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This Isn’t Our Last Love Letter 

   
Dear Don Don,
 
Way back in 92

I walked into the room and knew

Never felt this way before

I shook your hand while gazing into your eyes

And the feeling grew

As I took a seat I knew

A love that would have my heart

Forever

I knew

Way back in 92


They say love at first sight doesn’t always last or isn’t true

We were the exception to that rule

Our love had no where to hide

A spark set fire

As if this is how the universe started


I never doubted our love or what we could do

Together we grew

Forming a bond everlasting

That became our glue

My euphoria was YOU

I’m eternally grateful for the love and life we shared

For how fortunate we were :

“to have and to hold
through sickness and in health
Til death do us part”

Until we are together again

This isn’t our last love letter

I love you with all my heart and soul

Yours forever,

Deirdre  (Mrs. Hank Snow)

I’m fortunate to have fallen in love with, marry and make a life with the sharpest, coolest, funniest, most rare, bad ass, tender loving, loyal man on the planet, my husband Don Imus.


A True American Hero

 

I don’t know why it has been so hard for me to write about my dear friend Don Imus.

I certainly know what he meant to me, my family, my charity, my hospital and the millions of fans that listened and loved him for so many years.


I keep reading all the beautiful condolences that people are writing about how much a part of their lives were effected by listening to him over the years.

But what most people don’t talk enough about is what he did for all of us.

 

In every sense of the word, he was an American Hero. His work with children with so many different illnesses and his dedication to their future was unmatched by anyone I have ever known or heard about.

Besides raising over $100,000,000 for so many causes, he took care of young people for over 20 years in a state where he could not breathe.  Along with his incredible wife Deirdre, he created a world where children were not defined by their disease. That was a miracle! He was a miracle.

 

I will miss him ever day for the rest of my life.
I was blessed to be a part of his and Deirde’s life.
No one will ever do what he did.
I love you Don Imus - A TRUE AMERICAN HERO

David Jurist

 

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A Tribute To Don Imus

Children’s Health Defense joins parents of vaccine-injured children and advocates for health freedom in remembering the life of Don Imus, a media maverick in taking on uncomfortable topics that most in the mainstream press avoid or shut down altogether. His commitment to airing all sides of controversial issues became apparent to the autism community in 2005 and 2006 as the Combating Autism Act (CAA) was being discussed in Congress. The Act, which was ultimately signed into law by George W. Bush in December of 2006, created unprecedented friction among parents of vaccine-injured children and members of Congress; parents insisted that part of the bill’s billion-dollar funding be directed towards environmental causes of autism including vaccines, while most U.S. Senators and Representatives tried to sweep any such connections under the rug.

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By Michael Riedel - The one and only time I had a twinge of nerves before appearing on television was when I made my debut in 2011 on “Imus in the Morning” on the Fox Business Channel. I’d been listening to Don Imus, who died Friday at 79, since the 1990s as an antidote the serious (bordering on the pompous) hosts on National Public Radio. I always thought it would be fun to join Imus and his gang — news anchor Charles McCord, producer Bernard McGuirk, comedian Rob Bartlett — in the studio, flinging insults back and forth at one another. And now I had my chance. I was invited on to discuss to discuss “Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark,” the catastrophic Broadway musical that injured cast members daily. 

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Tommy James Divulges Secrets in His Book "Me, the Mob, and the Music"

Tommy James sold 100 million records and wrote iconic songs like “I Think We’re Alone Now” and “Mony Mony.” He joined Imus today to talk about his book “Me, the Mob, and the Music: One Helluva Ride with Tommy James and The Shondells.”

James broke into the music business in 1965 with the hit “Hanky Panky” in what he called an “only in America kind of story.”  He and the Shondells then went to New York City and met with big record companies like Columbia and Epic, But wound up signing with a small, independent label called Roulette, for reasons James learned years later.

“Morris Levy had called all the record companies and said, ‘This is our record,’” he said.

Levy was a record mogul who owned the famed Birdland jazz club, and he was considered one of rock and roll’s biggest entrepreneurs. He owned and ran Roulette, but he was also connected, using the record label as a front for mob activity.

“It was a tumultuous kind of love-hate relationship,” James said of his and Levy’s association. “But I’ve often said, every time I go to say something bad about Morris and Roulette, I’m always reminded if it weren’t for Morris, there wouldn’t be a Tommy James.”

Though Roulette paid him, James said Levy was “much more likely to buy you something special than pay you a couple of grand.” And confronting Levy or any of Roulette’s financial backers, who were members of the Genovese crime family, was “not a fun experience,” he said.

Despite Levy’s ties to the mob, he was, in James’s opinion, a good record man. “He had good ears,” said James. “He bought and sold music by the pound. Nobody could sell singles better than Roulette Records.”

He owed some of his success to the small, independent nature of Roulette, pointing out that a larger label would not have given him as much artistic freedom. “We would have been handed a producer, and that would have been it,” said James.

For years, James was unable to talk about the real Roulette with other artists or to air his grievances anyplace. In fact, he waited to write “Me, the Mob, and the Music” until the last “Roulette regular” passed away in December of 2005.

“This was very therapeutic for me,” he said of the book, which is being made into a movie. “I was carrying this around for a long time.”

A religious man, James said he’s not bitter. He and a different group of Shondells have been touring together for the last 25 years, and he got back with the original Shondells to record a new version of “I Think We’re Alone Now” for the movie soundtrack.

“I just have always felt that this was the way it was supposed to be,” said James. “What were going through right now is God’s way of evening out the playing field.”

Amen to that.

-Julie Kanfer

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