Word: nelsons
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...same year it was the first song performed in the first talkie, Jolson?s "The Jazz Singer." In 1946, the year the Berlin oldies musical "Blue Skies" was released, the title tune returned to the pop charts, twice: #8 with Count Basie and #9 with Benny Goodman. Finally, Willie Nelson made the song a #1 country hit in 1978 - 52 years after it was written...
...this pleading ballad (along with another plaint, "How Deep Is the Ocean?"). Then a Berlin associate let megaphone man Rudy Vallee perform it on his radio show. The song was a #1 hit for George Olsen and awarded top-10 perches to versions by Connee Boswell and Ozzie Nelson?s band. In her pop-diva phase, Aretha Franklin had a minor flurry with her single of the song in 1963 - 31 years later...
DIED. DAVID ASTOR, 89, liberal editor, from 1948 to 1975, of the Observer, his family's Sunday paper and Britain's oldest; in London. He used the paper to champion his friend Nelson Mandela, condemn Britain's attempt to take the Suez Canal from Egypt, and print, without advertisements, Nikita Khrushchev's 26,000-word denunciation of Stalin...
...with John Breaux, Zell Miller, and Ben Nelson on board, the bill could pass the Senate by a narrow margin - if it were to ever come to a vote. And that's where Daschle (and of course Jim Jeffords) come...
DIED. MARIKE DE KLERK, 64, ex-wife of F.W. de Klerk, the last President of South Africa before apartheid was abolished, who shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela; when a security guard at her apartment complex strangled and stabbed her; in Blaauwberg, South Africa. At the time of her murder, her former husband was in Stockholm celebrating the centennial of the Nobel Prizes...