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Announcement

Dear readers and passersby,

I will not be available on Monday, November 18th for personal reasons.

With regards to The Wizard of Oz Sunday series - The film airs every November leading up to Thanksgiving.

The Wizard of Oz Honors

The Wizard of Oz is a well known musical fantasy adaptation of the children's fantasy novel written by L. Frank Baum under the working title The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.  

Main Cast -

Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Berg Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton

The screenplay was written by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, & Edgar Allan Woolf.

The musical composition was by Harold Arlen.  The lyrics were written by Edgar "Yip" Harburg.

Awards & Nominations - 

5 Academy Award Nominations ... Best Original Song Win ("Over the Rainbow") ... Best Original Score Win .., Academy Juvenile Award presented to Judy Garland

Box office success ... Fail to profit - $2.7 million budget/$3 million earned ... MGM's most expensive production at the time

1956 television broadcast premiere of the film on CBS ... Most seen film in movie history

Preserved in the United States National Film Registry (1989)

No. 2 on Variety's inaugural 100 Greatest Films of All Time (2022)

"Over the Rainbow" listed on the Recording Industry Association of America's 365 Songs of the Century

From production to release and every aspect in between to create a landmark film receiving global acclaim, The Wizard of Oz has a history that would exhaust this post.  And so read more on Wikipedia where there is so much to learn and explore.

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Music History - November 1956

 1956

Highlights

November 5, 1956 -

Nat King Cole was the first black performer to host a variety show on national television - The Nat King Cole Show.

November 28, 1956 -

After John Lennon's death, Yoko Ono married twice - First to Japanese composer, Toshi Ichiyanagi, and second to American film producer, Anthony Cox.  Neither marriages lasted.  Lennon and Ono were married from 1969 until his passing in 1980.

- Hit singles in 1956 -

"Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" - Doris Day

"Blueberry Hill" - Fats Domino

"Hound Dog" - Elvis Presley

"Heartbreak Hotel" - Elvis Presley

"Don't Be Cruel" - Elvis Presley

- November 3, 1956 -

"Love Me Tender" - Elvis Presley

- Loss in November 1956 -

November 1 - Tommy Johnson, Blues musician

November 5 - Art Tatum, Jazz pianist

November 10 - Victor Young, Violinist/Conductor/Composer

November 24 - Guido Cantelli, Conductor

November 26 - Tommy Dorsey, Bandleader

November 30 - 

Ludvik Kuba, Artist & Musician 

Jean Schwartz, Songwriter

(Wikipedia)

21st Century Pop Culture - Christina Aguilera

 

Christina Maria Aguilera

December 18, 1980

Influential figure in music 

Well-known for 4-octave vocal range

"voice of a generation"

"Disney legend"

Genres considered - Pop, R&B, Soul, Hip Hop

Christina Aguilera - Debut album (1999)

No. 1 singles on Billboard Hot 100 -

"Genie in a Bottle," "What a Girl Wants," "Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You"

Stripped (2002) 

One of the best-selling albums of the 21st Century

Worldwide hits - "Lady Marmalade," "Dirty," "Beautiful"

Starred in the 2010 film, Burlesque, & contributed to the soundtrack

Golden Globe nomination 

One of the best-selling music artists of all time

Over 100 million records sold worldwide 

One of the greatest vocalists of all time - Billboard

One of the most influential Latin artists in the entertainment industry

"Latin explosion" in the early 2000s

- Awards -

- 5 Grammy Awards

(Including Best New Artist at age 19 - one of the youngest to receive)

- 2 Latin Grammy Awards

- 6 ALMA Awards (American Latino Media Arts)

- 2 MTV Video Music Awards

- 1 Billboard Music Award

- 3 Billboard Latin Music Awards

- (Including a Spirit of Hope Award)

- 2 People's Choice Awards

(Including the Inaugural Music Icon Award)

- 3 World Music Awards

- Guinness World Record

- Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

- Discography -

Christina Aguilera (1999)

Mi Reflejo (2000)

My Kind of Christmas (2000)

Stripped (2002)

Back to Basics (2006)

Bionic (2010)

Lotus (2012)

Liberation (2018)

Aguilera (2022)

- Filmography -

Burlesque (2010)

The Emoji Movie (2017)

Zoe (2018)

(Wikipedia)