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Mark, you called that one. Otis and Marvin had great voices too, but Teddy had that power. Barry (always begging) White was a notch or two below. Now I'm dating myself...Gatorman001 when I was in high school Luther got the ladies groovin and Teddy Pendergrass took them over the finish line.
I can almost see the white shag rug with the red velvet curtains swaying from the 20" box fan...
Another cover. Peezy if this is a little much go ahead and delete it. I wouldn’t want to offend jambun.
True story: While still working the midnight shift at the USPS, before I was promoted into Mail Acceptance.....my Ipod was what helped me make through the night. I had close to 10,000 tunes on it, covering every genre. Little African American gal (from Springfield, MA) would sometimes use it whenever I wasn't in a position to listen to it, due to me being around equipment that made using a safety issue. She had borrowed it one night, and in the morning before my shift ended was bringing it back to me. This particular morning she asked me something I wasn't prepared for, as she handed it back to me...... (What you doing with all that Keith Sweat music, and all his panty dropping tunes?) I laughed out loud, and repeated back to her with questioning inflection in my voice -(Panty dropping music, what do you mean?) I was totally unfamiliar with Mr. Sweats music being deemed - A aphrodisiac for Panty dropping- I had always just enjoyed his tunes for its R&B groove value.Gatorman001 when I was in high school Luther got the ladies groovin and Teddy Pendergrass took them over the finish line.
My wife loved Michael McDonalds voice back in the day.....all sista's did.Michael McDonald did a couple of Motown albums, covering Motown hits. I liked them both, but I had another African American friend (Terry Powers) that would tell me flat out -Man that chit aint Motown! -, Terry and many others taught me alot about the south and black culture, I wouldn't have ever learned or been exposed to, had I spent my entire life in Bradenton. Terry liked the women, when we worked on the window I was still pretty new to georgia and Athens at that point. he came up to me one day and asked - Big man, what you gonna do when one of those sweet thangs from the University gives you her number? I guess I was still pretty naive at that point about a lot of things, because I just looked at him in disbelief and said -Terry, that kind of thing doesn't really happen - Terry at that point reaches down one of his drawers and unlocks it and opens it and motions for me to look inside. It was filled with slips of paper with number's on each one! he just chuckled at my open mouth and stunned face, with my coming face to face with a new life reality!
Gatorman001, I don’t know what part of Bradenton you grew up in (Holmes Beach, Anna Maria, Cortez?). Bradenton’s culture has been changing but it’s traditional culture is heavily Southern. I went to St. Stephens (1975-78). Hugh Miller, former Hurricane QB, was a classmate and good friend. My first wife was from East Bradenton. She lived a stone’s throw from Tropicana. I lived and worked near 43rd and Cortez for 5 years in the early 80’s. Father-in-law was from Palmetto and Mother-in-law was from Bradenton. They graduated from Lincoln High. Wife was Manatee High 1981. I could go on but I’ll stop there.Michael McDonald did a couple of Motown albums, covering Motown hits. I liked them both, but I had another African American friend (Terry Powers) that would tell me flat out -Man that chit aint Motown! -, Terry and many others taught me alot about the south and black culture, I wouldn't have ever learned or been exposed to, had I spent my entire life in Bradenton. Terry liked the women, when we worked on the window I was still pretty new to georgia and Athens at that point. he came up to me one day and asked - Big man, what you gonna do when one of those sweet thangs from the University gives you her number? I guess I was still pretty naive at that point about a lot of things, because I just looked at him in disbelief and said -Terry, that kind of thing doesn't really happen - Terry at that point reaches down one of his drawers and unlocks it and opens it and motions for me to look inside. It was filled with slips of paper with number's on each one! he just chuckled at my open mouth and stunned face, with my coming face to face with a new life reality!
I grew up in west bradenton, if you knew Hugh Miller you may have also known Tom Broome, 1st head coach for the Manatee county youth football league ( Later called the Broncos), and his daughterz Mizti and Rhonda Broome....(Both were cheerleaders at Manatee High). My best friend was Jon Crawford he and Hugh played football and baseball together. As far as considering anything about coastal Florida "Southern" , i guess I generally felt much like you.....except for thinking the redneck were located in east Bradenton head east out to Myakka....Coastal wise I always felt the originals were more Cracker type....you know Trigger Mora and/or his sons Shanne and Danny? Trigger lived off of cortez rd and fished for a living.Gatorman001, I don’t know what part of Bradenton you grew up in (Holmes Beach, Anna Maria, Cortez?). Bradenton’s culture has been changing but it’s traditional culture is heavily Southern. I went to St. Stephens (1975-78). Hugh Miller, former Hurricane QB, was a classmate and good friend. My first wife was from East Bradenton. She lived a stone’s throw from Tropicana. I lived and worked near 43rd and Cortez for 5 years in the early 80’s. Father-in-law was from Palmetto and Mother-in-law was from Bradenton. They graduated from Lincoln High. Wife was Manatee High 1981. I could go on but I’ll stop there.
Bradenton was mostly a town of sophisticated rednecks, working class rednecks and mostly poor African-Americans. The real rednecks went to Southeast and rode to school on tractors.
All this to say, Gatorman001, you grew up in the South.
Dan grew up in the South too.
I grew up in Sarasota from 10 years old on. Not so much the South (plenty of rednecks though). When I crossed the county line from Sarasota to Manatee County I immediately felt like I was entering a time warp going backwards 20 years.
have to make a correction, it was actually Paul Purwoski(sp?) a Sarasota Sailor alum, that made the fumble recovery against Nebraska and not Prince Matt. Prince had made the transition from running back to linebacker at that point but wasn't involved in that play as I had originally thought. here is a team pic of the 1974 Manatee Mustangs, my friend Jon Crawford was #65, John McPadden is #22, I believe Prince Matt was #13I was delievered by Dr Newhall, Mom told me not too long ago that he had recently passed away. Had tried to qork it out to have him deliver my kids but he was never on-call when the ex went into labor. I went to several of the initial bronco/redskin games. I remember one that hugh miller, frank sklinski, prince matt and others pay in at the ball field off of tuttle or beneva in sarasota that became very heated...some of the parents from the broncos rushed the field at one point as i recalled. My friend Jon Crawford was supposed to have a schollarship to go FSU with Prince Matt. His senior year however he injured his knee and continued to play. The game against sarasota that year was at Sarasota and the field was a mud bowl. He made it through that game but the following week he messed it up big time against Lakeland......FSU pulled the schollarship and he ended up going to the Air Force Academy instead. His mom and dad owned a bar in oneco called the Waterhole.
Prince made a huge fumble recovery against Nebraska to preserve a victory, as FSU under Bobby Bowden won his 1st big game against a top 10 team.....his son (same name),played at Manatee 2010 -2012 i believe were the years
Yeah, if you lived on Riverview Blvd you were considered well off. I knew some folks that lived there, in fact my 1st time hearing steely dan, was at a party hosted by some kids that attended Bradenton Christain. The kids parents were related to anthony rossi who owned Tropicana
Silver my 2nd wife was from a little town in CT off of I-91 called Broadbrook, it was right next to Enfield......is why I know so much about New England.