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Bob Dylan sells his songwriting catalog to Universal for a reported $300 Million Last Monday the Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) announced it had secured a financial deal with American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan, now 79, for the rights to his entire songwriting catalog, which spans 58 years and more than 600 songs. Numerous media reports have indicated the deal is worth some $300 million. The arrangement will allow UMPG, owned by the largest music company in the world, Universal Mu...

RICHMOND — Some of the natives became a little restless in the barnlike atmosphere of the Pittsfield Boys Club when singer Joan Baez announced that she wanted them to meet a young singer friend of hers and that he would perform next. They’d paid for a Baez ticket, and they weren’t much interested in a substitute. It was Aug. 14, 1963, and the newbie, Baez predicted, would be a hit in the near future. (He was already hot in the ears of the cognizant.) Bob Dylan is his name, she sa...

By Keefer ON THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY: 1957 - 22-year-old Jerry Lee Lewis secretly wed his third wife, 13-year-old third cousin Myra Brown, in Tennessee. The marriage lasted 14 years and seriously damaged Lewis career. Effectively blacklisted, Lewis fades from the spotlight over the next decade. 1960 - Aretha Franklin made her New York stage debut performing blues and standards at the Village Vanguard. 1961 - The Marvelettes went to No. 1 with "Please Mr. Postman". The song features Gladys Ho...

History Highlight: Big Mama Thornton was born today in 1926. She was the first to record Leiber and Stollers "Hound Dog", in 1952, which became her biggest hit, staying seven weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard R&B chart in 1953 and selling almost two million copies. She also wrote and recorded the original version of "Ball n Chain", and she has said, "My singing comes from my experience... My own experience. I never had no one teach me nothin. I cant read music, but I know what Im singing! I dont ...

Foot of rain in neighborhoods near houstons hobby airport. and in the barrier islands near freeport, up to 17 inches. in galveston, neighbors pitched in to help stranded drivers. this looks like a river. the house where hank and brittany holligshead live is now an island. >> it was like water out of a bucket. just super, super hard rain. >> reporter: in louisiana, winds whipping through baton rouge, flipping several small planes. and david, you can see behind me here, this water has shut down a ...

>> "world news" is next. im larry beil. >> and im kristen sze. thanks for joining us. tonight, chilling new reporting. the airline worker who allegedly tried to sabotage a passenger jet. that flight set to take off from the u.s. and the maintenance worker accused of trying to tamper with the flight moments before takeoff. prosecutors now saying tonight alleged videos of isis killings on his phone. and word of a brother in isis. the tropical storm slamming texas and the gulf right now. up to ...

Had no intention of bringing down the plane. but the fbi is clearly investigating whether alani was actually supporting isis. regardless, he faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of tampering with that plane. david? >> pierre thomas leading us off tonight. pierre, thank you. now, to that major storm slamming into the u.s. texas getting this, and much of the gulf. dangerous winds and up to two feet of rain possible in some places by the time this is done. rain and 70-mile-an-hour winds ba...

Duration, destruction, path of the storm really like no other hurricane we have seen in recent years, and weve seen a lot of terrible hurricanes in recent years. >> we certainly have. brian todd reporting. thank you. lets update the just declared emergency in myrtle beach, south carolina. the city manager, john peterson is on the phone with us. mr. peterson, thank you for joining us. what are the conditions like now? >> it is raining pretty hard and winds are definitely gusty. this morning start...

>> reporter: very much so, john. in fact, this was a quick-moving hurricane. a lot of people said they didnt feel like they had enough time to prepare for it to go from a category 2 to category 4 overnight while they were sleeping especially those who made the decision to try to ride this out. a lot of people were very scared today. this was not the decision they thought they were make frg themselves. we are still a few hours from michael making landfall. we have seen a storm drain ripped off by...

Rushing up across this area and covering a lot of the main roadway. >> i think we lost you there. im not sure if our audience could hear you better than i could. it is clear that derek might be in one of the outer bands of the storm where the wind has begun to pick up. it sounds like derek is getting it worse where he is.