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Singer – Songwriter, Carole King
At the age of 18, Carole King had her first chart topper as a songwriter with ‘Will You Love Me Tomorrow’, co-written with Gerry Goffin, the two eventually married and divorced. Over the years, the two wrote dozens of popular songs for a variety of singers, many of which became standards in American popular culture. In 1997, King co-wrote ‘The Reason’ for Celine... Continue reading
Barry White ... One of the pioneers of disco, his two greatest hits were "You’re the First, the Last, My Everything” and Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe”
The 1940 comedy/western film, My Little Chickadee is set in the old west. Miss Flower Bell Lee played by Mae West cannot decide among her three suitors. She stars with W.C. Fields who plays Twillie, one of the suitors and a con-man – who tends bar, cheats openly at cards and drinks Mae West’s perfume for its alcohol content. The laughs keep the action rolling right until the movie ends as West... Continue reading
The Barbra Streisand Album is the debut album by Barbra Streisand, released February 25, 1963, on Columbia Records. It peaked at #8 on the Billboard pop albums chart, and has been certified a gold album by the RIAA.
The album won Grammy awards for Album of the Year and Best Female Vocal Performance. In January 2006, the album was inducted in to the Grammy Hall of Fame.
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Dallas – Prime Time Television Soap Opera
First Telecast on April 2, 1978
Dallas, the saga of the Ewing Family, began as a five-part mini-series in 1978. At this time no evening show caught the soap opera crowd's attention.
The ratings were fair, until the show moved to Friday nights.
The Ewing family lived at the sprawling South Fork ranch, in high end Braddock Country just... Continue reading
The First Showdown
Springfield, Missouri
July 21, 1865
At 6:00pm as dusk was setting in, Dave Tutt called out James Butler “ Wild Bill “ Hickok in what was considered the first showdown gunfight. The confrontation was the culmination of a feud that began over a women, one Susanna Moore. A disagreement over a poker game the night before in which Tutt accused Hickok of cheating was the last... Continue reading
WOODSTOCK ROCKS
Bethel, New York
August 15 – 17, 1969
The largest rock concert ever, arrived and left, and we will never be the same again. The police estimated that there were a million people on the road trying to get to the festival. Controlling the overwhelming crowd was next to impossible.
The festival actually took place on Max Yasgur's farm about fifty miles away. Woodstock... Continue reading
Barry White ... One of the pioneers of disco, his two greatest hits were "You’re the First, the Last, My Everything” and Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe”
How Did the San Diego Zoo Begin?
Footage from several time-lapse cameras scattered throughout Disneyland during the park's construction. Presented with narration by Tony Baxter from Disney Imagineering, and Ed Hobbleman and Walter Magnuson from the Disney Studio Inventory Group.
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