MATT FRIEDMAN
03
Dec
LEGENDARY GUITARIST HAS DIED AT 84
Steve Cropper, Blues Brothers band member and Booker T. &
the MG’s guitarist, has died.
Pat Mitchell Worley, president and CEO of the Soulsville
Foundation, told the Associated Press that Cropper’s family
notified her of his death. Cropper died Wednesday in Nashville, according to Worley.
Worley’s foundation operates at the Stax Museum of American
Soul Music in Memphis, where Cropper’s former employer,
Stax Records, used to be.
A cause of death for Cropper has not been shared. Eddie Gore,
a longtime friend of Cropper, told the outlet that he visited the
musician at a rehabilitation center on Tuesday.
Gore said that he suffered a recent fall and was working with
Cropper on producing new music.
Eddie Floyd and Steve Cropper in 1968.
03
Dec
LAST ONE ROLLED OFF THE ASSEMBLY LINE
On December 3, 1979, the last Pacer rolled off the assembly
line at the American Motors Corporation (AMC) factory in
Kenosha, Wisconsin.
When the car first came on the market in 1975, it was a
sensation, hailed as the car of the future. “When you buy
any other car,” ads said, “all you end up with is today’s
car. When you get a Pacer, you get a piece of tomorrow.”
By 1979, however, sales had faded considerably. Today,
polls and experts agree: The Pacer was one of the worst
cars of all time.
By the end of the 1960s, AMC was the only surviving
independent automaker in the United States.
Despite (or perhaps because of) its bad reputation, the
Pacer has also earned a spot in pop-culture history.
In January 1954, Nash-Kelvinator Corporation began the
acquisition of the Hudson Motor Car Company (in what
was called a merger).
The new corporation would be called the American Motors
Corporation. An earlier corporation with the same name, co-
founded by Louis Chevrolet, had existed in Plainfield, New
Jersey, from 1916 through 1922 before merging into the
Bessemer–American Motors Corporation.
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02
Dec
THE ‘’PRINCESS OF POP’’ IS 44 YEARS YOUNG
The 1999 debut studio album.
Icon Britney Spears has had a significant cultural impact in the
21st century and is credited for helping revive the teen pop
genre.
She is known for her stage performances and for exploring
musical genres including pop, contemporary R&B, electropop,
and adult contemporary.
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02
Dec
GEN. WASHINGTON ON THE DELAWARE
As related in a letter dated the following day, General
George Washington wrote to Congress from his
headquarters in Trenton, New Jersey, to report that
he had transported much
of the Continental Army’s stores and baggage across the
Delaware River to Pennsylvania on December 2, 1776.
His famous crossing of the Delaware would come less than
one month later.
In his letter, Washington wrote, "Immediately on my arrival
here, I ordered the removal of all the military and other stores
and baggage over the Delaware, a great quantity are already
got over, and as soon as the boats come up from Philadelphia,
we shall load them, by which means I hope to have every
thing secured this night and tomorrow if we are not disturbed."
This painting by Thomas Sully depicts Washington watching
his men cross the Delaware River. Image Source: Wikipedia.
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