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femmocrat

(28,394 posts) Mon May 16, 2016, 01:09 PM May 2016

Julius La Rosa has died. (Sorry if this is a dupe.) [View all]

Julius La Rosa, the celebrated 1950s singer who reinvented himself as a television, stage and nightclub performer after his young career was thrown into turmoil by a bizarre and humiliating on-the-air firing by Arthur Godfrey before a national audience, died on Thursday at his home in Crivitz, Wis. He was 86.

More at link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/arts/television/julius-la-rosa-dead-86-singer.html

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Julius La Rosa has died. (Sorry if this is a dupe.) [View all] femmocrat May 2016 OP

I live six miles north Worried senior May 2016 #1

I loved Julie and listened to him all of the time. Godfrey was a POS and lost all kinds of monmouth4 May 2016 #2

Here is his on air firing. Kingofalldems May 2016 #3

Why anybody liked Arthur Godfrey, I'll never know. longship May 2016 #4

I LOVED Julius La Rosa when I was a kid. Greybnk48 May 2016 #5

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