Should Chubby Checker be in the RnR HOF? Connie Francis?

[MiltonBrown]

Just wondering your opinion DU lounge. Do they make the cut someday or should they be forever relegated to buying a ticket like you and me?

[brush]

1. Of course. I'm really surprised they're not in already.

[MiltonBrown]

4. I agree and thanks for voicing your opinion.

[Glorfindel]

2. Yes and Yes

Of course.

[MiltonBrown]

5. Feel same way, thanks

[WhiteTara]

3. They're not? How is that possible?

But then I heard that Moody Blues just made it. Who the heck was inducted for all those years, that these people were left out?

[MiltonBrown]

6. I know that it kind of hurts both of their feelings. It's too bad. I hope that the situation is

righted before they pass on.

[WhiteTara]

15. Me too. Connie Francis

was a wayfarer long before the MeToo movement. She deserves praise. When I saw her name, I immediately began singing...where the boys are, someone waits for me...

[MiltonBrown]

16. Your right. I had forgotten that story about her abuse. Her and Bobby Darin

would've been married except her father was against him I think. She was an enormously famous and popular singer and recorded some great rockers too like 'Lipstick on Your Collar'

[doc03]

7. I would have assumed they already were nt

[MiltonBrown]

9. Somehow they've been excluded. Also they rarely make the list of

most deserving artists not in the HOF. They make mine but i think most just assume they are in.

[Docreed2003]

8. Yes to both!

An equally interesting question is why is Jerry Lee Lewis not in the Country Music Hall of Fame???

[MiltonBrown]

10. That is the biggest travesty in the history of Hall of Fames of any type. The ol Killer

can put a tear in yer beer as quick as anybody. Best boogie woogie, rhythm and blues, country and western and rock-n-roll piano pounder ever to hit the 88s. I don't sign many petitions but I signed that one.

BTW Linda Gayle Lewis (JLL's Sister) and Annie Marie (niece) are among the other acts i'm seeing next weekend! Gonna be a whole lotta shakin' goin on brother!

[Docreed2003]

11. Very nice!!

I’ve got a rather unique connection to Mr Lewis, and I can tell you he is equally perplexed! While he is quick to point out his rock success as an innovator and founder of the genre, he is just as quick to highlight his “country years”, which have been critically lauded, but not acknowledged by the CMHoF.

[Upthevibe]

12. It so confusing how the powers that be decide

who get into the Hall of Fame....

[Upthevibe]

13. And in answer to the OP's question: Yes on both! n/t

[MiltonBrown]

18. Thanks and no there doesn't seem to be any discernible method to their madness.

[MiltonBrown]

14. He played the Buddy Holly event about 8 years ago. He was incredible playing both rock-n-roll and

country. He's one of the all time greats and yet highly underrated. Best piano player of all time in my book.

[NBachers]

17. Sounds like a no-brainer to me.

[MiltonBrown]

19. I agree.

Maybe with a little more awareness of their snubs, they will both get in before it's too late for them to enjoy it.

[Paladin]

20. Not until Warren Zevon is inducted.

NOBODY should be inducted until Zevon takes his well-deserved, way-overdue place there.