Camille Bohannon

Wilson Pickett (March 18, 1941 – January 19, 2006)

This song was composed by Pickett and Steve Cropper at the historic Lorraine
Motel in Memphis where Martin Luther King, Jr. would later be murdered in April
1968. Pickett’s first hit on Atlantic Records, it reached #1 on the R&B charts and
peaked at #21 on the pop charts.

Dick Clark

Dick Clark took over as the host of Philadelphia’s TV dance show on WFIL, then
called simply Bandstand, after former host Bob Horn was arrested for DUI. The
show, which would go national on ABC the following year, changed its name to
American Bandstand and ran for 37 years.

Tom Hanks

The epic romantic comedy-drama film Forest Gump was based on the 1986 
novel of the same name by Winston Groom. The film is now considered a 
“classic.” It won 6 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director for Robert
Zemeckis, and Best Actor in a Leading Role for Tom Hanks.

Sandy Kozel

Elvis, Bill Black, Scotty Moore; Sam Phillips in foreground; Sun Records, Memphis, TN, 1954