Archive for March 31st, 2011

ELIZABETH TAYLOR PERFUME AD

PASSION ELIZABETH TAYLOR

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PORTLAND POSTCARDS ~ THE OAKS

PORTLAND POSTCARD THE OAKS
PORTLAND POSTCARD OAKS 2

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MUSICIAN HERB ALPERT IS 76 TODAY

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LIFE HOME-HOTPROPERTY 2 LA

Herbert "Herb" Alpert is most associated with the group variously known as  
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass or TJB
. He is also
a recording industry executive — he is the "A" of A&M, a recording label he and
business partner Jerry Moss founded. Herb had five number one hits, twenty-  
eight albums on the Billboard charts, eight Grammy Awards, fourteen Platinum 
albums and fifteen Gold albums.

Whipped-Cream-and-other-Delights-Herb-Alpert

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CHRISTOPHER WALKEN, 68 YEARS OLD TODAY

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Christopher Walken, stage and screen actor,  has appeared in more than 100
movies and television shows, including  Annie Hall (1997), The Deer Hunter
(1978), The Prophecy (1995), Pulp Fiction (1994), and The Wedding Crashers
(2005). Walken’s films have grossed more than $1.8 billion. He debuted as a
film director and script writer with the short film Popcorn Shrimp in 2001.

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Christopher Walken in a scene from The Deer Hunter

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Walken in Pulp Fiction

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THE 45 RPM RECORD INTRODUCED ON THIS DATE IN 1949

 
         Early RCA 45 RPM record-8x6
rca 45 rpm record

David Sarnoff, the head of RCA,  ordered his engineers in marketing and
research to bring into production the previously developed RCA Victor 45 
RPM system (which had been kept a carefully guarded industrial secret for  
nearly 10 years). The first advertising for the new ’45’ system appeared in 
Billboard magazine in April 1949, and the first of the new 45 RPM discs
and automatic record players appeared in retail record shops in June 
of 1949.

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David Sarnoff

rca record player

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