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In honor of the TV signal that brought me such childhood viewing pleasures as Howdy Doody, I Love Lucy, The Nat King Cole Show and The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports, I have decided to let my portabl... Is this change really necessary? In honor of the TV signal that brought me such childhood viewing pleasures as Howdy Doody, I Love Lucy, The Nat King ...

In honor of the TV signal that brought me such childhood viewing pleasures as "Howdy Doody," "I Love Lucy," "The Nat King Cole Show" and "The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports," I have decided to let my portable analog set die in peace.

As we are told in "A Tribute to the Black Crooners," the new show at the Black Ensemble Theater, the crooning style emerged from the bel canto tradition of Italian opera, though it was a long line of jazz performers, both black and white , who shaped the sound as we think of it today.

I've never been a Johnny Mathis fan. Other than admiring Steven Spielberg's use of Chances Are in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and a December weakness for Sleigh Ride , Mathis has always been akin to drinking honey out of the jar.

Noon to 12:45 p.m.: Kaye Cook Praise Dancers. Noon to 5 p.m.: Lathrop House program, family activity stations, Follow the Drinking Gourd film, Quality of Life and Health Organization displays, Ohio 5th Infantry Regiment U.S. Colored Troops, Photography Exhibit in the Community Gallery, Gallery Explorations of works by African and African American ...

Published: Monday, June 8, 2009 Ita s time again for the Delphos Rotary Club Concert in the Park series.

Joanne Pascale will perform at the Deer Head Inn in Delaware Water Gap on May 30.

The Carpenter Performing Arts Center has announced its 15th anniversary season, filled with comedy, dance, intimate talks and music.

Art-music innovator Brian Eno, former member of the '70s glam rock band Roxy Music, will share his dynamic imagination with the Cal State Long Beach campus in September.

Natalie Cole is known for many things: She's the daughter of Nat "King" Cole and a Grammy Award winner; and in the last several years, the R&B artist has been recognized for adding gospel music to her repertoire.

The daughter of jazz and pop legend Nat King Cole, Natalie Cole has forged a successful career in two phases, doing R&B/urban contemporary and then jazz-based pop.

New York/Los Angeles, May 23 : For US singer Natalie Cole, life and death came as two sides of a coin this week.

In this Feb. 8, 2009 file photo, Natalie Cole is shown backstage at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.

When Freddie Jackson introduced a slow-jam rendition of "When I Fall in Love" on Tuesday evening at Feinstein's at Loews Regency, he dutifully ticked off a list of R&B balladeers in the love-god tradition that carried him to pop stardom in the mid-1980s. The roster, which included Marvin Gaye, Luther Vandross, Teddy Pendergrass, Donny Hathaway, ...

Monty Alexander , the headliner for the Artists Collective's Jackie McLean International Arts Festival M onty Alexander , a globe-trotting pianist and celebrated musical ambassador for the nation of Jamaica, is the headliner for the Artists Collective's second annual Jackie McLean International Arts Festival, which runs Friday and Saturday.

Etta James is still mad that she didn't get to perform her signature song, her 1961 hit "At Last," at the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball for President Obama 's first dance.

Jackie Paris 'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris Reinvent the Wheel-Outsider Pictures 2009 Before Jackie Paris won the Downbeat new star male vocalist award in 1953, he'd already made his mark with a Nat "King" Cole-style trio on 52nd Street and toured with Charlie Parker and Lionel Hampton 's big band.

From gospel and early R&B to soul and jazz to blues and straight-up pop, Lou Rawls was a consummate master of African-American vocal music whose versatility helped him adapt to the changing musical times over and over again while always remaining unmistakably himself.

I'm not the world's biggest Tony Bennett fan. I always felt that compared with the stylings of Frank Sinatra, Nat "King " Cole or Johnny Hartman, Tony was something of a pop singer cast in a jazz singer's role.

" contestant Matt Giraud said that, thanks to compliments from judges Kara DioGuardi and Simon Cowell, he went out in style on Wednesday .