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RIP Tina Turner


Pancho

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I read a story today about the high school Tina attended in St. Louis (Sumner HS).  It was the first African-American high school west of the Mississippi.  Check out this list of luminaries who went there, without even listing opera titans, media stars, etc:

 

Tina Turner

Arthur Ashe

Chuck Berry

Billy Davis Jr (The Fifth Dimension)

Dick Gregory

Robert Guillaume

 

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Never knew she was the inspiration for the song. Waylon was in Ft Worth in '69 and saw an ad promoting Tina. Waylon joined Willie In the middle of a poker game. And from there the lyrics went. 

Learn something new every day.

 

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