“Loved it,” Mr. Seals said. At a gig in Shreveport, Louisiana, in the early 1960s, he met a rising star, Jo Ann Campbell, who had appeared with the rock troupe of disc jockey Alan Freed and in ...

Alan Simpson, basketball standout Junior Bridgeman, R&B singer Angie Stone, Cold War spy Oleg Gordievsky and actors Richard Chamberlain and Émilie Dequenne. Here is a roll call of some ...