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Sunday, March 26, 2017
Rufus Thomas 100 -- March 26, 2017
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Happy 100th birthday to Rufus Thomas, the World's Oldest Teenager. He was a disk jockey at WDIA, Memphis, who had great success in the south. He made many hits at Stax Records, often with his daughter, Carla.
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