The song Barbara Ann entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart the week ending
January 1, 1966. The week ending January 29, the song leaped from #15 to
#2 and almost made the #1 position.

ROSS SIMPSON

Steven Allan Spielberg is 70 years old today.

Spielberg charged friends and family to watch the 8mm adventure
films he made growing up. His 1968 short film Amblin’ inspired the
name of his future production company Amblin Entertainment. His
1977 science fiction feature Close Encounters of the Third Kind
was labeled "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"
by the U.S. Library of Congress and chosen for preservation
in the National Film Registry.

Eugene Levy was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

SCTV actor Eugene Levy played a clueless dad in the American
Pie film franchise from 1999 to 20112. He also appeared in Night
at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonians (2009), and Cheaper
by the Dozen 2 (2005). Acting as Vice President of his college’s
student film group, he befriended moviemaker Ivan Reitman.

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(Asbury Park Press) – The first car owned by Bruce Springsteen (above) is up for
auction on eBay and the price is rocketing.

As of Wednesday, the bidding has roared through the $100,000 dollar mark for
the ’57 Chevrolet Bel Air Convertible.

The purchase will include the original vehicle registration, a temporary insurance
card, the Allstate insurance card issued in Springsteen’s name and address and
an 80 page book, “Out in the Street: Bruce Springsteen’s 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air Convertible.”

The car was put up for  auction by Springsteen historian Michael Crain and
was featured at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex in New York City from 
2008 to 2010 and it was also at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.

Bruce Springsteen driving his ’57 Chevy Bel Air convertible.

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen turned 67 in September.

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"Crimson and Clover" entered the U.S. charts on December 14, where
it stayed for 16 weeks on Billboard Hot 100 and 15 weeks on Cash Box
Top 100. Following a performance of the song on The Ed Sullivan Show
on January 26, it became number one on February 1, 1969, a position
held for one week on Cash Box Top 100 and two weeks on both Billboard
Hot 100.

The single has sold 5 million copies, making it Tommy James and the
Shondells’ best selling song. In 2006, Pitchfork Media named it the 57th
best song of the 1960s.

Tommy James and the Shondells on the Ed Sullivan
Show in 1969.

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Tommy James (born Thomas Gregory Jackson) turned 69 in April.