Camille Bohannon

"Honky Tonk Women" is distinctive as it opens not with a guitar riff, but 
with a beat played on a cowbell. The Rolling Stones’ producer Jimmy
Miller performed the cowbell for the recording.

Producer Jimmy Miller

The single “Ode to Billie Joe” was a number-one hit and became a big
international seller. Billboard ranked the record as the No. 3 song for 1967.

The song is ranked #412 on Rolling Stone‘s list of "the 500 Greatest Songs
of All Time". The recording of "Ode to Billie Joe" generated eight Grammy
nominations, resulting in three wins for Gentry and one win for arranger
Jimmie Haskell.

Bobbie Gentry (Roberta Lee Streeter) will turn 71 July 27.

Richard Augustus Wagstaff "Dick" Clark Jr.
(November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012)

In 1952, WFIL-TV in Philadelphia began airing a show called Bob Horn’s
Bandstand. Dick Clark had a similar show on the company’s radio station
(WFIL) and served as a regular substitute host when Bob Horn went on
vacation. After a drunk driving arrest in 1956, Horn was dismissed and
a 26-year-old Clark then became Bandstand’s permanent host. The
show was picked up by the ABC television network, renamed American
Bandstand, and debuted nationally on August 5, 1957.

The Bandstand podium (above) was donated
to the Smithsonian Institution in 1981.

The Everly Brothers Show was a one-hour musical variety show on the ABC
television network. It began as a summer replacement for The Johnny Cash 
Show. Guests included Johnny Cash, Kenny Rogers and The First Edition,
Melanie and comic Albert Brooks. Plus show regulars Ruth McDevitt, Joe
Higgins, Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon, with music by Jack Elliott and Allyn
Ferguson.