Harold "Chuck" Willis (January 31, 1928 – April 10, 1958)

Chuck Willis was a rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer/songwriter
whose biggest hits, “C.C. Rider (1957) and “What Am I Living For” (1958),
both rose to the Number-One position on the Billboard R&B chart. He was
known as The King of the Stroll for his performance of the 1950s dance. 

Willis died during surgery in Chicago of peritonitis while at the peak of his 
career. Dick Clark devoted an hour of his American Bandstand show in 
memory of Willis who died earlier that day. 

Mary Lucy Denise "Marilu" Henner is best known for her role as
Elaine O’Connor Nardo on the ABC-TV sitcom Taxi, 1978 to 1983.

Henner began teaching dance classes at her family’s studio
when she was 14.

From episode 12 of the second season, "Elaine’s Secret Admirer"
(1979).

The early Beatles with Tony Sheridan, far right.

  
    Tony Sheridan (Anthony Esmond Sheridan McGinnity)

                       (May 21, 1940-February 16, 2013)

British singer/guitarist Tony Sheridan, an early collaborator of
The Beatles, has died.

The rocker passed away on Saturday, Feb. 16, in Hamburg,
Germany. Further details of his death were unavailable.

Sheridan is best known for singing on some of the Fab Four’s
earliest recordings after meeting a young John Lennon, Paul
McCartney, George Harrison and original drummer Pete Best
in the early 1960′s in Germany.

The Beatles served as his back-up band in the Hamburg club
scene, and they joined forces to record tracks including My
Bonnie, The Saints and Ain’t She Sweet.

Where The Action Is!, a music-based television variety show 
that was carried by the ABC network each weekday afternoon
from 1965 to1967. It was created by Dick Clark as a spin-off of
his American Bandstand.

Dick Clark

Buddy Holly steps off the bus

After terminating his partnership with The Crickets, Buddy Holly
assembled a new band consisting of Waylon Jennings,Tommy
Allsup, and Carl Bunch to play on the Winter Dance Party tour
along with Dion and the Belmonts, Ritchie Valens, and the Big
Bopper.The musicians set out on a twenty–four day tour of the
mid-western states by bus.

The first stop on the tour was a performance in Milwaukee, Wis. 
at Devines Million Dollar Ballroom (now the Eagles Ballroom).

From left: Waylon Jennings, Buddy Holly, and Tommy Allsup

 
Ritchie Valens
 

(L-R) The Big Bopper (J. P. Richardson) and Tommy Allsup