Yul Brynner was a Russian born American actor of stage and film who was
best known for his portrayal of Mongkut, king of Siam, in the Rodgers and
Hammerstein musical The King and I (1951). Brynner won an Academy
Award for Best Actor for the film version of the musical (1956). He is also
remembered as Rameses ll in the 1956 film The Ten Commandments and
as Chris Adams in The Magnificent Seven (1960). He was also an avid
photographer and the author of two books.

Yul Brenner, The King and I

Brynner with Anne Baxter in The Ten Commandments

The Magnificent Seven

In 1951 disc jockey Alan Freed got a job playing classical music on Cleveland,
Ohio radio station WJW. Freed soon met Leo Mintz, the owner of the Record Rendezvous, one of Cleveland’s largest record stores, who proposed buying
airtime on the station to be devoted entirely to R&B recordings, with Freed
as host. On July 11, 1951, Freed started playing rhythm and blues records
on WJW. Freed called his show “The Moondog House” and billed himself as
“The King of the Moondoggers”. He had been inspired by a instrumental
called “Moondog Symphony” that had been recorded by New York street
musician Louis T. Hardin, aka “Moondog”. Freed adopted the record as his
show’s theme music.

The lead vocalist on the track was Norm Davis. He was paid a one-time fee
of $25 for his work on the single. He is currently a poetry teacher in New,
York. The drummer was Sandy Nelson.

The Newlywed Game debuted on the ABC television network on July 11, 1966
with host Bob Eubanks (above). Eubanks was, at the time, the youngest emcee
to host a game show at age 28. The game show  It was the last U.S. commercial
network series to premiere in black and white, eventually converting to color, as
did virtually all other network series, that coming September.

 
Newlywed contestants on the set

1957 photo 

Tab Hunter had a 1957 hit record with a cover of the song "Young Love”,
which was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for six weeks. He also had
the hit "Ninety-Nine Ways", which peaked at #11 on the chart.