Annette Funicello | Annette Rare Photos | Annette Sings Anka (1959-1960) | Annette Funicello Wallpapers

Annette Funicello was 13 years old when she was discovered by studio head Walt Disney dancing in an amateur production of Swan Lake in Fullerton, CA. Much to the enmity of her Mickey Mouse Club co-stars, Funicello joined the cast late in the show's first season and was not required to audition. However, Disney's impulses proved correct, as she swiftly became the most popular performer on The Mickey Mouse Club
Nevertheless, Funicello's enormous audience base -- mostly teen girls -- was enough to support her through 13 albums released through 1965, all but the first appearing on the Buena Vista label, a record company begun by Walt Disney so that Funicello's records need not appear on the Disneyland imprint. Funicello ultimately got accustomed to making records, and genuinely enjoyed working with Camerata, one of the few forty-something arrangers of the time who "got" the basic building blocks of early rock music. Her albums gradually improved starting with the second one, Annette Sings Anka, probably the first LP to treat the work of a rock songwriter as repertoire.

1959 LP Annette (US Buena Vista BV-3301)

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Annette Funicello Rare Photos | Annette Funicello Pictures | Annette Funicello Wallpapers | Annette Funicello Bio

Annette Funicello

The Disneyland Diva

A Stuff 'n' Laura Production
by Don Charles Hampton and Laura Pinto

Who's the fairest Mouseketeer of all? The bitchin'est babe on the beach? The original Candy Girl, years before The Archies minted the name in their million-selling song "Sugar, Sugar?" You don't have to scroll down to the bottom of the page to read the answer: It's Annette Funicello! She neither aspired to become an actress nor a singer (and, according to some critics, she never did), but soon after trading in her mouse ears for high heels, she starred in nine feature films, scored five Top Forty hits, and made history as one of Rock'n'Roll's earliest female stars.

Annette was just four when her family moved from Utica, New York, to southern California, eventually settling in Studio City. During Easter week of 1955, she danced the lead in "Swan Lake" at her ballet school's year-end recital. In the audience was Walt Disney, scouting for talented kids to cast in his forthcoming television show "The Mickey Mouse Club." Mama Funicello's baby girl won the 24th, and final, set of mouse ears. Over the next three years, her supple dancer's body blossomed into womanhood, triggering hormone attacks in pubescent boys all over the country! Millions tuned in every afternoon for the free lessons in feminine anatomy that Annette unwittingly provided.

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A.R.Rahman Recording Studio - Rare Photos Collection

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Natural Disasters | That Have Afflicted The World During One Year | Notes On Natural Disasters

Natural disasters that have afflicted the world during one year

Cattle stand stranded on small islands surrounded by flood waters in the Indian state of Bihar in September last year, after a breach in the embankments of the Kosi river, north of a dam in Nepal
Workers load the carcasses of horses into a truck at an equestrian club in Mexico City on August 26. Heavy rain caused floods, drowning at least 50 trapped horses and killing a night watchman



A huge tornado funnel cloud touches down in Orchard, Iowa, on June 10, at 9:04pm



The broken spillway of a vanadium mine is seen in Shanyang county, Shaanxi province, China, on July 22



This September 10 image, taken by the crew of the International Space Station flying 220 statute miles above Earth, shows Hurricane Ike



In this September 12 photo, a home burns on the beach on Galveston Island, Texas, as Hurricane Ike approaches



People seek refuge from flood waters in east Nepal in August 2008. More than two million people were affected by flooding after a dam burst



In this October 13 photo, traffic snakes up a road as residents flee their hillside homes during a fast moving, wind-driven brush fire in Los Angeles



The Chaiten volcano in Chile erupts during storms in the middle of the night on May 3



A soldier on the banks of the Rio Blanco looks at a cloud of ash from the Chaiten Volcano in southern Chile on June 25



An aerial photograph captures the plume of ashes spewed by the Chaiten volcano in Chile, on May 31

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Akshay Kumar Rare Picture | Akshay Kumar Posters | Akshay Kumar Wallpapers | Photos and Images of Akshay Kumar

Akshay Kumar was born as Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia on the 9th September 1967 in Amritsar to a middle class Punjabi household. His father was a government worker. He grew up in Delhi and later in Mumbai’s Koliwada area. He did his schooling at the Don Bosco School and his ...











After being engaged twice to actress Twinkle Khanna, the daughter of veteran actors Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia, he finally married her on January 14, 2001. Their son named Aarav was born on September 15, 2002.













A long road traveled; from a waiter in Bangkok, to one of the most successful actors in Bollywood, Akshay Kumar has come a long way. As an instructor in martial artist, Rajiv Bhatia always dreamt of making it big in that field but when a student suggested that with his good looks and a good built, he should take up modelling, the anonymous Rajiv Bhatia began his journey as Akshay Kumar who then slowly but surely worked his way up to becoming one of the most talented stars of the industry.






Stunned at the pay package and his success as a model, Akshay took the next obvious step, and entered into films. However unlike most of the other stars in his time, Akshay neither had star parents, nor a godfather to launch him. Although his first few films were unsuccessful at the box office, they helped Akshay get noticed for his dancing abilities and his dare-devilish stunts. His first true hit film was 'Khiladi' and although it was a success, the top banners continued to be elusive until 'Yeh Dillagi' which not only got him recognition but marked his position as a top league actor.

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