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To: Nita Nupress
As one drives into Erick, Oklahoma (on Route 66, by the way), there is a sign that announces:

You Are Now Entering
ERICK, OKLAHOMA
Population: 1,023

Hometown of:
Lefty Frizzell
Sheb Wooley
and Roger Miller

Miller's name is added on a separate panel, in a slightly different typestyle and fresher paint (or, at least it appeared so in 1980).

Erick is justly proud of its boys...

7 posted on 09/16/2006 6:09:43 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: okie01; All
Erick is justly proud of its boys...

As they should be. Lefty and Sheb were awesome.

But we may be fighting over Roger Miller because he was born in Ft Worth. How about we both claim him and call it even? (The "Bakersfied" in the text up was especially for you, btw.)

Ok, people... Tell me some Roger Miller stories! I never saw him in person, just on my 33/45 rpm record player.

12 posted on 09/16/2006 6:19:23 PM PDT by Nita Nupress
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To: okie01

Please tell me who the hell is "Sheb Wooley."


34 posted on 09/16/2006 7:24:39 PM PDT by Petronski (Living His life abundantly.)
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To: okie01

Hey, I already told my Erick, OK, story last week! Forgot about Lefty, though. Didn't forget Sheb.

*Hey, Mister Purple People Eater, don't eat me!*

It was a one-eyed, one-horned flying purple people-eater ...

Oh no, I can't do this one; can't remember all the variations on flying. "Sure looked good to me."


41 posted on 09/16/2006 7:49:47 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: okie01

Sheb Wooley also lived near Casitas Springs off the Ventura, CA coast where Johnnie Cash lived in a place called Oak View.

I was a nine year old boy back then and my parents knew both Wooley and Cash. I have a picture of me on Cash's knee.

This was 1968.


210 posted on 09/20/2006 9:03:21 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Iran vs. the U.S. - Iran is winning. Bush is going wobbly in the GWOT.)
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