Steve Cropper, Blues Brothers band member and Booker T. &
the MG’s guitarist, has died.

Pat Mitchell Worley, president and CEO of the Soulsville
Foundation, told the Associated Press that Cropper’s family
notified her of his death. Cropper died Wednesday in Nashville, according to Worley.

Worley’s foundation operates at the Stax Museum of American
Soul Music in Memphis, where Cropper’s former employer,
Stax Records, used to be.

Eddie Floyd and Steve Cropper in 1968.

The 1999 debut studio album.

Icon Britney Spears has had a significant cultural impact in the
21st century and is credited for helping revive the teen pop
genre.

She is known for her stage performances and for exploring
musical genres including pop, contemporary R&B, electropop,
and adult contemporary.

               
ED DANAHUE

WABC radio fired DJ Alan Freed on November 21, 1959 after
he refused to sign a FCC statement denying that he had
accepted money for promoting records, a practice known
as "payola."

While WABC cited its "contractual right to terminate," the
dismissal happened amid a larger payola scandal that
ultimately ruined his career.

Albert James "Alan" Freed
(December 15, 1921 – January 20, 1965)

Starring Mary Martin as Maria and Theodore Bikel as Captain
von Trapp, the original Broadway production of The Sound
of Music premiered at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November
16, 1959, where it won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical
and Best Leading Actress. It later moved to the Mark Hellinger,
where it would end its lauded run on June 15, 1963 after 1,443 performances.