Dr. Laura Mosqueda, Director of Geriatrics at the University of California, Irvine School of medicine, explains: "When an Alzheimer's patient hears music from their past, the regions of the brain that aren't damaged are reawakened -- subsequently, reawakening those memories."
Read MoreMeet and mingle with the best and brightest of the original Doo Wop generation as the GLOBAL DOO WOP COALITION hosts its inaugural induction gala in beautiful downtown Los Angeles at the historic Globe Theater. Celebrate the best of the old and the new as the Doo Wop classics take a bow.
"Juke Box Saturday Night" was Glenn Miller's last hit as a civilian. With World War II being the big, urgent news of the day, Miller enlisted shortly after this record was released. On December 5, 1942, the song went into the Billboard Top Ten at #9. Miller was transferred from the Army to the Army Air Corps and became Captain Glenn Miller.
Read MoreRicky Nelson began his show business career with his family in the 1949 radio sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. When the family moved to television, so did he, and their show The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, with Ozzie's questionable employment as a former bandleader and their unadventurous adventures, aired from 1952 through 1966.
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