ALBUMS

Stevie Wonder---With A Song In My Heart---1963
Suicide---Suicide---1977
Leon Redbone---Christmas Island----1987
R.E.M.---iTunes Originals---2004

BIRTHDAYS

Harold Rhodes---1910---inventor of the Rhodes electric piano, dominated music until the invention of the synthesizer in the 80's.
Robuck “Pops”...

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The coroner's office has ruled that 93-year-old Jenny Russo died of natural causes following a hit-and-run accident on Friday morning. Russo was suffering from end-stage lung disease and was in hospice care in her home when a pickup truck slammed into her bedroom early Friday morning and drove off. Her family and firefighters moved her bed to another room but she died a short time later....

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A motorcyclist was killed Friday after colliding with a box truck in Upper Merion. It happened after 5:00 pm at 800 River Road near Gate #4 of the Philadelphia Inquirer facility in Swedeland. The motorcycle crossed over the double yellow line and collided head first into the truck killing 50-year-old Eric Kiefer from Conshohocken instantly. The driver of the truck, 30-year-old Mohamed Ba...

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ALBUMS

Bob Dylan---John Wesley Harding---1967
Leonard Cohen---The Songs Of Leonard Cohen---1967
The Jackson 5---Greatest Hits---1971
Geneisi---Wind & Wuthering---1976
Todd Rundgren's Utopia---Adventures In Utopia---1979
Mike + The Mechnaics---Favorites!The Very Best Of---2000
Bob Dylan---The 50th Anniversary Collection---2012

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Police have recovered the pickup truck suspected in a hit-and-run early Friday morning that killed a 93-year-old woman on her birthday. The truck slammed into the side of a house at around 2:30 a.m. on Redbrook Lane in Bristol and drove off. Jenny Russo past away shortly after presumably do to the shock and commotion during and after the accident, but she wasn't actually hit by the car....

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The Fountain Restaurant in the Four Seasons Hotel on Logan Square is a Triple-A five-diamond and Forbes Travel Guide Five-star restaurant, the only in the region to hold such a distinction, but with the Four Seasons intending a move to the top of the planned Comcast Tower, the restaurant is closing its doors and will serve its final dinner Saturday night. Chef William DiStefano says they picked...

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A Christmas baby was born yesterday on board a SEPTA train. Two transit Police officers delivered a baby when mom went into labor and firefighters carried the newborn baby boy up the steps and to a waiting ambulance at 15th and Market Streets in Center City. The two officers heard the call over their radios and rushed to help with the delivery. Before rushing off to the hospital, the proud...

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ALBUMS

Warren Zevon---Stand In The Fire---1980
Kreator---Past Life Trauma(1985-1992)---2000

BIRTHDAYS

Abdul "Duke" Farkin---1935---The Four Tops(last surviving member)
Bob Carpenter---1946---The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
George J. Porter Jr.---1947---The Meters, Paul McCartney, Jimy Buffett
Paul Anthony Quinn---1951---Saxon

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ALBUMS

Laura Nyro---Smile---1976
Zard---Mo Sagasanai---1991

CHRISTMAS BIRTHDAYS

Cabell "Cab" Calloawy III---1907---"Mr. Zoot Suit"
William Franklin "Billly" Horton---1929---The Silhouettes
O'Kelly Isley Jr.---1937---The Isley Brothers
Bob James---1939
Pete Brown---1940---songwriter co-wrote "I Fell Free" and "White...

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A Montgomery County teenager is now out of the hospital following last week's killing spree that 6 members of his family dead. 17-year-old Anthony Flick was released Monday, one week after the attack in which he suffered shopping wounds to his head and hands. His parents and sister were killed in the shooting/stabbing attack by Bradley Jones along with his grandmother and great-grandmother...

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