What ever happened to...

Subject: What ever happened to...
From: Allan C.
Date: 14 May 98 - 11:13 AM

I just received this piece by email:

Do you know who in 1923 was:

1. President of the largest steel company? 2. President of the largest gas company? 3. President of the New York Stock Exchange? 4. Greatest wheat speculator? 5. President of the Bank of International Settlement? 6. Great Bear of Wall Street?

* These men were considered some of the world's most successful men. At least they found the secret of making money. Now more than 55 years later, let's see what's become of them....

1. The President of the largest steel company, Charles Schwab, died a pauper. 2. The President of the largest gas company, Edward Hopson, is insane. 3. The President of the N.Y.S.E., Richard Whitney, was released from prison to die at home. 4. The greatest wheat speculator, Arthur Cooger, died abroad, penniless. 5. The President of the Bank of International Settlement, shot himself. 6. The Great Bear of Wall Street, Cosabee Rivermore, died of suicide. > * The same year, 1923, the winner of the most important golf championship, Gene Sarazan, won the U.S. Open and PGA Tournaments. Today he is still playing some golf and is solvent.

Moral Of The Story: STOP WORRYING ABOUT BUSINESS AND START PLAYING GOLF! _____________________

I am certain that there are similar health benefits from playing and/or singing folk music. So it made me wonder a little about the longevity of some of the old folkies. I began to play the little mental game of trying to remember whatever happened to certain people I recall from earlier times (although perhaps not as early as 1923). Sure, some passed on as a result of outside forces, like Eddy, I think it was, of Joe and Eddy, who (I was told) was killed in a car wreck in Berkley. But whatever became of Joe? Whatever happened to a bass player named Buckwheat or maybe Buck Wheat who backed up a large number of folk groups during the 60's? Did Dave Guard really go into real estate? I think it would be fun to hear a little useless trivia about such people.

Subject: RE: What ever happened to...
From: Joe Offer
Date: 14 May 98 - 04:28 PM

Well, if I'm correct, Sam Hinton got blacklisted, so he followed his training and worked as a marine biologist at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla, CA. Now he hangs out at rec.music.folk and is a wealth of information. Wish we could draw him over here.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: What ever happened to...
From: Les Blank
Date: 15 May 98 - 10:32 AM

Joe, it nice to hear about ole Sam again. It's been over 23 years since I last saw him. His so-called troubles were at their acme and he had just applied to go back to work at Scripps. He stopped giving concerts (as they are usually defined) and two or three times a month would perform in the public libraries of Anaheim, Fullerton and towns south to the boundary of San Diego. What a great interpreter of traditional music. A memory that I'll cherish forever has to with his old Washburn. During an intermission, I walked over to see it -- a really beautiful old thing. Sam saw me looking and broke away from the group to whom he was talking, and came over. We talked about the guitar and then he invited me to try it. What a sound, even with my cast iron fingers !! Yep Sam was a good'un.

LesBlank

Subject: RE: What ever happened to...
From: Art Thieme
Date: 15 May 98 - 04:29 PM

Sam is with Ballad-List & chimes in every so often. A grand singer, wonderfully tasteful guitarist, has thousands of songs and can immitate the animals in his "Barnyard Song" better than the animals themselves. I've learned many songs from him over the years. Never met him I'm sad to say, but even before this e-mail thing we wrote, over the years, by snailmail.

And the beat goes on...

Subject: RE: What ever happened to...
From: Doctor John
Date: 27 May 98 - 05:32 PM

Russ Pike who appears on a couple of Library of Congress tracks.

Subject: RE: What ever happened to...
From: Jerry Friedman
Date: 28 May 98 - 11:47 AM

Sam Hinton also contributes to alt.usage.english (that's right).