Chuck Barris, creator of the popular classic game shows The Gong Show and The Newlywed Game, passed away on Monday, March 20, 2017. He was 87 years old.
He was born Charles Hirsch Barris in Philadelphia on June 3, 1929 to Nathaniel and Edith Barris. His father was a dentist and his mother was a homemaker. He attended Drexel Institute of Technology and graduated in 1953. After college, he went to work for NBC and then ABC, eventually he ended up working on American Bandstand. The show got him into the music industry, where he produced pop music and wrote the song Palisades Park, which was recorded by Freddy Cannon and spent two weeks at number 3 ...
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