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THE BIG ‘O’ WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1936

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Music-Roy Orbison
Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was
born in Vernon, Texas.


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BOBBY VINTON IS 80 TODAY

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Bobby Vinton (born Stanley Robert "Bobby" Vinton, Jr. in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania)

Bobby Vinton’s  #1 charting single "Blue Velvet" in 1963 was made famous
by a film of the same name by David Lynch. Vinton was a member of the
U.S. Army and signed to Epic Records after being discharged.

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KURT RUSSELL IS 64 TODAY

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Kurt Vogel Russell was born in Springfield, Massachusetts

Russell has starred in the 1981 action film Escape from New York
and its 1996 sequel Escape from L.A., the horror film The Thing
(1982), Big Trouble in Little China (1986). He was nominated for
an Emmy Award for the television film Elvis (1979). In 1994, Kurt
Russell had a starring role in the military science fiction film
Stargate.

He began his film career at age eleven in an unaccredited role
in Elvis Presley‘s 1963 musical “It Happened at the World’s Fair”.

Kurt Russell performing "Blue Moon of Kentucky" as Elvis Presley in John Carpenter’s 1979 television biographical film, Elvis. Voiced by Ronnie
McDowell. It originally aired on ABC.

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SINGER MIKE LOVE IS 74 TODAY

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Michael Edward "Mike" Love

Love helped found the band The Pendeltons, which went on to become
the iconic surfer rock band The Beach Boys. The group is known for
such hit songs as "Surfin’ U.S.A." (1963) and "Good Vibrations” (1966).              

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BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1921

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Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae in “Oklahoma”

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Albert Gordon MacRae (March 12, 1921 – January 24, 1986)

Actor and singer Gordon MacRae is best known for his roles in the 
versions of two Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, Oklahoma!
(1955) and Carousel
(1956), and playing Bill Sherman in On
Moonlight Bay
(1951) and for his appearance in By The Light
of the Silvery Moon
 (1953).
He made his Broadway debut in
1942 and acquired his first recording contract soon afterwards.

Before fame, MacRae served as a navigator in the United States
Army
Air Forces during World War ll.

 


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