Gene Patton, actually a stagehand at NBC Burbank, didn't do that much of a dance when summoned by Chuck Barris during lulls in the action on *The Gong Show... *he was a pioneer of sorts, the first member of colour at IATSE Local 33... in Pasadena, of diabetes, from which he lost both legs; 82.
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