15 YEARS AGO.

For nostalgia Tuesday, I'm going back 15 years to 7October2020.  Why?  Mostly because I woke up this morning and watched Debby Boone singing You Light Up My Life, which ranked #92 in my Top 100 list. More specifically, because on the screen was something about her mother-in-law Rosemary Clooney.  I did not not know they were related.  That photo to the left is of Debby with her husband Gabriel Ferrrer and Rosemary.

About 7October2010, from Wikipedia:

• A lot of deaths in the Middle East.
• Peruvian-Spanish writer Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel Prize in Literature.
• A lost Vivaldi flute concerto, Il Gran Mogol, is found in Edinburgh.  
• The other three pieces of the quartet remain lost.
• Written in the late 1720s or early 1730s.
• How did it get to Scotland?
• Listen to Il Gran Mogol.
• I love Baroque music, a genre created between 1600 and 1750 in Europe.  Prominent composers include Bach, Handel and Vivaldi, with The Four Seasons by Vivaldi way up there in my list of favorites.

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  The United States dollar reaches a 15-year low against the Japanese yen and depreciates against a range of other currencies due to concerns about further quantitative easing by the United States Federal Reserve.  82.6 Yen to the Dollar.  Or, if you traveled in Japan in the Fall of 2010, you would pay almost twice as much as you would today.  Japan had nearly 9 million foreign visitors in 2010, but could reach 48 million this year.  We'll be there next month.
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  The U.S. conducted a helicopter strike on Pakistan, and apologized.
• South African Archbishop Desmond retired from public life at the age of 79.
• Or, in summary, nothing much happened on 7October2010.

However, in my search for more on the Debby/Rosemary matter, I found an Oprah.com page of 19October2010, which included the following info:

• Debby Boone--where is she now?
• In 1977, at the age of 21, she sang the song of the 1970s, You Light Up My Life.  Song spent 10 weeks at #1, and earned her a Best New Artist Grammy award.
• I loved that song, but many others didn't.  I had a posting on 12November2017 entitled WHAT IS THE WORST SONG EVER?

• Here with father Pat.
• She later spent some time on Broadway, then found success in Christian music.  In her upbringing, the family went to church 3 times/week.

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  Said Oprah, about where Debby, 33 years later, still holds the record for most weeks at #1 by a first-time primary female artist.

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  She is a mother of four, and has been married for 31 years to Gabriel Ferrer, son of Oscar-winning actor Jose Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney.  Debby and Gabriel remain married.
• To honor her mother-in-law, Debby recorded Rosemary's songs on an album called Reflections of Rosemary.

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  Debby is the granddaughter of Red Foley, for Pat Boone married Shirley Foley, daughter of Red, who had a 1951 hit, Peace in the Valley, and a bigger one in 1955, Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy.

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  Debby's father Pat, also had a few hits.  I have a story about "our" relationship, for this link started my quest for Stanford.
• I saw Pat Boone on TV wearing white bucks.

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  I noticed that my older brother, when he left for the University of Michigan, had left behind his white wedding shoes, which he had worn only once.
• So the next day after seeing Pat Boone, wore them.  
• I was a huge hit at school.  No one ever at McKinley High School ever wore these before.  Pat and I, both Pats, started a trend.
• If I had to pick one most likely initial spark that inspired me to think about Stanford University as a possible future for me, this was it.

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  At the end of this 7October2010 Oprah.com page were these links.
• Watch Debby sing "You Light Up My Life."  Click on that and see Debby Boone sing this song as an older adult.
• Susan Boyle's wild ride.  Her first audition at Britain's Got Talent was my most favorite ever moment from all those talent shows on TV.  According to Google AI:

In 2025, Susan Boyle has made a strong comeback after a stroke in 2022, returning to the recording studio and social media to share her recovery and announce new projects. By early 2025, she had regained approximately 90% of her voice after extensive rehabilitation and was actively sharing updates from her work, such as attending award shows and playing tennis at Wimbledon.

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  10-year old opera phenom Jackie Evancho.  This first audition from America's Got Talent is my second-most favorite.  How's she doing today?  Here is a video on What Really Happened to Jackie Evancho.  She's had some physical problems, but, according to Google AI:

In late 2024 and 2025, Jackie Evancho is still actively pursuing her music career, releasing an EP and continuing to perform and advocate for mental health awareness. A significant development in 2025 is her continuing to establish herself as a mature artist, exploring different musical styles such as the "80s new wave aesthetic" of her 2024 EP Solar. While she's also been open about past health struggles, including anorexia and a 2021 back injury from a car accident, the 2025 search results focus on her present-day artistic growth and journey of self-discovery.

There are three noteworthy ocean storms, but they seem all headed away from populated areas.  In the Atlantic is Hurricane Jerry, expected to skirt north of Guadalupe, become a Category 2 by Thursday, seemingly headed for the Eastern Seaboard.  However, models show Jerry making a right turn into the mid-Atlantic.

In the Eastern Pacific  is Hurricane Priscilla at 110 MPH, but should weaken into a tropical storm to clip Bahia Tortugas of Baja California on Thursday and further east on Friday.

In the Western Pacific is Typhoon Halong at 140 MPH, now pointing towards Tokyo.  However, like most of these typhoons approaching Japan this year, there will be a right turn away from Japan.

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