From Frankie Laine Time which aired on CBS in 1956. It was the first 
national television appearance for Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers.

 
Jerry Nelson with puppet Count Von Count

Jerry Nelson

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jerry Nelson, the puppeteer behind a delightful menagerie
of characters including Count von Count on "Sesame Street" and Gobo Fraggle on "Fraggle Rock," has died.

Nelson, who suffered from emphysema, died Thursday night in his Massachusetts
home on Cape Cod, the Sesame Workshop said Friday.

1946