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	<title>Entertainment Daily &#187; Songwriters</title>
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		<title>Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 16-22</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 16-22:

Aug. 16: Actor Fess Parker is 85. Actor Robert Culp is 79. Sportscaster Frank Gifford is 79. Singer Eydie Gorme is 78. Actress Julie Newmar is 76. Actor Gary Clarke (&#8221;Hondo,&#8221; &#8221;The Virginian&#8221;) is 73. Actress Anita Gillette is 73. Actress Carole Shelley is 70. Country singer Billy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Late songwriter Cindy Walker leaves songs to Nashville&#8217;s Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The late Texas songwriter Cindy Walker has left an unusual and generous gift to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum: Her catalog of about 500 songs, many of them pop and country classics.

The hall announced Wednesday that Walker bequeathed her share of the songs, including future royalties, after her death [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Willy DeVille, founder of punk world&#8217;s Mink DeVille, dies of cancer in NYC at 58</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/e/2009/08/07/willy-deville-founder-of-punk-worlds-mink-deville-dies-of-cancer-in-nyc-at-58-22865/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Willy DeVille, who founded the punk group Mink DeVille and was known for his blend of R&#038;B, blues, Dixieland and traditional French Cajun ballads, has died, his publicist said Friday. He was 58.

The Oscar-nominated songwriter died at New York&#8217;s Cabrini Hospital on Thursday of pancreatic cancer, said Carol Kaye at Kayos Productions.
&#8220;The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 9-15</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 9-15:

Aug. 9: Comedian-director David Steinberg is 67. Actor Sam Elliott is 65. Singer Barbara Mason is 62. Actress Melanie Griffith is 52. Actress Amanda Bearse (&#8221;Married&#8230;With Children&#8221;) is 51. Rapper Kurtis Blow is 50. Singer Whitney Houston is 46. &#8220;Today&#8221; co-host Hoda Kotb is 45. Actor Pat Petersen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking up is hard to do, but inspiring to write about for songwriter Charlie Robison</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Break up painful but inspiring for Charlie Robison

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Country rocker Charlie Robison didn&#8217;t have to retreat to a cabin in the hills or listen to old records to find inspiration for his new album, &#8220;Beautiful Day.&#8221;
He found it in his collapsing marriage to Dixie Chick Emily Robison.
&#8220;We decided we were getting a divorce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kristinia DeBarge, next generation of the singing family, ready to dominate music world</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
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Kristinia DeBarge not saying goodbye anytime soon
NEW YORK — Most teenagers daydream about several career paths in life, but 19-year-old Kristinia of the R&#038;B clan the DeBarges says there&#8217;s only one thing she ever considered doing.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t really know anything else besides singing,&#8221; said the daughter of James DeBarge, the keyboardist of the 1980s Motown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Dawson, co-founder of psychedelic band New Riders of the Purple Sage, dies at 64</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO — John &#8220;Marmaduke&#8221; Dawson, a longtime Grateful Dead collaborator who co-wrote &#8220;Friend of the Devil&#8221; and developed a devoted following with his psychedelic country group New Riders of the Purple Sage, has died. He was 64.

Dawson died Tuesday from stomach cancer in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he had retired several years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Despite Berlin and Joplin, &#8216;The Tin Pan Alley Rag&#8217; doesn&#8217;t hit the right notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — The sweet syncopations of Scott Joplin and the marvelous melodies of Irving Berlin can&#8217;t bring to life &#8220;The Tin Pan Alley Rag,&#8221; a soggy, inert examination of what made these musical masters tick.

The Roundabout Theatre Company production, which opened Tuesday at its Laura Pels Theatre, is not quite a play and not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian songwriter online sensation for his video about United Airlines breaking his guitar</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — A Canadian musician has become an Internet sensation after posting a song on YouTube about United Airlines breaking his guitar.

Dave Carroll&#8217;s video for the song &#8220;United Breaks Guitars&#8221; was posted on site earlier this week and has received more than 600,000 hits by Thursday evening.
&#8220;I was thinking I&#8217;d definitely get some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music rights group BMI to honor singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson as a music icon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Kris Kristofferson will be honored by BMI as a music icon during the music licensing organization&#8217;s country awards in November.

BMI announced the selection Tuesday morning. The group gives the honor to songwriters and artists who have had a &#8220;unique and indelible&#8221; influence on generations of music makers.
Past honorees include Dolly Parton, Willie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listen to the man: Michael Jackson&#8217;s lyrics tell a hard story</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — In the brief, electric prime of Michael Jackson, millions danced to &#8220;Billie Jean,&#8221; &#8221;Beat It&#8221; and other songs so propulsive it almost didn&#8217;t matter what they actually said.

But the lyrics — whether Jackson&#8217;s or others&#8217; — could be as disturbing as the music was liberating. Sealed in the grooves were tales of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar-winning songwriter-director of &#8216;You Light Up My Life&#8217; charged with rape in NY</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — The songwriter and director behind &#8220;You Light Up My Life&#8221; has been indicted on charges of raping or sexually assaulting women who answered audition ads on Craigslist.

Joseph Brooks, who&#8217;s 71, will be arraigned later Tuesday.
Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau says nine of the 11 victims answered an ad seeking women to audition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bon Jovi, Crosby, Stills &amp; Nash, Jason Mraz among those honored at Songwriters Hall of Fame</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Jon Bon Jovi considers writing classic songs as a way of being remembered throughout time.

&#8220;It&#8217;s the closest thing to immortality as we&#8217;re ever gonna see here,&#8221; he said.
There may be another way: the Songwriters Hall of Fame. And on Thursday night, the New Jersey rocker and his writing partner, Richie Sambora, joined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Singer-songwriter Kenny Rankin dies in Los Angeles of lung cancer at age 69</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES — Kenny Rankin, a brilliant pop vocalist and highly regarded musician-songwriter whose stylings ranged from jazz to pop to the world music influences he picked up as a child in New York, has died of complications related to lung cancer, his record company announced Monday. He was 69.

Rankin died Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Singer-songwriter Kenny Rankin dies of lung cancer at age 67</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES — A spokesman for Kenny Rankin&#8217;s record label says the veteran singer-songwriter has died of lung cancer. He was 67.

Mack Avenue Records spokesman Don Lucoff says Rankin died Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The cause of death was lung cancer.
In a career spanning 50 years, Rankin worked with such artists as Bob Dylan, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today in History</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Saturday, July 18, the 199th day of 2009. There are 166 days left in the year.

Today&#8217;s Highlight in History:
On July 18, 1969, a car driven by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha&#8217;s Vineyard; although Kennedy managed to escape the submerged vehicle, his passenger, 28-year-old Mary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newly married Mandy Moore talks about growth as a singer-songwriter and forever being &#8216;good&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Cidoni</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES — Mandy Moore doesn&#8217;t mind being perpetually seen as the &#8220;good girl&#8221; — even if she thinks that image is a bit skewed.

&#8220;You know what? It&#8217;s fair to say that I am proud and honored that the perception out there is that I&#8217;m a good person. That&#8217;s, to me, the highest compliment. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 7-13</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 7-13:

June 7: Singer Tom Jones is 69. Actor Ken Osmond (Eddie Haskell on &#8220;Leave It To Beaver&#8221;) is 66. Talk show host Jenny Jones is 63. Actor Liam Neeson is 57. Singer-songwriter Johnny Clegg is 56. Actor William Forsythe is 54. Record producer L.A. Reid is 53. Musician [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 17-23</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 12:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 17-23:

May 17: Actor-director Dennis Hopper is 73. Singer Taj Mahal is 67. Singer-songwriter Jesse Winchester is 65. Drummer Bill Bruford of Yes and King Crimson is 60. Singer-guitarist George Johnson of The Brothers Johnson is 56. TV personality Kathleen Sullivan is 56. Actor Bill Paxton is 54. Actor-comedian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tired of sad songs that don&#8217;t pay so much, performers try again for royalties</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jack Ely, the singer whose 1963 version of &#8220;Louie Louie&#8221; still makes the rounds on oldies radio, lives with his wife in a mobile home on a horse ranch in Oregon. Ely says they share $30,000 a year from her teacher&#8217;s pension and his Social Security checks. They are paying down a mortgage.

So sometimes it [...]]]></description>
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