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8/1 Fuck you. go speculate on real estate somewhere else. \_ To repost the original question... "Tell me if this is legal and feasible. We all know about the housing boom and possible bubble. The bubble hasn't happened yet, but if it happens, it'll burn a lot of individual investors. Since it's a risky business, how about starting a corporation that borrows money from banks and from individual investors to buy up huge amount of properties, and maybe even buy sections of big cities? They can make huge profits by renting out properties or flipping them to other individual investors? If things go sour, the corporation shares the risks so no one gets burned badly, and worst case comes they can always declare bankruptcy. Is this legal? Possible? Can corporations buy blocks of land or buy cities and make huge profits since they have no competitors?" \_ Why not just sell crack, you worthless fuck? \_ You seem to have a lot of anger. What's wrong? \_ I've had to move three times in three years because of places that were bought out by real estate speculators who drove all the tenants out. In one case, a place I moved out of three years ago is still vacant because the soulless motherfucking cunt ass shits who bought the place are simply sitting on it, presumably to sell later. I know, I should have just bought a place like everyone else, blah blah blah. Well, I'm sorry I commited the crime of wanting to get an education and delaying my entry into the workforce at the time whenn all the bloodsuckers decided to fuck low income renters with their little speculative shitfest. \_ I'm sorry you hate the spirit of capitalism that makes United States the best country in the world. If you \_ We lived in my grandfather's basement until he asked us to leave. She couldn't find an apartment. She had some savings and used them to buy a cheap house so we'd have a roof. She didn't "owned her own successful business", she took over my grandmother's failed business and made it work again with 16-20 hour days when said grandmother died and my father divorced her and she had to move back to the US. She made it, I made it, and I know people whose family had far more than we ever did who got financial aid. Enough of a sob story for you? Who are you to ask? -JOhn hate America so much, you should get the fuck out of my country and move to Commie Europe. !williamc \_ Go fuck yourself. I couldn't get a financial need scholarship because my mom bought a cheap house with all of her savings so we'd have a roof over our heads while she spent 20 years resuscitating a failed business (successfully) that she'd taken over, only to have it triple in value. You're not a capitalist investor, you're a third-rate opportunistic tick. -John \_ Your mom owned her own successful business plus her house was paid for, yet you still felt entitled to financial aid? Who are you calling a tick??? \_ We lived in my grandfather's basement until he asked us to leave. She couldn't find an apartment. She had some savings and used them to buy a cheap house so we'd have a roof. She didn't "owned her own successful business", she took over my grandmother's failed business and made it work again with 16-20 hour days when said grandmother died and my father divorced her and she had to move back to the US. She made it, I made it, and I know people whose family had far more than we ever did who got financial aid. Enough of a sob story for you? Who are you to ask? -JOhn you? Who are you to ask? -John \_ Reading comprehension 101, padawan. "Cheap house" + "failed business" = "no $". "Cheap house" + "resuscitating a failed business" + "real estate speculators" = "expensive house" + "no $" + "people with far more but who didn't grow up not believing in debt getting financial aid". Enough of a sob story? I'm calling you a tick, assuming you're the op. -John \_ This is the anger one feels when having to spend $600K for some crap place that's still kind of far from work. \_ ObIGotIntoTheMarketInTimeGloating. \_ People are unlikely to change their investment habits and it's a waste of energy to get angry, so how you get your ass in an investment club and start investing? If you don't have enough capital, there are lots of time-shared flipping clubs you can join these days. You can buy 1/4 of a house with 4 other members and flip the house for 1/4 of the profit (minus club fees), I've made a lot of money in the past 2 years this way, and now have enough to flip a few houses of my own. If I can do it, SO CAN YOU! Don't wait! Do it while the market is still hot. All indications show that sales of homes rose AGAIN in June. Despite liberal naysayers yapping about the bubble, the Bush economy is really working and things are looking really good. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8758416 http://lin.kz/?mbl19 \_ Erhehehahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahah Didn't any of you LIVE through the late '90s? \_ To answer the original poster, it seems this is done with corporate space. E.g., Arden Realty owns a whole bunch of class A office bldgs in SoCal. Big real estate companies owning lots of single-family homes is not as natural, since home buyers get a big tax break that frequently goes into the hundreds of thousands of dollars if they live in the house for two years, and if you're the big company, you don't get \_ Could you go into detail on this? I'm not quite at the point of buying a house yet (esp. in this market), but considering it. I wasn't aware that the savings were in the hundreds of thousands? \_ http://biz.yahoo.com/brn/050726/16039.html?.v=1 \_ http://lin.kz/?40lym \_ http://biz.yahoo.com/brn/050726/16039.html?.v=1 the tax break, so you're not as competitive. Persons or small/mid-size companies owning lots of apartment bldgs is more common. \_ True, rental real estate does not get the 250K/500K tax free treatment of residental real estate. However, you do get to roll one rental unit over to the next rental unit and put off paying taxes on your profits. I've always assumed that there are not companies owning and renting out many residential units because the business doesn't scale well. And of course being a new landlord today is just awful for cash flow. \_ so let's come back to the original question. Can rental (apartment) companies as well as land-owning companies merge to form a single land owning mega corporation? Can companies own and run their own cities? Will the CEOs be like kings and the people who rent or \- like Disney? pay exorbitant city fees and association fees be like... peasants? \_ isn't that what a REIT is? \_ Yes. Also, look up Irvine Land Trust. \_ There are also lots of real estate investor's groups doing this. Someone forms a LLC and each investor puts up $x . Usually it is for office buildings and the like, but investors have been doing this for residences on a large scale in places like Arizona, Florida, and Las Vegas. \_ I never understood this spectre of corporate feudalism that people are so afraid of. The government is a much more dangerous entity as far as sliding back into feudalism is concerned. -- ilyas \_ Insofar as govt. is given broad central powers, sure. But in terms of actual legal implementation of serfdom in the US, look no further than Walmart. \_ You load sixteen tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. Saint Peter don't you call me, 'cause I can't go.... I owe my soul to the Company store. -Kentucky folk song I owe my soul to the Company store. -West Virginia folk song \_ http://www.ernieford.com/Sixteen%20Tons.htm \_ http://lin.kz/?fmdj3 \_ http://www.ernieford.com/Sixteen%20Tons.htm \_ It is important to remember in discussions with ilyas that he is a tax payer supported grad student. \_ This is a similar red herring to saying tom holub or psb is a college dropout. -- ilyas \_ I don't remember either of them espousing an extremist ideology that equates dropping out of school with evil. If they had, it would certainly be relevant. What if you found out one of our local religious conservatives worked at an abortion clinic? Would that be a red herring? \_ ilyas reminds me of those old shredded wheat commercials. "The whole grain libertarian in me says 'FUCK POOR PEOPLE! POWER TO THE CORPORATION!', while the frosted side of me in the real world loves the fact that MEN WITH GUNS are forcing poor slobs like meyers AT GUNPOINT to pay for my quality education!" -meyers |
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www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8758416 No sign of cooling in red-hot housing market Latest reports show rising sales, prices, building activity 94027 The Nation's Most Expensive Zip Code Justin Sullivan / Getty Images The national median price for existing homes jumped to a record $219,000, up 15 percent from a year ago, the fastest rate of growth in 25 years, according to the National Association of Realtors. Profile E-mail If you were looking for signs that the red-hot housing market is beginnin g to cool, you would have been hard-pressed to find them in the latest b atch of economic data. Adding together the two categories, single-family home sales h ave gone from a rate of about 65 million in mid-2002 to about 8 million last year to 87 million as of last month. Housing starts have been steady at a rate of more than 2 million a year for the past three months, which is considered strong although a bit below the rate of Janu ary and February, which was boosted by hurricane-related rebuilding in t he South. The latest pricing data also offered more evidence for what one industry analyst called a "frenzy" in sales. The national median price for existi ng homes jumped to a record $219,000, up 15 percent from a year ago, the fastest rate of growth in 25 years, according to the National Associati on of Realtors, a trade group. That pushed the Realtors' affordability i ndex, which compares incomes with home prices, to its lowest level in 14 years. Meanwhile the median price for a new home fell to $215,000 - about the sa me as a year ago but down from a peak of $237,000 in February. The new-h ome figures can be volatile from month to month because they reflect dif ferent regions types of housing developments that become available for s ale. Greenspan keeps focus on housing "I think what is happening is that everyone is scanning the data extra ca refully to see if they can pick up any signs that the market is cooling and on their face the data don't show that," said Mark Obrinsky, chief e conomist for the National Multi Housing Council. Joel Naroff of Naroff Economic Advisers agreed, saying the market is gett ing "out of hand." Cocktail-party and office chatter he hears nowadays i s reminiscent of the tech-stock boom of the 1990s, except that now would -be investors are looking to make a killing by flipping unbuilt condo un its. "When you see everyone starting to get into these deals, it's getting bey ond crazy," he said. "People are saying, I've got to buy now, because if I don't I'm never going to get into the market." One possible crack in the market cited by some analysts this week was tha t the number of single-family homes authorized but not yet started has r isen sharply over the past year to a record 177,000, compared with 143,0 00 a year ago. "That suggests to me that there is a speculative element developing with home builders, and that usually is the beginning of the end," said Paul Kasriel, research director at Northern Trust in Chicago. |
lin.kz/?mbl19 -> bustywebshots.blogspot.com/ This blog is devoted to the natural beauty of young voluptuous girls. Post your findings and links in the "comments" area in any of the followi ng posts. Ill make new posts every week so check back often and share yo ur pictures! Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link into your browser to visit her websh ots gallery. The link to the parewinkl galleries was posted on this blog a while back but there are plenty more new pictures and galleries to see. Browse thro ugh the galleries and make sure to click on the links to her friends gal leries on the left of webshots. Im sure there are more pictures worth vi ewing - her chest is growing! Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link into your browser to visit her websh ots gallery. Three new albums posted this July with plenty of pictures. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link into your browser to visit her websh ots gallery. Also it seems she might be putting on some weight - shes slightly thicker then usual and in a few p ictures she almost looks pregnant. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link into your browser to visit her websh ots gallery. Another great find by a visitor of this blog - thanks for y our help! and other albums of her friends, few more pics here and there. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link into your browser to visit her websh ots gallery. More pictures of her that she just released in a set of new albums. Again , the drinking and sillyness can be seen, but her round chest is in many of the pictures. Get these while you can, for this girl is quite popula r and she may pull her pictures should she get too many weirdos trying t o email her or something. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link into your browser to visit her websh ots gallery. Popular girl with a small handful of pictures of her partying and living it up. Links were posted to her pictures a while back but I never got ar ound to making a post about her. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link above into your browser to visit her webshots gallery. A fair bit of pictures in the Florida gallery of the two of them having fun. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link above into your browser to visit her webshots gallery. Nice to see someone not afraid of their bodies and being goofy i n front of the camera. Have a look at the picture of her next to friends a nd family members and its easy to see her lack of height. On a different note, now that blogger has picture hosting for free, all t he small preview shots to the left (starting with this post) will have l inks to a full sized picture if you click on them. Should make it easier to get an idea of the girl for those with monitors that have high resol utions. You will still have to browse the galleries for pictures and sav e them on your own hard drives since I dont have time to host them all ( nor do I know what a "good" picture is - many albums get repetative and many more pictures dont even show off the girls chest, so for some peopl e there might be no point). And I know I say this a lot on these comment areas, but I really really r eally do appriciate the help ive recieved over the past few months. Thanks to everyone who visits and posts c omments or links to a new girl. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link above into your browser to visit her webshots gallery. Young C or D cupper with braces - thanks to Rallo for the link. Mostly va cation pics and the link below is to a hidden album where most of the pi ctures are. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link above into your browser to visit her webshots gallery. Not many pictures and she smokes - s o I want to punch her in the face but oh well. Thanks for the link EricD og and yes I agree smoking isnt for me, but to each their own. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link above into your browser to visit her webshots gallery. Couple of young girls being silly and showing off their chests. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link above into your browser to visit her webshots gallery. Lets hope she maintains her confidence and does will in life. |
biz.yahoo.com/brn/050726/16039.html?.v=1 com Capital gains home-sale tax break is a boon for most owners Tuesday July 26, 6:00 am ET Kay Bell What's the best tax break available to Jane and John Q Public? Homeowners already know the many tax breaks that Uncle Sam offers, most n otably mortgage interest and property tax deductions. Well, he also has good tax news for home sellers: Most of them won't owe the Internal Reve nue Service a single dime. When you sell your primary residence, you can make up to $250,000 in prof it if you're a single owner, twice that if you're married, and not owe a ny capital gains taxes. "Most people are not going to have a tax obligation unless their gain is huge," says Bob Trinz, a senior tax analyst at RIA, which provides tax i nformation and software to tax professionals. Some sellers are surprised by this break, especially if they've been in t heir homes for a while. That's because before May 7, 1997, the only way you could avoid paying taxes on your home-sale profit was to use the mon ey to buy another, more-expensive house within two years. They could take a once-in-a-lifetime tax exemption of up to $125,000 in profits. And in all instances, there was tax paperwork (Form 2119) to fill out to show that you followed the rul es. But when the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 became law, the home-sale tax bu rden eased for millions of residential taxpayers. The rollover or once-i n-a-lifetime options were replaced with the current per-sale exclusion a mounts. "There is some logic to this law change because most people under the pri or rules didn't recognize a taxable gain because they rolled it over int o another residence," says Trinz. "The change essentially makes it easie r to dispose of your residence." Still some requirements to meet If you used pre-1997 rules for residential sales, don't worry. That doesn 't disqualify you from claiming the exclusion on any residential sales n ow. The law change applies to all sales since it took effect. Another bonus of the new rules: You don't have to buy another home with y our sale proceeds. You can use the money to travel to Europe in style, b uy an RV and drive across the country or get all those designer shoes yo u never could afford before. Even better, there's no limit on the number of times you can use the home -sale exemption. In most cases, you can make tax-free profits of $250,00 0 (or $500,000 depending on your filing status) every time you sell a ho me. You did notice that phrase "in most ca ses," didn't you? Before you put a "For Sale" sign in the yard, you need to make sure your house-sale situation is one of those "most cases." First, the property you're selling must be your principal residence. This tax break doesn't apply to a house or other property that you have solely for investment purposes. You can, however, turn a rental house into your primary residence, making the sale of it eligible for the exclusion. This is accomplished when yo u meet the IRS use and ownership tests: You own and live in the home for two out of the five years before the sale. "Generally, if you owned and used the home as your main home for periods totaling at least two years within five years ending on the date of thes e sale, you're eligible for the exclusion," says RIA's Trinz. This would apply if you owned a home for five years, but didn't us e it as your primary residence for that full period. For the first three years, you rented it and then moved into it as your main home for the f inal two before you sold it." But you don't even have to live in the house at the date of sale. The fle xibility of the use test means you could live in your house for a year, rent it for two, move back in for another year and rent it again the yea r before you sell. Since during those five years you owned and lived in the property for two years, you meet the use and ownership tests. Finally, while technically there's no limit on the number of homes you ca n sell and reap tax-free gain, each sale must be at least two years apar t That still leaves you room to make some money on several properties. You can sell your residence this year, pocket any gain within the tax li mits and buy a new residence. Two years later, you can do the same thing , again and again every two years. There even are situations where owners of multiple properties might be ab le to double up on the tax-free gain. "There might be instances where you sell your primary residence and then establish your vacation home as your primary home for a couple of years and then sell that home," says Trinz. "Empty nesters who have a large su burban home could move into a vacation home at the beach and then as the y get older move to a residential facility so they can sell both the hom es and not have any taxable gains." Be careful, however, if you move into a rental property you acquired thro ugh a like-kind exchange. The American Jobs Creation Act that was signed into law on Oct. If the p roperty you convert to your principal residence is one that you earlier obtained via a property swap, in order to take advantage of the home-sal e exclusion you must have acquired the property at least five years earl ier. Michael E Kitces, director of financial planning for the Pinnacle Adviso ry Group in Columbia, Md, gives this example: A property is acquired by like-kind exchange in 1999, converted to personal use as a residence in 2002 and then sold in late 2004. Since the like-kind property was owned for five years, it meets the new tax code ownership-length provision. A nd having met the new five-year acquisition rule for a swapped property, Kitces says, the owner qualifies for the capital-gains exclusion since he lived in the property for two years after its conversion. If, however , the property had been exchanged in 2001, even if the seller had made i t his principal residence shortly after the date of the swap and thereby met the two-year use rule, he still would be not be able to exclude any profits on the sale. In either case, though, the pesky reporting requirement remains history. When your gain doesn't exceed the limit, you don't have to file anything with the IRS. Special rules for married couples While a husband and wife get double the exclusion of single home sellers, couples also have some additional considerations when it comes to deter mining whether their sale is tax-free. For example, the IRS says it's OK if you owned the home for the last two years, but you just added you r new husband to the title when you got married six months ago. Since yo u owned the residence for the requisite time, as joint filers you have n o problem meeting the ownership test even though your husband wasn't an official owner for that long. But the shared use doesn't have to be while you file jointly. If you and your now-husband shared the home for 1 years before tying the knot and then six months as newlyweds, the IRS will allow you to claim the exemption. But if he didn't move in unt il the wedding day, you're out of tax-exclusion luck. And while you're learning about your new spouse, make sure you find out a ll about his or her previous home-sale history. "The two-year eligibilit y rule applies to both spouses, so full home disclosure is another finan cial area you need to consider when getting married," says Trinz. Under this couple requirement, if either spouse sold a home and used the exclusion within two years of the sale of any jointly-owned property, th e couple can't claim the exclusion. That means if your new husband sold his townhouse a month before the wedding, then you'll have to wait two y ears after that property's sale date before you can dispose of your shar ed marital residence tax-free. Figuring the correct exclusion amount OK, you (and your better half if you're married) met the use and ownershi p tests, as well as the two-year previous-sale time limit. Now it's time to do the math to avoid writing a big check to the US Treasury. As a seller, you naturally focus on how much you got for your house. That is an important number, but not the only one you'll need when it comes to figuring whether you'll owe taxes on the sale. It's your gain, or profit, that determines the si... |
lin.kz/?40lym -> bustywebshots.blogspot.com/ This blog is devoted to the natural beauty of young voluptuous girls. Post your findings and links in the "comments" area in any of the followi ng posts. Ill make new posts every week so check back often and share yo ur pictures! Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link into your browser to visit her websh ots gallery. The link to the parewinkl galleries was posted on this blog a while back but there are plenty more new pictures and galleries to see. Browse thro ugh the galleries and make sure to click on the links to her friends gal leries on the left of webshots. Im sure there are more pictures worth vi ewing - her chest is growing! Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link into your browser to visit her websh ots gallery. Three new albums posted this July with plenty of pictures. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link into your browser to visit her websh ots gallery. Also it seems she might be putting on some weight - shes slightly thicker then usual and in a few p ictures she almost looks pregnant. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link into your browser to visit her websh ots gallery. Another great find by a visitor of this blog - thanks for y our help! and other albums of her friends, few more pics here and there. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link into your browser to visit her websh ots gallery. More pictures of her that she just released in a set of new albums. Again , the drinking and sillyness can be seen, but her round chest is in many of the pictures. Get these while you can, for this girl is quite popula r and she may pull her pictures should she get too many weirdos trying t o email her or something. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link into your browser to visit her websh ots gallery. Popular girl with a small handful of pictures of her partying and living it up. Links were posted to her pictures a while back but I never got ar ound to making a post about her. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link above into your browser to visit her webshots gallery. A fair bit of pictures in the Florida gallery of the two of them having fun. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link above into your browser to visit her webshots gallery. Nice to see someone not afraid of their bodies and being goofy i n front of the camera. Have a look at the picture of her next to friends a nd family members and its easy to see her lack of height. On a different note, now that blogger has picture hosting for free, all t he small preview shots to the left (starting with this post) will have l inks to a full sized picture if you click on them. Should make it easier to get an idea of the girl for those with monitors that have high resol utions. You will still have to browse the galleries for pictures and sav e them on your own hard drives since I dont have time to host them all ( nor do I know what a "good" picture is - many albums get repetative and many more pictures dont even show off the girls chest, so for some peopl e there might be no point). And I know I say this a lot on these comment areas, but I really really r eally do appriciate the help ive recieved over the past few months. Thanks to everyone who visits and posts c omments or links to a new girl. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link above into your browser to visit her webshots gallery. Young C or D cupper with braces - thanks to Rallo for the link. Mostly va cation pics and the link below is to a hidden album where most of the pi ctures are. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link above into your browser to visit her webshots gallery. Not many pictures and she smokes - s o I want to punch her in the face but oh well. Thanks for the link EricD og and yes I agree smoking isnt for me, but to each their own. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link above into your browser to visit her webshots gallery. Couple of young girls being silly and showing off their chests. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link above into your browser to visit her webshots gallery. Lets hope she maintains her confidence and does will in life. |
www.ernieford.com/Sixteen%20Tons.htm In August, 1946, Cliffie Stone, then an assistant prod ucer and talent scout for Capitol Records, called Merle Travis (a Capito l hitmaker at that time) about recording a 78 rpm album (four discs in a binder) of folk songs. Capitol, seeing the success of a Burl Ives album , wanted their own folk music album. Merle told Cliffie he figured, "I ves has sung every folk song." Stone suggested Travis write some new son gs that sounded folky, and to do so quickly; the first four-song session was scheduled for the next day. Travis recalled the traditional Nine Po und Hammer and wrote three songs that night about life in Muhlenberg Cou nty, Kentucky's coal mines, where his father worked. The song's chorus came from a letter Merle received from his brother lame nting the death of World War II journalist Ernie Pyle, killed while cove ring combat in the Pacific in 1945. John Travis wrote, "It's like workin g in the coal mines. Merle also recalled a remark his father w ould make to neighbors when asked how he was doing: "I can't afford to d ie. " This referred to coal-company owned stores where miners bought food and supplies with money advanced b y the company, called "scrip". Later released on Capitol's 1947 LP "Folk Songs From The Hills", the song almost immediately began to generate controversy, causing Travis himsel f, problems, in the anti-communist, Cold War hysteria of the late forti es. Some in government saw songs dealing with workers' woes, and folk mu sic "activists" as potentially subversive. It made no difference that Tr avis was a true American patriot. Veteran Capitol producer, Ken Nelson, who worked at WJJD radio in Chicago in the late forties, recalled in a 1 992 interview that FBI agents advised the station not to play Travis' re cords, because they considered him a "communist sympathizer," which was, of course, completely untrue. Ernie knew the song from working with Travis on Cliffie Stone's Hometown Jamboree, and revived it on his daily NBC show early i n 1955. Within five days, NBC received over 1200 letters from viewers as king about the song. In July, Ernie performed the song live at the Indi ana State Fair, in front of a capacity crowd of 30,000. In September, reeling from a demanding road and television production sch edule, Ernie was informed by Capitol that he was approaching breach of c ontract. He needed to record two sides for a single release immediately. Armed with a box of fan mail, Cliffie Stone convinced Capitol head Lee Gillette to allow Ernie to record "Sixteen Tons", and Gillette agreed; i t would be the B side of a country-blues swinger titled "You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry", a tune that Gillette and others at the label beli eved would be Ernie's biggest hit yet. On September 17, 1955, both songs are recorded at Capitol's Melrose Avenue Studios in Hollywood. mistakenly left on the master tape by Gillette and the engineers. But, inexplicably, radio stations coast to coast began 'flipping' the si ngle and playing the B side. In eleven days following its release, 400,000 singles are sold. Demand fo r the song was so great, that Capitol geared all its pressing plants nat ionwide to meet the deluge of orders. In Twenty-four days, over one mill ion records were sold, and "Sixteen Tons" became the fastest-selling sin gle in Capitol's history. By November, it had captured the top spot on e very major record chart in the country, and by December 15 (less than tw o months after it's release) more than 2,000,000 copies were sold, makin g it the most successful single ever recorded. Merle Travis--already celebrated as a guitar innovator a nd songwriter--was immortalized by the song. In later years, when perfor ming the song himself, he altered the final stanza to, "I owe my soul... On July 29, 1956, he returned to his boyhood h ome of Ebeneezer, Kentucky, to unveil a granite monument the town built to immortalize his accomplishments, including Sixteen Tons. In 1991, his ashes were buried under that monument, and remain ther e to this day. On October 17, 1991, thirty-six years to the day after the release of "Si xteen Tons", Ernie Ford passed away, closing the chapter on one of Ameri can music's most compelling, legendary stories. "SIXTEEN TONS" By Merle Travis Some people say a man is made out of mud A poor man's made out of muscle and blood Muscle and blood, skin and bones... A mind that's weak and a back that's strong Chorus You load sixteen tons, and what do you get? Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store I was born one mornin' and the sun didn't shine I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal and the straw boss said, "well bless my soul!" |
lin.kz/?fmdj3 -> bustywebshots.blogspot.com/ This blog is devoted to the natural beauty of young voluptuous girls. Post your findings and links in the "comments" area in any of the followi ng posts. Ill make new posts every week so check back often and share yo ur pictures! Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link into your browser to visit her websh ots gallery. The link to the parewinkl galleries was posted on this blog a while back but there are plenty more new pictures and galleries to see. Browse thro ugh the galleries and make sure to click on the links to her friends gal leries on the left of webshots. Im sure there are more pictures worth vi ewing - her chest is growing! Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link into your browser to visit her websh ots gallery. Three new albums posted this July with plenty of pictures. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link into your browser to visit her websh ots gallery. Also it seems she might be putting on some weight - shes slightly thicker then usual and in a few p ictures she almost looks pregnant. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link into your browser to visit her websh ots gallery. Another great find by a visitor of this blog - thanks for y our help! and other albums of her friends, few more pics here and there. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link into your browser to visit her websh ots gallery. More pictures of her that she just released in a set of new albums. Again , the drinking and sillyness can be seen, but her round chest is in many of the pictures. Get these while you can, for this girl is quite popula r and she may pull her pictures should she get too many weirdos trying t o email her or something. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link into your browser to visit her websh ots gallery. Popular girl with a small handful of pictures of her partying and living it up. Links were posted to her pictures a while back but I never got ar ound to making a post about her. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link above into your browser to visit her webshots gallery. A fair bit of pictures in the Florida gallery of the two of them having fun. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link above into your browser to visit her webshots gallery. Nice to see someone not afraid of their bodies and being goofy i n front of the camera. Have a look at the picture of her next to friends a nd family members and its easy to see her lack of height. On a different note, now that blogger has picture hosting for free, all t he small preview shots to the left (starting with this post) will have l inks to a full sized picture if you click on them. Should make it easier to get an idea of the girl for those with monitors that have high resol utions. You will still have to browse the galleries for pictures and sav e them on your own hard drives since I dont have time to host them all ( nor do I know what a "good" picture is - many albums get repetative and many more pictures dont even show off the girls chest, so for some peopl e there might be no point). And I know I say this a lot on these comment areas, but I really really r eally do appriciate the help ive recieved over the past few months. Thanks to everyone who visits and posts c omments or links to a new girl. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link above into your browser to visit her webshots gallery. Young C or D cupper with braces - thanks to Rallo for the link. Mostly va cation pics and the link below is to a hidden album where most of the pi ctures are. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link above into your browser to visit her webshots gallery. Not many pictures and she smokes - s o I want to punch her in the face but oh well. Thanks for the link EricD og and yes I agree smoking isnt for me, but to each their own. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link above into your browser to visit her webshots gallery. Couple of young girls being silly and showing off their chests. Webshots does not support direct linking well so thi s is the work around. Copy the link above into your browser to visit her webshots gallery. Lets hope she maintains her confidence and does will in life. |