Original upload date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Fri, 03 Dec 2021 15:32:22 GMT
On February 7, 2013, the city of Akron honored one of their own. Singer Ruby Nash Garnett, the lone survivor of the group Ruby and the Romantics, as well as family members of the deceased band members
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, were present for the celebration.
The program, hosted by Billy Soule, assistant to the mayor for community relations. included representatives of the NAACP and the Akron Urban League to honor the band's accomplishments. During the presentation, Billy Soule and Akron City Council President Garry Moneypenny gave musical and historical information about 1963.
At the end of the ceremony, a moving rendition of Our Day Will Come (Ruby and the Romantics No. 1 Billboard hit from the 1960s) was performed by Jasmine Moore, an eighth-grader at Miller South School for the Visual and Performing Arts.
