“Honky Tonk Women” topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for four weeks beginning
August 23, 1969. It was also ranked #116 on the list of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest
Songs of All Time in 2004.
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RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN 1969
FORMER TEEN IDOL IS 81 TODAY
Actor/singer Tab Hunter (Arthur Andrew Kelm) became one of
Hollywood’s top young romantic leads, starring in over forty major
films. He had a 1957 hit record with the song "Young Love", which
was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for six weeks and became
one of the larger hits of the Rock n’ Roll era.
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PORTLAND’S B-WESTERN MOVIE STAR
Bob Steele (January 23, 1907 – December 21, 1988)
Bob Steele was born Robert Adrian Bradbury in Portland, Oregon, into a
vaudeville family. They eventually settled in Hollywood in the late 1910s
where father, Robert N. Bradbury, soon found work in the movies, first
as an actor, later as a director. By 1920, he hired Bob and his twin
brother Bill (1907–1971) as juvenile leads for a series of adventure
movies titled The Adventures of Bob and Bill.
Bob’s career began to progress in 1927, when he was hired by the
production company Film Booking Offices of America (FBO) to star in
a series of Westerns. Bob, who was re-christened Bob Steele at FBO,
soon made a name for himself, and in the late 1920s, 1930s and
1940s starred in B-Westerns for almost every minor film studio,
Steele also did a lot of television work, culminating as a regular in a
supporting role in the ABC army comedy F Troop (1965–1967).
From left: Larry Storch, Bob Steele and Forrest Tucker on the set of F Troop
DON HERBERT WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1917
Donald Herbert Kemske (July 10, 1917 – June 12, 2007)
Herbert was the creator and host of NBC’s Watch Mr. Wizard (1951–65, 1971–72)
and of Mr. Wizard’s World (1983–90), which were educational television programs
for children devoted to general science and technology experiments.
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