Boo's Blog – August 2009 Archive (3)

Recently, buzz started brewing that popular R&B crooner Teddy Pendergrass was on his deathbed



The Grammy Award-nominated singer-songwriter has been hospitalized at Philadelphia's Bryn Mawr Hospital and is admittedly enduring a health crisis. The 59-year-old singer has been there for about a month, and the nature of his illness is not publicly known.



He and his new wife, Joan, addressed the rumors and expressed gratitude to his loyal legion of fans.



"I wish… Continue

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Doris Troy (6 January 1937 – 16 February 2004) was an American R&B singer, known to her many fans as "Mama Soul".



She was born Doris Higginson in The Bronx, the daughter of a Barbadian Pentecostal minister. Her parents disapproved of "subversive" forms of music like rhythm & blues, so she cut her teeth singing in her father's choir. She was working as an usherette at the Apollo where… Continue

WE'RE HAVING OUR FAMILY REUNION IN AUGUSTA GA. ( don't you just LOVE family reunions ???? ).LOL !!!!!





Labor Day is a federal holiday in Canada and the United States and is observed on the first Monday in September (on September 7 in 2009).



The holiday originated in 1872 in Toronto and in the United States in 1882 as the Central Labor Union of New York City sought to create "a day off for the working citizens." Congress made Labor Day a federal… Continue