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J.D. Souther is back in the saddle again
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMost musicians, even country-leaning ones, know more about horsepower than the power of one horse. But on a recent visit from his Nashville home, J.D. Souther -- who helped lay the foundation for the Southern California country rock sound nearly four...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), John Steinbeck, Jackson Browne, Hank Williams, Glenn Frey
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Seniors say need for change drives them, but McCain or Obama could deliver it
Associated Press WriterTHE VILLAGES, Fla. (AP) _ The town squares here reliably fill at the same time every day as retirees pile in for singing and dancing. Restaurants offer the same early-bird specials on the same days each week, and patrons wake up to swallow the same...Tags: Retirement, Bob Dole, Demographics, Government, Radio Industry
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The Hollywood Palladium gets a second wind
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSIXTY-EIGHT years ago this month, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and its new singer, a skinny 24-year-old New Jersey crooner named Frank Sinatra, welcomed a cheering crowd to opening night at the Hollywood Palladium. Dorothy Lamour was there to snip the...Tags: Dance, Television Industry, Dancing With the Stars, Glenn Miller, Rock and Roll Music
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Deaths elsewhere
NAPPY BROWN, 78 Blues and R&B singer Nappy Brown, a blues and R&B singer whose playful songs of the mid-1950s - filled with nonsense syllables, eccentric pronunciation and a heavy beat - had touches of early rock 'n' roll style, died Saturday in...Tags: Medical Conditions
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SHEA GOODBYE SEPT. 11: Tears became cheers when Piazza delivered
john.jeansonne@newsday.comOne Mets fan, a Manhattan band leader/DJ named Joseph Palermo, compared the apprehension of being part of New York's first large public gathering after the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the "mind-set people take after the summer of an unusual amount of...Tags: Mike Piazza, Major League Baseball, Todd Zeile, Steve Karsay, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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PASSINGS
Charles A. O'Brien Former state deputy atty. gen. Charles A. O'Brien, 83, a former California deputy attorney general who narrowly lost the 1970 election for attorney general to Evelle Younger, died Sept. 3 at his home in Danville, Calif., after a period...Tags: Music Industry, Thomas Lynch, Danville (Danville, Virginia), Teen-agers, People
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Quirky blues, R & B singer
Nappy Brown, a blues and R&B singer whose playful songs of the mid-1950s—filled with nonsense syllables, eccentric pronunciation and a heavy beat—had touches of early rock 'n' roll style, has died in Charlotte, where he lived. He was 78....Tags: Medical Conditions, Radio Industry, Chuck Berry
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Tears became cheers when Piazza delivered
john.jeansonne@newsday.comOne Mets fan, a Manhattan band leader/DJ named Joseph Palermo, compared the apprehension of being part of New York's first large public gathering after the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the "mindset people take after the summer of an unusual amount of shark...Tags: Mike Piazza, Major League Baseball, Todd Zeile, Steve Karsay, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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New On Disc: Everlast, Ben Folds
EVERLAST Love, War, and the Ghost of Whitey Ford Martyr/Sony Everlast's first album in four years begins with a pair of tracks that carry the whiff of strong ideas past their sell-by date. Opening with a brassy flourish, the rapped "Kill the Emperor"...Tags: Michael Jackson, Pedro Martinez, Charlie Parker, Joan Osborne, Jim O'Rourke
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Paul Landerman Defined Hip In Hartford
Artie Shaw, the great swing-era clarinetist, once famously called Bing Crosby "the first hip white man." I mentioned that quote to Paul Landerman a few years ago, and he said something to the effect that Shaw — who was one of the many celebrities...Tags: Family, East Hartford, Radio Industry, Music Industry, Bing Crosby
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Raids yield arrests, heroin
Law enforcement officials yesterday arrested nine people - including at least one police say is part of the city's "dirty dozen," Baltimore's most elusive violent repeat offenders - after 18 federal raids that netted heroin, automatic weapons and bags...Tags: Addiction, Court Administration, Punishment, Defendants, Law Enforcement
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Kerry Washington adds to cast of characters
Special to The Morning CallKerry Washington sees herself as a changeling, and no wonder. By dabbling in a handful of genres from romantic comedies and action flicks to biopics and thrillers, she's managed to portray women from all walks of life. She's played a lesbian longing...Tags: Tom Hanks, Minority Groups, Neil LaBute, Lakeview, Celebrity
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