[78-L] the Tragic Death of Nat M. Wills

[bruce78rpm at comcast.net]

I found that information by doing a little historical research into Will's so I could include some interesting aspects of his life in this Youtube video of Will's singing "Saving up Coupons for Mother" There is a dark and creepy side to this song as well and here it is. In the song Wills laments that, in order to help the poor lad in his quest for coupons to buy the tombstone he promises that "I'd smoke myself to death", and also there is the part about the boy saying "We all learned to chew and smoke "bull Durum" too since Daddy fell under a Car". Well some 8 years after this song was released, Wills met his own demise out in his garage, working on his beloved automobile. It was a cold December day, and he had the garage doors shut tight, had the motor running and was under the car with his tools working on the vehicle when he was overcome from the exhaust smoke and fumes from the automobile. So there he was "Under the Car" as in the song, and overcome by the "Smoke or Fumes" as in the song albeit smoke from the Vehicle. Really strange and eerie isn't it? Here is the video of the song. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yucdNjtiIQ 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: soundthink at aol.com 
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Sent: Monday, March 2, 2009 7:07:59 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
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Note the ironic detail that the wife who could not rescue him in an emergency was named May Day! 

Cary Ginell 


-----Original Message----- 
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Sent: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 3:08 pm 
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In a message dated 3/2/2009 5:53:20 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
petquality1 at gmail.com writes: 

How very sad, I never knew that about Wills. 




not all that different from Jiohn opetty's death... 

Allen 

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