Oh yes, Kris Kristofferson. So many of his songs were big hits for others. Johnny Cash and "Sunday Morning Comin' Down". Always liked that one. And there was one that Willie recorded that was written by Kris that was my favorite but I can't think of the name of it now. It was about making love to a woman, is all I can remember at the moment. If I looked at a list of his songs, I'd know immediately.

Kris was great performing with Johnny Cash, Willie and Waylon as the Highwaymen. I was a letter sorting machine operator at the post office for 26 years (until they took those machines out in 1996 and replaced them with the machines that reads automatically). On the LSMs, a letter would come in front of the operator and then the operator had 6/10 of a second to read it and key it to it's proper destination. Most of the LSM operators had a portable radio/tape player and a headset. So it was usually the above mentioned artists who I listened to the most. I liked that outlaw sound and played them over and over all day, every day for years.

The first year that I worked at the post office, the song that was popular was "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town", by Kenny Rogers. 1969, I believe. Anyhow, clerks would walk by me saying, "Going to town tonight, Ruby?"

Elizabeth, I envy your husband's aunt, being at a party thrown for Waylon!!!! I'm soooo jealous. I had such a crush on him.

Everybody at work knew I loved Waylon. I wore Waylon T-shirts all the time. They also knew that I was very straight laced so, when he was arrested for possession of cocaine, my coworkers all wanted to be first to let me know.
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Simba, Samantha, Katrina & KatyKatt
Meow!! Meow!! Meow!! Meow!!

How wonderful to do nothing and then rest afterwards. Meow!

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