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Rocky Mountain Heist: Bust of John Denver Goes Missing A bronze sculpture of one of Colorado’s most beloved singers has gone missing, and officials are pleading with whoever took it to return it — no questions asked. The bust of the late John Denver vanished from a music venue in Broomfield, Colorado, during a Halloween concert on Tuesday night.

12 minutes of "how it's done"...

Click on "Listen Live" at the top of the page...From 8 until 11 p.m., the air is filled with vintage jazz, swing, and big band recordings from the '20s, '30s, and '40s.

Just wondering if anyone's local radio stations are playing Christmas music yet. We have a station up here in Seattle that changed their website format to Christmas at midnight last night. Their on-air music is still 'normal', but they have an online channel of nothing but Christmas music. If they follow tradition, they'll be switching their on-air format on Nov. 15th to all-Christmas...two Fridays before Thanksgiving.

He won 11 Emmys from 32 nominations and collaborated often with Julie Andrews Ian Fraser, whose 11 Emmy Awards and 32 nominations for outstanding music direction made him the most honored composer/conductor in the history of television, has died. He was 81. The British native, who was known for his long association with singer-actress Julie Andrews, died of cancer Friday at his Los Angeles home ...

"Would I Lie To You" was written by Leeson, Mick / Vale, Peter, Published by EMI Music Publishing, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC Read more: Charles And Eddie - Would I Lie To You Lyrics | MetroLyrics "Look into my eyes Can't you see they're open wide Would I lie to you baby Would I lie to you"

The Landlady's Tale By SWORDMAKER copyright 2001 Preface The following story was told to me by the woman who rented my parents their first home in California when they moved to Sacramento in 1939. A devout Catholic (so much so that although she had been divorced by her husband, she did not consider the divorce valid and did not remarry until her husband died many years later) the landlady swore on her Bible, in front of my sister and me after she told us the story, that it was absolutely true. She was quite serious about it. In the 1970s,...

Even though the van used to transport the groceries from the store to the race track was jam packed with supplies, the $3,742.10 only covered food for three days. Freeman says that is just a fraction of the total cost the Sahara Force India team will spend throughout their time in Austin. “We normally spend about 10,000 pounds per race– that’s about $16,000,” said Freeman. Over the course of eight days, Chef Freeman and his kitchen crew of six people will prepare three meals-a-day for more than 100 people. That includes mechanical crews, drivers and their guests. “We couldn’t ship...

When it rains, it pours… and today it’s definitely pouring. After sharing eight great paid iPhone and iPad apps on Tuesday that were all available as free downloads for a limited time (some are still free!), we’re back on Wednesday with a fresh new batch of apps. Today’s list includes nine nifty apps that would regularly cost you a total of $26 to download, but for a limited time they’re all completely free.

Copyrights - Eagle Rock ,WMG visit: http://www.eagle-rock.com/artist/5604... Blu-ray: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004APR3CO... Blues, Swing, Rock´n´Roll !!!! 1. Baby Let's Play House 2. Double Talkin' Baby 3. Cruisin' 4. Train Kept A Rollin' 5. Poor Boy 6. Cry Me A River 7. My Baby Left Me 8. How High The Moon 9. Sitting On Top Of The World 10. Bye Bye Blues 11. The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise 12. Vaya Con Dios 13. Mockin' Bird Hill 14. I'm A Fool To Care 15. Tiger Rag 16. Peter Gunn 17. Rocking Is Our Business 18. Apache 19. Sleep Walk 20. New Orleans 21....

STAVANGER, Norway, - A Norwegian vicar says a commercial featuring a flatulent baby rapping about being baptized is "one of the worst" representations of the ritual. The commercial, created by Norwegian religious group Baptism Aid, is shown in cinemas in the Rogaland area and stars a baby with a full set of adult teeth that passes gas and raps about baptism using special effects. The producers said the commercial is meant to "show the richness and blessing of baptism." However, Helge Helgesen, a vicar at the Tjensvoll church in Stavanger, said he wants the advertisement banned. "This is, to say...

With all due respect to The Misfits’ “Halloween” and “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah,” the song most closely associated with October 31st is “Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett. In its own way, the track is one of a kind. It is certainly the only Halloween-themed song that enjoys the cultural ubiquity of popular Christmas carols, and it’s one of the few novelty songs that have managed to worm its way into the public consciousness, remaining there long after the trends it parodied have faded away. Its opening lines ("I was working in my lab late one night / When my eyes...

A legendary music teacher famed for developing a world-renowned violin method and who boasted about his friendship with Albert Einstein has been been exposed as a fraud and a liar. Shinichi Suzuki founded the Suzuki method in the 1950s and it has since been used by millions across the world. The violinist died in 1998 and had claimed Einstein was his 'guardian' and that he spent eight years in the 1920s studying at Berlin Hochshule, in Germany, as a private student of top violinist Karl Klinger, The Telegraph reported. Yet it has surfaced that the musician was rejected from the...

Directed by Christopher Nolan (Memento, Inception, the most recent Batman trilogy) and written with his brother and frequent collaborator Jonathan, Interstellar takes place in a near future that harkens back to the recent past — like the 1950s Midwest or maybe the Dust Bowl, but with laptops and drones. There’s very little exposition; through telling details and offhand comments, you get the sense that there’s been an environmental disaster followed by a famine, and that humanity has scaled back its ambitions to bare subsistence. People farm corn — the one crop left unravaged by blight — watch baseball games in...

Steve Ballmer paid $2 billion for the Los Angeles Clippers. But a new report from the Financial Times said he might get about half of what he paid back in the form of tax benefits over the next 15 years.Ballmer's purchase was a record for NBA franchises, coming at nearly four times the next-highest amount ever paid for an NBA team.But the FT found that using a goodwill tax exemption allowed for sports teams, Ballmer could get back $1 billion in taxes.Here's how the FT lays it out:Under an exception in US law, buyers of sports franchises can use...

Here's a full length (12:04) version of Papa Was A Rolling Stone by the Temptations in high quality evidently played off vinyl. This longer version has a very long instrumental introduction and a long bridge at the midpoint. The musicianship impresses me. A very haunting melody with a string section and brass, rare in music nowadays. Since I know little about the recording industry, I have to ask the intelligentsia (a big word for FReepers), what techniques were used in the early 1970s to create such a sound. I presume it was recorded in the rather modest facilities of Motown...

Live performance of the classic from Kling Klang.