On This Day February 26
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1956 – The Platters serve up the No. 1 single in America: “The Great Pretender.”
1967 – “Kind of a Drag,” by The Buckinghams, begins two weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100.
1982 – Cher makes her Broadway acting debut in “Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean.”
1995 – TLC marks its fourth and final week on top of the pop chart with “Creep.”
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1930 – Actor Rod Taylor (“The Time Machine,” “The Birds”) (d. 2015)
1942 – Bruce Springsteen/E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemens (d. 2011)
1946 – Grammy-winning country singer-songwriter Naomi Judd of The Judds (d. 2022)
1952 – Golf legend Ben Crenshaw
1971 – Grammy-winning R&B, soul and hip-hop singer Mary J. Blige
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1927 – Tony-winning director and choreographer Bob Fosse (“Cabaret”) (d. 1987)
1929 – Grammy-winning country music singer-songwriter June Carter Cash (d. 2003)
1948 – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
1956 – Grammy-winning producer and former “American Idol” judge and musician Randy Jackson
1984 – Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Duffy, born Aimee Anne Duffy (“Rockferry,” “Mercy”)