Archive for July 19th, 2014

TODAY IN HISTORY

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posted by Bob Karm in ANNIVERSARY,Right to vote,SPACE,SPORTS and have No Comments

AWARD WINNING SINGER IS 73 TODAY

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Vikki Carr (Florencia Bisenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona)
Born in El Paso, Texas

The three-time Grammy Award-winning pop singer has performed in
a variety of music genres from Jazz to country. Her greatest success
has been singing in Spanish. She is best remembered for her 1967
hit single “It Must Be Him” which reached number three on the pop
chart
and spent three weeks at number one on the easy listening
chart
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posted by Bob Karm in BIRTHDAY,CURRENT EVENTS,HISTORY,Recording,THEN AND NOW and have No Comments

RECORD RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN 1954

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From left: Elvis Presley, bass player Bill Black, guitarist Scotty Moore and
Sam Phillips in the control booth


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“That’ All Right” sold around 20,000 copies. It was not enough to
chart nationally, but the single reached number four on the local
Memphis charts. The song is at #113 on the 2010 Rolling Stone
magazine list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".    

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