AP - May 14, 2007
What would have been Bobby Darin s 71st birthday was marked on Monday by the dedication of a sidewalk star on the Las Vegas strip. Bobby never left us, Vegas entertainment icon Wayne Newton said of...
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Barry Manilow, The Greatest Songs of the Fifties (Arista) You have to admire Barry Manilow s courage. Making an album of 14 covers of pop classics that have endured for 50 years and risking comparison...
More »Reuters - Feb 26, 2005
The smooth, swinging vocals of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Wayne Newton evoke the history of Las Vegas like no others. For those who visited the city and saw live performances from these and other...
More »Reuters - Dec 15, 2004
A trip to The Red Light District scored Ludacris his second consecutive No. 1 album on the U.S. pop charts Wednesday. The Atlanta rapper/actor s fourth Disturbing Tha Peace/Def Jam South effort sold...
More »Reuters - Dec 2, 2004
A friend who s fond of the imminent Bobby Darin biopic Beyond the Sea has often asked in recent weeks, Why isn t anybody talking about this film? Good question. Lions Gate opens Kevin Spacey s labor...
More »Reuters - Sep 30, 2004
Sonic Youth, David Johansen, Andrew W.K., Sean Lennon and Suicide s Alan Vega have joined the lineup for an Oct. 8 New York show to benefit Cedars Sinai Cancer Research Center and the Lymphoma Cancer...
More »Reuters - Aug 15, 2004
I never knew a girl named Lalena, but neither did Donovan -- and he wrote the song. Still, we both fell in love with her 36 years ago. The song was a No. 33 hit single in 1968 for the Scottish folk...
More »Reuters - Aug 1, 2004
As consumers populate their PCs with digital music, the desire to stream these tracks on home stereo systems is growing. Thus far, however, linking PCs and home entertainment systems has been a slow...
More »Reuters - Jul 28, 2004
A host of rare Bobby Darin recordings and performance footage make up the CD/DVD package Aces Back To Back. Assembled with the help of the late artist s estate, the set is due Sept. 14 from Hyena Records...
More »Reuters - May 31, 2004
Glen Campbell has signed a one-off deal with Universal South Records for a two-CD set due June 8. Love Is the Answer: 24 Songs of Faith, Hope and Love contains one disc of pop standards and one of gospel...
More »AP - Apr 7, 2004
Peter Cincotti may love Paris, but as the Rodgers and Hart standard goes, he ll have Manhattan. Cincotti describes his past year as one big blur of interchangeable airports, hotel rooms and concert...
More »Reuters - Dec 3, 2003
The Rhinestone Cowboy wants to ride off into the sunset. Not long before his recent arrest on charges of drunk driving and leaving the scene of a car accident, country crooner Glen Campbell told Reuters...
More »Reuters - Dec 2, 2003
Candid photographs of 1950s rock pioneers Elvis Presley , Buddy Holly and Bobby Darin , snapped by a high-school photographer and kept in storage for 40 years, went on display for the first time Tuesday...
More »AP - Nov 26, 2003
The house lights go down and the memories begin. There s 16-year-old Steve performing on Arthur Godfrey s TV show and years later singing a duet with Johnny Carson on late-night television. Black-and...
More »USRN - Jan 7, 1998
(1/7/98) - Record producer Nik Venet, who worked with the Beach Boys, Linda Ronstadt and Frank Zappa, died January 2nd after battling Burkitt s lymphoma. He was 61. Venet came to Los Angeles in the 1950s...
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(1/2/98) - Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise are both under consideration for the lead role in a new film about the life of singer Bobby Darin, best known for Mack The Knife. Darin, who died in 1973 at age...
More »USRN - Oct 27, 1997
(6/17/97) - Any preteen-at-heart who ever french-kissed a Shaun Cassidy pin-up, wrote I [HEART] Leif Garrett on a denim binder, or really understood Marcia Brady s crush on Desi Arnaz will appreciate...
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