Sonny James (James Hugh Loden)(May 1, 1928 – February 22, 2016)
In May 2007, Sonny James and his Southern Gentlemen were officially inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. James died in hospice care Monday in Nashville, Tennessee.
The hit song"ABC" by the Jackson 5 was first heard on American Bandstand (ABC-TV) on February 21, 1970 (above) just before it was released. It knocked the Beatles‘ song Let It Be off the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 and was also number one on the soul singles chart for four weeks.
"ABC" was the first single from the Jackson 5’s second album ABC which was released on May 8, 1970, and is considered to be one of the band’s signature songs. It is one of the shortest titles to hit #1, and is the first song alphabetically in the list of #1 hits of the Billboard Hot 100.
Richard Augustus Wagstaff "Dick" Clark Jr. (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012)
At the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2013, Cuba’s Foreign Minister demanded the U.S. return the base and the "usurped territory", which the Cuban government considers to be occupied since the U.S. invasion of Cuba during the Spanish–American War in 1898.