Archive for May 22nd, 2012

A KEX RADIO PROMOTION FROM 1956

KEX Cake Mix promo Set 1956

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KEYBOARD MASTER TURNED 78 TODAY

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Peter Nero
(born Bernard Nierow) recorded his first album in 1961,
and won a Grammy Award that year for "Best New Artist." Since then,
he has received another Grammy, ten additional nominations and
released 67 albums. When Nero was with RCA Records he produced
23 albums in eight years. He later moved to Columbia Records where
the outcome was the million-selling single and album, Summer of ‘42. 

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PORTLAND ROSE FESTIVAL TICKETS ~ 1956

rose festival tickets

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THE KING’S LAST SHOW ON THIS DAY IN 1992

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A news report that aired in Melbourne, Australia 

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POLITICAL NEWS ON THIS DAY IN 1972

nixon in russia

President Richard Nixon meets with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.

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