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Happy Birthday Roy This Day in Country Music – April 22nd [VIDEO]
April 22, 2013 1936 - Roy Orbison is born in Vernon, Texas.
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The Whole Country Bops This Day In Country Music – January 18th (Video)
January 18, 2012 2009 - Garth Brooks sings "We Shall Be Free" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during an inaugural event for Barack Obama. Also appearing: James Taylor, Jennifer Nettles, Bono, Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi and Sheryl Crow.
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Happy Birthday To The Man That Helped Me Be A DJ – Roy Orbison [VIDEOS]
April 22, 2011 This is it.
This is the album I played over and over and over as a kid, and in no small part, was the reason I chose radio as a career.
I would sit in my parent's house and pretended to be a DJ while introducing songs like 'Running Scared', 'Only the Lonely', 'Uptown', and many others on my pretend radio station.
Saturday, April 23rd, would have been Roy Orbison's 75th birthday. As Bruce Springsteen mentions in one of the attached videos, so many wanted to sing like the rock-n-roll legend from Vernon, Texas...but, nobody could ever sing like him.