Born on this date - Singer (You Light Up My Life) Debby Boone, 58. Forester Sisters singer (I Fell in Love Again Last Night) June Forester, 58. Singer (Why Don’t You Believe Me) Joni James, 84. Baseball Hall of Famer Tommy Lasorda, 87. September 22, 1957…The western series Maverick, starring James Garner, Jack Kelly, Roger Moore, and Robert Colbert as the poker-playing Mavericks (Bret, Bart, Beau, and Brent), began a five-year run on ABC-TV. George Hamilton IV, who charted eleven times on the pop top 100 between 1956 and 1963 (and 40 times on the county charts from 1960 through 1978), died Wednesday (September 17) in a Nashville hospital. The 77 year-old had suffered a heart attack on Saturday. The Winston-Salem native is best remembered for his 1956 hit A Rose And A Baby Ruth (#6) and 1958s Why Dont They Understand (#10), but even after concentrating on country music, he crossed over to the pop charts with such hits as Abilene (#15 pop,#1 country, 1963). His family owned Goody’s Headache Powders, the official pain reliever of NASCAR from 1977 until 2007, when Tylenol became the new pain relieve.
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