There was the opening of a new shopping center and Elvis caused a huge crowd of teenagers. George Klein, Elvis’ former classmate at Humes High School was present too.
Johnny Cash was in the audience and after the show met Elvis for the first time.
Opal Walker was a young girl from Memphis at the time who was at the show that night and took 3 photos that have since been reprinted in countless books and articles. They are the only known photos of the appearance there though none show the actual performance and the official first Elvis fan photos.
The J.P. Seeburg Corporation introduces its new Dual Music System Jukebox, the first ever equipped to hold a hundred singles and two song per side Extended Play discs.
Elvis performed at the McComb High School Auditorium, McComb, Mississippi.
The other acts were Johnny Cash, Bud Dickerman, Eddie Bond, Floyd Cramer, and Jimmy Day
The RCA Victor Atomic Powered Singer
September 9, 1956
The Johnny Burnette Trio appear on Ted Mack’s Amateur Hour TV show. With Johnny on lead vocals and guitar, his brother Dorsey on stand-up bass and Paul Burlison on lead guitar, they won three weeks in a row, earning them a string of tour dates. It would take Johnny four more years to reach the US charts with “Dreamin” and “You’re Sixteen”.
Elvis performed at the Ed Sullivan Show, CBS Studios, Los Angeles, for the very first time. Since Sullivan himself had had a car accident in August, Elvis was hosted by Charles Laughton in New York City. More than 80 % of the national viewers watched Elvis’ live performance of Don’t Be Cruel, Love Me Tender, Ready Teddy and Hound Dog.
There were also well organized letter writing campaigns and petitions against Presley, but it was later brought to light that many of the signatures were fictitious or of deceased people.
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction.
A 16 year old Canadian lad named Paul Anka had the number one song in America with “Diana”.
Jerry Lee Lewis‘ “Whole Lot Of Shakin’ Going On” peaks at #3 on the Billboard Top 100. The record would not only top the R&B and Country charts, but it would go on to be ranked #61 on Rolling Stone magazine’s Greatest Songs Of All Time and in 2005 be added to the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress. That’s not bad for a song that Jerry Lee, along with drummer J.M. Van Eaton and guitarist Roland Janes, had recorded in just one take because Sun Records’ producer Jack Clement didn’t have enough tape left for any other attempts.
Military service at Fort Hood in Texas., for Advanced Tank Training as part of the Second Armored Division. He was stationed there for six months.
The Presleys live in a rented house off base.
September 9, 1959
Military Service in Germany
Feb 3 1959 – March 1960: Goethestr.14 in Bad Nauheim, Germany
The Hollywood Decade/The Elvis Establishment
September 9, 1960
Elvis rented a house at 525 Perugia Way in Bel Air, Beverly Hills. The owner of the house was Ali Kahn, and Elvis rented it for $1,400 per month. This was all due to several incidents at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Elvis stayed here off and on for the next 5 years.
The Beatles were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘She Loves You.’ ‘Please Please Me’ was at No.1 on the UK album chart. ‘She Loves You’ became The Beatles’ best-selling single in the United Kingdom, and was the best selling single in Britain in 1963.
US newspaper The Hollywood reporter ran the following advertisement; ‘Madness folk & roll musicians, singers wanted for acting roles in new TV show. Parts for 4 insane boys. The Monkees were born. 437 people applied for the job.
Sam And Dave‘s classic, “Soul Man” is released in the US, where it will rise to #4 by the end of November. The song would be given the 1968 Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues Group Performance, Vocal or Instrumental.
September 9, 1968
Working at Abbey Road studios on The White Album, The Beatles recorded ‘Helter Skelter’. John Lennon played bass and honked on a saxophone, roadie Mal Evans tried his best at playing trumpet. Paul McCartney recorded his lead vocal and George Harrison ran about the studio holding a flaming ashtray above his head.
John Lennon’s “Imagine” LP is released. It would reach #1 on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine named “Imagine” as #76 on its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
Elvis travelled to Los Angeles.
September 9, 1974
Elvis and Sheila Ryan spent 5 days in Palm Springs together before Elvis had to leave for Memphis.
The Wake and Aftermath
1982 Elvis Presley Enterprises/Graceland Tourism
1984 Actor ExWife: Priscilla Presley
1997
Actor Burgess Meredith died of Alzheimer’s disease at 89. (Stay Away Joe, Batman, Gloria, Search, Mr. Novak, Rocky movies, The Day of the Locust, Clash of the Titans, Foul Play, Grumpy Old Men, Grumpier Old Men, The Cardinal, Magic, The Sentinel, In Harm’s Way, Stay Away Joe, Hurry Sundown, Advise & Consent, There Was a Crooked Man, The Hindenburg, Madame X, Mackenna’s Gold)
Brenda Lee signed her first recording contract at the age of 11 after five years of singing professionally. Little Miss Dynamite, as she was called, would go on to have a total of 29 US Top 40 singles in the 1960s, including “Sweet Nothin’s” (#4) “I’m Sorry” (#1), “Dum Dum” (#4) “Fool #1” (#3), “Break It To Me Gently” (#4) and “All Alone Am I” (#3).
Elvis performed at the Steve Allen Show, The Hudson Theatre, New York City at 8.00 p.m.
THE STEVE ALLEN SHOW — Aired July 1, 1956 — Episode 2 — Pictured: Elvis Presley sings “I Want You, I Need You, I Love You” — Photo by: NBCU Photo Bank
THE STEVE ALLEN SHOW — Aired July 1, 1956 — Episode 2 — Pictured: (l-r) Andy Griffith, Imogene Coca, and Elvis Presley perform a parody of Country & Western television shows (Photo by NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
On July 3rd, the Times would report the actual ratings:
N.B.C.-TV’s Steve Allen toppled C.B.S.-TV’s Ed Sullivan in the hotly contested 8 to 9 P. M. time period last Sunday. Mr. Allen, who featured Elvis Presley, singer, scored a Trendex rating of 20.2 as against Mr. Sullivan’s 14.8. The former attracted 55.3 per cent of the viewing audience and the latter drew 39.7 per cent. It was N.B.C.’s best showing since May 30, 1954. During the 1955-1956 season, N.B.C. surpassed Mr. Sullivan only three times.10
The show managed to beat out Sullivan’s in spite of the number of high profile guests that appeared that night which included John Huston, Jose Ferrer, Orson Welles, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, Vincent Price, Burl Ives and even Gregory Peck reenacting scenes from his upcoming film “Moby Dick.”
The King earned $5,000 for the performance and headed for the studio the next day to record the song for a single release. US TV critic John Crosby panned Elvis’ performance, calling him an ‘unspeakable, untalented and vulgar young entertainer.’
Following the Steve Allen show – Elvis returned to the Warwick Hotel where he appeared on the only national talk show interview of his life – Hy Gardner Calling.
Steve Allen would maintain that Elvis was in on the joke being made of him, and Elvis never got over it – even referring to it in 1969 Vegas concert return. That North vs South divide of America.
The headlines of Billboard magazine say, “Good music may be making a comeback on the bestseller charts…but rock & roll discs continue to dominate the pop market.”
The Presleys lived at Graceland
The Military Service Disruption
July 1, 1958
Military service at Fort Hood in Texas., for Advanced Tank Training as part of the Second Armored Division. He was stationed there for six months.
July 1, 1959
Military Service in Germany / Goethestr.14 in Bad Nauheim, Germany
The Hollywood Decade/The Elvis Establishment
July 1, 1960
July 1, 1961
The Elvis Presley single “I Feel So Bad’s” reached #26 in the U.S. and would peak at No.5 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and No.15 on Billboard’s Top 20 R&B Singles chart. In the UK, it was released on a double A-side single in the UK (c/w “Wild in the Country“), reached No.4 on the UK singles chart, also in 1961.
Red West and Pat Boyd’s wedding day.
Anita Wood and Elvis arriving late to Red West’ wedding
Red West married Pat Boyd; who worked in the Graceland Office Secretary Pool.
Gene Vincent was the featured act at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, along with an up and coming local group called The Beatles.
After checking out of the Sahara Elvis and Priscilla returned to Los Angeles, where Priscilla took a flight back to Germany, while Elvis drove home to Memphis.
The Beatles recorded their next single ‘She Loves You’ / ‘I’ll Get You’, at EMI Studios, London, completing the two songs in less than four hours. Released in August this year, ‘She Loves You’ went on to become The Beatles’ first million-selling single.
The Beatles started a 15 week run at No.1 on the US album chart with Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the group’s 10th US No.1 album. Recorded over a 129-day period beginning in December 1966, the album widely regarded as one of the greatest of all time, includes songs such as ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ and ‘A Day in the Life’.
Jefferson Airplane‘s psychedelic masterpiece “White Rabbit” entered the Billboard chart, where it eventually reached #8. The song became one of the first records to sneak drug references past radio censors. It uses imagery found in Lewis Carroll’s 1865 book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass, such as changing size after taking pills.
With Speedway in production, Elvis and Vernon traveled to Las Vegas to see Ann-Margret’s show.
Sam Phillips sells the legendary Sun Records Studio in Memphis to Shelby Singleton. Sun, more than other record company, was responsible for the emergence of White Rock ‘n’ Roll in the mid-1950’s.Shelby Singleton faked a Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis duet LP with Jimmy Ellis, who would perform as Orion on the Sun Records Label.
US disc jockey Casey Kasem broadcasts his first American Top 40 radio show, where he counts down the hits from the Billboard Hot 100. Replays of those shows are still in syndication.
Neil Diamond went to No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Song Sung Blue’, his second US No.1. A No.14 hit in the UK. “Song Sung Blue” was nominated for two Grammy Awards in 1973, Record of the Year and Song of the Year, but lost both to Roberta Flack’s rendition of “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”.
Elvis Presley’s “An American Trilogy” hit #8 in the U.K. The original Mickey Newbury version reached No. 26 in 1972, and No. 9 on Billboard’s Easy Listening chart. Elvis Presley’s version reached No. 66, and peaked at No. 31 on the Easy Listening chart. It is a medley of three 19th century songs:
Elvis performed at the Municipal Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee at 3.00 and 8.30 p.m.
Date:
01 Jul 1973
Time:
3pm
Venue:
Nashville, TN.
Municipal Auditorium
Tickets:
9,202
Costume:
White Snowflake suit
Track list:
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
Help Me Make It Through The Night
Steamroller Blues
You Gave Me A Mountain
Love Me
Blue Suede Shoes
Long Tall Sally/Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
I’m Leavin
How Great Thou Art
Hound Dog
Fever
Something
Faded Love
What Now My Love
Suspicious Minds
[band introductions]
I’ll Remember You
I Can’t Stop Loving You
An American Trilogy
Big Hunk Of Love
A Big Hunk O’ Love
Love Me Tender
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
Help Me Make It Through The Night
Steamroller Blues
You Gave Me A Mountain
Love Me
Blue Suede Shoes
Long Tall Sally/Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On/ Mama Don’t Dancece/Flip, Flop And Fly/Shake Rattle & Roll/Jailhouse Rock
I’m Leaving
How Great Thou Art
Hound Dog
Fever
Something
Faded Love
What Now My Love
Suspicious Minds
I’ll Remember You
I Can’t Stop Loving You
An American Trilogy
A Big Hunk O’ Love
Love Me Tender
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
Love Me
Trying To Get To You
All Shook Up
Love Me Tender
Hound Dog
Fever
Polk Salad Annie
Why Me Lord
Suspicious Minds
[band introductions]
I Can’t Stop Loving You
You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Big Boss Man
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Elvis is reading The Omen, a popular horror novel from the 1970s.
Elvis performed at the Hirsch Coliseum, Shreveport, Louisiana.
Date:
01 Jul 1976
Time:
8.30pm
Venue:
Shreveport, LA.
Hirsch Coliseum
Tickets:
11,000
Costume:
Bicentennial (white) Suit
Track list:
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
Love Me
If You Love Me (Let Me Know)
You Gave Me A Mountain
All Shook Up
Teddy Bear/Don’t Be Cruel
And I Love You So
Jailhouse Rock
Fever
America The Beautiful
Polk Salad Annie
[band introductions]
Early Morning Rain
What’d I Say?
Love Letters
School Days
Hurt (plus reprise)
Hound Dog
Funny How Time Slips Away
Happy Birthday [member of audience]
It’s Now Or Never
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Elvis at Graceland, and mostly upstairs at Graceland – for the balance of the month.
The Wake and Aftermath
1979
The Walkman, the world’s first portable cassette player, was introduced by Sony.
1982 Elvis Presley Enterprises/Graceland Tourism
1984 Actor ExWife: Priscilla Presley
1995
Disc Jockey Wolfman Jack, who appeared in the movie American Graffiti, died of a heart attack at the age of 57 at his home in Belvidere, North Carolina. He had risen to fame in the mid-1960s and was immortalized in 1974 by The Guess Who‘s “Clap For The Wolfman”, on which his raspy voice is heard in the background.
1999
American singer Guy Mitchell, (born Albert George Cernik) died aged 72 at Desert Springs Hospital in Las Vegas. He had the 1957 UK & US No.1 single You Got Me Singing The Blues” in 1956 and “Heartaches By The Number” in 1959 plus over 10 other UK Top 40 singles. Mitchell also appeared as George Romack in the 1961 NBC western detective series Whispering Smith.
Kylie Minogue was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Spinning Around’, the singers fifth No.1 was co-written by Paula Abdul, (it was originally intended for Abdul’s “comeback” album). ‘Spinning Around’ gave Minogue the honor of being one of three artists (the others being Madonna and U2) to have a No.1 in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.
2003 Recording Artist: Daughter Lisa Marie Presley
2003
The boxed set “Elvis – Close Up” was released. The set included 89 previously unreleased tracks.
The Elvis Presley album “Polk Salad Annie, Las Vegas – 1970” was released.
The July 4th issue of TV Guide hit newsstands. Four commemorative covers were released on the same day. Each cover included a mini-CD that featured a never-before-released live version of “That’s All Right.” Each CD was also enhanced with CD-rom content, including Elvis trivia, downloadable Elvis screensavers, and an actual audio recording of an interview TV Guide conducted with Elvis in 1956.
2005
American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, record producer Luther Vandross died at the age of 54 at the JFK Medical Centre in New Jersey, two years after suffering a major stroke. His ‘Never Too Much’, was a No.1 R&B hit, worked with Diana Ross, Carly Simon, Chaka Khan, Donna Summer, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey and David Bowie. Vandross had won four Grammys for his final album ‘Dance With My Father.’
Elvis Presley Enterprises (EPE) announced that it had signed with eFashion Solutions, LLC, to manage the global web-retailing for licensed and trademarked Elvis products.
2008
A Beatles interview from April 30, 1964, in which John Lennon and Paul McCartney discussed how they met and the way they composed songs together, was broadcast by the BBC after it was discovered in a film can in a damp garage in south London.
Sir Cliff Richard was ordered to demolish a £30,000 conservatory at his home in Surrey after the local council ruled that the conservatory should never have been built. The planning committee said the building contravened policy on green belt areas because it added more than 30% extra floor space.
The Elvis Effect: The week after Michael Jackson’s death, he dominated the Top Ten of Billboard’s album chart. Leading the pack was “Number Ones”, followed by “The Essential Michael Jackson” at #2, “Thriller” was #3 and “Off The Wall” was #4. The Jackson 5’s “Ultimate Collection” held the #5 spot, “Bad” was #6, “Dangerous” was #7, “Greatest Hits – HIStory – Vol. 1” came in at #8 and Michael’s “Ultimate Collection” occupied the #9 position. Collectively, Jackson’s solo albums sold 415,000 copies for the week, 58% of which were digital downloads. The week before his death, his titles sold a combined 10,000 units.
2010 Actor: Granddaughter Riley Keough
2012
Barry Gibb of The Bee Gees revealed on his Twitter page that he planned to continue performing as a solo artist, singing his group’s hits as a tribute to his late brothers, Maurice and Robin.
2015
Bruce Springsteen made a surprise appearance at Brian Wilson’s show in Holmdel, New Jersey where he joined the Beach Boys legend on “Barbara Ann” and “Surfin’ USA”.
306 Old Satillo Road, Elvis’ birthplace, is now 306 Elvis Presley Drive.
, 1938
Vernon Presley in prison ( May 25 1938 to February 6 1939)
,1939
1940-41
Reese Street, where the Presleys stayed with Vester and Clettes Presley and their daughter Patsy,
1942
Kelly Street, a rented, small apartment.
1943
The Presley family moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, May 15 to June 20, Returning to Tupelo.
1944
August 8, 1945 to July 18, 1946
Berry Street -“Doll” Smith lived here with the Presleys and then Minnie Mae Presley moved in.
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
1948
Columbia Records launched a new vinyl disc that played at thirty-three and one third RPM in New York City, sparking a music-industry standard so strong that the digital age has yet to kill it.
Memphis, Tennessee
1948-1953 – Humes High School
Sept. 12, 1948-Sept. 20, 1949
572 Poplar Avenue
Sept 20 1949 to January 7, 1950
185 Winchester Street, a two- bedroom apartment (number 328)
January 7, 1950 to April 1953
398 Cypress Street
June 3, 1951 to July 1, 1951
Elvis was employed as a machinist by “Precision Tool Co.”
April 17, 1952 to May 28, 1952
Elvis worked as an user at Loew’s State Theatre
1953
398 Cypress Street (rented from January 7 to April 1953
, 1954
Elvis worked at Precision Tool company, operating a drill press for $1.55 a hour from September 21, 1953 to March 19, 1954
Elvis worked at Crown Electric, until mid-October 1954
The Presleys lived at 2414 Lamar Avenue, rented til the end of 1954 to mid-1955
The Sun Records Rockabilly Era
June 21, 1955
Johnny Cash released his first Sun Records single, “Cry! Cry! Cry!” b/w “Hey Porter.”
Elvis performed at the City Auditorium, Beaumont, Texas, at 2.30, 7.00 and 9.00 p.m. All 2,400 seats were filled for all shows.
The Presleys lived at 1414 Getwell Street rented from mid-1955 to May, 11 1956.
The RCA Victor Atomic Powered Singer
June 21, 1956
Elvis Presley and Col. Tom Parker signed with the William Morris Agency and set into motion the series of events that caused the creation of Elvis Presley as an American icon.
Accompanied by his cousins Gene and Junior Smith, Elvis went to Atlanta in his new Cadillac.
The Presleys lived at Audobon Drive, Graceland purchased on March 19.
The Military Service Disruption
June 21, 1958
Bobby Darin‘s “Splish Splash” enters the US record charts, where it would reach #3. Bobby would later say that the song only took him about ten minutes to write.
Military service at Fort Hood in Texas., for basic training as part of the Second Armored Division. He was stationed there for six months.
June 21, 1959
Elvis in Paris with Lamar Fike, Rex Mansfield and Charlie Hodge until the 25th
Feb 3 1959 – March 1960: Goethestr.14 in Bad Nauheim, Germany
The Hollywood Decade/The Elvis Establishment
June 21, 1960
King Bumiphol and Queen Sirikit of Thailand visited the set of the Elvis Presley movie “G.I. Blues.”
Priscilla visits from Germany for 2 weeks (June 17 – 28 ).
June 21, 1963
The Rolling Stones played at Ricky Tick Club, Star and Garter Hotel, Windsor, Berks. The influential 1960s rhythm & blues club in Windsor, Berkshire, was the host to many important acts such as The Stones, The Who,Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd and Cream.
June 21, 1964
B.B. King performed at Chicago’s Regal Theater. The live recording of that concert became the classic Live at the Regal album the following year.
After a North American tour The Rolling Stones sued 14 hotels over a booking ban in New York, claiming that the ban was violating civil rights laws.
Working at Abbey Road studios in London, The Beatles recorded from start to finish, a new John Lennon song ‘She Said She Said’. The song was reportedly based on a bizarre conversation that Lennon had with Peter Fonda while John and George Harrison were tripping on LSD.
Tom Jones needed 14 stitches in his forehead after his Jaguar was involved in a car crash in Marble Arch, London.
June 21, 1967
Elvis completed Speedway soundtrack recording and was visited by Vernon and Dee and the three Stanley boys and they all met Nelson Rockefeller, New York’ governor, while he was at the MGM studio between 7.00 and 11.00 p.m.
Steve Binder, director of Elvis Presley’s upcoming NBC-TV special, asked musical director Bones Howe to write a more relevant, “socially conscious” song for Elvis’ big closing number, to replace the tentatively scheduled “I’ll Be Home For Christmas.” That afternoon, Howe wrote “If I Can Dream,” and after hearing it a few times, Elvis agreed to use it.
Prerecording at Western Recorders continued for three more days, with Elvis coming in at 2.00 p.m. each afternoon.
Elvis returned to Memphis – greeting fans at the Gate.
The Vegas Artist in Residence and Tour Decade
June 21, 1970
Pete Townshend of The Who caused a stir at Memphis International Airport. He was overheard saying “Tommy” seems to be ‘going down a bomb’, meaning the group’s song “Tommy” was a hit. Officials however, only heard the term ‘bomb’ and police and FBI reacted.
June 21, 1971
June 21, 1972
After a great tour Elvis flew home to Memphis where he resumed watching movies again at the Memphian.
June 21, 1973
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could ban materials judged to be obscene based on local standards.
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
Love Me Tender
You Gave A Mountain
Steamroller Blues
You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me
Love Me
Blue Suede Shoes
Heartbreak Hotel
How Great Thou Art
Johnny B. Goode
Hound Dog
Fever
What Now My Love
Suspicious Minds
[band introductions]
I’ll Remember You
I Can’t Stop Loving You
An American Trilogy
A Big Hunk O’ Love
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
Love Me
Trying To Get To You
All Shook Up
Love Me Tender
Hound Dog
Fever
Polk Salad Annie
Why Me, Lord
You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me
Suspicious Minds
I Can’t Stop Loving You
Help Me
An American Trilogy
Brigde Over Troubled Water
Let Me Be There
Funny How Time Slips Away
Big Boss Man
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Recordings:
0
Follow That Dream Release: Elvis Presley Sold Out!
Captain and Tennille started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with the Neil Sedaka song ‘Love Will Keep Us Together’. The duo of husband and wife “Captain” Daryl Dragon and Cathryn Antoinette “Toni” Tennille had worked as backup musicians for Elton John and Neil Sedaka.
Before the concert: Monique Brave gave Elvis a ‘Medallion of Life’ on behalf of the Sioux Nation.
Elvis performed at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center, Rapid City, South Dakota, which was the second show filmed for the CBS TV special.
Date:
21 Jun 1977
Time:
8.30pm
Venue:
Rapid City, SD.
Mount Rushmore.
Tickets:
10,000
Costume:
Mexican Sundial Suit
Track list:
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
That’s All Right
Are You Lonesome Tonight?
Love Me
If You Love Me
You Gave Me A Mountain
Jailhouse Rock
O Sole Mio
It’s Now Or Never
Trying To Get To You
Hawaiian Wedding Song
Teddy Bear/Don’t Be Cruel
My Way [band introductions]
Early Morning Rain
What’d I Say
Johnny B. Goode
I Really Don’t Want To Know
Hurt
Unchained Melody
Can’t Help Falling In Love
German orchestra leader and songwriter Bert Kaempfert died aged 56. Both Frank Sinatra (Strangers In The Night) and Elvis Presley (Wooden Heart) covered his songs. Kaempfert released over 50 albums. In 1961, he hired The Beatles to back Tony Sheridan on recording sessions for Polydor, (these were the Beatles’ first commercial recordings). – See more at: http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/#sthash.50vrohHH.dpuf
1982 Elvis Presley Enterprises/Graceland Tourism
1984 Actor ExWife: Priscilla Presley
1986
Genesis scored their fourth UK No.1 album with their 13th studio album ‘Invisible Touch’. It remained in the charts for 96 weeks, making it the most commercially successful album of their career, eventually selling over 15 million copies worldwide and produced five US Top 5 singles, including the title track.
1992
The Orb released ‘Blue Room’ the single had a duration of 39 minutes and 58 seconds, two seconds shorter than the maximum permitted for a single under UK chart rules. The single peaked at No.8.
1994
George Michael lost his lawsuit against Sony Records. Michael claimed that his 15-year contract with Sony was unfair because the company could refuse to release albums it thought wouldn’t be commercially successful. Michael vowed he would never record for Sony again. He re-signed with the company in 2003.
2001
John Lee Hooker, American blues singer and guitarist died in his sleep aged 83. Had hits with ‘Boom Boom’, ‘Dimples’ and ‘I’m In The Mood’. His songs have been covered by many artists including Cream, AC/DC, ZZ Top, Led Zeppelin,Jimi Hendrix, Van Morrison, The Yardbirds, The Doors and The White Stripes. He appeared and sang in the 1980 movie The Blues Brothers.
2003 Recording Artist: Daughter Lisa Marie Presley
2004
An exclusive One Night Only screening of a specially created 100-minute edition of the digitally re-mastered “Elvis: ’68 Comeback Special” took place at 42 Regal Theaters across the U.S.
Billboard magazine estimated that Michael Jackson‘s album catalog had generated about $383 million in sales and that MJ Inc. had earned at least $1 billion in revenue in the year following his death.
2011
People magazine reported that 75-year-old Glen Campbell had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. “I still love making music,” said Campbell. “And I still love performing for my fans. I’d like to thank them for sticking with me through thick and thin.”
2015
Apple Music reversed its payment policy, a day after Taylor Swift said she was refusing to allow the company to stream her latest album 1989. In an open letter to Apple, Swift said she was withholding the record as she was unhappy with the three-month free trial offered to subscribers, saying “We don’t ask you for free iPhones. Please don’t ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation.” Apple now said it would pay artists for music streamed during trial periods.
James Taylor enjoyed his first number one album on the Billboard Hot 200 when “Before This World” sold 97,000 units during its debut week. In the forty-five years since “Sweet Baby James” was released in 1970, Taylor had achieved eleven Top Ten albums.
2016
Roger Friedman, owner of the entertainment industry news and film review website Showbiz 411, announced that Led Zeppelin refused a $14 million offer to perform at the 2016 Desert Trip Festival in Indio, California. Those who had already signed on included The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, The Who and Neil Young.
Trumpeter Wayne Jackson, who formed the Memphis Horns duo with saxophonist Andrew Love, died of congestive heart failure at the age of 74. Jackson and Love played together on 52 No.1 songs, supporting the likes of Elvis Presley, Neil Diamond,Otis Redding, Al Green, Aretha Franklin, Peter Gabriel and the Doobie Brothers.
Signature Theatre wants you to see Elvis Presley in the same light: Its latest cabaret show, “Entirely Elvis,” is a stripped-down show with the …
2019
‘It stinks’: Record producer’s rejection letter about Elvis Presley’s
Less than a year before Elvis Presley crashed into the pop charts with “Heartbreak Hotel,” record producers were less than enthusiastic about …
‘It stinks’: Record producer’s rejection letter about Elvis Presley’s early songs for sale | WSB-TV
Less than a year before Elvis Presley crashed into the pop charts with “Heartbreak Hotel,” record producers were less than enthusiastic about the singer’s chances to hit the big time. One music…
The Presleys lived at 1414 Getwell Street rented from mid-1955 to May, 11 1956.
The RCA Victor Atomic Powered Singer
June 19, 1956
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis ended their 10-year partnership after starring on radio, TV and in 16 feature films.
Col Parker made a deal for an Elvis Presley Fan Magazine, and the photographer followed Elvis on his date with Barbara Hearn to Libertyland, on Black Community Day.
Memphis Police provide crowd control on the midway, as Elvis throws a ball to win Hearn a prize.
Elvis attending on Black Community day, with these photos in a nationally published fan magazine, were socially revolutionary. In the 1960s and 1970s, he’d rent the park when he had carnival urges to ride the rides.
Elvis received lead sheets and demos for 2 new songs from Mike Stoller.
The Presleys lived at Audobon Drive, Graceland purchased on March 19.
The Military Service Disruption
June 19, 1958
Buddy Holly enters Coral Record’s studios in New York to record for the first time without The Crickets. None of the tracks he laid down would become hits.
Ben E. King enjoys his biggest hit as “Stand By Me” reaches #4 on the Billboard singles chart. The same song would re-appear on the Hot 100 in 1986, reaching #9, after it was featured as the title track in a film starring River Phoenix.
Pat Boone had his sixth and final number 1 hit in the US with “Moody River”. A year later, “Speedy Gonzales” would finish his run of thirty-eight Top 10 hits. A tongue-in-cheek, heavy metal “comeback” was attempted in 1997 with an album called “In a Metal Mood (No More Mr. Nice Guy)”.
The following short article in Billboard on June 19, 1961, a month after “Surrender” exited the “Hot 100,” indicates that RCA may have overestimated the record’s sales potential.
• Copies of “Surrender” given away in Canada
“Station CKWX [in Vancouver, B.C.] gave away 3,000 recordings of ‘Surrender’ by Elvis Presley this month in a contest which pulled in more than 10,000 letters. According to CKWX deejay Red Robinson, RCA Victor had ‘over-pressed’ the Presley disk, so they turned the excess wax over to the jock and suggested he build a promotion around it. Robinson offered the disk free to the first 3,000 dialers who wrote in and merely said they like Elvis.”
Instead of staying with the Barrises, as promised to Priscilla’s parents, Pris moved into the Bellagio Road house one day before Elvis decided to show her Las Vegas. With the entourage they traveled in the motor home, and stayed at the Sahara for the next 12 days.
June 19, 1963
June 19, 1964
Elvis Presley enjoyed his 15th UK #1 single with his rendition of “Crying In The Chapel”, which first became a hit for 17-year-old Darrell Glenn when it topped the Cashbox Best Sellers chart in 1953. To date there are over 50 known recorded versions of the song, but none as successful as Presley’s which would eventually be awarded Platinum status by the RIAA.
June 19, 1965
Elvis Presley enjoyed his 15th UK #1 single with his rendition of “Crying In The Chapel”, which first became a hit for 17-year-old Darrell Glenn when it topped the Cashbox Best Sellers chart in 1953. To date there are over 50 known recorded versions of the song, but none as successful as Presley’s which would eventually be awarded Platinum status by the RIAA.
Having admitted to taking LSD four times during an interview with Life Magazine, Beatle Paul McCartney told The Daily Mirror that he didn’t regret that he’d spoken out and hoped that his fans would understand.
Elvis reported to MGM for pre-production of Speedway, beginning with a 10.00 a.m. music meeting and a 2.00 p.m. wardrobe fitting. According to Peter Guralnick and Ernst Jorgensen’s book, “Elvis: Day by Day,” on that first day Elvis presented his costar with a car that had “‘Speedway’ painted on one door and ‘Starring Nancy and Elvis’ on the other.”
The Rolling Stones scored their seventh UK No.1 single when ‘Jumpin Jack Flash’ hit the top of the charts. Keith Richards has stated that he and Jagger wrote the lyrics while staying at Richards’ country house, where they were awoken one morning by the sound of gardener Jack Dyer walking past the window. When Jagger asked what the noise was, Richards responded: “Oh, that’s Jack – that’s jumpin’ Jack.”
June 19, 1969
The Vegas Artist in Residence and Tour Decade
June 19, 1970
June 19, 1971
Carole King started a five week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘It’s Too Late / I Feel The Earth Move’. Both songs were from her million selling Tapestry album.
Also Sprach Zarathustra
That’s All Right
I Got A Woman/Amen
Love Me Tender
You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me
Until It’s Time For You To Go
Polk Salad Annie
Love Me
All Shook Up
Heartbreak Hotel
Teddy Bear/Don’t Be Cruel
One Night
Blue Suede Shoes
Hound Dog
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Suspicious Minds
[band introductions]
Johnny B.Goode
I Can’t Stop Loving You
For The Good Times
An American Trilogy
A Big Hunk O’ Love
Funny How Times Slip Away
An American Trilogy
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
Love Me
Tryin’ To Get To You
All Shook Up
Love Me Tender
Hound Dog
Fever
Polk Salad Annie
Why Me Lord
Suspicious Minds
[band introductions]
I Can’t Stop Loving You
Help Me
An American Trilogy
Let Me Be There
Heartbreak Hotel
Funny How Time Slips Away
Big Boss Man
Can’t Help Falling In Love
The Beach Boys‘ cover of Chuck Berry‘s “Rock And Roll Music” enters the Billboard Top 40 where it would peak at #5 during a thirteen week run. That was one spot higher than Berry’s 1957 original.
Germany’s Silver Convention topped the Cashbox Best Sellers list with “Get Up And Boogie”, a Disco tune that contained only six different words (Get, Up, And, Boogie, That’s, Right). It was a formula that had also worked on their first US hit, “Fly Robin, Fly” in 1975.
Future Smiths singer Steve Morrissey had a letter published in this weeks music magazine Record Mirror and Disc asking the editor why the paper had not included any stories on The Sex Pistols.
June 19, 1977
Elvis performed at the Civic Auditorium Arena, Omaha, Nebraska where the show was filmed to the CBS TV special what later was called Elvis In Concert.
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
That’s All Right
Are You Lonesome Tonight?
Love Me
Fairy Tale
Little Sister
Teddy Bear/Don’t Be Cruel
And I Love You So Jailhouse Rock
How Great Thou Art
[band introductions]
Early Morning Rain
What’d I Say
Johnny B. Goode
I Really Don’t Want To Know
School Days
Hurt
Hound Dog
O Sole Mio/It’s Now Or Never
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Recordings:
RCA released portions of this concert on the TV Special Soundtrack: Elvis in Concert
Over 3,000 East Germans gather at the Berlin Wall to hear Michael Jackson, who was performing a concert on the other side of the wall in West Berlin.
1997
Bobby Helms, best known for his perennial Christmas hit, “Jingle Bell Rock”, died of emphysema at his home in Martinsville, Indiana. He was 63.
2003 Recording Artist: Daughter Lisa Marie Presley
2007
Lawyers for Britney Spears demanded a Florida radio station remove “offensive” advertisements, which featured her with a shaved head. The WFLZ billboards included the slogans “Total nut jobs”, “Shock Therapy” and “Certifiable”, which ran across pictures of a bald Spears. Law firm Lavely and Singer demanded the “immediate removal” of the banners in a letter to the station. Spears was photographed shaving her own head in a Californian hair salon earlier this year.
2010 Actor: Granddaughter Riley Keough
2011
Amy Winehouse was booed by crowds in Serbia’s capital Belgrade after appearing to be too drunk to perform. The concert – the first on the singers 12-day European tour, saw Winehouse mumble her way through parts of songs, leave the stage altogether and at one point she threw her microphone to the floor. She was frequently booed by the crowd, who had paid up to £45 to see her in a country in which wages are some of the lowest in Europe.
2013
Slim Whitman the American country music and western music singer/songwriter and instrumentalist died aged 90. Known for his yodeling abilities and his smooth high octave falsetto, he sold in excess of 120 million records during his career. Michael Jackson cited Whitman as one of his ten favorite vocalists and Beatle George Harrison cited Whitman as an early influence. Paul McCartney credited a poster of Whitman with giving him the idea of playing his guitar left-handed with his guitar strung the opposite way to a right-handed player’s.
Blues musician Wendell Holmes died aged 71. He released 12 albums as part of The Holmes Brothers, a family band that included his siblings Sherman and Willie. During their career, the brothers played with many artists including Van Morrison, Peter Gabriel, Rosanne Cash, Levon Helm and Willie Nelson.
2016
rtists including Taylor Swift, Maroon 5, Pearl Jam,U2 and Sir Paul McCartneycalled for online copyright laws to be reformed. More than 180 artists signed an open letter criticising the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). They claimed the law benefits companies that “exploit music for their financial enrichment”, but not artists.
Lord Byron challenged his house guests to write a ghost story, inspiring Mary Shelley to pen the novel “Frankenstein” and John Polidori to write the short story “The Vampyre.”
June 16, 1897
The United States government signed an annexation treaty with the Republic of Hawaii, which officially became a U.S. Territory the following August.
Tupelo, Mississippi
1935-1948
1935-1940
306 Old Satillo Road, Elvis’ birthplace, is now 306 Elvis Presley Drive.
, 1938
Vernon Presley in prison ( May 25 1938 to February 6 1939)
,1939
1940-41
Reese Street, where the Presleys stayed with Vester and Clettes Presley and their daughter Patsy,
1942
Kelly Street, a rented, small apartment.
1943
The Presley family moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, May 15 to June 20, Returning to Tupelo.
1944
August 8, 1945 to July 18, 1946
Berry Street -“Doll” Smith lived here with the Presleys and then Minnie Mae Presley moved in.
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 20 1949 to January 7, 1950
185 Winchester Street, a two- bedroom apartment (number 328)
January 7, 1950 to April 1953
398 Cypress Street
June 3, 1951 to July 1, 1951
Elvis was employed as a machinist by “Precision Tool Co.”
June 16, 1952
“Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl,” the English translation of a book in the Dutch language diary kept by Frank while she was in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, was first published in the U.S. and UK.
April 17, 1952 to May 28, 1952
Elvis worked as an user at Loew’s State Theatre
1953
398 Cypress Street (rented from January 7 to April 1953
, 1954
Elvis worked at Crown Electric, until mid-October 1954
The Presleys lived at 2414 Lamar Avenue, rented til the end of 1954 to mid-1955
The Sun Records Rockabilly Era
June 15, 1955
Disney’s 15th animated feature film “Lady and the Tramp” had its world premiere in Chicago. It was the first Disney cartoon feature filmed in CinemaScope.
The Presleys lived at 1414 Getwell Street rented from mid-1955 to May, 11 1956.
The RCA Victor Atomic Powered Singer
June 16, 1956
Patti Page saw what would be her biggest hit, “Allegheny Moon”, enter the Billboard chart, where it would reach #2 during a 22 week run. In all, the Oklahoma native would place sixteen songs in the Top 40 between 1954 and 1965.
In Cleveland, the Giant Rock ‘n Roll Revue began two days of live performances at “The Hipp” (Hippodrome Theater), with Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, Clyde McPhatter, the Diamonds, Don Cherry, Lonnie Donegan, Johnny Burnette & the Rock ‘n Roll Trio, “Sam the Man” Taylor, the 4 Tunes, and Joe Howard and His Band. WERE Radio’s Bill Randle was the emcee.
A 31-year-old woman named Gogi Grant knocked Elvis out of Billboard’s number one spot with a song called “The Wayward Wind”. It was a tune that she recorded almost as an after thought, with just fifteen minutes of studio time remaining. Six weeks later, Elvis would be back on top with “I Want You, I Need You, I Love You”
Elvis Presley’s single “Blue Suede Shoes” hit #9 in the U.K. whereas it peaked at 20 in the USA, and certified gold in 1999. Elvis recorded it twice – his mono Perkins cover and a stereo soundtrack version for GI Blues.
“I Want You, I Love You” hit #31 in the U.S. second No. 1 single on the country music charts, and peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard Top 100 popular music singles chart – The single was a rare spliced take, Steve Sholes took parts of two takes he liked (takes 14 and 17), cut and spliced them together to create a take worthy of release. His cuts were so seamless, nobody at RCA Victor could tell it wasn’t from a single take.
Elvis went to a local TV host Wink Martindale’s Dance Party to promote his charity show at Russwood Park in Memphis, July 4.
Elvis announced that the door prize will be his diamond initial ring.
After that Elvis visited a café near the Strand movie theater on Main Street, where he posed for pictures with Robbie Moore, a young woman who was a telephone operator and had no idea who Elvis was, when he strolled in with magazine photographers.
Elvis mugged for the cameras and ate her hamburger, leaving her with the bill of $1.25.
At Columbia 30th Street Studio in New York City, Johnny Mathis recorded “Chances Are” and “The Twelfth Of Never.” That night on CBS-TV’s “The Ed Sullivan Show,” Mathis performed “It’s Not For Me To Say,”Rusty Draper, Don Rondo, Polly Bergen and John Raitt also appeared on the program.
Doris Day released “Everybody Loves A Lover,” which became the last of her 20 Top 10 singles (six of them as a featured vocalist with the Les Brown band).
a June 16, 1958, article in Billboard, the plan was to sell the tags, priced at $1, at department stores, theaters, drugstores, and record stores beginning on July 7 to coincide with the opening of Elvis’s new movie,King Creole.
The Konrads (featuring Dave Jay later to become David Bowie) made their live debut when they played at Bromley Technical School in Kent, England.
The Isley brothers charted with “Twist & Shout,” reaching #2 R&B and #17 pop. The song was originally recorded by the Top Notes on Atlantic in 1961, then by the Isley Brothers who recorded the song before The Beatles.
The Elvis Presley EP “Follow That Dream” hit #15 in the U.S. The extended play record was the number-one EP in the UK for 20 weeks.
The top four spots on the UK chart are held by acts from Liverpool with The Beatles at #1 (“From Me To You”), Gerry And The Pacemakers at #2 (“I Like It”), Billy J. Kramer And The Dakotas at #3 (“Do You Want To Know A Secret”) and Billy Fury at #4 (“When Will You Say I Love You”).
June 16, 1964
June 16, 1965
ABC-TV’s “Shindig!” featured performances by the Everly Brothers, Gary Lewis & the Playboys, Gerry & the Pacemakers, and Dick & Dee Dee.
Herman’s Hermits were awarded their first Gold record for “Mrs. Brown You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter”. The song was originally an album cut that got so much air play in the US, MGM Records released it as a single.
Bob Dylan recorded ‘Like A Rolling Stone’ at Columbia Recording Studios in New York City, in the sessions for the forthcoming ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ album. Session musicians included Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper, whose Hammond organ on ‘Like A Rolling Stone’ became one of rock’s most recognizable sounds.
The Beatles made a surprise live appearance on the UK television program Top Of The Pops performing ‘Paperback Writer’ and ‘Rain’. It became The Beatles’ last live musical television appearance, with the sole exception of the June 1967 worldwide transmission of ‘All You Need Is Love’.
June 16, 1967
The original Kingston Trio gave their final concert, although other editions of the popular vocal group would continue well into the new millennium.
On his way back to Memphis Elvis made a stop in Vegas.
The Vegas Artist in Residence and Tour Decade
June 16, 1970
The sponsors of the original Woodstock Festival announce that they lost more than $1.2 million on the actual concert. They would eventually profit from the sale of the Woodstock sound track and related memorabilia.
Mungo Jerry were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘In The Summertime’. It went on to become the best selling UK single of 1970 spending seven weeks at No.1 and was a hit in 26 other countries. The UK release was a maxi-single playing at 33 rpm, (whereas singles generally played at 45 rpm).
June 16, 1971
“Love Letters from Elvis” released – it would reach only #53 on the US Billboard Singles chart. It was Elvis’s lowest chart position for a single since “Almost in Love” had reached #95 in late 1968. “Heart Of Rome” was placed on the B-side of the non-album track “I’m Leavin'” released as a single in August 1971 it reached #23 in the UK and #83 in Australia.
June 16, 1972
David Bowie released his fifth studio album The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars a concept album telling the story of a fictional bisexual alien rock star named Ziggy Stardust. The album which reached No.5 in the UK and No. 75 in the US has been consistently considered one of the greatest albums of all time.
In Chicago, Elvis Presley performed the first of three shows at the Stadium.
Also Sprach Zarathustra
That’s All Right
Proud Mary
Never Been To Spain
You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me
Until It’s Time For You To Go
You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’
Polk Salad Annie
Love Me
All Shook Up
Heartbreak Hotel
Teddy Bear/Don’t Be Cruel
Little Sister/Get Back
Love Me Tender
Blue Suede Shoes
Hound Dog
[band introductions]
For The Good Times
A Big Hunk O’ Love
Funny How Time Slips Away Away
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Suzi Quatro had her first UK No.1 single with the Nicky Chinn & Mike Chapman song ‘Can The Can’. 10CC were at No.2 with ‘Rubber Bullets’ and Fleetwood Mac at No.3 with ‘Albatross.’
Elvis attended screenings at either the Memphian or the Crosstown almost every night of the month until he had to go on tour again on the twentieth.
June 16, 1974
Elvis performed at the Tarrant County Convention Center, Fort Worth, Texas, at 3.00 and 8.30 p.m.
Date:
16 Jun 1974
Time:
3.00pm
Venue:
Fort Worth, TX.
Tarrant County Center
Tickets:
14,000
Costume:
Inca Gold Leaf suit
Track list:
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
Love Me
Trying To Get To You
All Shook Up
Love Me Tender
Hound Dog
Fever
Polk Salad Annie
Suspicious Minds
I Can’t Stop Loving You
Heartbreak Hotel
Help Me
An American Trilogy
Let Me Be There
Funny How Time Slips Away
Big Boss Man
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
Love Me
Trying To Get To You
All Shook Up
Love Me Tender
Hound Dog
Fever
Polk Salad Annie
Why Me Lord
Suspicious Minds
I Can’t Stop Loving You
Heartbreak Hotel
Help Me
An American Trilogy
Let Me Be There
Funny How Time Slips Away
Big Boss Man
Can’t Help Falling In Love
John Lennon sues the US government, charging that officials tried to deny his immigration through selective prosecution. Accusing them of harassment during deportation proceedings, Lennon named former US Attorneys General John Mitchell and Richard Kleindienst in the complaint.
June 16, 1976
A summer variety series featuring the Jackson family called The Jacksons debuted on CBS-TV for a four-week run. Along with the Jackson 5 were the group’s sisters Rebbie, La Toya, and youngest member Janet.
With the breakdown of Elvis’ inner circle, communication with Colonel Tom Parker has become almost nonexistent, leading him to write a personal note to the King wondering what’s happened.
June 16, 1977
Kenny Rogers was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Lucille’. It was the American Country music singer’s first of two UK No.1’s.
The Wake and Aftermath
1978
Ringo Starr released “Bad Boy” in North America, his seventh solo album.
The film adaptation of “Grease,” starring John Travolta, Oliva Newton-John, and Stockard Channing, opened in U.S. and Canadian movie theaters.
1980
The feature film “The Blues Brothers,” adapted from a John Belushi-Dan Aykroyd “Saturday Night Live” skit, had its world premiere in Chicago. James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles and Aretha Franklinhad supporting roles in the movie.
1981
The Oak Ridge Boys single “Elvira” was certified Gold.
1982 Elvis Presley Enterprises/Graceland Tourism
1984 Actor ExWife: Priscilla Presley
1984
Tina Turner’s Private Dancer album charted, reaching #3 (#1 R&B) and becoming such a huge hit thaat it stayed in the Top 10 for ten months. It also sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. In Britain it reached #2 – and was one of three LPS that defined that year – Michael Jackson’s Thriller and Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA.
Frankie Goes To Hollywood had their second UK No.1 single with ‘Two Tribes.’ It stayed at No.1 for nine weeks making Frankie Goes To Hollywood the first band to have their first two singles go to the top of the UK chart. During this run the group’s previous single ‘Relax’ climbed back up the charts to No.2.
1989
The first day of the UK three day Glastonbury Festival took place featuring Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Throwing Muses, Pixies, All About Eve, Hot House Flowers, The Waterboys, Suzanne Vega and Fairground Attraction. Tickets cost £28 ($48).
Celebrating 30 years in the music business and 100 singles released, Cliff Richard performs at London’s Wembley Stadium to a sell out crowd of over 72,000. Supporting acts included some old friends from his early days, Gerry And The Pacemakers, The Kalin Twins and The Searchers.
1993
The U.S. Postal Service released a set of seven stamps that featured Bill Haley, Buddy Holly, Clyde McPhatter, Otis Redding, Ritchie Valens, Dinah Washington and Elvis Presley.
1996
An estimated 100,000 people attended the two-day Tibetan Freedom Concert at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco for performances by the Beastie Boys, Smashing Pumpkins, Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Lee Hooker, Beck, Richie Havens, Rage Against The Machine, Sonic Youth, Fugees, De La Soul, and Yoko Ono. It was the largest U.S. benefit concert since Live Aid in 1985.
1998
The American Film Institute (AFI) announced its list of the top 100 films in the first century of cinema history. “Citizen Kane” was #1, followed by “Casablanca,” “The Godfather,” “Gone With The Wind,” and “Lawrence of Arabia.”
1999
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a 1992 federal music piracy law does not prohibit a palm-sized device that can download high-quality digital music files from the Internet and play them at home.
In Phoenix, Cher started her 122-date Believe Tour at the America West Arena.
2002
46 years after his first hit, Elvis Presley started a four week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘A Little Less Conversation’, (Elvis vs. JXL), giving Elvis a total of 18 UK No.1 singles, the most by any artist in chart history. This also set a new record for the longest span of No.1 hits with 44 years, 11 months and 9 days. His first UK No.1 single was ‘All Shook Up’ in 1957 – one more than the Beatles’ 2002 tally.
While the 1968 version peaked at 69 on the Hot 100 in the USA, the remix of Elvis Presley’s “A Little Less Conversation” from the 2001 film Ocean’s Eleven, hit #1 in the U.K; it became a worldwide hit, topping the singles charts in nine countries and was awarded certifications in ten countries by 2003.
In the United States, the song peaked at number 50 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart, the first Hot 100 hit for Presley since 1981, and extending his list of charted singles into the 21st century.
2003 Recording Artist: Daughter Lisa Marie Presley
2004
Scotland’s University of St. Andrews announced that it would make Bob Dylan an honorary doctor of music at its June 23 summer graduation ceremony.
2010 Actor: Granddaughter Riley Keough
2012
In Toronto, the stage at Downsview Park collapsedbefore a performance by Radiohead, killing the band’s drum technician and injuring three other crew members. Live Nation and an engineer were charged but in September 2017 a judge stayed those charges saying the case had taken too long to come to trial.
2013
Black Sabbath established a new UK chart record for the longest gap between No.1 albums when their new release, 13 debuted at the top of the charts, 42 years and 8 months after their second album Paranoid reached No.1.
2016
England’s Crown Prosecution Service announced that there was insufficient evidence to prosecute Sir Cliff Richard on charges of historical sex abuse. In a statement to the press, Richard said, “I have always maintained my innocence, co-operated fully with the investigation, and cannot understand why it has taken so long to get to this point.”
Meat Loaf was rushed to hospital after collapsing on stage during a concert in in Edmonton, Canada. The singer was performing his hit, ‘I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)’, when he dropped his microphone and fell to the floor.
The Boston Globe–NEW YORK — D.J. Fontana, whose simple but forceful drumming behind ElvisPresley helped to shape the early sound of rock ‘n’ roll, died …
In the weekly anti-slave journal The National Era, Harriet Beecher Stow published the first installment of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Originally she used the subtitle “The Man That Was A Thing,” but soon changed it to “Life Among the Lowly.”
Tupelo, Mississippi
1935-1948
1935-1940
306 Old Satillo Road, Elvis’ birthplace, is now 306 Elvis Presley Drive.
, 1938
Vernon Presley in prison ( May 25 1938 to February 6 1939)
,1939
1940-41
Reese Street, where the Presleys stayed with Vester and Clettes Presley and their daughter Patsy,
1942
Kelly Street, a rented, small apartment.
1943
The Presley family moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, May 15 to June 20, Returning to Tupelo.
1944
August 8, 1945 to July 18, 1946
Berry Street -“Doll” Smith lived here with the Presleys and then Minnie Mae Presley moved in.
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 20 1949 to January 7, 1950
185 Winchester Street, a two- bedroom apartment (number 328)
January 7, 1950 to April 1953
398 Cypress Street
June 3, 1951 to July 1, 1951
Elvis was employed as a machinist by “Precision Tool Co.”
June 5, 1952
Billboard magazine reported that, as of July, major record labels would supply radio stations with 45-RPM singles rather than 78-RPM singles.
April 17, 1952 to May 28, 1952
Elvis worked as an user at Loew’s State Theatre
1953
398 Cypress Street (rented from January 7 to April 1953
, 1954
Elvis worked at Crown Electric, until mid-October 1954
The Presleys lived at 2414 Lamar Avenue, rented til the end of 1954 to mid-1955
The Sun Records Rockabilly Era
June 5, 1954
Elvis cut two sides (master 0914-A and 0914-B) on Saturday, 6/5, and picked up his acetate dub on Wednesday, 6/9. This documentation is likely for a song like, perhaps, Casual Love Affair. The flipside is likely another slow country ballad with just Elvis on guitar, i.e. not Without You since Elvis paid for the acetate. The receipt is very similar to the one for I’ll Never Stand in Your Way It Wouldn’t Be the Same Without You
Elvis at the Coliseum in Hope, AR – June 5, 1955* Photo source Cristi Dragomir courtesy DeAgostini
Shirley (Searcy) Delgado and Elvis
After the show Elvis went to Texarkana with Shirley (Searcy) Delgado. Halfway to Texarkana Elvis’ Cadillac caught fire and burned out.
Elvis’ mother, Gladys, will always recall how she was awakened out of a sound sleep at home by the feeling that something was wrong. Others recall Elvis sitting by the side of the road, looking desolate and saying “Man, I loved that car” as he watched his dream car go up in smoke. From Texarkana Scotty returns to Memphis to get the new pink & white Ford Crown Victoria that Elvis has recently purchased for his parents, while Elvis and Bill fly on to Texas.
The Presleys lived at 1414 Getwell Street rented from mid-1955 to May, 11 1956.
The RCA Victor Atomic Powered Singer
June 5, 1956
Gene Vincent’s “Be-Bop-A-Lula” is released in America where it will reach #5 and sell over a million copies.
Elvis did his second and final Milton Berle Show, NBC Studio, Los Angeles at 8.00 p.m – the infamous Burlesque Hound Dog.
Debra Padget appeared in an Elvis skit as well as doing her own dance number.
Elvis Presley made his second appearance on Milton Berle’s Texaco Star Theatre, where his hip swinging gyrations during his performance of “Hound Dog” provoked howls of outrage. TV critics panned him, saying his performance looked ‘like the mating dance of an aborigine’, while others said he had ‘no future in the music business.’ Jack Gould of The New York Times declared, ‘Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability’, while John Crosby of the New York Herald Tribune called Elvis ‘unspeakably untalented and vulgar’.
Elvis met “Sheena, Queen of the Jungle”
Elvis did a “record store skit” and then performed “I Want You, I Need You, I Love You.
In Memphis, saxophonist and Sun Records house band leader Bill Justis recorded “Raunchy.”
At the Cosimo Recording Studio in New Orleans, Fats Domino recorded “The Big Beat,” title song of a 1958 movie starring William Reynolds, Andra Martin, Gogi Grant, Hans Conreid, Rose Marie, Bill Goodwin, Chicago disc jockey Howard Miller, and featured musical performances by Domino, the Diamonds, the Mills Brothers, Harry James, George Shearing, the Lancers, Buddy Bregman, and Cal Tjader.
In Memphis, saxophonist and Sun Records house band leader Bill Justis recorded “Raunchy.”
In a short article in Variety on June 5, 1957, Sinatra, then on the set of Pal Joey in Hollywood, was asked to comment of Presley’s singing ability. He responded: “Only time will tell. They said I was a freak when I first hit, but I’m still around. Presley has no training at all. When he goes into something serious, a bigger kind of singing, we’ll find out if he is a singer. He has a natural, animalistic talent.”
The Presleys lived at Audobon Drive, Graceland purchased on March 19.
The Military Service Disruption
1958
The L.P. “Johnny Mathis’ Greatest Hits” went to number 1 in the US. It stayed on the charts for 490 weeks, setting a longevity record that would not be broken until the 1980s by Pink Floyd‘s “Dark Side of the Moon”.
Military service Fort Hood in Texas. On Leave at Graceland May 31 to June 13
June 5, 1959
General Hospital in Frankfurt with tonsillitis and a high fever. June 2 to june 8
Military Service in Germany / Goethestr.14 in Bad Nauheim, Germany
Roy Orbison went to No.1 on the US chart with ‘Running Scared’, it made No.9 in the UK. The B-side ‘Love Hurts’ also picked up significant airplay, making Orbison’s recording the first version to be a hit.
June 5, 1962
Pot Luck with Elvis is the fifteenth studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Victor in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 2523, in June 1962. It peaked at number 4 on the BillboardTop LP’s chart
The Rolling Stones played their first-ever live date in the US when they appeared at the Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, California. The Stones were supporting their first album release The Rolling Stones, in North America.
‘Liza Jane’ became the first recording to be released as a single by David Bowie (but under the name Davie Jones with the King Bees). Despite promoting the single on the television shows Juke Box Jury, Ready Steady Go! and The Beat Room, and receiving good radio coverage, the single sold poorly and the band was subsequently dropped from the label Vocalion Pop.
Elvis rented the Memphis Fairgrounds, arriving at 1 am wearing a blue satin shirt, blue pants and windbreaker and black suede ankle boots with silver accessories on his boots. He was also wearing sunglasses. He sent out for milkshakes, and finally at 5:30 am said goodnight to everyone. His shirt was torn and he was soaking wet, but happy.
June 5, 1967
Elvis rented the Memphis Fairgrounds from 12.30 to 3.30 a.m.
or
Elvis and Priscilla spent the afternoon riding at the Circle G. Elvis was wearing a canary yellow shirt, and black pants. Later they switched from horses to the golf cart. Elvis rented the Memphis Fairgrounds from 12:30 to 3:30 a.m.
June 5, 1968
At EMI’s Abbey Road Studios in London, the Beatles began recording “Don’t Pass Me By.” A session the following day plus two in July were needed to complete the track. Lead vocals were by Ringo Starr and it was his first solo composition. Ringo and Paul were the only Beatles who performed on the track.
Elvis was riding Rising Sun this afternoon, accommodating the fans for autographs. He was wearing a long sleeved, dark brown shirt, brown pants, a turquoise and silver belt, a long red scarf and white boots. Priscilla was also out riding Domino, and GeeGee on Willy. The grounds were full of fans and Mr. Pepper kept blowing his whistle. Elvis laughingly said, “Mr. Pepper’s got that whistle caught in his throat, hasn’t he?” Elvis was in a great mood, laughing, joking acting silly and doing some of his impressions like Glen Campbell and Ray Stephens, saying “Let’s hear it for the monkey – Guitarzan.” Elvis stayed out until after dark. Then he went to the Memphian.
He arrived at the Memphian wearing the same clothes he had been riding in. The first movie was “Sams Whiskey” with a bird named Priscilla. When Angie Dickinson said, “Priscilla died” everyone, including Elvis and Priscilla, busted out laughing. Elvis sang some during the movie, “This time We’re Really Breaking Up”, and someone said “do you believe in magic? And Elvis started singing that song. He also sang “Do You Know The Way to San Jose?” The second movie was “Eye of the Devil”. The evening ended at 3:15 am.
Grand Funk broke The Beatles’ box office record by selling out Shea Stadium in 72 hours. The concert grossed more than $300,000. That was about $2,000 more than The Beatles made at their 1965 Shea concert.
Paul McCartney’s second solo album ‘Ram’ started a two-week run at No.1 on the UK chart. Featuring the US No.1 single ‘Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey’.
Johnny Tillotson was the guest performer on ABC-TV’s “American Bandstand.”
Elvis Presley’s “Rags To Riches” hit #9 in the U.K.
June 5, 1972
Elvis returned to Los Angeles.
June 5, 1973
Elvis attended screenings at either the Memphian or the Crosstown almost every night of the month until he had to go on tour again on the twentieth.
June 4, 1974
June 5, 1975
The Rolling Stones became the first artists to receive record royalties from the Soviet Union. Until the country’s copyright laws were changed, the Soviets had made no payment to any artist for work released or used in that country.
During recording sessions for Wish You Were Here at Abbey Road Studios, London, England, Syd Barrett turned up out of the blue as Pink Floyd were listening to playbacks of Shine On You Crazy Diamond — a song that happened to be about Barrett. By that time, the 29-year-old Barrett had shaved off all of his hair (including his eyebrows), become overweight, and his ex-bandmates did not at first recognise him. Barrett eventually left without saying goodbye, and none of the band members ever saw him again.
Elvis performed at the Hofheinz Pavillion in Houston, Tx.
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
Love Me
If You Love Me
Love Me Tender
All Shook Up
Teddy Bear/Don’t Be Cruel Hound Dog
The Wonder Of You
Burning Love
[band introductions]
Johnny B. Goode
School Days
T-R-O-U-B-L-E
Tryin’ To Get To You
How Great Thou Art
Let Me Be There
You Gave Me A Mountain
An American Trilogy
Little Darlin’
Mystery Train/Tiger Man
Funny How Time Slips Away
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
Love Me
If You Love Me
You Gave Me A Mountain
All Shook Up
Teddy Bear/Don’t Be Cruel
Help Me
America
Jailhouse Rock
Fever
Polk Salad Annie
[band introductions]
Early Morning Rain
What’d I Say
Johnny B. Goode
Love Letters
School Days
Hurt
Burning Love
One Night
Funny How Time Slips Away
Mystery Train/Tiger Man
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Alice Cooper’s boa constrictor, a co-star of his live act suffered a fatal bite from a rat it was being fed for breakfast. Cooper held auditions for a replacement and a snake named ‘Angel’ got the gig.
The Wake and Aftermath
1983 Elvis Presley Enterprises/Graceland Tourism
1983
During a 48-date North American tour U2 played at Red Rocks Amphitheater near Denver. The show was recorded and released as ‘U2 Live At Red Rocks: Under A Blood Red Sky.’
1984 Actor ExWife: Priscilla Presley
1986
HBO presented “Fats Domino and Friends,” featuring performances by friends Ray Charles and Jerry Lee Lewis.
1987
The annual Prince’s Trust Rock Gala charity event was held for the fifth time at Wembley Arena in London. Highlights included George Harrison performing “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” with Eric Clapton, and Ringo Starr’s version of “With A Little Help From My Friends,” featuring Jeff Lynne. Other performers included Elton John, Phil Collins, Bryan Adams, Dave Edmunds, Boy George, and Ben E. King.
Conway Twitty, died of a heart attack during surgery after a blood vessel had ruptured in his stomach. He was 59 and had had 55 #1 country music singles including Hello Darlin’, Desperado Love, Don’t Call Him A Cowboy, Ain’t She Somethin’ Else, Somebody’s Needin’ Somebody, The Rose, Slow Hand, Tight Fittin’ Jeans, I’d Love To Lay You Down, and Top 10 pop hits Lonely Blue Boy, Danny Boy, It’s Only Make Believe.
Elvis’s song “Danny” for King Creole was the same song as Lonely Blue Boy, but cut from the film and left off the soundtrack, unreleased until the 1970’s RCA Legendary Performer Series.
Mariah Carey married the President of Sony Music, Tommy Mottola in Manhattan, guest’s included Billy Joel,Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand and Ozzy Osbourne. (The couple separated in 1997).
1999
Singer Mel Tormé (Comin’ Home Baby, Again, Careless Hands)/songwriter (The Christmas Song, Lament To Love)/pianist/drummer/author (The Other Side of the Rainbow, It Wasn’t All Velvet)/actor (Night Court, Land of No Return, Girls Town) died after a stroke at 73.
Singer Mel Torme, for example, said, “I was shocked to hear that a man of integrity like Hal Wallis had referred to Presley as a great dramatic actor. It just shows how far a man will go for the almighty dollar.” (The Arizona Republic, June 14, 1956). And there were undoubtedly other entertainers who felt contempt for Elvis but kept it to themselves.
2001
Officials in Singapore threw out an appeal against a ban on Janet Jackson’s latest album, ‘All For You’. They decided that the lyrics of the album, particularly one song, ‘Would You Mind’, were “not acceptable to our society”. The record was initially outlawed because of its “sexually explicit lyrics”, including “I just wanna touch you, tease you, lick you, please you, love you, make love to you.” EMI were attempting a compromise by trying to persuade Jackson’s management to delete ‘Would You Mind’ from the album.
2002
Dee Dee Ramone, (Douglas Glenn Colvin), bass guitarist with the Ramones died at his Hollywood, California apartment of a heroin overdose aged 49. He was the group’s primary songwriter, penning songs such as ‘Rockaway Beach’, ’53rd & 3rd’, and ‘Poison Heart’.
2003 Recording Artist: Daughter Lisa Marie Presley
2003
A Grandfather who set up his own pirate radio station in Wakefield, Yorkshire was under investigation by local broadcasting authorities. The man known as Ricky Rock had erected a 32ft transmitter in his garden and had been playing hits by The Beach Boys, Beatles and Elvis Presley. Ricky said he set the station up because ‘talent-less boy bands and dance music’ featured on local stations did not cater to the tastes of his generation.
2007
Sir Paul McCartney released his 21st solo album, ‘Memory Almost Full’ on the new Hear Music Starbucks label. It was later announced that all copies sold through UK Starbucks would not be eligible for the UK charts as the 533 stores were not registered with the Official Chart Company. The album was being played non-stop in more than 10,000 Starbucks outlets across 29 countries.
Jurors in the murder trial of music producer Phil Spector were shown the bloody revolver that was found at the feet of Lana Clarkson, the actress he was accused of killing at his home in the early hours of February 3rd, 2003. She had accompanied Spector to his Alhambra, California mansion after meeting him at her job as a hostess at the House of Blues just hours earlier.
2010 Actor: Granddaughter Riley Keough
2010
Led Zeppelin were officially voted the nation’s favourite band by the BBC’s ‘I’m In A Rock ‘N` Roll Band’, coming ahead of both The Beatles and Queen in a phone-in vote. The show also featured Best Singer, Guitarist, and Drummer live phone-in votes which saw Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Bonham all nominated in their categories. John Bonham was crowned top drummer ahead of Dave Grohl and Keith Moon, whilst Jimmy and Robert were runners up to Jimi Hendrix and Freddie Mercury respectively.
In Palm Beach, Florida, Elton John performed at the wedding of talk show host Rush Limbaugh, as he married his fourth wife, Kathryn Rogers.
2012
The Beach Boys album “That’s Why God Made the Radio” is released to coincide with the band’s 50th anniversary. It’s the first new, all-original Beach Boys LP since the 1998 death of co-founder Carl Wilson and features core members Brian Wilson, Mike Love and Al Jardine. It would go on to reach #3 on the Billboard 200 chart and became their highest charting studio album of new material since 1965.
2013
Singer/guitarist (Blue Moon, Heartaches) Cornelius “Nini” Harp, lead vocalist of the Marcels, died at the age of 73.
In London, following a 20-month investigation, former pop singer Gary Glitter was charged with committing eight child sex offenses in the late 1970s involving girls aged between 12 and 14. The 70-year-old singer, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was found guilty in February 2015 and sentenced to 16 years in prison.
2016
The four members of ABBA performed alongside one another for the first time since 1982 at a private gala to mark 50 years since songwriting duo Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson met for the first time in Stockholm. The impromptu performance reportedly began when Agnetha Faltskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstadon recited their 1980 hit “Me and I” as a tribute to Andersson and Ulvaeus, before the two others joined in and made the reunion official.
The final day of the sell-out Rock am Ring music festival in Germany was cancelled after lightning hurt at least 80 fans. At least eight people were seriously injured by the lightning strike. Red Hot Chili Peppers were among several bands, including Black Sabbath, Foals, Deftones and We Are Scientists, who were part of the line-up at the festival.
Bobby Curtola, a Canadian teen idol who reached #41 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Fortuneteller” in 1962, passed away at the age of 73. Over his career Curtola achieved 25 Canadian Gold singles and 12 Canadian Gold albums.
– Daniel Emmett introduced “I Wish I was in Dixie’s Land.” About two years later the song became the Civil War song of the Confederacy.
Tupelo, Mississippi
1935-1948
1935-1940
306 Old Satillo Road, Elvis’ birthplace, is now 306 Elvis Presley Drive.
, 1938
After seven years of singing on the radio, Kate Smith began a new noontime talk show.
Vernon Presley awaiting prison ( May 25 1938 to February 6 1939)
April 4,1939
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra recorded their theme song, “Moonlight Serenade.”
Vernon Presley in prison ( May 25 1938 to February 6 1939)
1940-41
Reese Street, where the Presleys stayed with Vester and Clettes Presley and their daughter Patsy,
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.
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
1951
At CBS 30th Street Studio in New York City, Tony Bennettrecorded “Because Of You.”
1953
The Stargazers were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Broken Wings.’ The first record by any British group to reach No.1. Stargazers’ member Fred Dachtler is the father of Clark Datchler of 80’s group Johnny Hates Jazz.
The Sun Records Rockabilly Era
1954
Maestro Arturo Toscanini conducted his last concert with the NBC Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York City ending a 17-year association with the orchestra.
The Presleys lived at 2414 Lamar Avenue, rented til the end of 1954 to mid-1955
Elvis Presley played the first of two nights in San Diego Arena in San Diego, California. The local Police chief issued a statement saying if Elvis ever returned to the city and performed like he did, he would be arrested for disorderly conduct.
Elvis backstage at the San Diego Arena – Apr. 4, 1956 Photo courtesy Glen Glenn and ETMM/TrevorCajiao
Elvis performed at the San Diego, CA Arena California.
WEAR IT ALWAYS – Elvis Presley autographs the arm of Barbara Shepherd, 12, 2335 Seabreeze Dr. last night at the Arena as another admirer, Kathy Rawlings, 13, 5530 Bolivar St., watches.
Raquel Welch, though not born in San Diego, had attended Bay Park Elementary School and graduated high school in La Jolla in 1957. At age 14 she got tickets to the first show and sat eagerly waiting among thousands of screaming teenage girls when Elvis hit that stage. Her movie debut would be in Roustabout – the girl in the shower Elvis steals a towel from.
The Presleys lived at at 1414 Getwell Street until May 11 1956 – Audobon Drive March 1957
1957
The Presleys lived at Audobon Drive, Graceland purchased on March 19.
The Military Service Disruption
1958
The Platters released the single “Twilight Time.”
Military service at Fort Hood, TX, for basic training as part of the Second Armored Division. He was stationed there for six months.
1959
Buddy Holly’s song “It Doesn’t Matter Anymore” hit #13. It was the first posthumous release from Holly after his tragic plane crash.
The Elvis Presley compilation album “For LP Fans Only” hit #19 in the U.S.
Military Service – Elvis on a publicity date with Vera Tschechowa
Elvis arm wrestles Irene Mann, German Film Director
Feb 3 1959 – March 1960: Goethestr.14 in Bad Nauheim, Germany
The Hollywood Decade/The Elvis Establishment
1960
RCA Victor Records announces that it will release all Pop singles in mono and stereo simultaneously, the first record company to do so. Elvis Presley’s single, “Stuck on You” is RCA’s first mono / stereo release.
Percy Faith’s “The Theme From ‘A Summer Place'” was #1 for the seventh week in a row, and it wasn’t close to done.
The Everly Brothers released their first Warner Bros. single, “Cathy’s Clown.”
RCA Victor Records announces that it will release all Pop singles in mono and stereo simultaneously, the first record company to do so. Elvis Presley’s single, “Stuck on You” is RCA’s first mono / stereo release.
Elvis is Back recording session: At RCA Studio B in Nashville, Elvis Presley recorded nine songs, including “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” and “Such A Night,” which were later released as singles.
Elvis bought women’s clothing for more than $1,300 at Laclede’s on Union Avenue.
Bye Bye Birdie opens in theatres, Ann-Margaret plays The Fan Who Kisses the Elvis Character. her next movie would be Viva Las Vegas with Elvis.
1964
“People”…by Barbra Streisand debuted.
The Beatles make music history with the top 5 songs on Billboard Hot 100, and another nine singles on the chart, bringing their total to fourteen singles on the USA Hot 100:
No. 1, “Can’t Buy Me Love”
No. 2, “Twist and Shout”
No. 3, “She Loves You”
No. 4, “I Want to Hold Your Hand”
No. 5, “Please Please Me”
The Beatles also had nine other singles on the USA Hot 100 for a total of 14 at the same time. still a record.
In Canada, they had nine of the Top 10 singles, while the Australian charts saw them occupying the first six places.
Meet the Beatles! was the #1 album for the eighth consecutive week.
Jimi Hendrix appeared on the first edition of the U.K. BBC-TV show Dee Time along with Kiki Dee and Cat Stevens.
Paul McCartney told Monterey Pop Festival organizer (and Beatles publicist) Derek Taylor that the Festival should invite a guitarist named Jimi Hendrix.
From the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Apollo 6 began a 10-hour flight, the final unmanned test of the Saturn V launch vehicle that gave the agency enough confidence to use it for manned launches.
At 6:01 p.m., local time, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.was shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. After emergency chest surgery, King was pronounced dead at St. Joseph’s Hospital at 7:05 p.m. He was 39 years old.
James Brown made a national television appeal for calm following the assassination of Martin Luther King.
Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Al Kooper and Ted Nugent jammed at an all-night blues, folk and rock session at the New Generation Club in New York after hearing news of Martin Luther King’s assassination.
April 4 Bobby Goldsboro received a Gold record for the single, “Honey”, which had spent 13 weeks on the Billboard chart, including five weeks at number one. It remains heavily played on the radio to this day and has been covered many times, although Todd Leopold of CNN named it the “Worst Song of All Time” in April 2006. Blogger Nina says Sandy Posey’s I was Born a woman is worse, Honey is in the top 10 of icky songs best forgotten.
The Jackson 5 reached #1 on the R&B chart with “ABC”.
Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” logged a sixth week at #1 on the Adult chart.
The classic song “Bridge Over Troubled Water” stood tall at #1 for a sixth week for Simon & Garfunkel. The Beatles patiently waited with “Let It Be” while a solo hit from John Lennon–“Instant Karma” was third.
Crosby Stills Nash & Young went to No.1 on the US album chart with Deja Vu. The first album which saw Neil Young joining Crosby, Stills and Nash featured three US Top 40 singles: ‘Teach Your Children’, ‘Our House’ and ‘Woodstock’.
The superb album Bridge Over Troubled Water, one of The Top 20 Albums of the Rock Era* on Inside the Rock Era, was #1 on the Album chart for a sixth week. Deja Vu, the first album to feature Neil Young with the trio of Crosby, Stills & Nash, debuted at #9.
Janis Joplin reunited with Big Brother & the Holding Company at a concert in San Francisco, California.
1971
1972
Elvis Presley released the single “An American Trilogy,” recorded during one of his concerts at the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas in February 1972. Despite the advertisement, the Elvis Standing Room Only LP was not released.
The Supremes appeared at the Granada Cinema in Tooting, England, the last date on a 20-day U.K. tour.
NBC aired the Elvis Presley tv special “Aloha From Hawaii.” It was the first American airing of the performance. Overnight Nielsen ratings indicated that 33.8 percent of all American televisions were tuned to Elvis’s concert – the rest watched Super Bowl VII, or not at all.
Elvis was at home in Los Angeles where he saw the Aloha From Hawaii broadcast on NBC at 8,30 p.m broadcast in the USA/Canada.
A formal offer is made to Elvis about “Star Is Born.” and the Colonel responds with a counter offer for Elvis’ services on the 14, which was subsequently rejected.
1976
The Sex Pistols played the first night of a residency at the El Paradiso club in Soho, London, England.
1977
ABBA received a Gold record for the album Arrival.
Elvis learned that Red West and cousin Sonny West along with Dave Hebler signed a book deal for “Elvis What Happened” Elvis is admitted to a Memphis hospital for a six day stay (April 1-6), suffering from fatigue and intestinal flu.
The Wake and Aftermath
1981
Smokey Robinson was the #1 R&B song with his solo hit “Being With You”.
Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb remained on top of the Adult Contemporary chart for the fourth week with “What Kind Of Fool”.
Blondie held on to #1 with “Rapture”, while “Woman” by the late John Lennon was second. Styx’s “The Best Of Times” peaked at 3 while Hall & Oates made a bid for another #1 with “Kiss On My List”. Don McLean’s remake of the Roy Orbison song “Crying” remained fifth. The rest of the Top 10: “Hello Again” from Neil Diamond, Grover Washington, Jr. & Bill Withers edged up with “Just The Two Of Us”, REO Speedwagon’s former #1 “Keep On Loving You”, Steve Winwood scored his first solo Top 10 with “While You See a Chance” and “What Kind Of Fool” represented the 44th career hit for Barbra Streisand and the 38th for Barry Gibb.
Paradise Theater became Styx’s first #1 album. The Chicago group broke a record with four consecutive albums to go triple platinum (3 million sales).
The documentary film “This is Elvis” premiered at the USA Film Festival in Dallas, TX. The film was premiered for the press the previous day.
“This is Elvis,” based on the life of Elvis Presley, opened in U.S. and Canadian movie theaters. It combined archival footage with reenactments, and narration by Elvis soundalike, singer Ral Donner.
1983 Elvis Presley Enterprises/Graceland Tourism
1983
Danny Rapp of Danny And The Juniors, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His band achieved two classic 1950’s hits, “At the Hop” (#1) and “Rock and Roll is Here to Stay” (#19). He was 41 years old.
1984 Actor ExWife: Priscilla Presley
1985
The Eurythmics released the single “Would I Lie To You”.
1987
Jody Watley controlled the R&B chart for a third week with “Looking For A New Love”.
“Mandolin Rain” by Bruce Hornsby was #1 on the AC chart for the third straight week.
Starship officially had their second #1 song of their career with “Nothing’s Gonna’ Stop Us Now”,
U2 entered the US album chart at No.7 with The Joshua Tree making it the highest chart new entry in America for seven years.
1989
Pepsi-Cola announces that it will no longer run the commercial that features Madonna’s “Like A Prayer” after religious groups in the US protest. They would continue to broadcast the ad in Canada.
1992
“Save The Best For Last” by Vanessa Williams was #1 for a third week. Mariah Carey scored her seventh straight Top 10 to open her career as “Make It Happen” moved in.
Bruce Springsteen hit #1 in the U.K. with his album Human Touch.
1996
The ashes of Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead were scattered in the Ganges River in India.
1998
Madonna’s “Frozen” peaked at #2, tying her with Elvis Presley and Creedence Clearwater Revival for the most #2 hits in the Rock Era. Blogger Nina Notes. 1956 and 1957 were no longer counted in this decade to favour current artists.
2000
Pink released her first album Can’t Take Me Home.
Diana Ross announced that she would reunite with the Supremes. The two members of the Supremes at the time had joined after Ross had left the trio.
2003 Recording Artist: Daughter Lisa Marie Presley
2003
50 Cent became the best selling artist in the US so far this year when his latest album ‘Get Rich or Die Tryin’ sold more than four million copies in two months.
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers premiered “Black Leather Woman” on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.
Performing at Bangalore Palace in the middle of a monsoon, the Rolling Stones made their concert debut in India.
2004
Nickelback won Best Group at the Canadian Juno Awards.
2007
Rolling Stones‘ guitarist Keith Richards issued a statement that said he was joking when he told NME magazine that the strangest thing he ever snorted was his father’s ashes. “It was an off-the-cuff remark, a joke and it is not true. File under April Fools’ joke”.
2008
The Rolling Stones documentary Shine a Light opened in theaters.
Procol Harum’s Gary Brooker won back his full royalty rights to “A Whiter Shade Of Pale” at the Court of Appeals in London. The decision overturned a 2006 ruling that organist Matthew Fisher was entitled to a 40% portion of the royalties for the 1967 hit after Fisher argued that he had written the organ melody for the song. The Appeals Court ruled that there had been an “excessive delay” in the claim (40 years after the song came out).
2010
Laughter in the Rain, a musical based on the life of Neil Sedaka, premiered at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley, England.
2011 Actor: Granddaughter Riley Keough
2011
Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr reached out to cancer survivor Alexx Kipp through the Make-A-Wish Foundation by meeting him at the Hard Rock Cafe in Los Angeles, where they chatted and played drums together. Ringo later surprised Kipp by giving him his drum set.
2012
The surviving members of The Jacksons, Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon and Tito, announced that they were reforming for the first time since 1984. A six week series of concert dates during June and July, called The Unity Tour, would see them perform their classic hits once again.
2013
Former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman turned himself in to British police after reports emerged suggesting he began a sexual relationship with his second wife, Mandy Smith, when she was 14 years old. After a brief meeting, the authorities decided not to pursue charges.
Legendary blues guitarist B.B. King was heckled by audience members during a concert in St. Louis, Missouri for giving what they later called a weak performance. After paying up to $150 to see the 88-year-old King, several people walked out.
2016
It was reported that David Bowie had dominated the UK album charts for the first quarter of 2016. Bowie had the most entries to the chart with six albums in the top 40, after fans sought out his music in the wake of his death in January with his final album Blackstar becoming the second best selling album of the year so far, (behind Adele’s 25).
Celebrating 30 years in the music business and 100 singles released, 
