Danke, Guido! I truly appreciate your comments.

I absolutely love your part of the world and I remember Country Music being very popular in Germany. In fact, Country Music was the only genre being played on AFRS (Armed Forces Radio Service) when I was there. NCO clubs got more variety in entertainment but, I saw and met the top names in Country Music.

Charlie Pride had just broken the unofficial "color barrier" of Country Music when he came to my NCO Club. He's a fabulous entertainer. The naysayers were struck speechless.

A humerus music-related experience was when going to local bars and hearing flawless covers of American Rock & Roll, only to learn later that they didn't know a single word of English, they had learned the hit songs phonetically without understanding what they were singing.

Fond memories, my friend.