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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Judy Garland  (born  Frances Ethel Gumm ; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American singer, actress, and vaudevillian. She was renowned for her vocals and attained international stardom which continued throughout a career that spanned more than 40 years as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a  recording artist  and on concert stages.  Respected for her versatility, she received a  Juvenile Academy Award  and won a  Golden Globe Award  as well as  Grammy Awards  and a  Special Tony Award . She was nominated for the  Academy Award for Best Actress  for her role in the remake of  A Star Is Born  and for  Best Supporting Actress  for her performance in the 1961 film  Judgment at Nuremberg . She remains the youngest recipient (at 39 years of age) of the  Cecil B. DeMille Award  for lifetime achievement in the motion picture ...

  "Love To Love You Baby" - 1975 - #2 "I Feel Love" - 1977 - # 6   "She Works Hard For the Money" - 1983 - #3 "The Wanderer" - 1980 - #3   "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" - 1979 - #1   "Dim All the Lights" - 1979 - #1   "Bad Girls" - 1979 - #1   "Hot Stuff" - 1979 - #1   "MacArthur Park" - 1978 - #1   "Last Dance" - 1978 - #3

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia " Thriller " is a song recorded by American recording artist  Michael Jackson , composed by  Rod Temperton , and produced by  Quincy Jones . It is the seventh and final single from his sixth studio album  of the same name . It was released on November 12, 1983 in most countries and January 23, 1984 in the United States by  Epic Records . The song has appeared on multiple greatest hits compilation albums from Jackson, including  HIStory  (1995),  Number Ones (2003),  The Essential Michael Jackson  (2005), and  Michael Jackson's This Is It  (2009) and it was remixed to the Immortal  album in 2011. The song, which has a voice-over from actor  Vincent Price  had originally been titled "Starlight". The song's instruments include a  bassline  and synthesizer. In the song, sound effects such as a creaking door, thunder, feet walking on wooden planks, winds and h...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frederick Douglass  (born  Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey , c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist  orator , writer, and  statesman . After escaping from  slavery , he became a leader of the  abolitionist  movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing. He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Many Northerners also found it hard to believe that such a great orator had been a slave. Douglass wrote several autobiographies. He described his experiences as a slave in his 1845 autobiography,  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave , which became a bestseller and influential in supporting abolition, as did the second,  My Bondage and My Freedom  (1855). After ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Odetta Holmes (December 31, 1930 – December 2, 2008), known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a civil and human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement". Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals. An important figure in the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, she was influential to many of the key figures of the folk-revival of that time, including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mavis Staples, and Janis Joplin. Time included her song "Take This Hammer" on its list of the All-Time 100 Songs, stating that "Rosa Parks was her No. 1 fan, and Martin Luther King Jr. called her the queen of American folk music."

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edward Kennedy  " Duke "  Ellington  (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an  American  composer, pianist and  bandleader  of  jazz orchestras . He led his orchestra from 1923 until his death, his career spanning over 50 years. Born in  Washington, D.C. , Ellington was based in  New York City  from the mid-1920s onward, and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the  Cotton Club  in Harlem. In the 1930s, his orchestra toured in Europe. Though widely considered to have been a pivotal figure in the history of jazz, Ellington embraced the phrase "beyond category" as a "liberating principle", and referred to his music as part of the more general category of "American Music", rather than to a musical genre such as "jazz". Some of the musicians who were members of Ellington's orchestra, such as saxophonist  Johnny Hodges , are considered to be among t...