RIP to Michael Jackson and other Entertainers of my Youth
Friday, June 26th, 2009Michael Jackson and I are nearly the same age. Seriously. A bit over three weeks difference. So, when he was starting out on Ed Sullivan and shows like that, I was still out playing stickball in the street.
Michael really hit our home when my youngest sister brought the Jackson Five into our house. Hey, I had the Partridge Family, my brother had America, my younger sister had Donny and Marie and Deb had The Jackson Five. I was teaching school when I first heard Weird Al’s parody, ‘Eat It’ making light of ‘Beat It’. (more…)