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Singer is in the Thicke of things
This time, Robin Thicke didn't want to be just the hopeless romantic who's lost in love inside his head.
On his new album, Something Else, the R&B-pop singer-songwriter doesn't exactly abandon the yearning balladry that catapulted him to the top of the...Tags: Aretha Franklin, Smashing Pumpkins, Constitutional Issues, Music Industry, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
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Pint-sized prodigy Ethan Bortnick hits all the right notes
South Florida Sun-SentinelThe 7-year-old boy is tearing into a pomegranate and somehow managing to get chunks of it on his face and hair. His 2-year-old brother is wildly strumming a guitar while begging to watch another episode of the Wiggles. Mother is not amused. "Ethan, it's...Tags: Music Theater, Miami Heat, Jay Leno, Healthcare Provider, American Airlines Arena
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Connie Haines dies at 87; big band singer co-starred with Sinatra
Special to The TimesConnie Haines, a petite and dynamic big band singer who performed alongside Frank Sinatra in the Harry James and Tommy Dorsey orchestras, died Monday in Clearwater, Fla. The cause of death was myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune neuromuscular disease. She...Tags: Milton Berle, Jane Russell, Death and Dying, Radio, Harry James
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Norman Whitfield dies at 67; Motown producer and songwriter won two Grammy Awards
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNorman Whitfield, the Grammy-winning songwriter and forward-thinking producer who helped shape the direction of R&B and soul music at Motown Records in the 1960s and '70s, died Tuesday. He was 67. Whitfield, the co-writer of dozens of Motown hits,...Tags: John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Punishment, Music Industry, Public Employees
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Norman Whitfield
Norman Whitfield, the songwriter and producer who co-wrote many Motown classics, has died. Whitfield, who had worked on "War," "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)" and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," was 67. A spokeswoman at Cedars-Sinai...Tags: Ethics, Music Industry, Freedom of the Press, Marvin Gaye, Popular Music
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Michael Anthony Cook
Sun ReporterMichael Anthony Cook, a former Glen Burnie resident who had performed for more than two decades with the Mighty Clouds of Joy, a Grammy Award-winning gospel group, died Friday of undetermined causes at Baltimore Washington Medical Center. He was 47....Tags: Awards and Prizes, Aretha Franklin, Glen Burnie, Odenton, Marvin Gaye
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Terror in the graveyard!
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCinespia at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery is the place to be for offbeat screenings in the summer: sitting in the grass in the dark, the lights of Hollywood aglow overhead, flirting over open containers of Trader Joe's nosh. The formula – screening a...Tags: Death and Dying, Donald Sutherland, Marvin Gaye, Rudolph Valentino, Julie Christie
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Signature bass voice of R & B group The Spinners
DETROIT — Pervis Jackson, the man behind the deep, rolling bass voice in a string of 1970s R&B hits by The Spinners, has died after being diagnosed with brain and liver cancer. He was 70. Mr. Jackson died early Monday at Detroit Sinai-Grace...Tags: Death and Dying, Cancer, Diseases
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What happens in Vegas ... comes to Northwest Indiana
Chicago Tribune criticMetropolitan Chicago is the third largest gambling—or, as the casinos prefer to call it, gaming—market in North America. But unlike in Las Vegas, where singularly spectacular shows and concerts have been a desert draw for decades, Chicago-area...Tags: Smashing Pumpkins, Road Transportation, Alice Cooper, Elton John, Gaming and Lotteries
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Summer concert highlights
Sun reporterMay May 29: Clinic, Sonar May 29: Cold Taxi, Railaway, All to Cliche, Cheap as Free, Recher May 29: Filter, Ours, Opiate for the Masses, 9:30 Club May 29: Pete Best Band, RHT May 30: All Mighty Senators, 3 Fifths, 8x10 May 30: Bruce in the USA,...Tags: Constitutional Issues, Bob Dylan, Jack Johnson, Rod Stewart, Billy Bob Thornton
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Jackson's "Thriller" Among Cultural Treasures
Associated PressWASHINGTON -- The best-selling pop album on planet Earth and a disc sent hurtling into deep space are among recordings the Library of Congress will preserve for their cultural significance. Twenty-five selections were added to the National Recording...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Charlie Parker, Harry S Truman, Roy Orbison, Michael Jackson
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They sing as well as they act
glenn.gamboa@newsday.comFor too long, three words have struck fear into the hearts of music fans: actor-turned-singer. From Bruce Willis and David Hasselhoff on down through Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, it's become pretty clear that some talents just don't translate. But...Tags: Bruce Willis, Tom Waits, David Hasselhoff, Celebrity, Sinead O'Connor
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