Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Frank Jacobs (1929–2021), Mad magazine writer
legacy.comFrank Jacobs was a longtime writer for Mad magazine, best known for his song parodies.Jacobs first joined Mad in 1957, when he first picked up a copy of Mad.
He was so inspired that he reached out to the magazine’s leadership with a pitch: “Why I Left the Army and Became a Civilian.” It was published, and it was the beginning of Jacobs’ 57 years with the magazine.Jacobs wrote a wide variety of features for Mad, but he was most associated with his song parodies, including “Blue Cross” (a parody of “Blue Skies”), “Louella Schwartz Describes Her Malady” (“A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody”), and “East Side Story” (“West Side Story”).
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