Ross Simpson

Oprah Gail Winfrey is 60 today

"Heartbreak Hotel" was Presley’s first on his new record label
RCA Victor. It was recorded in a session that featured his band
the Blue Moon Boys, along with guitarist Chet Atkins and pianist
Floyd Cramer.

The single topped Billboard‘s Top 100 chart for seven weeks,
was number one on the Country and Western chart and reached
number five on the R&B chart, becoming Presley’s first million-
seller, and one of the best-selling singles of 1956. In 1995 it was
inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

                            
                              Sandy Kozel

Alan Alda (Alphonso Joseph D’Abruzzo)

Alda is a actor/director, screenwriter, and author. The six-time Emmy Award and
Golden Globe Award winner, he is best known for his starring roles as Hawkeye
Pierce in the TV series M*A*S*H (1972-1983) and Arnold Vinick in The West
Wing on NBC (1999-2006), and his supporting role in the 2004 film The Aviator.

    
          Peter "Pete" Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014)

NEW YORK (AP) –  American troubadour, folk music singer and
activist Pete Seeger has died at a hospital in New York.

Seeger’s grandson, Kitama Cahill-Jackson, says Seeger died
Monday night after being hospitalized for six days.

Seeger gained fame as a member of The Weavers, the quartet
formed in 1948 and had hits such as "Goodnight Irene."

He continued performing and recording for six decades afterward
and was still an activist as recently as October 2011 when he
marched in New York City as part of the Occupy Wall Street
protests.

He was onstage in January 2009 for a gala Washington concert
two days before Barack Obama was inaugurated.

But in the 1950s, his leftist politics got him blacklisted and he was
kept off commercial television for more than a decade.