Im not going to make any predictions as to when all of you will eventually lose as Gold Coast Marauders run over everyone to a championship. But I figured this gives us a thread to talk about it
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Pat Benatar was born Patricia (Patti) Mae to Andrew and Mildred Andrzejewski (AND-zhe-YEV-skee) on January 10, 1953 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and grew up on North Hamilton Avenue in Lindenhurst, New York, on Long Island.[3] Of Polish and Irish descent,[citation needed] she would grow up to be one of the most recognized Rock Divas of all time.[citation needed]
The daughter of a sheet-metal worker and a beautician who once sang with the New York City Opera, Andrzejewski became interested in theater and began voice lessons, singing at Daniel Street Elementary School her first solo, a song called “It Must Be Spring,” at age eight. She said, "As a kid, I sang at any choir, any denomination, anywhere I could." "We did things like sing at the Christmas tree lighting in the middle of town on Main Street." At Lindenhurst Senior High School (1967 - 1971), Andrzejewski participated in musical theater, playing Queen Guinevere in the school production of Camelot and performing a solo of "The Christmas Song" on a holiday recording of the Lindenhurst High School Choir her senior year.
Andrzejewski was cut off from the rock scene in nearby Manhattan because her parents were "ridiculously strict -- I was allowed to go to symphonies, opera and theater but I couldn't go to clubs," and her musical training was strictly classical and theatrical. She said, "I was singing Puccini and "West Side Story" but I spent every afternoon after school with my little transistor radio listening to the Rolling Stones . . . and singing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush as a microphone."
Trained as a coloratura and accepted to The Juilliard School, Andrzejewski suprised family, friends and teachers by deciding a classical career was not for her and pursuing health education instead at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. After one year and at age nineteen, Andrzejewski dropped out to marry her high school sweetheart, Dennis Benatar.
Dennis, an army draftee who had gone to Vietnam briefly after graduation while in the Army Special Forces, was stationed in Richmond, Virginia, for three years, where Patti went to work as a bank teller.
Discontented with her position, it was Liza Minnelli's concert at the Richmond Coliseum November 15, 1973, that inspired Patti to quit her job the next day and pursue a singing career. Patti took a job as a singing waitress at a flapper-esque nightclub named The Roaring Twenties and began singing in lounge band Coxon's Army, a regular at Sam Miller's basement club. The band garnered enough attention to be the subject of a never aired PBS special, and the band's bassist Roger Capps also would go on to be the original bass player for the Pat Benatar band. The period also yielded Patti’s first and only single until her eventual 1979 debut on Chrysalis Records: "Day Gig", 1974, Trace Records, written and produced by Coxon's Army band leader Phil Coxon and locally released in Richmond.
Patti's big break came in 1975 at an amateur night at the renowned comedy club Catch a Rising Star in New York. Patti's rousing rendition of Judy Garland's Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody earned her a call back by club owner Rick Newman, who would become her manager:
"I came in from Virginia one night. I had straight red hair and I wore a dress. I sang a Judy Garland song and I don’t know what happened, I never sang in New York before in my life, even though I grew up there, everybody just went crazy. I didn’t do anything spectacular. I don’t know what happened, it was just one of those magical things. [Rick Newman] came right in and said, ‘Let’s talk about you playing here some more.’" Mr. Newman said, "It was 2:45 in the morning. We had 30 performers and she was about #27. I was on the other side of the room drinking with some friends--then I suddenly heard this voice!"
The daughter of a sheet-metal worker and a beautician who once sang with the New York City Opera, Andrzejewski became interested in theater and began voice lessons, singing at Daniel Street Elementary School her first solo, a song called “It Must Be Spring,” at age eight. She said, "As a kid, I sang at any choir, any denomination, anywhere I could." "We did things like sing at the Christmas tree lighting in the middle of town on Main Street." At Lindenhurst Senior High School (1967 - 1971), Andrzejewski participated in musical theater, playing Queen Guinevere in the school production of Camelot and performing a solo of "The Christmas Song" on a holiday recording of the Lindenhurst High School Choir her senior year.
Andrzejewski was cut off from the rock scene in nearby Manhattan because her parents were "ridiculously strict -- I was allowed to go to symphonies, opera and theater but I couldn't go to clubs," and her musical training was strictly classical and theatrical. She said, "I was singing Puccini and "West Side Story" but I spent every afternoon after school with my little transistor radio listening to the Rolling Stones . . . and singing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush as a microphone."
Trained as a coloratura and accepted to The Juilliard School, Andrzejewski suprised family, friends and teachers by deciding a classical career was not for her and pursuing health education instead at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. After one year and at age nineteen, Andrzejewski dropped out to marry her high school sweetheart, Dennis Benatar.
Dennis, an army draftee who had gone to Vietnam briefly after graduation while in the Army Special Forces, was stationed in Richmond, Virginia, for three years, where Patti went to work as a bank teller.
Discontented with her position, it was Liza Minnelli's concert at the Richmond Coliseum November 15, 1973, that inspired Patti to quit her job the next day and pursue a singing career. Patti took a job as a singing waitress at a flapper-esque nightclub named The Roaring Twenties and began singing in lounge band Coxon's Army, a regular at Sam Miller's basement club. The band garnered enough attention to be the subject of a never aired PBS special, and the band's bassist Roger Capps also would go on to be the original bass player for the Pat Benatar band. The period also yielded Patti’s first and only single until her eventual 1979 debut on Chrysalis Records: "Day Gig", 1974, Trace Records, written and produced by Coxon's Army band leader Phil Coxon and locally released in Richmond.
Patti's big break came in 1975 at an amateur night at the renowned comedy club Catch a Rising Star in New York. Patti's rousing rendition of Judy Garland's Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody earned her a call back by club owner Rick Newman, who would become her manager:
"I came in from Virginia one night. I had straight red hair and I wore a dress. I sang a Judy Garland song and I don’t know what happened, I never sang in New York before in my life, even though I grew up there, everybody just went crazy. I didn’t do anything spectacular. I don’t know what happened, it was just one of those magical things. [Rick Newman] came right in and said, ‘Let’s talk about you playing here some more.’" Mr. Newman said, "It was 2:45 in the morning. We had 30 performers and she was about #27. I was on the other side of the room drinking with some friends--then I suddenly heard this voice!"
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Originally posted by patsfan4lyf
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I've resorted to posting Pat Benatar lyrics to get a rise of out people, what do you think? Nice game by your boy Speed today. Big yards in a play-off game.
Does no one in Alpha post here?
I've resorted to posting Pat Benatar lyrics to get a rise of out people, what do you think? Nice game by your boy Speed today. Big yards in a play-off game.
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http://goallineblitz.com/game/replay.pl?game_id=286002&pbp_id=12415316
This one is my favorite. Poor FS had to re-tie his shoes after this play.
This one is my favorite. Poor FS had to re-tie his shoes after this play.
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