Johnny Rivers ("Secret Agent Man") is 67

The late Dee Clark ("Hey Little Girl") is born in 1938

Joni Mitchell ("Help Me") is 66

Jody Reynolds ("Endless Sleep") dies of liver and brain cancer, 2008

Carter Cornelius of Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose ("Treat Her Like A Lady") dies of a heart attack in 1991

The Phillipine actress wife of Rod Lauren ("If I Had A Girl") is stabbed to death in Manila (Rod is accused of ordering her death but flees the country and never stands trial), 2001

Smokey Robinson marries fellow Miracles member Claudette (it lasts 26 years), 1959

Frank Sinatra marries actress Ava Gardner (they divorce six years later), 1951

Pat Boone marries Shirley Foley (daughter of country star Red Foley), 1963

Frank Zappa announces that he has prostate cancer (he dies from it two years later), 1991

John Hall, lead singer of Orleans ("Dance With Me") is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from New York, 2006

John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival is cleared in court of charges he plagiarized himself (his former record label thought "The Old Man Down The Road" sounded too much like "Run Through The Jungle"), 1988

I know Johnny Rivers, Joni Mitchell Smokey Robinson, Sinatra, Boone, Zappa . Jhn Fogerty is now performing in Boulder.