Vernon L. Oickle
Autor von Ghost Stories of the Maritimes
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Vernon Oickle started his journalist career at his hometown newspaper in 1980. He is the award-winning editor of The Bridgewater Bulletin and The Lunenburg Progress Enterprise, Red Sky at Night is his 14th book. His previous books include Ghost Stories of the Maritimes, Angels Here Among Us and the mehr anzeigen novel One Crow Sorrow. He continues to reside in Liverpool and he has been collecting superstitions for most of his life. Knock on wood. weniger anzeigen
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I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who loves country music, ambition, accomplishment, and determination to succeed. Learn how one man accomplished so many dreams. I thought I knew Hank Snow's music, but soon discovered I didn't know much of anything. I knew his voice, but never understood his instrumental skills. Nor did I realize just how many hit songs he wrote that became huge hits for other vocalists of the '40s to '60s in particular, some who were in a completely different genre.
His legacy is not just his music, his fame, nor his name. His legacy includes the societies he set up and backed up for abused children. This, perhaps, was his biggest focus outside of music. As an abused child himself, he wanted to make a difference in the treatment of children. If he could have, he would have ended child abuse. That is how important this was to his life.
Hank Snow began his career as Jack Snow, regardless of the fact that his name was actually Clarence. This is just one of many strange facts scattered throughout this book. I wonder how many people living today remember that he began his career as a trick rider and yodeler. I wonder how many know that he wrote and recorded that still remain as best sellers. Today, in the digital world, this is a man who would have been in the forefront of writing songs for today’s country stars. He has so many awards, accolades, a museum and yearly festival in New Brunswick, where he was born, and inducted into so many Halls of Fame. A man who came from nothing but never gave up his dream. A man whose music goes on today, even 100 years after his birth.… (mehr)