Born on this day – Randy Boone:

 

Randy Boone

Actor

Singer

January 17, 1942 – August 28, 2025

Credits:

Songs:

Heart, Let's Go Out Tonight; It's So Hard To Tell Mama Goodbye; Just Waitin'; Lover Let Go; Ramblin' Rose; Tennessee Stud; The Five-Fifteen.

Movies and television:

Backtrack! (1969); Bonanza (1966); Cimarron Strip (1967–1968); Combat! (1966); Country Boy (1966); Dr. Minx (1975); Emergency! (1973); Gunsmoke (1975); Gypsy (1966); Hee Haw (1980); Highway to Heaven (1985); Hondo (1967); Hondo and the Apaches (1967); It's a Man's World (1962–1963); Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974); Kung Fu (1975); Lassie (1973); Savages (1974); Terminal Island (1973); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963); The Audition (2021); The Fugitive (1964); The Hanged Man (1964); The Nashville Sound (1972); The Quest (1976); The Twilight Zone (1963); The Virginian (1964–1966); The Wild Pair (1987); Wagon Train (1963); What's This Song? (1965); Where the Action Is (1966).