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...Ireland. In December a DC-8 military charter crashed and burst into flames while taking off from Gander, Newfoundland, instantly killing the 248 U.S. soldiers and eight crew members on board. Then, just last week, Singer Rick Nelson of Ozzie and Harriet fame died with his fiancé and five band members in the crash of a chartered DC-3 in Texas...
...M.I.T.-trained engineer and his mother a social worker, and young Burr remembers going to the neighborhood drugstore to admire not only its candy counter but also the proprietor's efficient storekeeping methods. In high school Burr sang in the barbershop quartet and played saxophone in the band. He went in for varsity soccer, basketball and baseball, and proceeded straight to the expert slope his first time on skis. Burr embraced a romantic notion that he could make any team if he tried hard enough. Recalls his mother, Lorna Banks, 80: "He was always a very sentimental and emotional...
...People's board of directors observes. "He takes business risks that are unbelievable." As he assembled People Express in Newark, the new boss used Army-style screening tests to make sure job applicants had the same daring spirit that he did. By November 1980 Burr had gathered together a band of renegades who were attracted by People's you're-the-boss structure. They included a flight scheduler and a personnel manager. The new company issued stock, raising enough cash to buy 17 used 737 jets. Five months later People Express made its maiden flight, from Newark to Buffalo...
...Harriet (1952-66) performing such early recordings as A Teenager's Romance (1957), Poor Little Fool (1958) and others, which sold more than 35 million copies by the time he was 21; in a DC-3 crash that also killed his fiancée and five members of his band; near De Kalb, Texas. Nelson had difficulty shedding his adolescent image after the TV program's demise, and his albums did poorly, though he continued to tour. His biggest single ever, 1972's Garden Party, told of his fans' hostility toward his later music...
Rockin' with the Rhythm, their newest album, is No. 11 on the country charts and shows the Judds off at their finest. With Wynonna taking lead vocals and an exemplary band featuring Don Potter on guitar, the singers work their way through ten songs of love, loss, reminiscence and resolution. If that sounds like a predictable country combination, the record nevertheless comes alive from adept musicianship and vocals that ease around, then animate the lyrics like a spring breeze blowing a window curtain. The album gives the impression of a kind of spiritual centering the Judds draw not just from...