Archive for January 3rd, 2009
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January 3, 2009
LAS VEGAS — This is not just a place people are born and live. Las Vegas is an enterprise.
It is a deal people enter, a set of givens agreed upon: More is better. Biggest is best.
To live in Las Vegas is to stake your future on this enterprise - for better or worse.
For the past [...]
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January 3, 2009
TUPELO - On Jan. 8, 1935, the eventual King of Rock n’ Roll was born in Tupelo, and Elvis Presley’s hometown has a trio of events scheduled for the 74th anniversary of his birth.
On Thursday, the Elvis Presley Birthplace and Museum will celebrate the day with cake and punch.
“We’ll start at 1:30 p.m.,” said Dick [...]
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January 3, 2009
Lee Denson, born in 1932, who recorded at Hollywood’s Goldstar Studio in 1957 the classic rockabilly song “New Shoes”, with Eddie Cochran (gtr) and Connie “Guybo” Smith (bs), just passed away and was buried on Saturday, November 10th. That song was written by Eddie Cochran’s early mentor, Ray Stanley, and VIK (an RCA subsidiary label) [...]