WIRELESS FLASH BRIEFS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

WIRELESS FLASH BRIEFS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

NASHVILLE (Wireless Flash) -- Bluegrass may not ever be the same after Dolly Parton gets through with it. Parton says her upcoming all-bluegrass recording, "The Grass Is Blue," will feature bluegrass renditions of Billy Joel's "Travelin' Prayer" and "Train Train," which originally was recorded by the '80s hair metal band Warrant. -- ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Here's proof "I Will Survive" singer Gloria Gaynor knows something about survival: The disco diva was scheduled to perform at a beauty pageant in Istanbul, Turkey, around the same time the massive earthquake hit -- but she decided to do a stint in a Broadway revue instead. This isn't the first time Gloria has avoided a tragedy at the last minute. She once changed her mind about taking an Air France flight that later crashed. -- HASTINGS, Neb. -- It's the end of a soggy era for Kool-Aid: the famous Kool-Aid Man costume has just been retired. The large fiberglass pitcher featured in TV commercials during the 1970s is now on display at a museum in Hastings, Nebraska -- the birthplace of the fruit-flavored drink.