Miniature Horse Driving, Shirley and Elvis Glenn County Fair
squidoo.com Shirley Bartok and her Miniature Horse, Elvis, driving in the Open Country Pleasure Class. Glenn County Fair, Orland, Ca May 2008
Rollie Anderson - The Early Years of a Rock and Roll Dreamer
The Early Years of a Rock and Roll Dreamer
My name is Rollie Anderson. I was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. Oak Cliff, to be exact. For the first thirteen years of my life I was a typical youngster who occupied himself with riding his bike alongside his pseudo-hoodlum neighborhood pals, cursing the fact that he was woefully inept at playing baseball and contemplating the shrouded mystery of pretty girls. I was also wholly addicted to music. All kinds. I used to sneak into my older sister’s bedroom when she was away and listen to her 45s of Elvis, Fats Domino, Fabian, Chuck Berry, Paul Anka and Neil Sedaka; and I would listen religiously to Russ “The Weird Beard” Knight on KLIF on my cigarette pack-sized transistor radio way past my bedtime but that was the extent of my participation in music. I had no innate talent to play an instrument. I was not a gifted prodigy. I was an avid listener, nothing more.
However, once I witnessed the phenomenon that was The Beatles when they performed on The Ed Sullivan Show in February of 1964 I became an “altered” boy. Up till then I had harbored dreams of becoming popular and making a name for myself as a star athlete or at least as an admired member of the prestigious school cheerleading squad. In the case of the former I was too much of a runt and nowhere near being dedicated enough to bulk up by working out. As for the latter I was just not equipped with the necessary charisma or stunning good looks to qualify. Nonetheless, my inner desire to be envied or, at least, accepted continued on unabated.
As mentioned earlier, I’d always enjoyed playing records on the phonograph and would sometimes imitate guitar players by strapping on a tennis racket or acting as if I was conducting an orchestra by standing on a chair in the middle of the living room with Schubert’s “Unfinished Symphony” blaring through the family’s cheap stereo. My mother’s well-intentioned attempt to lure me into becoming a pianist at the young age of eight years old was a failure simply because my overwhelming preference at that stage of development was to be outside playing with my buddies, not practicing scales. However, she was persistent and the lessons she paid good money for lasted about a year before she finally realized that she might as well have flushed her cash down the toilet. In retrospect she did me a huge favor because it gave me a fundamental understanding of music that I would not have gotten otherwise. (Thanks, Mom)
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