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The Golden Year 1959 (0:49:55)

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This syndicated version is all ROBERT W. MORGAN: image, news and host!

With all the recent news about Cuban relations with the United States, guess who makes his debut in 1959? It’s the year Charlton Heston climbed aboard his chariot and mowed down Oscar competition! Current long-suffering Dodger fans can only wish it were 1959 again! Eddie Fisher divorced Debbie and married who? The United States acquires Paradise! Three “Rock Pioneers” die in an infamous plane crash. The man who shared the #1 spot for 1959 would be gone just one year after its debut!

Paul Anka explains his “turning point” from adolescence to adulthood; What Ray Charles does to fill out eight minutes of a “gig;” EVERY Golden Year some artist explains WHY they didn’t want the record released, and this time is it is Bobby Darin!; Jim Ed Brown recalls one of most beloved country-crossovers; and Freddy Cannon has a very talented Mom.

The Golden Year 1959 offers you the opportunity to mosey along, find a dry cleaner to remove that cosmetic material from your collar, travel to one well-known city in Missouri, question if it is your favorite shade of Blue, and finally wreck havoc in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The syndicated version of THE GOLDEN YEAR: 1959

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