Mid 1950s

Robert Wayne Amsberry
(June 2, 1928 – November 21, 1957)

Amsberry was born in 1928 in Boring, Oregon and 
graduated from Franklin High School in Portland,
where he was a friend and classmate of popular 
singer Johnnie Ray (below) born in Dallas,Oregon.

John Alvin Ray (1927 – 1990)

Amsberry worked on The Mickey Mouse Club, a
then-new series, writing skits as well as acting
on the show in various characters.

Bob was also a voice actor, with a posthumous
credit in Disney’s Sleeping Beauty (1959).

On the morning of November 21, 1957, Amsberry
was involved in a car accident as a passenger
with Roy Williams, another Disney employee,
in Portland. Amsberry died of injuries sustained
in the accident.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Hector Vincent “Heck Harper” Flateau (1919 – 1998)

EW ORLEANS (AP) — Clarence “Frogman” Henry, who was one
of New Orleans’ best known old-time R&B singers and scored a
hit at age 19 with “Ain’t Got No Home," and later with the hit song
”(I Don’t Know Why) But I Do” died Sunday night. No cause of
death was given.

George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001)

Musician, singer and songwriter George Harrison achieved
international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles, an 
English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo
Starr. They are regarded as the most influential band of all
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Paul McCartney’s original bass guitar, which the legendary musician used in The Beatles’ early years, has been found
and returned after it was stolen more than five decades
ago (1972).

The 81-year-old singer-songwriter was reunited with the
left-handed Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass after its manufacturer
and a husband-and-wife team of journalists embarked on
a search for the missing instrument in 2018 that later
became a crowdsourcing campaign called The Lost
Bass Project.

A statement shared Wednesday on McCartney’s website confirmed that the guitar had been discovered and was 
returned to its original owner.

In this photo released by The Lost Bass Project, Nick Wass,
an executive with Hoefner, inspects Paul McCartney’s 1961 violin-shaped Hoefner bass, stolen from the Beatle more
than 50 years ago and recently returned. (AP)