The Beatles attained their eighth Billboard number one hit with "Ticket
To Ride", the first song which Paul McCartney, not George Harrison,
was featured on lead guitar. It was ranked number 394 on Rolling
Stone‘s list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".

Yvonne Marianne Elliman will be 63 in December

"If I Can’t Have You" is a song written by Barry, Robin and Maurice
Gibb of the Bee Gees. Yvonne Elliman”s version was recorded for
the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

         Mary Esther Wells (May 13, 1943 – July 26, 1992) 

Wells was first signed to Motown by Berry Gordy when she was only 
seventeen, releasing the song that became her first hit, "Bye Bye
Baby." She became one of Motown’s first superstars with a string of
hit singles composed by Smokey Robinson, including “Two Lovers”
(1962), the Grammy-nominated “You Beat Me to the Punch” (1962)
and her mega signature hit, “My Guy” (1964).

This English version of the million-selling song “I Will Follow You” made
15-year-old Peggy March  the youngest female artist to have a U.S. chart-
topping single. The song made it to #1 on the soul singles chart as well.

Peggy March (Margaret Annemarie Battavio) turned 68 on March 8

"Runaway" was written by Shannon and keyboardist Max Crook, and became a 
major international hit. It is No. 472 on Rolling Stone‘s list of The 500 Greatest
Songs of All Time from 2010.

Del Shannon (Charles Weedon Westover)

   (December 30, 1934 – February 8, 1990)