NATALIE COLE ~ 61st BIRTHDAY TODAY

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Natalie Maria Cole is singer, songwriter and performer. The daughter of  singing
legend Nat King Cole, Natalie  rose musical success in the mid-1970s as an R&B
artist with the hits This Will BE (An Everlasting Love),Inseparable, and Our Love.

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                            Young Natalie with her father Nat King Cole

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BILL MUMY TURNED 57 TODAY

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Charles William "Bill" Mumy, Jr. is an actor, musician, voice-over artist
and a figure in the science-fiction community. He is known primarily for his
work as a child television actor in the 1960s, most notably as Will Robinson
in the CBS-TV sci-fi series Lost in Space.

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              The Robot and Bill Mumy on the set of Lost in Space

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NEIL DIAMOND TURNED 70 TODAY

             NEIL DIAMOND AMERICA
NEIL DIAMOND THEN

Neil Leslie Diamond  is a successful pop music singer-songwriter who scored a number of hits worldwide in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. In terms of Billboard chart success, he is the third most successful Adult Contemporary artist ever, ranking only behind Barbra Streisand and Elton John. Diamond continues to tour successfully, and maintains a very loyal following. Diamond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984, in 2000
he received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award, and is soon to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

        neil_diamond MAIN

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ERNIE KOVACS ~ JANUARY 23, 1919 – JANUARY 13, 1962

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Ernie Kovacs was more than just another comedian,he was television’s first significant video artist. He was also its first surrealist and its most daring and imaginative writer.

            ERNIE K. GRAVS MARKER
                            Ernie’s grave marker at Forest Lawn in Los Angeles

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JANIS JOPLIN ~ JANUARY 19, 1943 – OCTOBER 4, 1970

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Janis Lyn Joplin was a singer, songwriter and music arranger. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a solo artist. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Joplin number 46 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time in 2004, and number 28 on its 2008 list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.

       JanisJoplin album

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