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SINGER BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1928


Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds with daughter Carrie Fisher.


Edwin Jack "Eddie" Fisher
(August 10, 1928 – September 22, 2010)

Eddie Fisher sold millions of records and released seventeen
top ten singles in the 1950s, including "Wish You Were Here"
and "Oh! My Pa-Pa." He started competing in amateur singing
contests as a teenager. Fisher was drafted into the U.S. Army
in 1951. Eddy Fisher was married five times. His wives included
Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, and Connie Stevens.

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CAMILLE BOHANNON


Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia
(August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995)


August 21, 1995.

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SONG RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN 1969

"Hot Fun in the Summertime" was recorded by Sly and the Family
Stone
. It peaked at number 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 pop
singles chart and number 3 on the Billboard soul singles chart in
autumn 1969. It is ranked as the seventh biggest hit of 1969 and
Rolling Stone ranked the song #247 on it’s list of the "500 Greatest
Songs of All Time
", and it also has been named in lists by Yahoo!
Music
and AskMen as an all-time "summer anthem."

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FAMOUS CLARINETIST HAS DIED AT 86


Pete Fountain (Pierre Dewey LaFontaine, Jr.)
(July 3, 1930 – August 6, 2016)

(FOXNEWS) – Clarinetist Pete Fountain, whose Dixieland jazz virtuosity and
irrepressible wit endeared him to his native New Orleans and earned him
decades of national television fame, died Saturday of heart failure.

Benny Harrell, Fountain’s son-in-law and manager, said Fountain was in
hospice care in New Orleans when he died early Saturday.

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SANDY KOZEL

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