AP - Dec 7, 2006
He was arguably the most popular entertainer of the 20th Century, and inarguably the most famous person to ever grow up in Spokane. Now Bing Crosby will finally have a landmark in his hometown. The...
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He was arguably the most popular entertainer of the 20th Century, and inarguably the most famous person to ever grow up in Spokane. Now Bing Crosby will finally have a landmark in his hometown. The...
More »AP - Sep 29, 2006
Bing Crosby is getting a theater named after him in the city where he first took up music. Mitch Silver, owner of the Metropolitan Performing Arts Center, has announced that it will be renamed the Bing...
More »Reuters - Jun 20, 2005
The JVC Jazz Festival couldn t have picked a more deserving subject for a tribute than Les Paul, feted Sunday at Carnegie Hall in commemoration of his 90th birthday (which actually occurred June 9)....
More »AP - Apr 28, 2005
Lyricist Yip Harburg, whose work ranged from songs for The Wizard of Oz to words for popular love melodies, was honored Thursday with a new postage stamp. Harburg wrote the lyrics for more than 600...
More »Reuters - Mar 21, 2005
Abbey Road studio, where the Beatles recorded almost all their music, attracts tens of thousands of fans each year. They come from across the world to worship at the place where it all began. They photograph...
More »AP - Dec 16, 2004
A bittersweet ballad awash in drink, drugs and regret was voted Britons favorite Christmas song in a poll released Thursday. The Pogues Fairytale of New York was selected by British viewers of music...
More »AP - Dec 9, 2004
Jerry Scoggins, who sang The Ballad of Jed Clampett, which introduced the comical clan on The Beverly Hillbillies, has died. He was 93. He died at his home Tuesday of natural causes, the Los Angeles...
More »AP - Dec 4, 2004
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir has canceled its planned tour of northern Europe next year because of concerns about terrorism, and the choir will instead tour the Northwest. The 360-voice choir was scheduled...
More »Reuters - Nov 26, 2004
Every year, recording artists and their labels pull together holiday music releases in hopes of striking perennial silver and gold, and 2004 can be considered a banner year for seasonal fare. Thanks...
More »Yahoo! Music - Jul 24, 2004
Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready will preview tracks from the group s upcoming double-disc concert set Live at Benaroya Hall via a live, one-hour radio broadcast beginning 8 p.m. ET Sunday. A band...
More »Reuters - Jun 29, 2004
For the second year in a row, honky tonk singer Merle Haggard will entertain conspiracy theorists and extraterrestrial fans at the UFO Music Fest, set for Saturday (July 3) in Roswell , N.M. Some believe...
More »Reuters - Jun 26, 2004
Michael Brooks is a living encyclopedia of pre-1950 pop and jazz recordings. For 30 years, the music archivist has been the go-to guy at CBS Records and, later, Sony Music. He tracks down dusty acetates...
More »AP - Jun 23, 2004
There s no song like Over the Rainbow. Kansas farm girl Dorothy Gale s wistful ditty in The Wizard of Oz led the American Film Institute s list of 100 best movie songs Tuesday, followed by As Time Goes...
More »Reuters - May 27, 2004
Blues legend B.B. King and avant-garde Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti were honored in Stockholm Wednesday with the 13th annual Polar Music Prize. King and Ligeti were each awarded 1 million Swedish...
More »Reuters - May 17, 2004
Procol Harum s 1967 classic A Whiter Shade of Pale has been named as the most-played record of the past 70 years in the United Kingdom, according to British performing rights group PPL (Phonographic Performance...
More »Reuters - Feb 2, 2004
Sting, Dave Matthews, Vince Gill and the Neptunes Pharrell Williams have signed on for a Grammy tribute to the 40th anniversary of the Beatles first U.S. television appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show...
More »AP - Jan 24, 2004
Billy May, a Grammy-winning composer and trumpeter who arranged such standards as Cherokee, Take the A Train and Serenade in Blue and worked with such stars as Bing Crosby , Frank Sinatra and Glenn Miller...
More »AP - Nov 27, 2003
Every time I ll Be Home for Christmas is played on the radio, St. Lawrence University hears a little jingle at the cash register. The song s lyricist, Kim Gannon, stipulated in his will that 30 percent...
More »Reuters - Nov 18, 2003
It shapes up as a battle between Somewhere Over the Rainbow Dorothy and The Way We Were Babs, old-time crooner Bing and The Boss, Bruce Springsteen . The American Film Institute on Tuesday unveiled...
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