Archive for December 1st, 2012

A VIEW OF PORTLAND IN DECEMBER, 1941

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looking north from SW 6th Avenue and Oak Street

posted by Bob Karm in Decorations,HISTORY,HOLIDAY,Photography,PORTLAND'S PAST and have No Comments

RECALLING THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED!

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Tommy (74) is the brother of country music legend Waylon Jennings

Tommy talks about the death of Buddy Holly during an appearance at 
Meadow Event Park, Doswell, Va. on October 30, 2010. 


 

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Waylon Jennings during his radio show on KLLL in Lubbock,Texas, 1958

 


September 10, 1958

 

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From left: Waylon Jennings, Tommy Allsup, and Buddy Holly during the
Winter Dance Party, January 1959

posted by Bob Karm in DEATH,DEBUT,HISTORY,MUSIC,THEN AND NOW and have No Comments

LOOKING BACK ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

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High school yearbook picture

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Woody Allen (Allan Stewart Konigsberg) is 77 today


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The group’s first American number one, entered the Billboard  Hot
100
chart on 18 January 1964 at number forty-five and started, what
the music industry called, the
British invasion. By 1 February it held 
the number one spot — for seven weeks.

posted by Bob Karm in Assassination,BIRTHDAY,DEBUT,HISTORY,MOVIES,MUSIC,Protest and have No Comments