Category Archives: Music

Former Beatle Ringo Starr on his new album

By doris | Published: February 5, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Ringo Starr walks into the hotel suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel carrying a brown paper bag. It’s his sack lunch, and he’s packed it himself. He’s also driven himself to the hotel and arrived alone — no entourage, no bodyguard, no assistant, no fuss. It’s fitting that CNN’s [...]

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Best Bets: ‘American Idol’ turns on the music

By doris | Published: January 17, 2012

Full Story at  Entertainment.msnbc.msn.com The biggest reality show of the year cranks up the music again this week, as “American Idol” returns. Some thought the singing competition could never survive the loss of Simon Cowell, but judges Jennifer Lopez, Randy Jackson and Steven Tyler proved them wrong. This week kicks off with the infamous auditions, [...]

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NBC announces musical theater program for schools

By doris | Published: January 8, 2012

Full Story at NBC.Yahoo.com PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — NBC is funding an initiative to create musical theater programs in U.S. schools in need of arts education. The network said Friday the effort to launch stand-alone musical theater programs will begin this month with a pilot group of 20 schools nationwide. NBC is joined on the [...]

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Singer, actress Kaye Stevens dies in Florida

By doris | Published: January 1, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com THE VILLAGES, Fla. (AP) — Singer and actress Kaye Stevens, who performed with the Rat Pack and was a frequent guest on Johnny Carson’s “The Tonight Show,” has died at a central Florida hospital. She was 79. Close friend Gerry Schweitzer confirmed that Stevens died Wednesday at the Villages Hospital north [...]

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Swift releases ‘Hunger Games’ song: ‘Safe and Sound’

By doris | Published: December 29, 2011

Full Story at MarqueeBlog.CNN.com When she’s not busy winning awards or working on her upcoming album, Taylor Swift has been lending her talents to the soundtrack for “The Hunger Games.” The 22-year-old country star tweeted a link to the single, titled “Safe and Sound,” on Thursday, teasing, “Something I’ve been VERY excited about for a [...]

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Neil Diamond discusses new CD & his best year yet

By doris | Published: December 13, 2011

Full Story atnews.Yahoo.com LOS ANGELES (AP) — Neil Diamond has been a hit maker for more than four decades, but the 70-year-old singer-songwriter says that when he’s alone in his studio, he sometimes wonders who will hear his music. The answer, of course, is almost everyone, as evidenced by a stellar year that saw the [...]

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Jon McLaughlin releases “Forever If Ever”

By doris | Published: December 6, 2011

Full Story at CBS News Singer-songwriter Jon McLaughlin recently released third CD debuted at the top of iTunes’ singer/songwriter top 200 albums chart. Chances are you’ve heard the charming Midwestern guy’s music in films and on television. In fact, in 2008, he was nominated for an Academy Award for his hit “So Close” from the [...]

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Former ‘Idol’ Lauren Alaina flubs national anthem

By doris | Published: November 25, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msn.com She performed live in front of a television audience of millions week in and week out on Season 10 of “American Idol,” but at the Detroit Lions/Green Bay Packers game on Thanksgiving, Lauren Alaina’s nerves got the best of her as she flubbed the National Anthem. Unlike Christina Aguilera, who, at [...]

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Aldean, Shelton enter rarefied air at CMA Awards

By doris | Published: November 9, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jason Aldean thinks this year’s Country Music Association Awards could be the start of something new. Country music is slow to change, and so are the 6,000 members who vote for the winners of Wednesday night’s show. So when they nominated Jason Aldean and Blake Shelton in [...]

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LeAnn Rimes laughs at the lies about her and Eddie

By doris | Published: October 2, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (PEOPLE.com) — While admitting again that she and Eddie Cibran made mistakes when they got together in 2009, LeAnn Rimes says there were tons of lies written about them, too — but that the couple kept quiet for the sake of his children. “You have to really take the high road [...]

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