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NEWS AND VIEWS FROM REX FRANKLIN

November 2006

FROM NEW PLYMOUTH IN THE TARANAKI

Hi once again, from the Taranaki area,

Hello Readers,

Noelene and I have been pretty busy with all sorts of things, we were fortunate to feature on Jim Sutton's Country Music Show on Newstalk ZB a few weeks back, when he used a few of my instrumentals, and a

couple of our songs, to help commemorate 50 years since the release of our first record , a TANZA 78rpm "I wonder where you are tonight"/"Would you mind?", we recorded those songs on the 1st of September 1956, and the record was released on the 19th of October , and boy, was that a joyous occasion. I remember I rang my mother to tell her about it, and she said well, you've made the record, now you can get on with something else. Yeah Right!

Herbert and Gerry Burkin in Hastings, did a special programme on their 1431AM Radio Kidnappers show, on the 18th of October, they featured us and our songs for the full hour and a half, and we thank both Jim Sutton, and

Herb and Gerry for their efforts, -most appreciated. We are pretty busy with rest homes around the New Plymouth district, and we will celebrate our Golden wedding anniversary on the 17th of November, with functions on the 17th, and the 19th. We have been asked to a few Country Music festivals, and we hope to start these off in Dargarville over the New Year, followed by New Plymouth on the 13th of January, Marton on the 19th, 20th and 21st, Otorohanga on the 10th of February, and the following Sunday in Napier at a special concert.

We welcome Bob and Sheila Everhart to New Zealand in the New Year, and will look forward to working with them at New Plymouth, Marton, and Otorohanga. They hail from America, and this will be their first visit to our

shores.

On a sad note, I learnt of the passing of The Singing Nana, who for many years was living in the Takaka area, and with whom Noelene and I had some magic times together over the years, she just loved her Country music.

I must mention about the good that our editor Annette is doing for us NZ Country artists, she arranged a very successful visit to Christchurch for Noelene and I, and she followed that by bringing John Mills, Peter Kirwan, Libby Reveley, and Ernie Wilson to the Napier Old-time Country Music Concert in August, and that was an awesome time, we thoroughly enjoyed their company, and their music.

Keep smiling, and keep it Country. Rex Franklin..

For Recordings of Rex & Noelene Franklin available on Bear Family CDs plus self funded tapes and CDs –

Contact- Ph. (06) 753-2962. E-mail rexfranklin_74@hotmail.com

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