Camille Bohannon

 
Checkers with her master, Vice President Richard M. Nixon in 1959

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen is 65 today

”The Boss” won his 20th career Grammy Award in 2009 when his song 
"Working on a Dream" took Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance.

Polly Bergen (born Nellie Paulina Burgin in Knoxville, Tennessee)

                            (July 14, 1930 – September 20, 2014)

NEW YORK (AP) –  Emmy-winning actress and singer Polly Bergen, who
in a long career played the terrorized wife in the original "Cape Fear"
(1962) and the first woman president in 1964’s "Kisses for My President,"
died Saturday.

According to her publicist Judy Katz, Bergen died at her home in Southbury,
Connecticut, from natural causes. She was surrounded by family and close
friends.

In recent years, she played Felicity Huffman’s mother on ABC’s "Desperate
Housewives" (2007-2011) and the past mistress of Tony Soprano’s late
father on HBO’s "The Sopranos." (1999-2007).

The Waltons won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in
1973. Also in 1973 Richard Thomas won the Emmy for Lead Actor in a Drama
Series and Michael Learned won the Emmy for Lead Actress in a Drama Series
three times in 1973, 1974, and 1976. Ellen Corby was also a three-time winner
in the Supporting Actress category, winning in 1973, 1975, and 1976. Will Geer
was awarded the Supporting Actor Emmy in 1975. The series also earned a
Peabody Award for its first season.

The television series Lassie aired on CBS until September 12, 1971 and was
in syndication until March 24, 1973. Lassie received critical favor at its debut
and won two Emmy Awards in its first years. Both stars Jan Clayton and June
Lockhart were nominated for Emmys. Campbell’s Soup, was the show’s lifelong
sponsor.

Thomas "Tommy" Rettig and Lassie. Rettig died of a heart
attack on February 15, 1996. He was 54.

Patsy Cline (Born Virginia Patterson Hensley in Winchester, Virginia)
                       
                             (September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963)

Patsy Cline was one of the most influential, successful and acclaimed female
vocalists of the 20th century. She died in a multiple fatality crash of her private
plane at the age of 30.

According to her 1973 Country Music Hall of Fame plaque, "Her heritage of
timeless recordings is testimony to her artistic capacity."