Archive for May, 2013

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

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Sandy Kozel

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George Walton Lucas, Jr is 69 today

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REMEMBERING BOBBY DARIN

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               Bobby Darin
(Walden Robert Cassotto)

                  (May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973)


Darin started as a songwriter for Connie Francis, and
recorded his own first million-seller "Splish Splash" in
1958. In 1962, he won a Golden Globe for his first film
Come September, co-starring his first wife, Sandra Dee 
(pictured below).

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Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee

 



Featuring
Neil Sedaka on piano (1959)

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ADVICE COLUMNIST DIES AT 85

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Dr Joyce Brothers
   
   Joyce Diane Brothers
 (October 20, 1927 – May 13, 2013)

(AP) – Popular psychologist, columnist, and television and film personality
Dr. Joyce Brothers has died.

Longtime publicist Sanford Brokaw says Brothers died Monday in New
York City.

Her celebrity took off after she entered a television quiz show called "The
$64,000 Question." She became the only woman to ever win the show’s
top prize.

 

 

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Dr. Joyce Brothers on “The $64,000 Question”.

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SINGLE RECORDED ON THIS DAY IN 1966

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“Sunny Afternoon” peaked at No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles
chart in early autumn of 1966.

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The kinks today

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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

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Ross Simpson


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Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) is 63 today

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