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		<title>Sleeping in Heavenly Peace</title>
		<link>http://nfmhof.com/2009/12/02/sleeping-in-heavenly-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bishop John Freeman Young sleeps in Jacksonville&#8217;s Old City Cemetery. While there&#8217;s nothing on his tombstone to indicate it, he&#8217;s known internationally for his English translation of the world&#8217;s favorite Christmas carol &#8211; &#8220;Silent Night, Holy Night.&#8221;
Young was born in Pittston, Maine on October 30, 1820.  He graduated from Virginia Theological Seminary in April, 1845 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clean living pays off for Jacksonville&#8217;s Johnny Tillotson</title>
		<link>http://nfmhof.com/2009/09/23/johnny-tillotson-finds-crossover-country/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crossover country didn&#8217;t start with Shania Twain.
In the Fabulous Fifties, pop crooners like Tony Bennett and Patti Paige discovered that spruced-up versions of  &#8220;hillbilly&#8221; songs could be a gold mine.
That vein ran both ways: country singers and their labels suddenly discovered thousands of pop-music fans who had developed a taste for country. A few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Memory of Elizabeth Reed</title>
		<link>http://nfmhof.com/2009/01/23/in-memory-of-elizabeth-reed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Jones Reed Napier was 90-years old when she passed away in 1945.  Despite all she must have accomplished during her long life, she&#8217;s famous because of a guitar player who was not quite two years old when she died.
The Allman Brothers Band formed in Jacksonville in 1969.  The group included guitarist Dickey Betts, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Little Martha&#8221; Ellis &#8211; remembered in stone and song</title>
		<link>http://nfmhof.com/2008/12/28/little-martha-ellis-remembered-in-stone-and-song/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Martha Ellis was only 12-years old when she died in 1896.  Her parents obviously loved and sorely missed her as they erected this marker at her grave.  Little Martha is buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon, Georgia.
The cemetery was laid out in the 1880s with the idea that it would be a resting place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Young, John Freeman</title>
		<link>http://nfmhof.com/2008/12/15/young-john-freeman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Simmons</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Early artists]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Freeman Young served as priest at Jacksonville&#8217;s St. Johns Episcopal Church from 1845-1847.  In 1859, while serving as assistant priest at Trinity Church in New York City,  Young translated in to English the Austrian hymn, Silent Night, Holy Night.  The song has become the world&#8217;s favorite Christmas carol.  in 1867, Young returned to Jacksonville [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Northeast Florida music scene cracked top 10 with 100 signings</title>
		<link>http://nfmhof.com/2008/09/08/northeast-florida-music-scene-cracked-top-10-with-100-signings/</link>
		<comments>http://nfmhof.com/2008/09/08/northeast-florida-music-scene-cracked-top-10-with-100-signings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Northeast Florida musicians broke out the champagne and blasted the amplifiers in October 2002: Modern rock band 3AE became the 100th area act to snag a record deal.
The RCA Records signing is one of eight contracts garnered by Northeast Florida acts in the past two years. They include mainstream rockers Shinedown (signed with Atlantic), singer-songwriter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 100</title>
		<link>http://nfmhof.com/2008/09/08/the-100/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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Act



Debut


Genre


 Labels







 


 


 




Blake, &#8220;Blind&#8221;


1926


Blues


Paramount




Canova, Judy


1939


Cabaret


Okeh, Mercury, Varsity




Haines, Connie


1939


Swing


RCA, Coral, Capitol, Mercury, Columbia, Dot




Waterford, Charles &#8220;Crown Prince&#8221;


1945


R&#38;B, Gospel


King, Capitol




Masters Family


1946


Gospel


Rich-R-Tone, Mercury,Columbia, Decca




Shay, Dorothy


1947


Cabaret


Columbia




Charles, Ray


1949


Blues/Pop


Atlantic, ABC-Paramount, Warner Bros., Columbia




Whitman, Slim


1949


Country


RCA, Imperial, United Artists, Liberty, Cleveland Intl.




Masters, Owen


1950


Pop


 




Daniels, Billy


1952


Cabaret


Mercury




Sheldon, Jack


1954


Jazz


GNP, Reprise, Capitol, Dot, Atlas, Concord Jazz, Butterfly




Boone, Pat


1956


Pop


Dot, Motown, MCA, Lion &#38; Lamb, Benson, Bear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swamp Music Project</title>
		<link>http://nfmhof.com/2008/09/01/swamp-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Add new tag]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, on the old North Florida Music Association site, we posted a collection of mp3s. As the Internet is truly international, a Chinese site that links to music found these old songs and has linked to them.  There are several hundred downloads a month. So for the rest of you, here’s the original [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perry, Ron</title>
		<link>http://nfmhof.com/2008/08/29/perry-ron/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[1970s]]></category>
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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>
		<link>http://nfmhof.com/2008/08/29/lombar-dru/</link>
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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.)
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