The teenage tragedy song was written by Jean Dinning and her
husband, Red Surrey.

Dinning’s addiction to alcohol eventually ended his career. He would show
up at appearances too intoxicated to perform causing promoters to stop
booking him and he eventually faded from public view. Denning died from
a heart attack on March 22, 1986 in Jefferson City, Missouri. He was 52.

Music legend Nat King Cole with a young daughter Natalie

This was Natalie Cole’s debut single in 1975 and one of her biggest hits that became a number-one R&B hit. It helped her win the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

“Crocodile Rock” became Elton John’s first U.S. number-one single, staying at the top spot for three weeks. 

Sir Elton Hercules John (Reginald Kenneth Dwight) will
turn 66 on March 25.

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                    Conway Twitty (Harold Lloyd Jenkins) 

                        (September 1, 1933 – June 5, 1993)

Released in July 1958, this was Twitty’s only number-one
single.

The single “Walk Right In” by the folk trio The Rooftop Singers spent
two weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, five weeks atop the
Easy Listening chart, peaked at #4 on the R&B chart and went to
#23 on the country music chart. The group formally disbanded in
1967.