Bert Kaempfert (16 October 1923 – 21 June 1980) was a German orchestra leader and songwriter.
Milk industrialist Elbridge Amos Stuart (below) created Carnation evaporated milk
and its famous slogan, that it came from “Contend Cows”. Stuart and a fellow
business partner founded the Pacific Coast Condensed Milk Company in Kent,
Washington. The company was soon renamed Carnation Sterilized Cream when
Stuart noticed a sign with the name Carnation in the window of a tobacco store
in downtown Seattle. That name was later changed to Carnation Evaporated
Milk. Nestlé acquired the Carnation Company in 1985.
The site of the original Carnation Farms is located east of Seattle, in
Carnation, Washington. It is now used as a Hole in the Wall camp for
terminally ill kids.
Joe South (Joseph Alfred Souter)
(February 28, 1940 – September 5, 2012)
South wrote the country-pop favorite "(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden,"
had hits of his own with "Games People Play" and "Walk a Mile in My Shoes"
and recorded with Bob Dylan and Aretha Franklin. He died Wednesday of a
heart attack at his home in Flower Branch, GA.