Upon my father's return we slowly drove away to the sound of 'Cathy's Clown' and I regrettably looked back at the girl who had unknowingly captivated my heart.
It was also the first time that I had heard 'Cathy's Clown' played on the radio and I was enthralled by the tight vocal harmonies and the crescendo passages.
Nearly twenty years would pass before I retold this story for the first time to my wife while playing 'Cathy's Clown' from a recently-purchased Everly Brothers greatest hits album.
' In his absence, as the disc jockey began playing 'Cathy's Clown, ' I noticed an attractive young girl wearing a white patch over her left eye seated in a parked red convertible.
The movement started around the time of the 1992 riots that followed the Rodney King verdict, when a previously wayward young man named Thomas Johnson reinvented himself as Tommy the Clown and established an institution called Tommy's Hip Hop Clown Academy.
Take the exchanges over Ronald McDonald, the firm's ubiquitous clown.
There's Williams, wearing his clown nose and in full sugar-gush, staring down as a small child's hand reaches up to squeeze his melancholy nose.
Mr Carpenter said characters such as Pennywise, the murderous clown in Stephen King's novel It, and the evil criminal mastermind the Joker in Batman, had contributed to the view of clowns as "scary".
And although it may embarrass his kids to know end, he's also a former clown.
"If I'm responsible for what's going on in Birmingham, it's because I put that clown in the job, " says Todd, 71.
It's rap-metal duo Insane Clown Posse, whose fans are known as Juggalos.
The answer seems to lie in the heyday of Romanticism and its aftermath, when the role of the clown became associated somehow with the artist's own ambivalent status.
Silent clown Doctor Brown has won the prestigious Foster's Edinburgh Best Comedy Show Award.
BBC: Clown Doctor Brown wins Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award
Paul Carpenter, who performs as Popol the Clown, will be offering the therapy at John Lawson's Circus when it visits Studley from 24 to 26 June.
The clown prince of goalkeepers and a personal friend of Cantona's, Pascal Olmeta, turned in another eccentric performance to match that of last season's testimonial in Munich.
BBC: News | Football | Fergie's testimonial played for laughs
Brazilian TV clown Tiririca, who won more votes than any other candidate in last October's congressional elections, has been sworn into office.
BBC: Brazilian clown Tiririca takes elected seat in congress
Mr. MURRAY HORWITZ (Director, American Film Institute's Silver Theater and Cultural Center): Actually, my kids love the fact that I was a clown.
Dizzie by now was one of jazz's elder statesmen, whose trademark angled horn and bulging cheeks transformed his image from bebop rebel to beloved clown prince.
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