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[1] [2] His awards continued after his death in 1998. In 2002 the Academy of Western Artists named their annual poetry book award the Buck Ramsey Award in his honor. A two-CD set of his recordings titled Hittin' the Trail was released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in 2003. It won the 2004 Western Heritage Wrangler Award. [1]
The song "Bullet" references the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy, with sexually explicit lyrics directed at his wife Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: "Texas is an outrage when your husband is dead/Texas is an outrage when they pick up his head/Texas is the reason that the President's dead/You gotta suck, suck, Jackie, suck". [3]
William Franklin Ramsey was born in Bell County, Texas. He attended the local schools of nearby Johnson County, Texas, where his father's mercantile business brought the family. Ramsey received all his degrees from Trinity University in Tehuacana, Texas: a B.A. in 1876, LL.B. in 1877, and an M.A. in 1883. [1] [2]
In 1999, the Texas tourism board ran an ad campaign featuring Lyle Lovett singing the refrain "That's Right, You're Not from Texas, but Texas wants you anyway." [ 2 ] Possibly because of the national exposure of the ad campaign, the phrase has been used independently, even in non-musical contexts as a general expression conveying Texans ...
The Spirit of Aggieland is the alma mater of the Texas A&M University.It was originally written as a poem by Marvin H. Mimms while he was a student at Texas A&M. [1] Richard J. Dunn, the director of the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band at the time, composed the music.
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A pick-up truck is towed from a mall at 5900 Madison Ave. on the south side of Indianapolis following a mass shooting that left one person dead and four injured outside GZ Restaurant and Karaoke.
(The song's lyrics as recorded in 1999 by Myra Pearce did not mention Oklahoma.) [401] "Rose of Oklahoma" – written by Rose E. Black, with additional writing credits to Cowboy Copas , Chaw Mank and Lew Mel (Louis Mulé); record released with vocal by Cowboy Copas , 1948.