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--- MAY THEIR MUSICAL GIFTS LAST FOREVER ---Music Loverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17021106473037345313noreply@blogger.comBlogger301125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7028272606974151484.post-53452299445580356752014-02-10T01:00:00.000-08:002014-02-11T11:57:36.759-08:00February 10: Singer, actress, dancer, and U.S. Ambassador, Shirley Temple Black died on this date in 2014…<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Shirley Temple was born on April 23, 1928, in Santa Monica, California. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Temple's mother encouraged her infant daughter's singing, dancing, and acting talents, and in September 1931 enrolled her in Meglin's Dance School in Los Angeles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">About this time, Temple's mother began styling her daughter's hair in ringlets similar to those of silent film star Mary Pickford. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">In January 1932, Temple was signed by Educational Pictures following a talent search at the dance school. She appeared in a series of one-reelers called <em>Baby Burlesks</em>, and a series of two-reelers called <em>Frolics of Youth</em> playing Mary Lou Rogers, a youngster in a contemporary suburban family. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">To underwrite production costs at Educational, Temple and her child co-stars modeled for breakfast cereals and other products. She was loaned to Tower Productions for a small role in her first feature film (Red-Haired Alibi) in 1932 and, in 1933, to Universal, Paramount, and Warner Bros. for various bit parts when she was three-years-old.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">In 1934, at the age of four, she found international fame in Bright Eyes, a feature film designed specifically for her talents. She received a special Juvenile Academy Award in February 1935 for her outstanding contribution as a juvenile performer to motion pictures during 1934, and film hits such as <em>Curly Top</em> and <em>Heidi </em>followed year after year during the mid-to-late 1930s. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><em><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">T</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">he Shirley Temple Cocktail <span class="goog_qs-tidbit-0"><span class="goog_qs-tidbit goog_qs-tidbit-0">is a non-alcoholic mixed drink</span></span><span class="goog_qs-tidbit-0"><span class="goog_qs-tidbit goog_qs-tidbit-0"> made with Lemon-Lime soda, grenadine syrup</span></span><span class="goog_qs-tidbit-0"><span class="goog_qs-tidbit goog_qs-tidbit-0">, and garnished with a maraschino cherry</span></span><span class="goog_qs-tidbit-0"><span class="goog_qs-tidbit goog_qs-tidbit-0">. </span></span>Shirley Temples are often served to children dining with adults in lieu of real cocktails.</span></span></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Licensed merchandise that capitalized on her wholesome image included dolls, dishes, and clothing. Her box office popularity waned as she reached adolescence, and she left the film industry in her teens. She appeared in a few films of varying quality in her mid-to-late teens, and retired completely from films in 1950 at the age of 22. </span><br />
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Temple returned to show business in 1958 with a two-season television anthology series of fairy tale adaptations. She made guest appearances on television shows in the early 1960s and filmed a sitcom pilot that was never released. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Shirley sat on the boards of corporations and organizations including The Walt Disney Company, Del Monte Foods, and the National Wildlife Federation. </span><br />
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Shirley Temple Black served as U.S. ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. She also served as Chief of Protocol of the United States, 1976–1977.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Peter "Pete" Seeger Seeger was born in Manhattan, New York. His family history dated back to the American revolution. Pete's father, the Harvard-trained composer and musicologist Charles Louis Seeger, Jr., established the first musicology curriculum in the U.S. at the University of California in 1913, helped found the American Musicological Society, and was a key founder of the academic discipline of ethnomusicology. </span><br />
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In 1912, Charles Seeger was hired to establish the music department at the University of California, Berkeley, but was forced to resign in 1918 because of his outspoken pacifism during World War I. When Pete was eighteen months old, the family lived in a trailer and embarked on a mission to bring music to the working people in the American South. Upon their return, Constance taught violin and Charles taught composition at the New York Institute of Musical Art (later Juilliard).
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">During the summer of 1936, Pete heard the five-string banjo for the first time at the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival in western North Carolina. He spent much of the next four years trying to master the five-string banjo. The teenage Seeger also sometimes accompanied his parents to regular Saturday evening gatherings in Greenwich Village.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Repeatedly pressed by the committee to reveal whether he had sung for Communists, Seeger responded sharply: "I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent this implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, or I might be a vegetarian, make me any less of an American." He was charged with contempt of Congress, but the sentence was overturned on appeal.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Seeger was one of the folksingers most responsible for popularizing the spiritual "We Shall Overcome" became the acknowledged anthem of the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement, soon after folk singer and activist Guy Carawan introduced it at the founding meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Don was born in Powderly, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, and Phil two years later in Chicago, Illinois. Their father, Ike Everly, was a musician. Ike Everly had a show on KMA and KFNF in Shenandoah, Iowa, in the 1940s, with his wife Margaret and two young sons. Singing on the show gave the brothers their first exposure to the music industry. The family sang together live and traveled in the area singing as the Everly Family. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">As the brothers transitioned out of the family act and into a duo, family friend Chet Atkins became an early champion of The Everly Brothers. Despite Atkins' affiliation with RCA Records, it was Atkins who engineered a chance for The Everly Brothers to record for Columbia Records in early 1956. However, their first and only single for the label, "Keep A' Lovin' Me," was a flop, and they were quickly dropped from Columbia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Their first Cadence single, "Bye Bye Love," had been rejected by 30 other acts - including Elvis Presley - but the Everlys saw potential in the song. Their recording of "Bye Bye Love" reached #2 on the pop charts behind Presley's "Let Me Be Your Teddy Bear," hitting #1 on the Country and the R&B charts. The song became the Everly Brothers' first million-seller.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Reed enrolled at Syracuse University in 1960. In 1961 he began hosting a late-night radio program on WAER called "Excursions On A Wobbly Rail" - named after a song by pianist Cecil Taylor. The program typically featured doo wop, rhythm and blues and jazz, particularly the free jazz developed in the mid-1950s. Many of Reed's guitar techniques, such as the guitar-drum roll, were inspired by jazz saxophonists, notably Ornette Coleman. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Reed graduated with a B.A. in June 1964.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. was born on August 20, 1942 in Covington, Tennessee. Hayes began singing at the age of five at his local church, and, soon after, he taught himself to play the piano, the Hammond organ, the flute, and the saxophone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Later, he was given his third Grammy for his music album <em>Black Moses</em>.
In 1992, in recognition of humanitarian work there, he was crowned the honorary king of the Ada, Ghana region. He also acted in motion pictures and television, such as in the movies <em>Truck Turner</em> and <em>I'm Gonna Git You Sucka</em>, and as Gandolf "Gandy" Fitch in the TV series <em>The Rockford Files from </em>1974–1980. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">From 1997 to 2005, he lent his distinctive, deep voice to the character "Chef" on the animated TV series <em>South Park.</em>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">In 2005, Hayes, Porter, Bill Withers, the Sherman Brothers, Steve Cropper, and John Fogerty were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in recognition of writing scores of notable songs for themselves, the duo Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, and others.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Born in The Bronx, New York, Gormé and <a href="http://today-is-their-birthday.blogspot.com/2013/07/july-8-singer-steve-lawrence-is-78.html">Steve Lawrence</a> - whom she married in 1957- were best known for their on stage banter, which usually involved bawdy references to their married life. Soon after their marriage, the pair had landed their own TV program, "The Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme Show." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Her first big break came when she landed a tour with the Tommy Tucker band, and she followed that up with gigs with Tex Beneke, Ray Eberle and on radio and television. Among her radio appearances was one on a Spanish language show, <em>Cita Con Eydie</em> (A Date with Eydie), which was beamed to Latin America by Voice of America.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Throughout their careers, they appeared at nightclubs in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and Las Vegas. When nightclubs dwindled in popularity in the 1980s, they moved their act to large theaters and auditoriums, drawing not only older audiences but also the Baby Boomers who had grown up on rock 'n' roll.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Cory Allan Michael Monteith was born on May 11, 1982 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was raised by their mother in Victoria, British Columbia. He began delving into drugs and alcohol, which in turn affected his studies and school attendance.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">After attending 16 different schools, including alternative programs for troubled teens, he eventually quit school at the age of 16. By that time, his drug and alcohol addiction had increased and Monteith turned to petty crimes. He was sent to rehab at 19.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">He played minor roles in <em>Final Destination 3, Whisper</em>, and <em>Deck the Halls</em>. He had a recurring role in <em>Kyle XY</em>. He also made guest appearances in television serials as <em>Smallville, Supernatural, Flash Gordon, Stargate Atlantis</em>, and <em>Stargate SG-1</em>. In 2005, he appeared in <em>Killer Bash</em>.</span><br />
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In 2009, Monteith was cast in the Fox series <em>Glee as</em> Finn Hudson. When Glee was being cast, Monteith's agent submitted a video of him drumming with some pencils and Tupperware containers. When it was pointed out that auditioning actors for <em>Glee</em> with no theatrical experience were required to prove they could sing Monteith submitted a second, musical tape, in which he sang "a cheesy '80s music video-style version" of REO Speedwagon's "Can't Fight This Feeling." He then attended a mass audition in Los Angeles.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">On the show Finn is the star quarterback of his high school football team, and risks alienation from his friends by joining the school’s glee club.
The character must deal with his attraction to both head cheerleader Quinn Fabray (Dianna Agron) and glee club star singer Rachel Berry (<a href="http://today-is-their-birthday.blogspot.com/2012/08/august-29-lea-michele-of-glee-is-26.html"><span style="color: blue;">Lea Michele</span></a>), and his storylines increasingly focus on his relationship with them both.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Monteith was staying at the Fairmont Pacific Hotel and missed his check out time. Just after noon, he was found dead and alone in his room on the 21st floor. On March 31, 2013, it was announced that Monteith had voluntarily admitted himself into a treatment facility for substance addiction.
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Monteith checked in July 6 and according to police, he was not staying with his girlfriend, Glee co-star </span><a href="http://today-is-their-birthday.blogspot.com/2012/08/august-29-lea-michele-of-glee-is-26.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Lea Michele</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Roy Rogers, was born Leonard Franklin Slye on November 5, 1911 in Cincinnati, Ohio. An American icon, Rogers was one of the most heavily marketed and merchandised stars of his era, as well as being the namesake of the Roy Rogers Restaurants franchised chain. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">He and his wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino, Trigger, and his German Shepherd dog, Bullet, were featured in more than 100 movies and <em>The Roy Rogers Show</em>. The show ran on radio for nine years before moving to television from 1951 through 1957. His productions usually featured a sidekick, often either Pat Brady (who drove a Jeep called "Nellybelle"), Andy Devine, or the crotchety George "Gabby" Hayes. </span><br />
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The economic hardship of the Great Depression had the Slye family traveling from job to job picking fruit and living in worker campsites. Leonard, having seen the joy that his guitar and singing had brought to the destitute around the campfires, hesitantly told his father that he was going to pursue a living in music. With his father's blessing, he and cousin Stanley Slye went to Los Angeles and sought musical engagements as the Slye Brothers.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">After his first wife Arline, died in childbirth, Rogers and Dale Evans married on New Year's Eve in 1947 at the Flying L Ranch in Davis, Oklahoma, where a few months earlier they had filmed Home in Oklahoma. Rogers and Evans remained married until Rogers's death in 1998.
After four years of little success as a singer, he formed the Sons of the Pioneers with Bob Nolan and Tim Spencer, a Western cowboy music group, in 1934. The group hit it big with songs like "Cool Water" and "Tumbling Tumbleweeds.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">From his first film appearance in 1935, he worked steadily in western films, including a large supporting role as a singing cowboy while still billed as "Leonard Slye" in a Gene Autry movie. In 1938, when Autry temporarily walked out on his movie contract, Slye was immediately rechristened "Roy Rogers.” Slye's stage name was suggested by Republic Picture's staff after Will Rogers and the shortening of Leroy. and assigned the lead in Under Western Stars. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Louis Armstrong was born August 4, 1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana, the grandson of slaves. He spent his youth in poverty, in a rough neighborhood of Uptown New Orleans, known as “Back of the Town.”
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">After dropping out of the Fisk School at age eleven, Armstrong joined a quartet of boys who sang in the streets for money. But he also started to get into trouble. Armstrong developed his cornet playing seriously in the band of the New Orleans Home for Colored Waifs. Professor Peter Davis made Armstrong the band leader. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The Home band played around New Orleans and the thirteen-year-old Louis began to draw attention by his cornet playing, starting him on a musical career. Armstrong got his first dance hall job at Henry Ponce’s where Black Benny became his protector and guide. He hauled coal by day and played his cornet at night. He played in the city's frequent brass band parades and listened to older musicians every chance he got, learning from Bunk Johnson, Buddy Petit, Kid Ory, and above all, Joe "King" Oliver, who acted as a mentor and father figure to the young musician. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Pinkney grew up singing his favorite music, gospel, in his church choir. Before his career with the Drifters, Pinkney was a pitcher for the Negro Baseball League's New York Blue Sox sandlot team. He also served in the United States Army in World War II. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">On their first record, "Money Honey,” Pinkney, a natural bass-baritone with a multi-octave range, actually sang first tenor. After Ferbie left, Pinkney switched to the bass part, in which he was heard on "Honey Love," "White Christmas," "Adorable," "Ruby Baby," and many other early Drifters recordings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">In 1954 the Drifters recorded their version of "White Christmas" by Irving Berlin. That version was featured in the 1990 movie Home Alone.
Pinkney can also be heard singing lead on the 1956 recording "I Should Have Done Right" and 1955's "Steamboat.” Pinkney was in and out of the group from 1956 through 1958. He did not participate in the recording of later hits like "Fools Fall in Love" and "Drip Drop," which featured bass Tommy Evans.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">In 1958 the manager fired all of the individual Drifters and hired all new singers, The Crowns (formally known as the Five Crowns), signing them under the Drifters' name. Pinkney quickly created a group called the Original Drifters, made up of key members of the first group. </span><br />
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After playing drums in his high school band, Vallée played clarinet and saxophone in various bands around New England as a teenager.</span><br />
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From 1924 through 1925, he played with the Savoy Havana Band at the Savoy Hotel in London, where his fellow band-members discouraged his attempts to become a vocalist. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">He then returned to the U.S. and earned a degree in philosophy from Yale and to form his own band, "Rudy Vallée and the Connecticut Yankees." With this band, which featured two violins, two saxophones, a piano, a banjo and drums, he started singing. He had a rather thin, wavering tenor voice and with his suave manner and boyish good looks, attracted great attention, especially from young women. </span><br />
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Vallée became the most prominent and, the first of a new style of popular singer, known as a “crooner”; well-suited for listening to on the radio. Some people credit him as the first “pop-star.”
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Vallée's recording career began in 1928 recording for Columbia Records' labels Harmony, Velvet Tone, and Diva. He signed to Victor in February 1929 and remained with them through to late 1931, leaving after a heated dispute with company executives over title selections. He then recorded for the short-lived, but extremely popular "Hit of the Week" label.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Along with his group, The Connecticut Yankees, Vallée's best known popular recordings included: "The Stein Song" (aka University of Maine fighting song) in 1929 and "Vieni, Vieni" in the latter 1930s. Vallée's last hit song was the 1943 reissue of the melancholy ballad "As Time Goes By,” popularized in the feature film <em>Casablanca</em> in 1943.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Vallée acted in a number of Hollywood films starting with <em>The Vagabond Lover</em> in 1929. His earliest films showed him rather stiff and unemotional but by the 1940s he had become a successful comedic supporting player. He appeared opposite Claudette Colbert in the 1942 Preston Sturges comedy <em>The Palm Beach Story</em>. </span><br />
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In 1955, Vallée was featured in Gentlemen <em>Marry Brunettes.</em> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">He performed on Broadway as J.B. Biggley in the musical <em>How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying</em> and reprised the role in the film version of the show. He appeared in the campy 1960s Batman television show as the character "Lord Marmaduke Ffogg.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">While working at a Tampa shipyard, he performed with the Variety Rhythm Boys. Whitman's first big break came when talent manager "Colonel" Thomas Parker heard him singing on the radio and offered to represent him. Signed with RCA Records, he released his first single in 1948. He toured and sang at a variety of venues, including on the radio show <em>Louisiana Hayride</em>.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">In the early 1950s his first hit was a rendition of Bob Nolan’s hit Love Song of the Waterfall, which made it into the country music top 10.] His next single, "Indian Love Call," was even more successful, reaching number 2 in the country music charts and appearing in the pop music charts top ten in the US.
Whitman avoided the "down on yer luck buried in booze" songs, preferring instead to sing laid-back romantic melodies about simple life and love. Critics dubbed his style "countrypolitan," owing to its fusion of country music and a more sophisticated crooning vocal style.
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In 1979, Whitman produced a TV commercial to support the release of a greatest hits compilation titled <em>All My Best</em>, which went on to be the best-selling TV-marketed record in music history, with almost 1.5 million units sold. <em>Just For You</em> followed in 1980, <em>The Best</em> in 1982, <em>Best Loved Favorites</em> in 1989 and<em> 20 Precious Memories</em> in 1991.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Best Original Screenplay, 1951 <em>An American in Paris</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Best Original Song, 1968 <em>Camelot</em></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Best Original Score, 1975 <em>The Little Prince</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Best Book of a Musical, 1957 <em>My Fair Lady</em></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Best Original Score, 1957 <em>My Fair Lady</em> and 1974 <em>Gigi</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Marvin Junior, the robust baritone for the Dells, a Chicago doo-wop and rhythm-and-blues group that was formed when he and most of its other members were in high school in the early 1950s, died on June 5, 2013 at his home in Harvey, Ill from kidney and heart problems. He was 77-years-old when he passed away.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Marvin Junior was born on Jan. 31, 1936, in Harold, Ark. His family moved to Illinois when he was a boy.
He grew up hoping to be the next Ray Charles. Instead, in 1952 he teamed up with friends from Thornton Township High School in Harvey to sing under an overpass in the Chicago suburb because "It had good acoustics."
Then known as The El-Rays they released their first recording in 1954. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Junior co- wrote the Dells' first hit, "Oh What a Nite." Originally released in 1956, it was rerecorded with a new arrangement in 1969 and released as "Oh, What a Night." Other hits follow; including "Stay in My Corner," which was originally released in 1965 and also rerecorded and released again in 1969. The reworked versions of both songs went to No. 1 on the Billboard R&B chart and reached the Top 10 on the pop chart. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Among the group’s other hits were "I Touched a Dream," "Give Your Baby a Standing Ovation" and "The Love We Had (Stays on My Mind)."
The Dells served as consultants, and an inspiration, for <em>The Five Heartbeats</em>, Robert Townsend's 1991 film about a fictitious singing group. Townsend spent time touring with the Dells while doing research for the film. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">"A Heart Is a House for Love,'' which the Dells recorded for the film's soundtrack, reached the Top 100.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">William Everett "Billy" Preston, a rhythm and blues legend, was born in Houston, Texas but spent most of his formative years in Los Angeles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Billy was called the Fifth Beatle because he played keyboards on <em>Let it Be, The White Album</em> and <em>Abbey Road</em>. He is one of only two musicians to ever receive billing on a Beatles' album. (The other is Tony Sheridan.) The label of the "Get Back" single credits the artists on the record as The Beatles with Billy Preston.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He also played on the Rolling Stones' hit song "Miss You," and often played with Eric Clapton. He also did the organ work on Sly & the Family Stone's greatest hits. Preston's own hits included "Nothing from Nothing," "Will it Go Round in Circles," and "You Are So Beautiful," which Joe Cocker turned into an international hit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Preston was actually mentored by Ray Charles, and acts like Little Richard, Mahalia Jackson, and James Cleveland had a huge impact on him at a young age. In the early 60s, Billy went to Europe with Little Richard who playing in Hamburg. The Beatles were the opening act and as the story goes he was the one who made sure they got fed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Other stars Preston collaborated with include: The Band, Nat King Cole, Little Richard, Eric Burdon, Ray Charles, <a href="http://today-this-musician-died.blogspot.com/2010/11/nov-29-beatles-george-harrison-mbe-died.html"><span style="color: blue;">George Harrison</span></a>, Elton John, Bob Dylan, <a href="http://today-this-musician-died.blogspot.com/2010/12/dec-11-sam-cooke-cupid-you-send-me.html"><span style="color: blue;">Sam Cooke</span></a>, King Curtis, <a href="http://today-is-their-birthday.blogspot.com/2010/12/dec-8-sammy-davis-jr-was-born-on-this.html"><span style="color: blue;">Sammy Davis Jr</span></a>., Aretha Franklin, The Jackson 5, Quincy Jones, Mick Jagger, Richie Sambora, <a href="http://today-this-musician-died.blogspot.com/2010/09/sept-12-johnny-cash-died-on-this-day-in.html"><span style="color: blue;">Johnny Cash</span></a>, Neil Diamond, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Ringo Starr. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Jeanne Murray Stapleton was born in New York City on January 19, 1923. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">After attending Hunter College, At age 18, she began her career in 1941 in summer stock and made her New York debut in American Gothic, an Off-Broadway play. She was featured on Broadway in several hit musicals, such as <em>Damn Yankees, Funny Girl, Bells Are Ringing</em>, and <em>Juno.</em> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Of course, Stapleton was best known for her portrayal of Edith Bunker on the 1970s situation comedy <em>All in the Family</em>; portraying, the long-suffering, yet devoted wife of Archie Bunker, played by Carroll O'Connor. Stapleton was also seen occasionally on the <em>All in the Family</em> follow-up series, Archie Bunker's Place, but, tired of the role, asked to be written out after the first season.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Radner gained name recognition as one of the original "Not Ready for Prime Time Players,” a member of the freshman group on the first season of <em>Saturday Night Live</em>. She was the first performer cast for the show. Between 1975 and 1980, she created such characters as obnoxious personal advice expert Roseanne Roseannadanna, "Baba Wawa,” a parody of Barbara Walters, and Emily Litella, an elderly hearing-impaired woman who gave angry and misinformed editorial replies on "Weekend Update". Radner also parodied such celebrities as Lucille Ball, Patti Smith, and Olga Korbut in SNL sketches. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">In 1979, incoming NBC President Fred Silverman offered Radner her own prime time variety show, which she ultimately turned down. That year, she was one of the hosts of the Music for UNICEF Concert at the United Nations General Assembly.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">George Glenn Jones was born in Saratoga, Texas, Jones left home at 16 and headed for Jasper, Texas where he found work singing and playing on a local radio station. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Jones is know for his long list of hit records, his distinctive voice - and his marriage to Tammy Wynette. Throughout his long career, Jones made headlines often as much for tales of his drinking, stormy relationships with women, and violent rages as for his prolific career of making records and touring. His wild lifestyle led to Jones missing many performances, earning him the nickname "No Show Jones." </span><br />
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Music Loverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17021106473037345313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7028272606974151484.post-61765082948951075112013-04-25T17:05:00.000-07:002013-05-31T13:30:15.246-07:00April 25: Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes of TLC died on this date in 2002...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">TLC started off as a female trio called Second Nature. The group was renamed TLC — derived from the first initials of its then three members — Tionne, Lisa and Crystal. Things didn't work out with Crystal Jones, and TLC's manager Perri "Pebbles" Reid brought in Damian Dame backup dancer Rozonda Thomas as a third member of the group. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The group's first album in 1992 was <em>Ooooooohhh...</em> On the TLC Tip. With three singles, it sold six million copies worldwide. In 1994, they released <em>CrazySexyCool</em>, which sold over fifteen million copies worldwide and cemented TLC as one of the biggest female groups of all time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">TLC's third album, <em>FanMail</em>, was released in 1999 and sold over ten million copies. During the recording of <em>FanMail,</em> a public conflict began amongst the members of the group. Lopes sent a message to Vibe magazine saying, "I've graduated from this era. I cannot stand 100 percent behind this TLC project and the music that is supposed to represent me." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">After <em>Fanmail</em>, Lopes began to expand her solo career. She became a featured rapper on several singles, including former Spice Girl Melanie C's "Never Be the Same Again," which went to #1 in 35 countries, including the UK. She was also featured on the first single from Donell Jones' second album, "U Know What's Up," and she sang "Space Cowboy" with *NSYNC on their 2000 album, No Strings Attached. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">About nine months before her death, Lopes appeared on the singers' edition of <em>Who Wants to Be a Millionaire</em> along with Joey McIntyre, Tyrese, Nick Lachey, and Lee Ann Womack. She dropped from a $125,000 question and won $32,000 for charity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Lopes created "Left Eye Productions" to discover new talent. She helped the R&B trio Blaque to secure a record deal with Columbia Records. Their self-titled debut album was executive-produced by Lopes, who also made a cameo appearance on the album and in their music video "I Do." </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Lopes was also developing another new band called Egypt. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">At the age of 20, Richie left Brooklyn for the artistic stimulation of Greenwich Village. He had first gone there during the beatnik days of the 1950s to perform poetry, then drew portraits for two years and stayed up all night listening to folk music in the clubs. After a while, he began playing guitar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Verve released <em>Mixed Bag</em> in 1967, which featured tracks like "Handsome Johnny" (co-written by Havens and future Oscar-winning actor Louis Gossett Jr.), "Follow," and a cover of Bob Dylan’s "Just Like A Woman." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">By 1969, he had released five more albums. <em>Something Else</em> Again became Havens' first album to hit the Billboard chart and also elevated <em>Mixed Bag</em> back onto the charts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">His Woodstock appearance proved to be a major turning point in his career. As the festival’s first performer, he held the crowd for nearly three hours - in part because he was told to perform a lengthy set because many artists were delayed in reaching the festival location - and called back for several encores. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Having run out of tunes, he improvised a song based on the old spiritual "Motherless Child" that became "Freedom." The subsequent Woodstock movie release helped Havens reach a worldwide audience. He also appeared at the Isle of Wight Festival in late August 1969.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Stormy Forest went on to release four more of his own albums: <em>The Great Blind Degree,</em> <em>Live On Stage</em>,<em> Portfolio</em> and <em>Mixed Bag II.</em></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Havens also branched out into acting during the 1970s. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">In the mid-1970s, he co-founded the Northwind Undersea Institute, an oceanographic children’s museum on City Island in the Bronx. That, in turn, led to the creation of The Natural Guard, an organization Richie describes as “a way of helping kids learn that they can have a hands-on role in affecting the environment. Children study the land, water, and air in their own communities and see how they can make positive changes from something as simple as planting a garden in an abandoned lot.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">In 2000, Havens published <em>They Can't Hide Us Anymore</em>, an autobiography co-written with Steve Davidowitz. Havens has maintained his status as a folk icon, and continues to tour. In 2002, Havens released Wishing Well, followed by the 2004 album, Grace of the Sun.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"> <span style="line-height: 115%;">Durbin made her first film appearance in 1936 with Judy Garland in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Every Sunday</i>, and subsequently signed a contract with Universal Studios</span> who changed her name to "Deanna."<span style="line-height: 115%;"> Her success as the ideal teenage daughter in films such as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Three Smart Girls</i> </span>in <span style="line-height: 115%;">1936</span> helped <span style="line-height: 115%;">sav</span>e<span style="line-height: 115%;"> the studio from bankruptcy. In 1938 Durbin was awarded the Academy Juvenile Award.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"> <span style="line-height: 115%;">In late 1936, Cesar Sturani, who was the General Music Secretary of the Metropolitan Opera, offered Deanna Durbin an audition. Durbin turned down his request because she felt she needed more singing lessons. Andrés de Segurola, who was the vocal coach working with Universal Studios (and himself a former Metropolitan Opera singer), believed that Deanna Durbin had an excellent opportunity to become an opera star. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Between December 15, 1936 and July 22, 1947, Deanna Durbin recorded 50 tunes for Decca Records. While often re-creating her movie songs for commercial release, Durbin also covered independent standards, like "Kiss Me Again," "My Hero," "Annie Laurie," "Poor Butterfly," "Love's Old Sweet Song" and "God Bless America."</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Over the years, Durbin resisted numerous offers to perform again, including two choice proposals by MGM, asking her to take the female lead in the screen version of Cole Porter's <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kiss Me Kate</i> </span>in <span style="line-height: 115%;">1953, and to costar with Mario Lanza in Sigmund Romberg's operetta, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Student Prince</i> </span>in <span style="line-height: 115%;">1954. As for stage shows, Durbin had been invited to play <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kiss Me Kate</i> 's Lilli Vanessi in London's 1951-52 West End production</span>.<span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Linda Louise -Eastman McCartney, aslso known as Lady McCartney was an American photographer, musician and animal rights activist. She married <a href="http://today-is-their-birthday.blogspot.com/2011/06/june-18-paul-mccartney-is-69-years-old.html"><span style="color: blue;">Paul McCartney</span></a> on March 12, 1969, and was a member of Wings. </span></span></span></div>
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Music Loverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17021106473037345313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7028272606974151484.post-65076007785518179902013-04-12T16:07:00.000-07:002013-08-31T16:08:00.076-07:00April 12: "Boxcar Willie" died on this date in 1999…<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Born Lecil Travis Martin in Sterret, Texas, Lecil sang in the "old-time hobo" music style, complete with dirty face, overalls, and a floppy hat. His stage name Boxcar Willie came from a character in a ballad he wrote and sang.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1960's teenage heartthrob - and Mousketeer - singer and actress Annette Joanne Funicello was born on this date in Utica, New York in 1942. In the late '50s she was the most popular cast member of The Mickey Mouse Club, and went on to appear in a series of beach party films.</span></span></span></div>
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