Gary Puckett ("Woman, Woman") is 67

Jim Seals of Seals & Crofts ("Diamond Girl") is 68

Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops ("I Can't Help Myself") dies of cancer, 2008

Teresa Brewer ("Music, Music, Music") dies of supranuclear palsy, 2007

Billy Williams ("I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter") dies of diabetes in 1972

"Tennessee" Ernie Ford ("Sixteen Tons") dies of advanced liver disease in 1991

Dion leaves the Belmonts for a solo career, 1960

Stevie Wonder receives a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, 2006


Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart and Phil Spector all guest on NBC-TV's "I Dream Of Jeannie", 1967

Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock" film is premieres in Memphis at the same theatre where the King once worked as an usher, 1957

Mickey & Sylvia cut "Love Is Strange", 1956