Remembering The Dress Green A Army Uniform, Billy Joe Royal, Harry Gallatin, Kevin Corcoran

The End of The Dress Green A THE FINAL SALUTE IN GREEN, SOUTHERN ROCK, A KNICK IMMORTAL, AND A DISNEY STAR The Dress Green A Army Uniform was introduced in1954 and was the familiar uniform know to generations of Americans. As a result of changing fashion, it is being phased out as of 2016. Billy Joe Royal was a southern rock and roll singer, best known for two songs he sang written by Joe South, “Down in the Boondocks” (1965) and “Hush” (1967). Harry Gallatin was a power forward for the legendary New York Knick teams of the 1950’s, coached by Joe Lapchick. Kevin “Moochie” Corcoran was a Disney Mouseketeer who was featured in several Disney films of the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, and did several features for Disney as Moochie. The Army Service Uniform (ASU) is the military uniform worn by United States Army personnel in situations where formal dress is called for. It is worn in most workday situations in which business dress would be called for, while the Army Combat Uniform is used in combat situations. It can be worn at most public and official functions. The blue ASU was originally created as a secondary uniform to the former army "class A greens" in 2008. It started being issued to all soldiers starting in the fall of 2010, and is now worn army-wide as the official service uniform. The ASU replaced the "Army Green" service uniform and the "Army White" service uniform. It is based on the current dress uniform known as the "dress blue" uniform. It has its roots in the "army blue" uniform, which dates back to the Revolutionary War, in which the Continental Army outfitted its soldiers in blue to distinguish them from the red uniform coats of the British Army. It also recalls the Civil War Union Army's blue uniforms in features such as officers' shoulder-straps and the general wearing of lighter blue trousers for officers and enlisted personnel and dark blue trousers for general officers. The gold trouser stripe for SNCOs/officers and general officers differ. General officers wear two small gold stripes divided by a 1 inch black stripe in the middle and regular officers and non-commissioned officers wear one large gold stripe on the outside of the trouser leg. Billy Joe Royal (April 3, 1942 – October 6, 2015) was an American pop and country singer. His most successful record was "Down in the Boondocks" in 1965 Born in Valdosta, Georgia to Clarence Royal and Mary Sue Smith, and raised in Marietta, Georgia, Royal performed at the Georgia Jubilee in Atlanta during his teens. He formed his own rock and roll band, and became a local star at the Bamboo Ranch in Savannah in the late 1950s and early 1960s, where his singing style was influenced by African-American performers including Sam Cooke.[1] He was a friend of performer and songwriter Joe South, and recorded what was intended as a demo of South's song "Down in the Boondocks". The recording was heard at Columbia Records, who offered Royal a singing contract in 1965 and released his version of the song, produced by South.[1] "Down in the Boondocks" remained his best-known song, reaching number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100,[2] and number 38 in the UK.[3] He followed up his initial success with the singles "I Knew You When" (Top 20, 1965) and "Hush" (1967), also written and produced by Joe South. Another South composition, "Yo-Yo," just missed the top 40 in Canada and charted poorly in the U.S. when Royal released it in 1967, but a later remake by The Osmonds was a much greater success. His 1969 single, "Cherry Hill Park", peaked at No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100.[4] In the 1970s his recording of "Heart's Desire" gained popularity among Northern soul enthusiasts and was regularly played in Northern soul nightclubs. By the late 1970s, Royal had become a regular performer in Las Vegas, and also appeared as an actor in movies and on television. His last hit on the US pop charts was in 1978, when his version of "Under the Boardwalk" became a minor hit. However, he reinvented himself in the 1980s as a mainstream country star, and had his first hit on the country music chart in 1984 with "Burned Like a Rocket", released on the Atlantic label. His other country hits included "I'll Pin a Note on Your Pillow" (1987), "Tell It Like It Is", and "Till I Can't Take It Anymore" (both 1989). His successes on the country charts continued until the early 1990s.