Being the protective, image-conscious father he was, Ozzie Nelson took great pains to groom his son, Ricky, as a clean-cut, all-American teen idol in the white-washed, conservative 1950s.
The making of a teen idol
Much has been made over the years of the relationship between Ozzie and Rick. To hear Jimmie Haskell, Rick’s longtime record producer, tell it, the two had what he characterizes as &ldq

