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In 2008, the Competitor Group took over Elite Racing, the company that had been organizing the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon. The following year, 2009, an internal audit revealed that the charity in whose name the race had been run, Elite Racing Foundation for Children, Education & Medical Research, had been improperly commingling funds with the for-profit Elite Racing.
Barbara Cope (née Sheltman; March 19, 1950 – January 14, 2018) [1] was an American rock and roll groupie, known in the late 1960s and early 1970s as "The Butter Queen". [ 2 ] Early life
"Rock 'n Roll Rebs Cut Five Discs". Arlington State College Newspaper. Three ASC freshmen recently returned from making rock-n-roll recordings in Hollywood. They are Gene Summers, 19, James McClung, 18 and Gary Moon, 18. They made five recordings for Jan Records, a Dallas firm that has a Hollywood office, two of which will be released this week.
For more than two decades, Labor Day Weekend in Virginia Beach has been marked by the Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon. Thousands of runners have converged on the Oceanfront for an event with ...
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, established in 1983 and located in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, is dedicated to recording the history of some of the best-known and most influential musicians, bands, producers, and others that have in some major way influenced the music industry, particularly in the area of rock and roll. [1]
Rock and Roll's biggest night is back as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation is set to welcome its 2024 class of inductees. The latest class includes iconic names such as Cher, Ozzy Osbourne ...
John Alvin Ray (January 10, 1927 – February 24, 1990) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Highly popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor to what became rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music, and his animated stage personality. [1]
Announcing the news of his death, his publicist Zach Farnum said: “Lewis, perhaps the last true, great icon of the birth of rock‘n’roll, whose marriage of blues, gospel, country, honky-tonk ...