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40s Wartime MusicA Better 40s Wartime Music Radio Station plays all of the popular hits from the World War II era.
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70s HitsA Better 70s Hits Station playing the best in Groovy 70s AM Classic Radio Hits. Pop dominates this channel.
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Dance HitsA Better Dance Hits Radio Station spinning the best in Mainstream Pop Remixes and Club Classics.
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Blues Vintage (Classic Blues)A Better Classic Blues Vintage Radio Station plays all of the classic Blues gems that you will not find anywhere else on the net. Featuring all of your favorite artists and sound recordings from the Delta to New Orleans.
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Classic RockA Better Classic Rock Station playing all your favorite songs from the 60s to the Glam Rock 80s.
Mary Costa (born April 5, 1930 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American singer, best known for playing the voice of Princess Aurora in the 1959 Disney film Sleeping Beauty. Costa showed her musical ability at an early age, singing Sunday School solos at the age of six. At 14, she moved to Hollywood with her parents and soon won a Music Sorority Award as the outstanding voice among Southern California High School seniors. While studying for the concert stage, she performed with Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy on radio, and with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis on stage. In 1952 after attending a party with her future husband, director Frank Tashlin, she found herself auditioning for the part of Disney's Princess Aurora. Walt Disney called her personally within hours of the audition to inform her that the part was hers. Costa went on to become "one of the most beautiful women to grace the operatic stage," according to The New York Times. She performed in 44 operatic roles on stages throughout the world, including Jules Massenet's Manon at the Metropolitan Opera, and the lead in La Traviata at the Royal Opera House in London. Jacqueline Kennedy asked her to sing at a memorial service for her husband, U.S. President John F. Kennedy, from the Los Angeles Sports Arena in 1963. Nine years later, she starred in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature The Great Waltz, depicting the life of Austrian composer Johann Strauss. Costa dedicated her later years to inspiring children and teenagers, giving motivational talks at schools and colleges across the country. She is also an Ambassador for Childhelp USA, which ministers to the needs of abused children. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.