This clip of the soft rock chart toppers, The Fleetwoods, is from Dick Clark's
Saturday night "Beech Nut Agow" on ABC. Between Dick's weekly afternoon strip,
American Bandstand and the Saturday prime time access variety show slot,
the legendary never aging Clark hosted virtually all the hit making record artists.
All except one: Elvis Presley. The King of Rock * Roll never made an appearance on
Clark's network or Phillie shows, nor on Alan Freed's popular New York Shows
(which aired in time slots directly after Clark's). One could surmise it was
Elvis' manager, Col. Tom Parker, who nixed the TV rock and roll shows.

The Fleetwoods were one of Clark's favorite acts to have on the show and they appeared on the Saturday show more often than many of the "hard rockers." The trio were also favorites of the sponsor, Beech Nut Gum, which certainly didn't hurt the number of callbacks.

The Fleetwoods Biography The soft rock trio were one of America's most popular doo-wop groups in the late '50s. The original members of the group, Gary Troxel, Gretchen Christopher, and Barbara Ellis, met when they were seniors at Olympia High School in Olympia, Washington. Originally a female duo, they initially recruited Gary to play trumpet. The girls had composed a song while, independently, Gary had written a hook that went �n-do-be-do dum dum-dum do dum.� They put them together and Come Softly To Me was born. Gary Troxel (b. November 28, 1939, Centralia, Washington) and Gretchen Christopher (b. February 29, 1940, Olympia, Washington) were two high school students waiting for Christopher's mother to pick them up after school. They started singing and humming a song together, and liked it enough to ask Christopher's friend and singing partner, Barbara Ellis (b. February 20, 1940, Olympia, Washington), to join them as a trio to perform it.

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