50 days ago by sdsu78

1954 The Most Promising Artist of 1954, Johnny Ace, shot himself shortly after 11 pm between sets at a “Negro Christmas Dance” at the City Auditorium in Houston. The accounts of his death are many but the one that seems to always come up is that he was playing “Russian Roulette” before shooting hims ...

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57 days ago by sdsu78

1955 Carl Perkins and his band record his composition, Blue Suede Shoes, which was written at the suggestion of Johnny Cash. The song was based on an actual incident spotted in a concert audience. Sam Phillips, owner of Sun records, recognized the great commercial potential, rushed the release on Su ...

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58 days ago by Damion

December 15 1921 Rock and Roll coiner Canonized then demonized Conflicts of interest

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58 days ago by Ester Goldberg

--Adam Brody - 32 (Played the cute geeky Seth Cohen on "The O.C.". He was a young Barry Williams in the made-for-TV CLASSIC, "Growing Up Brady" and is in SCREAM 4) --Julie Berry - 31 (Native American Chick from "Survivor:...

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59 days ago by Dr. Rus

Water Cooler News – December 15, 2011 Only 10 more sleeps until Christmas! Are you excited yet? Christmas is getting closer! As you ponder the things left to do as the big day rapidly approaches lets make sure you have fun chit-chat material as you stand in those long check out lines. In this editio ...

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63 days ago by paulshaf

George Harrison is in the top 10 with “Got My Mind Set On You” and legendary DJ Alan Freed is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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71 days ago by sdsu78

1950 Ruth Brown, who was championed by Duke Ellington to Atlantic Records two years earlier, began an 11-week run at the top of the R&B charts. Teardrops From My Eyes was her first #1. Her highest charted single was This Little Girl’s Gone Rockin’ in September, 1958 when it reached #24 on the Hot 10 ...

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101 days ago by cs

by Alton H. Maddox, Jr. The obvious answer seems to be in the affirmative and the reason is simple. After four hundred years, white folks are still white folks and they are unwilling to share any turf with descendants of enslaved Africans. On the other hand, "house Negroes" are still able to raise p ...

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123 days ago by Phil

On this day in 1957 (no I don’t remember it) A film called “Don’t Knock The Rock” opened. In the late 50s and during the 60s rock was regarded with suspicion (to say the least) by the establishment. As a consequence films trying to show the positive side of real rock and blues tried to make rock ‘co ...

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130 days ago by Arroe

Countless times I’m given different names because those within the circle still haven’t seen my true purpose. And yet Marcus Aurelius said, “Without a purpose nothing should be done.” Myles Monroe believed there is something for you to start that is destined for you to finish. John Mason writes in h ...

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