“Let’s Dance” went to No.4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, selling 
over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.

Chris Montez (Ezekiel Christopher Montanez) turned 70,
January 17.

1946

 
David Seville

"Witch Doctor" was written and recorded by David Seville
(Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.). He later created his little friends
The Chipmunks (also Bagasarian) using the same recording
technique. 

The Beach Boys today

LONDON (AP) — A cache of apparently forgotten material dubbed "the
lost archive" of the Beach Boys, one of America’s greatest and most
commercially successful bands, is being put up for auction.

The collection of thousands of documents included what seems to be
the band’s first royalty check, for $990, dozens of signed contracts,
and handwritten and copied scores to "Good Vibrations", "California
Girls" and many other hits from their heyday in the 1960s.

A group of investors is seeking to sell the entire collection as one unit
with the expectation that it will bring several million dollars.

"We thought it would be a crime to break it up," says Ted Owen, who
heads the Fame Bureau, the London-based firm handling the sealed-
bid auction which ends on May 15.