Howard Childress, the youngest of The Sparkletones, has died at age 76
By DAN ARMONAITIS Howard Childress was only 14 years old when he and three other teenagers from Spartanburg County made their network television debut on “The Nat King Cole Show” in 1957. After Cole introduced The Sparkletones, a camera cut immediately to a close-up shot of Childress, whose boyish face Read More