MIKE GRACIA
John J. Mellencamp is 65 years old today.
Singer-songwriter John Mellencamp made the #1
song "Jack & Diane," among many others. He has
been nominated for more than ten Grammy Awards,
winning one. Billy Joel helped induct him into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008.
Kenneth Ray "Kenny" Rogers is 78 today.
Kenny Rogers attended Jefferson Davis High School in Houston
and joined his first band, The Scholars, in the mid-1950s, but the
band dissolved after their front man left to go solo. He starred as
race car driver Brewster Baker in the 1982 comedy/drama film
Six Pack. Rogers was inducted into the Country Music Hall of
Fame in 2013.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
CAMILLE BOHANNON
Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia
(August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995)
August 21, 1995.
Louis Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971)
Armstrong was called The Father of Jazz who replaced the
Beatles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with "Hello, Dolly!"
when he was 63 years old, the oldest person at that time
to hit the #1 ranking. As the grandson of slaves, he worked
as a paperboy and sold food he salvaged to restaurants.
Bunk Johnson, considered one of the best trumpeters of the
early 1900s, taught Louis Armstrong how to play by ear at
the age eleven when he had dropped out of school.
