podunklander

oh yeah John...that's right I remember that but couldn't recall which relative of yours had lived there. Neat. That's very interesting about the name of the house, "Rockville" and a nice ancedote I shall pass along to the gals (and guy) at the historical society there. No sah, we have more than one guy but most times it's just us gals.

I only kinda sorta hail from Rockville having lived there off and on for...several years between 1988 abd 2001. Even still, I stayed a member and still have volunteered for the historical society museum there. Every booksale and XMas craft fair since 1995, I've lent a hand. If I get back home here @Thanksgiving....I'll still try to help out for the craft fair somehow. A great group of folks and I enjoy being around them. I'm going to miss our Thursday lunches I sometimes had been able to join in on.

You know, I'm so used to referring to Pitney as the "Rockville Rocket"..it seemed to me he would be know as such outside of Connecticut, but now I'm guessing not. We all call him that and rarely use his actual name.

Just by coincidence today in the Hartford Courant was a write-up about a new band out of Rockville and the Courant cleverly called them the "Rockville Rockets"...I forget the name of the band now and can't find the article. Glad I caught that because it was on the same page as the write-up for the "deep" folk band and one of my new local favorites out of Boston (I 1st heard at the Irish Festival)..."Crooked Still".

Pitney's music is great and I remember all his songs especially from when I was growing up and it was always nice to have a choice and change from what was predominating the airwaves then and always in our heads (The Beatles). I do consider Pitney to be among the great songwriter's of our times and I don't feel he got the credit he deserved. He should certainly be in the Songwriter's Hall of Fame.

Lucky you to have had a chance to attend one of his performances. He had a tour in the US and a lot of here in Connecticut before he went on tour in the UK/Wales..where he died. I had intended to catch his concert when he was to come back around this way - had been pleased to see his music re-gaining popularity when he picked up on touring so heavily and we were all just so shocked to learn of his sudden death.