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Airport stop in Cincinnati was enough to inspire a hit song

This week in 1967, The Supreme Court ruled that states cannot ban interracial marriages, Muhammad Ali received a $10,000 fine and five years in jail for evading the draft, the Senate censured Thomas Dodd for using campaign funds for personal benefit, and a young singer from Indiana had her 10th hit song.

The time and place have a lot to do with songs being written and according to Bill Anderson, Connie Smith’s 1967 hit, Cincinnati, Ohio,” was such a song.

Bill commented, “I was at the old Cincinnati Airport, changing planes, and I had a dear friend in Cincinnati named C...
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