Evangelist Joyce Rodgers (w/SCREAMING Organ)

[JSngry]

...I graduated high school with her! She was Joyce Timmons then.

Check her out:

Now, I'd be lying if i said that me, a white, middle-class Lutheran kid, grew up immersed in this type thing. But I'd also be lying if I said that it wasn't thick "in the air" in the late 1960s/early 1970s, what was for the area the early days of integration. Kids came to school with what they had at home, and this was very much a part of what some kids had at home, and you couldn't help but feel it, and after a while, accept it as part of your overall cultural environment, even if it wasn't directly yours.

And yeah, I suppose that went into the heady, seemingly bottomless pit of musical influences that were all around us in those days...

Here's a much longer clip of Joyce in action, probably too long (and/or too lots of other things...) for most people here, but still... :

I literally just found out that Joyce Rodgers is/was Joyce Timmons, Gladewater High School Class of 1974. And damn am I proud! Believe me when I tell you that this mix of seriousness and entertainment and wink-wink is exactly who Joyce was then, and apparently who she still is.

Say YES!

[JSngry]

Up for Gladewater~!

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Thanks - I needed that!

MG