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Happy 73rd Birthday Neil Sedaka!

March 13, 2012

Born in Brooklyn on March 13, 1939, classical pianist, singer and songwriter Neil Sedaka has graced the top of the Pop music charts in the Fifties, Sixties, Seventies and Eighties as an artist, and he has written chart topping hits for other artists as well. Sedaka is still touring in this new Millennium. You can [...]

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Happy Birthday Marian Anderson!

February 27, 2012

Marian Anderson (b. 2/27/1897 d. 4/8/1993) performs Schubert‘s “Ave Maria” with Leopold Stokowski, 1944 Click on Miss Anderson’s name above to read more about her. Happy Birthday Ms. Anderson! Happy Black History Month one and all. Hope it has been one of learning for you as it continually is for me.

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Family and friends gather to honor Don Cornelius

February 16, 2012

By Anthony McCartney, The Associated Press Friends and family are gathering for a private memorial service for “Soul Train” creator and host Don Cornelius in Los Angeles. The service was led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who arrived early and perused blowup photos of Cornelius that were positioned around the lobby of Liberty Hall at [...]

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Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012)

February 12, 2012

Yesterday after a long day out running my typical Saturday errands, I decided to spend some time relaxing online. I checked in to one of my social forums and followed up on a few threads I was participating in earlier that morning before leaving the house. It wasn’t until maybe an hour later (by then [...]

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Jimmy Castor, Musician Who Mastered Many Genres, Dies at 71

January 18, 2012

BY DOUGLAS MARTIN| PRINTED IN THE NYTIMES ONLINE EDITION 1/17/2012 Jimmy Castor, a singer, instrumentalist and songwriter whose mastery of genres from doo-wop to Latin soul to funk, and instruments including saxophone and bongos earned him the title Everything Man, died on Monday in Henderson, Nev. He was 71. The cause was heart failure, his [...]

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Happy 83rd Birthday Martin Luther King, Jr.

January 15, 2012

Dr. King had passed in 1968 before this song was released in 1970. I think he would have like it. I think you will too. Please use the holiday to reflect. Listening to this song will get you started.

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Heavy D Cause of Death Revealed

December 27, 2011

TMZ EXCLUSIVE Heavy D died from a pulmonary embolism caused by deep leg vein thrombosis … and a long flight back to L.A. from a Michael Jackson memorial concert may have been a contributing factor. A pulmonary embolism is a blockage of one or more arteries in the lungs — most often caused by blood [...]

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Howard Tate, 72, talented soul singer

December 7, 2011

By Dan DeLuca, Inquirer Music Critic Howard Tate, 72, an immensely talented soul singer who dropped out of the music business in frustration after the often brilliant albums he made in the late 1960s and early 1970s failed to reach a wide audience, died Friday of multiple myeloma and leukemia in his apartment in Burlington [...]

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Michael Jackson’s Father Breaks Silence in Tell-All Documentary “Confessions of a Father”

December 2, 2011

Exclusive Documentary Slated for Release in 2012 By GPA Entertainment Last modified: 2011-12-02T17:09:52Z Published: Friday, Dec. 2, 2011 – 9:09 am LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — GPA Entertainment announced today the pending release of an exclusive documentary featuring 84-year old Joe Jackson, father of pop icon Michael Jackson and self-proclaimed architect of the [...]

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Ten Years Ago Today (Nov 29th) …

November 29, 2011

… George Harrison died of lung cancer at only 58 years young. I remembered his talent earlier today at my Tumblr Blog.

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Andrea True, Singer of Disco Hit, Dies at 68

November 24, 2011

By PAUL VITELLO PUBLISHED 11/24/11 NY TIMES Andrea Truden arrived in New York from Nashville in 1968 with a yearning for stardom and no fixed idea about how to achieve it. She landed bit parts in a slew of movies, including “The Way We Were.” She sang in nightclubs, wrote music for television commercials and, [...]