Time Is Cruel: You Won’t Even Recognize These Famous Faces

Wayne Newton, Heartthrob

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Photo: San Francisco Chronicle

Singer Wayne Newton has been one of the best-known entertainers to come from Las Vegas, Nevada for decades. In his youth, he was a hot property and songs like “Daddy, Don’t You Walk So Fast” and “Years” where massive hits on the Billboard Top 100. Perhaps his most famous song of all is “Danke Schoen,” which played a prominent role in the iconic 1980s film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

Wayne Newton had the support of most of the top-name entertainers of the 70s in his career including Lucille Ball, George Burns, Bobby Darin, Jack Benny and Danny Thomas. You won’t recognize him in the 2010’s…