Archive for August 10th, 2013

SINGER EYDIE GORME IS DEAD AT 84

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Eydie Gorme and Steve Lawrence


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   Eydie Gormé (August 16, 1928 – August 10, 2013)

Gormé died six days before her 85th birthday, following a brief
illness, in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is believed that she died of
cancer. She retired in 2009 and is survived by her long time
partner and husband Steve Lawrence. Steve continues to
perform as a solo act.
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THE ICONIC KIT-CAT CLOCK

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The Kit-Cat Clock is a novelty style kitchen wall clock that first appeared during
the 1930s. The first clock was made in 1932 by the Allied Clock Company in
Portland, Oregon which moved to Seattle, Washington and then to southern
California in 1962. The name was changed to California Clock Company.  The manufacturer estimates that the clock has been sold at an average rate of one
every three minutes for the last 50 years.

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STONER IS AN EVEN 60 TODAY!

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Dave “Records” Stone in the original KISN corner at 10th and W. Burnside

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Dave behind the microphone while on the new KISN
from 3pm to 7pm

                                     www.goodguyradio.com

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              HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVE!

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TODAY IN HISTORY

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Camille Bohannon

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GUITAR MAKER BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1909

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                     Clarence Leonidas "Leo" Fender
 

                    (August 10, 1909 – March 21, 1991) 

Leo was an inventor who founded Fender Electric Instrument
Manufacturing Company
, or "Fender" for short. In January 1965,
he sold the company to CBS and later founded two other musical
instrument companies, Music Man and G&L Musical Instruments.

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