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Gems
Added: 29th July 2007
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Posted By: Chris |
 
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Opening Intro for the 50's Television show "Your Hit Parade". Your Hit Parade was a popular radio and television program, sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes and broadcast from 1935 to 1955 on radio and telecast from 1950 to 1959. During this 24-year run, the show had 19 orchestra leaders and 52 singers or groups.
Each Saturday evening at 8pm, a hit parade of the more popular and bestselling songs of the week were presented. The original format involved a presentation of the top 15 tunes. Later, a countdown with fanfares led to the top three finalists, with the number one song for the finale. Occasional performances of standards and other favorite songs from the past were known as "Lucky Strike Extras."
Listeners were informed that "Your Hit Parade survey checks the best sellers on sheet music and phonograph records, the songs most heard on the air and most played on the automatic coin machines, an accurate, authentic tabulation of America's taste in popular music." However, the exact procedure of this "authentic tabulation" remained a secret. Some believe song choices were often arbitrary due to various performance and production factors. The show's ad agencies never revealed the specific sources or the methods that were used to determine the top hits.
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your
hit
parade
50s
television
music
Added: 11th October 2007
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Posted By: Naomi |
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The Spokane Chiefs won the Memorial Cup junior hockey championship on May 25, 2008. When the cup was presented, Chiefs' captain Chris Bruton dropped the darn thing and broke it!
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Memorial
Cup
mishap
Added: 3rd June 2008
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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This is a short, and very brief summary of some of DeNiro's greatest and most classical works. It's by no means a full representation of his work, as it is only four minutes long , but I feel these scenes best displayed his power, intensity, and range of abilities.
(PG)
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robert
deniro
the
godfather
II
deer
hunter
casino
taxi
driver
great
actors
Added: 19th January 2008
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Posted By: Naomi |
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By special request from Steve, an encore presentation of a post I made several months ago. It's not exactly the same post; the previous one had accompanying music and a slide show. This is just Canadian radio personality Gordon Sinclair, from 1973, telling it like it is: Americans are the most generous and underappreciated people on Earth!
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Gordon
Sinclair
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Americans
Added: 15th July 2008
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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It was the worst factory fire in the history of New York City occurred on March 25, 1911, in the Asch building, where the Triangle Shirtwaist Company occupied the top three of ten floors. Five hundred women, mostly Jewish immigrants between thirteen and twenty-three years old, were employed there. The owners had locked the doors leading to the exits to keep the women at their sewing machines. In less than fifteen minutes, 146 women died. The event galvanized support for additional efforts to be made to increase safety in the workplace. It also garnered support for labor unions in the garment district, and in particular for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
Much material was provided by several websites, among them are;
Photos:
Brown Brothers
Franklin D.Roosevelt Library
Corbis Bettmann
The Kheel Center, Catherwood Library, ILR School at Cornell University.
Authentic History Center
Shorpy.com
The Office Museum
The Library of COngress
Audio
National Public Radio
Authentic History Center
The Kheel Center, Catherwood Library, ILR School at Cornell University
However, two of the above mentioned in particular, I want to call attention, the first for an overall exceptionally presented look back at this tragedy and a stunning presentation of the labor movement. Truly a brilliant multi-media presentation.
The Triangle Factory Fire -- Presented by The Kheel Center, Catherwood Library, ILR School at Cornell University.
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/
and National Public Radio ...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/st...
I can not recommend those two sites too highly. They are top notch.
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Triangle
Shirtwaist
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1911
Unions
Women
Immigrant
Labor
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City
American
History
Added: 25th September 2008
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