Bud Abbott died 40 years ago today, following decades in Hollywood in which he rose from the vaudeville circuit to the heights of film and television – performing as one-half …
Abbott and Costello
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It was hard not to like Lou Costello, the comic to Bud Abbott’s straight man that took them from the vaudeville stage to film to the new medium of television.
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The history of pop music is filled with high-powered female groups such as the Supremes, Destiny’s Child and the Spice Girls. They owe their success in part to the pioneering …