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...Band Geeks...
...singer and songwriter in '70s rock group Orleans (of Still the One fame), Hall is leader of a club that also includes Bill Sali (R., Idaho), who was in the swing band Blue Country, and Paul Hodes (D., N.H.), an award-winning children's musician...
DIED. Ruth Brown, 78, Big Band singer turned R&B diva, known for her seductive delivery and ability to sway between tenderness and swagger; in Las Vegas. In the 1950s the fledgling Atlantic Records--for whom she recorded hits like Teardrops from My Eyes and (Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean--was called "the house that Ruth built." After a 25-year lull, she won new fans in the '80s, performing in the Broadway stage revue Black and Blue and winning a Grammy for the 1989 album Blues on Broadway...
...it’s impressive how much bizarre joviality has been jammed into these three minutes of make-believe. And it all looks very good: dancers move in fast forward to appear like wind-up dolls, Stefani strums a key and sings to her own von Trapp band. This video is really a platform for the queen of hip-pop to chastise the imitators by showing them how it’s really done. Needless to say, I’m wound up. —Kathleen A. Fedornak
...Handsome Dan II, Yale mascot, was kidnapped by members of the Lampoon before the Game, according to The Harvard Crimson. Later on, he was seen licking meat rubbed on the feet of the John Harvard statue. How’s that for lip service? 1962: Harvard Band members took an early morning stroll through New Haven, playing their instruments at 3 a.m. The Crimson reported that their enthusiasm, however, earned them a night in the New Haven slammer. 1963: Widener Library’s pillars were disgraced with “Beat Harvard” spelled out in blue paint...