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Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987)

                          

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ACTRESS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1921

 


Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was born in Bemidji, Minnesota.
(June 21, 1921 – February 28, 2011)

Jane Russell was one of Hollywood‘s leading sex symbols in the 1940s and
1950s. Her first film role in 1943 was the Howard Hughes production The
Outlaw
. In 1947, Russell delved into music before returning to films. After
starring in multiple films in the 1950s, Russell again returned to music while
completing several other films in the 1960s. She starred in more than 20
films throughout her career.

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From left: Bob Hope, Jane Russell and Bing Crosby.

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BRIAN WILSON IS 74 TODAY


Brian Douglas Wilson was born in  Inglewood, California.

Wilson co-wrote over twenty-five top forty hits with the Beach Boys and was
inducted into the 1988 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He won Grammy Awards
for Brian Wilson Presents Smile
(2004) and The Smile Sessions (2011). In
lists published by Rolling Stone, Wilson ranked 52 for the "100 Greatest
Singers of All Time” in 2015. In 2012, music publication NME ranked Wilson
number 8 in its "50 Greatest Producers Ever" list.

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ALBUM RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN 1966

Yesterday and Today is the ninth Capitol Records album release by the Beatles
and the eleventh overall American release.The album is remembered primarily
for the controversy surrounding its original cover image, the "butcher cover"
featuring the band dressed in white smocks and covered with decapitated baby
dolls and pieces of meat.

                      

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FROM PDX RETRO ~


This year the solstice falls today at 6:34 p.m. EDT. This is the “summer”
solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. The word solstice is from the
Latin solstitium, from sol (sun) and stitium (to stop). Astrologers say
the sun seems to ‘stand still’ at the point on the horizon where it 
appears to rise and set, before moving off in the reverse direction.


This 1958 single reached #26 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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