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In late 1956, Elvis Presley was on the precipice of global stardom. “Heartbreak Hotel” had reached number one on the charts earlier that year and
Love Me Tender, his debut film,
would be released in November. In the midst of this trajectory, he was booked as a guest on the most popular TV show at the time,
The Ed Sullivan
Show. But he wasn’t only there to perform his hits. Before the show started, and in front of the press and Ed Sullivan himself, Presley flashed his swoon-worthy smile, rolled up his sleeves and let a New York state official stick a needle loaded up with the polio vaccine in his arm.
These Are the 50 Most Covered Songs of All Time
By Angela Underwood, Stacker News
On 1/17/21 at 11:00 AM EST
If you agree with the old proverb that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then cover songs serve as tributes to their original artists. Sometimes, a cover version vastly outshined its original. Such is the case with Summertime, originally written for the 1935 George Gershwin opera
Porgy and Bess, which Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong put a jazz spin on in 1957 to make it an international hit.
To learn more about the most covered songs in musical history, Stacker mined data from WhoSampled.com, whose goal is to build the most comprehensive database for music. The site features more than 653,000 songs and more than 215,000 artists as of February 26, 2020. Aside from Beatles tunes, Christmas music accounts for a number of the most covered songs, including Bing Crosby s White Christmas in 1942: the second-most covered holiday song with more than 50 mill
Owen Marsh
The son of an MGM cinematographer, he also worked on Love Me Tender, The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Towering Inferno and The Brady Bunch.
Owen Marsh, who served as a camera operator for such classic films as
Ben-Hur,
The Greatest Story Ever Told and for television shows from
The Brady Bunch to
Murder, She Wrote, has died. He was 90.
Marsh died Sunday of natural causes at his home in Portland, Oregon, his daughter, Cher Levendosky, told
The Hollywood Reporter.
Marsh was among the 13 founders who established what was then known as the Society of Operating Cameramen (now the Society of Camera Operators). He served as the nonprofit s inaugural president from 1979-81 and received its Lifetime Achievement Award in 1992.
A Tribute to Those We Lost in 2020
January 1, 2021 by:
As 2020 comes to a close, we here at JoBlo.com would like to take a moment to honour some of the people who sadly passed away this year. Our deepest respect goes out to everyone in the industry we have lost, and our thoughts and prayers are with the friends and family of those who died in 2020. These talented individuals will always be remembered for their impact on the world of film and television.
In Memory Of.
Buck Henry
Buck Henry passed away on January 8th at the age of 89 due to a heart attack. After serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, Henry joined The Premise, an improv comedy group that performed in the West Village in Manhattan. From there, Henry went on to write for Steve Allen and Garry Moore, and he was even the face of an elaborate hoax created by comedian Alan Abel that spanned close to three years. Henry made many public appearances as G. Clifford Prout, the president of the Society for Indecency
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01. Stand By Me (03:01)
02. Summer in the City (Remastered) (02:40)
03. Mr. Tambourine Man (02:30)
04. The Letter (01:52)
05. Seasons in the Sun (03:26)
06. Be My Baby (02:40)
07. Brown-Eyed Girl (03:05)
08. Lay Back in the Arms of Someone (04:04)
09. Amarillo (03:13)
10. When a Man Loves a Woman (02:53)
11. Put Your Head On My Shoulder (02:34)
12. Rose Garden (02:51)
13. Light My Fire (03:02)
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16. Sealed with a Kiss (02:48)
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19. The First Cut Is the Deepest (03:24)
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