Archive for November 8th, 2013

NUMBER-ONE ON THIS DAY IN 1969 ~

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This was The Fifth Dimension’s second number one record. The song was originally recorded as a private joke between group members Marilyn
McCoo and Billy Davis Jr., who were engaged at the time.

 

 

              
 

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LOOKING BACK AT TODAY IN HISTORY

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Bonnie in the 1970s

Bonnie Raitt poses backstage at the 55th annual Grammy Awards. 

Bonnie Lynn Raitt is 64 today. She is on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest
Singers of All Time at #50 and her 2013 album “Slipstream” won Best
Americana Album at the Grammy Awards.

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GUNFIGHTER DIED ON THIS DAY IN 1887

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John Henry "Doc" Holliday
(August 14, 1851 – November 8, 1887)

Holliday was a gambler, gunfighter, and dentist of the Old West who is 
remembered for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and his involvement in
the famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

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