[YogicCowboy]

And few of them lived as clean a life, and fewer still had a single marriage of that longevity.

[a fool in paradise]

true.

Cab Calloway married in 1953 and stayed married up to his death 1994 (at age 87).

Louis Jordan married 5 times and died at age 67.
Roy Brown only lived to be 56.
Amos Milburn only lived to be 53.

Roy Orbison only lived to be 52.