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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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