<\/p>\n A honey-toned singer with a warm, unhurried delivery, Mr. Gilley had 17 No. 1 country singles from 1974 to 1983, including \u201cI Overlooked an Orchid\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time.\u201d<\/a> …<\/p>\n \u201cThere wasn\u2019t anything nice about that club,\u201d he said in a 2019 interview with The Santa Fe New Mexican. \u201cI mean, Gilley\u2019s was a joint. But it worked because of what it represented \u2014 country music and the cowboy image.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Interesting fact #1 which may not be generally known: Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Swaggart were cousins of Mr. Gilley.<\/p>\n Interesting fact #2 for the benefit of FotB RoadRich:<\/p>\n Gilley was a licensed pilot, holding an instrument rating with commercial pilot privileges for multi-engine airplanes, as well as private pilot privileges for single engine aircraft.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n George P\u00e9rez<\/a>, comics guy. (“Wonder Woman”, “Avengers”, “The New Teen Titans”)<\/p>\n For the record, NYT<\/strong> obits for Kevin Samuels<\/a> and Ric Parnell<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dennis Waterman<\/a>, British actor. Credits<\/a> other than “The Sweeney” include “The Life and Loves of a She-Devil”, “Tube Mice”, and “Stay Lucky”.<\/p>\n Kenneth Welsh<\/a>. 242 credits in IMDB<\/a>, which is pretty impressive (Clint Howard has 253). Other credits include one of the spinoffs of a minor SF TV show from the 1960s, “Perfect Storms: Disasters That Changed the World”, “Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer”, “Due South”, and “The X-Files”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This was another one of those weekends where I got behind the power curve and am playing catch-up. I expect that next weekend will be closer to what passes for normal around here. Mickey Gilley. A honey-toned singer with a warm, unhurried delivery, Mr. Gilley had 17 No. 1 country singles from 1974 to 1983, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,40,16,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-music","category-obits","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24623,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24622\/revisions\/24623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHe placed 34 singles in the country Top Ten during his two decades on the charts. But he was ultimately best known as the proprietor, with Sherwood Cryer, of Gilley\u2019s, the honky-tonk in Pasadena, Texas, that became one of the most storied nightspots in country music.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n