[78-L] Will Rogers

[Cary Ginell]

One of my prize possessions is a window card from "Steamboat Round the Bend," the last film Rogers made before his death.
 
Cary Ginell
 
> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:25:46 -0500
> From: kenreg at tds.net
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Will Rogers
> 
> warren moorman wrote:
> > Indeed, this was one of the first big celebrity deaths by plane crash, before 
> > Amelia Earhart, Buddy Holly, or 
> >
> > any others. My father had been camping, and noticed that the August meteor 
> > showers were especially active that night. When he returned to town, he heard 
> > the news of Post and Rogers' deaths. It stayed with him so vividly that decades 
> > later (1993) I accompanied him to Barrow, Alaska to see the sight of the wreck. 
> > Interesting that unlike other tragedies, it didn't seem to produce many tribute 
> > songs.
> >
> > Warren
> > 
> 
> I'm a big Will Rogers fan and so all these comments are fascinating to 
> me. Today all the focus is on young sexy pop stars so its difficult for 
> people today to understand the impact this middle aged joke teller had 
> on our society. He was funny, wise and well, comfortable.
> 
> I wasn't born until 1954, but my mother always talked about how 
> devastated people were when Rogers died. Rogers' picture hung on the 
> living room wall in the home of one of my great aunts. Mom said that 
> when Rogers died her aunt cried.
> 
> And Warren, I haven't run across any tribute songs, either. But I do 
> have sheet music for a song from his bogus 1928 presidential campaign. 
> Its title is "Song of the Bunkless Party." I don't know if it was ever 
> recorded.
> 
> -- Ken
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