Stuff Happens

Jacktep

Description

This book is about coincidents that have happened in my life that affected the American public, from cities being changed forever once we left to important buildings being raised. These are just a few incidents that can be remembered. Sayings such as "rip off" or "under the bus" are identified and repeated often publicly. Somehow, songs of the fifties could be traced to my experiences.

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• Publié par: Book Venture Publishing LLC
• Date de parution: 30 septembre 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781640695627
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Stuff

HAPPENS

A Lifetime of Coincidents

JACK TEP
Copyright © 2017 by Jack Tep.
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Printed in the United States of America ISBN-13: Softcover 978-1-64069-560-3 Pdf 978-1-64069-561-0 ePub 978-1-64069-562-7 Kindle 978-1-64069-563-4
Rev. date: 08/10/2017
I would like to dedicate this book to my daugh ter Coreen who died of ovarian cancer February 21, 2007
Introduction
The music, movies, and numerous other bits of popular culture mentioned in this book were never really about my life. But somehow, from time to time, they just fit it like a glove. Just as some of them may have done for you in your own lives. Or just as some completely different slices of the changing cultural scene—perhaps “Satin Doll” or another beautiful Duke Ellington tune voiced by the guitar of Joe Pass, or the outsider’s lament of Boy George singing the title song of the movie called The Crying Game —may have done for people of other generations than my own.
The point is this one of a kind book playfully explores specific moments in my life when either coincidence or chance delivered songs, movies, fads, and turns of history that resonated strongly for me and for people around me. Those things weren’t about me, and I certainly didn’t cause them to happen. But they did happen, and they did form part of the sound track of my life, reflecting key moments in both my personal history and the much bigger world around all of us. I hope you’ll enjoy experiencing these meaningful echoes, and in that process, you will reflect on the many funny ways that the culture around us can mirror our own life and t ime.
Aunt Sally was a performer and ice skater at the Roxy Theater in the mid-1940s. She performed with Sonja Henie productions in New York City. Henie was an ice skater from Oslo, Norway. In addition to being as cute as a button, she won three gold medals in the Olympic Games—along with many other skating triumphs around the world. Henie parlayed her success into quite a show business career, including costarring in Hollywood films with such big names as Don Ameche and Tyrone Power. She also put on many productions at the Roxy Theater in Manhattan which is where aunt Sally comes in.
While working as a performer, Aunt Sally met a fellow by the name of Raymond Lee. They met in the early 1950s at a bar called Jilly’s on the west side of Manhattan. Jilly’s was also frequented by the “Chairman of the Board,” Frank Sinatra. Raymond was the actual “chairman of the board” and president of Lockport Felt Co. and eventually chairman of the Power Company of the state of New York He and Sally married in the mid nineteen-fifties. It wasn’t long after that when the Bobbettes, an all-girl vocal group from Spanish Harlem, had a big 1957 hit with their song “Mr. L ee.”
In the early 1960s, Raymond was appointed by New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller to be the Sports Commissioner for the state of New York.