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Darlene Love | Rolling Stone  Darlene Wright started singing in 1958 with an L.A. vocal group called the Blossoms. (Her sister Edna later sang with the Honey Cone, which hit big in 1971 with the ... the Gene Pitney composition for the Crystals, and in fact put their name on the record, ... Love continued to sing with the Blossoms throughout the '60s.
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Darlene Love: A Prominent Star, Born In The Background : NPR  Feb 16, 2011 ... Love will be recognized for her contributions to music when she's ... Darlene Love, born Darlene Wright in Los Angeles in 1941, is one of the ... Darlene Love's vocal fingerprints are all over the pop music of the early to mid-1960s. ... The Blossoms, however, never had a hit song under their own name.
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1960s Girl Groups1958-1966 | The Pop History Dig  Jun 25, 2013 ... In the late 1950s and early 60s, one style of music that began to ..... singer Darlene Love and her backing group, The Blossoms, as The Crystals. ..... Two years later they added Sylvia Peterson, and by 1963 adopted The Chiffons as their name. .... and compensation, the girl groups were often last in line.
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Darlene Love - Wikipedia  Darlene Love (Darlene Wright; born July 26, 1941) is an American popular music singer and actress. She gained prominence in the 1960s for the song "He's a Rebel," a No. ... Birth name, Darlene Wright ... Early career[edit]. She ... One day while she was cleaning one of these homes, she heard her song, "Christmas (Baby...
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Darlene Love - Singer - Biography.com  Oct 8, 2015 ... Name: Darlene Love ... Singer Darlene Love sang backup for hit artists including Elvis Presley and ... Despite her success as a backup performer, however, she struggled to gain fame for ... Born Darlene Wright on July 26, 1941, in Los Angeles, California, Darlene Love began performing at a very early age.
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Race and harmony: Songs tied to the March on Washington  Aug 27, 2013 ... Songs with ties to the 1963 March on Washington by Korina Lopez. 1 ... the black seamstress who refused to give up her bus seat to a white ... We Shall Overcome. ... Seeger and Joan Baez, this became a global civil rights anthem. ... Jackson also sang this hymn, composed in 1951 by Clara Ward after she...
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Jeopary Questions page 2179 - "CAT" GOT YOUR TONGUE ...  9 becoming the group's only Top 40 hit  FIRST-NAME BASIS: A little birdy told us this first name shared by actress Oberon & singer Haggard means "blackbird".
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Bobby Darin - The History of Rock and Roll  By the time he attended Bronx High School of Science, Darin was an ... changed his ethnic last name to Darin, selecting the name out of the phone book, picking the first one ... Darrin signed a one year contract with Atlantic Records and recorded with ... Darin's next song "Mack the Knife" relied heavily on the stylized vocal...
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The 10 best Janis Joplin songs - Music - The Telegraph  Sep 23, 2015 ... When Big Brother and the Holding Company covered this song in 1968, Joplin's vocals were so different from the Elma Franklin original...
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At Last by Etta James Songfacts  The following year it was rearranged and re-recorded and used in the film ... Etta James was born Jamesetta Hawkins on January 25, 1938, in Los Angeles. ... Her stage name came from switching around the letters in her first name, Jamesetta. ... Some of the artists who have recorded this song include Cyndi Lauper, Celine...
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Unduh MP3/Video Dionne Warwick I Say A Little Prayer 1967 ...  Dionne Warwick's 1967 single I Say A Little Prayer was written by Burt ... Dionne Warwick sings Burt Bacharach/Hal David What do you get when you fall in love? ... While combing my hair now, And wondering what dress to wear now, I say a...
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Rolling Reissues 2016 - ilXor.com  The album will also be released digitally on the same day. ... Midler recalls the origin of her nickname: "I began being called The Divine Miss M ... Co-produced by Barry Manilow, The Divine Miss M was released in November ... She's earned four Grammy Awards including Song of the Year (1989: Wind...
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The Beatles: 20 things you did not know about the Fab Four ...  Sep 7, 2009 ... Lennon changed his middle name from Winston to Ono after ... Ringo Starr was the first to actually leave the group, walking out in ... The first song ever written by Lennon was called Hello Little Girl. McCartney's first was I Lost My Little Girl. 19. Lennon was charged with plagiarism by Chuck Berry's publisher...
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Langston: Baby Name of the Day - Appellation Mountain  Apr 14, 2016 ... Langston is a hero name, thanks to the Harlem Renaissance poet. ... The first element means long, from the Old English lang, and the second ... and history, thanks to the talented James Mercer Langston Hughes. ... That bonus middle name was his mother's maiden name. ... More names you might like:.
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Folk song  USC Digital Folklore Archives  So basically common ways to distingush between people with the same name ... We didn't have last names until the British came and were like why the heck do ... A talks about a song that her grandparents used to sing to her when she was .... Je te plumerai la tte, translates to I'm pulling the feather out of your head, I'm...
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The Origins of Stage Names - Rate Your Music  Categories: Band Names ... Raised by his mother, Faye Aiken, he took her last name instead. .... Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book (1990) ...... Wynonna Judd ... chose her name from the line 'don't forget Winona' in the song 'Route 66' .... A combination derived from Marilyn Monroe (whose birth name was Norma...
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Edith Piaf - Famous Name Changes - Singers  Born: 6 November 1938 ... But is best remembered for his on-stage pant-splitting antics. ... Katy changed her last name from "Hudson" to "Perry" (her mother's maiden name) because of the similarity to the ... Edith Piaf. Edith Giovanna Gassion Born: 19 December 1915. France ... Piaf being Parisian slang for 'Sparrow'.
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Full text of "The Spirit of '76 : devoted to the ... - Internet Archive  In writing 1 1 advsrtisers please mention The Spirit of '76, Ia fa. ..... Instead of competing individ- ually with one another tor the job they both want, they ...... when it has taken the name of a person, and the origin of the name when a 1 hapter hn ... forces, it the |o\ ! of the i ' nd Mi " I" n U in whose rural m insion v\ i- at wh tt 1- no.
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Sandra Dee, 62; Actress Was a Teen Idol in 1960s as Star of 'Gidget ...  Feb 21, 2005 ... Sandra Dee, the blond all-American girl next door whose star turns as "Gidget" and "Tammy" made her a teen idol in the 1960s, ... heartstrings as the girl plus midget -- Gidget -- in the seminal film of that name in 1959. ... each other story was translated to television in 1965, it was Sally Field in the title role.
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5 bands whose names you probably didnt know were inspired by ...  Oct 7, 2016 ... The novel of that name by Hermann Hesse tells of a man who feels ... The band's producer had just read the book and liked the title, so he proposed it as the name. ... In 1969 Steppenwolf conquered the charts with their first hit "Born to Be Wild. ... 5 clothing items you probably didn't know have been banned.
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1965 | AM, Then FM  Aug 20, 2015 ... But once his hearing aid was adjusted, and he heard the songs, he recognized them. That night ... Lou Johnson had the first hit with it in 1964. It's such a ... I Need Your Loving, Tom Jones, from It's Not Unusual, 1965. It's out of .... (NPR suggests finding it on Hipster's Holiday, a 1989 CD compilation.)...