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Big Bopper
Moderately famous during his lifetime, recording artist J. P. (Jiles Perry) Richardson, better known as the Big Bopper, gained lasting notoriety...
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Duane Eddy
Known for his "twangy" guitar sound, Duane Eddy was a leading rock and roll instrumentalist, with fifteen Top 40 hits between 1958 and 1963. Born...
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Kinky Friedman
Founder and leader of the Texas Jewboys, an iconoclastic country and western band of the 1970s, Richard "Kinky" Friedman has since become better...
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I Spy
The popular NBC network program, I Spy ran for three years from 1965 to 1968. Arriving in the wake of the James Bond phenomenon in the mid-1960s,...
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Mel Bay
Founder of Mel Bay Publications, Melbourne E. Bay was the most successful author and publisher of guitar method books in the late twentieth...
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The Chipmunks
The Chipmunks--Alvin, Simon, and Theodore--were the only cartoon rodents to sell millions of records and star in their own television series. The...
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Perry Como
Crooner Perry Como rose to become one of the dominant American male vocalists of the 1940s and 1950s, and retained a rare degree of popularity over...
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Max Shulman
A popular humorist, Shulman was best known for The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis , a CBS television program he created from a volume of short stories...
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Tiny Tim
"Tiny Tim" was the last and most successful of many stage names adopted by singer and ukulele player Herbert Khaury. Born in New York, Khaury was a...
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Them!
First and best of the giant insect/arachnid subgenre of horror films, Them! was directed by Gordon Douglas and released by Warner Brothers in 1954....
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