The Last American Hero
THE GOOD OLD BOY, PREVENTING HAEMOPHILUS MENINGITIS, THE COACH, MISERY
Junior Johnson was the moonshiner turned stock car driver who became a NASCAR legend. He won 50 racers then turned to owning and promoting stock car racing and was famously profiled by Tom Wolfe in an article in Esquire entitled “The Last American Hero.” Dr. John Robbins was the co-developer of a vaccine that prevented meningitis in millions of infants and toddlers. Herman Boone was the African-American football coach, who was the subject of the 2000 movie, Remember the Titans, where he was played by Denzel Washington. Kenny Lynch was the British entertainer who, in 1963, recorded the first Lennon/McCartney tune done by someone other than The Beatles.
Robert Glenn Johnson Jr. (June 28, 1931 – December 20, 2019), better known as Junior Johnson, was a NASCAR driver of the 1950s and 1960s. He won 50 NASCAR races in his career before retiring in 1966. In the 1970s and 1980s, he became a NASCAR racing team owner; he sponsored such NASCAR champions as Cale Yarborough and Darrell Waltrip. He produced a line of fried pork skins and country ham. He is credited as the first to use the drafting technique in stock car racing. He was nicknamed "The Last American Hero" and his autobiography is of the same name. In May 2007, Johnson teamed with Piedmont Distillers of Madison, North Carolina, to introduce the company's second moonshine product, called "Midnight Moon Moonshine"
Dr. John B. Robbins, a pioneer in vaccinology and one of the inventors of the first effective defense against a form of meningitis that once killed more than a thousand infants a day worldwide, died on Nov. 27 at his home in Manhattan
Herman Ike Boone (October 28, 1935 – December 18, 2019) was an American high school football coach who coached the 1971 T. C. Williams High School football team to a 13–0 season, state championship, and national championship runner-up. That season was the basis for the 2000 film Remember the Titans, in which Boone was portrayed by Denzel Washington.
Lynch had several UK hit singles in the early 1960s, including the two Top Ten hits, "Up on the Roof" in January 1963, and "You Can Never Stop Me Loving You" in August 1963.[3] He is also known for a single release of "Misery", the first cover version of a Beatles song to be released.[3] In early 1963, Lynch had been on the same bill as the Beatles on the group's first British tour; John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote "Misery" in January 1963, in the hopes that the artist on top of the bill, Helen Shapiro, would record it.[3] Shapiro's record producer turned it down, but Lynch took the composition and gave it a much more pop-oriented arrangement than the Beatles would use when they recorded "Misery" themselves on their debut album, Please Please Me. Whilst on a coach with the Beatles (on tour with Helen Shapiro), Lynch reportedly offered to help them write a song, but quickly became frustrated and criticised their ability to compose music – at the time Lennon and McCartney were writing "From Me to You".[4] Years later he appeared on the album cover of Wings' 1973 album Band on the Run, along with other celebrities.
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