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Have you ever heard of musician Billy Strange?
Visually, Disney’s Jungle Cruise could be considered a mashup of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise and stunt-fueled Indiana Jones movies, with elements of the 1951 Bogart-Hepburn film classic The African Queenthrown in for good measure.
It was in 1958 when 20-year-old Paul Revere (born Paul Revere Dick) met fellow Idahoan Mark Lindsay, age 16.
In Disney’s 1961 animated feature 101 Dalmatians, based on a 1956 novel by Dodie Smith, we meet Cruella de Vil. (Could there be a more perfect first name to represent evil?)
In 1949, Dutch businessman Ben Pon became responsible for putting the first Volkswagen Beetle on America’s roads.
It seems that there aren’t too many lines of work that 39-year-old Eddie Huang hasn’t been involved in.
Do you recognize this song?
“Bond. James Bond.”
It was a magical moment for Elton John and Bernie Taupin when they fully realized the potential that had blossomed in their professional partnership.
Located 20 miles from Ocala in central Florida, The Villages began decades ago as a sprawling trailer park before being reconfigured along the lines of such thriving retiree havens as Sun City, Arizona.
Batman featured an ear-candy theme song, barbaric death traps, innovative gadgets, and repulsive villains (each one represented by a celebrity guest). The show was played for laughs all the way and poked fun at melodrama while injecting pop-culture references into the action.
The Beatles ruled the music world from 1963 until 1970, when they released their Let It Be album. With the arrival of that LP, they collectively threw in the towel as the world’s top recording act, and each ex-member then went to work carving out his own solo career path.
An Aston-Martin sprays bullets from Gatling gun headlight cavities. Powerful motorcycles leap over low walls and roar across rooftops. Speeding high-end cars sail dramatically in slo-mo off steep cliffs.
He couldn’t shapeshift into a wolf, and his real name wasn’t Jack. In fact, when he was born in 1938, Wolfman Jack was known back then simply as Bob Smith from Brooklyn.
In September 1969, the student newspaper at Drake University in Iowa published an article entitled “Is Beatle Paul McCartney Dead?”
He was just 22 when his introspective breakout single on Warner Records made James Taylor an international pop star.
“The truth will set you free. But first it will piss you off.”
– Gloria Steinem
In the now-fabled summer of 1967, San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood temporarily morphed into a community of societal dropouts, college students, teenage runaways, vagrants, and hustlers.
C’mon, admit it. The cheerful, shuffling Top 5 single of “In the Summertime” brought a smile to your face and got your fingers drumming back in the summer of 1970.
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