was 19 and her band, the Runaways, had played gigs with them. "It was just a different world," Ford says. "There was 'Don Kirshner's Rock Concert,' Ed Sullivan, Dick Clark, and they would have one band on and you would wait all week to see who that band was going to be. And you could talk about it all week

#000000">Despite being the highest-paid black performer of t=e era, Robinson died penniless in 1949, and his funeral was paid for by longtime friend Ed Sullivan. Robinson is remembered for the support he gave to=fellow performers, including Fred Astaire, Lena Home, Jesse Owens, and the Nichol=s brothers. Bot