The day the music died.

[QRTRHRS]

Co-wrote Sweet Home Alabama. Left the group before the fatal crash.

 

[quicksandfarmer]

The only Yankee welcome amongst a bunch of southern boys. RIP.

Around here we don't consider Californians Yankees.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Around here we don't consider Californians Yankees.

We do.

 

[tjkubota93]

Band biographer Mark Ribowsky said that King was the outsider in Lynyrd Skynyrd as he was the only non-Southerner, but that King made the band professional.


I knew they didn't like him alot at first, because he was different.

So I guess I was inaccurate.

But I'm siding with rlgustafson. I'm from the same state as him. He knows how it is.

 

[tjkubota93]

We do.

Amen.

 

[mjarrels]

Both the queen of soul and prince died without a will. Heirs are getting nothing from the large estates. Also interesting is that 40% of those who died during 9/11 had no wills.

mark

 

[WVBill]

Some of My Favorite Songs:
Always on My Mind – Willie Nelson

Willie Nelson - Always On My Mind - YouTube

Bridge over Troubled Water – Simon and Garfunkle

Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water - YouTube

Alice’s Restaurant – Arlo Guthrie (It’s worth the 18 minutes to listen to this one all the way through)

Alice's Restaurant - Original 1967 Recording - YouTube

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot

"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" - Gordon Lightfoot (HD w/ Lyrics) - YouTube

You’ve got a Friend – James Taylor

James Taylor You've Got A Friend - YouTube

Magnolia Tree - Truck Stop Honeymoon

https://youtu.be/f8OgnWSOTKA

Hallelujia – Leonard Cohen (There are so many covers of this, I chose one version by the Songwriter)

https://youtu.be/YrLk4vdY28Q

Summertime (And the Livin’ is Easy) – George Gershwin Lyrics by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin (Again – so many covers, I chose Norah Jones)

https://youtu.be/xJOtaWyEzaI

Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by J. S. Bach (Myra Hess transcription) – (Just because I remember my Sister playing this and it brings me happiness) (This performance, I chose a performance Maria Dolnycky)

https://youtu.be/TlfPxh8O6TU

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Both the queen of soul and prince died without a will. Heirs are getting nothing from the large estates. Also interesting is that 40% of those who died during 9/11 had no wills.

mark

Nothing unusual about people dying without wills; even lawyers. I do wish you would explain why the "Heirs are getting nothing from the large estates", though. In the normal course of events, when people die intestate, there is a statute that dictates how the estates will be divided. If the property is in joint tenancy, like your home and car, it will pass to the survivor without any fuss. If there is a lot of property and holdings, not in joint tenancy, intestate statutes usually dictate that the wife will get half, kids the rest. If there is no wife or children, it will go the parents, siblings, nieces and nephews, etc.
Probate will take care of the lien holders and other debtors.

 

[WVBill]

They might have created Living Trusts and placed all their assets in the trust - thus no will.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

They might have created Living Trusts and placed all their assets in the trust - thus no will.

True; but then the "Heirs" would then be getting "something" from the large estates...it would just not be conveyed by a will, although a trust can be, and often is, created in a will.