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MEMPHIS, TN. - Well, the rambling boy has setled down. Back from a wonderful vacation I have continued the process of helping you remember the cars of your youth. I still have several inputs from you but only plan to feature one car story each week. For those of you who have not sent in your story yet, I hope that you will consider it.We'll miss the opportunity of Vanentine stories this year, but will try to time our input request better for next year. Please include your class year with your e-mails.
3G NETWORK - is the (3)rd (G)eneration of cellular telephone standards and technology for mobile networking. 3G networks enable network operators to offer users a wider range of more advanced services while achieving greater network capacity through improved spectral efficiency. Services include wide-area wireless voice telephony, video calls, and broadband wireless data, all in a mobile environment. On July 11, 2008, the Apple iPhone 3G was released. It supports faster 3G data speeds and Assisted GPS.Now you'll know what they are talking about on the televison ads that brag about their 3G network.My bandmate George Vail and I each had a Corvair. Mine was a 1960. I don't remember what year George had but his was around that. Many times we loaded the band, The "IN", in those two Corvairs with all our equipment, drums, amps, guitars, keyboard and P.A. system and drove 25 or 30 miles to play a gig somewhere. Try that now. No way.Also George once tuned his bass drum to the sound his foot patting on the floorboard of his Corvair made. We proudly drove them to school and took them on dates and sported around town. Mine was a two-door light blue and George's way light green. Ah.... the momories.The photo above is from the web and not an actual photo of Eddie's car. Below is some information about this line of automobiles.On October 2, 1959, General Motors' Chevrolet division introduced the 1960 Corvair. It was a new and radically different design for an American manufacturer. During the mid-1950s. The Volkswagen Beetle had become popular with economy-minded drivers. This caused GM to create an economy car to compete with it. This new car was powered by an air-cooled six-cylinder engine, first for Chevrolet, it was referred to as a "flat six," since the cylinders were horizontally opposed. It was also mounted in the rear like the VW. The Corvair was GM's Porsche 911, but better, at least in some ways.. Debuting in 1960, the Corvair seemed totally out of left field from GM. It featured an air-cooled, horizontally-opposed powerplant mounted in the rear and a notorious swing-axle suspension (it was no more dangerous than its contemporaries). It was almost an entire line of vehicles, sorta like a subset of GM proper. There were trucks, vans, station wagons, sedans and coupes.You'd think that Chevrolet was selling this as an offroad vehicle if you judged it by the following corrercial.What was your first car and what can you share about it?
The Class of ’65 will be happy to learn that their unofficial class song “Wooly Bully” by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs was one of the 28 songs selected in 2009 to be added to the Grammy Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame was created in 1973 to salute those recordings that were released prior to the 1958 start of the Grammy Awards. Since that time, the eligibility has been updated to include any recording that has been in release for at least 25 years.The Class of ‘64’s unofficial song "Louie, Louie" by The Kingsmen was selected for this honor back in 1999.As of yet, neither the Class of ‘66’s “Double Shot (of my Baby’s Love)” by The Swingin' Medallions nor the early Lee General’s school song choice of “Rebel Rouse” by Duane Eddy have yet to receive the recognition they deserve. I've probably mentioned it before, but I'll do it again. Sam the Sham was such a regular in Memphis that he played gigs at the local Skateland when I first moved to Memphis to go to college. I even won a dance contest one night and the prize of a red and white stuffed "Wooly Bully" was presented to me and my partner by Sam the Sham (Domingo “Sam” Samudio) himself.While on the subject of these songs, I would like to share an odd happening with you. One day I was shopping at the Navy Exchange in Millington and they had Oldie Goldies playing as background music for the shoppers. They played “Louie, Louie” and when it ended they went right into “Wooly Bully.’ I got to laughing at the fact that these were generally selected as the songs for the Classes of ’64 and ’65. I said to myself “All they have to do is play ‘Double Shot’ and they’ll have a hat trick of songs.” Would you believe that as I was waiting, the next sound to come out of the speakers was the organ introduction of “Double Shot”? I just stood there shaking my head and smiling like a lunatic. I think it’s great to have such audible memories of my days at Lee and my Fami-LEE.
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