50+ World

January 31, 2023

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Gone But Not Forgotten in 2023

We’ve said goodbye to many famous faces, voices & names from radio, movies, television, sports, history, arts and literature so far in 2023. These celebrities and others said their final…

January 22, 2023

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Jim Croce's Legacy of Songs

Celebrating Jim Croce's brief life and career as a singer-songwriter - You Don't Mess Around With Jim, Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels), One Less Set of Footsteps, I Got A…

December 30, 2022

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Gone But Not Forgotten in 2022

We've said goodbye to many famous faces, voices & names from radio, movies, television, sports, history, arts and literature so far in 2022. These celebrities and others said their final…

January 5, 2022

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Baby Boomer Trivia From January 1952: The Greatest Show on Earth debuts, starring Betty Hutton, Charlton Heston, Cornel Wilde, James Stewart & Dorothy Lamour; Three Stooges Curly dies; Johnnie Ray sings…

January 2, 2022

Memorial

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Gone But Not Forgotten in 2021

We've said goodbye to many famous faces, voices & names from radio, movies, television, sports, history, arts and literature so far in 2021. These celebrities and others said their final…

December 5, 2021

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Done in December 1951

Baby Boomer Trivia From December 1951: Golden Gate Bridge closes; Baseball great Joe DiMaggio retires; classic television series Dragnet starring Jack Webb premieres Golden Gate Bridge Closed By Wind Gusts San…

November 14, 2021

Memorial,
Music

ben e king, african american singer, r and b, soul music, vocal group hall of fame, the drifters, rock and roll hall of fame, hit songs, stand by me, save the last dance for me, there goes my baby, this magic moment, spanish harlem, 1950s, 1960s

Remembering Ben E. King

Soul & R&B singer and composer Ben E. King passed away April 30th, 2015 at the age of 76 - but his classic songs and video performances live on, including…

November 3, 2021

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Done in November 1951

Baby Boomer Trivia From November 1951: MLB MVP Awards to Roy Campanella and Yogi Berra, Frank Sinatra marries Ava Gardner, first North American direct long distance dialing, National Ballet of Canada…

October 13, 2021

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Done in October 1951

Baby Boomer Trivia From October 1951: I Love Lucy, premieres on television; Rocky Marciano TKO's World Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis; Winston Churchill defeats Clement Attlee to become British Prime Minister again…

March 17, 2021

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Sunny Jim McKeen, Baby Snookums

Before Ziegfeld Follies comedy star Fanny Brice and "Baby Snooks", there was the 1904-1916 comic strip series The Newlyweds and Their Baby, created by cartoonist and actor George McManus. (Sunny…