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Glenn Corbett was an American actor best known for his role on CBS's adventure drama Route 66. Corbett, as Lincoln Case, replaced George Maharis as... Martin Milner's Route 66 co-star during part of the third season and the fourth, and final, season of the series . Other regular TV roles were as 'Wes Macauley' on It's a Man's World , with co-stars Ted Bessell, Randy Boone, and Michael Burns, in the role of Wes's younger brother, Howie. In the 1965-1966 season, Corbett guest starred on the ABC western The Legend of Jesse James. Corbett appeared as Chance Reynolds, a regular cast member on the NBC western The Road West , with co-stars Barry Sullivan, Kathryn Hays, Andrew Prine, Brenda Scott, and Kelly Corcoran. He also played Paul Morgan on CBS. He was featured in 1964 as Dan Collins in an episode of Gunsmoke entitled "Chicken"; A man gets an undeserved reputation as a gunman when he's found at a way station with four dead outlaws at his feet. The episode was about pride. In 1971, Corbett had a guest appearance with Mariette Hartley on the Gunsmoke episode entitled "Phoenix".
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John Paul Larkin , better known by his stage name Scatman John, was an American musician who created a fusion of scat singing and dance music, best... known for his 1995 hit "Scatman ". A stutterer, Larkin stated that scatting was "turning my biggest problem into my biggest asset". Scatman John sold millions of recordings worldwide and was named "Best New Artist" in the Echo Awards in both Japan and Germany. He was a recipient of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's Annie Glenn Award for outstanding service to the stuttering community and National Stuttering Association Hall of Fame. Born in El Monte, California, Larkin suffered from a severe stutter since his beginning of speech which led to an emotionally traumatic childhood. Even at the peak of his success in 1995, journalists reported that during interviews he “hardly finishes a sentence without repeating the phrase at least six or seven times”. At age twelve he began to learn piano, and was introduced to the art of scat singing at the age of fourteen through records by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, amongst others.
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