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HISTORICAL NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

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George Harrison (February 25, 1943 – November 29, 2001)

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THE ONLY “OSCAR” TO WIN AN OSCAR

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Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II
(July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960)

Songwriter Hammerstein won the first of two of his Oscars for
the song “The Last Time I Saw Paris” from the 1941 musical
Lady Be Good.


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NUMBER-ONE ON THIS DAY IN 1960

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"Theme From A Summer Place" by Percy Faith began its nine
week run at the top of the Billboard Hot 100. It remains the
longest-running number-one instrumental in the history of
the chart and brought Faith a Grammy Award for Record of
the Year in 1961.

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Percy Faith (April 7, 1908 – February 9, 1976)

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“KEEP ON DANCING”

“Keep on Dancing" reached #4 in 1965 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart
for two weeks. It surpassed a million copies in sales after leaving the
charts.

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NEWSMAKERS ON THIS DAY

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Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002)


In 1958,Buddy Holly arranged Jennings’s first recording session
at Norman Petty’s recording studios in Clovis, New Mexico. The
following year, Holly hired Jennings to play electric bass for him
during his “Winter Dance Party Tour.”

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