DJ and TV personality Pete Murray celebrates his 100th birthday today!
This made me wonder…is Vera Lynn the only charting act to have actually made it to the age of 100? I can’t think of anyone else. Even that grizzled old punk Charlie Harper is still “only” 81.
I read on Wikipedia that Pete’s voice is on a Barclay James Harvest live LP, so this might be the closest we get for a while until Cliff gets there in 2040.
Dick Van Dyke will be 100 in December and charted on the Mary Poppins soundtrack.
Mel Brooks must also be knocking on the door. Had a bonafide hit
with It’s Good to be King and IIRC reached the US album chart
With his and Carl Reiner’s Million Year Old Man skits