Word: chet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CHET BAKER: MY FAVOURITE SONGS (Enja). The haunting picture on the cover says it all: a face ravaged by drugs but eyes still full of dreams and yearning. This was the trumpeter's last concert, taped just two weeks before he fell to his death from an Amsterdam hotel window at age 58. But forget the quirky timing: Baker's full-throated horn never sounded better, and his poignant vocal on My Funny Valentine is an unforgettable paean to lost youth...
...that prejudice? "Heck, no," insists his old antagonist, Vincent + Venditti. "If Chet wasn't a minority person, the relationship would have been the same. He wasn't the first black manager I worked for." Venditti says his run-ins with Howell were not the reason he transferred to a Xerox branch office in Manhattan. But he does believe "some black managers are too sensitive...
...Chet Atkins, on a stage in the bright sunshine of Jackson, Tenn., is warming up the crowd. He stands with Pat Boone in front of the Old Country Store in Casey Jones Village, named for the famous train engineer who lived there at the turn of the century. Atkins, the genius of American country guitar, is singing now: "Would Jesus wear a Rolex...
Bert Blyleven, who pitched for the Twins the last time they were in the playoffs in 1970, worked 7 1/3 innings and limited Detroit to Chet Lemon's second-inning homer, a two-run shot, and an eight inning solo homer by Lou Whitaker. Juan Berenguer got the final five outs, four on strikeouts, for the save...
...more gentle monologue about Lake Wobegon, where the week, as usual, had been quiet, though rainy; after singing every goodbye song he could think of, after taking out a pocket handkerchief and wiping a tear, or perhaps only a drop of perspiration, from the sweet, lined face of Guitarist Chet Atkins, and after running a lordly half hour beyond the close of his time slot...