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August 27: Biden, abortion and Catholism; McCain's houses; good old songs
I like songs, but I'm not that old! Since I myself am a proud age 89 - only four months shy of 90 - I was greatly pleased to read the article "You Have To be...90" about the Town of Smithtown honoring its seniors [LI Life, Aug. 24]. It was indeed...Tags: Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Joe Biden, West Islip
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Joseph Valerio, of anti-communist Radio Liberty, dead at 87
micheline.maroni@newsday.comJoseph J. Valerio, a former vice president for the federally funded, anti-communist Radio Liberty, died Wednesday at Southside Hospital in Bay Shore of Alzheimer's disease. He was 87. Valerio spent much of his adult life fighting communism while he was a...Tags: Kirk Douglas, Radio, Radio Industry, Music Industry, Columbia University
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Lee Young, jazz drummer, dead at 94
LOS ANGELES - Lee Young, a jazz drummer who served as Nat King Cole's musical director for nearly a decade and broke barriers as one of the first black musicians hired for a staff position with a Hollywood studio orchestra, has died. He was 94. Young,...Tags: Duke Ellington, Los Angeles, Count Basie, Death and Dying, Cancer
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'Tito Puente: The Complete 78s' is a complete treat
E-mail Ed Morales at sonidoslatinos@edmorales.net.Back in the late 1940s, big-band jazz was all the rage in New York, and people danced late into the night to the great orchestras that played the many dancehalls around town. But at home and on the radio they listened to big, heavy 10-inch pressed wax...Tags: Rock and Roll Music, Music, Glenn Miller, Tito Puente, Central Park
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The New Yorker Hotel's 'buried treasures'
amNewYork Managing EditorThe maze of tunnels under New York includes one you probably never heard of. It lies 30 feet below the intersection of West 34th Street and Eighth Avenue, and links the New Yorker Hotel to Penn Station. This tunnel is no utilitarian slouch: It's sheathed...Tags: Duke Ellington, Empire State Building, Arts, eBay Incorporated, History
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It's just a damyankee rodent
Maybe Sheila Dixon's "Cleaner, Greener" thing is working a little too well. In need of a rodent for that municipal ad campaign, Baltimore sent away to New York for a freeze-dried rat. A cash-strapped city that only a decade ago had more rats than people,...Tags: Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Duke Ellington, Harbor East, Louis Armstrong, SoHo
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Lee Young, 94; jazz drummer played with Ellington, Goodman
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLee Young, a jazz drummer who served as Nat King Cole's musical director for nearly a decade and broke barriers as the first African American hired for a staff position with a Hollywood studio orchestra, has died. He was 94. Young, brother of the great...Tags: Duke Ellington, Los Angeles, Music Industry, Count Basie, Les Paul
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Live: Anat Cohen
Special to The TimesIsrael-born Anat Cohen's Southland debut at Hollywood and Highland on Tuesday night was an impressive display of the qualities that last year garnered her awards from Down Beat and the Jazz Journalists Assn. -- and it also offered hope that a female...Tags: West Village, Manhattan (New York City), Music Industry, People, Music
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Criss Angel Appears To Risk His Life On A & E; Big-Band Films On TCM
In the first live episode of "Criss Angel Mindfreak" (A&E, 10 p.m.), the long-haired illusionist will be shackled to a six-story building in Florida and try to escape before explosives are detonated and the site implodes — possibly with his career...Tags: So You Think You Can Dance, Steven Spielberg, Maria Bello, Jimmy Dorsey, Jay Leno
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Two words you can say on TV: George Carlin
diane.werts@newsday.comOff the Wall remembers George Carlin as a baseball park, not a football stadium. He's safe at home now. FOOD FIGHT. The Fine Living channel is gobbling up former Food Network stars. Now presenting fresh episodes at a new home are "Wolfgang Puck"...Tags: Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Movies, Billy Crystal, Luke Perry
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Radio
TIPS FOR TODAY 10:30 a.m.-12:40 p.m. -- L.A. Opera: Puccini's "Tosca," KUSC-FM (91.5). 11 a.m.-noon -- Good Food: All-night diner in Mallorca; chocolate and cavities; Michoacan ice cream; wild New Zealand, KCRW-FM (89.9). Noon-1 p.m. -- Off Ramp:...Tags: Clifford Odets, CBS Corp., George Bush, Mare Winningham, Lionel Hampton
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Jazz Up Summertime With Turner Classic's Big-Band Movie Marathon
When it rose in popularity between the Jazz Age and the advent of rock 'n' roll, big band music was aided by dovetailing nicely with the movies being made at the time. Turner Classic Movies takes advantage of this for a monthlong, 42-film Wednesday night...Tags: Patrick Stewart, Duke Ellington, Conan O'Brien, Jay Leno, Dance
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