ED DONAHUE

José Feliciano (José Montserrate Feliciano García) is 70 today.

The first instrument Jose learned to play was the accordion; his father
surprised him with a guitar, which he would play for fourteen hours a day.

The single became Supremes’ seventh number-one hit topping the Billboard Hot
100 singles chart for two weeks and reaching number one on the soul chart for 
two weeks. The song was the second single from the Supremes’ album The
Supremes A’ Go-Go.

The Supremes’ version of the song is honored by inclusion in the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame‘s permanent collection of 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.

Heart’s Desire was a giveaway contest program on the Mutual
Broadcasting System,  hosted by Ben Alexander. The show aired
for 30-minutes, five days a week. It was initially a self-supporting 
program of MBS, later Phillip Morris & Company Limited began to
sponsor half of the show. It was on the air for approximately two
years.

Nicholas Benton (Ben) Alexander
(June 27, 1911 – July 6, 1969)

CARLATA BRADLEY

Otis Ray Redding, Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967)

Colonel Harland David Sanders (September 9, 1890 – December 16, 1980)

Colonel Sanders was a businessman and entrepreneur, best known for building
his Kentucky Fried Chicken cafe into a fast-food empire. Prior the that, he had
worked as a farmer, salesman, steamboat pilot, and railroad fireman. He sold
KFC to John Y. Brown Jr., Jack Massey, and a group of investors for $2 million
in 1964.