The USS Merrill (DD-976), my second ship (where I spent the remaining ten months of my second enlistment), was home-based in San Diego. And it was the testing platform for the Tomahawk cruise missile. According to Wikipedia, the Merrill is no more--"sunk as target NE of Hawaii in 2003." Yikes!
My first ship, the USS Lockwood (FF-1064), was recycled, says Wiki. Well, that's good. Very green. I approve.
The Lockwood is pictured in the previous post, along with me on it. Save for the photo showing me on deck--that's aboard the now-sunken Merrill.
Anyway, to the Vets' Day music....
Click here to reach zip file: Veterans' Day 2008, Part 1
PLAYLIST
BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS--Floyd Cramer BUGLE CALL RAG--Victor Military Band, 1916. (From 78) DEFEND AMERICA--MARCH--Prince's Orch., 1917. (From 78) GALLANT MEN--Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, 1968. I DON'T KNOW WHERE I'M GOING--Peerless Quartet, 1917. (From 78) OUR COUNTRY'S IN IT NOW--Orpheus Quartet, 1918. (From 78) REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR (Reid-Kaye)--Sammy Kaye O., 1941. RODGER YOUNG (Loesser)--Merv Griffin, 1963. SEMPER FIDELIS--Ferrante and Teicher, 1952. TAPS--Female Trio, Bugle THE MIDNIGHT RIDE OF PAUL REVERE--Budd McCoy, 1959. THIS IS THE ARMY, MR. JONES--Hal McIntyre, 1942. U.S. AIR FORCE BLUE--Mixed Voices WE MUST BE VIGILANT--Chico Marx Orch., Voc: Ziggy Lane, 1942. (From 78)
Lee
2 comments:
Chico Marx had his own orchestra? How cool is that?
There's some story behind that, but I don't recall it. It's probably out there in the vastness of cyberspace. Of course, Chico was quite a musician.
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