More celebrities passing

[Ford]

John Anderson died too.

When I was a morning show producer for a country station, we did a version of his song "Money In The Bank" to celebrate the opening of Bank One Ballpark and the debut of Major League Baseball in Phoenix. Ours was "A Ballpark Named After A Bank" and our co-host had a dead-on John Anderson impression. It was "take your daughter to work day" and mine was there sitting through all the takes, re-takes, and mixing of the song. Poor thing probably was traumatized listening to it over and over again...

 

[Politesse]

Oh no..

We've lost Dolores Huerta.




She was working, working, working, right to the end. Saw her speak last year, we sang her a Feliz Cumpleaños song even though it was two weeks early. She agreed to stay to sign photographs after, and a room of mainly 16-30 year old students formed a line straight out the door to do so. I can't get these kids to wait patiently for anything. But Dolores was everyone's grandma.

 

[Politesse]

In Dolores' honor, here's a gem of a folk protest song from the days of the Gallo Boycott she and many others helped to organize: