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Released in 1962, " Cry to Me " b / w " I Almost Lost My Mind " ( Atlantic 2131 ) became Burke's second entry in the US charts, peaking at # 5 on the R & B charts ( and # 44 Pop ).
In 1969 Burke had a small hit with his second release for Bell, a reworking of Creedence Clearwater Revival's " Proud Mary " b / w " What Am I Living For " ( Bell 783 ), which was co-produced by singer Tamiko Jones ( born 1945 in Kyle, West Virginia ), who was being rehabilitated after a bout of polio, and was at the time Burke's fiance and manager.
Opposition Leader Denis Burke's loss of his own seat of Brennan was only the second time a party leader in the Territory had been defeated in their own electorate, after former Majority Leader Goff Letts losing his seat of Victoria River in 1977.

Burke's and wife
" Written by Burke and his then wife, Delores Burke, and John " J. B ." Moore, " a vengeful song about getting past someone who has found a new lover, and ... inspired by Burke's marital strife ", it " features his smooth, solid voice lamenting the death of a love affair ", " Got to Get You Off My Mind " was started on 11 December 1964, just hours after Burke heard that his friend Sam Cooke had been murdered, just after Burke ate with him in a Los Angeles restaurant, and on the same day his third wife, Delores, the mother then of 11 of his children, informed him by mail that she wanted a divorce.
Burke's third wife was Bernadine Burke.
Burke's fourth wife was Frances Sunday ( born 1951 ), whom he married in about 1970 ; she was married to him ( but separated ) when he died, and had three children with him: King Solomon Haile Selassie Burke ( born August 7, 1972 ), Queen Sunday Victoria Burke ( born February 24, 1974 ), and Queen Elizabeth Burke-Maynard ( born March 12, 1975 ).
Burke's wife Anne was installed as an Illinois Supreme Court Justice on July 4, 2006 and has served as an Illinois Appellate Court Justice.

Burke's and was
Burke's views were a mixture of liberal and conservative, with the crucial caveat that the meaning of these terms in this time period was markedly different from popular conceptions of the present day.
Burke's tribute was well received and one journalist called it " the eulogium of Apelles pronounced by Pericles ".
Burke's " Letter to a Member of the National Assembly ", published in February 1791, was a diatribe against Rousseau, whom he considered the paramount influence on the French Revolution ( his ad hominem attack did not really engage with Rousseau's political writings ).
At one sedition trial in the early 1790s, the Attorney – General tried to prohibit Thomas Cooper from publishing his response to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, arguing that " although there was no exception to be taken to his pamphlet when in the hands of the upper classes, yet the government would not allow it to appear at a price which would insure its circulation among the people.
In the Guildhall Burke's inscription summed up what he had meant to the City: he was ' the minister by whom commerce was united with and made to flourish by war '.
A fourth, a high-speed version of Al Dubin and Joe Burke's " Dancing With Tears In My Eyes ", was indirectly attributed to Exene Cervenka's mournful state of mind years later.
However, Burke's Peerage had listed the sisters as dead, apparently because their mother, Fenella ( the Queen Mother's sister-in-law ), " was ' extremely vague ' when it came to filling in forms and might not have completed the paperwork for the family entry correctly ".
Don Burke, whose own show Burke's Backyard was broadcast by Nine for nearly 18 years before it was axed in 2004, said his production company was " quite shocked by this decision ".
In a review of William Carlos Williams ' biography, " Something Urgent I Have to Say to You ": The Life and Works of William Carlos Williams, by Herbert Leibowitz, book critic Christopher Benfey wrote of Williams's poetry, " Early and late, Williams held the conviction that poetry was in his friend Kenneth Burke's phrase, ' equipment for living, a necessary guide amid the bewilderments of life.
Burke's work was theoretically and topically diverse, but the idea that seems most influential on Hymes is the application of rhetorical criticism to poetry.
After their elimination, Burke's contract as general manager was not renewed and he was replaced by assistant general manager and director of hockey operations Dave Nonis.
In the Electric Mist, a movie based on one of Burke's novels, was filmed in New Iberia in 2009 and starred Tommy Lee Jones.
The village, originally known as Burke's Corners, was founded by Elijah Burke in 1833.
Burke's Corners was briefly renamed Honeoye, for the New York hometown of several newly-arrived residents.
According to George H. Burke's book Rockland County during the American Revolution, 1776 – 1781, Valley Cottage was once known as Storm's Corner.
When the Orange and Alexandria Railroad was constructed in the late 1840s, the railroad station at the base of that hill was named Burke's Station after Burke, who owned the land in the area and donated a right-of-way to the railroad company.
In 1903, the name of the post office was changed from Burke's Station to " Burke " by Henry C. Copperthite who bought the Burke House and 241 acres to build a racetrack for trotting and pacing horses.
It was formerly " Burke's Junction.
Burke's political career commenced when he was elected to Dublin County Council for Fianna Fáil in 1967.
Also in 2005, Carolyn Burke's substantial biography, Lee Miller, A Life, was published in the U. S. by Alfred A. Knopf and in the U. K. by Bloomsbury.

Burke's and Burke
Other guest stars appeared in mock-ups of their own shows: Mike Moore appeared on fictitious episodes of Burke's Backyard with Don Burke, Rex Hunt's fishing show, and The AFL Footy Show with Sam Newman.
* John Bernard Burke ( 1814 – 1892 ), author of Burke's Armorials ( sic ), ( 1884 ).
Former Mayor Burke filed suit, and following a bench trial, the trial court rejected Burke's challenge and declared Bennett elected as the qualified candidate who received the highest number of votes.
Burke, with fear of the radical upheaval in France foremost in his mind, took Pitt's side in the debate, dismissing Nonconformists as " men of factious and dangerous principles ", to which Fox replied that Burke's " strange dereliction from his former principles ... filled him with grief and shame ".
" While Louis helped promote the song in exchange for the credit, even appearing on TV's The Steve Allen Show with Burke on 4 January 1957, he forgot Burke's name, and introduced him as Argentinian Dick Haymes, who had covered the song on Decca Records.
Meeting Burke " was not purely kismet ," as Wexler and Ertegun were aware of Burke and his talent, as " Wexler ’ s former mentor at Billboard, Paul Ackerman, had been urging him to sign Burke for several years ," but were waiting for Burke's contract with Apollo Records to expire.
" Though well-received by both peers and critics, and attaining a few moderate pop and several major R & B hits while at Atlantic, Burke never broke through into the mainstream as did Sam Cooke or Otis Redding, who covered Burke's " Down in the Valley " for 1965's Otis Blue.
This song, which was " fundamental to the emergence of soul music ", was " especially well received down South ", " successfully appealed to white consumers by using tidy tone quality, minimal improvisation, and standard, middle-American dialect ", " instantly established Burke as a huge presence ... " also introduced Burke's slightly country-tinged voice that melded R & B and country music and set the template that Ray Charles would follow years latter with his classic Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music.
" Cissy Houston, who provided backing vocals on several of Burke's songs that were produced by Berns, believed " Burke changed his mind about Bert as soon as Sol started working with him in the studio.
Although Burke ultimately won the chart war, Burke broke rank and supported his rival: “ I would go to the radio stations and say, ‘ Hi, I ’ m Solomon Burke, and I ’ m here promoting the new record “ If You Need Me ”… by Wilson Pickett .’” Despite his efforts, Burke's version jockeyed with Pickett's for position in the Hot 100, before " beating Pickett to the punch " because of " Solomon ’ s popularity and Atlantic ’ s distribution.
On May 28, 1964 Burke recorded two unreleased songs, and " Everybody Needs Somebody to Love " ( Atlantic 2241 ), that was also written by Burke ( but also credited to Bert Berns and Jerry Wexler ), which was Burke's most prominent bid for an enduring soul standard.
Burke, Don Covay, and Wilson Pickett, performed at the Apollo Theater on October 21, 1964, which was recorded by Atlantic Records engineers, but neither of Burke's songs were released.

Burke's and born
In the mid-1960s two of Burke's younger brothers, Alex ( born 1948 in Philadelphia ) and Laddie ( born 1949 in Philadelphia ), joined with fellow Germantown High School students, brothers Earl and Timmy Smith to form The Showstoppers, who had a couple of local hit singles in Philadelphia on Showtime Records in 1968, including a # 11 hit on the UK Singles Chart with " Ain't Nothin ' But a Houseparty " b / w " How Easy Your Heart Forgets Me " ( Heritage HE-800 ), which peaked at # 87 on the Billboard chart in 1968, which was later a discothèque hit (# 33 ) in 1971, just before the group disbanded after a series of flops.
Burke's granddaughter Candy Burke ( born 1977 ) was a backing singer at many of Burke's performances, including the July 2008 Juan-les-Pins concert, where she performed a rendition of " I Will Survive.
He was also persuaded by Burke's arguments about the social contract, including that most parties to the contract are either dead or not yet born.

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