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Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue >> Posted By scott4261 1 hour, 59 minutes ago in Arts & Entertainment Buddy Holly and the Crickets made an appearance on the Arthur Murray Dance Party on December 29, 1957.

"I was one of the guys who could throw down," Don Cornelius says in a new documentary about his era-defining run as host of the nation's funkiest televised dance party, "Soul Train: The Hippest Trip in America" . He's not boasting.

And that's a surprise twist, because when you think Chubby Checker, most just think of one thing: "The Twist." The 1960s dance sensation, which had been a minor R&B hit for its author, Hank Ballard, became so popular for Checker that he wasn't expected to play any other kind of music.

Forty years ago today, the National Association of Broadcasters proposed sanctions against disk jockeys who accepted money, or "payola," from recording companies in return for playing certain records on the radio.

Don Cornelius only danced once on his show, but his tastes inspired a generation of groovers.

The ultimate artistic destination of Sam Cooke is one of the all-time might-have-beens in the history of popular music.

When, dear heavens, will it finally end? For months, he grabbed headlines, fame, TV appearances, money, and one imagines, plenty of free drinks and free, um, romance, out of his domestic mess with onetime wife and costar Kate Gosselin .

Every year people ask the same question, "How old is Dick Clark?" Dick Clark hosted the 2009 - 2010 New Year's Eve Live Ball Drop with Ryan Seacrest this year.

Go to bed, Pop. There's nothing for you to watch on TV tonight. On New Year's Eve, more than most nights, youth must be superserved.

That's a question that American's should be asking this New Year's Eve? Well, the Huffington Post answers the mail.

An exercise in "know thyself": List the Top 10 cultural artifacts that shaped you most.

Dec. 31 is the one night everyone watches TV for a party. Since Guy Lombardo ushered in 1930 on radio, we have come to expect a soundtrack for that party.

Clay Cole holds a poster of the cover of his new book, 'Sh-Boom The Explosion of Rock N' Roll 1953-1968'. In the '50s and '60s, Clay Cole emceed a teen record show on two New York TV stations and knew dozens of rockers.

The wildest, most innovative children's television host of the baby-boom era, comedian Soupy Sales -- who rose to fame hosting several shows in the 1950s and '60s at WXYZ-TV -- passed away Thursday night at a hospice in The Bronx, New York.

On Friday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., interested people will have a chance to preview items going up for auction from the '57 Heaven Museum, a news release said.

He just celebrated his 68th birthday this past Saturday, but rock 'n' roll legend Chubby Checker remains active and outspoken.

Edna Turnblad and her daughter, Tracy , get spruced up at Mr. Pinky's Hefty Hideaway in the musical "Hairspray" at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire.

Fox hunts, cakewalks and pie suppers -- in which the highest bidder got to eat the pie with the girl who baked it -- were Ozark traditions a half-century ago.

As ailing showbiz mogul Dick Clark prepares to celebrate his 80th birthday in November, a new documentary threatens to tarnish his image by recounting his controversial beginnings.

Roanoke native Billy Joe Burnette had a national hit with "Teddy Bear" in 1976. The song received a BMI award for songwriting.