Archive for November 18th, 2012

COMIC BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1908

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                        Imogene Fernandez de Coca

                  (November 18, 1908 – June 2, 2001)

Imogene Coca was a comic actress best known for her role
opposite Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows, a live 90-minute
variety show that appeared Saturdays (9-10:30 p.m. ET) on
NBC from February 25, 1950, until June 5, 1954. Coca took
Lessons in piano, dance, and voice as a child and while still a
teenager moved from Philadelphia to New York City to become
a dancer. She got her first job in the chorus of the Broadway
musical When You Smile

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SOUL SINGER IS DEAD AT 65

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         Major Harris III (February 9, 1947 – November 9, 2012)

Major Harris III, a member of the popular late 1960s and early 1970s
"Philadelphia Sound" soul group, "The Delfonics" passed away Friday,
November 9th from congestive heart and lung failure. Harris also sang
with “The Charmers”, and “The Teenagers”, Frankie Lymon’s backing
group. He also had a successful solo career which produced the single
”Love Won’t Let Me Wait” that peaked at number five on Billboard’s Hot 
100 in 1975. (Staff reporter Joe Cool)

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TODAY IN HISTORY

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LINDA EVANS TURNED 70 TODAY

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“Dynasty” fans will remember Linda Evans (Linda Evanstad) as Krystle Carrington on the ABC show from 1981 to 1991. She was also Audra
Barkley in “The Big Valley” also on ABC from 1965 to 1969.


Linda Evans with Rock Hudson

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