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Happy birthday Grantus Richtorus, welcome to the semicenturion club
(I'll have to teach you the secret handshake next time we get together).

--- In wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com, "drmabuce" <drmabuce@...> wrote:
>
> 50 years ago...
> this is what was going on-
> A judge in Jacksonville declared that a kid who'd just performed a
> short opening set for Hank Ballard at a small local dance hall was 'a
> savage' and threatened to have him arrested if he returned to Florida.
> That same savage, (a fellow named Elvis Presley) had just played a
> barn-burner of a gig in Lubbock and inspired an ambitious local
> guitarist to seek a record contract which Decca awarded him within the
> year... 1956. 
>   After hearing his name on the radio he decided that he should
> perform as 'Buddy Holly' rather than Charles Holley.
> 
> it's 12:01am Thursday 14 December 2006
> who else knows what happened a half century ago, on this date?
> ;'>
> 
> -doc
>