{"id":541,"date":"2012-01-26T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoddsmustbecrazy.com\/?p=541"},"modified":"2012-01-26T09:00:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T17:00:11","slug":"since-i-do-have-a-coincidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/2012\/01\/26\/since-i-do-have-a-coincidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Since I Do Have A Coincidence"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Submitted<\/strong> by reader Mark D<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

All<\/strong> of us have very traumatic events in our life, that had we a\u00a0choice, we would like to either omit or forget. \u00a0An unforgettable\u00a0event in my life that falls into this category is when I suffered\u00a0critical 3rd degree burns in my home the morning of March 6, 1959.<\/p>\n

Rushed<\/strong> to Childrens’ Hospital in L.A. for emergency round-the-clock\u00a0surgery, I awakened in the early evening of March 7, 1959 and saw that\u00a0my parents had generously placed my portable radio next to my \u00a0hospital\u00a0bed. \u00a0Turning it on to KFWB, L.A.’s leading Top 40 outlet of the day,\u00a0I heard the local debut of “Since I Don’t Have You” by The Skyliners\u00a0(played from the beginning just as I turned the knob), which has gone\u00a0on through the ages to become a vocal group classic, certified as a\u00a0standard by ASCAP due to over 100 remakes in the past half century.<\/p>\n

I<\/strong> didn’t have much of a 1959, spending 6 months of it either in\u00a0the burn ward of Childrens’ Hospital or home convalescence. The\u00a0Skyliners through all the years have remained my favorite all time\u00a0vocal group, undergoing numerous personnel changes throughout, and\u00a0recording for a plethora of different labels, persevering and gaining\u00a0new and younger fans in the process.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

When<\/strong> I saw on the Skyliners website that they had planned their\u00a0Fiftieth Anniversary concert to be held at the beautiful Benedum\u00a0Center For The Performing Arts in their home base of Pittsburgh, PA, I\u00a0could hardly believe the date: \u00a0March 7, 2009. \u00a0The numerical\u00a0coincidence of 50 years to the day when I first heard them under\u00a0unfortunate circumstances was too much for me to resist. \u00a0I knew I had\u00a0to be there.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

On<\/strong> March 6, 1959, I awaited the arrival of my ambulance around\u00a09:00 a.m., wondering if I had any life left. \u00a0On March 6, 2009, with\u00a0exactly a half century of life behind me, I awaited the arrival of my\u00a0airport shuttle in front of my home \u00a0at 9:00 a.m. with totally\u00a0different emotions. \u00a0I truly had tears of joy in my eyes as the plane\u00a0descended into Pittsburgh. \u00a0The following night, I waited in a long\u00a0line outside the Benedum Theatre in Downtown Pittsburgh, talking with\u00a0a group of people from Sylvio’s Tratorria in Canton, OH and telling\u00a0them of what had happened to me a half century earlier and what a\u00a0truly special occasion this was for me. \u00a0This group had ties to Henry\u00a0Deluca, one of the concert’s promoters. \u00a0I was told later that Jimmy\u00a0Beaumont and Donna Groom of The Skyliners were talking about my VSA\u00a0(very strange anniversary) backstage during the gala show. \u00a0They went\u00a0on at 9:00 p.m. EST for their headlining segment of the show. \u00a0It was\u00a06:00 p.m. on the West Coast, where I first heard their signature tune\u00a0“Since I Don’t Have You” 50 years earlier, to the hour!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All of us have very traumatic events in our life, that had we a choice, we would like to either omit or forget. An unforgettable event in my life that falls into this category is when I suffered critical 3rd degree burns in my home the morning of March 6, 1959.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1418,614,1419,1420,606,1421,1422,1423],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories","tag-50th-anniversary","tag-anniversary","tag-burn-accident","tag-mark-d","tag-music","tag-portable-radio","tag-since-i-dont-have-you","tag-skyliners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}