He did so many things and was never really recognized much. I always liked him. He was very short. Maybe he wouldn't wear elevator shoes like Alan Ladd did.
1886 In Tuxedo Park, NY the tuxedo dinner jacket, a tail-less dress coat, made its debut at the Autumn Ball
I'll bet that made a lot of men happy.
1962 The BBC banned Bobby Pickett's novelty song, Monster Mash, because it deemed the record offensive. The goofy tune about a horror-movie-star record hop was soon the No. 1 record in the US, and was a big hit again when it was re-released in the early 1970s
I was always curious as to why it was banned.
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