The most familiar and successful version of "For Once in My Life" is the up
tempo arrangement by Stevie Wonder. It was a top-three hit in the U.S.

Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Judkins) turned 65 in May.

The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country-music stage concert in Nashville,
Tennessee, which was founded on November 28, 1925, by George D. Hay
as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM.

From October 15, 1955 to September 1956, ABC-TV aired a live, hour-long
television version of the Opry once a month on Saturday nights, sponsored
by Ralston-Purina, pre-empting one hour of the 90-minute Ozark Jubilee. 

From "Grand Ole’ Opry" in 1955. It’s the first TV appearance of
Patsy Cline.

Tim Maguire

The series originally ran from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957,
on CBS.

Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989)

Thomas James "Tom" Snyder (May 12, 1936 – July 29, 2007)

Tomorrow (also known as The Tomorrow Show and, after 1980, Tomorrow
Coast to Coast) is an American late-night television talk show hosted by
Tom Snyder (above). The show aired on NBC from 1973 to 1982 and
featured many prominent guests, including John Lennon, in his last
televised interview below.

Studio 6A was where Tom Snyder’s Tomorrow Show originated
in New York.

The Edsel Show is an hour-long television special broadcast live on CBS, 
intended to promote Ford Motor Company‘s new Edsel line of cars. It was a
milestone in Bing Crosby‘s career, and was notable as being the first CBS 
entertainment program to be recorded on videotape, for rebroadcasting
on the west coast after the show was performed live for the east. The 
special replaced The Ed Sullivan Show, for the same sponsor, on CBS’
Sunday lineup for one evening only, and was one of the year’s most
successful programs, It also features an appearance by a "mystery
guest" who turned out to be Bob Hope.