Richard Augustus Wagstaff "Dick" Clark Jr.
(November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012)
The Dick Clark Show (also known as Dick Clark’s Saturday Night Beechnut Show)
was a musical variety show broadcast weekly on the ABC television network 7:30-8
PM (Eastern Time) on Saturdays from February 15, 1958 through September 10,
1960, sponsored (except for the first two shows) by Beechnut Gum.
Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002)
From left: Waylon Jennings and Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly arranged Jennings’s first recording
session, of "Jole Blon" and "When Sin Stops
(Love Begins)". Holly also hired Jennings to
play electric bass for him during his "Winter
Dance Party Tour" in 1959.
The single "Count Me In" reached #2 on the Billboard
Hot 100.
Gary Lewis (born Gary Harold Lee Levitch) will be 70 in July.
Released as a single in the US on March 2, 1964, “Twist and
Shout” reached number 2 on April 4, 1964, during the week
that the top five places on the Billboard chart were all Beatles
singles. It was the only million-selling Beatles single that was
a cover record, and the only Beatles cover single to reach the
Top 10 on a national record chart. The song failed to hit #1
because the Beatles had another song occupying the top spot,
"Can’t Buy Me Love".
Live performance, November 4, 1963 during The Royal Variety Show
at Prince of Wales Theatre, London.
Little Richard
The recording session took place at the legendary J&M Studio in New
Orleans. The song “Long Tall Sally” became one of Little Richard’s best-
known hits and has become a rock and roll standard covered by hundreds
of artists.
Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman) turned 83 in December.
