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Teen Icon Tragedies

• 1/1/55 (New Year's Eve)--death of Johnnie Ace
  • playing Russian Roulette backstage (!!)

Pledging My Love

follows the perennial "formula" for a hit ...
simple ballad with minimal arrangement

Dawson & Propes on "Pledging My Love"

• James Dean died 9 months later