104 years ago today, Nathaniel Adams Coles, son of a preacher and a choir organist, was born on March 17, 1919 in Montgomery, Alabama and raised in Chicago. He began playing piano in nightclubs as a teenager, and today is NATIONAL NAT KING COLE DAY! One of America’s most distinctive and accomplished singers, Nat Cole …
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On February 9, 1964, Western music and culture changed forever. No one knew it yet, but the appearance of a hot British pop quartet on the Ed Sullivan Show was the beginning of an awakening we still celebrate on THE DAY THE BEATLES CHANGED THE WORLD! Turns out the 4 kids our fathers swore were …
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Vanessa Williams is known as the Miss America who was different from all other Miss Americas in 4 ways. #1, she is Black, #2, she actually has talent, # 3, she went on to have a successful career as a singer, songwriter, actress, record producer, film producer and fashion model, and #4, she was the …
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Okay, George M. Cohan wasn’t born on the 4th of July, but close enough, and he didn’t singlehandedly invent the Broadway Musical, but close enough to call today NATIONAL YANKEE DOODLE DANDY DAY! Born a showman to a family of show people in Providence, Rhode Island on July 3, 1878, George M. Cohan was performing …
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It’s not her birthday, or the anniversary of her death, but instead a day that tells us exactly why we celebrate this magnificent woman on NATIONAL MAE WEST DAY! On December 27, 1937, Mae West got herself banned from NBC Radio after she performed “The Adam And Eve Skit,” an innocuous enough bit of fluff …
