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Music City Walk of Fame Honors
Alan Jackson and Kix Brooks are two of the latest celebrities who will have stars in their name added to Nashville's Music City Walk of Fame on Nov. 6.
The singers, who each both boast more than 20 years in country music, join several other famous...Tags: Wynonna Judd, Martina McBride, Roy Orbison, Arts and Culture, Alan Jackson
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Al Gordon dies at 89; Emmy-winning comedy writer for Jack Benny
Al Gordon, an Emmy Award-winning comedy writer who spent much of his more than 40-year career writing for Jack Benny's penny-pinching, vain and perennially 39-year-old persona, has died. He was 89. Gordon died Wednesday of age-related causes at Cedars-...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Jack Benny, Flip Wilson, Comedy (genre), Eddie Cantor
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'He was an inspiration ... motivator'
Emmy Award-winning television producer Bob Henry died March 18 at his Laguna Beach home after a long illness. He was 92. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Catherine of Siena, preceded by a rosary at 9:30 a.m. Henry will be...
Tags: Perry Como, Andy Williams, Flip Wilson, Comedy (genre), Norman Rockwell
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Bob Henry dies at 92; TV producer and director
Bob Henry, an Emmy Award-winning television variety-show producer and director who produced Nat King Cole's groundbreaking musical variety program in the 1950s and helped make Flip Wilson a household name as the producer of his hit comedy-variety show...Tags: Perry Como, World War II (1939-1945), Andy Williams, Flip Wilson, Comedy (genre)
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Musical program regarding steeltowns and coalfields to be presented in Springs
Tom Breiding will give unique musical stories of life in American towns over the last century at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Folk Meeting House in Springs.
From Pittsburgh’s forgotten steel mills to the coalfields of western Virginia and to points in...Tags: Pittsburgh, Metal and Mineral, Artists, Mining
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TODAY IN HISTORY
1836: Arkansas became the 25th state. 1944: American forces began their successful invasion of Saipan during World War II. B-29 Superfortresses carried out their first raids on Japan. 1957: Specials at Aberdeen's Arcola Grocery included a 2-pound...Tags: Rick Springfield, Basketball, Philadelphia 76ers, World War II (1939-1945), Queen Noor of Jordan
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Taylor Swift wins second CMA Entertainer of the Year award
Lehigh Valley MusicBerks County-born Taylor Swift on Wednesday won the 45th annual Country Music Association’s Entertainer of the Year – the second time this year she has taken the top country music awards show honors after losing in all other categories for....... -
April 21: Live Music From Sara Evans
WGN NewsSara's new RCA Nashville album, Stronger, released March 8 and scored back-to-back weeks at #1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart! First-week sales in excess of 55,000 copies (source: Nielsen SoundScan) also earned the album a #6 debut on the all-...Tags: Poetry, Recording Industry Association of America, Career and Workplace, Sports, Kara DioGuardi
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Taylor Swift Makes History at the CMA's
Associated PressNASHVILLE, Tenn. -- All four of the guys who lost to Taylor Swift for entertainer of the year at the Country Music Association Awards made a tactical error: They asked the crossover sensation to open for them in their concerts. Swift quickly shed her...Tags: Carrie Underwood, Country Music Association Awards, Kenny Chesney, Country and Western (genre), Keith Urban
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Irby Mandrell, father and longtime manager of country singer Barbara Mandrell, dies at 84
Irby Mandrell, who taught his daughter Barbara to play an array of musical instruments at the shop he ran in Oceanside, then helped guide her country singing career as her longtime manager, has died. He was 84. Mandrell died Thursday at Baptist...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Death, Career and Workplace, NBC (tv network), Music Theater
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Fashion Critic 'Mr. Blackwell' Dies at 86
" Mr. Blackwell," whose annual "worst dressed" list dinged movie stars, music icons and European royalty and helped turn him into a household name from the 1960s through the '80s, has died. He was 86. Blackwell had been in failing health and died...Tags: The Duchess (movie), Audrey Hepburn, Death, Milton Berle, Bette Midler
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Taylor Swift sweeps CMAs and makes history
Gold DerbyTaylor Swift made history at Wednesday night's Country Music Assn. Awards by becoming the youngest person, at only 19, to win the coveted entertainer of the year title. Only five women -- Loretta Lynn (1972), Dolly Parton (1978), Barbara Mandrell (1980,...
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