By Todd Harra, Ken McKenzie
While the casket reached front of the sanctuary, there has been a noisy cracking sound because the backside fell out. And with a thump, down got here Father Iggy.
From shootouts at funerals to useless males screaming and runaway corpses, undertakers have lots of strange tales to inform and a distinct means of telling them.
In this macabre and relocating compilation, funeral administrators around the state percentage their so much embarrassing, jaw-dropping, irreverent, and deeply poignant tales approximately lifestyles at death's door. become aware of what scares them and what strikes them to tears. find out about rookie blunders and why dying occasionally demands duct tape.
Enjoy stories of the dearly departed spending eternity bare from the waist down and getting bottled and corked in a wine bottle. after which meet their households: the weepers, the punchers, the stolidly dignified, and those who bring their lifeless mom in a pickup truck.
If there's something undertakers be aware of, it's that dying drives humans loopy. those are the easiest "bodies of work" from America's darkest career.
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Then, after what seemed like an eternity, the trailer flipped over, which in turn caused the car to go up onto its side. We had to get a tow truck to come out to get all of our wheels back onto the ground. The Gentrys limped back into Memphis with one side of the car looking like a hurricane had hit it — but we were lucky to be alive. After the success of "Keep on Dancing," our next single, "Spread It on Thick," didn't fare as well. It peaked in the first week of January 1966 at #50 on Billboard's Hot 100, while the B-side, "Brown Paper Sack," got some regional airplay.
Now, radio stations barely have enough material in heavy rotation to be able to put together their own Top 20 list. But in the sixties, so many records got airplay that Billboard had a "Bubbling Under" chart — it was created specifically for those singles that were about to crack the Hot 100. " So, we were still getting airplay in some areas — and we still had a loyal following. In 1966 we released a song called "Every Day I Have to Cry," which had been a #46 hit for a guy named Steve Alaimo back in 1963.
I booked the Gentrys into a club in the Ramada Inn in Memphis so we could stay in one place. I know that must sound ironic, now, coming from someone who's been on the road — and loving it — for the last 25 years, but traveling conditions then were not as they are now, and I had been gigging constantly since my senior year in high school. I was looking forward to sleeping in my own bed every night, playing music for fans in my own hometown and taking a paycheck to the bank every week. What I had no way of knowing was that rock and roll was on a collision course with professional wrestling.