Daddy, Me & the Beatles
Meeting Bob Dylan
Meeting Garth Brooks
Country Boys
Southern Moon
WMC Radio
On Stage
Duckhead Postcard
1946 Billboard Magazine Ad
Alton's Navy Years
Thelma and Nola Delmore
Alton & His Bride
A Star for the Delmores'
WIBC - Indianapolis - 1945
WSM Radio
Early Career Picture
Alton, the Daddy
Mother of The Delmore Brothers
Delmores' with Uncle Dave Macon
Just 'a fishin'
Debby & AMHoF Trophy |
Alton
and His Bride Thelma
Quote from "Truth
Is Stranger Than Publicity"
Chapter 5 (next to last paragraph)
"While Rabon and I
were playing around the country, I got acquainted with a
girl named Thelma Neely and I liked her a whole lot the first
time I saw
her. We began to slip around and go together because her parents
wouldn't
let her have dates. We would meet at church and sometimes I would
walk her
home if her mother was not at church. I never will forget those
nights when
the moon was shining brightly and we could walk in the beautiful
silence of
the countryside. She lived about 2 miles from the church and
it was a big
thrill to get to be with her and walk down the dirt road with
all the night
sounds, the whippoorwill singing, the katydids chirping and the
frogs making
their usual contribution to modify the night. Also the sweet
smell of the
wild flowers in the soft night breezes, especially the honeysuckles.
To me,
then, it was nothing much special, but as I look back on those
days now it
seems exotic as anything I have ever experienced in my whole
life!
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