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SINGER LINDA RONSTADT IS 67 TODAY

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Linda Marie Ronstadt

Linda has released over 30 studio albums and 15 greatest hits albums. She
charted thirty-eight Billboard Hot 100 singles with twenty-one reaching the top
40, ten to the top 10, three to No. 2. In addition, she has charted three No. 1
albums on the Billboard Pop Album Charts.

In 1980, Linda Ronstadt made her dramatic debut in the musical comedy "The
Pirates Of Penzance" at the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park.

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ACTOR TAB HUNTER IS 82 TODAY

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Tab Hunter (Arthur Andrew Kelm)

Hunter has starred in over forty films and had a 1957 hit record
with the song "Young Love", which was #1 on the Billboard Hot
100
chart for six weeks and became one of the larger hits of the
Rock n’ Roll era .He joined the Coast Guard at the age of fifteen,
having lying about his age to enlist.

 

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From left: Dick Clark and guest Tab Hunter on ABC television’s Bandstand

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NUMBER-ONE ON THIS DAY IN 1955

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This song is ranked No. 158 on the Rolling Stone magazine’s list
of
The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

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Bill Haley (left) shaking hands with Elvis Presley

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NUMBER-ONE ON THIS DAY IN 1957

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"Teddy Bear" became Elvis Presley‘s eighth US number one hit in the past
fifteen months. It would remain at the top of the Billboard Pop chart for seven
weeks and even led the R&B and Country chart for a week.

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NUMBER-ONE ON THIS DAY IN 1952

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Percy Faith

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Faith conducting his orchestra

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