 American Top 40. These are enduring legends and the songs that made them chart champions. The triathlon of rock and roll. Number 27. There's a Latin expression, carpe diem, seize the day. And here's a woman who did just that, seized the day and launched a career. Way back in 1956 in St. Louis, Anna Mae Bullock and her sisters were regulars at a local nightclub. And the house band at the place had a leader who kept telling her that he'd let her sing with them someday.