The Weekend in Music Birthdays, February 17 - 19
Johnny Bush, Gene Pitney, Alice Dona, Yoko Ono, Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers, Irma Thomas, Exuma, Friday Brown, David Lewis, Kathy McCord, The Crusaders, Roger Fakhr, Smokey Robinson, more
Welcome to President’s Day Weekend, which I like to refer to as SOME Presidents’ Day Weekend, because some of them don’t really deserve a holiday, do they? President’s Day of course started as a celebration of the birthday of George Washington, as declared a holiday by President Lincoln in 1862. But then in 1971, Richard Nixon, in the top three or four …
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