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A NEW YEAR’S SONG FROM THE 1940s

what are you doing new yers eve sheet music
Sheet Music (Kay Kyser)

 

“Handsome” Harry Babbitt with Kay Kyser and his Orchestra, 1940s  

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WRIGLEY’S SPEARMINT FOR THE NEW YEAR!

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BARBARA MANDRELL IS 63 THIS CHRISTMAS

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Barbara in 1976 with WIGL-FM air personality Ron Tatar

Barbara Mandrell TODAY  BM1109

Country music singer Barbara Ann Mandrell become one of country’s most
successful female vocalists of the 1970s and 1980s. She was inducted into
the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2009. Barbara was the first performer and
is currently one of the few females in country music history to win the Country
Music Association’s "Entertainer of the Year" award twice (the other being
Taylor Swift), and she has also won the CMA’s "Female Vocalist of the
Year" twice.

Mandrell’s first No. 1 hit was 1978’s "Sleeping Single in a Double
Bed”

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CHRISTMAS CAROL FIRST PERFORMED IN 1818

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"Silent Night" was performed for the first time on December 24, 1818 at the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorff, Austria (shown below).

st nikolaus church_oberndorf

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SCHWINN, THE BIKE ALL THE KIDS WANT!

schwinn bike ad

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