† Remembering - OCT 26: **1994 – Wilbert Harrison, American singer (b. 1929) Wilbert Harrison (January 5, 1929 – October 26, 1994) was an American rhythm and blues singer, pianist, guitarist and harmonica player. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Harrison had a Billboard #1 record in 1959 with the song Kansas City. The song was written in 1952 and was one of the first credited collaborations by the team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. After this success, Harrison continued to perform and record but it would be another ten years before he again cracked the Billboard Top 40 when he released the self-penned Lets Work Together (Part 1) that went to #32 in early 1970 on the Billboard Hot 100. The 1970 hit version was released as a single on Sue Records (Sue 11) and was backed with Lets Work Together (Part 2). The song also was released as a 5 minute 19 second song on the Sue Records album SSLP-8801 Lets Work Together. The song was originally released by Harrison in 1962 as Lets Stick Together on Fury 1059 and Fury 1063. Lets Work Together would be later be a hit for Canned Heat and Bryan Ferry. Harrison died of a stroke in 1994, in a Spencer, North Carolina, nursing home at the age of 65..... O:) youtube/watch?v=UonBS_mvW-E **1999 – Hoyt Axton, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1938) Hoyt Wayne Axton (March 25, 1938 – October 26, 1999) was an American folk music singer-songwriter, and a film and television actor. . As he matured, some of his songwriting efforts became well known throughout the world. Among them were Joy to the World, The Pusher, No No Song, and Greenback Dollar. His mother, Mae Boren Axton, co-wrote the classic rock n roll song Heartbreak Hotel, which became the first major hit for Elvis Presley. Some of Hoyt Axtons own songs were also later recorded by Elvis. His mother, Mae, drowned in a hot tub at her Tennessee home in 1997. Hoyt Axton died of a heart attack in Victor, Montana, on October 26, 1999, at the age of 61, after suffering a severe heart attack two weeks earlier................... O:) **2009 – Troy Smith, American businessman, founded Sonic Drive-In (b. 1922) Troy Nuel Smith, Sr. (May 26, 1922 – October 26, 2009) was an American entrepreneur who founded Sonic Drive-In, a fast-food restaurant chain based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that recreates the drive-in diner feel of the 1950s, complete with carhops who usually wear roller skates. By the time of Smiths death in 2009, the chain had 3,600 restaurants in 42 U.S. states.Of all his operations, his most successful was a root beer stand called Top Hat that he opened in 1953.. While driving near the Texas-Louisiana border, he pulled into a fast food restaurant that used a series of intercoms at each parking spot to allow customers to place orders directly from their cars. Smith obtained the design of the communication system and put it in place at Top Hat, allowing customers to place orders and have them delivered to their car within three minutes by carhops on roller skates.As the Top Hat name had already been trademarked, he renamed the restaurants as Sonic in 1959, with the slogan Service with the Speed of Sound. Smith died at age 87 on October 26, 2009, in Oklahoma City after two decades of Alzheimers Disease....... O:) **2012 – Arnold Greenberg, American businessman, co-founded Snapple (b. 1932) Arnold Shepard Greenberg (September 2, 1932 – October 26, 2012) was an American businessman who co-founded Snapple, a brand of tea and juice drinks, in the 1970s with Hyman Golden, his former high school classmate, and Leonard Marsh, who was Greenbergs brother-in-law. Greenberg died from a long battle with cancer in New York City on October 26, 2012, at the age of 80................ O:)
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