Archive for May 4th, 2016

ICONIC ACTRESS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1929

 
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Audrey Hepburn
 (May 4, 1929 – January 20, 1993)
(born Audrey Kathleen Ruston in Brussels, Belgium)

 

Hepburn starred in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) and was
the first actress to win an Academy Award, a Golden Globe
and a BAFTA Award for a single performance in the 1953
film Roman Holiday.

Audrey Hepburn was about to become a talented ballerina
when her acting career took off. She was voted the third
greatest female screen legend in the history of American
cinema by AFI in 2008. 


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RECORDED ON THIS DAY IN 1956

Gene Vincent recorded “Be-Bop-A-Lula” at Owen Bradley‘s
studio in Nashville, Tennessee. It was released in June 1956 
and immediately sold well. The song was successful on three
American singles charts: it peaked at #7 on the Billboard pop
music chart, #8 on the R&B chart, and also made the top ten
on the C&W Best Seller chart peaking at #5. In April 1957,
Capitol Records announced that over 2 million copies had
been sold to date.



Gene Vincent (Vincent Eugene Craddock)

(February 11, 1935 – October 12, 1971)

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