The first of Francis’s three US #1’s, "Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool"
was also ranked on the R&B chart at #2 and was the only one of
Francis’s major hits to cross over to the C&W charts where it
peaked at #24.

Connie Francis (Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero) will be 77 in
December.

It took Elvis Presley 31 takes to get just the right version of "Hound Dog" on
acetate. The record became the most successful two-sided hit on Billboard’s
Top/Hot 100 chart. The two titles spent a combined 55 weeks in the Top 100
in 1956-1957.

This Supremes song became the group’s eighth number-one single
when it topped the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart for two weeks 
from November 13, 1966 through November 27, 1966.

The song went to #3 on the Billboard Top 100 chart in 1957 and is
currently ranked as the 106th greatest song of all time, as well as
the third best song of 1957, by Acclaimed Music. It  was inducted
into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.

Buddy Holly

Jerry Allison on the drums.

Little Eva (Born Eva Narcissus Boyd in Belhaven, North Carolina)

(June 29, 1943 – April 10, 2003)

Little Eva scored a #1 hit in 1962 with the classic song "The Loco-Motion”. She
worked as a maid and babysitter before meeting her future producer, Gerry
Goffin. Eva stated in an interview that she was named after her aunt, which
prompted her family to call her "Little Eva.” She continued performing until
she was diagnosed with cervical cancer in October 2001.