Mia Farrow

 
                 (October 3, 1938 – April 17, 1960)

Eddie Cochran was involved with music from an early age, playing in the
school band and teaching himself to play blues guitar. He was a rock and
roll pioneer who in his brief career had a small but lasting influence on rock
music through his guitar playing. His songs included “C’mon Everybody”,
“Somethin’ Else, and “Summertime Blues”. Cochran was 21 when his life
ended in April 1960 due to a automobile accident during his British tour. In
1987, Eddie Cochran was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

(1959)

Captain Kangaroo is a children’s TV series which aired weekday mornings on
the CBS television network for nearly 30 years, from Monday October 3,1955
until December 8, 1984, making it the longest-running children’s television
program of its day. The show was conceived and the title character played
by Bob Keeshan who was the original Clarabell the Clown on The Howdy
Doody Show on NBC.

Show opening from the 1960s

Keeshan as Clarabell the Clown with puppet Howdy and Buffalo Bob
Smith from The Howdy Doody Show.

Walt Disney (center) with the Mouseketeers

The Mickey Mouse Club is an variety television show created for children by Walt
Disney Productions that aired on  ABC –TV from Monday October 3, 1955 to 1959. It featured a regular but ever changing cast of young performers. The show was hosted
by songwriter Jimmie Dodd (below). The main cast members were called Mouseketeers who performed in a variety of musical and dance numbers.

Jimmie Dodd