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Michael Jackson miscellany

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Get ready for all the baloney to start spreading. Here are a couple of facts to get you started:

1) Michael Jackson did NOT  invent the Moonwalk. It was done by lots of “cats” back in the 1930s, and it was called “The Buzz.” I heard it straight from the horse’s mouth: Cab Calloway. He could still do it at 80 years old.

2) Michael Jackson did not start the whole charity record trend. Connie Francis was one of the first, if not the first, artist to make a record for charitable purposes. The money it raised went to the families of the policemen who were shot in Dallas when JFK was assassinated.

I’m sure there will be more nonsense, so caveat emptor.

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