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‘’THE QUEEN OF COUNTRY’’ IS 57 TODAY

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Country music artist Reba Nell McEntire has released 26 studio albums
and has had 35 number-one singles. She branched out into film starting
with 1990’s Tremors. Reba starred in the Broadway revival of Annie Get
Your Gun
and also starred in her own TV sitcom, Reba on WB (20001-
2007) for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for best
Performance by an Actress in a Television Series-Musical or Comedy.

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(Academy Of Country Music Awards 2011)

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MUSICAL OPENED ON THIS DAY IN 1964

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Barbra Streisand, with Johnny Desmond, in 1964’s Funny Girl

The Broadway production of Funny Girl is a musical with a semi-biographical
plot based on the life and career of film star and comedienne Fanny Brice. It
starred Barbra Strieisand and opened at the Winter Garden Theater and
closed at the Broadway Theater, for a total run of 1,348 performances. The
musical was nominated for eight Tony Awards, but failed to win any. It faced
tough competition from Hello Dolly!.  


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Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks, The Baby Snooks Show 
on CBS radio (1944)

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SOME VINTAGE RADIO TRIVIA ~

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The Firestone Air Chief radio, model 4-A-30

 
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The Voice of Firestone, originally titled The Firestone Hour, is a long-running
radio and television program of classical music that first aired December 3,
1928 on the NBC Radio network. On Monday, March 22, 1948 it became
the first commercial radio program to be carried simultaneously on both
AM and FM stations.

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BEFORE ‘’OZZIE AND HARRIET’’

SWEETHEART OF THE CAMPUS

The original lobby card from the 1941 Columbia pictures musical comedy film “SWEETHEART OF THE CAMPUS” starring Ruby Keeler, Harriet Hillard and
Ozzie Nelson and His Band..

  

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MUSICAL PREMIERED ON THIS DAY IN 1956

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The Lerner and Loewe musical opened on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger
Theater in New York City. It transferred to the Broadhusrt Theater and then
The Broadway Theater, where it closed on September 29, 1962 after 2,717
performances, a record at the time.

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Stars Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews

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