Maybe slightly off-topic but tangentially related: for years, I assumed that "Bye Bye Birdie" was based on the uproar over Elvis Presley getting drafted. More recently, I learned that Conway Twitty was being built up as a rock-and-roll (or maybe rockabilly) star, and rival to Elvis, in the 1950's. Twitty's career was interrupted when he was drafted. He never became as big as Elvis, although he had a following as a country singer in the 1970's. Of course, Conrad Birdie could be a composite of both singers.
Patricia Abbott is the author of more than 125 stories that have appeared online, in print journals and in various anthologies. She is the author of two print novels CONCRETE ANGEL (2015) and SHOT IN DETROIT (2016)(Polis Books). CONCRETE ANGEL was nominated for an Anthony and Macavity Award in 2016. SHOT IN DETROIT was nominated for an Edgar Award and an Anthony Award in 2017. A collection of her stories I BRING SORROW AND OTHER STORIES OF TRANSGRESSION will appear in 2018.
She also authored two ebooks, MONKEY JUSTICE and HOME INVASION and co-edited DISCOUNT NOIR. She won a Derringer award for her story "My Hero." She lives outside Detroit.
Patricia (Patti) Abbott
SHOT IN DETROIT
Edgar Nominee 2017, Anthony nominee 2017
CONCRETE ANGEL
Polis Books, 2015-nominated for the Anthony and Macavity Awards
4 comments:
Great song!!
I'm dreading the end of MAD MEN. There's nothing that can take its place!
Nothing.
Maybe Matt Weiner will come up with a good new series as Vince Galligan did.
Maybe slightly off-topic but tangentially related: for years, I assumed that "Bye Bye Birdie" was based on the uproar over Elvis Presley getting drafted. More recently, I learned that Conway Twitty was being built up as a rock-and-roll (or maybe rockabilly) star, and rival to Elvis, in the 1950's. Twitty's career was interrupted when he was drafted. He never became as big as Elvis, although he had a following as a country singer in the 1970's. Of course, Conrad Birdie could be a composite of both singers.
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