According toIMDb, McEntire first gained recognition after she performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Oklahoma City's 1974 National Finals Rodeo. Country star Red Steagall was in attendance and, captivated, invited her and her family to his afterparty. After some industry chat, McEntire was ready...
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words with accuracy (准确) far beyond her years. In “Our Song” she wrote, “Our song is the slamming screen door, going out late, tapping on your window.” In the summer of 2006, “Tim McGraw” came out, and almost from the beginning the 16-year-old Taylor Swift was a star. ...
Did you know that Francis Scott Key wrote the words to “The Star-Spangled Banner” on the back of an envelope? A vexillologist is an expert in the history of flags. When is it appropriate to fly the flag upside down? The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as...
There were around 2.5 million people living in the United States when independence was declared in 1776. Today there are well over 300 million people in the country. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, both presidents and signers of the Declaration of Independence, died on the 50-year anniversary ...
17-year-old Benjamin Elliott is facing a first degree murder charge after stabbing his twin sister Meghan twice in the neck while he claims he was asleep.
“Piano Man,” written while Joel was playing in a Los Angeles lounge. In 2016, the Library of Congress selected “Piano Man” for preservation in the National Recording Registry for its “cultural, historic and artistic significance.” The hits have continued for almost five decades, with ...
Maria João Pires in 1999, when she had learned the wrong piano concerto.Picture: Allegri Film “She was shocked because she was expecting us to play another concerto,” Chailly recounted afterwards. “So when I started the first bar of the D minor concerto, she kind of jumped and panic...
和She threw me a ball. I jumped for it; it slipped through my fingers and flew into the bleachers. No one was seated right there, but my relief disappeared when the ball crashed into the tape recorder that was used to play The Star Spangled Banner before each game.可以看出Katie笨拙的,...
Departure Day I woke up excited and ready to go, then checked my phone. The first message was, “You need to take a bus,” from the promised ride from Des Moines to Iowa City, who was already in Iowa City because there was no rally(!) ...