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Arlo Davy Guthrie is 69 years old today.

1972

The song "Ode to Billie Joe" was written and recorded by Bobbie Gentry, a
singer-songwriter from Chickasaw County, Mississippi. It became a number-
one hit in the U.S., and 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". It also generated eight Grammy
nominations, resulting in three wins for Gentry and one win for arranger
Jimmie Haskell.

Bobby Gentry in Capitol Studio C, Hollywood, CA.

Bobby Gentry (Roberta Lee Streeter) will be 72
on July 27.

George Leslie Gobel (May 20, 1919 – February 24, 1991)

George Gobel initially pursued an entertainment career as a country
music singer, appearing on the National Barn Dance on WLS radio,
and later on KMOX in St. Louis. Gobel enlisted in the U.S. Army Air
Forces during World War II and served as a flight instructor in AT-9 
aircraft at Altus, Oklahoma and later in B-26 Marauder bombers
at Frederick,Oklahoma. After his discharge at the end of the war,
he switched from singing to comedy and soon began a comedy
show on NBC in 1954 that ran until 1960. It won him an Emmy
in 1955. 

The song Learnin’ the Blues by Frank Sinatra ranked #14 on the Billboard
Year-End chart. He re-recorded the song in 1962 for the album Sinatra-Basie.

Kevin Norwood Bacon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Actor and musician Kevin Bacon’s films include musical-drama film Footloose
(1984), the controversial historical conspiracy legal thriller JFK (1991), the
legal drama A Few Good Men (1992), the historical docudrama Apollo 13
(1995), and the mystery drama Mystic River (2003).

Kevin Bacon formed a band in 1995 called The Bacon Brothers with his brother,
Michael. They have released six albums.

1990

2000

The Bacon Brothers are Kevin (left) and Michael