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	<title>North Florida Music Hall of Fame &#187; 1980s</title>
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		<title>Perry, Ron</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Detroit singer and guitarist was spotted by Molly Hatchet keyboardist and fellow Detroit native John Galvin and recruited to replace Hatchet’s departing singer, Jimmy Farrar, in 1987. Ron Perry wrote one song for Hatchet, “Take Miss Lucy Home,” which appeared on the band’s Capitol album, Lightning Strikes Twice.” However, Perry was displaced by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lombar, Dru</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dru led Grinderswitch and Dr. Hector and the Groove Injectors.  He began his music career while still a student at Fletcher High School in Neptune Beach.  One of these early bands was The Soul Searchers (photo courtesy the linked site.)]]></description>
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		<title>Charles, Ray</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born in 1930, in Albany, Ga.; moved to Greenville, Fla. (near Tallahassee) with his family while still an infant. Attended the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in St. Augustine; lived and performed in Jacksonville in 1945, where he lived at 732 Church Street. After leaving Florida for Seattle, he was signed to Los [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boone, Pat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Eugene &#8220;Pat&#8221; Boone is descended from Daniel Boone. His father, Archie Boone, studied architecture at the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he met Jacksonville native Margaret Pritchard. The couple settled in Jacksonville, where Pat Boone was born in 1934. The Boones had been hoping for a girl, whom they intended to name Patricia; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pettis, Pierce</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A native of Dekalb County, Ala., Pierce Pettis started off as a staff songwriter at Muscle Shoals Sound in Sheffield, Ala, and later became a staff writer for Polygram in Nashville. His big break came in 1979 when Joan Baez recorded his “Song at the End of the Movie.” After releasing an album independently in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wynans, Reese</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Organist in late-1960s Sarasota band The Blues Messengers, which came to Jacksonville to become the Second Coming. Upon that group’s merger with the Allman Brothers, Wynans left to form Jacksonville trio Ugly Jellyroll with vocalist Gary Goddard. He later moved to Macon to rejoin former Second Coming guitarist Larry Reinhardt in Capricorn act Captain Beyond. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whitman, Slim</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born Otis Dewey Whitman in Tampa, yodeling Slim Whitman was already a top-rated country performer with 30 top-50 country singles and 19 gold albums when he bought a spread near Middleburg (southwest of Jacksonville, in Clay County) in 1957. Unbelievably huge in England, at one point he even surpassed the Beatles on the British charts. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watts, Noble &#8220;Thin Man&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Native of DeLand, grad of Florida A&#38;M University, Noble Watts was in the FAMU marching band with both Cannonball and Nat Adderly.  In the 1940s through the 1950s, he played tenor sax with Charles Brantley &#38; the Honeydippers; pianist Ray Charles was also a member. Watts went on to work with such notables as Dinah [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waterford, Charles &#8220;Crown Prince&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born 1917 in Jonesboro, Ark., Waterford started a career as a blues singer in Oklahoma City in 1936. He soon lit for Chicago, where he became a fixture on the Windy City blues scene.  Moved to Los Angeles in 1945, where he briefly worked alongside singer Jimmy Witherspoon in Jay McShann’s band, then returned to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington, Teddy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jazz/R&#38;B trumpeter; member of James Brown’s band for seven years; played on several JB hits. Teddy Washington also toured with B.B. King and as session player at TK Records in Miami. Led a house band at The Fontainbleu Hotel in Miami that included future members of KC &#38; The Sunshine Band. Fronts his own smooth-jazz [...]]]></description>
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