Archive for May 13th, 2014

NUMBER-ONE ON THIS DAY IN 1978

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Yvonne Marianne Elliman will be 63 in December

"If I Can’t Have You" is a song written by Barry, Robin and Maurice
Gibb of the Bee Gees. Yvonne Elliman”s version was recorded for
the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

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SHE WAS ‘’THE QUEEN OF MOTOWN’’

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         Mary Esther Wells
(May 13, 1943 – July 26, 1992)
 

Wells was first signed to Motown by Berry Gordy when she was only 
seventeen, releasing the song that became her first hit, "Bye Bye
Baby." She became one of Motown’s first superstars with a string of
hit singles composed by Smokey Robinson, including “Two Lovers”
(1962), the Grammy-nominated “You Beat Me to the Punch” (1962)
and her mega signature hit, “My Guy” (1964).

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TODAY IN HISTORY ~

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Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) is 64 today.

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