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40 Stunning Photos of Dolly Parton From the 1960s to the 1980s

Born 1946 in Pittman Center, Tennessee, American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and philanthropist Dolly Parton is known primarily for her work in country music.

After achieving success as a songwriter for others, Parton made her album debut in 1967 with Hello, I’m Dolly. With steady success during the remainder of the 1960s (both as a solo artist and with a series of duet albums with Porter Wagoner), her sales and chart peak came during the 1970s and continued into the 1980s. Parton’s albums in the 1990s sold less well, but she achieved commercial success again in the new millennium and has released albums on various independent labels since 2000, including her own label, Dolly Records.

Parton’s music includes 25 Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)-certified gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards. She has had 25 songs reach No. 1 on the Billboard country music charts, a record for a female artist (tied with Reba McEntire). She has 41 career top-10 country albums, a record for any artist, and she has 110 career charted singles over the past 40 years.

Parton has garnered nine Grammy Awards, two Academy Award nominations, ten Country Music Association Awards, seven Academy of Country Music Awards, three American Music Awards, and is one of only seven female artists to win the Country Music Association’s Entertainer of the Year Award. Parton has received 47 Grammy nominations.

In 1999, Parton was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. She has composed over 3,000 songs, including “I Will Always Love You”, “Jolene”, “Coat of Many Colors”, and “9 to 5”. She is also one of the few to have received at least one nomination from the Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, Tony Awards, and Emmy Awards.

As an actress, she has starred in films such as 9 to 5 (1980) and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), for which she earned Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress, as well as Rhinestone (1984), Steel Magnolias (1989), Straight Talk (1992) and Joyful Noise (2012).

19 Vintage Photos and the Story of Mary Hopkin Met The Beatles in London in 1968

The singer Mary Hopkin’s appearance on television talent show “Opportunity Knocks” was broadcast on May 5, 1968. Her performance led to a contract with The Beatles’ Apple Records, and the multi-million selling debut single Those Were The Days.

The edition of “Opportunity Knocks” was shown just two days after Hopkin’s 18th birthday. The program showcased performances from new acts which were judged by public vote. It was recorded two days before transmission at ABC Television’s studios in Didsbury, Manchester.

The model Twiggy saw Hopkin’s performance on “Opportunity Knocks”, and suggested to Paul McCartney that the singer might be a good act for Apple to sign.

“I was a 17-year-old schoolgirl working at weekends with a group of local boys in a folk/rock band, and after about six months the group split up, so I carried on solo. Then my agent, to my absolute horror, put my name down for an audition for “Opportunity Knocks”, a good show for hopefuls in the music business but not really the sort of thing I wanted to do. But he persuaded me to go along for experience, so I went and sang a couple of songs; and the next thing I heard was that I’d been chosen for one of the programs.

“Rather reluctantly I made my appearance which, amazingly enough, Twiggy watched. She met with Paul McCartney that following weekend and when Paul was chatting to her about the new record label they were forming, Twiggy mentioned me. About two days later I got a telegram saying, ‘Ring Peter Brown at Apple Records’. It sat on the shelf for three days until my mother insisted I ring him.

“I was a great Beatles fan so I’d heard all about the Apple boutique, but I didn’t make any connection between the Beatles and this Peter Brown telegram. So I rang up and was put through to this guy with a Liverpool accent, who invited me to come up to London and sign a contract. Being a cautious young Welsh girl, I thought, “That’s a bit sudden!”, and became a bit evasive, so this guy said, “Well, go and ask your mum then!” I dragged my mother to the telephone and she proceeded to practically drop the thing because he said, “Oh, this is Paul McCartney, by the way!” I remember racing down the road to tell all my friends who I’d been talking to. The next day they sent a car for us and off I went with my mum to the big city.

“We went to the Dick James Music studio. Paul was in the control room and I did a couple of demos for him – Joan Baez and Donovan songs – broke a guitar string and muttered some swear words into the mike. We had lunch – he took us to the Angus Steak House which we were really impressed by – and I sailed through the day in a haze, painfully shy and totally in awe of Paul. I went back home and about two days later somebody rang and said, “Yes, we’d like to sign you.” So I made another trip to London and Paul said, “I’ve got a song that might suit you. I found it years ago and gave it to Donovan and it didn’t work out, I gave it to the Moody Blues, they loved it but it didn’t happen, and I’ve been looking for the right sound for it.” Then he strummed this song called Those Were The Days. I loved it immediately, but I must say that I’d probably have liked anything he would have played me at the time! A lot of people think Paul wrote the song, but he didn’t. Anyway, we recorded it a couple of weeks later, and five weeks after the release, in September 1968, I was number one.”

Mary Hopkin
Record Collector, 1988

40 Vintage Photos Showing What Stylish Women Wore in the 1940s

In a nutshell 1940s women’s fashion were about creating a certain silhouette. Wide padded shoulders, nipped in high waist tops, and a-line skirts that came down to the knee. This was the everyday shape for clothing from suits to dresses, even pants had a similar shape. Check out these vintage snapshots to see women’s fashion from the 1940s.

35 Beautiful Photos Capture Daily Life of Yokosuka, Japan in the 1970s

Yokosuka (横須賀市, Yokosuka-shi) is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

As of October 2017, the city has a population of 409,478, and a population density of 4,066 inhabitants per square kilometre (10,530/sq mi). The total area is 100.7 km2 (38.9 sq mi). Yokosuka is the 11th most populous city in the Greater Tokyo Area, and the 12th in the Kantō region. The city is host to United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka.

Here is a beautiful photo collection showing daily life of Yokosuka, the southernmost city on the west side of Tokyo Bay from 1975 to 1977.

34 Vintage Photos of Women Archers From the Mid-20th Century

(left to right) Louise Herminghaus, Jane Riddle, Katherine Voelker, Ardis Miller, Virginia Wolfe, Evelyn Opie, Mary Klausen, Pym Lee Lucas and Betty Last of the Los Angeles Junior College during a practice session before the National Inter-Collegiate archery tournament on November 26, 1935.

32 Glamorous Photos of Wedding Dresses Worn By Famous Beauties in the 1950s

The 1950s was the boom period of dresses and gowns, and wedding dresses in this period were no exception! Tea length wedding gowns and Rockabilly swing dresses, tulle ballgowns, and elegant lace long sleeve dresses are only a few of the 1950s wedding dresses that are popular again today.

Elizabeth Taylor, Brigitte Bardot, Audrey Hepburn, or Grace Kelly,… they all had different styles of bridal dresses on their wedding days from the 1950s, and they were really glamorous.

**British ballet dancer and actress Moira Shearer photographed by Jane Brown, 1950**

**Elizabeth Taylor in ‘Father of the Bride’, 1950**

**Elizabeth Taylor’s first marriage, she wed hotel heir Conrad ‘Nicky’ Hilton in a gown designed by Hollywood costumer Helen Rose, 1950**

**American actress Arlene Dahl and Lex Barker, 1951**

**Chilean actress Felicia Cohn Montealegre married American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, 1951**

**Brigitte Bardot on her first wedding day to Roger Vadim, 1952**

**Esther Williams poses in a wedding dress, 1952**

**Joan Collins at her first wedding to Maxwell Reed , 1952**

Jacqueline Bouvier married then-U.S. Representative John Fitzgerald ‘Jack’ Kennedy in September 1953 in Newport, Rhode Island. Her beautiful gown was designed by Ann Cole Lowe, an African American designer from Alabama who designed gowns for many of the upper crust of New York and Hollywood

**Jacqueline Bouvier on her wedding day, 1953**

**Singer and actress Peggy Lee married husband Brad Dexter in Los Angeles, 1953**

**Actors Fred MacMurray and June Haver married on June 28, 1954 in a simple ceremony in Ojai, California**

Actress Pier Angeli married singer Vic Damone in November of 1954. Her white, silk chiffon gown was designed by Helen Rose, the Hollywood film costumer who also designed Grace Kelly’s iconic wedding gown

**Actress Suzan Ball married fellow actor Richard Long in 1954 while battling cancer that had developed in her right leg. Tragically, she passed away just one year later at the age of 21**

**Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer on their wedding day in Burgenstock, Switzerland, 1954**

**Audrey Hepburn on her wedding day, 1954**

**English actors Denholm Elliott and Virginia McKenna married, 1954**

**Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds on their wedding day, 1955**

**Grace Kelly in her wedding dress, 1956**

**Grace Kelly with her wedding party, 1956**

**Lady Anne Glenconner in wedding gown designed by Norman Hartnell on her wedding day, 1956**

**Marilyn Monroe on her wedding day, 1956**

**American actress Jean Seberg married first husband French attorney (and aspiring filmmaker) François Moreuil in 1958 in Seberg’s hometown of Marshalltown, Iowa**

**Hollywood actress Debra Paget married David Street in Los Angeles, California, 1958**

**Jackie Loughery, winner of the first Miss USA pageant, married actor Jack Webb in Los Angeles, California, 1958**

**Jayne Mansfield in her wedding gown for her marriage to Mickey Hargitay, January 13, 1958**

**Singer Ronnie Carroll married actress Millicent Martin, 1958**

**Brigitte Bardot and Jacques Charrier on their wedding day, 1959**

**Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher at their wedding, 1959**

**Julie Andrews on her wedding day, 1959**

23 Vintage Photos of Singer Wayne Cochran

Blue-eyed soul singer Wayne Cochran was born in 1939 in Thomaston, Georgia. He started his first band in 1955 and was kicked out of high school for refusing to cut his flamboyant pompadour hairstyle.

Cochran recorded his debut single, My Little Girl, for the Scottie label in 1959. He went on to record a slew of singles throughout the 1960s for such labels as Gala (Funny Feeling, Liza Jane), Confederate (Linda Lu), Aire (Cindy Marie), King (Little Orphan Annie) and Mercury (Goin’ Back to Miami, which rates as one of his single most incendiary R&B songs and was later covered by The Blues Brothers).

In the early ’60s he wrote and recorded the morbid teen death item Last Kiss, which became a huge #2 Billboard pop chart hit for J. Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers in 1964. In 1963 he formed his own group called Wayne Cochran and the C.C. Ryders (Cochran’s Circuit Riders). The band amassed an enormous following in the South and Midwest by extensively touring and performing at clubs, lounges and seedy dives all over the region.

Cochran was famous for his massive white pompadour, outrageous outfits and full-throttle, raw-throated hoarse-n’-ragged vocals. The band was the immensely popular house band at the Miami club the Barn. Jackie Gleason in particular was a big fan of Cochran’s music and wrote the liner notes for his 1967 debut album. Cochran and the C.C. Riders appear as themselves in the biker exploitation flick C.C. & Company (1970). Moreover, Wayne not only made guest appearances on such TV programs.

Cochran eventually became a born-again Christian and started his own ministry in 1981. He and the C.C. Riders performed at two reunion shows in 2001: they did a gig on July 26 in Miami, Florida, and did a second reunion show on August 1 in Hollywood, Florida. Wayne lived in Miami, Florida with his wife Monica (who died in February, 2017). Cochran died at age 78 from cancer on November 21, 2017.

24 Amazing Historical Photos of Women and the Airplanes They Flied during the 1930s & 1940s

The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) (also Women’s Army Service Pilots or Women’s Auxiliary Service Pilots) was a civilian women pilots’ organization, whose members were United States federal civil service employees. Members of WASP became trained pilots who tested aircraft, ferried aircraft, and trained other pilots. Their purpose was to free male pilots for combat roles during World War II. Despite various members of the armed forces being involved in the creation of the program, the WASP and its members had no military standing.

WASP was preceded by the Women’s Flying Training Detachment (WFTD) and the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS). Both were organized separately in September 1942. They were pioneering organizations of civilian women pilots, who were attached to the United States Army Air Forces to fly military aircraft during World War II. On August 5, 1943, the WFTD and WAFS merged to create the WASP organization.

The WASP arrangement with the US Army Air Forces ended on December 20, 1944. During its period of operation, each member’s service had freed a male pilot for military combat or other duties. They flew over 60 million miles; transported every type of military aircraft; towed targets for live anti-aircraft gun practice; simulated strafing missions and transported cargo. Thirty-eight WASP members lost their lives and one, Gertrude Tompkins, disappeared while on a ferry mission, her fate still unknown. In 1977, for their World War II service, the members were granted veteran status, and in 2009 awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. (Wikipedia)

**Betty Gillies posing besides an aircraft.**

**Celia Hunter in the cockpit of a P-47 fighter.**

**Hazel Lee posing with a biplane, circa 1930s.**

**Cornelia Fort posing with a PT-19 aircraft.**

**Jackie Cochran in the cockpit of P-40 Warhawk fighter, circa 1942-1945.**

**WASP pilot Deanie (Bishop) Parrish in front of her P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft, circa early 1940s.**

**Nancy Harkness Love posing in front of a PT-19A trainer aircraft, 1942-43. Note WAFS patch on her jacket (forerunner of the WASPs).**

**WASP pilot Catherine Vail Bridge standing in front of a P-38 Lightning.**

**WASP pilot Elizabeth L. Gardner at the window of her B-26 Marauder bomber, Harlingen Army Air Field, Texas**

**WAFS pilot Florene Watson with an AT-6 Texan, Love Field, Dallas, Texas, Feb 1943.**

**WASP cadets Leonora Anderson and Mildred Axton show off the oversized and ill-fitting jump suits provided to the WASP program, Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, May 1943.**

**WAFS pilot Nancy Harkness Love in the cockpit of B-17 Flying Fortress bomber ‘Queen Bee’, Sept 1943.**

**WASP Nancy Love in the cockpit of Fairchild PT-19 trainer, 1944.**

**WASP pilot Dawn Seymour at the controls of a B-17 Fortress, 1944.**

**WASP pilot Ellen Wimberly Campbell, 44-W-7, at the controls of a Beech AT-10 Wichita trainer, 1944**

**WASP pilot Nancy Nesbit seated in the cockpit of an AT-6 Texan at Love Field, Dallas, Texas, 1944.**

**WASP pilot Susie Winston Bain, Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, May 1944.**

**WASP pilot Lillian Yonally seated in the cockpit of an A-25A Shrike at Camp Irwin airstrip, California, 1944**

**WASP pilot Margaret Phelan Taylor, Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, United States, June 1944.**

**WASP pilot Anne Armstrong McClellan showing off the WASP dress white uniform blouse and pin showing the WASP mascot, Fifinella (designed by Walt Disney and used by the WASPs with permission), 1944.**

**WASP pilot Ruth Dailey climbing into a P-38 Lightning aircraft, 28 Nov 1944.**

**WASP pilot Dorothy Olsen on the wing of a P-38L Lightning, 1945.**

**WASP pilot Vivian Eddy in the door of a P-39 Airacobra, 1945.**

**Four pilots leaving their B-17, “Pistol Packin’ Mama” at the four-engine school at Lockbourne AAF base, Ohio, during WASP ferry training.**

28 Fabulous Fashion Photographs From Vogue Taken Between the 1940s and 1950s

American photographer Clifford Coffin (1913-1972) is considered by many who knew him as the greatest of Vogue’s “lost” photographers – an artist far ahead of his time.

His innovative and intriguing fashion photographs of the 1940s and 1950s for such renowned magazines as Glamour, Vogue and Jardin des Modes in New York, London and Paris challenged the standards of the day.

Here’s a selection of some of his fabulous fashion shots for Vogue from between the 1940s and 1950s.

Before Facebook: 20 Vintage Photos Showing How We Used to Unfriend People Back Then

Remember when unfriending people was just scratching or tearing out their faces on your photographs… Below is a collection of 20 vintage photos show how we used to “unfriend” people back then.