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RELEASED IN THE U.S. ON THIS DAY IN 1963

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The song “She Loves You” set a record in the United States as one of the five
Beatles songs that held the top five positions in the charts simultaneously on
4 April 1964. It is their best-selling single in the United Kingdom, and was the
best selling single there in 1963. In November 2004, Rolling Stone ranked
"She Loves You" number 64 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

    

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SONGWRITER HAS DIED AT 82

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Bob Crewe (born Stanley Robert Crewe in Newark, New Jersey)

                  (November 12, 1931 – September 11, 2014)

Songwriter, dancer, singer,manager, and record producer, Bob
Crewe passed away today in a nursing home in Maine. He was
known for producing, and co-writing with Bob Gaudio, a string of
Top 10 singles for The Four Seasons and equally known for his
hit recordings with The Rays, Diane Renay, Mitch Ryder and the
Detroit Wheels
, Freddy Cannon, Lesley Gore, Oliver, Michael
Jackson
,Bobby Darin, Roberta Flack, and his own The Bob
Crewe Generation.


1963

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‘’ A GIANT ACTOR’’ HAS DIED AT 74

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Richard Dawson Kiel (September 13, 1939 – September 10, 2014)

(AP) – Actor Richard Kiel, who starred in two James Bond films as the
steel-toothed villain Jaws (below), died today.

The 7-foot-2-inch actor was best known for playing the Bond villain in
1977′s “The Spy Who Loved Me” and 1979′s “Moonraker,” but a new
generation got to know Kiel from his role in 1996′s “Happy Gilmore” as
Adam Sandler’s adversary turned ally towards the end of the film.

Kiel was recently treated at St. Agnes Medical Center, according to the
Associated Press. His cause of death was not released.

His representative Steven Stevens called him “a giant actor, a giant man,
[and] a giant friend.”

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FORMER NEWS MAN HAS DIED AT 83

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Bruce Alexander Morton (October 28, 1930 – September 4, 2014)

Morton, the D.C.-based correspondent who spent nearly three decades
with CBS and another 13 years with CNN, died Thursday at his home in
Washington. He was the recipient of six News and Documentary Emmy
Awards as well as a Peabody Award.

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JOAN RIVERS HAS DIED AT 81

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Joan Alexandra Molinsky (previously Rosenberg)

(
June 8, 1933 – September 4, 2014)

The legendary comedian died following serious complications—including
cardiac arrest—during a procedure on her vocal cords at a clinic on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan.


 

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