I recently learned an interesting bit of trivia that I thought I would share with you here. It turns out that Memphis has the distinction of being mentioned in the lyrics of more songs than any other city in the world. And these are recorded and distributed songs, not just the creations of wannabe songwriters. So just how many songs have "Memphis" somewhere in the lyrics? A whopping 899!
*Update: as of 9/20/2010, there were 971 songs on the list--you can read them all here.*
When I first read this statistic, I was dubious. Could there possibly be that many? And if there were, surely they were all really obscure songs sung by unknown artists. But then I saw the list and discovered that I knew far more of them that I would have guessed. With that in mind, I thought it would be fun to see how many you could come up with before I post a link to the complete list. So if you can think of a song with "Memphis" anywhere in the lyrics, post it in a comment below. I'll give you the link to all 899 next week. In the meantime, I'll get us started:
1. City of New Orleans by Arlo Guthrie (one of my all time favorite songs)
2. Walking in Memphis by Marc Cohn
3. Maybe It Was Memphis by Pam Tillis
Comments
What about Black Velvet by Alanna Myles?
I’m not a huge Beatles fan, but I remember they had a song titled ‘Memphis, Tennessee’. And then Lee Ann Womack sang ‘Montgomery to Memphis’. We cant forget ‘Memphis Pearl’ by Lucinda Williams, love that song. However the song that best describes Memphis today was done by Three 6 Mafia called ‘M.E.M.P.H.I.S’ (Makin Easy Money, Pimpin H*** Is Serious) because we are all just King Willies h**s.
Mike
I am from Memphis, TN and the song Walking in Memphis. And I have to say that song is one of my favorite songs. But I have another comment why does the city of Memphis have to tear Libertyland down? I don’t know why either but I grew up riding on the roller coasters. That’s just my question.
Teresa,”One Last Bridge,” written by native Memphian, composer and pianist David Saks, was adopted and proclaimed in unanimous resolution (11-0) by the Memphis City Council as Memphis’s Official Song of 1990. His composition, “In Memphis” , was adopted as an Official Song of Memphis, the following year in City Council session, in 1991. These are the only two musical compositions ever adopted as Official Songs of Memphis. An argument in Wikipedia ensued over it by supporters of Mr. Saks and a disgruntled power crazed admin that calls himself Jersyko, who strangely enough also says he’s a law student, embarked upon a personal crusade to prevent anything about Mr.Saks from appearing in Wikipedia. It’s an interesting story which proves how stupid Wikipedians can be. Mr.Saks website,
Http://DavidSaks.Com, has a great deal of history behind his music. The Memphis City Council secretary verified for Wikipedia that Mr.Saks was a native Memphian and the only composer ever bestowed such an honor by the local government. This fine gentleman was needlessly, and in vandals fashion, deleted from the history of the City of Memphis by crony trash in Wikipedia.
Thank you Teresa. Perhaps you could do a nice story about David Saks one day.
By the way, ‘Walking In Memphis’ is actually ‘Heart and Soul” if you listen to it carefully. Marc Cohen stole the melody from that simple four handed piano duet that we all played when we were kids. His song was turned down by the Memphis City Council as a candidate as an official song because of a questionable lyric about his evening in a brothel with a lady of the night that inquires as to whether or not he was a ‘christian’. Interesting and true story. Thanks, Teresa
Colyar,
Thanks so much for your insight. I have heard multiple stories over the years regarding the “truth” behind Walking in Memphis but have failed to uncover anything definitivly. Do you have any good resources that tell the whole story? I’d love to read more about it. Thanks!
Lisa Marie Presley recorded (and I think wrote) “Lights Out,” which mentions Memphis several times in 2003.
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I found the comments regarding David Saks laughable. Mr. Saks is dillusional, and a legend only in his own mind. He spends a lot of time on the web promoting himself as an accomplished artist. Most people in Memphis have never heard of him.
tim mcgraw has a song about memphis
“Life is a Highway” by Tom Cochrane: “from Mozambique to those Memphis nights”
How about Memphis TN by Chuck Berry. Covered by Johnny Rivers and the Beatles, to name a few.
Creedance Clearwater’s “Proud Mary” as done by Tina Turner.
daisy jane (America)
Daisy Jane by America
Thank you so much for this post! I’ve actually been arguing this fact with a friend of mine… can you tell me where you read or heard the statistic?
Here’s a link I found: http://www.memphistravel.com/!userfiles/press/899%20Songs.pdf.
If you follow the link to the Rock and Soul Museum home page, then click on “Music” at the bottom, you will find the complete list of songs.
Hi Joanna,
That’s actually the same link that I posted in my follow-up blog on the same subject
And, it was actually the Rock and Soul Museum that provided the statistic. You can view the press release here.
Hope that helps!
Hank Decken, on his album “Life Around the Edges”, has a beautiful song titled simply “Memphis”, a recurring line of which is “you can’t go to Memphis no more”. Check it, and him, out; he’s the best undiscovered rock artist out there.
Janet Masterson is one of those dumb, ego-mamiacal Wikipedians I was referrring to. She may go by the nick “Vary” or another. If she had the guts, she’d post her real name but she’s a coward and probably scared of a defamation lawsuit. Mr. Saks is a real estate broker and a very accomplished pianist and composer, hosts his own radio program, and is well known throughout the world. Sadly,Masterson is another friendless, clueless, slander-filled anon with idiotic, smart aleck remarks that are unwelcome.
Also, for the clueless, dumb Janet Masterson, try this,
http://DavidSaks.Com , Http://DavidSaks.8k.Com , Http://Memphis.8k.Com , Http://DavidSaks.ActiveRain.Com , or just Google “David Saks Memphis” and you’ll get blown away and probably eat your own shorts after you hear him play the piano. Masterson, your such a moron.
PS….does the moron, Janet Masterson go door to door in Memphis asking if they know who David Saks is? Sheesh…what a goober that Janet Masterson is ! I’m sure they haven’t heard of David Saks in the mental institution where Janet Masterson happens to be a patient.
I like Donald E Doyles song (Bit of cash)which
starts off There is a legend come from Memphis Town.
Jon Hiatt “Memphis in the meantime”~
“Train train”, by Blackfoot (sp?)
and that ZZ topp song with”i keep thinkin bout that night in memphis, lawd i thought i was in heaven~” (cant remeber the name)
oh and duh, Big River (johnny cash)
“Graceland” by Paul Simon – “…I’m goin’ to Graceland; Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee, I’m goin’ to Graceland…”
Little Feat – Dixie Chicken
Elvis Hitler – Berlin to Memphis
Geezer Butler – Unspeakable Elvis
Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Woman
Blackfoot – Train, Train
ZZ Top – My Head’s in Mississippi
The Cult – Memphis Hip Shake
Memphis Groove Thang – Unknown artist…they used to play it a lot on Rock 103..
@Colyar lol, the article is about “recorded and distributed songs, not just the creations of wannabe songwriters.” So Saks’s music is out, I’m afraid. And for the record, whoever’s been responsible for trying to get these songs of his added to Wikipedia – presumably Saks himself, judging from the IP addresses being used – is a racist, homophobic slimeball. If that’s you (and judging by your rhetorical style, it’s a safe bet), you should be ashamed of yourself.
“That’s How I Got to Memphis” – Tom T. Hall
Colyar is an absolute liar (comment 5) The lyric is about the Hollywood which is a restaurant in Robinsonville MS in the Delta. Here are the lyrics he references:
They’ve got catfish on the table
They’ve got gospel in the air
And Reverend Green be glad to see you
When you haven’t got a prayer
But boy you’ve got a prayer in Memphis
Now Muriel plays piano
Every Friday at the Hollywood
And they brought me down to see her
And they asked me if I would –
Do a little number
And I sang with all my might
And she said –
“Tell me are you a Christian child?”
And I said “Ma’am I am tonight”
Marc was playing piano with the woman at the restaurant …
T. Graham Brown does “Memphis Women and Chicken”
I know David Saks very well and he is a crazy man. Colyar is David Saks !!!! He is the true moron
Let’s start with Jones, a person with a mental age of three to seven years old, and probably a narcotics addict. From the sound of the post, Jones is a half-witted retard or ex-girlfriend of Saks who got kicked to the curb, which is usually the case.
Now for BinghamptonNed, a bankrupted failure comprised of subnormal intelligence. Perhaps the lyrics suggest an alternative meaning, however, the melody is “Heart and Soul”. “Walkin’ In Memphis” sucks.
Now for Sam. If your a homo, that’s your choice, so go clean your sundress so you can look nice for your boyfriend. Also, do a litte research, imbecile, and you’ll see that Saks has lot’s of supporters in Wikipedia, although I’m confident
that your developmentally challenged mind is to damaged to dig that deep.
Suuuuure, Colyar, lots of supporters. That’s why they set up a special edit filter just to keep you from adding references to the ‘official songs of Memphis’ to Wikipedia.
Also, I’m not a ‘homo’, sweetie, and I don’t think someone who doesn’t know the difference between ‘to’ and ‘too’ and thinks ‘lot’s’ is the plural of ‘lot’ is really in a position to insult anyone else’s intelligence.
Memphis Women and Fried Chicken
Sam, your a bit of a nit-picky imbecile, aren’t you? Your another wikicop anon that hangs out in chat rooms like this one to avoid prosecution from obscene phone calling. I wouldn’t be surprised if your a registered sex offender, TOO ! Your jealous, like your other wikicop cronies.
You’re a putrescent little mass of walking vomit and a spineless, cowardly little worm, a jerk, a retarded weasel. I take that back; you are a festering pustule on a weasel’s rump. Your stand out nicely as a monument to stupidity in this forum. Suck on a sour lemon flit-boy.
I agree, Colyar. Sam is absolutely an imbecile. I remember David Saks very well and loved listening to him at Rock103 radio station in Memphis when I lived there. He was one of the funniest and most talented musicians in the city in the 80’s and 90’s. I also remember how he raised money for charities all over the area. I remember one show when a woman called in and said that she was with a battered and homeless women’s shelter in Memphis called “Seek for the Old Path”. I’ll never forget it. The woman called about five minutes before David’s show was about to go off the air and she was crying and pleading for his help because the utility company was going to shut off the power to a building which housed many women with their children. David stayed on the air and pleaded with the community to come to the rescue of the shelter. Within minutes he had raised thousands of dollars for the shelter, had contractors and builders rushing to make repairs to the building, had donations of clothes, food, medical supplies, new appliances and furniture, and persuaded the utility company to stop the shut-off order. It’s a shame stupid people like Sam make trouble for others who appreciate David. I also agree that Jones sounds like an “ex-girlfriend that got kicked to the curb”. I’ve seen David’s videos on YouTube and he’s great. Sam and Jones are absolutely the real morons. Don’t lower yourself by replying to their brain damaged, drug-induced posts. Ignore them. I also agree that Wikipedia is full of cretins and half-witted lurkers like Sam.
Their obnoxious presence is terminal in well meaning forums. David Saks is awe-inspiring. I love him.
Hah, okay, ‘you two’, anyone who doesn’t think David Saks is God’s gift to music must be a ‘cretin’ and an ‘imbecile.’ Once you’ve wiped the spittle off your mouth you might want to consider why you feel the need to hurl abuse and accusations at anyone who doesn’t share your musical tastes. But the fact remains that the article is about “recorded and distributed songs, not just the creations of wannabe songwriters”, and the songs you’re so intent on publicizing are firmly in the latter category.
Wipe the crap from your eyeballs, Sam. Saks has lots of fans and support. Nobody gives a damn about your clueless opinion. I saw Saks play Sunday night and he was great.
Take your drivel back to the playground and wait for your mommy, little boy. The only thing in the latter category here are both your deayed mental and cognitive skills.
typo for Sam the Lurker….”deyaed” = “delayed”
ps…I’ll bet you didn’t know Saks has published manuscripts and songs in the Library of Congress…here are some examples for Sam the Moron:
http://davidsaks.8m.com/manuscript.html
New name, same old bile. When your writing style is so ‘distinctive’ using pseudonyms doesn’t really fool anyone, unfortunately. The name you chose is pretty hilarious, though, I have to admit; ‘Olive Branch’ when you’re just stringing together a few more insults.
Absolutely anybody can submit work, published or unpublished, to the library of congress. They will accept and file away anything that anyone sends them so long as they fill in all the right forms and pay the filing fee, because that’s their job: to register and catalog works for copyright purposes. I might go jot down a little ditty right now and send it off just so I can say I’m a big famous musician, too.
I’ll say it again; why do you feel the need to hurl abuse at anyone who doesn’t fawn over David Saks? Most artists at least realize that not everyone is going to appreciate everything they do. We’re not talking about whether or not Saks’s music is ‘good’ (although I don’t particularly enjoy it) but whether or not it should be on a list of ‘recorded and distributed’ songs about Memphis.
http://www.memphis.edu/wumr/profile_saks.php
Kewl post, Les. I’ve been listening to David’s show for a long time. Guess the University of Memphis likes him even if Sam doesn’t, eh ? That’s good enough for me. I like him, too.
a-ha: Move To Memphis
Joe Jackson: Memphis
The Hold Steady: Sequestered In Memphis
Miles Kurosky: West Memphis Skyline
Minus The Bear: Memphis & 53rd
Night train to Memphis
Just surfed in. Saw the comments about David Saks. He really is a pretty good piano player and has a decent radio show. Heard he was losing his eyesight. Anybody know ?
David Sacks ….Sucks
Yea….he changed the spelling of his name..all these good comments about him are from him!
And about his eyesight. He has problems with his left eye only. More mental problems than anything. He is a crazy man!!!!!
Sam you are so cool
PS… No I’m not who you think I am. If I was an ex-girlfriend you would be GAY!! Nobody wants to be your girlfriend or boyfriend. You love yourself enough for everybody. David, you don’t need anybody. You have a mirror ! We all know you look in the mirror and kiss yourself several times a day. People laugh at you not with you. I know nothing good about you!
The list I got at Southern Folklore did not in clude Sheryl Crowe’s new One Hundred Miles from Memphis or Anne Murry’s I can see Arkansas.
Wow ! That Jones chick is a nutcase. Probably some fat, lame slob, with a boring life living in a hovel. I saw Saks on his webcam with the chick he had on his show Saturday night. He looks like he’s doing pretty good. Jones is probably a broke, rejected slimeball with no friends. Wonder if your that chick that Saks used to dedicate songs to on his show, that I heard that he dumped a few months ago ? I just bet you are ….Thank God for him…you SUCK Jones…Saks is a really good dude. Who cares if he changed his name or not…lot’s of people in show business do. By the way, Jones, he was real, real funny Saturday night with that chick he had on his show. But you obviously have no sense of humor, probably because because your the streetwalker that Saks dumped. Get a life, your an imbecile.
ps…Jones…I just got off the phone with Saks, to say hi to him. I asked him if he’d seen these blog posts and he said no. I got him to pull it up and he laughed so hard he dropped the phone. When he got to your comment he told me that you sound like the ex-husband of an abused, drug-addicted chick he left because she was self-mutilating herself and that you’ve been harrassing him with psychotic letters because she jilted you and fell in love with David. He also told me that you were a bed wetter when you were a kid and that all of the kids in the neighborhood thought you were a whiner, a cry baby and a moron. He didn’t tell me your name but he said it sounded something like “Pisson” and that was what the kids called you because you were a bedwetter. He told me about some contraption he checked out with your dad that turned on a light and rang a bell when you whizzed on yourself. He also told me that you ran an illegal lab out of your home after your dentist dad died and that you impersonated a doctor using your dad’s name to get medical supplies and that’s one of the reasons he didn’t want anything to do with you or your family.
I’d leave him alone if I were you, Jones. Go change your sheets.
WRONG! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! Do you really want to start telling old stories from our past? I’m sure the person you are talking about has his or her own stories about you. I KNOW I DO! David everybody knows you are the one saying good things about yourself. Brandon is David. Your own family hates you. You do SUCK! I guess if you are around ninety years old you would enjoy his lame radio show. He’s not going to be at the radio station very much longer. I think it’s the best thing for WUMR. He just does not fit in.
Right on, Jones. You better get treated for paranoia, scumbag. It’s obvious your a coward,too, because only an anon would post that kind of defamation and worthless garbage. How do you know so much about David’s family if your not “Pisson” ? Your an idiot. His family listens to him. He talks about them all the time on his show. Do you really think WUMR would can the guy…and for what reason you retard ? He’s been there forever. About the only time he didn’t work for the station was when he was involved with your ex-wife, who left you because your a drug addict. If you’d take the time to read the bio about him on the University of Memphis site it sounds like he’s not worried about going anywhere.
Even the dean does his show with him. He had the Congressman do the show with him a few weeks ago and they were great together. Your a moron and suck ballsacs. Saks’ new girlfriend is so hot your probably jealous about her, too, you ass faced moron.
Why would the program director ask him to fill in for their morning show host this week if they didn’t like him, you sick freak ? He’s been talking about it all weekend.
Take your drug-induced brain damaged rhetoric to somebody on your level, namely an Arlington Developmental Center patient. Your afflicted with psychosis. Drop-dead goober.
ps…for Jones the brain damaged cretin.
David wants to chat with you. Why don’t you call him. Your a coward and a liar, hooked on narcotics and you piss on yourself.
If he just “does not fit in” as you exclaim in your developmentally impaired logic, why would the University of Memphis honor him by requesting that he host the grand opening ceremonies for the new University Center ? Sounds like your Jonesin’ for a fix…sugar cookie.
pps…for Jones the drug addict…
If he doesn’t fit in. moron, why would he be chosen out of the dozens of students, faculty and staff to be one of twelve chosen for the official calendar for the University ? And why would the campus newspaper do a great story on him last year ? Your an idiot Jones, give it up. Saks has been in and out of that station since 1969 and the University would never let him go. He’s a pioneer and Memphis Music history. The University of Memphis, the radio listening audience, the streaming audio audience, and the jazz community, all love him, but your too stupid to realize that. And jealous….
No David I’m not jealous. I just wanted to let everyone know that the post from SAM is correct. David Sucks is a wannabe songwriter. Lot’s of People say the songs you say you wrote for Memphis were ripped off from other real songwriters. YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID DAVID SAKS!
You really have me mistaken for a class-act musician, moron. Jones, I’m flattered that you think that I’m Saks. but you have the mental age of a nine year old girl with that asinine, vacuos assimilated play on ‘Saks’, you jealous assho;e. Saks told me that you have to be “Pisson”. The times of your brain damaged posts confirm it and your IP address pinpoints the corner of Knight Arnold and Mendenhall wich is the area of the “Pisson” residence, in a crack-strewn slum. I’d say your sheets are starting to get pretty foul, bedwetter.
ps…a “wannabe songwriter”, moron ???? Your making me laugh now, retard. The two Memphis City Council endorsements were not some sanctions he bought with drug money you provided. I heard that your a hypochondriac and mutilate yourself, “Pisson”, and hang out in pill mills in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Florida looking for oxycontin handouts. You need to do something about your chronic and abnormal anxiety about David before it’s too late. And change your sheets.
“Stuck Inside of Mobile With Those Memphis Blues Again” -Bob Dylan-
No Saks you are wrong again. You sound like a crazy man. Are you pisson under your skirt? Do you think people don’t talk about the FACT that you did not write the Memphis songs you claim?
Jones Pisson, your starting to sound like an annoying broken record. I should apologize for picking on a mental defective; not to you dumbass, but to the readers. Eventually you’ll shut up, crawl into a hole and croak with your lies. I know Saks well enough to know that he would spit in your face and never respond to your drug-crazed posts. Your a delusional half-wit. Who are the “people” you refer to you lying, ass-breathed, pompous fool ? Change your sheets bedwetter.
Hi Brandon. Stop lowering yourself to those losers, Sam and Jones Pisson. I’ve been listening to David’s show for the last two years, since he came back. He kicks ass with all that old be bop and swing. I’m a student at the University of Memphis, 21yo, play the trumpet in both cocncert bands and jazz ensemble. I was at the UC when he dedicated it on his show and he was great. The students and faculty love him at U of M and are glad that he came back. I was at the pancake shop he talks about on his show a couple of weeks ago and met him. His new girlfriend was making heads spin
shwiiiingggg. Lucky dude ! No need to reply, Brandon. Just wanted to say hi and thumbs up for Dave. BTW I love WUMR.
Very kewl, Manny. Have you guys got your concert season schedule for the fall? Dr.Cooper’s band, “Southern Comfort”, is great.
We do, Brandon. You can pick the schedule up in Harris Hall. Dr.Cooper is great. David is gonna have Miss Tennessee dj with him after we beat the Bulldogs on the fourth. I’ll be in Starkville. Check this out on the University of Memphis site:
http://www.memphis.edu/wumr/features/feature_misstennessee.php
Thanks, Manny. I’ll be around for some concert nights. Appreciate the link to Dave’s show and Miss Tennessee.
Linda stole my contribution with the old Dylan line “Stuck in Mobile with the Memphis Blues again”. After reading the comments, however, I’m beginning to wonder how many songs mention David Saks?
Mr.Saks is a low key, but popular radio personality in Memphis who also happens to be a great piano player and songwriter. I’ve seen him play at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis to thunderous applause. The controversy seems to be about whether or not he wrote two songs that were proclaimed the “Official Songs of Memphis”, ‘In Memphis’ and ‘One Last Bridge’, by the Memphis City Council some years ago, which also happen to be the only two songs ever to receive such a distinction as expressed in Wikipedia. I’ve seen the arguments in Wikipedia. Apparently, his supporters are up against this superfluity of angst, apparently from an ex-girlfriend (and her friends) who Mr.Saks broke up with
I feel a bit of choler for Mr.Saks because of the way he’s been treated. I hope that this forum would remain true to the spirit of the topic. Mr.Saks certainly deserves a place in this forum, but without the immaturity and feeling of ill will arousing active hostility.
Saks is actually a jazz jock at the University of Memphis radio station, WUMR. He’s been there on and off for years. He’s not a bad musician either. Glad to see others appreciate him, Georgette. He might be ‘low key’, but there sure are a few ‘low life’
that want to slam him. Saks is really a nice dude.
Saks really is fairly well known, Manny. I agree, he is a nice dude. I was talking to a faculty member that’s a friend of his and someone he works with at the University, and he told me that they really like having him on the campus cause he’s always volunteering to work campus events and help out when they call on him. Check this out :
http://www.bing.com/search?q=david+saks+memphis&form=QBLH&qs=n&sk=&sc=1-18
I’ve known David since he was a small child and I’d never believe the crap that Jones and Sam said about him. I went to elementary and junior high school in Memphis with him and he was an amazing musician then. They really don’t know him at all. I’ve known his family very well, since the early 1960’s, and know this day that they love him very much. David has always been a private person and quiet in his personal life, and I know that he’s suffered some very great personal and physical tragedies in his teenage years and early adult life that made him retreat from music, and his family and friends because he didn’t want them to have to deal with it. His close friends know that he’s suffered from depression and writers block for years after one of his best friends died. You wouldn’t suspect it when you hear his radio program. He’s very gentle, thoughtful, intelligent, well-liked, loved and is a great songwriter. I know that he recently lost a friend that he adored, and I also know that he’s very saddened by it. She had been very ill. I’ve been told that she loved him very much.
I doubt the pseuds care. That’s the nature of the internet and forums where semi-anonymously posted comments lurk, mine included.
His Memphis songs are great, by the way. Cast ny vote for David.
Old Crow Medicine Show…Motel in Memphis
these lyrics make you think
David, stop talking to yourself, it’s getting embarrassing. Posting a lot of positive comments about yourself on the internet under fake names isn’t going to suddenly make you famous and successful. It didn’t work anywhere else and it’s not going to work here. And stop badmouthing total strangers because they don’t like your music – that’s just sad.
Sounds like Alan is a David Saks fan. I like David’s music even if you don’t, Alan. I doubt that Mr.Saks is posting absentia anon gratis. Bet your the chick David dumped Alan posing as a dude.
Or the drug crazed dude at Mendenhall and Knight Arnold
Sad, Alan, that your paranoia, your psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution by David Saks, is eroding your mental state. See a doctor before it’s too late.
Yes, I am an angel. I’ve been sent from heaven, directly by Clarence. He earned his wings by being a faithful servant of God. Clarence want’s me to earn my wings. Remember ZU ZU? Quote “Teacher say’s, every time a bell rings an Angel gets their wings”.
“It’s a Wonderful Life”. What a movie! When the police officer tried to arrest my Commander Clarence, Joseph made him disappear. After Scottie “beamed” him up, (Scottie really has a gift from God), Clarence told him he could only do this one more time. After that he was going to pluck a feather after I earn my wings! He really is a funny guy and I love him.
Let’s get back to the nature of my intentions.
I was privy to gain access to one of my friends computer.
It seems like science has come a long way. Since I left planet earth, technology has advanced tremendously. (Read the book “Future Shock” by author Toffler). Clarence had sent me to Memphis, Tennessee. It was not where I was born or raised. As of now I do not know who my assignment is. He said, “Patience is a virtue. You’ll know when it’s your time. In the mean time enjoy yourself and take a tour of the city”. After a guided tour of Memphis I returned to his residence. My friend was on his computer and me, being the curious sort, asked him what he was doing. He showed me what he called was a “blog”. I told him all the sights I saw in his great city of Memphis. I had never been here before. The music excited me, especially Rhythm and Blues. Beale Street was a treat! Then he showed me what he was reading. I read about a blog from a man named Brandon. He seemed extremely fond of a local musician by the name of David Saks.
Saks is a legend. I remember when the mayor asked him to play in city hall. Saks did things like jump from a high diving board into a 500 gallon tank of jello for donations to Saint Jude research hospital for children, and other crazy stuff that everyone howled at. I remember when he interviewed Anna Nicole Smith on his show on the phone. She invited him to come to New York to hang out and have “raw, unadulterated sex” with her, and said she would pick him up when he got to LaGuardia airport. It was hilarious. The morning show crew he worked with set him up as the president of the Anna Nicole Smith Fan Club and she fell for it. He went to New York and did these really funny man-on-the-street interviews from Manhattan. It was three of four years before she died. On one of the shows, I guess around 2002 or 2003, someone from a sewage recycling company called to tell him that a septic tank truck had been stolen and he went on the air and offered pizza to anyone who could spot a ‘crap pump truck’ on the streets. I’ll never forget it. Some listeners spotted the truck, the theif was arrested and Saks saved the day. It was really funny. Just surfed in. Here’s my two cents. Hope it earns interest for Dave. I like him, too.
I asked, “Do you know of a local musician by the name of David Saks”. After reading the entire blog with him he was quite astounded by the hateful rhetoric by the aforementioned “Brandon”. It seemed to me that Brandon was quite a fan of Mr. Saks, however, I asked my friend had he ever listened to the music by Mr. Saks. He said, “I have no idea who he is”. Mr. Saks seemed to have quite a number of fans on the blog. There seemed to be a lot of comments concerning his music that was never published or heard in your fair city. This was quite confusing to me. While awaiting my assignment I will try to find out just exactly who he is and listen to his music if I can find it. David must be a very talented individual by the writings of Brandon, however, listening to his music would be quite a thrill. This week I’m going to go to local music shops to find out if I can get any copies of what he does so I can hear what he plays. Anyone out there, if you have his recordings let me know on this machine. I can’t wait! I might be able to meet him and get copies of what he does and perhaps get his autograph. Clarence will be trilled when I show this to him upon my return and he gives me my wings! That will be another feather! Then the last laugh will be on my commander. Ha!, ha, ha!!! The last laugh will be mine. For now it’s “beddie-bye” time. I love you all, and I’ll pray for you before I go asleep. Please let me know if you have any knowledge of Mr. Saks music. I would love to hear him play.
p.s. I forgot to ask anyone what particular instrument Mr. Saks plays! Gee-willikers! I apologize to all of you out there but I have no idea and my host does not either. Does he play the guitar? Does he play trumpet? Does he play the bass fiddle? Does he play a clarinet? Does he play the flute? Does he play the drums? Does he sing? Maybe he plays the piano. It would be interesting to find out. And also what type of music does he play? Does he play rhythm and blues or maybe classical or does he play some other form of genre? I would love to find out. Tomorrow I’m going to get some help from my friend and search the yellow pages and have him guide me around Memphis until I can find out where he plays locally. Brandon, please respond! I anxiously await your answer. After resting I’ll have my host get this machine running again and read what all of David’s fans have to say. Let me know where he is playing so I can go see him in person. I can’t wait! Sleep well.
Cuthwaithe
Occasionally David showed up on a patio at some club, at a hotel, or in a coffee house. He always gave his music away. I remember asking him why and he told me that he didn’t play for money or tips. If there was tip money on the piano he gave it to the waitresses, made cassettes and cd copies of his solo piano music years ago and must have given away hundreds of them. If you can find one, your lucky. He always had copies of his music at this old hotel where he played and gave them to people hanging around listening to him play. I have one and it’s amazing. I don’t think he ever sold anything in a store or otherwise. He’s got a bunch of videos on the internet and some music manuscripts on his website, and I know that he shows up at the Westin, Doubletree or the Peabody Hotel every now and then. Or some jazz club on South Main Street. He played for years in midtown in Overton Square. He showed up like clockwork at four pm and played till five at an old hotel every Monday called the French Quarter Inn. I sat at the lobby bar a few times and listened to him improvise like he was in another world. He’d play for an hour, get up when he was finished, come over to the lobby bar, sit down with everyone, have one cup of coffee, thank everybody for listening, get up and leave. He’d bring manuscript paper sometimes and scribble notes on it. He’s not Chick Corea or Chopin, but he’s good and has his own style. He had his own recording studio on Beale Street called the Beale Broadcast Workshop. It was over a building that housed the Center for Southern Folklore. I think they actually provided him this beautiful space to work in as a courtesy because they liked him. You could confirm that by calling a woman by the name of Judy Peiser that runs that organization. That’s where he recorded his music, I’m guessing, about twenty years ago.
On a funny note, the way he started doing the morning radio show with the Wake Up Crew at Rock103, that Bonnie mentioned, was when they discovered him the day after the city council proclaimed his song the official song of Memphis, twenty years ago. They grilled the newly adopted musical composition for four hours until David confronted them about it in their studio. Those shock jocks were having fun with him and became good friends of his. By the way, did you know that he was at Elvis Presley’s home, Graceland, visiting with Elvis’ Uncle Vester, the day Elvis died, and left just before Elvis was found unconscious ? David might have been one of the last people to see Elvis before he passed away. One thing I could never understand is why David became a real estate broker ??? I heard that his dad was a real estate broker and his uncle was the president of the homebuilders association, and they wanted him to get into the business. Maybe he got burned out on the music scene, all the hypocrites and pretenders in that business, and some of the losers in this forum. David paid his dues and did his homework. I agree with Georgette, that he’s a fine musician and is well thought of. Maybe not on a world-wide scale like Keith Jarrett, Billy Joel or Nicky Hopkins, or otherwise, but just a good ol’, polite, unpretentious, home-grown, wysiwyg Southern boy with down home friends, who happens to be in love with the piano, not himself.
misprint “… I remember David Saks very well and loved listening to him at Rock103 radio station…”, that Brenda (37) mentioned…not Bonnie(82)
Now some fools going to accuse me of being David because of my inadvertent parapraxis
uh-oh…here comes the slime….
We know your not David, Bonnie. Maybe Cuthwaithe is, or Brenda, Sam, Manny, Georgette, JC or Pisson.
Guess what ? The jokes on you. Everybody here is actually David, including Teresa R.Simpson. And he wrote all of the songs about Memphis. You can get the K-Tel cd that has all of them on it at Walmart. I saw Ron Popeil give it away as a bonus for purchasing a “Pocket Fisherman” on the Home Shopping Network.
Cuthwaithe should change her name to Cutwrist, because that what a reader wants to do after reading that word salad.
To; Elvis’ “Wannabe”. You have the pseudonyms, aka: Colyar, Brenda, Ellen, Les, Andy, Brandon, Manny, Bonnie, Georgette, Vicky and Jar Jar Stinks, this message is for you. Get out of town before you are tarred and feathered. All of you are DAVID SAKS ! You are a disgrace to every musician who ever “worked” for a living. No recordings. No gigs. No fans. No spotlight. Pathetic! If you have the proof that you are as famous as you say you are why is it that you have no evidence. Your name shall ever remain “Schizophrenic”!!! When you arrive home all those nice men in their clean white coats will be waiting for you. “Ha Ha. He He. Ho Ho!!!” The’re coming to take you away. IGOR will “ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:(
SAKS WILL VAPORIZE YOU IGOR !!!!!!!!!
Igor the Hurricane is really Charlie Chase Wind, Manny.
Nobody gives a crap about any songs about Memphis. I want to hear songs about Floss, Arizona for the dude who impersonated a dentist. Sounds like he got his own teeth knocked out.
Brandon was not looking over his shoulder. First there was Hiroshima. Ahh Haa!!! And then along came Nagasaki !!! He was not looking in his rear view mirror! BINGO! It hit the fan. Sleep on this, if you can. I DON’T THINK SO! NOT UP IN HERE!!!……………”Paranoia strikes deeeeeeep”.
FIRST THERE WAS TRINITY JULY 16, 1945. FATHER TRINITY, SON HIROSHIMA AND HOLY GHOST NAGASAKI. START PRAYING HEAVY FOOL.
This sounds like a room full of fools. Doesn’t anyone remember my instrumental, “Memphis”? I tracked it before Johnny Rivers sang it. These comments should be about Memphis and it’s music and not about insult. Grow Up!
I remember you, Lonnie. Suzie-Q wasn’t bad either, man. For a dude who got thrown out of high school for beating up his teacher, you did ok. Did you ever meet the late, great Rick Harvey, since you live in Tennessee ? Rick was raised in Memphis and was Albert King’s and Bobby Blue Bland’s rhythm man, and a spokesperson for Gibson Guitars. Rick was one the best blues guitar players in the world. Kidney failure killed him.
Harvey is a legend and was one of Saks’ best friends. I saw Saks play with him at a tribute to Sonny Boy Williamson on Beale Street, playing the piano with him in Handy Park almost twenty years ago. Rick Christian, Carl Briscoe and this chick named Renee were also there playing with Saks and Harvey. Renee was in the Navy band, was stationed in Millington and played the flute. She could have given Jethro Tull a run for his money. She was a very good friend of Rick’s and dated him. Briscoe and Christian had a popular band in Memphis at the time called ‘Rick Christian and the White Boys”.
Rick died the day after the Sonny Boy Williamson tribute. There was a large funeral procession for Rick on Beale Street that Saks arranged at the request of Jud Phillips, Sam Phillips son. The story is that the funeral director didn’t want to have a procession on Beale Street, but Saks had a conversation with him and the director changed his tune. The street was lined wall to wall with friends and people who loved Harvey and his music.
There was a memorial show for Rick at this club on Beale Street after Rick’s funeral the same day. Joe Walsh was there, Sean Lane, Lannie McMillan, Don McMinn, the Memphis Horns, Bobby Blue Bland, Ruby Wilson, everyone known to Memphis Music. That night, Saks got into a fight with the club owner over some offbeat comment the owner made to Saks’ girlfriend. He grabbed Saks by the tie and Saks punched him in the mouth. I was there that night. The club owner was killed about a week later.
Keep “whammin’”, Lonnie.
Lonnie Mack would never post in this lame ass forum.
Neither would Saks.
It seems that there are a few comic book heroes out there that have forgotten that this page was originally “SOULEY” about the Memphis sound pertaining to the 899 + songs written about Memphis. One of you, and you know who you are, has their own agenda. GET A LIFE! Why don’t you find a cure for cancer or do something useful if you think you are Superman. “Long distance information, give me Memphis Tennessee”. That is all this page was intended to do. Now, does anyone out there have number 900 or any other songs that they know about? For the love of God! Let’s get this train, back on the track!. I think I’ll sit down and write number 900 tonight, have it published and sent to Memphis radio stations. Everyone can then decide if they would like to listen to it or not. I hope that it will compliment all of the other songs previously published. God bless us all, Tiny Tim.
900 “One Last Bridge” by Saks.
901 “In Memphis” by Saks,
901 also happens to be the area code of Memphis.
I love you, David. Call me baby. I love you long time.
I should get a nice prize for being the 100th entry in this fabulous blog. How about pizza and a movie, Rhonda ? David won’t mind….
Has anyone heard my song about Memphis.
It’s called Muck Memphis.
Here’s how it goes:
Muck Memphis
It’s full of losers and pimps.
Muck Memphis
All the women are blimps.
Muck Memphis
I’ve got to go down the road.
Muck Memphis
Just to flush the commode.
Muck Memphis
It’s a pain the neck
Muck Memphis
So you can honk my peck.
-Myron Plebney-
“O h Well” How Ya doin? Got any gum? Walsh asks, “Get any sleep? Know how to keep an idiot in suspense?”
We’ll tell you tomorrow, Chknsht.
Who cares about that rat pit Memphis.
More songs about beer and lesbians by god.
Drivel on,………ad nauseum,……….unwanted son of Memphis Music…………….
Hey, Rection. Your pretty good with that Latin slam.
It’s really funny. I know what it means.
It means that Schvinch is full of crap and dumps ten times a day because he’s a fat, incontinent slob.
Right ?
Wow. This thread has really gone downhill. And it was pretty low to begin with.
So go someplace else, moron.
Songs about Memphis have left this site due the tirades of one pathetic self-centered egocentric schizophrenic megalomaniacal narcissist with his own one-man horse and pony show. He belongs back under his “rock” with the unwanted bugs and fungus, his only friends or venom infested snakes in his one- man fan club. Perhaps he should back to Bolivar Hospital where he is often wont to be and leave innocent victims of his hateful rhetoric alone. His plan for over 40 years to bring good people down cannot and will not work as hard as he may try. He will continue to “piss up his own pipe” until it runs back on himself. When you go where you are going be sure to take a bar-b-que grill in your coffin so you will have something to prepare your food on; don’t forget the ladle and cauldron and forget about the laptop. NO ONE LEFT to slam then! By the way: no sedan with backseat toilet nor microwave in the trunk. Your self-imposed fan club member says “GOOD-BYE!”……. BAD BAD KARMA!!!!!!!!
Guys like Tess never get the girl !!!
Samson, your clearly the classic, whiny, broke, busted, pathetic, hypochondriacal, nocturnally enuretic pill popper that hunts and pecks a boring diatribe till dawn because your an insatiable junkie craving attention. Your running out of steam, pathetic, piffling drama queen, with your vile, subterranean excursion into melodrama. Are your scabs itching ? Is your dermatitus flaring up ? Did you wet the bed again ?
Sad little diseased man.
Schizophrenia!!! Hahaha…I spit on you. Our man has ruffled your greasy feathers. Clinical science can have it’s pick of any of several psychotic disorders characterized by your distortions of reality, disturbances of thought and language which happen to be the most obvious things distinguishable about your entry. Sadly, your sarcophagi isn’t thick enough to mask your rotten odor. That’s why the sign says One Way…the one we used to pass by every day. She followed him back home…she’ll love him forever….she’ll be back to love him again…To trsgic for you…one so affected by the insidious impairment of normal physical and mental function because of jealousy….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am-UpKaM8n4&feature=related
Tess doesn’t have to get the girl. The girl got Tess. She’s kissing him now. And she’s washing his orbs.
Guys like Samson dress up like girls and enjoy the company of alter boys !
…altar boys…although ‘alter’ is ok, too, since Samson is a spayed transformer.
The partner of a thief hates his own life; he hears the curse but discloses nothing. Proverbs 29:24. “The gauntlet lies buried near the doughboy. Your nurdy metal detector will find it for you, LITTLE TOY! Directions show time and place you cease to steal, from all that are righteous that are real; then all good Memphians hear Brandon scream, “OYE!!!”. Spit, and sputum; verbal tirades, lies and rhetorical jibberish will no longer be heard nor tolerated. They will watch as evil subsides. The lovely couple are now walking into the graciosly given “Sonrise” to the thunderous applause of their fans, followers and family, extremely happy for all of eternity!!!
The partner of a thief hates his own life; he hears the curse but discloses nothing. Proverbs 29:24. “The gauntlet lies buried near the doughboy. Your nurdy metal detector will find it for you, LITTLE TOY! Directions show time and place you cease to steal, from all that are righteous that are real; then all good Memphians hear Brandon scream, “OYE!!!”. Spit, and sputum; verbal tirades, lies and rhetorical jibberish will no longer be heard nor tolerated. They will watch as evil subsides. The lovely couple are now walking into the graciosly given “Sonrise” to the thunderous applause of their fans, followers and family, extremely happy for all of eternity!!!
I’m beginning to think that almost every post in this thread from the past month at least, both for and against Saks, was written by the same person. Someone with about a third grade education (judging by the grammar) who is such a raging homophobe that they almost have to be a closet case. Anyone care to make a guess?
Your inability to detect sarcasm is entirely unsurprising.
Shhhhhhhhh!!! You have been forewarned!!! Don’t wake Samson!!! He is now as Mt. St. Helen. Remember what happened when she was awakened? I wouldn’t go there.
“Memphis In May” and “Memphis Rain” by Sandy Carroll.
Peace , Love , and Happy Times…
Samson’s toys are still in hock. The party’s over. His seasons pass to Universal City is revoked and his ex-wife left him for a redneck bar owner with HIV. Poor Samson, blinded by the light. Remember, Delilah ratted him out.
By golly, I actually, did. Thanks for the addendum, Bell.
Visit this website True Blood:
It’s for you and your welfare chiseling spouse.
http://jamierenae.com/
Seriously, David, you’re making a fool of yourself. Why don’t you go add yourself to Wikipedia instead? Oh, wait…
Jake is secretly in love with David. He’s trying to cover his tracks by requesting penitence from someone who actually makes sense in this lame-assed blog.
David
You need to tell all your fat jokes to Cindy Underwood…. I’m sure she will love all of them.
Interesting fantasy, David. I wonder what Dr. Freud would say about it? And I see that once again you replied to me in under fifteen minutes. You really do sit at your computer all day reloading this page over and over, don’t you? Have you been waiting by the metaphorical phone hoping to hear from me again?
If I were gay I wouldn’t feel the need to
‘cover my tracks’ about it. You know why? Because the only people who I’d need to hide it from are tiny-minded neanderthals like you. Nobody cares anymore what morons like you say about their sexuality or anything else. You’re irrelevant. Get used to it.
Jake you are one BAMF….you tell the truth so well…
Fat chicks never give up…they fade away and their blubber is used to power small towns in Mississippi.
Dr.Freud would say that your a paranoid schizophrenic and need to take your medication, Jake. Me so horny…me love you long time, David.
Dr.Freud would say that your a fat chick, Jake, pretending to be a dude and a paranoid schizophrenic that idolizes Norman Bates, and that you need to take your drugs.
Me so horny, David…me love you long time, baby…
To Brandon: Do not leave the station. Do not get in your little red corvette. Do not go home. This is it!!! My orders are being fed to me from God. In approximately one hour you will receive the information on your fate. There is good news and there is bad news. Now, here is the good news but unfortunately this is the only news I have for you. Leave Memphis asap. May God have mercy. Good riddance. Do not try to adjust your set. However, you have dug your own grave. It was done by yours and only your volition. This is not a sad day for everyone you have tried to bring down in your 58 years, Brandon!!! Your self-imposed fate and future and your own bio was written all by you and by you alone. No longer will you hurt any of those that you told you loved. You lied, lied, lied! Heretofore, there will be nothing coming from your mouth nor brain; only deny, deny, deny!!!…….. …….. ad nauseum …….. p.s., message will arrive at approximately the aforementioned time of one, maybe four, maybe six hours. You will not sleep.
Could it be that Cuthwaite’s IP address is in Missouri ? Could this be so ???? Foul, wretched, imposter !!! It appears information technology has smelled and sniffed out a sewer rat named Cuthwaite !!! Hmmmm…odd….I believe young Mister Brandon needs to be made aware of your declaration of an intention or determination to inflict harm upon him…immediately…and indeed, likewise does yon revered constable in yon remote county in the hills.
Methinks young Cuthwaite shall be carried to yon hoosegow forthwith within a fortnight. Farewell wretched changeling. Aye, take care you’ve bail for the bondsman, and lots of it, yon mortal of subnormal intellect.
The D.A. has all of the evidence needed to do all of the exact opposite of which you bander, you, Brandon,….an entity with no friends, fans,……nor posse! 12 police reports, eyewitness accounts, e-mails, audio and video, (can’t copy a respectable politician on state owned property without their consent; Samson has a copy; he cannot put his signature on a federal document to obtain a handgun carrier’s permit and not inform them that he that been institutionalized for mental instability), will prove that the one finger you point at Nobleman Samson has three fingers on Brandon’s tiny little hand pointing immediately into his crying, guilty eyes! And now, chef; consume all that you have been cooking in your cauldron for the past 5 years!……………Alas Poor Man!………the lights fadeout;….the cockroaches recede into their basement………Samson sleeps beside his lovely wife as the watchmen and bodyguards apply Bengal to the lower portion of his mansion. Samson sleeps well with his beloved in anticipation of his 1000th hit about Memphis. God bless the U.S.A.!!!!!!!!
You can’t handle the press. You can’t take away from a man who you have already stolen from, ………everything he worked diligently and with integrity his entire life. No longer will Cuthwaithe protect YOU (whether from neighborhood bullies nor d.j.’s nor yourself. Get another “SUCKER”!!! This fish will never bite on your lure or be caught in your net. Cuthwaithe will remain a fisher of real “MEN”!!! “NO GUTS, NO GLORY”……………………(copies of this site from the start to: “THE END”.)
Ditto, Bonnie. Congrats Georgette !!!
Bradley said:
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Someone prepare his pablum before he cries again.
Joe Walsh years ago lived in Memphis. The James Gang released their first album in the 70’s with a song by the name of “Funk 48″; then came Funk 49″, probably the most well known of Joe’s writings. That was (the album) entitled “Rides Again”. Was there any reference to Memphis in his work? Yes, there was! A song titled ” All Night Laundromat Blues” was conceived by him after an incident that happened at a laundry on Cooper and near Madison and what used to be Overton Square. It was about him trying to bum an extra quarter or more from yours truly after stepping out of his stretch limo at said location at about 1:30 a.m. D.k. if it was recorded at Ardent Studio on Madison or not, however it WAS about Memphis. For some reason or another, my friend and I saw him at Le Chardonet two weeks later. My friend and I played a game of ”liar’s poker and beat him out of $340.00 but he and his bouncer said they were broke. I said that it was o.k., and “never mind; your music inspired me so much that our friends got together and now play a lot of your tunes. He then recognized me and gave me back the 75 cents I had given him. He then told me about the “laundromat” tune. Said it was inspirational because it reminded him of, in his words,” a boneheaded geek that interviewed him at one of the local radio stations called Rock 103. “What’s your favorite tune I recorded?” Of course I sad Funk 49, then “The Bomber”. Fyi, read the lyrics closely; they will “rock” your world!
Detective work? Sure. You do know, I hope, that nobody here believes you can see what IP address anyone else on this page is posting from. When you keep claiming that you can, you just make yourself sound like an idiot.
Here’s some ‘detective work’ – you’re still giving yourself away. I know you’re trying harder now, but there is still one very distinctive and glaring rhetorical trait that is very clearly branding most of your more vocal alter-egos as being the work of a single individual, the same Saks-obsessed person who’s been stalking and harassing strangers on the internet for years. See if you can find it. Here’s a hint – it’s something you’re doing to try to make yourself sound smarter.
In 1988 I was at the Bayou Bar and Grille having a beer with Joe Walsh. I had just gotten there on my Harley FXLC1200. Joe was at the bar next to the jukebox waiting for me. When I sat down he began telling me about this project of his that involved the restoration of a Collins S-Line Single Side Band Amateur radio station and wanted to know what I would do to substitute defective rf chokes and if we could dissipate heat from the chassis with a selenium rectifier. His KWM-2 power input was 175 watts PEP on SSB or 160 watts on CW. It transmits on voice or CW with a nominal output of 100 watts for complete coverage on 80 through 10 meters. Crystals are provided for all HF bands except 10 meters where one crystal is supplied with provision for two additional crystals. I explained to Joe that an external variable frequency oscillator would be a useful accessory and substitue the position of a fixed crystal oscillator. Joe has an amateur radio license, and advanced class license issued by the FCC and he enjoys the hobby more than the guitar, so he should know something about being a ‘bone headed geek’ since it take one to know one. His license is WB6ACU and here’s the proof:
Go to Http://qrz.com and type wb6acu in the search box in the top left corner.
I have an extra class license, so Joe listened.
Rock our world with another enlightening and informative story which highlights your pathologically egoist, conceited, name-dropping encounters. Bomb away !
Could it be that he’s smarter when he ignores you, Jake the Snake ? It’s clearly evident that your a bit jocund for Davey’s orbs. Go wash the jizz out of your mouth, or your baited breath will only get you the bollocks, one of the two male reproductive glands that produce and secrete androgens that you so richly deserve. ooooh, Jakey, what are waiting for ????
Could it be that you just did it again?
Could it be that your a pathetic, boring loser, Jake ?
Could be. Probably not, though. Seems more likely that the person spewing page upon page of incoherent abuse at strangers from the safety of a computer keyboard is the loser, although ‘boring’ isn’t the word I’d use. What you do is… ‘interesting’. Very, very ‘interesting.’
But it shouldn’t surprise me. Wikipedia actually had to program their site to prevent you from adding David Saks and his songs to it, because you just can’t take ‘you’re nuts’ for an answer. It’s too bad About.com hasn’t taken the same steps.
Go Jake!! Go Jake!! Go Jake!!! Go!!!! Ha Ha ha!!!
So right, Jake the Anon, bollocks gargling grump, mister clandestine, behind your cheap japanese cyber toy, with your irksome sputum, because you dislike Saks, an awesome musical genius. Uninteresting little dweeb. Your a festering mental midget and a monument to stupidity, Jake, A dog turd has more sense than you and Dexter have combined. Do you really expect your delusional and incoherent ramblings to be
read, or that anyone gives a flit about what you think ? There’s enough crawling around Wikipedia about Davey to make the hacks that trashed the entries about him look like the morons they live up to, in like fashion as everyone plonked you off the screen long ago. Hee-Haw’s too deep for you and Dexter, Jakey. If you didn’t have this blog to troll there’d be a warrant for your arrest for obscene phone calling. On a good day you and Dexter might be considered half-wits.
Your meta-stupid Jakey, and beat down, bandy legged hobo.
You are the, Man, Arnie. You beat those morons into fine powder…YAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH…Go Arnie, GO !!!!
Vote for Dave…you kick butt…Arnie….Jakey had to have his jaw wired after that one….
Wikipedia has no way of recognizing expert knowledge over inexpert knowledge. The members with most authority are the ones who spent the most time working on Wikipedia. Their “knowledge” is often just a combination of Google plagiarism and prejudice. Saks deserved that entry and two members, Jersyko, a law student at the University of Memphis, and Vary, a theater student, ganged up on the original introduction of the material because the contributor wanted to include a photo of Mr.Saks with Jerry Lee Lewis and they didn’t want it on the page. More than sufficient evidence was provided by the government to substantiate the authors claims about the songs which were adopted in unanimous council resolutions.
Wikipedia entries are meant to be “notable” – but only Wikipedia’s (self-appointed) editors think so.
In general, the lack of any required standard of writing, error-checking and fact-checking means that many Wikipedia entries are poorly-written and contain factual inconsistencies supported by hackers who troll that vain, anserine platform. I was an editor from the origin and left because of the incompetence that resides there.
Why didn’t they like Jerry Lee Lewis ? Because he married his cousin, or believed that Saks was too good to be in a photo with him ? Or vice versa ? Sounds like they wanted to know about Saks and it got ugly over a photo. Really immature. Wikipedia is lame.
I’ve heard that most college classes, nationwide, won’t accept footnotes that reference it.
You were an ‘editor from the origin’ and you just happened to show up this morning when the deletion of the “Official Songs of Memphis” from Wikipedia came up? Suuuuure…
Okay, so it was alllll a big conspiracy. David Saks is completely different from all the non-notable Garage bands and wannabes who are deleted from Wikipedia every day. Never mind that even his one-person fan club couldn’t find any more published information about him than a couple of tiny human interest pieces in the Commercial Appeal.
You are, indeed, relatively slow in your mental and emotional development, Jake Sam, and really have a hard-on for Davey. It’s becoming a morbid, diseased arousal, isn’t it Jake/Sam ? Come now, Sammy, Jake or whoever you are; are we just a wee bit suspicious or unduly fearful of being displaced by a rival of whom pitifully outclasses you 1000 to 1 ? Showing extreme cupidity, and that your painfully desirous of his’s advantages, makes our man look very handsome, and you sir/madam… well, er uh, very, very stupid.
By the way, Mr.Saks has quite a number of fans at the University of Memphis, and in his hometown. But of course your psych-delusional and self-aggrandizing ideal, existing only in your turbulently immature and diseased mind that Mr.Saks has no support, is not surprising at all for such a a supernatural creature (dwarf/troll) as yourself that sleeps in caves or in the mountains, or behind the monitor, and is grumply awakened by the name of David Saks. Please excuse me if I ignore you Jake/Sam. I’m certain that Mr.Saks will, as well. You may return to your bridge now, Jake/Sam.
Yahhh !!! You knocked his yarbles in the dirt, ‘For Jake Sam’. That moron Jake is one of those wiki censors. His teeth were knocked out. Those imbeciles never learn. Maybe the dentist can fix his teeth later after he cleans his pee stained bedspread.
Great to see so many people in here on Sunday morning rootin’ for Dave !!!
I saw Saks last night at that restaurant he hangs out at after his show. The dude had an impressive entourage with him and this great looking chick buried in his neck. Somebody told me she used to be Greg Allman’s girlfriend. People were coming over to the table and telling him how much they dig his show. There were musicians, students, topless dancers from a club down the street and all kinds of people hanging out. It was great ! Saks is ok…leave him alone, man. His red Corvette is unbelievable ! They should call it a Whorvette because of all the chicks that were slung all over it on the parking lot.
Okay, sweetie, all the people who don’t agree with you must all be the same person. Everyone loves David Saks except that one guy, and the only reason Davey’s not world-famous is that, uh, that one guy is jealous of him. Or something.
I love that you’ve got the nerve to drop an insult to the English language like ‘his’s’ and then call someone else stupid, though. Stop copy-pasting your insults out of the dictionary, dear. It really doesn’t make you look smart. Really. Also it’s plagiarism.
Ah, the threats of violence at last. You’re really ‘on’ today, aren’t you?
Sure, ‘his’s’ was a typo. I believe you. Really. But what about your constant misuse of the word ‘your?’ And you know the words you find up in the thesaurus don’t always mean precisely the same thing as the word you looked up, right? When you replace a word you know with a word the internet tells you means the same thing, us intelligent adults can tell. And we laugh at you.
What about your constant misuse of your own neural structure situated above the medulla oblongata and beneath the cerebrum, Jakey ? Sounds like there’s a festering tumor in there somewhere. A product of inflammation of the mouth the result of force blunt trauma.
“Blunt Force Trauma”
I know where David is, too. My sweet baby’s sleeping. He has his radio show at midnight. I’ll be listening to my good lookin’ man, if you read this baby…but it’ll get shuffled and lost.
I think it’s time for the real Rhonda Jones to receive a phone call. David was arrested for STALKING Rhonda Jones! I think he is stalking her again…Maybe he never stopped stalking her. Leave the poor woman alone.
The best is yet to come tonight. It will be fine. Posse’s here and the whorevette, they’ll make it mine. Got any gum?
Shame on you, Jimmy.
Wow, this conversation has certainly turned in an ugly direction. Let’s try to stay on track here, folks. If you want to debate the validity of a particular song or songwriter, that’s perfectly fine. Let’s just keep it civil. Remember that when you post a comment, you agree not to post anything unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, profane, hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable material of any kind.
On a brighter note, the official list of songs about Memphis has grown to 971 songs. I included the link in the blog post above.
Yeah, right on, Teresa R. Simpson, blog cop extraodinaire ! Are you a wannabe writer ? If the same song is recorded by 12,000 people that’s a list of artists that recorded it. Not a verifiable single entry that includes a reference to Memphis, like “Honky Tonk Women” which you included seven times, or “Memphis’ by Chuck Berry, included sixty times.
In spite of all of your effort, remember this, wannabe writer…
ONLY TWO SONGS WERE EVER ADOPTED AND RECOGNIZED as the OFFICIAL SONGS OF MEMPHIS by the MEMPHIS CITY COUNCIL in “UNANIMOUS” Memphis City Council resolutions, EVER…the first on May 22, 1990 during the Memphis in May Celebration. And that song was:
“One Last Bridge” by David Saks.
And don’t stop there Teresa R.
Another honor for young Mr.Saks was bestowed eight months later by the Memphis City Council on
January 24, 1991 with the, once again, “unanimous’ adoption of his second song as an “Official Song of Memphis” entitled:
“In Memphis”.
If you can find others we’d appreciate your erudition, your profound scholarly knowledge and hard work.
I’m sure the Memphis City Council secretary would be glad to confirm that for starts.
However, I don’t think young Mr.Saks would give a crap one way or the other whether you include them on your list of hobos, beggars, theives and plagiarists who couldn’t play for spare change at the Greyhound Bus terminal.
By the way, write a book on how to murder a blog with crappy, predjudiced entries. You should know. And should seek friends as a Wikipedia editor.
Agreed, and good point. She should only have included any notable song written about Memphis and it’s original composer. Nice call.
She included recorded and distributed songs, too, from all of the people who were known to record it. That’s what she intended to do. She should still include Saks because of the history behind it, but she probably doesn’t consider YouTube a form of distribution, or whether or not he gave away his stuff. Who cares ? It’s a lame subject.
I love the song Walking in Memphis by Marc Cohn!
Teresa R. can do what she wants to.
It’s her blog and she can cry if she wants to
Cry if she wants to
Cry if she wants to
You would cry too if it happens to yoooohoooo…..
“I Belong to Memphis” was another song that Saks wrote. Here’s the link to it for Teresa R.:
http://davidsaks.8m.com/belong.html
I’ll go on record as saying that I absolutely love David Saks. He could teach the amateurs on my show a thing or two, by golly.
Why the hostility, I Love David Saks? Don’t shoot the messenger. It is not MY list of songs about Memphis. It is was distributed by the Memphis Rock n Soul Musuem–as you would see for yourself if you were to actually read the list (the link is above).
Although I am, in fact, a writer, I do not claim to be an authority on music or musicians–local or otherwise. I simply shared an interesting link with my readers.
Perhaps you would do better to take up your grievances with the authors of the list (who really are authorities on the subject).
I know that mgmt. got on you before last nights show…12 – 6 am. You began erasing when you left. Didn’t work. All has been copied. Preparation, i.e..,,et al. Jeff does’nt acknowledge your contact. I know him well. Have a nice day!
I know that mgmt. got on you before last nights show…12 – 6 am. You began erasing when you left. Didn’t work. All has been copied. Preparation, i.e..,,et al. Jeff does’nt acknowledge your contact. I know him well. Have a nice day!
Wow! They had to say that twice!
I’m trying to help the man, Teresa, so forgive me for fluffing your plumes. You don’t indicate who the editor of the list is, so presumably they were your entries. The only thing the authorities at the Rock and Soul museum are authorities on is how to screw the city council out of taxpayer money for these boring Uncle Tom film documentaries and minstrel presentations that usually depict some old, toothless, Sugar Shack dwelling negro lost somewhere in a cotton patch in Leflore County Mississippi with a six string guitar with only four strings that work, who can play ‘Mammy’s Little Baby Like’s Shortnin’ Bread’ all day long with an endless stream of cheap wine warble, chant and some unintelligible, nonstandard form of American English spoken by poor blacks in the deep south who can’t afford dental prosthetics. These people not only insult African Americans, but they’re offensive to everybody, decent musicians, too.
The Soul Museum chiselers think they can derive untold sums of wealth from the Douglas and Catherine McArthur Foundation or the National Endowment for the Arts with their so-called pseudo-interest in Southern folk arts. The only thing those scammers are interested in is your tax dollar, not music, as evidenced by that cheap shot at yanking your heart strings by way of your wallet with that early twentieth century out house black and white photograph of that poor black child in front of a wind up Victrola on their home page.
Watch what you say about black people!
That’s not how it happened at all. Here we go again! The letters that were sent to Saks were not psycho letters. They were nice letters asking Saks to stop stalking his beautiful wife. She is the most beautiful woman I have ever met in my life. I just had lunch with her the other day and she never looked better. She is a very nice person. Saks never tried to help her. She does not need his help anyway. What is wrong with you David Saks. Your not happy until all your ex’s rest in pieces. Your Sick.
Rhonda and Dave need medical attention. Sounds like a mad lover…
You need to get a grip Simpson, and let the truth be known if your going to allow the comments of Hung(or Dung) and black guy to insult. I read Rhonda’s reply to Renee and it was awesome. That dude, Jimmy’s (aka hung or dung) a nutbag and hurting her. Play fair, Simpson and remove all of the negative and offensive entries.
@ I Love David Saks — Negative comments are fine, offensive ones are being deleted. I have no bias here and will happily leave your comments in place so long as they meet About.com’s guidelines.
Memphis is great. Lot’s of talent here. Is this blog about music?
I think the comments on 178 are offensive please remove Ms Simpson. Who is posting such statements. They just do not sound true. How does any of this have anything to do with Memphis music.
Even your own mother would call David every other day and plead with him to help her get you out of her house because she was afraid of you. She’s in a nursing home, sick and lost everything.
ps…the Shelby, Tampa and Hillsborough sheriff have a folder on you, too, bubba.
BAMA’s the ex and can’t handle the truth. Rhonda nailed that reject. She must really love Saks to got to all this trouble to expose that fool.
“….go to all this trouble…” before the boring Jake/Sam English 101 class begins.
How do you know so much about David, Rhonda ?
What is goining on? Who are you? Sounds like personal issues
I love David. He knows that I’m taking up for him. He’s seen this blog and doesn’t want anything to do with it. I slam that loser with his blessings. He’s on the speaker phone with me so I can type and tell him what that pathetic loser’s lying about next, and he can see the blog on his netbook at the university.
All he does is laugh about it. I wish he’d take it more seriously and realize what an insane stalker and a fool that dude is.
It sounds like Rhonda is David Saks. He sounds so nasty.
Saks would never give a poop about this lame blog. Stop prevaricating. That dude your slaughtering, Rhonda, has a life that’s a monument to stupidity. You won. Stop kicking him while he’s down. You obviously have a personal grudge against that imbecile, other than what he may have done to Saks.
Have you heard the Song,
“Memphis is Mishugga” by
Bernie Moische from the Shtetl ?
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Memphis is Mishugga
So go and pick a bugga
And wipe it on the chair
And not in Zayde’s hair
How about the Memphis Music!! Saks’ music is out. I’m referring to real Memphis Music.
Saks never loved anyone more than he loved her, Rhonda. He fought for her. He’s a fine person and a gentleman. I’ve known him a long time and know how much he loved her. He’d ruin anyone who hurt her, and did. He doesn’t come across as a bad ass on the outside, but he’s not someone I’d want to pick a fight with, or insult his girlfriend. You’d never see him coming when suddenly your floor’s yanked out from under your feet. I was in Alpha Tau Omega with David. Just some friendly advice. He’s still waiting for her, and I don’t want to hurt your feelings. He suffered without her. Maybe I shouldn’t tell you this, so be prepared if she ever comes back to him. He would never give her up. He enrolled in business classes at the University so he could deal with it and take his mind off of it, but he’ll never get over her.
D.S.: You have always been ”My King” sitting atop of the throne of ALL of Memphis!!! How I ever let Rhonda take your heart away from me I will NEVER understand!!! I will always love you but I am ashamed of myself for ever letting her take you away from me! Forgive me please. I am embarrassed! I cannot reveal my identity because of my error in judgement. I will cherish in my heart those high school days; maybe then you’ll remember those times and me. I am far away now but I’ve been following your site. “THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES”!!!
Love, Always, Babe
I doubt that Saks cares whether she comes back or not from the looks of the chick he was with Saturday at the coffee shop. She seemed to be real pleased when she got back in his Vette. They looked like they had other plans that didn’t include the people they were hanging out with.
He sounded pretty cheerful on his show this morning.
;-x
Get real, Manny. Saks dedicates songs to her all the time on his show. You listen to his show. Your a trumpet player in Jack’s band. Get real dude. You know he’ll never be in love with anyone else. All he does is live and breathe her memory. He’s a basket case because he loves her like he does, and she loves him, too, man. He was probably taking that chick, who was probably just a friend of his, back to her crib after they had dinner. I seriously doubt that he’s ever had another woman in the hay because of the way he alludes to her on his show all the time. He’s a class act and in love with her, unlike her ex, who’s a crass act. I know that she’s great looking and has blue eyes that would kill you because I’ve heard Saks talk about her. No wonder he loves her. She obviously was good to him and made his life great.
Dance Like Nobody Is Watching
We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get
married, have a baby, then another. Then we are frustrated that the kids aren’t old enough and we’ll be more content when they are. After that we’re frustrated that we have teenagers to deal with. We will certainly be happy when they are out of that stage. We tell ourselves that our life will be complete when our spouse gets his or her act together, when we get a nicer car, are able to go on a nice vacation, when we retire.
The truth is , there’s no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when?
Your life will always be filled with challenges. It’s best to admit this to yourself and decide to be happy anyway. Alfred D. Souza said, “For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a dept to be paid, Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.”
This perspective has helped me to see that there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So, treasure every moment that you have. And treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time… and remember that time waits for no one…
So stop waiting until you finish school, until you go back to school, until you lose ten pounds, until you gain ten pounds,
until you have kids, until your kids leave the house, until you start work, until you retire, until you get married, until you get divorced, until Friday night, until Sunday morning, until you get a new car or home, until your car or home is paid off
until spring, until summer, until fall, until winter, until you are off welfare, until the first or fifteenth, until your song comes on, until you’ve had a drink, until you’ve sobered up, until you die, until you are born again to decide that there is no better time than right now to be happy…
Happiness is a journey, not a destination.
Author: Crystal Boyd, from the book: “Midnight Muse.”
;-x XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
“Lahf is lahk a baux of chaukolauts. Yoo nauver no whot yur gwanna git”
Love,
Forass
He’ll play you like a piano, baby ! Music in those mink bound hands, set free to set your soul on fire ! Sweet symphony….go Dave…
Same source, same trash……..
Alash is the same hoarse, same gnash….
jealous flit boy
Same source, same trash.
Boring dead horse, Broke out in a rash
Jake/Sam…the whiny, contrite, broke, busted, poor, solitary troll…
You really do believe that everyone in this thread who isn’t you is me, don’t you? You’re nuts. I guess it makes a twisted sort of sense – there’s only you making positive comments about Saks under dozens of different names, so it must only be one person disagreeing with you.
More talk of physical harm? At least I didn’t get a few dozen posts deleted for acting like a violent, hateful lunatic. How about trying to make a case for your unpublished songs making the list? Oh, wait, you can’t because they don’t belong there. So sad.
Saks’ll be at the University tonight at 8 playing the piano. Why don’t go by and say hello to him, Jake, and introduce yourself, since your such an important fan and crucial influence on the popular culture that appreciates him ? He’s personable, friendly and won’t hurt you, although you really should let him know that your coming so he can get a vaccination for rabies well in advance of your arrival, or maybe alert campus police.
Saks’ songs aren’t in the list Jake/Sam the Snake because they have to be submitted by someone first.
Why don’t you do Davey the honors and ask the webmaster to call the City Council Secretary like you did when you trolled Wikipedia ? Looks like Dave’s music is all over the net:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=%27david+saks+memphis%27&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=Cn_cK7CmZTP7UIYWWhgSRl8Q_AAAAqgQFT9DXrxE
Same source, same trash. Play to yourself. You will have no audience, as usual.
Jake the Snake’s still not convinced, Bertha. Let’s hit him again:
http://www.bing.com/search?q=%27david+saks+memphis%27&form=QBLH&qs=n&sk=&sc=1-19
….you go girl !!!
A Lash is a stalker chick….warning Saks…she wants you…
Same theme, torture fiend.
Harris Auditorium is sacred ground! PLEASE, don’t try to insult “The Music of Memphis” by walking into it. Campus police will most certainly throw you out!
I’m not in this trash bash
try to be happy everyone…
Same source, same trash. Absolutely nothing of value comes from multi-personality individuals. Seek out professional help. Please leave this site at once, and its author. Memphis Music is embarrassed by your lame attempts to create a self imposed followers and or a fan club. You have none of your music played over the airwaves of any media in the USA, nor Billboard, nor do you have ANYTHING on the charts. Plagerism is a crime. You,ll do time.
I would get front row seats to see the world infamous “David Sacks” if he were on campus at the U of M. Security informed me that he is not to be found anywhere on the site nor is he playing tonight. They don’t even know who he is! I,m here now. Where is Mr.? Saks??? Probably clickin’ away on his best fiend, the laptop.
He’s not at Harris. He’s here at Jones Hall. A Lash is a liar and stalking the guy. She’s the chick he broke up with. Besides, if she showed up campus security would escort her off the campus in a squad car. Chick’s insane.
Been reading all this interesting material about David Saks.
I actually know that he’s been in and out of the radio station at the Universtiy of Memphis for many years and that the university considers him a fixture. I found a page that the University of Memphis has and a bio about him thru the memphis.edu site, http://www.memphis.edu/wumr/profile_saks.php
Something that might interest you is that the Unversity of Memphis fight song, “Go Tigers Go”, was written by a flute instructor and woodwind professor at the university, then Memphis State, in the early 1960’s or 1950’s, the late Dr.Frederick LeBrani, not Tom Fergusson as some believe. Dr.LeBrani never received a dime for his effort and is all but forgotten now. He wrote other music demonstrating his reverence for the university. If you ask most anyone ‘who wrote the Tiger’s fight song’ they couldn’t tell you.
David is possessed of that kind of humility.
ps….’Go Tigers Go’ isn’t in the list either.
Nice call U of M prof. Saks was really a damned great piano player once upon a time and worked here at Rock103 for three years. He’s about mediocre as a piano player at best these days because he doesn’t play anywhere, except for friends. He needs to modify that attitude and practice. Some of his youtube stuff is good. Not all, but some. He’s a real estate broker too, and been with the same company for years and also works for some real estate school as a webmaster as an unpaid courtesy because the man who runs the place is a retired Navy fighter pilot who’s a good friend of Saks’. He’s also enrolled in classes at U of M in the college of business and finance and taking upper level real estate courses. He’s a good dude ! Smart ! Never seen him with a bad lookin’ lady.
I introduced him to Rhonda about nine years ago. So if he reads this he’ll know who’s sleuthing. Watch your schmeckle Davie ! We’re keepin’ an eye on you, man ! Because you were good to us, we’ll be good to you ! Although you might want to hurt me for introducing you to Rhonda
MEDIOCRE ??? Are you nuts ? He’s great, Rock103. He ought to waste you for introducing him to Rhonda. He’s a broker but doesn’t sell homes…only does I.T., fair housing stuff and education. Sad for the music scene. Guess he got bummed out with it. The comments from the subnormal intellects above my post are the proof why. Post rings like Dan or Bad Dog from the Wake Up Crew. But more likely Bad Dog.
I’ve got very Happy Feet because of my sweet, handsome man, and love his cookies, too. ooooooh…..
“GO TIGERS GO”
More proof….
Enjoy this link:
http://www.musicdish.com/mag/index.php3?id=11915
Scroll down to the header which says, “Tommy Ruble”.
He’s the late, guitarist and vocalist who recorded and distributed “One Last Bridge”. The music commission is planning a star on Beale Street in his memory.
To quote from the header:
“In 1980, Tommy Ruble would receive The Memphis Song of the Year Award for “Swinging Down in Memphis Town,” The Memphis Press Top Male Vocalist for 1981, and in 1991, selected to be the vocalist on “One Last Bridge,” the official song of Memphis.”
A few unscrupulous individuals in this forum have an insatiable appetite for substantiation to the extreme, which is essentially, to a greater extent, tantamount to avarice, much more so than unselfishness, evidenced by their characteristic lack of maturity
I was recently informed of this site. I will contact Jimmy asap concerning the vile repetitions of the character of Jimmy. Someone, Saks most likely, has repeatedly bashed a good man with whom I played drums in his groups beginning back in 1965. On and off we have gotten together up until 1991 when his wife and child were killed by a drunk driver convicted of 2 counts of vehicular manslaughter and sentenced to 40 years in prison in Cleveland, Miss., His 15 year old son was with him awaiting the return of his former wife and 9 year son to celebrate the 15 year olds birthday. It was December 21. The wife died at the scene at 5:35 pm. His 9 year old was declared brain dead at 8: 30 am Christmas morning. Jimmy signed away to Mid-South Transplant Fund five organs and 2 corneas. He will never get over it. WHO POSSIBLY COULD??? He had to go back to work the day after the funeral. Only by the grace of God could he do this. Our band broke up. He did sit ins a few years later but he and I haven’t talked since then. I will call him soon. He has been a professional and ethical guitarist. He has represented Memphis Music and paid his dues. Much, much more later. Ever get a chance to play with Marcus Vanstory, our manager & well know rockabilly upright bassist and Carl Perkins on stage? HE DID…..and I played drums; Ever be produced by Chips Moman at American Studio? HE DID! Leave him alone. We might just get together and do the 1000th Memphis tune this year. I’ll call him tonight if I can get in touch. Let’s not let Ms. Simpson down! Promote her sight and dignify you city.
: ) : ) : ) : ) : ) : )
You guys need your own insult blog.
Have your psychiatrist change your medication at once! What you are taking now is just not working, Rhythm. Broken hearted couldn’t play jacks in anyones band. Once again you can’t stay on the subject. “Can’t do it: won’t do it: never will: not prudent, not at this juncture.” Standing at the bottom barking up his tree. That’s where you’ll stay: that’s where you’ll always be. Memphis music… checkmate!
No back problems, mate.
Chips Moman was that dude who got run out of Memphis on a rail after he stole a million bucks from taxpayers to start this bogus recording studio downtown at Linden and Third Street, around 1990, in Memphis called “Three Alarm Studios”, named so because it was in an old, abandoned firehouse. Some dude named Jim Dickinson took over after Moman fled and the place got cleaned out. Is that the Jim your talking about ?
Moman used part of the money to bankroll that phony “Class of 55″ bash at the Peabody so he could divvy the loot up with his American Studio buds, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Lewis, Cash, the other rednecks, and Belz.
An audit was never conducted after Moman left town.
Ringo Starr sued Moman. Moman was a chiseler.
Moman’s penalty was exile from Memphis.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/jul/13/unsung-chips-moman/
and another ….
http://beatlesbook.blogspot.com/2010/08/ringo-in-court-by-ringo-starr.html
to quote:
“…an album recorded with US producer Chips Moman in 1987 was abandoned when sessions were blighted by excessive imbibing. Starr then underwent highly-publicized treatment at an alcohol rehabilitation clinic with his wife, actress Barbara Bach…”
and another….
http://www.delta.ro/beatles/cv/ringo.html
All you need is love….yeah, right….
Don’t Worry Be Happy!
What a sick, sad person you are. You’re making wild accusations about identifiable people now, and that’s over the line. Hurling abuse at a username is one thing; unfounded accusations of misappropriation of funds against a real life name are quite another. You should know that some of the things you’re posting about other people are straight-up libel. “I don’t like David Saks’s music” or “‘One Last Bridge’ doesn’t belong on the list” are not libel. “This person is a criminal” when there’s no absolutely no evidence, let alone an arrest or a court case, is. So stop accusing people of embezzlement unless you can back up your claims properly.
It is not making you look any less pathetic and bitter. It’s also not making your case for including those songs on that list, so none of it even belongs here. Grow up and go make some fliers or something. Insulting people on the internet isn’t going to get those songs published.
“TOUCH’E” …. WOW
Wrong-o. Nice try, though. I’m not ‘Ace’, I’m not a criminal, and I’m clearly not the unbalanced one here.
But again, what does any of this have to do with the question at hand?
It sounds like you just wrote a good Memphis song Whale!! Now you need to learn how to sing.
It goes without saying that the comments here have strayed very far from the topic at hand. With that in mind, I opened up a thread in the forum for continued discussion on this topic. Please visit the forum here: http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=1&nav=messages&webtag=ab-memphis&tid=88.
I want to thank your mother for bringing you into this world. You are a beautiful person inside and out. God blessed you!
Ms.Simpson,
Your thoughtful entries and interesting research into the history of Memphis Music is admirable. Might I suggest that in the interest of fairness, that all of the negative entries, which have no relevancy to your subject, be removed. I truly believe that you’ll do a great service to those who look towards the highly educated side of this fine forum which provides extensive information and understanding of the history behind the music.
Many thanks.
Really is sad that some offensive character is spewing obnoxious filth about David, or anyone else, for that matter. A very disturbed person would likely
post in such manner. The admin should remove entry (226). Nasty stuff, really ! Leave your garbage in the alley in the dumpster. Not here. You obviously feel that an anonymous assembly would give you the endoresments you need to support your accusations.
This forum is for others interested in Memphis Music. Not rejected ex girlfriends or others who reek with anger and hostility. This is not the place for allegations of infidelity and criminal intent. There are plenty of forums that have support groups to meet your needs.
It’s obvious U of M Prof. Is David Saks. Your style gives you away. You’ve been told this over and over.
Are you kidding me ? This blog is definitely made for lackeys, trolls, sycophants and toadies like Jake and Ace. Nobody listens to them.
How can “obnoxious filth about David Sacks” and the murder of an innocent 9 year old child and his mother on Christmas even be contained in the same paragraph??? It could only be the work of a psychopathic self-centered egotist with no feelings for the innocent. He beats at the the dead horse believing that if he mutilates it enough it will no longer be identifiable by family and beloved; he truly is a sick man! (reference #226) Memphis music is made stronger by his taunts of this type of irreverence and lack of sympathy. Apples and oranges!
ps……ref 226 for ref 243 for ref 246
243 meant for 226 in 246 thank you!
After removing several inappropriate comments this morning and numerous others in the last few days, I am closing this blog to new comments. That being said, I invite you to civilly join in the conversation over in the forum.
Hope to see you there!