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For many years now, during the first week of January, we write a post about Public Domain Day. That's the day -- January 1st -- where works that have reached the statutory limit reach the public domain. The Public Domain Review has an excellent collection of the Class of 2018 -- showing what works entered…
Happy Birthday to Bob Seger who turns 77 today (May 6th)!!! Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band performed their final show on November 1st, 2019 with little nostalgia or fanfare at Philly's Wells Fargo Center. As it stands now, there are no further Seger tour dates on the books in the future. The trek, which had started in support of Seger's latest album, 2017's I Knew You When, was cut short by complications from a ruptured disc. Bob Seger and his family were unharmed after a small fire broke out at his house in Orchard Lake, Michigan on Halloween morning (October 31st)....
How A Battle Creek Dad Became a Music Legend Charles Westover was just a young dad working in a carpet store in Battle Creek in 1961. The job put food on the table for his wife, Shirley, and their three young kids. “Chuck” had finished his service in the Air Force, which had brought the family to Fort Custer in Battle Creek. Shirley even worked as a ticket agent for North Central Airlines at Kellogg Airport for a time. The family lived at Brown’s Trailer Park on Avenue A, just west of town. After work, Chuck moonlighted, playing guitar and singing at the Hi-Lo Club four nights a...
Shirley Small lives in sunny Las Vegas these days. As a young mother of three, she held down the fort at their Battle Creek home while her husband went from carpet salesman to music legend. Shirley was married to Charles Westover, who became better known as Del Shannon. She’s 84 now. Six decades ago, the couple lived in Brown’s Trailer Park, 1301 Avenue A in Springfield. In the years after the Second World War, with a housing shortage, trailer parks were springing up everywhere and were thought of as a modern innovation. Shirley remembers going to the little store at the...