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12/19/2024

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12/18/2024

Award Winning Saxophonist 🎷 Harlan Jefferson sings, What a Wonderful World!
Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong said every once in a while, you have to put the horn down and sing a little bit. Even after experiencing significant hardships and challenges in life, it's still A Wonderful World!

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12/16/2024

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Nat King Cole was an enormously popular crooner, earning $4,500 a week in Las Vegas in 1956. He headlined at the whites-only Thunderbird Hotel, where he wasn't allowed to venture beyond the showroom and the cook's resting area behind the kitchen. Cole's road manager was given a room in the hotel because he was white, but the high-paid feature attraction had to find other accommodations. He regularly stayed in a rooming house on the West Side.
Frank Sinatra was a great fan of Cole's. While performing at the Sands, Sinatra noticed that Cole almost always ate his dinner alone in his dressing room. Sinatra asked his valet, a black man named George, to find out why. George explained the facts to Frank. "Coloreds aren't allowed in the dining room at the Sands."

Sinatra was enraged. He told the maitre d' and the waitresses that if it ever happened again, he'd see that everyone was fired.
The next night, Sinatra invited Cole to dinner, making his guest the first black man to sit down and eat in the the Garden Room at the Sands.

12/12/2024

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Queen PowerVery interesting
"Some artists are forgotten for their achievements as time passes. Today, we''d like to acknowledge one of these artists on her birthday. Linda Martell, once called "Country''s Lost Pioneer" by Rolling Stone, was the first commercially successful Black female artist.

Linda was born Thelma Bynem on June 4, 1941, in Leesville, South Carolina. Her father was a sharecropper and a pastor. Her love for music started with singing in the choir. She was discovered while performing on a Charleston Air Force base in 1969, where they begged her to sing country songs. She quickly signed an agreement with Shelby Singleton Jr., and within a single 12-hour session, they recorded her only album, "Color Me Country." Her cover of "Color Him Father" was also released as a single and quickly reached #22 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart, the highest a song by a Black female country artist had reached at the time.

She was also the first female Black artist to play the Grand Ole Opry, where she performed twelve times. However, her success was short-lived. Due to abundant racism during performances and discrimination and favoritism within Plantation Records, she soon left the label. She was blackballed after leaving, which ruined her reputation and prevented her from making another country record. She lived a quiet life after that though music always remained a part of it.

Recently, she has re-entered the public radar after being mentioned in Beyonce''s album Cowboy Carter, specifically on two songs, "Spaghetti" and "The Linda Martell Show." Beyonce''s shout-out had many magazines publishing articles asking, "Who is she?" In 2021, her granddaughter, Marquia Thompson, started working on a documentary about Martell''s life story. It is titled "Bad Case of the Country Blues: The Linda Martell Story" and is scheduled to be released this year. "- Birthplace of Country Music

Image is from Ebony Magazine, March 1970, and is in the public domain

12/12/2024

Hallelujah holidays are almost here.
Saxophonist performing Hallelujah!

12/08/2024

LL COOL J is hard as hell!

12/03/2024

Welcome back Will Smith!

12/02/2024

Save The Date! On August 2, 2025 Legendary Saxophonist Harlan Jefferson performs with his Award-Winning Band, SOSO Tight at the Brownsville Smooth Jazz Festival in Chicago, Illinois!

11/05/2024

It’s time for the Rockford Park District to focus on the next 5 years and update our community-led strategic plan for 2025 – 2030. It all starts with a Recreational Needs Assessment and you. Feedback from this survey helps ensure that the Rockford Park District is meeting the needs of this and succeeding generations and will also help to update community-driven priorities. This feedback will determine areas to reinvest in, eliminate, or strategically add.

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The Rockford Park District is updating its community-driven priorities and five-year strategic plan based on your feedback. Revised priorities will guide us in how to best accomplish our mission and fulfill our vision given the current economic, demographic, along with physical and social emotional...

10/26/2024

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10/25/2024

We're looking at hiring the right person to put together a fashion show in 2025 at Live At Levings Talent Show And Concerts! Do you know of anyone?

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