Listen to it today, you might think “it’s just a dude playing the organ.” And while you’d expect a record company to be trying to promote an artist, it perhaps
Festival headliner Arthur Brown performing live in 1968; Photo: Ron Howard/Redferns The 8th National Jazz, Pop, Ballads and Blues Festival was held on the second weekend of August 1968, and
If you tried to build a rap star in a lab, your result would be something close to Kurtis Blow. Today, it’s commonplace to have a rapper that can also
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Hank Williams had been on thin ice with the organizers of Nashville’s already-fabled concert and broadcast institution, The Grand Ole Opry, when he pushed his luck too far on August
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Walt Disney’s fifth animated feature film, Bambi, has touched the hearts of generations of children since its release in 1942. The story of a young deer’s coming of age, it’s
ABBA’s singles did well whatever time of year they were released, but the Swedish superstars thrived in summer, and August 9 is an especially successful day in their history. On
Juanes is a Colombian rocker who became a Latin pop icon and global superstar by subtly refusing to conform. Staying true to his divergent roots, Juanes has incorporated the legacy