Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 - August 16, 1977), was an American singer, musician and actor. He is often known simply as Elvis; also "The King of Rock 'n' Roll", or simply "The King". Presley began his career as one of the first performers of rockabilly, an uptempo fusion of country and rhythm and blues with a strong back beat. His novel versions of existing songs, mixing 'black' and 'white' sounds, …

James Douglas Morrison was an American singer, songwriter, writer, film director, and poet. He was best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the popular American rock band The Doors, and is considered to be one of the most charismatic, unique, and influential frontmen in the history of rock music. He was also an author of several poetry books, a documentary, short film, and three early music videos ("The Unknown Soldier", "Moonlight Drive", and "People are Strange").

Frank Gorshin (April 5, 1933 -) was an American actor and comedian from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was best known as an impressionist, with many notable guest appearances on the "Ed Sullivan Show" and on "The Tonight Show" with host Steve Allen. His most famous role was The Riddler in the "Batman" live action television series.

The Singing Nun was Jeanine Deckers (born Jeanne-Paule Marie Deckers; October 17 1933 - March 29 1985), a member (as Sister Luc Gabriel) of the Dominican Fichermont Convent in Belgium. Popular in the convent for her music, she was encouraged by the other nuns to record an album in 1963. One song from that album, "Dominique", soared to the top of the charts in the United States.

Johnny Hallyday (born June 15, 1943 in Paris, France) is a French singer and actor. An icon in the French-speaking world since the very beginning of his career, some consider him to be the French equivalent of Elvis Presley. He has had a 40-year career in the music industry and is one of France's biggest stars. He has made 400 tours, had 18 platinum albums, performed in front of 15 million people, and sold 100 million discs since the beginning of his career.

Señor Wences was a prominent 20th century ventriloquist whose popularity grew with his frequent appearances on CBS's "Ed Sullivan Show". He was born Wenceslao Moreno in Salamanca, Spain, He became famous as a ventriloquist in many countries. Señor Wences was known for his speed, skill, and grace as a ventriloquist. His stable of characters included "Johnny," a childlike face drawn on Wences's hand, which he would place atop an otherwise headless doll, …

William Oliver Swofford (February 22, 1945-February 12, 2000), known as Oliver, was an American pop singer. Born in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, he began singing as an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the early 1960s. He was a member of two music groups: The Virginians and, later, The Good Earth.

Totie Fields (May 7, 1930 - August 2, 1978) was a zaftig American comedian who was not afraid to poke fun at her own weight problems. She was quoted as saying "I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is fourteen days." Born Sophie Feldman in Hartford, Connecticut. Fields started singing in Boston clubs while still in high school. She took the stage name of Totie Fields. The name "Totie" was a childhood nickname, a corruption of her first name.

Marty Allen (born March 23, 1922) is a stand-up comedian and actor. He has worked as a comedy headliner in night clubs and as a dramatic actor in TV roles. Marty was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Louis and Elsie Allen. After graduating from Taylor Allderdice High School during World War II, he joined the Air Force.

Jay Marshall was a famous magician and ventriloquist. Over a 60 year career he appeared on the "Ed Sullivan Show" 14 times together with his dummy "Lefty". He also was the opening act for performers like Frank Sinatra, Milton Berle and Liberace. In fact, he was the first act to open for Sinatra in Las Vegas. He was also the dean of the Society of American Magicians. According to the Chicago Tribune, his interest in magic started when he was six.

Edward Villella (born October 1, 1936, Bayside, New York) is an American ballet dancer and choreographer, frequently cited as America's most celebrated male dancer. Villella enrolled in the School of American Ballet at age ten, but then interrupted his studies to complete his college education. He attended the New York Maritime Academy, where he lettered in baseball and was a championship boxer. He graduated with a marine science degree in 1955, …

Terry Hall, born Terence Hall, was an English ventriloquist. He appeared regularly on television with his puppet, Lenny the Lion, with his catchphrase, "Aw, don't embawass me!". Hall is credited as being one of the first ventriloquists to use a non-human puppet. Hall was born in Chadderton, Oldham, in Lancashire, where his parents ran a working men's club.

Arthur Worsley (1920 - 2001) was a ventriloquist who appeared regularly on British television from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Jodi Long (born January 7, 1954, New York, New York) is an Asian American actress raised in the Queens borough of New York City. Her parents are Lawrence K. Long, of Chinese-Scottish background who emigrated to the United States from Australia and had a career as a tap-dancer; and Kimiye Tsunemitsu, a vaudeville performer of Japanese American descent. Having graduated with a BFA from the acting conservatory at SUNY Purchase, …

Sonny King (April 1, 1922 - February 3, 2006) was an American lounge singer. He was born as Luigi Antonio Schiavone on April 1, 1922 in Brooklyn, New York. He was the sidekick of Jimmy Durante for 28 years until Durante's death in 1980. They appeared together on the Ed Sullivan Show five times in the 1960s. King shared a New York apartment with Dean Martin when the two were struggling entertainers, …

Lou Holtz 1893 – September 22, 1980 Beverly Hills) was a famous vaudevillian and comic actor. He flopped on Broadway, first as a song and dance man and then as a comic until he got the idea of telling Jewish dialect stories in blackface (his most famous character, whom he never abandoned, was 'Sam Lapidus'). He rose to the height of "George White's Scandals", abandoned blackface, and ended up playing the Palace for ten straight weeks.

Channing Pollock (August 16 1926 in Sacramento, California, USA - March 18, 2006) was an American magician and film actor. Has one of the most sophisticated and charismatic practitioners of his craft; strikingly handsome with an enigmatic stage presence, he was best known for an act in which he would elegantly produce doves out of thin air and he was often billed as "the most beautiful man in the world". He first became interested in magic at the age of 21.

The Honourable Jean Lapointe is a Quebecois actor, comedian and singer as well as a Canadian Senator. Lapointe began his stage career as part of the duo "Les Jérolas" performing in such venues as the "Ed Sullivan Show" and at the Olympia in Paris. He launched his solo career in 1974 and has performed on stage, albums and in two feature films.

Dennis Michael Crosby (July 13, 1934-May 7, 1991) was an occasional American actor, the son of singer and actor Bing Crosby, and the father of actress Denise Crosby. Dennis was the son of Bing Crosby and his first wife Dixie Lee. With his twin brother Phillip Crosby and his other brothers, he attended Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose. He graduated in 1952 and enrolled at Washington State College at Pullman. In the late 1950s, Dennis and his brothers, …

Richard Lewis Hearne (30 January 1908 - 23 August 1979) was an English actor,comedian, producer and writer. Hearne was born in Norwich, Norfolk. He was the first artist to be known as a "television star" and also the first to have his own programme, when he played 'Mr Pastry', a black and white series of 25 minute episodes. Long before Clive Dunn did it, Richard Hearne dressed up as an old man to play Mr Pastry, …

Andy Stewart (30 December 1933 - 11 October 1993) was a Scottish singer and entertainer. The use of tartan patriotism and stereotypical Scottish humour goes back to Sir Harry Lauder and music hall songs. In the 1960s this strand was continued by entertainer Andy Stewart. He was born in Glasgow in 1933, the son of a teacher. He moved to Arbroath as a child and then trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.

Bessie Griffin (July 6, 1922 - April 10, 1989) was an African American gospel singer. Born Arlette B. Broil in New Orleans, Louisiana, she was steeped in church music as a child. She sang for a while with the Southern Harps, had her own radio show in New Orleans, and later appeared in night clubs, on Broadway and in 1962 on the "Ed Sullivan Show".

Chris Ellis (born April 14, 1956) is an actor with parts in movies such as My Cousin Vinny and Days of Thunder as well as countless television programs. Chris Ellis always wanted to be an actor because of television. He grew up in the 50's in the deep south in a "world of privation and violence", but saw on television people who seemed to have lives of ease and privilege. On February 9th, 1964, when Chris was 7 years old, …

Micheline Presle in Paris, France is an actress also known in English language films as Micheline Prelle. Born Micheline Nicole Julia Emilienne Chassagne, she wanted to be an actress from an early age. She took acting classes in her early teens and made her film debut at the age of fifteen in the 1937 production of "La Fessée". In 1938 she was awarded the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti as the most promising young actress in French cinema.

Carmel Quinn (born in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish entertainer, who has appeared on Broadway, television, and radio since coming to America in the 1950s. She began her career in her native Dublin as a teenager singing with local bands. She sang at Dublin's Theatre Royal with the house orchestra Jimmy Campbell.

Orville Lothrop Freeman (May 9, 1918 - February 20, 2003) was an American Democratic politician who served as the 29th Governor of Minnesota from January 5, 1955 to January 2, 1961, and as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1961 to 1969 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

Don Morrow (born January 29, 1927) is an American actor and announcer. He started his broadcast career while a student at Syracuse University on the GI Bill shortly after World War II. His first job was with Syracuse's first TV station W H E N as newscaster and announcer. He heard of greener fields in Texas and in the late summer of '49 signed Dallas's 2nd TV station on the air as KBTV which 3 months later was sold to The Dallas Morning News and became WFAA-TV.

Norman Weiss was an executive at General Artists Corp., a talent agency, which booked musical groups in the 1960s. Weiss was responsible for arranging The Beatles first American tour, with Brian Epstein, The Beatles manager, and which included The Beatles famous appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show.

Al Lohman (b. January 15 1933, Sergeant Bluff, Iowa; d. October 14 2002, Rancho Mirage, California) was a Los Angeles, California radio personality who, along with Roger Barkley, had the top-rated morning drive "The Lohman and Barkley Show" on KFI Los Angeles through most of the 1970s and early 1980s. Their fame extended beyond the Los Angeles area as the duo were frequent guests on the "Ed Sullivan Show" and were hosts of two short-lived television shows.

Theodore Francis Atkinson was a Canadian-born thoroughbred horse racing jockey, inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1957. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Ted Atkinson as a child emigrated with his family across the border to upstate New York. He began his career in thoroughbred horse racing in 1938 and first gained national recognition in 1941, …

Richiardi Jr. (often billed just as Richiardi), was the stage name of magician Aldo Izquierdo (24 November 1923 - 6 September 1985), who became infamous for dramatic and gory stage presentations of classic stage illusions. Richiardi was the son of another professional magician, who used the stage name Richiardi the Great. He was Peruvian (although sometimes wrongly described as Brazilian or Argentinian).

Jay Nelson (a.k.a. Frank Coxe and Jungle Jay Nelson) (Born July 12, 1936, died February 18, 1994) spent most of his career in radio, although he did a brief stint on television in the early 1960s. He started in radio at WRIT in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1955. He then moved on to WARM in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1956; WHLO in Akron, Ohio in 1957; and WBNY in Buffalo, New York in 1960. He switched briefly to television, appearing on WKBW, also in Buffalo, …

Larry Fuller is an American choreographer, theatre director, dancer, jazz pianist and actor. Fuller began his career as a dancer/actor, appearing on Broadway in "Carousel", "The Music Man", "Kean", "Bravo Giovanni", and "Funny Girl". When Barbra Streisand headed to London for the West End production of the latter, Fuller was tapped to choreograph it, then repeated the task for the American tour.

Charles Christian "Sir Charles" Hammer, (ca. 1953 - 18 February 2004), was an American classical guitarist. Charles Christian Hammer was born in Riverdale, Illinois around 1953. Hammer took up the guitar in his youth after hearing The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. He purchased his first guitar with earning from a newspaper route. Hammer was influenced heavily by The Beatles throughout his career. During the 1970's Hammer moved to Mexico where he studied Spanish guitar.

Ismael "Milo" Valenzuela (born December 25, 1934 in McNary, Texas) is a retired Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He was one of 22 children to parents who had immigrated to the United states. Shortly after Ismael Valenzuela's birth, the family returned to their native Mexico. At age 14, Milo Valenzuela came back to the United States where he began working with quarter horses then launched his career as a jockey at a racetrack in Tucson, Arizona.

William Albert "Bitsy" Mullins was born on March 13, 1926 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas to Joseph Franklin Mullins and Alice Barnes Mullins. He graduated from Pine Bluff High School in 1942 and pursued a degree in chemistry from the University of Arkansas at Fayettville, which he completed in 1948. A trumpeter, Mullins worked over the years with The Tommy Dorsey Band, Buddy Rich, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin and Lena Horne.

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