TAMPA,Florida,09/15/1928//GARY,Indiana 08/08/1975
After his music studies in Tallahassee(1944/48) he became a high school band director at the Dillard High School/Fort Lauderdale (1948/50)in his native Florida , following in the footsteps of his ed ...
Posted Thursday, October 18th 2007 at 10:39AM
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Nat Adderley worked in his brother’s band for 16 years, and during most of that time he was been cited as a strong, integral part of the Cannonball Adderley Quintet. Critics always say he didn’t get the attention he deserved, mostly because the Quintet was a finely-honed group, and to say one p ...
Posted Thursday, October 18th 2007 at 10:26AM
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Oliver currently serves as a sideline reporter for FOX NFL coverage, working in games called by Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. She was originally a reporter with ESPN during the early 1990s before joining Fox Sports in 1995. In recent years, she also has done some courtside reporting on TNT during t ...
Posted Thursday, October 18th 2007 at 10:12AM
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The Willie Gallimore Recreational Facility in St. Augustine, Florida is named for him. He was a halfback for Florida A&M from 1953 to 1956, and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame (in South Bend IN) in 1999. Chicago Bears head coach ...
Posted Thursday, October 18th 2007 at 10:08AM
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Surrounded by four dazzling Southern-styled ladies on the hit sitcom "Designing Women" (1986), genial African-American Meshach Taylor made a name for himself as the beleaguered male foil consistently at the mercy of the ladies' antics during its seven-season run. The Boston-born actor who was r ...
Posted Thursday, October 18th 2007 at 9:59AM
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