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July 20, 2008
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![]() As the World Turns Premieres (1956)Soap operas began in the early 1930s as 15-minute radio episodes and continued in that format when they began appearing on TV in the early 1950s. As the World Turns premiered as the first half-hour TV soap. The show, which primarily focused on two professional families in the fictional town of Oakdale, Illinois, ran for 54 years and aired nearly 14,000 episodes. For 20 of those years, it was most-watched daytime drama in the US. What interrupted a live broadcast of the show in 1963? More... Discuss |
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The first time I saw them, they had hair.
Come to think of it, so did I.
Those guys are sort of timeless,a aren't they? I know they get "sampled" a lot by today's artists.
Duncan St. here in town used to have really steep shoulders, houses on each side and me 'n a friend used to drive the road in his VW, playing this song.
Was so weird, the bumps in the road went right along with the music and the opening sound effect of the tune HAS to be a VW.
I've got this album; elle sent it to me after she learned I liked 'em. I forget what CD it is, but it's not the radio/original version of it.
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