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THE SILHOUETTES and DICK CLARK

The rush of Trump-mania, unfortunately, continues.  Who knows what he is really worth ( Forbes  now says more than $8 billion ), but his continued splurge of success from staying alive resulted in Trump Media & Technology Group, parent of the social media platform Truth Social,  jumping in value more than a billion dollars .  He has a 65% stake in the company, which is now worth $4.6 billion. Going on to some mundane nostalgia, I was watching on Music Choice this morning one of their music channels, and noted that two of the Silhouettes would have been around a 100-years old if they were still alive.  So I checked, and found this 2009 article entitled,  Last member of Silhouettes dies , noting that the Rev. John "Bootsie" Wilson, who was not an original, died at the age of 69.  This means he would have now have been 84.  But that's not 100. So I further researched and saw that  Earl Beal was born in 1924 .  Yup, 100 years.   The Silhouettes : Formed in Philadelphia in