Gone But Not Forgotten — Patty Duke
RIP Anna Marie "Patty" Duke (December 14, 1946 – March 29, 2016), star of The Patty Duke Show, The Miracle Worker, Me, Natalie, and Valley of the Dolls, as well as a Top 40 pop singer.
Tag: singers
Sunday Jazz: Happy birthday to Sarah Vaughan
Today would have been the 87th birthday of legendary jazz vocalist Sarah Vaughan, born on this day in 1924 in Newark, New Jersey. Known alternately as Sailor, Sassy, and The Divine One, Vaughan got her start in music by playing piano and singing in her church choir. She dropped out of high school in her junior year to concentrate on her musical career, and in 1942/43 she won first prize during an Amateur Night performance at Harlem's legendary Apollo Theater.
Sarah Vaughan's career remained active, if not always commercially successful, throughout most of her life. Even when she was not recording she was touring extensively. She won the Grammy for Best Female Jazz Vocal Performance in 1983. In 1989 she was diagnosed with lung cancer, and she died on April 3, 1990, a week after her 66th ...
This is CNN
Seriously? This is what is considered "Breaking News" by CNN? Britney "White Trash with a Record Deal" Spears finally losing custody of her children? Really? Can you not tell how indignant I am by all the question marks I'm using???
Public: "Hey CNN, anything going on with those monks being slaughtered over in Myanmar? Or Burma. Or whatever it's called."
CNN: "Fuck them. How many hit songs do they have? Yeah, we thought so."