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By the time that Merle and Bonnie’s album of duets, Just Between the Two of Us, was released in fall , the two had settled into married life and Bonnie was touring as a full-time member of Merle’s band, the Strangers. The pair had also won the Academy of Country Music award for best vocal duet in and again in , another impressive achievement for both of them.

Just Between the Two of Us was made up entirely of duets to capitalize on the hit single. About half of the album had been recorded before Merle and Bonnie were signed to Capitol. It was produced at URCON (United Recording Corporation Of Nevada) Recording Studios in Las Vegas and HR Studios in Hollywood in and When the decision was made to complete the album, Merle and Bonnie came in early August to the Capitol Tower in Hollywood. Merle had had session the day before.

Songs included the title song and two others by Liz Anderson, “So Much for Me, So Much for You” and “That Makes Two of Us.” Fuzzy Owen wrote a pair of songs, “Slowly but Surely” and “I Want to Live Again,” and ex-husband Buck also wrote two, “I’ll Take a Chance” and “Forever and Ever.” The pair re-recorded one of the numbers Bonnie had cut on the Cousin Herb Henson’s Trading Post soundtrack LP, “Wait a Little Longer, Please Jesus.”

As would become a tradition for all of Bonnie’s albums, a batch of cover songs were rounded up to round out the record. Songsmith Bill Anderson contributed “Our Hearts Are Holding Hands,” and Texas song pluggers Don Carter and Jack Rhodes (who wrote several rockabilly songs recorded by Gene Vincent and others) wrote “Too Used to Being With You.” Hank Williams’s “A House Without Love,” an old standard, was given a new Bakersfield treatment.

The difference between Merle Haggard and Bonnie Owens and singers like George Jones and Tammy Wynette, or Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, or the other classic kings and queens of country music, quickly became apparent as Merle launched int

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The Kennedy Center Honors are annual honors given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture. They have been presented annually since , culminating each December in a gala celebrating five Honorees in the Kennedy CenterOpera House in Washington, D.C. While the awards are primarily given to individuals, they have occasionally been given to duos or musical groups, as well as to one Broadwaymusical, one television show, and one performing arts venue.

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George Stevens Jr. created the Kennedy Center Honors with Nick Vanoff and produced the first gala in He was the producer and co-writer through the awards, after which he sold the production rights to the Kennedy Center.

The idea for the Kennedy Center Honors began in , after that year's 10th-anniversary White House reception and Kennedy Center program for the American Film Institute (AFI). Roger L. Stevens, the founding chairman of the Kennedy Center, asked George Stevens Jr. (no relation), the founding director of the AFI, to hold an event for the center. Stevens Jr. asked Isaac Stern to become involved, and then pitched the idea to the television network CBS, who bought it. With the first Honors event and Honorees, CBS vice president for specials, Bernie Sofronski, stated:

George [Stevens] came to us with this. What turned us on is that this is the only show of its kind. In Europe and most countries, they have ways of honoring their actors and their athletes. England has its command performances for the queen. We see this as a national honoring of people who have contributed to society, not someone who happens to have a pop record hit at the moment Our intention is not to do just another award show. We're going to make an effort in terms of a real special.

The first host was Leonard Bernstein in , followed by E

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• Musician and part-time actor Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday), better known by his stage name of Meat Loaf, was the father of singer Pearl Aday and actress Amanda Aday.

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• Music manager and agent Don Arden was the father of Sharon Osbourne (see Osbourne), the wife and manager of heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne. Sharon entered the public consciousness for the first time with the success of the reality TV show The Osbournes.
  • The oldest of Ozzy and Sharon's children, Aimee Osbourne, chose not to appear on The Osbournes; she is an actress, singer, and writer. Her two younger siblings did appear on the show; Kelly is an actress and singer, and Jack is a director and producer.

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• Actor/composer Alan Arkin, father of actors Adam, Matthew, and Anthony Arkin.
  • Adam is the father of Molly Arkin.

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• William Asher, television actor, was born to stage actress Lillian Bonner and producer Ephraim M. Asher. His sister, Betty Asher, was an MGM publicist for Judy Garland. William was married to actress Danny Sue Nolan. Later he was married to actress Elizabeth Montgomery (see Montgomery) and they have daughter, Rebecca Asher, a film editor, and son and guitar maker, Bill Asher. Finally he married actress Joyce Bulifant (see Bulifant). He adopted Bulifant's son, actor John Asher, born to actor Edward Mallory (see Mallory).

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