A legend in stockcar racing when NASCAR was still stockcar racing and not a woke platform attempting to push poison "political correctness" onto their fanbase (empty seats was the result of that exercise in attempted social engineering, has passed away today .
Bobby Allison began racing right out of high school. He eventually settled in Hueytown, AL (suburb of B'ham). His accomplishments were many. So it was for the entire cadre of racers referred to as The Alabama Gang (Red Farmer, Bobby Allison, Donnie Allison, and Neil Bonnet originally then, joined by Jimmy Means, Bobby's son Davey and others). I miss those guys and racing.
When I was growing up there was a guy living in our community that raced what is now ARCA. Then it was trucks and cars and this guy raced both. Bobby was one of his sponsors and was visiting this fellar one day during the week. They had driven to a local car wash to clean some parts and several people spotted Bobby. It was akin to an Elvis sighting. RIP Mr. Allison.
This is a story sent in by reader Bob in E-town. The story is of young German Lt. Friedrich Lengfeld who displayed some of the best qualities of human being during the Battle of the Hurtgen Forest in November of 1944. Lengfeld grew tired of hearing the cries of help from a young American soldier trapped in a minefield. Lengfeld sacrificed his life trying to save the young soldier and in later years his deed of compassion and bravery did not go unmarked. A monument was placed beside his grave by the the 22nd Inf. Society noting this Story
"Rumble" is an instrumental by American group Link
Wray & His Wray Men. Released in the United States on March 31, 1958, as a
single (with "The Swag" as a B-side), "Rumble" utilized the
techniques of distortion and tremolo, then largely unexplored in rock and roll.
In 2018, the song was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame in a new category for singles.
In 2008, it was inducted to National Recording Registry by
Library of Congress.
At a live gig in Fredericksburg, Virginia, in early 1958,
while attempting to work up a backing for The Diamonds' "The Stroll",
Link Wray & His Ray Men came up with the instrumental "Rumble",
which they originally called "Oddball". It was an instant hit with
the audience, which demanded four repeats that night. The host of the sock
hop, disc jockey Milt Grant, paid for the song to be recorded and released as a
single; in turn, Grant would receive songwriting credit.
Eventually the instrumental came to the attention of record
producer Archie Bleyer of Cadence Records, who hated it, particularly after
Wray poked a pencil through the speaker cone of his amplifier to make the
recording sound more like the live version. But Bleyer's stepdaughter
loved it, so he released it despite his misgivings. Phil Everly heard it
and suggested the title "Rumble", as it had a rough sound and said it
sounded like a street fight.
It was banned in several US radio markets, because the term
'rumble' was a slang term for a gang fight, and it was feared that the piece's
harsh sound glorified juvenile delinquency. The record is the only
instrumental single ever banned from radio in the United States.
"Rumble" was a hit in the United States, where it
climbed to number 16 on the pop charts and number 11 on the R&B chart in
the summer of 1958. In Canada the song also reached number 16.
