Nineteen-year-old Peggy Fleming captures the gold medal in women’s figure skating at the Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France–the only U.S. gold  
of the games.

                         James Francis "Jimmy" Durante

                   (February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980)

Durante was a singer, pianist, comedian, and actor. He was one
of America’s most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s
through the 1970s.

After the death of his wife, Jeanne Olsen, in 1943, he began the
ending of his radio program with the phrase, "Goodnight Mrs.
Calabash, wherever you are," as a tribute to her.

Jimmy Durante created the voice for Frosty the Snowman in the
1969 animated Christmas cartoon, Frosty the Snowman.

The song "Long Tall Sally" was written by Robert "Bumps" Blackwell,
Enotris Johnson and Richard Penniman (known as "Little Richard"). It
was originally called “The Thing”.

The single reached number one on the Billboard rhythm and blues chart,
staying at the top for six of 19 weeks, while peaking at number six on the
pop chart. It received the Cash Box Triple Crown Award in 1956.

The song became one of Little Richard’s best-known hits and is #56 on
Rolling Stone‘s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

 
Little Richard turned 81 in December

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