Meredith Ann Baxter was born in South Pasadena, California.
Baxter portrayed TV mom Elyse Keaton on the NBC sitcom Family Ties
with Michael J. Fox (1982-1989). She is a five-time Emmy Award nominee,
one of which was for playing the title role in the 1992 TV film A Woman
Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story.
Brian Douglas Wilson was born in Inglewood, California.
Wilson co-wrote over twenty-five top forty hits with the Beach Boys and was
inducted into the 1988 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He won Grammy Awards
for Brian Wilson Presents Smile (2004) and The Smile Sessions (2011). In
lists published by Rolling Stone, Wilson ranked 52 for the "100 Greatest
Singers of All Time” in 2015. In 2012, music publication NME ranked Wilson
number 8 in its "50 Greatest Producers Ever" list.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
Sir James Paul McCartney is 74 today.
Paul McCartney met John Lennon on his school bus as a child and
later joined Lennon‘s skiffle group The Quarrymen when he was
fifteen. The band played a combination of jazz, blues, and folk
music. After George Harrison joined the band, they changed their
name to The Beatles.
From left: Howard McNear, William Conrad, Georgia Ellis,
and Parley Baer.
The radio series “Gunsmoke” first aired on CBS on April 26, 1952 and
ended on June 18, 1961. The show stars William Conrad as Marshal
Matt Dillon, Howard McNear as Doc Charles Adams, Georgia Ellis as
Kitty Russell, and Parley Baer as Dillon’s assistant, Chester Wesley
Proudfoot. The TV series changed the newly limping Chester’s last
name from Proudfoot to Goode.
Sound-effects man Ray Kemper (left)
with William Conrad.
Conrad with cast member Georgia Ellis.
William Conrad
(September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994)
The song “At the Hop” reached number one on the charts on January 6,
1958, thus becoming one of the top-selling singles of 1958. It also hit
number one on the R&B Best Sellers list. Somewhat more surprisingly,
the record reached #3 on the Music Vendor country charts.
