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Billingslea placed a want-ad in the local newspaper looking for singers. Billy Hoggs responded to the ad and became the group's third member. At Hoggs' recommendation, his friend Billy Rollins, became the fourth member of a group they named the Blenders. Within weeks, Rollins was replaced with another friend of Hoggs, Leroy Fair.
Sorrell Booke (January 4, 1930 – February 11, 1994) was an American actor who performed on stage, screen, and television. He acted in more than 100 plays and 150 television shows, [1] and is best known for his role as corrupt politician Jefferson Davis "Boss" Hogg in the television show The Dukes of Hazzard.
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Gordy turned the act down, prompting the group to pay a visit to the home of Johnson's cousin, R&B star and Gordy associate Jackie Wilson. Wilson in turn got the Contours a second audition with Gordy, at which they sang the same songs they had at the first audition, the same way, and were signed to a seven-year contract. [1]
Theodore John Conrad (July 10, 1949 – May 18, 2021) [1] [2] was an American bank teller who stole $215,000 (equivalent to $1.79 million in 2023) in cash from the vault of a Cleveland bank in July 1969.
Melissa Rivers is still mourning losing everything she owned after her Pacific Palisades home was destroyed in the Los Angeles wildfires on Jan. 7. But her mother Joan Rivers' famous collection of ...
Dorothy A. Hogg is a retired lieutenant general of the United States Air Force who last served as the twenty-third Surgeon General of the United States Air Force and the first Surgeon General of the United States Space Force. [1] Hogg serves as functional manager of the U.S. Air Force Medical Service.
Jefferson Davis "J.D." Hogg, known as Boss Hogg, is a fictional character featured in the American television series The Dukes of Hazzard. He was the commissioner of Hazzard County, and the county's political boss and the main antagonist of the show. Boss Hogg almost always wore an all-white suit with a white cowboy hat and regularly smoked cigars.