Kenneth Ray "Kenny" Rogers is 78 today.
Kenny Rogers attended Jefferson Davis High School in Houston
and joined his first band, The Scholars, in the mid-1950s, but the
band dissolved after their front man left to go solo. He starred as
race car driver Brewster Baker in the 1982 comedy/drama film
Six Pack. Rogers was inducted into the Country Music Hall of
Fame in 2013.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
Robert Anthony Plant is 68 today.
Plant quit his training as a chartered accountant and became
deeply involved in the England Midlands blues scene. After
Led Zeppelin broke up in 1980, he began working as a solo
artist. In 2007, he released a critically acclaimed duet album
with bluegrass singer Alison Krauss called Raising Sand.
John A. "Jack" Riley Jr. (December 30, 1935 – August 19, 2016)
NEW YORK (AP) – Jack Riley, who played a counseling client on "The Bob
Newhart Show" and also voiced a character on Nickelodeon’s animated
"Rugrats," died Friday. The 80-year-old actor died in Los Angeles, according
to his representative Paul Doherty.
Besides portraying grumpy, self-absorbed Mr. Carlin on the 1970s "Newhart"
sitcom and providing the voice for absent-minded dad Stu Pickles on "Rugrats"
and its spinoff, "All Grown Up!," Riley appeared in the Mel Brooks films "History
of the World: Part I," ”High Anxiety" and "Spaceballs."
In a statement, Newhart said Riley created one of TV’s "most endearing"
situation comedy characters with his Carlin portrayal.
From right: Bob Newhart and Jack Riley
CAMILLE BOHANNON
Groucho Marx (Julius Henry Marx)
(October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977)
The Midnight Special is a late-night musical variety series that aired on
NBC during the 1970s and early 1980s, created and produced by Burt
Sugarman. It premiered as a special then began its run as a regular series
on February 2, 1973; its last episode was on May 1, 1981.The 90-minute
program followed the Friday night edition of The Tonight Show Starring
Johnny Carson.
John Denver was the first host of The Midnight Special.
