The teen idol of the 50s who saved his twin boys in the mysterious
Early Life and Rise to Fame Born Eric Hilliard Nelson on May 8, 1940, in Teaneck, New Jersey, Ricky Nelson grew up on his family’s sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. By seventeen, his performance of “I’m Walking” on the show made him a teen idol. The song “climbed to number four on the Billboard chart,” and…