Daily Elvis: March 24

Give us this day, March 24, our daily Elvis

1786

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491. Beethoven hears the work in rehearsal and remarks in admiration to a colleague that “[we] shall never be able to do anything like that.”

March 24, 1837

In Québec City, Lower Canada gave African Canadian men the right to vote.

March 24, 1896

In St. Petersburg, Russia, physicist Alexander Popov, revered in his homeland and in much of Eastern Europe as the inventor of radio,demonstrated the use of radio waves and wireless communication by receiving a Morse code message from a building 250 meters away.

1916

After a German U-boat torpedoes the SS Sussex, a passenger ferry crossing the English Channel, Spanish composer Enrique Granados drowns while attempting to rescue his wife.

Tupelo, Mississippi

1935-1948

1935-1940

306 Old Satillo Road, Elvis’ birthplace, is now 306 Elvis Presley Drive.

, 1938

Vernon Presley awaiting prison  ( May 25 1938 to February 6 1939)

,1939

Vernon Presley  in prison ( May 25 1938 to February 6 1939)

march 24, 1941

Glenn Miller began work on “Sun Valley Serenade,” his first movie, co-starring Sonja Henie, John Payne, Milton Berle, Lynn Bari, Joan Davis, Dorothy Dandridge, and the Nicholas Brothers.

1940-41

Reese Street, where the Presleys stayed with Vester and Clettes Presley and their daughter Patsy,

1941

Glenn Miller began work on his first motion picture for 20th Century Fox. The film was “Sun Valley Serenade.

1942
Kelly Street, a rented, small apartment.

1943

1944

August 8, 1945 to July 18, 1946
Berry Street -“Doll” Smith lived here with the Presleys and then Minnie Mae Presley moved in.

1945

Billboard magazine published their first album chart with Nat King Cole’s “A Collection of Favorites” named as #1.

1946
Commerce Street, a rental

510 1/2 Maple Street, South Tupelo -the Presleys lived with Glady’s cousin Frank Richards and his wife, Leona.

1947

Mulbery Alley

Memphis, Tennessee

1948-1953 – Humes High School

Sept. 12, 1948-Sept. 20, 1949

572 Poplar Avenue

Sept 2o 1949 to January 7, 1950
185 Winchester Street, a two- bedroom apartment (number 328)

January 7, 1950 to April 1953
398 Cypress Street

1952

Elvis Presley’s first driver’s licence

The Sun Records Rockabilly Era

March 24, 1954

The Presleys lived at 2414 Lamar Avenue, rented end of 1954 to mid-1955

March 24, 1955

Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” starring Barbara Bel Geddes, Burl Ives, Mildred Dunnock, and Ben Gazzara, opened at New York’s Morosco Theatre for 694 performances.

Elvis with Scotty and Bill played a High School show with Bud Dickerman and Onie Wheeler on the playbill. Elvis sang “I got a woman”

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The Presleys  lived at  1414 Getwell Street rented from mid-1955 to May, 11 1956.

The RCA Victor Atomic Powered Singer

The El Capris’ (“Simmy, Shimmy) Ko Ko-Wop” was released. Four years later it became a hit for Little Anthony & the Imperials as “Skimmy, Shimmy, Ko Ko-Bop.”
The Platters charted with “(You’ve Got) the Magic Touch, reaching #4 pop and R&B. It would become their second million-seller of only three releases.
“Later Alligator,” by Bobby Charles, hit the R&B hit list going on to #14. The song was recorded by Charles in 1955, and with a name variation Bill Haley & the Comets had the pop hit as “See You Later Alligator” in 1956.
Billboard magazine debuts their first weekly chart ranking the top albums as measured by sales. Topping the first chart is Belafonte by Harry Belafonte. The chart lists anywhere from 15-30 spots, but is gradually expanded, and in 1967 it grows to 200. The chart goes through several name changes before settling on The Billboard 200 in 1992.
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Due to a snowstorm Elvis and the band arrived too late in New York, where they stayed at the Warwick Hotel.
The $185 EP initial ring which Elvis had bought the week before was delivered to him by jeweler Benny Kaplan.
Elvis at his final appearence at the Dorsey show in march 24 1956.Elvis at his final appearence at the Dorsey show in march 24 1956.
At 8.00 p.m. Elvis performed for the last time at the Stage Show, CBS Studio. Elvis performed Money Honey and his big hit Heartbreak Hotel. Because of Carl Perkins’ accident and missing his own tv show appearance, Elvis chose not to perform Blue Suede Shoes.
Elvis at his final appearence at the Dorsey show in march 24 1956.

Ratings from the Neilson Corp. gave ‘Stage Show’ 20.9% of the national audience, compared to Perry Como’s 31.8%. Over the past eight weeks, the ratings for ‘Stage Show’ had not been significantly improved by Elvis’ half-dozen appearances. Following the show, Scotty, Bill. D.J. and Red West, who had accompanied the group for the past few weeks, loaded the instruments into two cars and set off for Memphis. Elvis remained in New York for an extra day or two to do a few interviews and talk business with RCA Victor and the William Morris Agency.

For these appearances the band rented instruments in New York while Elvis associates Red West and Gene Smith transported the band’s own instruments to the next concert appearance using a pink trailer that Elvis’ father Vernon had built for this purpose. After the fourth ‘Stage Show’ the rented standup bass that Bill Black had enthusiastically played had to be repaired. Bill had broken the neck, sound post and the back of the instrument. The repairs cost $32.96.

Elvis Presley : The Dorsey Brothers Stage Show : March 24, 1956

Television and Elvis Presley

The Presleys lived at  at  1414 Getwell Street  until May 11 1956 – Audobon Drive  March 1957

March 24, 1957

The live cross-country concert tour “Biggest Show of Stars for ’57” made a stop at the mUnicipal Auditorium in San Antonio for a show featuring Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, LaVern Baker, Bill Doggett, Clyde McPhatter, the Five Keys, Ann Cole, the Moonglows, the Five Satins, and Charlie Brown.

The Presleys lived at Audobon Drive, Graceland purchased on March 19.

The Military Service Disruption

Mahalia Jackson’s version of “He’s Got the Whole World In His Hands” was released.
Elvis, kisses his mother goodbye before reporting to the Memphis Draft Board, where he and twelve other recruits are inducted into the US Army.
Accompanied by Anita Wood, Judy Spreckles and assorted pals; With his parents Elvis reported to the draft board at 6.35 a.m. Elvis was assigned serial number 53 310 761 and starting pay was $78 a month.

Elvis Presley on the day of his induction into the army March 24, 1958. ‘There’s not much difference between this and making a movie’, he said. ‘In Hollywood, you have to get up at 5 a.m. and be on the set at 6. The only different thing here is that you don’t have a limousine’.

Elvis Presley on the day of his induction into the army March 24, 1958. 'There's not much difference between this and making a movie', he said.

After reporting for duty about 6:30 a.m. at the Draft Board office in the M&M Building, 198 South Main, he and other inductees would spend much of the day at Kennedy Veterans Hospital for processing and physicals before boarding a bus for Fort Chaffee,  During this bus trip Elvis would meet Rex Mansfield, who would become one of his closest army friends.

Elvis Presley is sworn in on the day of his induction into the army March 24, 1958. Maj. Elbert P. Turner adminstered the oath.

March 24, 1959

Halfway through his military service, suspicions that Elvis’s star had faded reached their height.

Dealer orders for his latest stateside RCA Victor release of “A Fool Such As I” coupled with “I Need Your Love Tonight” had just gone over 1,000,000. It was Presley’s 20th consecutive gold record.

“(Now and Then There’s) A Fool Such as I” recorded by Hank Snow for whom it peaked at number four on the country charts  early in 1953. Elvis’ version reached number one in the UK and number two Pop and #16 R&B in the United States (1959). It became a platinum record.

I Need Your Love Tonight reached number four on the Billboard Pop Charts, while No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart for five weeks

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In a Billboard article by Hazel Guild filed on this day in Germany for the next day’s edition:

“Meanwhile, Presley is just one of the boys at Ray Kasern,” Guild explained of Elvis’s current army profile. “Under orders from the Pentagon, he’s being given no special treatment and no special publicity during his tour of duty overseas. Both Stars and Stripes and AFN, military-controlled newspaper and radio station for servicemen overseas, have been told [to put] no special emphasis on Presley being here.”

“I have no way of telling if my fame is fading,” Elvis admitted in March 1959. “I stay homesick all the time. I’d give my neck to be back. You just don’t know. I hope the folks back home haven’t forgotten me.”

Elvis in Germany … When the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll Was Out of Sight

The international chart for “A fool such as I” in it’s original 1959 and 2005 re-release before European public domain laws.

Chart (1959) Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100 2
US Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles 16
US Cashbox Hot Singles 2
US Cashbox Hot Country Singles 6
UK Singles Chart 1
Canadian Singles Chart 1
Australian Kent Singles Chart 1
Belgian Singles Chart 13
Dutch Singles Chart 15
Norway VG-lista Singles Chart 5
South African Singles Chart 1
Swedish Singles Chart 17
Chart (2005) Peak
position
UK Singles Chart 2
European Singles Chart 6

Military Service in Germany

Feb 3 1959 – March 1960: Goethestr.14 in Bad Nauheim, Germany

The Hollywood Decade/The Elvis Establishment

March 24, 1960

An appeals court in the U.S. ruled the novel “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” by D.H. Lawrence was not obscene and therefore could be sent through the mail.

At RCA Studio B in Nashville, the Everly Brothers recorded “So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad).”

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Elvis Presley and Sheila Riddell :  Fontainebleau Hotel. 

Elvis Presley and Sheila Riddell | March 24, 1960 Fontainebleau Hotel

Elvis was in Miami for the Timex Presents Frank Sinatra – Welcome Home Elvis Episode.

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Frank Sinatra rehersals

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March 24, 1961

March 24, 1962

Sam Cooke’s “Twistin’ The Night Away” wrestled the #1 spot on the R&B chart away from Gene Chandler’s “Duke Of Earl”.

Connie Francis reached #1 on the Easy Listening chart with “Don’t Break The Heart That Loves You”.

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards perform their first paid gig when they appear as Little Boy Blue & the Blue Boys at a club in Ealing, England.

March 24, 1963

The Beatles, on tour with Chris Montez and Tommy Roe, perform in their hometown of Liverpool, at the Empire Theatre. This is The Beatles’ first appearance in Liverpool in more than a month. The group’s loyal Cavern fans saw their worst fears being realized: that The Beatles’ rocketing popularity would take them away from Liverpool.

March 24, 1964

The Beatles go on display as wax figures in Madame Tussaud’s Waxwork Museum in London.

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Roustabout  

Radio Recorders Studio B – Hollywood, California
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March 24, 1965

Bobby DarinHarry Belafonte, and Peter, Paul & Mary take part in a protest against voter discrimination in Montgomery, Alabama.

The Rolling Stones‘ bass player Bill Wyman is knocked unconscious by an electrical shock from a microphone stand in Odense, Denmark.

The Beatles continued filming ‘Help!’ at Twickenham Studios, England. They shot the interior temple scenes, including the one where they “dive through a hollow sacrificial altar and into water”. That scene was then cut to the swimming pool scene filmed in the Bahamas on February 23.

The Temptations released ‘Its Growing’, the follow-up to ‘My Girl’. The track was the first to feature David Ruffin as the Temptations new lead singer. Interestingly both ‘My Girl’ and ‘Its Growing’ were the only Motown tunes ever covered by Otis Redding.

“Shindig!” on ABC-TV featured Jackie Wilson, Bobby Goldsboro, Shirley Ellis, Dick and Dee Dee, and the Standells.

Harum Scarum 

March 24, 1966

In New York State, the first major U.S. bootleg law was passed, a bill that made the processing of unlicensed recordings a misdemeanor. In 1978 on this day, England granted its record companies the right to seize bootleg recordings.

Simon and Garfunkel made their UK singles chart debut with ‘Homeward Bound,’ was also a No.5 hit in the US.

Roy Orbison’s album “Roy Orbison’s Greatest Hits” was certified Gold.

The Beatles posed with mutilated and butchered dolls for the cover of the album, “Yesterday and Today”. After a public outcry, the L.P. was pulled from stores and re-issued with a new cover that showed them sitting in and around a steamer trunk.

Spinout 

March 24, 1967

Clambake 

March 24, 1968

on CBS-TV’s “The Ed Sullivan Show:” Diana Ross and the Supremes, Spanky and Our Gang,Nancy Sinatra, Lee Hazelwood, Jimmy Deanand George Carlin

Live a Little Love a Little 

March 24, 1969

Change of Habit 

The Vegas Artist in Residence and Tour Decade

March 24, 1970

March 24, 1971

March 24, 1972

The Godfather opens in theaters. Musically significant because the character Johnny Fontane is supposedly based on Frank Sinatra, and because “Godfather of…” becomes a common musical honorific.

March 24, 1973

The O’Jays topped the pop and R&B charts with the message song, “Love Train,” which also reached #9 in England.

During a Lou Reed show in Buffalo, New York, a fan jumped on stage and bit Lou on the bottom. The man was thrown out of the theatre and Reed completed the show.

Alice Cooper owned the top U.K. album with Billion Dollar Babies.

Pink Floyd released the album Dark Side of the Moon in the U.K.  They had released the album in the United States on March 17

The O’Jays rode the “Love Train” all the way to #1, displacing the longtime top song “Killing Me Softly With His Song” by Roberta Flack.  Deodato edged up with one of The Top 100 Instrumentals of the Rock Era*“Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)” while Gladys Knight & the Pips had another smash with “Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye)”.  The rest of the Top 10:  Newcomer Edward Bear with “Last Song”, Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show were stuck on 6 with “The Cover Of The ‘Rolling Stone'”, Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell teamed for “Dueling Banjos”Anne Murray was at #8 with “Danny’s Song”, the Stylistics reached the Top 10 with “Break Up To Make Up” and the Four Tops had their 32nd hit but only seventh Top 10 song with “Ain’t No Woman (Like The One I’ve Got)”.

March 24, 1974

March 24, 1975

Rush are named Most Promising Group at the Juno Awards. They fulfill that promise, winning Group Of The Year in 1978 and 1979.

Chicago released the album Chicago VIII.

Elvis did Dinner and Midnight Vegas shows.

Date: 24 Mar 1975
Time: 8.30pm
Venue: Las Vegas, NV.
Hilton Hotel
Tickets: 1,600
Costume: Unknown
Track list: Unknown
Recordings: 0
Date: 24 Mar 1975
Time: Midnight
Venue: Las Vegas, NV.
Hilton Hotel
Tickets: 1,600
Costume: Unknown
Track list: Unknown
Recordings: 0
Engagement – Tour Ref: Las Vegas Season 12 – Las Vegas March 18th – April 1st 1975
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Info March 24 1975 Hilton Hotel Las Vegas NV Dinner (8.15pm) 2200
Info March 24 1975 Hilton Hotel Las Vegas NV Midnight (12.00am) 2200

March 24, 1976

March 24, 1977

Elvis performed on tour in Amarillo Texas.

Amarillo ’77 – FTD CD. EIN in-depth review – Elvis Information Network

 

Date: 24 Mar 1977
Time: 8.30pm
Venue: Amarillo, TX. Civic Center.
Tickets: 7,389
Costume: White King of Spaces Suit
Track list: Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
Love Me
Little Sister
You Gave Me A Mountain
Blue Suede Shoes
O Sole Mio/It’s Now Or Never
My Way
All Shook Up
Teddy Bear/Don’t Be Cruel
And I Love You So
Fever
[band introductions]
Early Morning Rain
What’d I Say
Johnny B. Goode
Blueberry Hill
Love Letters
School Days
Hurt
Hound Dog
Danny Boy
Walk With Me [S. Nielsen]
Jailhouse Rock
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Recordings: 0

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Engagement – Tour Ref: On Tour number 29 – March 23rd – April 3rd 1977
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The Wake and Aftermath

1978

The British courts grant British record companies the rights to seize bootleg and pirate recordings.

Paul McCartney’s band Wings released the single “With a Little Luck.”

Tom Jones does a tv tribute to Elvis

1979

The Bee Gees started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Tragedy’, the group’s eighth US No.1. and also No.1 in the UK.

1970s Country Down Under Olivia Newton-John, post movie Grease, releases her first rock album “Totally Hot” and the single is #10 with “A Little More Love”.

The Bee Gees were as hot as nearly anyone has been at any one time in the Rock Era.  The group scored their fifth consecutive #1 song and ninth in the last five years with “Tragedy”.  Gloria Gaynor slipped to second with “I Will Survive” while the Doobie Brothers were up from 6 to 3 with “What A Fool Believes”.  Donna Summer with Brooklyn Dreams remained fourth with “Heaven Knows” and Peaches & Herb had a second straight big hit with “Shake Your Groove Thing”.  The rest of the Top 10:  Rod Stewart’s former #1 “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy”, Dire Straits enjoyed their first hit with “Sultans Of Swing”, the Pointer Sisters were on their way down with “Fire”, Bobby Caldwell and “What You Won’t Do For Love” while Olivia Newton-John stopped off at #10 with “A Little More Love”.

Spirits Having Flown by the Bee Gees remained as the top album for a fourth week.  Minute By Minute from the Doobie Brothers was right behind and the excellent debut from Dire Straits moved to challenge.  Rod Stewart’s Blondes Have More Fun fell while Love Tracks from Gloria Gaynor was #5.

1980

Kenny Rogers & Kim Carnes released the single “Don’t Fall In Love With A Dreamer”.

1983 Elvis Presley Enterprises/Graceland Tourism

1984 Actor ExWife: Priscilla Presley

1984

Thriller had already broken the Rock Era record set by Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, and this week Michael Jackson added to his total with a 34th week at #1 on the Album chart.  

Former Commodores lead singer Lionel Richie held the top spot on the UK singles chart with “Hello”.

Christine McVie’s solo hit “Got A Hold On Me” was #1 for the third straight week on the Adult Contemporary chart.

1986

At the 58th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Lionel Richie wins the Oscar for Best Original Song for his track “Say You, Say Me” from the film White Nights. The song topped three different Billboard charts but didn’t appear on the soundtrack album for the movie. It was finally released on Lionel’s 1986 album, Dancing on the Ceiling.

The Rolling Stones release their album Dirty Work. The first single is a cover of the soul classic “Harlem Shuffle.”

March 24, 1990

Sinead O’Connor went to No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got’, featuring the single ‘Nothing Compares To You. Also No.1 in 13 other countries and six weeks at No.1 in the US.

Forever Your Girl by Paula Abdul was the #1 album for the eighth week.  Janet Jackson came in second with Rhythm Nation 1814 while Phil Collins was stuck at 3 with …But Seriously.  Michael Bolton’s excellent Soul Provider moved up and Cosmic Thing from the B-52’s was fifth.  The rest of the Top 10:  The great Nick of Time from Bonnie Raitt, storming into the list after 50 weeks of release, Girl You Know It’s True from Milli Vanilli, Alannah Myles with her self-titled album, Cry Like a Rainstorm – Howl Like the Wind from Linda Ronstadt and Storm Front by Billy Joel slipped to #10.

“Black Velvet,” Alannah Myles‘ tribute the King, Elvis Presley, who spurred a “new religion that’ll bring you to your knees,” began a two-week reign on the Billboard Hot 100.

Christopher Ward was reportedly inspired to write the song (with David Tyson) after riding on a bus full of Presley fans on their way to Memphis for the icon’s 10th-anniversary vigil at Graceland.

1992

A Chicago judge ruled in the Milli-Vanilli class-action suit that $3.00 cash rebates would be given to anyone that could prove that they bought the group’s music before November 27, 1990 (the date the lip synching scandal broke). Milli Vanilli won the 1989 best new artist Grammy after hits like ‘Blame it on the Rain’ and ‘Girl, You Know It’s True,’ selling 30 million singles and 14 million albums. But in late 1990, the performers were stripped of the award after it was revealed that neither actually sang on the Milli Vanilli album.

1997

Harold Melvin of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes (“If You Don’t Know Me By Now” and “The Love I Lost”) died at age 57 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, reportedly from a second stroke.

1998

Amway Corp. announced that it had agreed to pay $9 million to settle a lawsuit over the company’s use of songs by top artists in videotaped sales pitches.

2000

MTV debuts the reality series Making the Band, with the first season spawning the boy band O-Town. Lou Pearlman, the creator of Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, manages the group.

World Wide Video paid $1,079,500 for more than nine hours of film taken in February 1970 by Yoko Ono’s ex-husband, Anthony Cox. The film contains shots of John Lennon smoking hash, blow drying Yoko’s hair, composing “Mind Games,” and talking about his political beliefs. The company edited the film into a two-hour documentary called “3 Days in the Life.” Yoko Ono, claiming ownership of the film’s copyright, sued World Wide Video in 2008 to stop distribution of the documentary. In Boston on June 30, 2009, a federal judge ruled in favor of Yoko Ono, that she is the rightful copyright holder of this rare, intimate footage of John Lennon. Ono says she intends to keep the material private.

Al Grey, the heavy-swinging trombonist from the Count Basie Big Band, died at seventy-four. Grey was one of the innovators of the “growl” style of playing that traced its roots to the Duke Ellington “jungle” sound of the ’20s. He influenced rockers like Jimi Hendrix and played with legends such as Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Ella Fitzgerald, and Frank Sinatra. He appeared on almost 100 albums, including thirty of his own.

Anthony Jackson, choreographer for Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation Tour, became the first Black choreographer to ever use that expertise for a country act for the Mother Daughter The Judds’ Country Act.

2001

After being dubbed Worst Actress of the Century a year earlier, Madonna lands her fifth Razzie for Worst Actress, for her role as Abbie Reynolds in The Next Best Thing, at the 21st Golden Raspberry Awards.

The stretch of Highway 19 in Macon, Georgia where Duane Allman died in a motorcycle crash (October 29, 1971) was renamed Duane Allman Boulevard.

2002

Randy Newman, who had been previously nominated 15 times, finally won his first Oscar for “If I Didn’t Have You”, from the animated feature Monsters Inc.

2003

Madonna had to re-edit her “American Life” clip when war broke out in Iraq.  The video featured her lobbing grenades at a fashion show.

2004 Recording Artist: Daughter Lisa Marie Presley

2004

Norah Jones’ second album Feels Like Home topped the Album charts for a fifth consecutive week.

In Fort Knox, Kentucky, the Patton Museum of Calvary and Armor opened a new exhibit that focused on the years Elvis spent in the U.S. Army. The exhibit was planned to stay at the museum until March of 2005.

2005

Rod Price, a founding member of Foghat, died after falling down a stairway at his home. The 57 year old guitarist was with the band for three Platinum and eight Gold records, including their highest charting US single “Slow Ride” in 1976.

The Broadway musical “All Shook Up” opened.

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2006
The “Hannah Montana” television series, starring Miley Cyrus, debuted on the Disney Channel.
2008
Britney Spears makes the first of two appearances on How I Met Your Mother, playing a receptionist smitten with Josh Radnor’s character, Ted.
2009
Prince launches Lotusflow3r.com, which for $77 subscriptions, offers access to his videos and music. It shuts down after a year.
Deputy District Attorney Truc Do, the prosecutor in the Phil Spector murder trial, described Spector as a “demonic maniac” when he drinks and “a very dangerous man” around women. During her closing argument she also accused Spector of demonstrating a “conscious disregard for human life” and urged the jury to find the music producer guilty of murdering actress Lana Clarkson in 2003. On April 13th the jury would return a guilty verdict and Spector was sentenced to 19 years to life in the California state prison system.
2010
Johnny Maestro died of cancer at the age of 70. He was the lead singer for The Crests on their seven US Top 40 records, including the 1959, #2 hit “Sixteen Candles”. He also led The Brooklyn Bridge to #3 with “The Worst That Could Happen” in 1969.

2011 Actor: Granddaughter Riley Keough

2012

2013

Pictures of The Beatles’ 1965 Shea Stadium concert, taken by an amateur photographer who bluffed his way backstage, sold for £30,000 at auction. Marc Weinstein used a fake press pass to get next to the stage for the historic New York show. His 61 black and white images with copyright fetched £30,680, the successful bidder was a South American gentleman currently living in Washington who is a huge collector of Beatles memorabilia.

2015

Albums by The Doors, Steve Martin and Sly And The Family Stone were selected for inclusion into America’s Library of Congress National Recording Registry. “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin'” by The Righteous Brothers, “Sixteen Tons” by Tennessee Ernie Ford and “Stand By Me” by Ben E. King were also chosen.

Elvis Joins the Army: March 24, 1958 | Fishwrap

2016

In Liverpool, the childhood home of Ringo Starr sold at auction for nearly $100,000 (US) to a Beatles fan who already owns properties that belonged to or were connected to George Harrison and John Lennon. Under terms of the purchase agreement, the new owner may not turn the house into a tourist attraction.

2017

Pete Shotton, a former member of John Lennon’s pre-Beatles group The Quarrymen, passed away at the age of 75. In 1956, Lennon formed a Skiffle group named after Quarry Bank High School, and Shotton joined on percussion, playing a washboard. He left shortly after Lennon met Paul McCartney because they were moving more towards Rock ‘n’ Roll, thus negating the need for a washboard.

Sony Music have re-released Platinum: A Life In Music.

Dylan gives rare interview, talks Sinatra, Elvis

9 Facts on Elvis Presley’s Graceland

Elvis Presley Birthplace to show lake upgrades

Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal

One-time Elvis home torn down, relocation planned

Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal – No mere fan, Shutts has built a career on musical memorabilia. He’s bought and sold cars, jet skis and jewelry that belonged to Presley, even a television set once

2018

Paul McCartney attended a March Of Our Lives protest in New York City. Macca told CNN, “One of my best friends was killed in gun violence right around here, so it’s important to me,” referring to the murder of John Lennon on December 8th, 1980.

A collection of unseen Beatles photos documenting the Fab Four’s earliest American concerts in 1964 were sold by English auction house Omega for over $358,000. The cache of 413 negatives and their copyrights came from the collection of photographer Mike Mitchell, who as an 18-year-old took photos of the Beatles’ February 11 concert in Washington, D.C. and in Baltimore on September 13th. The photographs show the band both on stage and in pre-show activities.

Gibson, guitar maker for Elvis and BB King, hit by $700m debt blues

Elvis in the Army: Sixty Years After ‘Black Monday,’ Presley’s Friends …

Elvis Presley’s Service Obligation – Today’s Document

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HISTORY, March 24: Elvis Presley inducted into Army

Elvis Presley is inducted into the U.S. Army – Mar 24, 1958 – HISTORY

HISTORY, March 24: Elvis Presley inducted into Army

Mar 24, 2018 – Graceland Commemorates Elvis’ Army Anniversary

Graceland Commemorates 60th Anniversary of Elvis’ Military Service 

2020

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On this day in music: Elvis Presley joins the army — and …

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On the morning of March 24, 1958, Elvis Presley reported to the Memphis Draft Board and joined the army. He was the biggest musician on the …
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Today in History, March 24: Elvis Presley inducted into US Army

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In 1958, Elvis Presley was inducted into the U.S. Army at the draft board in Memphis, Tennessee, before boarding a bus for Fort Chaffee, …
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Elvis Presley: Graceland SHUT DOWN due to ‘monster virus …

Express.co.uk7 hours ago
ELVIS PRESLEY’S Graceland home has shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, announces Priscilla Presley. By George Simpson. 09:39 …
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Elvis Presley’s Graceland Announces Closure Amid …

PopCulture.comMar. 23, 2020
The former home of Elvis Presley announced the news on social media, revealing that the Memphis tourist attraction will be closed until further …

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