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Corkscrew Grin. Ringo's choice of mentor and producer for his Nashville sessions was expert: Steel Guitarist Pete Drake, who not only lined up 13 of the best Nashville sidemen in town, but provided Ringo with a well-varied dozen of the best new songs from his own publishing company (Window Music). One of them, Chuck Howard's porch-swinging serenade, I Wouldn't Have You Any Other Way, has the stamp of a country classic, and Loser's Lounge is a toe-tapper that even city slickers should find a winner...
...Methodist minister, his mother the musical director of the local Congregational church. As a boy, Sherrill milked cows and baled hay on the family farm, but also found time to study voice, violin, piano, viola and tuba. Later he took a pre-med course at Iowa's Drake University, where voice teachers urged him to take up singing as a full-time career. Commercials beefed up his cash balance while he sang with Boris Goldovsky's Opera Company and the New York City Opera...
...choice of Welfare Cadilac seemed especially peculiar. Written five years ago by Guy Drake, a sort of combination Pa Kettle-Tex Ritter, the song portrays the welfare recipient as an improvident lout battening on the public purse. ("This house that I live in is mine but it's really a shack, but I always manage somehow to drive me a brand-new Cadilac...
...Crimson will compete for the L. S. U. Invitational crown with Minnesota, Drake Northern Illinois. Lamar Tech. Louisiana Tech, Southwest Louisiana State, Tulane, and L. S. U. before returning to the mud and rain of Cambridge in April...
Died. William Hopper, 54, actor son of the late Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper, who after many years of playing bit parts in films like Footloose Heiress and Torchy Blane, the Adventurous Blonde, and eight years as a car salesman, became a star of sorts as Paul Drake, Perry Mason's detective friend in the famed TV series; of a stroke; in Palm Springs, Calif...