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Roderick David "Rod" Stewart is 71 today.

Stewart worked as a newspaper delivery boy and a gravedigger. He left
school when he was fifteen and sought out a career as a footballer until
he was rejected. He was named the seventeenth most successful artist
of the The Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists.

The song "Twistin’ the Night Away" was written by Sam Cooke. It became
very popular, charting in the top ten of both the Billboard Hot 100 (#9)
and Billboard’s R&B chart (#1).

The popular Boston-based soul band The Chicken Slacks take their name
from a commonly misheard lyric in the song’s second verse; Cooke is
actually singing about a "chick in slacks.”

"We Can Work It Out" was the last of six number one singles in a row on the
charts, a record at the time. The Beatles recorded the song on 20 October
1965, four days after its accompanying single track, with an overdub session
on 29 October. They spent nearly 11 hours on the song, by far the longest
expenditure of studio time up to that point.

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Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977)

1956

Steve Allen, and Elvis (“the King”) during rehearsal for the show

In 1981 "Elvis Presley Day" was declared in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,
Kansas, North & South Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch was a Western variety radio show that ran until August
1, 1943, and from September 23, 1945 to May 16, 1956. The show’s entire run was broadcast on CBS radio, sponsored by Doublemint gum. The approximately two-
year interruption resulted from Autry’s enlistment in the U.S. Army to fight in World
War II. Episodes were 30 minutes long except for a 15-minute version that ran from September 23, 1945 to June 16, 1946.

Orvon Grover "Gene" Autry
(September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998)