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Television Killed The Old Time Radio Star
Families would gather around the radio during old-time radio days and listen to the shows together. Old time radio was broadcast over the radio networks from 1926-1962. Old time radio died on...
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Bernie Madoff – The Man Who Had No Shame
Charles Ponzi 1882-1949 Charles Ponzi, who originated the Ponzi scheme stepped off a boat, as an Italian immigrant with $2.50 in his pocket in 1903. He moved to Canada in 1907 and was arrested, for...
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Dick Haymes – Crooners of the Past
Dick Haymes 1918-1980 Dick Haymes was born on September 13, 1918 in Buenos Aires, Argentina as Richard Benjamin Haymes. He died on March 28, 1980 at the age of 61. He was considered to be one of the...
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Bernard Ebbers: Billionaire to Prison Inmate
Bernard Ebbers in prison till the age of 87 at the least. Bernard “Bernie” Ebbers was the first Bernie, to be imprisoned for investor fraud. Ebbers first formed LDDS, which was a discount telephone...
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Pharmacist Robert Courtney: Got Rich While Cancer Patients Suffered and Died
Pharmacist Robert Courtney diluted chemotherapy drugs. Many criminals have been featured on American Greed, since the first show was telecast in 2007, but pharmacist Robert Courtney took greed to a...
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One Hit Wonders of the 50’s and 60’s
The Silhouettes took their #1 hit Get A Job, to the top of the charts on February 24, 1958. The group received a Gold Record for the song, but never had another song to reach the charts. The Purple...
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American Idol On Speed
Ryan Seacrest, Keith Urban, Jennifer Lopez and Harry Connick Jr. return for American Idol Season 14 American Idol Season 14 has been on speed the last two nights, with the males singing on Wednesday...
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Kenny Rogers – From Houston Projects To Country Music Hall of Fame
Kenny Rogers and First Edition singing Don’t Take Your Love to Town in 1972 Kenny Rogers was being interviewed by Dan Rather on The Big Interview, and it gave me a chance to learn more about Kenny...
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Dr. B.R.Lakin – Old Time Evangelist Gone But Not Forgotten
Dr. Bascom Ray Lakin was born January 5, 1901 in Fort Gay, West Virginia. He was one of the last of the old-time evangelists, that didn’t tell us what we wanted to hear, but told us what God wanted...
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Vince Foster – The Man Who Knew Too Much
Hillary Clinton with the late Vince Foster 22 years have passed since Vince Foster allegedly ended his life, by shooting himself in the head on July 20, 1993. Foster was said to have been depressed,...
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Classic Television – Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Ozzie Nelson, David Nelson, Harriet Hilliard and Ricky Nelson The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet was first broadcast on radio in 1944 and could be heard on radio, until 1954 when the radio show...
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The Voice Clobbering American Idol in TV Ratings Battle
American Idol Season 14 Judges – Keith Urban, Jennifer Lopez and Harry Connick Jr. If there was ever any doubt, about which singing competition show is more popular it has been removed. The Voice...
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Frankie Valli: 81 Years Old And Still Entertaining
I was watching Frankie Valli being interviewed on The Big Interview by Dan Rather, and was saddened to know, that he had lost two children in a short time period. He lost his daughter Celia, when she...
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Jim Ed Brown Dies at 81
Jim Ed Brown 1934-2015 Jim Ed Brown has died from lung cancer at the age of 81 in Franklin, Tennessee on June 11, 2015. He was born James Edward Brown in Sparkman, Arkansas on April 1, 1934. The...
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Five Innocent People Convicted of Murder
Eric Glisson released after 17 years in prison for crime he didn’t commit. We all have heard prisoners say they didn’t do the crime, that they are imprisoned for, but in the case of Eric Glisson he...
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One Million Hits
I want to thank the readers of Nostalgia Now for reaching the 1,000,000 hits mark. The blog started in April of 2009 and was not active, when internet was out for long periods of time plus was out for...
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What We Didn’t Have in 1950
1954 Admiral Television I was 10 years old in 1954, when we bought our first television. We didn’t even buy the television to watch television. If I remember correctly my sister had a lazy eye, and...
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Nancy Wilson – 59 Years of Singing Easy Listening Music
Nancy Wilson Nancy Wilson was born on February 20, 1937 in Chillicothe, Ohio. She is now 78, and knew she would be a singer at the age of four. Wilson recorded Like in Love in 1959, which was her...
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Fox Network Has American Idol Final Season on Fast Track
Ryan Seacrest, Jennifer Lopez, Harry Connick Jr. and Keith Urban The Fox Network is ending the 15 season run of American Idol, and they seem to be in a rush to get the show off the air, since the...
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Simply HandMade by R&R
https://www.facebook.com/SimplyHandMadeByRR/ simplyhandmadebyrr@gmail.com My wife and her sister are starting a business, that sells blank farmhouse frames made out of wood. You will be able to use...
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