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Sound Observations: 20 for ’19 – A look back at last year’s most-viewed articles on this site

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By DAN ARMONAITIS As I started the new year, I couldn’t help but take inventory of what has happened with TheMusicAdvocate.com in the short period since the site launched on Oct. 23, 2019. While having a morning cup of coffee, I looked back at the statistics for the site and Read More

Howard Childress, the youngest of The Sparkletones, has died at age 76

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By DAN ARMONAITIS Howard Childress was only 14 years old when he and three other teenagers from Spartanburg County made their network television debut on “The Nat King Cole Show” in 1957. After Cole introduced The Sparkletones, a camera cut immediately to a close-up shot of Childress, whose boyish face Read More