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MUSICIAN HERB ALPERT IS 76 TODAY
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.
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CHRISTOPHER WALKEN, 68 YEARS OLD TODAY
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.
Christopher Walken in a scene from The Deer Hunter
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THE 45 RPM RECORD INTRODUCED ON THIS DATE IN 1949
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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