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RECORDED BY THE KING ON THIS DAY IN 1972

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Burning Love went to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was Presley’s
final top ten pop hit. Reportedly, Elvis didn’t not care for the song,
and was not comfortable performing it.

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‘’IKE’’ DIED ON THIS DAY IN 1969

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Dwight David
"Ike" Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969)

 

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‘’ THE DIVINE ONE’’ ~ SARAH VAUGHAN

Sarah Vaughan

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       Sarah Lois Vaughan (March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990)

The National Endowment for the Arts bestowed upon Sarah Vaughan its
”highest honor in jazz’. the NEA Jazz Masters Award, in 1989.

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NUMBER-ONE DURING THIS TIME IN 1960

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Theme from a Summer Place spent an at-the-time record of nine consecutive
weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. It remains the
longest-running number-one instrumental in the history of the chart.

Percy Faith won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1961 for the
recording which was the first movie theme and the first instrumental to
win a Record of the Year Grammy.

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DISASTER IN ALASKA ON THIS DAY IN 1964

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The Alaska earthquake lasted nearly four minutes and was the most powerful
recorded quake in U.S. and North American history and the second most powerful
ever measured by a seismograph with a magnitude of 9.2, at the time making it the
second largest earthquake in recorded history.

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