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Birthdays On The Tube
Birthdays On The Tube
Musical birthdays of the week
Saturday, 24 October 2009
The first in a new series that celebrates musicians born this week:
31 October 1896: Ethel Waters sings "Am I Blue" from the 1929 film On with the Show, actually the first sound film with colour, although only black and white copies have survived (click below, and then click on the link to YouTube).
The first in a new series that celebrates musicians born this week:
31 October 1896: Ethel Waters sings "Am I Blue" from the 1929 film On with the Show, actually the first sound film with colour, although only black and white copies have survived (click below, and then click on the link to YouTube).
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Explosive new insights in the pianist's latest interpretations of the last three masterpieces
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