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In 1935, a young actor, screenwriter, and dancer had an idea. He started a weekly amateur night competition at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, in New York City. And before
In 1935, a young actor, screenwriter, and dancer had an idea. He started a weekly amateur night competition at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, in New York City. And before
Fifty years ago this week, NBC TV introduced America to four young men who would change the way music and television interact. Looking to capitalize on the humongous an ongoing
This weekend marks the 76th anniversary V-J Day, the day that the Japanese surrendered to the United States to end World War II. And the interview you’re about to hear
A lot of people say that is the voice of an It’s actually the voice of young Welsh soprano Charlotte Church. And when I say young, I mean Young. Charlotte
When you think of the best of Motown in the late 1950s and early ‘60s, one of the names that has to be near the top of the list it
Naomi Judd was born “Diana Judd” not long after World War II ended. Her dad ran a gas station in Ashland, Kentucky, By the time she was in her mid
She was born into what would become one of America’s most famous music families. La Toya Jackson is the fifth, and middle, child in the Jackson family. Less well-known than
He was the kid from a small town in Arkansas who grew up to become a country and western superstar. Born in 1936, Glen Campbell first took up the guitar
When you begin to list the greatest American Jazz percussionists of all time, near the top of that list has to be the great Vibe the harpist and drummer Lionel
Long before she was a successful solo act, Cher was half of Sonny and Cher. Perhaps no married couple in music was popular in the mid-’60s as Sonny and Cher.