[photo moved to image asset] 1958 Jack Sheaffer file photo Rick Nelson and two thrilled fans, Kathy Stockwell, left, and Kitty Lance. The Howard Hawks movie “Rio Bravo” was being filmed at Old ...

Rick Nelson’s last concert was in a small, dark bar in a small, dark Southern town. Afterward, women sought pictures and hugs, and men wanted to tell him they felt as if they had grown up with him.

Rising to prominence in the 1950s as a teen idol on his parents’ long-running sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, on which he portrayed himself, actor and musician Rick “Ricky” Nelson began ..