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This is getting hard to believe.  Last Thursday, the world lost disco diva Donna Summer to lung cancer.  And, Sunday, we lost yet another disco icon. 

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Devasted.  Several of us here at WBKR are just devastated.  News has surfaced that disco legend Donna Summer passed away this morning at the age of 63.  I grew up in the 1970's . . . during Summer's heyday . . . and her music was most definitely part of the fabric of our young lives. 

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I had the pleasure of seeing Whitney Houston in concert back in the early 90's.  One of the legs of her I'm Your Baby Tonight Tour kicked off at Rupp Arena in Lexington.  That was back in the day when you actually had to call Ticketmaster to get tickets.  You couldn't get them online.  Well, I happened to call the morning those tickets when on sale, RIGHT when they went on sale, and ended up snagging SECOND ROW seats.  Needless to say, my friends and I had four of the best seats in the house for one of the best voices on the planet.  That night, for those two hours, Whitney was well, Whitney.  She was dramatic, she was funny, she was a diva, she was "the voice."  And, when I shouted out from the second row and professed my profound love for her, she pointed at me and said back, "Thank you, Baby!"  Yes, for a brief second, I was HER baby that night. 

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For the last ten years, country radio stations have been playing the heck out of Darryl Worley's song Have You Forgotten? As a matter of fact, at our most recent WBKR Night at the Grand Old Opry, Darryl sang that song to a raucous standing ovation.  The reason that particular song still resonates so profoundly is that no one in the U.S. has forgotten the morning of September 11th, 2001, when, according to Toby Keith's Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue, "a mighty sucker punch came flying in from somewhere in the back!"   It was that day that "The Statue of Liberty started shaking her fist" and now, ten years later, "Mother Freedom" is "ringing her bell."  A major chapter in the War Against Terror is closed.  Osama Bin Laden is dead.

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