LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Reality TV may make it seem as though networks have no shame, but what the genre does best is test the limits of any sense of shame the networks have left.

Jim Reeves' "Distant Drums" began its month-long stay at the top of the British pop charts, 1966. Flatt & Scruggs recorded "The Ballad Of Jed Clampett," 1962.

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(March 10) Today's birthdays include the late Jethro Burns, of Homer and Jethro fame, who was born in 1923; Dean Torrence, of Jan and Dean fame, in 1941 (age 61); ...