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...Pictures of Darin Erstad, the Los Angeles Angel born 32 years ago in Jamestown...
...Carlson, president of the Farmers Union and a Jamestown resident. Carlson chuckled at this - he prefers local food - but he appears to be part of a vanishing, romantic minority. Applebee's was packed both times I went - even at lunch, nearly every seat was filled. The local restaurants - places Darin Erstad might have actually visited when he was growing up - were struggling with a couple dozen customers...
...Savannah native with the gap-toothed smile was the author or co-author of more than 1,000 songs, which scaled the charts for 30 years, in the prime of the Great American Songbook. His songs lasted well into the Age of Rock, with '60s hits in revival (Bobby Darin's rockin' "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby," Frank Ifield's yodelin' "I Remember You") and original versions ("Moon River" and "The Days of Wine and Roses," both Oscar winners...
...resolution of the bridge ("Big girls don't cry") or as the entire bridge ("I'll go on living and keep on forgiving..." from "Ronnie"). To ramp up a song's intensity, they'd modulate chords like crazy. One Seasons website asserts that "Opus 17" "ties Bobby Darin's "Mack The Knife" for the largest number of chromatic key changes in a Top 40 hit." (Five, if you were wondering: from F# to G to A-flat to A to B-flat to B.) All these felicitous tricks were in the service of songs bursting with drama and pain-stories...
...DIED. SANDRA DEE, 62, once America's perkiest, most popular female teen idol, who caused squeals in teenage bedrooms nationwide when she married pop singer Bobby Darin; of complications from kidney disease; in Thousand Oaks, California. She played the innocent tomboy surfer in the 1959 film Gidget, a signature role that led to a string of similar parts, but showed a more serious side in films like Imitation of Life and A Summer Place. She gradually disappeared from Hollywood, battling anorexia and drinking problems after her turbulent marriage to Darin ended...