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American singer
Author_Jeffrey Buckner Ford
Betty Heminger
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Ernest Jennings Ford
Ernie Ford
I Love Lucy
Jeffrey Buckner Ford
music biography
River of No Return
Tennessee Ernie Ford
The Ford Show
woman he loved
Product details
- ISBN 9781581826531
- Weight: 616g
- Dimensions: 173 x 241mm
- Publication Date: 12 Jun 2008
- Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In 1942 Ernest Jennings Ford married nineteen-year-old Betty Jean Heminger, whom he had met at Victorville Army Air Base in California. River of No Return: Tennessee Ernie Ford and the Woman He Loved is the recounting of their life together, of Ernie's spectacular success as an entertainer, of their growing spiral of self-destruction as his career flourished, and of their two sons' despair as they watched the light slowly fade from their parents' eyes and the joy vanish from their lives. For Betty it was vodka, valium, and tranquilizers. For Ernie, it was beer for breakfast, Cutty for lunch at the club, and whatever later in the day. In River of No Return, their son Jeffery remembers when his family's joy of being together was infectious, when the promise of every day and the thrill of being at the center of the spotlight was rapturous. It was a time when the name Ernie Ford was in the air and his fame worldwide.
JEFFREY BUCKNER FORD is an actor and writer with more than twenty feature films and hundreds of radio and television commercials to his credit. Today he manages Tennessee Earnie Ford Enterprises and works as a multimedia writer and producer. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
