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A.P. Williams Funeral Home is a historic African-American funeral home located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built between 1893 and 1911 as a single-family residence, and is a two-story frame building with a hipped roof with gables and a columned porch. At that time, it was one of six funeral homes that served black customers.
South Carolina is noted for being the birthplace of beach music, an offshoot of early R&B and rock 'n' roll that featured a shuffling beat which spawned the dance called The Shag. This Myrtle Beach-area dance is the official State Dance, although South Carolina has also contributed to two other famous dances, the Charleston in the 1920s, and ...
Beach music is most closely associated with the style of dance known as the shag, or the Carolina shag, which is also the official state dance of both North Carolina and South Carolina. Recordings with a 4/4 " blues shuffle " rhythmic structure and moderate-to-fast tempo are the most popular music for the shag, and the vast majority of the ...
During the height of the 1960s “beach music” fad, Columbia musician Mike Tronco led a nine-piece band that shared a stage with James Brown, Gladys Knight and The Drifters.
Ed Weiss, a longtime radio DJ credited with helping to bring Beach music into the mainstream, died at home Saturday night, his wife posted on Facebook.. Weiss, better known by his on-air name ...
WVCO (94.9 FM, "94.9 The Surf") is an American radio station in the Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, market. They play a mix of Blues/ Carolina beach music / shag . Its studios are located on Ocean Boulevard in North Myrtle Beach , and its transmitter is southeast of Loris.
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Life’s too short not to vacation—or if you’re really lucky, live—in the warmth of a South Carolina beach town. The 20 Best Beach Towns in Florida (Because You Need to Get Away from Here) 1.