Archive for July 30th, 2012

A MUSICAL MEMORY FROM THE VOGUES

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“Five O’clock World” was released in November of 1965
and peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 15–
22 January
1966.

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The Vogues were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2001 and remain one of the top vocal groups on the oldies scene today even though their first hit, "You’re the One," was released over 40 years ago.

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THE OREGON JOURNAL ~ MARCH, 1918

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COMPANY FOUNDER BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1863

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                   Henry Ford
(July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947)

Industrialist, Henry Ford was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and
maker of the Model T automobile. He became one of the richest and best-
known people in the world.

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Henry Ford sits at the tiller of the first car he made, in 1896
when he was 33. With him are his wife and Grandson

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PAUL ANKA IS 71 TODAY

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Paul Anka was famous in the late 1950s and 1960s with hits such as 
"Diana", "Lonely Boy", and "Put Your Head on My Shoulder". He wrote
such well-known music as the theme for The Tonight Show Starring
Johnny Carson
and one of Tom Jones‘s biggest hits, "She’s a Lady".

 

From The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show, 1959. The show
originated from the
Little Theatre in Manhattan.

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WOMEN IN THE NAVY ON THIS DAY IN 1942

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The WAVES, created by legislation signed by President Franklin D.
Roosevelt,
became a World War II division of the U.S. Navy, and
consisted entirely of women. The name was the acronym for "Women
Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service”.

Mildred McAfee (below), President of Wellesley College, was sworn in
as a Naval Reserve Lieutenant Commander in early August of 1942. She
was the first female commissioned officer in U.S. Navy history, and the
first director of the WAVES.

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