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Music Fans Mourn Country Legend George Jones In 1955, Jones recorded Why Baby Why, his first hit for Starday Records. Born in Saratoga, Texas, he began performing in local clubs at age 10. In the late 1940s, he worked as a disc jockey at various radi
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Mike and Amy Mills are a father-daughter team from southern Illinois. Mike was trained as a dental technician. MIKE MILLS: I made false teeth - crowns, bridges, partials, this type thing. It's what I did, you know, as a trade. Late
Legends are but stories about ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Of course, it takes courage and imagination. Not everybody has that. 传说不过是平凡人做不平凡的故事,当然需要勇气和想象力,不是每个人都能做到的
Toms bed-and-breakfast, which also happened to be the house in which he lived, was very large and very old. It sat on a sunny, tree-lined street a few blocks from the beach. A painted sign near the sidewalk said, THE SEA BREEZE MANOR, ESTABLISHED 191
Mom took Carol to the stable. Their horse was in the stable. They walked over to Sugar. Sugar was their horse. Say hello to Sugar, Mom said. Carol said, Hello, Sugar. Mom gave a carrot to Sugar. Sugar ate the carrot. He ate the carrot fast. Mom gave
By Brian Wagner Miami 26 May 2006 Desmond Dekker album cover Jamaican singer Desmond Dekker, who helped bring reggae to an international stage in the 1960s, died at his home in Britain on Thursday. His manager said the 64-year-old suffered a heart a
A teammate is accusing the cycling legend of taking performance-enhancing drugs while training for the Tour de France. Tyler Hamilton told 60 Minutes on Sunday that he witnessed Armstrong inject banned substances at a charge on Armstrong has repeated
By Phil Mercer Sydney 11 January 2008 Legendary adventurer Edmund Hillary has died at the age of 88. The New Zealander was the first man to climb the world's tallest mountain, Mount Everest. From Sydney, Phil Mercer reports. Edmund Hillary made histo
Remembering Blues Legend Etta James When Etta James sang Mack Gordon and Harry Warrens At Last, the dozens of other versions by everyone from Nat King Cole to Beyonce seemed to pale in comparison. It was Ettas signature song that launched her acclaim
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Hal Prince has won more Tony Awards than anyone. The producer and director has won 21 of them over a career spanning seven decades. Tonight, Prince Of Broadway, a musical featuring moments from Prince's hits, opens on Broadway. And
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Over the course of a career that spanned half a century, Glen Campbell sold more than 40 million records and scored more than 20 top 10 hits on the country and pop charts. He also acted in movies and hosted his own TV show. Glen
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In the book Ordinary People, the latest novel by Diana Evans, two sets of friends - 30-something, black Londoners - navigate friendship and relationships and parenthood during pivotal moments of the early 2000s. Evans borro
By Doug Levine Washington 02 June 2008 Early rock 'n' roll guitar wizard Bo Diddley died near Jacksonville, Florida, Monday, 2 June, of heart failure. He was 79 years old. One of the most primitive of the early rockers, Bo took the blues and folk mu
The Mysterious Recluse冰雪美人葛丽泰?嘉宝Garbodivine, mysterious, reclusive. One of the most famous faces of the 20th century. On screen she was raw sexuality, off screen her affairs with men and women captivated the press. And her silence m
HEALTH REPORT - Progression of Age-Related Macular Degeneration By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. American
EDUCATION REPORT - Intel Excellence in Science Teaching Awards By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: Thursday, May 13, 2004 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Five high school
Country Music Legend Shares 'Long Line of Heartaches' None other than show business legend Dolly Parton once said that there were just three real female singers: Barbra Streisand, Linda Ronstadt, and Connie Smith. The rest of us, she said, are only p
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