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Jerry Rivers (August 25, 1928 – October 4, 1996) was an American fiddle player. Biography. Jerry Rivers was born in Miami, Florida. He played fiddle with the Drifting Cowboys, a band who will be forever associated with their "frontman", the legendary Hank Williams.
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Origins: A brash young lawyer-turned-journalist named Geraldo Rivera burst upon the New York news scene in the early 1970s as a reporter for WABC-TV, and by 1972 he had garnered national acclaim and an Emmy Award for his series of investigative reports exposing deplorable conditions at the Willowbrook State School for the Mentally Ill, which led to...
Riveras image problems continued during his work for Fox News: While covering American military activity in Afghanistan in 2001 he was criticized for taking a gun into a war zone and derided for misplacing the scene of a friendly fire incident by 300 miles (he later said he has confused two different incidents, although the other incident didnt tak...
Of all the professional criticisms leveled at Geraldo Rivera over the years, one of the most common is also the one of the most unfair: the claim he was born Jerry Rivers and shamelessly adopted the stage name Geraldo Rivera to appeal to Latino viewers and stand out from the crowd by claiming a counterfeit ethnicity. Although Geraldo Rivera was kno...
Geraldo Riveras father, Cruz Rivera, was the son of a Puerto Rican sugar plantation worker. After immigrating to New York, Cruz married a Jewish woman named Lilly Friedman, touching off the first of the Rivera familys name changes:
But even though Geraldos family name was unquestionably Rivera, his mothers finagling with the birth certificates of her children created a confusing situation in which Geraldo and some of his siblings bore surnames different than the family name:
Yearbook photos from Geraldos high school and college (the University of Arizona) document that his name was never Jerry Rivers: his given name was indeed Gerald, and his surname alternated between the family name, Rivera, and his mothers continentalized spelling of it, Riviera: As one would expect, friends and acquaintances took to calling him by ...
While one might find much to criticize about Riveras reportorial techniques, his ethnicity is genuine. His fathers surname was Rivera, his given name was Gerald, and the only concession he made to fashion was to agree to go by the Spanish pronunciation of his given name to satisfy an employer who wanted an identifiably Puerto Rican reporter. In the...
Geraldo Rivera was not born Jerry Rivers, as some critics claim, but rather Gerald, with a family name of Rivera. His mother sometimes spelled it as Riviera, and he later adopted Geraldo as his stage name.
Dec 13, 2009 · Jerry Rivers, Hank Williams and the Drifting Cowboys
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Dec 4, 1996 · Jerry Rivers was a member of Hank Williams Sr.'s band the Drifting Cowboys and played on many of his hits. He died of cancer in 1996 at age 68.
Tex Warner, a German country singer, shares his memories of meeting and working with Jerry Rivers, the legendary fiddler of Hank Williams, Sr., in 1989. He recounts their concerts, recordings, and charity events in Germany and Tennessee.
Oct 28, 1996 · Jerry Rivers, fiddle player: born Miami 25 August 1928; married; died Nashville 4 October 1996. Jerry Rivers played fiddle with the Drifting Cowboys, a band who will be forever associated...
Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Cotton-Eyed Joe · Hank Williams · Jerry Rivers Health & Happiness Shows ℗ 1993 UMG Recordings, Inc. Released on: 1993-03-23 Composer Lyricist ...
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