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A warm embrace of Margaret Whiting
In her prolific career, singer Margaret Whiting recorded 500 songs, including such signature hits as "It Might as Well Be Spring," "That Old Black Magic" and "Baby It's Cold Outside." Along with such legends as Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald, Whiting...
Tags: Capitol Records, Richard Nixon, I Love Lucy (tv program), Jack Jones, Mike Douglas
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Russell Garcia dies at 95; arranger, composer and conductor
Russell Garcia, an arranger, composer and conductor who was an influential figure in the West Coast music scene during the 1950s and '60s and whose work in Hollywood included writing the score for the 1960 science-fiction classic "The Time Machine," has...Tags: Concerts, New Zealand, George Pal, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Arts and Culture
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Margaret Whiting dies at 86; pop singer mentored by Johnny Mercer
Margaret Whiting, a pop singer for television, film, cabaret and Broadway whose recordings of such standards as "That Old Black Magic" and "Come Rain or Come Shine" sold millions of copies in the 1940s and '50s, has died. She was 86.
Whiting died...Tags: Movies, Cole Porter, Capitol Records, Armed Forces, Jerome Kern
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PASSINGS: Poly Styrene, Huey P. Meaux, Morty Jacobs, Nawang Gombu
Poly Styrene
Singer in the punk band X-Ray Spex
Poly Styrene, 53, the braces-wearing singer who belted out "Oh bondage, up yours!" with the punk band X-Ray Spex, died Monday, according to a statement on her website.
Styrene, whose real name was...Tags: Celebrities and Health Issues, Career and Workplace, Freddy Fender, Sex Pistols (music group), Diseases and Illnesses
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Archive promotes classic American songs
The Columbus DispatchMichael Feinstein is fulfilling his dream to popularize and preserve the Great American Songbook, creating an archive open to music lovers. The Columbus native -- a singer, pianist, archivist and interpreter of classic songs by the likes of Irving Berlin,...Tags: Michael Feinstein, Music, Music Industry, Entertainment, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
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John McDaniel New Director Of O'Neill Cabaret/Performance Conference
Hartford CourantConductor, pianist, composer, orchestrator, record producer, Grammy and two-time Emmy Award-winner, John McDaniel is the new artistic director of the Cabaret & Performance Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford. McDaniel, who...Tags: Goodspeed Opera House, Artists, Broadway Theater, Human Accomplishments, Fine Artists
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A toast to those we have lost in 2011
You know, a lot of people tell me their favorite part of the column is the obituaries.
I'm really hurt.
It is, however, that time of year to remember the A&E folks we lost in the past 12 months.
Two-time Oscar winner Elizabeth Taylor died in March,...Tags: Anne Francis, Elizabeth Taylor, Jack LaLanne, Celebrities, Alan Sues
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