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ALL-STAR CAROLE KING TRIBUTE CONCERT SET "You've Got a Friend...A Celebration of Carole King and Her Music" benefiting Paul Newman's Painted Turtle Camp will be held Dec. 4 at the Dolby Theatre (formerly called the Kodak Theatre) in Hollywood.
Among the artists that King will perform her biggest hits with, include Herb Alpert; his wife Lani Hall, who was lead singer with Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66, Quincy Jones, Amy Grant and her husband, Vince Gill, Alicia Keys, Katy Perry and John Legend.
The Painted Turtle Camp provides support for kids with chronic and life-threatening illnesses and gives the children the opportunity to discover the ordinary joys of being a kid. Since 2004, nearly 23,000 children have been served by the program.
NEIL DIAMOND & ROD STEWART TO SING AT ROYAL VARIETY PERFORMANCE The first Royal Command Performance, now called the Royal Variety Performance, was held in London in 1912 with King George V and Queen Mary in attendance.
At the 1963 show, with the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret watching, John Lennon famously addressed the well-heeled crowd, saying "Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands; and the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry." With that, The Beatles ripped into the last of their three songs, "Twist and Shout."
This year's Royal Variety Performance will be held
Nov. 19 at the Royal Albert Hall and will feature Neil Diamond, Rod Stewart, world-wide superstar Kylie Minogue, opera singers Andrea Bocelli and Placido Domingo, and Alicia Keys. Other performers include two acts that are mega in Britain, a reunited Girls Aloud, and Robbie Williams soloing it without his reunited Take That mates. New hugely popular Brit teen idols One Direction are also on the bill. Proceeds benefit Britain's Entertainment Artistes' Benevolent Fund.
In other Stewart news, the rooster-haired singer will be one of three best men when his former Faces bandmate Ron Wood marries fianc?e Sally Humphreys, according to Britain's Mirror. One of Woody's sons will also serve as a best man, as will his Rolling Stones mate, Keith Richards. The date of the ceremony has not been revealed.
During his special on the Home Shopping Club, Rod the Mod sold more than 30,000 copies of his new "Merry Christmas, Baby" album. During the hour, Stewart showcased songs from the album, backed by producer/music director/pianist David Foster and a 20-piece orchestra.
NO DOUBT CRITICIZED FOR VIDEO No Doubt received enough criticism for its new video for its latest single, "Looking Hot" that it removed it from YouTube and other Internet video sites. The video shows the band's singer Gwen Stefani wearing traditional Native American Indian garb as she's tied to poles and fights cowboys. This drew criticism from fans, from members of the Native American community and their supporters. The band apologized and said it didn't mean any harm.
JOHN LENNON LETTER TO ERIC CLAPTON TO BE SOLD A 1971 letter John Lennon wrote to his friend and one-time bandmate Eric Clapton will be auctioned off in Los Angeles on Dec. 8, the 32 nd anniversary of the Beatle's murder, Reuters reports. Profiles in History organizers expect the letter to fetch at least $30,000.
Lennon and Clapton have a rich history as bandmates and friends since first meeting in December 1964, when Clapton was in The Yardbirds and they opened for the Fab Four at The Beatles Christmas Show at the Hammersmith Odeon theatre.
In September 1968, George Harrison brought his pal and then-Cream guitarist to The Beatles' recording session at Abbey Road, where Clapton laid down the lead guitar part to Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," but Lennon was the only Beatle not in the studio that night.
However, three months later, in December, Lennon and Clapton formed a one-off band, The Dirty Mac, that also included Jimi Hendrix's drummer Mitch Mitchell and Keith Richards on bass. That group's sole performance was at The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, where they showcased Lennon's "White Album" blues rocker, "Yer Blues" before backing Yoko Ono on her "Whole Lotta Yoko."
A month later, in January 1969, The Beatles were planning their rooftop concert and Harrison had temporarily quit the group. Lennon suggested to Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr that if The Beatles' lead guitarist didn't return "by Monday or Tuesday," they should ask Clapton not only to fill in on the roof, but actually become a Beatle. Lennon said Clapton would do it.
Of course, Harrison did return and Clapton never became a Beatle.
Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg filmed the conversation but didn't use it in his "Let It Be" documentary.
On September 13, 1969, The Plastic Ono Band, i.e., Clapton, Lennon, future Yes drummer Alan White and former Manfred Mann bassist Klaus Voorman, who in 1966 designed the album cover for The Beatles' "Revolver," flew from London to Toronto, where they surprised more than 20,000 fans at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival by performing an unannounced, surprise set along with the previously-announced Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Gene Vincent, Cajun fiddler Doug Kershaw, Alice Cooper, Chicago, Junior Walker & The All-Stars, Tony Jo White, Cat Mother & The All-Night News Boys, and The Doors. A few other appearances with various configurations of Lennon's Plastic Ono Band followed the next couple years.
In September 1971, Lennon penned that letter to his friend. Earlier that year, Clapton retired to the solitude of his estate in Surrey, 20 miles southwest of London, to actively practice his heroin addiction and alcoholism without anyone to bother him (the one time he ventured out in public was on Aug. 1, 1971, when Harrison convinced him to fly to New York City to appear at his afternoon and evening Concerts for Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden).
"Eric, I know I can bring out something great - in fact greater in you that had been so far evident in your music. I hope to bring out the same kind of greatness in all of us - which I know will happen if/when we get together," Lennon wrote. Alas, it didn't happen. Lennon and Clapton never performed together again.
In other Beatles news, the band's iconic Granny Smith apple logo used by The Beatles since the release in 1968 of the "Hey Jude" and "Revolution" single, has been sold after years of negotiations to computer, iPad and iPhone maker, Apple, Inc.
STEPHEN STILLS RIPS NEIL YOUNG OVER ABORTED SPRINGFIELD TOUR After keeping quiet for about a year, Stephen Stills decided to talk about The Buffalo Springfield's aborted 30-date tour that was set for earlier this year.
After breaking up in 1968, it took 42 years for Stills, Neil Young and Richie Furay to reunite for a couple of shows at Young's Bridge School Benefits in October 2010. Then they performed seven shows in June 2011 and were set for a full 30-date jaunt this past summer.
However, Young abruptly pulled the plug on all of it, opting instead to record and tour with another of his on-again, off-again bands, Crazy Horse.
"We were supposed to work for most of the summer," Stills told Rolling Stone. He says Young's out-of-the-blue decision hurt a lot of people.
"It left me in a lurch for three quarters and ruined my financial planning. Also, 150 people got laid off that were supposed to work that tour."
He continued, "We didn't go to all that trouble for seven shows. That's what impetuosity will do for you. You can't go off half-cocked. When Neil's involved - you need a seatbelt."
Stills' bandmate Graham Nash told New York City radio station Q104.3, "It (the cancellation) left Stephen in a hole in many ways: friendship-wise, work-wise, financial-wise. It left him in a huge hole. When David (Crosby) and I heard that, we went over to Stephen and we told him we would cancel every Crosby-Nash gig and go out as Crosby, Stills and Nash. We were there for him because we love Stephen Stills, not only because he's a good friend, but because he's an insanely talented musician."
All that said and done, Stills says he's not mad at Young. "He was very kind to me in his book. I can't be unkind about it. Working with Neil is a privilege, not a right." However, when asked whether he thinks The Buffalo Springfield will ever tour again, despite Young's assertion that "It's worth exploring again," Stills said, "For the purpose of this interview, no."
CHUCK BERRY SAYS HIS SINGING DAYS ARE DONE Rock and roll pioneer Chuck Berry was feted at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland with a special exhibit, a tribute concert and was presented with the Hall's American Music Masters Award. At a press conference before accepting the award, the 86-year-old writer and performer of such iconic rockers as "Johnny B. Goode," "Roll Over, Beethoven," "Maybelline" and so many others, said when asked about what was in store for him, "My singing days have passed. My voice is gone. My throat is worn. And my lungs are going fast. I think that explains it." Having said that, Berry continues to perform on the third Wednesday of each month at the Blueberry Hill restaurant and club, near his home in St. Louis.
ENGELBERT'S DUETS CD INCLUDES ELTON Like many of his contemporaries, Engelbert Humperdinck is recording a new album of duets, although he's thus far kept secret the names of those with whom he's singing - except when one of them spilled the beans.
Elton John told the BBC that he just finished recording a song with the singer whose debut single in 1967, "Release Me," hit No. 4 here and No. 1 in the U.K. and Ireland. "We had a great time singing together. He is so quick, what I call a 'one-take singer.' (He's) 76 years old and still sounding as good as ever."
How did he find Eng, as his fans call him, personally?
"He's one of the sweetest and nicest people I have ever worked with."
PETE TOWNSHEND LEAVES WHO STAGE EARLY During the encore of The Who's first American concert that launched its new "Quadrophenia" tour in Sunrise, Fla., guitarist Pete Townshend kept pointing at his monitors during "You Better, You Bet," and yelling, "too loud, too loud" at the sound techs.
For whatever reason, nothing was done, so Townshend decided that he was. He left the stage and didn't return, forcing the band to perform rest of the song as well as its final song, the epic "Baba O'Riley" without the driving power chord force of Townshend's guitar, reports the U.K.'s NME.
Townshend has battled several serious bouts of tinnitus in his ears and he felt the monitor's volume was possibly damaging his hearing.
NBC's HURRICANE SANDY VICTIMS BENEFIT CONCERT RAISES $23 MILLION NBC's hour-long prime-time live in-studio concert at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, with proceeds benefiting the American Red Cross for Hurricane Sandy disaster relief, raised nearly $34 million. The performers included Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, Sting, Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry, Mary J. Blige, Jon Bon Jovi, Christina Aguilera and Billy Joel, who has been mostly inactive the past couple years.
BRITAIN'S BIGGEST-SELLING SINGLES In Britain over the past 60 years, 123 singles have sold more than one million copies. The U.K.'s Official Chart Company, sort of their Billboard, that records all the single and album chart movements there, released its first list of the biggest selling singles there over the past six decades.
The all-time winner was Elton John's "Candle in the Wind '97," that has sold
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No. 2, with 3.7 million copies sold, is the 1984 Ethiopian famine relief song, "Do The Know It's Christmas?" by the charity's founders Bob Geldof of The Boomtown Rats and Midge Ure of Ultravox, and featuring the all-star contingent, Band Aid, that included Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Bono, Sting, Phil Collins, Boy George, and members of Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Bananarama, Kool & The Gang, Big Country, Status Quo, Frankie Goes to Hollywood and others.
Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" is 3 rd (2.36 million), McCartney and Wings are 4 th with "Mull of Kintyre"/"Girl's School" (2 million); while John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John are 5 th with "You're the One That I Want," from "Grease" (2 million).
John Lennon's "Imagine" is at No. 19 (1.6 million), while The Beatles as a group is 15 th with "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (1.77 million), 35 th with "I Feel Fine" (1.41 million) and 40 th with "We Can Work It Out"/"Day Tripper" (1.39 million).
AEROSMITH PLAYS FREE HOMETOWN CONCERT Aerosmith surprised thousands of fans and locals, including New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, when the band played a free afternoon concert in Boston in front of the building where they once lived, according to The Associated Press. The gig had two purposes: to encourage voting in the presidential election and, of course, to promote their new album, "Music From Another Dimension."
The band sailed down to River Charles to the concert site in a seven-boat flotilla before offering several cuts from the new album and also rocked on hits such as "Walk This Way" and "Sweet Emotion."
GEORGE JONES ILL AGAIN, CANCELS MORE SHOWS Country music legend, 81-year-old George Jones, who has been hospitalized twice in recent months with a serious respiratory infection and canceled several concerts, has been forced to cancel shows in Mahnomen, Minn. and Deadwood, S.D., because of a virus, reports the Boot. The Shooting Star Casino in Mahnomen says they will not reschedule the gig. It's uncertain whether the Deadwood concert would be rescheduled.
BLACK SABBATH RECORDS SIX SONGS Black Sabbath guitarist Toni Iommi says the band that has reunited with singer Ozzy Osbourne has six new songs in the can, according to an interview he gave with Blaring Out. The album's title and release dates have not yet been revealed.
Iommi said the band, that also includes original bassist Geezer Butler and Osbourne's solo band drummer, Tommy Clufetos, is about halfway through the recording sessions with producer Rick Rubin. Earlier this year, original drummer Bill Ward left the band because of a contract dispute. It's unknown whether this situation is temporary or permanent.
Regarding Ward rejoining this project, Iommi said, "We'll always have a heart for Bill, but I think it's gone past that now. It's gone in so long that I don't see that happening at the moment."
LiveNation Australia also recently confirmed that Sabbath will tour the land Down Under in April and May next year.
THE RETURN OF GUITAR GREAT SHUGGIE OTIS After a long absence, reclusive guitar great Shuggie Otis, whose dad was rock and roll pioneer and orchestra leader Johnny Otis, will perform a few rare shows. Otis, who turns 59 later this month, will headline "The Shuggie Otis Rite" tour in Europe, Nov. 20 - Dec. 1. He'll also play a showcase gig at the Echoplex in Los Angeles on Dec. 5.
Next April, his 1974 LP, "Inspiration Information," will be re-released as a 2-CD set with four previously unreleased tracks. He's calling the second CD, "Wings of Love." It's 14 unreleased live and studio cuts that he recorded between 1975 and 2000.
ORBISON SONGWRITING PARTNER BILL DEES DIES Bill Dees, who co-wrote "Oh, Pretty Woman" with Roy Orbison in 1964, died of brain cancer at age 73 in Mountain Home, Ark., according to the New York Times. The song stayed at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 for three weeks. In 1982, Van Halen recorded a hard rock version that peaked at No. 12 on the Hot 100. Dees and Orbison also wrote another hit for Orbison in 1964, "It's Over," that reached No. 9 on Billboard's Hot 100.
NEW RELEASES Among the recently released albums, digital reissues and deluxe box sets are a 2-CD, "Thick as a Brick (40 th Anniversary Special Edition)" from Jethro Tull; a 2-CD, "Live in Hull 1970," from The Who; "Music From another Dimension," the first studio album of original songs from Aerosmith in 11 years; "The Abbey Road Sessions, Deluxe" from Aussie pop superstar Kylie Minogue; and a 27-song single CD import, "Keep Me In Mind: The Complete Imperial and Liberty Singles, Volume 3," from Jackie DeShannon, that features the unreleased singles, 1970 s "Bird on a Wire" by Leonard Cohen and Lovin' Spoonful leader John Sebastian's "Didn't Want To Have To Do It."
Also, an import, "The Best of Celine Dion and David Foster;" a 2-CD import, "Live at the Capitol Theatre Passaic, NJ 1979 l" an import, "Live at the Warfield 10 th March 1990" from Todd Rundgren; a 20-song import, "Collection" from Judy Collins; a 2-CD import, "Momentum," from jazz pianist Bill Evans live in the Netherlands in 1972; a 2-CD import, "Live in Japan 1994" from Sting; "Looking Out, Looking In" from Pete's brother, Who backup singer-guitarist Simon Townshend; "One Night Only," a live album from jazz pianist brothers Dave and Don Grusin; and with "The Fear Record," L.A. punks Fear recently rerecorded its 1982 LP, "The Record."
"Now," a new studio album by Dionne Warwick, celebrates the 50 th anniversary of her fist single, Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "Don't Make Me Over," that hit No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 5 on the R&B chart in 1962 (she rerecorded the song for this album); an import, "Burton Cummings Massey Hall," from the former Guess Who leader; and a rerelease of country legend Charley Pride's 1972 "Did You Think To Pray," that won the Best Sacred Performance Grammy that year; and "The Complete Atlantic Singles (2-CD)" from R&B singer Barbara Lewis.
"The Last Real Texas Blues Band Live In Stockholm," a 1997 show from The Sir Douglas Quintet leader Doug Sahm, recorded two years before his death from a heart attack in his sleep at age 58 in a hotel in Taos, N.M.; and a 24-song import tribute album, "Rolling With the Punches: The Allen Toussaint Songbook," that includes covers of his songs by his New Orleans friends Ernie K. Doe, Lee Dorsey, Aaron Neville, Irma Thomas and The Meters, as well as non-Big Easy folks like Boz Skaggs, Bonnie Raitt, The Judds, The Pointer Sisters, Righteous Brother Bill Medley, Robert Palmer, Little Feat leader Lowell George, Millie Jackson and Maria Muldaur.
Holiday albums include Sony Legacy's "Classic Christmas Album" series that includes CDs from John Denver, Kenny G, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley and Luther Vandross; a 3-CD set from Perry Como, "Complete RCA Christmas Collection," that includes cuts from his first holiday album in 1946 through his final holiday recordings in 1982; and a 2-CD import, "Christmas Crooners," with Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Crosby and The Andrews Sisters, Dean Martin, Eartha Kitt, Louis Armstrong, Gene Autry, Harry Belafonte, Chuck Berry, Dick Haymes, Doris Day, Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians, Perry Como, Vera Lynn, Rosemary Clooney and more.
Among the new box sets are a 10-CD import, "Studio Albums 1968-1979," from Joni Mitchell, who came out of her 2002 retirement to release one album, "Shine," in 2007; a 16-CD/1-DVD set, "The Complete Columbia Albums Collection" from singer and guitar hero Buck Dharma and Blue Oyster Cult, who formed on Long Island in 1967; a 3-CD, 52-song collection, "Ultimate Creedence Clearwater Revival: Greatest Hits & All-Time Classicsl" and a 4-disc, 75-cut import, "Notes & The Words: Collection of Demos & Rarities," from former Fairport Convention, Strawbs and Fotheringay folk rocker Sandy Denny, who provided guest vocals on Led Zeppelin's "Battle of Evermore" on "Led Zeppelin IV" in 1971, seven years before her untimely death at age 31 in 1978 from a brain hemorrhage as the result of a fall a couple weeks earlier.
Other new box sets include a 9-CD box, "The Complete Columbia Studio Albums Collection 1951-1958," from Duke Ellington; a 10-CD package, "The Complete Columbia/Okeh & RCA Victor Recordings 1925-1933" from trumpeter Louis Armstrong; a 4-CD box, "Trial By Intimacy," a rerelease of a 1984 collection of ambient music from former Bebop Deluxe leader, singer-guitarist Bill Nelson; and the 9-CD, "Complete Sussex & Columbia albums Collection" from Bill Withers.
DVDs and Blu-Rays include a 5-disc DVD/Blu-Ray/CD/LP box, "Charlie Is My Darling, Ireland 1965," from The Rolling Stones; and "Elvis & Larry: A Journey Shared," in which Memphis Mafia member Larry Geller details his relationship with Elvis Presley.
NOW PLAYING Classic acts from the '50 s, '60 s and '70 s continue to perform. Here's what one of them is doing.
Country singer Ray Price has been performing professionally since he started singing for radio station KRBC in Abilene in 1948. He joined the Big D Jamboree the next year and a year later, in 1950, he moved to Nashville, where his roommate for a time was Hank Williams.
That was the year he released his first single, "Jealous Lies." It went nowhere.
His first album, "Sings Heart Songs," came out seven years later, in 1957, about the time he recorded the first hit version of "Release Me," a song Engelbert Humperdinck scored a worldwide smash with a decade later.
Over the decades, Price recorded 17 Top 10 country albums, five of them reaching No. 1. Between 1952-1981, he hit the country Top 10 41 times. He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996.
His biggest hit, Kris Kristofferson's "For the Good Times," hit No. 1 on the country chart in 1970, No. 2 on the Canadian country chart and No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart - the only time he hit the Hot 100.
Now 86 years old, Price has battled his second cancer scare since 2009, but he continues to perform. He tells the San Antonio Express-News that he's going to record a new album later this month called, "Love Songs" and that he expects to perform his usual 100 concerts next year.
Clarification: Proceeds from the recent inaugural concert at the Arcadia Performing Arts Center by Paul Anka kicked off fundraising for the Arcadia Performing Arts Foundation.
Steve Smith writes a new Classic Pop, Rock and Country Music News column every week. It can be read in its entirety on www.presstelegram.com. Like, recommend or share the column on Facebook. Contact him by email at email@example.com.


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Kids are living in the world of colors and different colors attract them to it. While selecting a room for them, it should be big enough to accommodate their various things. Paintings, lights, toys, kid furniture, etc. need to be provided in the kid room.
While selecting painting for a kid room, it should be matching with various elements in the room. A dull looking room interior can turn off the mood of the kid. Bright colors and fresh looking wall paintings can make the kid more active and energetic. Totally, it should be a place where positive energy is developed or positive and vibrant atmosphere is prepared.
Most of the kids are addicted to the cartoon characters they watch in the television programs. It will be certainly a good idea to keep the different cartoon characters' paintings on the wall. Also, trees, flowers, waterfalls, vehicle pictures, animal pictures, fruit pictures, etc can be very useful in a kid room. Most of the kids like the same things unlike an adult.
As we know colors can change the mood of the people. It is applicable to all living things. A red color can definitely change the mood of the person to a violent or angry mood. That is what we watch in the bull-fights. The bulls are very angry to the red towel waved in front of them. It is one of the minor examples of color and mood creation. Black color can make the people gloomy, but white can give a pleasant and clear mind. Green color, as all know, indicate the greenery, prosperity, environmental friendly. Orange and blue colors are considered as funny colors. Paintings of springs, especially in the middle of forests or hills with playing ducks and other birds, fish and swimming animal, etc. can be beautiful. Also, as always, flowers have its own space everywhere. Children can be easily attracted to flowers. Another important wall painting can be of giraffe, horse, elephants, lion cubs, kittens, cattle, deer, peacocks, etc. can be very much interesting to kids. Selection of paints or paintings can be according to sex of kid. They may vary.
While selecting the wall paints or paintings for the child room, we should be extra careful. Presently, everything made with commercial purposes. Paints are made with chemicals and extra led to give extra finishing and glow. It can generate health issues. If paintings can be washable, it will be well and good because after some days, it can catch dust and fungus. While children touch or handle it, diseases can be transmitted to them or allergic reactions can happen.
Also one of the easy thing that we can do to have an ever – changing room interior is to change the wall paintings or paints occasionally.

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But, as andrew lang has so well observed, literature can never take a thing simply for what it is worth.
The light and dainty touch of Mr. andrew lang has not been denied to Punch.
Another celebrated modern journalist and author is Mr. andrew lang.
It seems worth while, however, to let andrew lang speak for himself.
"He goes out nights," too, on which Mr. andrew lang is so severe, is a form as old as the language and older.
andrew lang declared himself in agreement with this explanation of exogamy.
Somers rode slowly over the low Iowa hills, fitting an air in his mind to andrew lang's dainty verses.
This, I imagine, means that andrew lang has told them that my humour is forced.
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By Gary Cutrer
September 2009
While completing the September 2009 magazine I received a note from Ross McSwain saying that Elmer Kelton had passed. Though I barely knew him, I was, and remain, a fan.
In the 1980s I read every Lois L'Amour novel ever written, I think, and I thoroughly enjoyed them all. I'd never heard of Elmer Kelton at the time. Then, at a civil court hearing in Rankin, Texas, I met and befriended Paul Patterson of Crane. I had read Paul's book, "Crazy Women in the Rafters," about growing up on a ranch near Upland, original county seat of Upton County, and I complimented him on it.
He refused my praise and told me I ought to read a book or two by his former student, Elmer Kelton.
"Elmer who?" I asked.
Paul went on to tell me that he had been Elmer's school teacher in Crane and that after serving in World War II and attending the University of Texas, Elmer had gone on to become one of the best agriculture writers there is and all along during his career had written a lot of novels—mostly Western novels. It was obvious Paul was proud of his student and admired his work.
I took Paul's advice. The first Kelton novel I read was "The Wolf and the Buffalo," a story about the interaction of the Comanches and the buffalo soldiers on the post-Civil War frontier. I expected a Western adventure yarn. I got that and much more.
Kelton gave heft and depth to his characters I've rarely seen in the work of other Western writers.
The plot was more than adventure. It was a time capsule view of life of the era, featuring elements of humor, love, betrayal, tragedy and, ultimately, survival.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Mr. Kelton for the Angelo State University student newspaper at his home about 1989. I walked in, nervous to meet a real celebrity. I was surprised at how ordinary his house on Oxford Street, near ASU, was.
Mr. Kelton didn't act like a celebrity. He welcomed me warmly and we settled in for the interview. At the time he was busily writing "Slaughter," a novel about the buffalo hunters of the late 1800s. His tiny office in his modest home was spartan save for an old desk, a couple of chairs and lots of books—and a computer, a DOS model with a blue-screened word processor showing on the monitor, a few sentences evident. There it was, one of those magical books in progress, I thought.
Kelton was down to earth, helpful, and didn't even complain when the staff photographer for the school newspaper barged in to take his photo.
I've since read scores of Kelton books and experienced West Texas through his eyes. I've ridden along with him through familiar places in his books and met characters who I swear I've met on ranches and in small towns around West Texas.
It's not too late to get to know Elmer Kelton—through his writing. If you haven't read one of his novels, you can get one at a bookstore or at your local library. I guess we're remembered for what we do and who we are and what we leave behind. Elmer Kelton has left behind quite a legacy. He will be missed.


text: The night season / Chelsea Cain River levels are high in Portland when a woman walking her dog comes across the skeleton of a young black man, murdered over fifty years ago. Journalist, Susan Ward investigates. Meanwhile, Detective Archie Sheridan and his team have turned their attention to child-killer Ryan Motley, trained by the notorious Gretchen Lowell. The task force must pursue a series of mysterious clues from Gretchen, one of which leads to a Vanport flood survivor, who happens to be the grandfather of a murdered child. Then, when another child is found murdered, Archie's investigation takes on a new urgency. A lonely death / Charles ToddIt's 1920. Three men are dead, all garroted, all war veterans. When a piece of evidence, kept from the public, suggests a much stronger link between the victims and the unknown, it's up to World War I battered survivor, Scotland Yard Detective Ian Rutledge to find the killer. The keeper of lost causes / Jussi Adler-Olsen ; translated by Lisa Hartford. Chief detective Carl Mørck, recovering from what he thought was a career-destroying gunshot wound, is relegated to cold cases and becomes immersed in the five-year disappearance of a politician. Darkside / Belinda Bauer In bleak midwinter, the people of Shipcott are shocked by the murder of an elderly woman in her bed. As snow cuts off the village, local policeman Jonas Holly is torn between catching a brutal killer and protecting his vulnerable wife, Lucy. When the inquiry is commandeered by an abrasive senior detective, Jonas finds himself derided by his colleagues and ashamed to admit to Lucy that he's been sidelined. It seems his first murder investigation may be over before it's begun. But when he receives a series of increasingly sinister anonymous notes, Jonas is thrust back into the center of the case. Someone in the village is taunting him, blaming him for the tragedy. Someone thinks he's not doing his job; someone seems to know every move he makes. And soon Jonas has to ask: Who's hunting who? Takers [DVD-videorecording] PG-13 A notorious group of criminals continue to baffle police by pulling off one perfectly executed bank robbery after another. They are in and out like clockwork, leaving no evidence behind, and laying low between heists. But when they attempt to pull off one last job with more money at stake than ever before, the crew may find their plans interrupted by a hardened detective who is hell-bent on solving the case. Surveillance [DVD-videorecording] RIt has not been a good day. When Federal Officers Elizabeth Anderson and Sam Hallaway arrive at Captain Billing's office, they have three sets of stories to figure out and a string of vicious murders to consider. One zealot cop, a strung out junkie and an eight year old girl all sit in testimony to the roadside rampage, but as the Feds begin to expose the fragile little details each witness conceals so carefully with a well practiced lie, they soon discover that uncovering 'the truth' can come at a very big cost. Nora Roberts' northern lights [DVD-videorecording]NR Haunted by the death of his partner, former Baltimore cop Nate Burns accepts the job as chief of police in a remote Alaskan town. Once there, he falls for feisty bush pilot Meg Galligan, a woman haunted by her own demons. When Meg's father turns up dead, Nate and Meg finds themselves at the center of a high-profile murder case. - MA Blog: asblogreader Adults's blog


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Milwaukee, WI (SportsNetwork.com) - Coming off a demoralizing loss, the fourth-ranked Villanova Wildcats try to get back in the right frame of mind as they hit the road to battle the Marquette Golden Eagles in Big East Conference action on Saturday afternoon.
Villanova had been cruising right along, winning 16 of its first 17 games and steadily climbing the national polls, but then came Monday's visit from Doug McDemott and the Creighton Bluejays. The Wildcats had no answer for the 3- point shooting clinic the Bluejays put on, as they dropped a 96-68 decision. The setback was Villanova's first in conference (5-1), as well as its first in front of a favorable crowd (9-1).
Marquette has been inconsistent this season, logging an 11-8 overall record, which includes a 3-3 league ledger. The Golden Eagles have performed well at home (8-1), and they haven't strung together consecutive wins since wining back-to-back games over IUPUI and Ball State on Dec. 14 and 17, respectively. Marquette won at Georgetown in its most recent outing, 80-72, in overtime.
Villanova owns a 12-9 series advantage over Marquette, but is just 1-3 in Milwaukee since the Golden Eagles joined the Big East back in 2005.
The teams will get together again in Philadelphia on March 2 to complete the regular-season series.
Creighton set a new Big East record by nailing 21 3-pointers in Monday's rout of Villanova in Philadelphia, as Ethan Wragge drained nine treys and McDermott added five more. For the Wildcats, James Bell hit five 3-pointers on his way to 19 points, while JayVaughn Pinkston tacked on 11 and Darrun Hilliard added 10 of his own, but 'Nova shot just 39.7 percent from the field overall.
For the season, Villanova is still averaging a robust 80.6 ppg thanks to typical shooting efforts of .451 overall and .345 from beyond the arc. Defensively, the club is allowing 67.1 ppg, with foes converting just 39.1 percent of their total shots, with the 3-pointer falling at a 36.2 percent clip. Pinkston (15.3 ppg, 5.3 rpg), Bell (14.2 ppg, 6.0 rpg) and Hilliard (13.5 ppg, 4.0 rpg, 2.9 apg) are all averaging in double figures for coach Jay Wright's club, and it will be interesting to see how well they respond after Monday's debacle.
Davante Gardner poured in 20 points to pace five players in double figures, as Marquette outlasted Georgetown in overtime earlier in the week. Steve Taylor came off the bench to contribute 14 points and a team-high eight rebounds, while Jake Thomas hit four 3-pointers on his way to 12 points, John Dawson had a dozen as well, and Jamil Wilson finished with a line of 10 points, six boards, five assists and three blocks. Gardner had five helpers as well, and Dawson handed out four for a team that went 7-of-17 from beyond the arc and 21-of-25 at the free-throw line. The Hoyas were held to 37.7 field goal efficiency.
Gardner (14.2 ppg, 5.8 rpg) continues to pace the Golden Eagles in both scoring and rebounding, while getting help from Wilson (11.6 ppg, 5.3 rpg), but not much from anyone else. Six others average between 5.1 and 9.2 ppg, but the team is more about playing tough defense as evidenced by the fact that opponents are netting only 64.0 ppg in hitting 39.5 percent of their total shots.