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Our last "True Media Story"...at least, for awhile

     Fear not, troops. It's just that until we get the "FN Magazine" group off the ground, none of us will be able to contribute anything to it. Once we do, however, my little "TMS" segment moves there.

     So, I hope this tidbit I write this week holds you over until then. It's not the one I wanted to do, though. But, this one (I hope) is better.

     How does one draw a straight line from an Italian inventor, to a huge conglomerate?? Allow me to connect the dots...and dashes...

Thoughts.....

Strangely, I logged onto FN Monday morning and saw something that has not occurred to my account since the adoption of the new Fanmail/GroupMail thing. It read (1/1). Its not as if I don't belong to a lot of FN groups either - I'm no Dyhard, but I've got a pretty good list. So after I checked in and read my one personal fanmail (a Saturday TD look-see from Djroxalot - sorry DJ too late) it was 0/1 then about 15 minutes later I check in and the unthinkable happened. No mail at all. Wow. It didn't last, which I was actually glad of. By noon it was back to 1/5 and I felt ok again.

Another of DCSN's "True Media Stories"

     I don't care what anyone thinks, I'm doing this as a weekly feature. So much knowledge in my head, and nowhere to put it...until now.

     At any rate, our "TMS" this week is about a #1 hit...with a dead man singing background vocals. Peeved your interest, have I?? Trust me, this story is absolutely true. It might sound boring, but there is a payoff to this. And away we go...

     The first #1 hit on Billboard magazine's "Hot 100" charts for the 1960s, is a song called "Running Bear", by Johnny Preston. This was the song that sat at #1 on 1-1-1960. But our story isn't about Johnny Preston. It's about the two background vocalists...one of whom was dead.