INTO LAW. NEW ON WLWT A BITTERSWEET SURPRISE FOR A CINCINNATI WOMAN WHO LOST HER FATHER YEARS AGO. THAT’S RIGHT. HE WAS A WELL KNOWN SINGER AND SONGWRITER. WLWT NEWS FIVE’S CHRIS CHRIS JACOBS JOINS US NOW TO SHOW US HOW THE MEMENTOS FROM THE PAST IS KEEPING HIS MEMORY ALIVE. CHRIS. YEAH, AND IT SEEMS THE MUSIC NEVER STOPS FOR SOME. AND SOME PEOPLE SAY THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A COINCIDENCE. AND THAT SENTIMENT WAS ECHOED HERE WHEN A CHILDHOOD NEIGHBOR STUMBLED UPON A BELOVED PIECE OF THE PAST. IT WAS JUST A GOOD MAN WITH THE BIGGEST HEART AND HEART OF GOLD. A BEAUTIFUL SPIRIT AND A VOICE TO MATCH. A CINCINNATI NATIVE AMERICAN SINGER AND SONGWRITER, CARL DOBKINS JR. BEST KNOWN FOR HIS 1959 HIT MY HEART IS AN OPEN BOOK, PASSED AWAY IN 2020, BUT HIS LEGACY IS STILL ALIVE. HIS DAUGHTER ANITA RECEIVED A MESSAGE LAST WEEK THAT HAS CHANGED HER LIFE. I HAD GOT A PRIVATE MESSAGE ON FACEBOOK FROM AN OLD NEIGHBOR AND HER BROTHER HAD BEEN TO AN AUCTION HOUSE ON FAIRFIELD ON ROUTE FOUR, AND SAW THIS GUITAR THAT WOULD AUTOGRAPH FOR MY DAD AND TOOK SOME PICTURES AND MESSAGED HER. PLEASE TELL ANITA THAT THIS IS THIS IS THERE. AFTER GETTING INTO A MANY BIDDING WAR AT THE AUCTION HOUSE, THE GUITAR IS NOW BACK WHERE ANITA SAYS IT BELONGS. IT WAS AN EMOTIONAL RIDE HOME, TOOK IT HOME AND WRAPPED IT UP IN A LITTLE BLANKET AND, UH. AND NOW WE’RE GIVING IT SOME TLC, TRYING TO BREATHE SOME LIFE BACK INTO IT. WHAT SOME WOULD CONSIDER A COINCIDENCE, SHE CONSIDERS A WINK FROM A HIGHER POWER. I’VE JUST REALLY FELT LIKE ALL THE PLACES OF ALL THE WORLD FOR ONE OF THESE GUITARS TO TURN UP AND HIM SEE IT AND CONTACT THAT, YOU KNOW IT REALLY. I THINK THIS WAS A GOD CONNECTION THERE. IT HAD TO BE. I KNOW IT WAS EVERY TIME I WALKED BY. IT JUST KIND OF MAKES ME FEEL WARM AND SMILE AND LIKE SAY, HEY, DAD. ANITA SAYS THERE’S ONE THING SHE WANTS HER DAD TO KNOW. JUST KEEP SINGING. PRETTY. JUST LIKE YOU WANTED ME TO. DAD. JUST KEEP SHARING THAT JOY OF MUSIC. JUST LIKE HE SHARED IT WITH ME. WELL, ANITA DOBKINS WHITE IS A VOCALIST HERSELF IN THE MUSICAL DUO ANITA AND THE DAVES. SHE SAYS SHE’D LOVE TO PLAY THAT
Daughter of late singer, songwriter finds guitar signed by father
American singer and songwriter, Carl Dobkins Jr., finest identified for his 1959 hit ‘My Heart Is an Open Book’ handed away in 2020, however his legacy remains to be alive.
A Cincinnati, Ohio, native, American singer, and songwriter, Carl Dobkins Jr., finest identified for his 1959 hit “My Heart Is an Open Book” handed away in 2020, however his legacy remains to be alive.”He was only a good man with the most important coronary heart, coronary heart of gold, and a good looking spirit and a voice to match,” his daughter, Anita Dobkins-White stated. She acquired a message final week that has modified her life.”I acquired a non-public message on Facebook from an previous neighbor, and her brother had been to an public sale home in Fairfield on Route 4 and noticed this guitar that was autographed by my dad and took some footage and messaged her, ‘Please inform Anita that that is that is there.'”After getting right into a mini bidding conflict on the public sale home, the guitar is now again the place Dobkins-White says it belongs.”It was an emotional trip dwelling, I took it dwelling and wrapped it up in a blanket, and now we’re giving it some TLC making an attempt to carry some life again into it,” she stated.What some would take into account a coincidence, she considers a wink from the next energy.”I’ve simply actually felt like out of all of the locations, on the planet for one of these guitars to show up and he sees it in touch that, , I feel this was a God connection there. It needed to be, I do know it was,” she stated. “Every time I stroll by, it simply type of makes me really feel heat and smile. I say, ‘Hey, Dad.'”She says there’s one factor she desires her dad to know.”I’ll simply preserve singing fairly identical to you needed me to, Dad, and simply preserve sharing that pleasure of music, identical to you shared it with me,” she expressed.Dobkins-White is a vocalist herself within the musical duo, Anita and The Daves.She says she’d like to play the guitar on stage if it is introduced again to life.
A Cincinnati, Ohio, native, American singer, and songwriter, Carl Dobkins Jr., finest identified for his 1959 hit “My Heart Is an Open Book” handed away in 2020, however his legacy remains to be alive.
“He was only a good man with the most important coronary heart, coronary heart of gold, and a good looking spirit and a voice to match,” his daughter, Anita Dobkins-White stated.
She acquired a message final week that has modified her life.
“I acquired a non-public message on Facebook from an previous neighbor, and her brother had been to an public sale home in Fairfield on Route 4 and noticed this guitar that was autographed by my dad and took some footage and messaged her, ‘Please inform Anita that that is that is there.'”
After getting right into a mini bidding conflict on the public sale home, the guitar is now again the place Dobkins-White says it belongs.
“It was an emotional trip dwelling, I took it dwelling and wrapped it up in a blanket, and now we’re giving it some TLC making an attempt to carry some life again into it,” she stated.
What some would take into account a coincidence, she considers a wink from the next energy.
“I’ve simply actually felt like out of all of the locations, on the planet for one of these guitars to show up and he sees it in touch that, , I feel this was a God connection there. It needed to be, I do know it was,” she stated. “Every time I stroll by, it simply type of makes me really feel heat and smile. I say, ‘Hey, Dad.'”
She says there’s one factor she desires her dad to know.
“I’ll simply preserve singing fairly identical to you needed me to, Dad, and simply preserve sharing that pleasure of music, identical to you shared it with me,” she expressed.
Dobkins-White is a vocalist herself within the musical duo, Anita and The Daves.
She says she’d like to play the guitar on stage if it is introduced again to life.
