Tom Jones (Sir Thomas Jones Woodward)
The singing career of Tom Jones began with a string of top-ten
hits in the mid-1960s. He has toured regularly, with appearances
in Las Vegas (1967–2011). Jones’s voice has been described by
AllMusic as a "full-throated, robust baritone"
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson)
(June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962)
Marilyn Monroe was a model, film actress and icon. She
became one of the most popular sex symbols of the
1950s and early 1960s.
The American Film Institute ranked her sixth on their list
of the greatest female screen legends from the Golden
Age of Hollywood.
1959
Gladys Maria Knight is a singer/songwriter,actress,
businesswoman, and author. A seven-time Grammy
Award–winner. Knight is known for the hits she
recorded during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s with
her group The Pips, which also included her brother
Merald "Bubba" Knight and cousins William Guest
and Edward Patten.
Based on outcry from parents who bought into what may have
started as an idle rumor, the FBI launched a formal investigation
in 1964 into the supposedly pornographic lyrics of the song
“Louie, Louie.” recorded by The Kingsmen. That investigation
finally neared its conclusion on May 17, 1965, when the FBI
Laboratory declared the lyrics of “Louie Louie”, as sung by the
bands singer Jack Ely (below), to be officially … unintelligible.
Jack Brown Ely (September 11, 1943 – April 28, 2015)
Ely’s famously incoherent vocals were partly the result of his
braces and the rudimentary recording method. The one hour
session cost within $50. He left the band shortly after the 1963
recording session. (From Wikipedia)
Ely was born in Portland, Oregon where he attended Washington
High School.
Blind since shortly after his birth, Stevie Wonder was a child
prodigy who signed with Motown‘s Tamla label at the age of
11, where he was given the professional name Little Stevie
Wonder. In 1963, the single "Fingertips" was a number-one
hit on the Billboard Hot 100 when Wonder was 13, making
him the youngest artist ever to top the chart.
Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris)
