“Cherish” reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on September
17, 1966 and remained at the top for three weeks. 

Martha Raye was a comic actress and standards singer who performed in
movies, and later on television. She was honored in 1969 with an Academy
Award as the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award recipient for her volunteer
efforts and services entertaining the troops during World War II, the Korean
War, and the Vietnam War. Raye’s life as a singer and comedy performer
began very early in her childhood. She is the only woman buried in the
SF (Special Forces) cemetery at Ft. Bragg. She was an honorary Colonel
in the Marines and an honorary Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army.

Martha Raye with a group of soldiers at LZ Center, 40 miles southwest of DaNang
in 1968

David Pollock in Bad News Bears

Former child actor David Pollock (50), who played one of the little league player’s,
Rudi Stein in the 1976 comedy film “Bad News Bears”, is taking a swing at politics
these days. He has entered into a Congressional race as a Democrat in California’s
26th Congressional district. Pollock’s political aspirations began in 1994 when he was asked to consider running for his local school board which he did successfully. He
was on the board for 15 years. David has said that he is “proud of getting away
from Hollywood while the getting was good”.

“Brandy” topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for one week and stayed 
16 weeks among the best-sellers. It was their only million seller and
received a gold disc from the R.I.A.A. in 1972.  Looking Glass still
performs several shows each year, typically with at least one show
in Michigan.

Elliot Lurie and LOOKING GLASS today