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UPCOMING BIRTHDAYS

•	Delbert Chafey 5/12
•	Ken Massey 5/14
•	Jeanne Giuliani (Chambers) 5/16
•	Patricia Colhagen (Shaw) 5/20
•	Lawrence Stimson 5/25
•	Linda Andry 5/30
•	Dan Nicoson 5/30
•	Charles Overton 5/31
•	June Boyatt (Noblitt) 6/6
•	Donald Jewell 6/6

Emmerich Manual High School
Class Of 1964

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No 1 - Nov. 23rd to Nov. 30th - "I'm Leaving It Up to You"

In 1963, Robert Dale Houston was working in a bar in Ferriday, Louisiana, a town near Natchez, Mississippi. Montel approached Houston about teaming up with a female singer, Grace Broussard (born 1939) of Prairieville, Louisiana near Baton Rouge. Both had been singing in area bistros for several years - Grace with her brother, Van Broussard (who later released an album on the Bayou Boogie label).^[5]^[6]

The two met and practiced on Montel's home piano for four hours.^[4] When Houston began to play a song written and recorded in 1957 by African-American performers Don and Dewey--"I'm Leaving it Up to You"—Montel, asleep in the next room, woke up screaming: “Play it again! That's a hit!

The group, which also included Brian Hylan and Bobby Vee, was standing on a street corner on Main Street in Dallas waving at John F Kennedy on that fateful November day.