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SAN DIEGO, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Frankie Laine, whose booming voice found a home in songs as "I Believe" and "Mule Train," died Tuesday in Mercy Hospital in San Diego at the age of 93.

DALLAS, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Prolific playwright and opera lyricist Arnold Sundgaard has died at a retirement home in Dallas at the age of 96. The Texas-based Sundgaard was best known for his work on the 1948 opera "Down in the Valley" and with resurrecting the old standard "Yellow R

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Today's birthdays include country music pioneer Grandpa (Louis Marshall) Jones in 1913, country's Wanda Jackson, who was born in 1937 (age 65); Jay Siegel of The Tokens in 1939 (age 63), drummer Ric Lee of 10 Years After in 1945 (age 57); Larry Gonsky of