Posted on 03/28/2008 4:44:32 PM PDT by TCats
DETROIT - A gas station owner charged with fatally shooting a rival gas station owner was found shot to death Friday in front of his southwest Detroit home. As Marathon Gas station owner, Hassan Masbouth, 51, rolled down the window of his GMC Yukon to talk to his wife, a shooter came out of the brushes and shot him, police said.
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Payback’s are hell, especially in Detroit
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Brings a whole new definition to the term “gas war”.
Clearly it wasn’t unleaded.
I guess the family gets the bail money back now, right?
No wonder half of the population of Detroit has left in the last 10 years.
“Looks like payback Detroit style.”
Payback? Sounds like a typical day in a Deetroit neighborhood.
W’s fault...blood for oil
OK, now THAT was funny!
TOM JONES LYRICS
“Detroit City”
Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City,
and I dreamed about those cotton fields at home.
I dreamed about my mother,
dear old Papa, Sister and brother,
I dreamed about that girl
who’s been waiting for so long.
I wanna go home, I wanna go home,
oh, how I wanna go home!
Home, folks think I’m big in Detroit City.
From the letters that I write, they think I’m fine.
But by day, I make the cars,
and by night I make the bars,
If only they could read between the lines!
[Spoken]
You know,
I rode a freight train north to Detroit City.
After all these years,
I find that I’ve just been wastin’ my time.
So I just think I’ll take my foolish pride,
put on a south bound freight and ride,
Goin’ back to the love ones,
The ones I left waitin’ so far behind.
I wanna go home, I wanna go home,
oh, how I want to go home.
When I was a kid, the margin on gas was much higher and the gas stations would have periodic “gas wars” to see who could drop the price the lowest.
Never turned into shooting, though.
I thought Dean Martin did that song.
(When I got a little older, you could buy a pack of cigarettes for 37-cents.)
Who's bad side did you get on?
I remember Bobby Bare had a hit with it in the Summer of 1963
Seems appropriate.
I was on a train going down to Lackland for basic in 1960. We stopped in a tank town in Missouri for a few minutes. Across the street from the depot there were two gas stations involved in a price war: one guy was selling his stuff for .12/9 and the guy across the street was peddling his wares for .11/9. I was stationed in Saudi Arabia 20 years after that and they were selling gas for .25 a gallon. Cigarettes in the BX at Clark AB during the same time period were going for $1.10 a CARTON.
>>>DETROIT - A gas station owner charged with fatally shooting a rival gas station owner was found shot to death
Pumped with lead. That’s how he would have wanted to go.
“I thought Dean Martin did that song.”
>”Prior to Bare’s success with “Detroit City,” country singer Billy Grammer released his version of the Danny Dill-Mel Tillis penned song. His version was known as “I Wanna Go Home.” However, Bare’s version — released as “Detroit City” — became the better-known version.”
“Grammer’s “I Wanna Go Home” reached No. 18 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in early 1963. That summer, Bare’s re-titled version peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard country chart and No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100.”
“A diverse range of artists in many genres have covered “Detroit City.” In addition to Tillis recording his own version, some of the more well-known artists recording the song were Solomon Burke, Bill Anderson, Johnny Cash, Flatt & Scruggs, Jan and Dean, Tom Jones, Dean Martin and Hank Williams Jr.”<
Detroit - Where the weak are killed and eaten.
“I remember Bobby Bare had a hit with it in the Summer of 1963.”
Me too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_City
There and Killadelphia
You are a walking musical encyclopedia,aren’t you?
Can I hit you with a couple of obscure oldies questions that have been bothering me for years?
“You are a walking musical encyclopedia,aren’t you?”
“Can I hit you with a couple of obscure oldies questions that have been bothering me for years?”
I’m not, but I will give a search for the info, what are they?
OK,ansell2,here goes.
At a school dance in October,1960,they played a song with the words”Beware,beware,you better beware or you ain’t a gonna get nowhere”.It was an up tempo R and B song done by a black male group or maybe solo artist and the song haunts me to this very day.I am assuming the song was called Beware but nothing comes up similiar when I do a title search.
Ok,the second song was one I heard just one time while driving through rural Michigan in June,1970.It was either by Steve Lawrence or Andy Williams and I think it was called Just One day in Your Life.Here are some of the words:
If I can’t have you forever,if I can’t have things my way
I’ll be content with just one day
If I must build a world of fantasy
Please let me build it on some memories
Anyway,I have checked both these artists greatest hits and haven’t seen this song on any of their albums.
So any help you could offer me on these two long lost songs would be appreciated.
Louis Jordan - Beware
http://youtube.com/watch?v=owqLjzTu3SA
Beware
Hey, fellas, yes, you, fellas, listen to me, i got something to tell you
And i want you to listen to every word and govern yourselves accordingly
Now, you see these girls with these fine diamonds, fine furs and fine clothes
Well, they’re looking for a husband and you’re listening to a man who knows
They ain’t foolin’, and if you fool around with them
You’re gonna get yourself in a schoolin’
Listen, if she saves you dough, and won’t go to the show
Beware
If she’s easy to kiss and won’t resist
Beware
And if you go for a walk, and she listens while you talk
She’s tryin’ to hook you
And nobody’s lookin’ and she asks you to taste her cookin’
Don’t do it, don’t do it
And if you go to a show and she wants to sit in the back row
Bring her down front, bring her right down front
If you wanna go for a snack, and she wants to sit in the booth in the back
Beware
And listen, if she’s used to caviar and fine silk
When you go out with her she wanna a hot dog and a malted milk
She’s trying to get you
If you’re used to goin’ to carnegie hall, but when you take her out night clubing
All she wants is one meatball
You better take it easy
If she grabs your hand and says, “darling, you’re such a nice man”
Beware, i’m telling you
(should i tell them no more?)
(tell them everything)
You better listen to me ‘cause i’m telling you what’s being put down
You better pick up on it
If her sister calls your brother, you better get further
I’m telling you, you better watch it
And if she’s acting kind of wild, and she says, “darling, give me a trial”
Don’t you do it, don’t be weak, don’t give it to her
And if she smiles in your face and just melts into place
Let her melt, forget it, let her melt
(should i tell them no more?)
(tell them everything)
Now listen, if she calls you up on the phone, and says,
“darling, are you all alone?”
Tell her, “no, no, i’ve got two, three women with me”
Don’t pay no attention to women
Stand up for your right, be a man, be a man
(are you listening?)
If you turn out the lights and she don’t fight
That’s the end, it’s too late
She’s got you hooked, you might as well stick with her
(should i tell them no more?)
If you get home about two and don’t know what to do
You pull back the curtains, and the whole family’s looking at you
Get your business straight
Set the date, don’t be late
Brother, beware, beware, beware
Brother, you better beware
Tell us if that Louis Jordan song is correct and here is a link for the second one.
http://www.top40db.net/Lyrics/?SongID=70448&By=Artist&Match=Andy+Williams
One day of your life
Is all I’m asking you
Just give me
One day of your life
And let me share your world
If you give me one little moment
I will make this moment last
I’ll live the future
With the past
One day of your life
Can’t mean that much to you
Top40db: The most accurate lyrics site on the net.
It’s only one day of your life
But it would see me through
If I can’t have you forever
If I can’t have things my way
I’ll be content with just one day
If I must build
A world of fantasy
Please let me build it
With a memory
One day of your life
Is all I’m asking you
Just give me
One day of your life
And let me share your world
If I can’t have you forever
If I can’t have things my way
I’ll be content with just one day
One day of your life
Oh, oh, oh, oh
One day of your life
It’s only one day of your life
ANDY WILLIAMS - “One Day Of Your Life” (1970)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK8wskCoGQU&feature=related
Lyrics
http://www.soundclick.com/lyrics/getLyrics.cfm?T_ID=T%2010413321&A_ID=R%20%20%20705818
Thanks to you and sleddog on the Andy Williams tune.Thats the one.
No,thats not the Loius Jordan song I’m talking about.And its not by Jesse Belvin either but thanks for trying.
While we are on the subject,do either of you recall a version of Que Sera Sera from 1963 by the Five Keyes or the Five Royales?Again,I only heard the song ONCE,while passing through Sacramento,Ca in July,1963 but loved it.
You’ve got lots to chose from
Que Sera Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)”[1] first published in 1956, is a popular song which was written by the Jay Livingston and Ray Evans songwriting team.
The song was featured in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1956 film, The Man Who Knew Too Much,[2] with Doris Day and James Stewart in the lead roles. Day’s recording of the song for Columbia Records (catalog number 40704) was a hit in both the United States— where it made it to number two on the Billboard charts[3]—and the United Kingdom. From 1968 to 1973, it was the theme song for the situation comedy The Doris Day Show, becoming her signature song.
Also recorded by:
* 1963: The High Keys version with a calypso feel and sports whistle accents[8] influenced two subsequent versions by other bands:
* 1964: The Earl Royce & The Olympics version was recorded by Beatles producer George Martin.[9]
* 1965: The Normie Rowe & The Playboys version was a hit in Australia.
* 1966: Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band on their Hand Clappin’ Foot Stompin’ Funky-Butt … Live! album.
* 1969: Mary Hopkin recorded it as Apple Records single 1823 with “Fields Of St. Etienne” on the other side.
* 1965: The Chipmunks sang the song on the album The Chipmunks Sing with Children, with the altered line, “I asked old Alvin” instead of “I asked my mother.” The version is also on the 1969 album Chipmunks go to the Movies.
* 1973: The funk band Sly & the Family Stone, on their Fresh album .
* 1974: British entertainer Tommy Steele recorded it in a medley with other songs.[10]
* 1977: Husband-and-wife duo The Raes had a big hit in Canada with their disco-pop version of the song.
* 1979: Swedish pop and country singer Kikki Danielsson, on her “Rock’n Yodel” album.
* 1985: Ex-New York Dolls guitarist Johnny Thunders recorded a version for his Que Sera, Sera album.
* 1994: K Cera Cera, a K Foundation (KLF) presentation of The Red Army Choir, was a limited edition single released in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
* 1997: Pink Martini rendered a noir version on their debut album, Sympatique.
* 1998: The song was covered by BZN, on the album A symphonic night, volume 2.
* 2000: In the Bollywood film Pukar, a version of the song was performed by Shankar Mahadevan and Kavita Krishnamurthy.
* 2001: Hermes House Band, on their cover albums, The Album, Hermes House Band Greatest Hits and Football Megamix.[11]
* 2003: Jill Sobule does an acoustic version on The Folk Years 2003-2003.
* 2004: Jennifer Terran covers the song on her album Live From Painted Cave.
* 2005: The electronic artist Wax Tailor produced the song “Que Sera” on the Tales of the Forgotten Melodies album with cuts from an earlier version mixed in.
* 2007: David Ryan Harris has covered the song at various solo performances, most recently at a show in The Woodlands, Texas.[citation needed]
* 2007: Damien Rice and David Gray played the song at Live Earth concert, London at Wembley Stadium
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