Archive for January 15th, 2022

COUNTRY MUSIC DEAN HAS DIED AT 88

Ralph Emery — CRS

Ralph Emery, famed country music broadcaster, dies at 88 | The  Spokesman-Review
Walter Ralph Emery (March 10, 1933 – January 15, 2022

Walter was an country music disc jockey and television host
from
Nashville, Tennessee. He gained national fame hosting
the
syndicated television
music series, Pop! Goes the Country, 
from 1974 to 1980 and the nightly Nashville Network
television
program.

Ralph Emery at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee

No photo description available.
In 1966, Tex Ritter (right) joined Ralph Emery as co-host of
the all-night Opry Star Spotlight radio show on Nashville’s
WSM. Ritter would co-host the program for sixteen months.

Memories: The Autobiography of Ralph Emery | Ralph Emery, Tom Carter | 1st  Edition

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FROM THE TV GUIDE COVER ARCHIVE ~ 1955

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Bill Cullen, Jayne Meadows, Henry Morgan, Faye Emerson,
Garry Moore of "I’ve Got a Secret"

I've Got a Secret - Wikipedia


Original network: CBS (1952-67, 1976)

produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman.

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CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1929

The Life of Dr Martin Luther King Jr - HubPages

13-things-you-probably-never-knew-about-martin-luther-kings-college-years
Martin Luther King Jr.
(born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)

On January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta,
Georgia, the son of a Baptist minister. King received a doctorate
degree in theology and in 1955 helped organize the first major
protest of the African American civil rights movement: the
successful
Montgomery Bus Boycott.

The night Martin Luther King Jr. came to Grosse Pointe

Vala Afshar su Twitter: "April 4, 1968 — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was  assassinated at Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.  https://t.co/1x5ASZoJaX" / Twitter

Back to the Bridge | Via Ex Machina

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