Larry Henley is an American singer and songwriter, born June 30, 1941 in Arp, Texas. He is perhaps best known for co-writing (with Jeff Silbar) the 1989 hit record, "Wind Beneath My Wings". The single was a U.S. number one hit for Bette Midler, and has since totaled around six million radio airplays.

The song earned Henley and Silbar the Grammy Award for Song of the Year for 1989, and Bette Midler the Record of the Year award.

He was also the lead singer of pop group The Newbeats in the mid-1960s. The group two hits that charted in the top 20 of Billboard magazine, one. "Bread and Butter," reaching No. 2 on the Billboard charts and selling over a million copies.

Henley has also composed a number of soundtracks in movies.

Don Adams (April 13, 1923 – September 25, 2005) was an American actor, comedian and director. In his five decades on television, he was best known as Maxwell Smart (Agent 86) in the television situation comedy Get Smart (1965–1970, 1995), which he also sometimes directed and wrote. Adams won three consecutive Emmy Awards for his portrayal of Smart (1967–1969). He provided the voices for the animated series Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales (1963–1966) and Inspector Gadget (1983–1986) as their title characters. He voiced Sid Pickles in all episodes of Spike & Mike (1993–1999), and two follow up films, Spike & Mike Movie and Spike and Mike: Got Hostaged.

Adams was born Donald James Yarmy in Manhattan, son of William Yarmy and his wife Consuelo Dieter. His father, a restaurant manager, was Hungarian and Jewish and his mother was Irish and Roman Catholic. Adams and his brother (actor Dick Yarmy) were each raised in the religion of one parent: Don in the Catholic faith of their mother, and Dick in the Jewish faith of their father.

Mark E. Mathis is a movie producer and media consultant. He is currently the president of Mathis Media, LLC, a media-consulting firm.

Mathis founded and served as executive director of Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energy. The website describes him as "a former TV news reporter and anchor turned media consultant and trainer. ... In 2002 Mark published Feeding the Media Beast: An Easy Recipe for Great Publicity. The book is published in the U.S., China, Russia and India. Mark was a mid-day radio host on 106.3 KAGM. In March 2006 Mathis was a co-signatory on a letter, initiated by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in support of an expansion of oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

He is the associate producer for Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, a pro-intelligent design movie. Mathis has been criticized for misleading evolutionary biologists PZ Myers and Richard Dawkins to get them to appear in the film. In March 2008 Mathis personally prohibited Myers from viewing the movie, even though he appears in it. In April 2008 XVIVO, an animation company, notified the producers that the company would sue for copying a film.

The Newbeats were a popular music vocal trio, best known for their 1964 hit, "Bread and Butter", which was released on the Hickory Records label.

The group's members were:

Their mother taught brothers Dean and Mark Mathis the guitar as children, and they soon mastered other musical instruments - piano, bass guitar and drums. They both played in the band at Bremen High School, Georgia and decided on a career in the music industry upon leaving education. Dean joined Paul Howard's Western Swing Band in 1956 as pianist, then joined Dale Hawkins' band where his brother enrolled playing bass. They stayed with the band for two years, recording "Tell Him No" as a duo for the Chess record label. They then started their own eight piece band and played in their hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana. It was here that they met Larry Henley who auditioned for the band. A parting of the ways ensued when Henley tried his luck as a solo artist, and the brothers worked as a duo, both recording independently for Wesley Rose.

Joe Melson (born May 1935), is an American singer and a BMI Award–winning songwriter.

Melson was born in Bonham, the seat of Fannin County in northeast Texas. He was reared on a farm until he was sixteen. He attended high school in Gore, Oklahoma, and in Chicago before he returned to Texas to study at the two-year Odessa College in Odessa, the seat of Ector County. He studied and played music as a teenager and fronted a rockabilly band called The Cavaliers.

Beginning in 1957, first at his home in Midland, Texas, and then in Nashville, Tennessee, Melson teamed up with a virtual unknown by the name of Roy Orbison, with whom he would write a string of hits for Monument Records. Prior to their collaboration, Orbison had been solely a rockabilly performer. Although Melson himself was rooted in that music genre, he had begun writing rhythm and blues songs. Melson recognized the potential in Orbison's voice, encouraging the singer to explore its power through their first collaboration, "Only the Lonely." What resulted on March 25, 1960, was the first operatic rock ballad in the history of popular music. The song went to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the United States and to #1 in Britain, which launched Orbison to international musical stardom. Not only did that song influence Orbison to write such operatic ballads as "In Dreams," but a few months later it also induced Orbison's friend Elvis Presley to record "It's Now or Never," based on the Neapolitan art song "'O Sole Mio."