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Tupelo, Mississippi
1935-1948
Memphis, Tennessee
1949 – 1977
The Sun Records Rockabilly Era
September 5, 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
September 5, 1955
Elvis performed at the St. Francis County Fair and Livestock Show Jamboree, Smith Stadium, Forrest City, Arkansas. Elvis was the main act on a 5-day tour with Johnny Cash, Bud Deckelman, Floyd Cramer and Eddie Bond. Back in 1954 Elvis auditioned once for Eddie Bond without success. Gladys Presley was sitting behind the trailer on which Elvis performed.
The RCA Victor Atomic Powered Singer
September 5, 1956
There was a recording session in the 20th Century Fox soundstage for the film Love Me Tender. Elvis continued to work on the vocals for a new song, Let Me, and another verse for the song Poor Boy.
The Presleys lived at Audobon Drive
September 5, 1957
Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” was first published.
Elvis made a start with his Christmas album which Steve Sholes wanted for some time now. This all took place at Radio Recorders and he also recorded 3 songs for single release. Including Treat Me Nice. The regular Hollywood musicians were joined by Millie Kirkham and the Jordanaires from 12.00 to 8.00 p.m.
The Presleys lived at Graceland
The Military Service Disruption
September 5, 1958
In Charlotte, North Carolina, the “The Betty Freezor Show” on WBTV-TV became the first color videotaped program ever broadcast.
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 5, 1959
Military Service in Germany
Feb 3 1959 – March 1960: Goethestr.14 in Bad Nauheim, Germany
The Hollywood Decade/The Elvis Establishment
September 5, 1960
Annette Funicello’s “Pineapple Princess” entered the Billboard Pop chart, where it will reach #11.
The principal photography began at the Monorail terminal of the Seattle World’s Fair. A very young Kurt Russel was part of the scene. He had to kick Elvis in the shin.
September 5, 1963
The Rolling Stones kicked off their fourth UK tour at The Astoria London. A 32-date package tour with Mike Berry and the Innocents The Mojos and Simon Scott and the Leroy’s.
“And I Love Her” by The Beatles peaks at #12 on the US singles chart while “If I Fell” stalled at #53.
The Animals started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘House Of The Rising Sun’. When first released the record company printed the time of the song on the record as three minutes feeling that the real time of four minutes was too long for radio airplay. To promote the group in the US, disc jockeys were sent boxes of animal crackers wrapped with special promotional material. The band would continue to turn out hits like “We Gotta Get Out of This Place”, “It’s My Life”, “Don’t Bring Me Down”, “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”, “Monterey” and “San Franciscan Nights” before splitting up at the end of the decade.
September 5, 1965
Sonny & Cher made their first live UK appearance when they appeared at the 100 Club in London.
The Rolling Stones recorded their eighth single ‘Get Off Of My Cloud’ at RCA studios in Hollywood. The song peaked at No.1 in the US and the UK.
After having his Beatle haircut chopped off and donning his once hated wire framed glasses, John Lennon started work on his role as Private Gripweed in the film ‘How I Won The War’. The black comedy directed by Richard Lester, was filmed in Spain in Almería Province and saw Lennon, taking a long-overdue break from The Beatles after nearly four years of constant touring.
September 5, 1967
September 5, 1968
On their first ever visit to the UK The Doors appeared on Top Of The Pops performing ‘Hello I Love You’ live on the TV show.
Elvis spent most of September in Palm Springs.
September 5, 1969
The Vegas Artist in Residence and Tour Decade
The Wake and Aftermath
1982 Elvis Presley Enterprises/Graceland Tourism
1984 Actor ExWife: Priscilla Presley
2003 Recording Artist: Daughter Lisa Marie Presley
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Tupelo, Mississippi
1935-1948
Memphis, Tennessee
1949 – 1977
The Sun Records Rockabilly Era
September 3, 1955
Billboard magazine reports that independent record manufacturers are continuing to expand at an unprecedented rate. They took in $20 million last year.
Band leader Mitch Miller had the number one tune on the Billboard pop chart with “The Yellow Rose Of Texas”, a song that was written in 1853. Although he was a powerful A&R man and a brilliant producer, Miller made no secret of the fact that he hated Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Bill Haley And His Comets turn down a $2,000 offer for a 15 date tour of Australia because of their fear of flying. Bill Haley files a law suit against Dave Miller of Essex Records. Haley asks the court to ban Miller from issuing recordings that Haley made while under an Essex contract. The suit describes the recordings as “of inferior quality to said plaintiffs current releases.”
Elvis performed three shows over 2 venues: first at the Big “D” Jamboree, Dallas, TX Sportatorium and later that night at the RoundUp Club, Dallas.
The RCA Victor Atomic Powered Singer
September 3, 1956
Love Me Tender : For the 3rd day Elvis went to the Radio Recorders studio on Santa Monica Boulevard, to finish the session. He worked from 2.00 to 8.30 p.m.
14,600 Fans Squeal, Jump As Elvis Shakes, Gyrates”
The Oregonian (September 3, 1957) (Concert Review)
“Presley Fans Demented” by John Kirkwood
Vancouver Sun (September 3, 1957) (Article 1)(Article 2)
“Haircut Doesn’t Faze Elvis, As Long As It Grows Back”
Vancouver Sun (September 3, 1957) (Article)
The Presleys lived at Audobon Drive
September 3, 1957
Elvis went from Portland to Los Angeles by train, where he checked into the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
The Presleys lived at Graceland
The Military Service Disruption
September 3, 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.
The Presleys live in a rented house off base.
September 3, 1959
The Browns, a trio consisting of siblings Maxine, Bonnie and Jim Ed, break into the Billboard Top 40 with their rendition of a Country flavored tune called “The Three Bells”. The record would go on to top the Hot 100, the Country chart, and somewhat surprisingly, the Billboard R&B chart.
MusicWorld: The Browns
“A Big Hunk Of Love” becomes Elvis Presley‘s fourteenth straight Gold record. Recorded in Nashville while he was still in the Army, it was the first of Presley’s hits that did not include guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black.
Military Service in Germany
Feb 3 1959 – March 1960: Goethestr.14 in Bad Nauheim, Germany
After playing a lunchtime show at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, The Beatles played the first of three Monday night gigs at The Queen’s Hall, Widnes, Cheshire. Also on the bill, Billy Kramer and the Coasters, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes and Sonny Kaye and the Reds. Tickets cost 3/6.
The Beatles appeared at The Cavern Club in Liverpool for the very last time. They had performed 274 concerts at the dingy, basement club since their debut there 2 1/2 years earlier. Their first gig paid them 5 Pounds ($14) and their last brought in 300 Pounds ($840).
The Beach Boys release “Surfer Girl”, which would climb to #7 in the US by September. It was the first song Brian Wilson ever wrote and the first one he produced. Its flip-side, “Little Deuce Coupe”, proved to be The Beach Boys’ most successful B-side, reaching #15 in America and becoming a hot rod classic.
A Rolling Stones gig in Dublin, Ireland ended in a riot after 30 fans jumped onto the stage. Jagger was knocked to the floor as the rest of the band fled the stage.
Donovan went to No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Sunshine Superman’, a No.2 hit in the UK. The track featured then Yardbird and future Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page.
The last Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet TV show , with son Rick Nelson, airs on ABC.
Elvis Presley’s album “Paradise Hawaiian Style” hit #7 in the U.K.
September 3, 1968
After a two week absence, Ringo Starr rejoins The Beatles. He had quit the band when he found out that Paul McCartney had been erasing his drum tracks for “The White Album” and replacing them with his own. Upon Ringo’s return to the studio, he found his drum kit covered with flowers to welcome him back.
The Doors scored their second Billboard number one single with “Hello, I Love You”, a #15 hit in the UK.
Elvis spent most of September in Palm Springs.
September 3, 1969
The Elvis Presley film “The Trouble With Girls (And How To Get Into It)” premiered in the U.S.
The Vegas Artist in Residence and Tour Decade
September 3, 1970
Elvis did Dinner and Midnight Vegas Shows
September 3, 1971
Paul McCartney announced the formation of his new band, Wings with his wife Linda on keyboards, drummer Denny Seiwell and guitarist Denny Laine.
Ringo Starr receives a Gold record for “It Don’t Come Easy”, which went to #4 in both the US and the UK. Ringo was given full writer’s credit even though it was later revealed that George Harrison not only helped him, but may have written the bulk of the song.
Elvis did Dinner and Midnight Vegas Shows
September 3, 1972
Elvis did a 3 am show along with the Dinner and Midnight Vegas Shows
September 3, 1973
Elvis did Dinner and Midnight Vegas Shows
Elvis with Sten Berglind, a reporter from a Swedish newspaper and Todd Slaughter on September 3, 1973 in Las Vegas
This was a very memorial day for Elvis and the group. Elvis concluded the engagement by arriving on stage for his final show on Lamar’s back with a toy monkey attached to his neck.
Then he joked around with the crowd, tossing back and forth on a bed (provided by Sonny on stage), while singing What Now My Love. He even mentioned that he was treated poorly by the Hotel. At the end of the show he tried to make up for this by stating: ” I know we kid a lot and have fun and everything, but we really love to sing, play music and entertain people. As long as I can do that, I’ll be a happy old sonofabitch.”
The Colonel was not pleased at all, by Elvis’ behaviour and they even got into a public shouting in the dressing room with a lot of members of the group present at that time. Later that night Elvis fired the Colonel, but the Colonel had already quitted himself. He wanted all the money Elvis owed him and then he moved to his suite to draw up the bill.
Elvis and Shiela Ryan head out for the show above, with below, Elvis Presley and Stephanie Spruill in a rare photo opportunity, back stage at Ceasers Palace after one of her many successful performances
The Colonel was not pleased at all, by Elvis’ behaviour and they even got into a public shouting in the dressing room with a lot of members of the group present at that time. Later that night Elvis fired the Colonel, but the Colonel had already quitted himself. He wanted all the money Elvis owed him and then he moved to his suite to draw up the bill.
Elvis and Shiela Ryan head out for the show above, with below, Elvis Presley and Stephanie Spruill in a rare photo opportunity, back stage at Ceasers Palace after one of her many successful performances
September 3, 1974
Elvis went to a Tom Jones’ show at Caesars Palace, accompanied by Sheila.
An all-star jam session took place at a party in Los Angeles for actor Peter Sellers’ 50th Birthday. The line-up for the group who named themselves the Trading Faces: Bill Wyman on bass, Ronnie Wood, Jesse Ed Davis, and Danny Kortchmar on guitars, Keith Moon organ and drums, Joe Cocker, vocals, Nigel Olsson, drums and David Bowie and Bobby Keys on sax.
September 3, 1976
Elvis performed on tour at the Bayfront Center, St. Petersburg, Florida.
Elvis Presley’s single “Way Down” hit #1 in the U.K.
The album “The Elvis Presley Sun Collection” hit #16 in the U.K.
The month after his death, Elvis Presley had 27 albums and 9 singles in the Top 100 charts in the UK. ‘Moody Blue’ was the No.1 album while ‘Way Down’ was No.1 on the singles chart, (putting him equal with The Beatles each amassing 17 No.1 hits).
1982 Elvis Presley Enterprises/Graceland Tourism
1984 Actor ExWife: Priscilla Presley
1992
The Beach Boys released their 27th studio LP, “Summer in Paradise”. It did not sell very well, partially because it was overshadowed by a Beach Boys box set issued the following week. The band did not record another album of original material until “That’s Why God Made the Radio” in 2012.
1993
Motown Records was sold to the Dutch recording and entertainment company Polygram for $325 million. That was more than five times the $61 million Motown founder Berry Gordy got for the company when he sold it to an investment group in 1988.
1999
The largest music bootleg bust in US history was made. It was estimated that this one operation alone was responsible for $100 million in lost revenues. Recording equipment valued at $250,000 was confiscated, as were almost 1 million CDs and tapes.
2002
The Rolling Stones 40th anniversary Licks tour kicked off at the Fleet Centre Boston. Tickets for the best seats cost $224. The world tour would see the band playing to over 2.5m fans over 100 shows.
2003 Recording Artist: Daughter Lisa Marie Presley
2004
Sir Cliff Richard stunned the music industry by ending his contract with EMI records and signing with Eminem’s label Universal Music. Cliff had sold over 250 million records with EMI during his 46 year career.
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Tupelo, Mississippi
1935-1948
1933
The Century of Progress Exposition (World’s Fair) opened in Chicago. Originally designed to celebrate the city’s centennial, it came to symbolize hope for the future of Chicago, and America, in the midst of the Great Depression.
Memphis, Tennessee
1949 – 1977
1950
Frank Sinatra made his television debut on NBC’s Bob Hope-hosted “Star-Spangled Review.”
The Sun Records Rockabilly Era
1954
Twenty days after Uncle Sam called Clyde McPhatter, the Drifters’ “Honey Love” was released. It became their second #1 R&B hit of three releases.
“That’ll Be the Day” by Buddy Holly And The Crickets is released. The Nashville rendition of this song, done by Buddy Holly and the Three Tunes in July 1956 and released on the Decca label, failed to chart. This new version, recorded in February 1957 at Norman Petty’s studio in Clovis, New Mexico went to #1. The song would reach #1 in the UK and #3 in the US and was later ranked at #39 on Rolling Stone’s list of The 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time. In 2005, the recording was placed in the National Recording Registry, a list of sound recordings that “are culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States.” It was also the first song to be recorded by The Quarrymen, the skiffle group that subsequently became The Beatles.
At Norman Petty’s studio in Clovis, New Mexico, At Norman Petty’s studio in Clovis, New Mexico, Buddy Holly and the Crickets recorded “Not Fade Away” and “Everyday.” recorded “Not Fade Away” and “Everyday.”
Toronto radio station CHUM went to a Top 40 format and published its first hit record chart 50 years ago today, in 1957. The No. 1 song was Elvis Presley’s All Shook Up. The 1,500th issue of the chart made its appearance on March 14, 1986, making it the oldest surviving radio station chart in North America. The chart was discontinued later in 1986 when CHUM dropped its Top 40 format.
Jackie Wilson broke the attendance record at the Apollo Theater in New York while performing for a week. Meanwhile, the Philadelphia Arena hosted a rock ‘n’ roll extravaganza featuring LaVern Baker, the Coasters, Llyod Price, Little Anthony & the Imperials, Bo Diddley, Jimmy Jones, Sammy Turner, and Jimmy Reed.
May 27, 1961
Johnny Cash appeared on “The Deputy,” the NBC-TV western series starring Henry Fonda.
May 27, 1962
Like many other Sundays in Hollywood Elvis and the guys played football at De Neve Park near Elvis’ home and Elvis’ team was suspiciously invincible.
Ruth Brown appeared at the Cafe Tia Juana in Cleveland. Brown was once asked by a reporter, “At what point did rhythm & blues start becoming rock ‘n’ roll?” Without hesitation she fired back: “When the white kids started to dance to it.”
The album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan was released by Columbia in the USA. Establishing Bob Dylan as a leader in the singer-songwriter genre and a supposed spokesman for the youth-orientated protest movement, it reached No.22 in the US charts and No.1 in the UK charts. The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan showcased Dylan’s songwriting talent for the first time and propelled him to national and international fame.
The Beatles released “From Me To You” b/w “Thank You Girl” on the Vee-Jay label in the U.S. It failed to chart, but later in the year a Del Shannon cover version of “From Me To You” became the first Lennon-McCartney composition to enter the U.S. pop chart.
Elvis went to RCA’s Studio B in Nashville and recorded from 7.00 p.m. to 4.00 a.m.
In London, prior to his concert at the Royal Albert Hall, Bob Dylan welcomed the Beatles in his dressing room. Paul McCartney, who was eager to impress the singer, played him an electronic version of a song that would later become “Tomorrow Never Knows.” Dylan laughed and left the room after saying to Paul, “Oh, I get it, you don’t want to be cute anymore.”
Elvis went into the recording studio from 7.00 p.m. to 5.00 a.m.
The RCA Victor and Columbia labels announced that on June 1 they would raise the list price of their record albums by a dollar to $4.98. It was the first increase since 1953.
Otis Redding‘s backup band, The Bar-Kays, enter the US charts with “Soul Finger”, an instrumental that will peak at #3 R&B and #17 Pop. Six months later, four members of the band died in the plane crash that killed Redding.
Elvis Presley’s single “That Someone You Never Forget” hit #92 in the U.S.
Elvis Presley’s single “You Gotta Stop/Love Machine” hit #38 in the U.K.
May 27, 1968
At the Capitol Tower Recording Studio in Hollywood, Glen Campbell recorded “Wichita Lineman.”
Hawaii Vacation and USS Arizona Memorial visit
The Vegas Artist in Residence and Tour Decade
May 27, 1974
Backstage after a Jackson 5 show at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas, 6-year-old Lisa Marie Presley was introduced to 15-year-old Michael Jackson.
Elvis performed in Tahoe.
May 27, 1976
Elvis performed at the Athletic Center, Bloomington, Indiana, which was the first show of a short tour of 11 days.
“Presley’s evolution from a skinny young rebel to the well-heeled showman makes for the ideal statement about what can happen to a person or a country, if they have the right attitude.”
Virgin Records releases the anti-establishment anthem “God Save The Queen” by The Sex Pistols. UK sales will reach over 150,000 in the first five days, despite the fact that major retailers refuse to sell the record and the BBC bans it from air-play. Against all odds, the single still reached #2 on the UK singles chart. It sold 200,000 copies in one week and peaked at No.2 on the UK charts behind Rod Stewart’s ‘I Don’t Want to Talk About It’. There have been persistent rumours, (never confirmed or denied), that it was actually the biggest-selling single in the UK at the time, and the British Phonographic Industry conspired to keep it off the No.1 slot.
At the Nashville club in London, Declan McManus made his stage debut as Elvis Costello.
Elvis performed at the Broome county Veterans Memorial Arena, Binghamton, New York
The Beach Boys and Chicago began touring together for the first time in 14 years. Brian Wilson joined the group for a few shows during the tour.
Cliff Richard released his one hundredth single, ‘The Best Of Me’, which became his 26th Top 3 UK hit.
2003 Recording Artist: Daughter Lisa Marie Presley
2005
Robbie Williams was voted into first place beating Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix and David Bowie to be named the best live solo artist. A UK nation-wide survey of 5,000 people saw the former Take That star beat music icons including Madonna, Michael Jackson and Bob Dylan. U2 were named best live band, ahead of Queen and Oasis, in a poll by Carling to celebrate the UK’s live music scene.
At the Capitol Tower Recording Studio in Hollywood, Glen Campbell recorded “Wichita Lineman.”
Hawaii Vacation and USS Arizona Memorial visit
There was a plaque that commemorated Elvis’s concert to raise funds for the memorial.
It was removed by the Federal government in 1987, citing Elvis as a poor role model – at the peak of the Elvis Aliver hysteria, which also had threatened the US Post Office issue the first Elvis Presley postal stamp, that same year.
Gracie Allen, comedic radio and TV star with partner/husband George Burns, is born in San Francisco, California (though the specific date of her birth is disputed).
1914
Erskine Hawkins, trumpeter and Big Band leader known for “Tuxedo Junction,” is born in Birmingham, Alabama.
Tupelo, Mississippi
1935-1940
306 Old Satillo Road, Elvis’ birthplace, is now 306 Elvis Presley Drive.
July 26. 1938
Vernon in prison
1939
Kay Starr recorded “Baby Me” with Glenn Miller and his orchestra.
Aat M. B. Parker Company, Elvis had a temporary job as an assembler. He worked there until the job ran out at the end of the month, making 90-cents an hour or $36.00 a week.
Elvis worked at Crown Electric for $1.00 an hour. He delivered supplies to the job sites and hoped to train to be an electrician. He stayed at Crown until mid-Oct
end of 1954 to mid-1955
2414 Lamar Avenue, rented
rented from mid-1955 to May, 11 1956.
1414 Getwell Street
Audobon Drive
The Sun Records Rockabilly Era
July 26. 1954
Elvis signed a formal contract with Sun Records, which had to be countersigned once again by his parents.
Cuban band leader Perez Prado, often referred to as the King of the Mambo, led his orchestra to the top of the Cashbox Best Sellers list with a song called “Patricia”. It would also be the last record to climb to #1 on the Billboard Jockeys and Top 100 charts, both of which gave way the next week to the newly introduced Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The Elvis Presley single “Hard-Headed Woman” hit #2 in the U.S.
The Rolling Stones album “Beggar’s Banquet” has its release delayed because of their record label’s objection to the album’s cover design, which featured a graffiti-covered bathroom wall. It was the first album on which Mick Jagger played guitar.
Jeannie C. Riley recorded “Harper Valley P.T.A.”.
The Jackson 5 signed a one-year recording contract with Motown Records.
Paul McCartney played the completed version of “Hey Jude” to John Lennon for the first time.
Henry Mancini’s “Love Theme From ‘Romeo & Juliet'” was #1 for the eighth straight week on the Adult chart.
“Honky Tonk Women” by the Rolling Stones exploded up the chart from #79 to #28,
The Chicago Transit Authority, Santana, the Guess Who, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, It’s A Beautiful Day, Lonnie Mack, and the Ike and Tina Revue performed on the second day of the Seattle Pop Festival at Gold Creek Park in Woodinville, Washington.
Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr. of the 5th Dimension were married.
Brian Jones, who was a founding member of The Rolling Stones, appears on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine following his death on July 3rd.
The Vegas Artist in Residence and Tour Decade
July 26. 1970
Jimi Hendrix played in his home town of Seattle for the last time when he appeared at Sicks Stadium.
That’s the Way It Is Production
July 26. 1971
Aretha Franklin released the single “Spanish Harlem”.
Lenny Hart, ex-manager of the Grateful Dead, was arrested in San Diego for embezzling $155,000 from the group.
Elvis did Dinner and Midnight Tahoe Shows.
Date:
26 Jul 1971
Time:
8.30pm
Venue:
Stateline NV.
Lake Tahoe Hotel
Tickets:
Unknown
Costume:
Unknown
Track list:
Unknown
Recordings:
0
At the beginning of You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’, the lights were all turned out as Elvis began the song. When the lights came back on, Elvis was wearing an ape mask!
Date:
26 Jul 1971
Time:
Midnight
Venue:
Stateline NV.
Lake Tahoe Hotel
Tickets:
Unknown
Costume:
Unknown
Track list:
Also Sprach Zarathustra
That’s All Right
Proud Mary
Jailhouse Rock
Love Me Tender
Johnny B. Goode
You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me
You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’
Polk Salad Annie
Love Me
Long Tall Sally/Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On
Blue Suede Shoes
Teddy Bear/Don’t Be Cruel
Heartbreak Hotel
Hound Dog
The Impossible Dream
Suspicious Minds
Bridge Over Troubled Water
I’m Leavin’
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Recordings:
0
Engagement – Tour Ref: Lake Tahoe Season 1 – Lake Tahoe July 20th – August 2nd 1971
John Denver earns a Gold record for his all-time biggest hit, “Annie’s Song”, a tribute to his then wife, Annie Martell. Denver would later say that he wrote the song in 10 minutes while he was on a ski-lift. Sadly, he and Annie would divorce in 1982.
The Allman Brothers Band appeared at Boston Garden, Boston, Massachusetts with The Eagles as the support band.
Elsewhere in Boston, the first Beatles convention was held.
London graffiti artists hired by the Rolling Stones‘ management spray paint various local sites as promotion for the group’s latest single, “It’s Only Rock N’ Roll.”
Elvis remained in Memphis for the rest of the month,
July 26. 1975
Van McCoy had the number one tune on the Billboard Hot 100 with “The Hustle”, a song that he claimed to have written in less than an hour. The Disco hit would reach #3 in the UK.
Olivia Newton-John remained at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart for a third week with “Please Mr. Please”.
“The Hustle” by Van McCoy moved to #1 with 10cc’s “I’m Not In Love” close behind. The Eagles were up to #3 with “One Of These Nights, Olivia Newton-John had a big hit with “Please Mr. Please” while Wings’ former #1 “Listen To What the Man Said” slipped to 5. The rest of the Top 10: Frankie Valli’s “Swearin’ To God”, the Bee Gees had their 22nd career hit with “Jive Talkin'”, Elton John moved from 15-8 with “Someone Saved My Life Tonight”, Melissa Manchester had her first hit with “Midnight Blue” and Gwen McCrae was still at 10 with “Rockin’ Chair”.
the Eagles started a five-week run at number one on the album chart with their fourth record, One of These Nights.
The Eagles moved into the #1 slot on the Album chart with One of These Nights. Venus and Mars by Wings had to take a back seat and the Captain & Tennille moved up to #3 with Love Will Keep Us Together. Elton John’s album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy was #4.
July 26. 1976
With three of the four original backing musicians now departed, the last Three Dog Night concert is held in Los Angeles. When they would re-unite in 1981, all the original members except bassist Joe Schermie came back onboard.
Elvis performed at the Community War Memorial Auditorium, Rochester, New York.
Date:
26 Jul 1976
Time:
8.30pm
Venue:
Rochester, NY.
Community War Memoria
Tickets:
10,000
Costume:
Bicentennial (blue) Suit
Track list:
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
And I Love You So
Jailhouse Rock
Fever
America
Polk Salad Annie
[band introductions]
Early Morning Rain
What’d I Say
Johnny B. Goode
Love Letters
School Days
Hurt
Hound Dog
Funny How Time Slips Away
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Recordings:
Engagement – Tour Ref: On Tour number 23 – July 23rd – August 5th 1976
Led Zeppelin cut short their 11th North American tour after Robert Plant’s five-year-old-son Karac died unexpectedly of a virus at their home in England, UK.
Elvis Costello was arrested as he performed outside a CBS Records sales conference at The London Hilton Hotel and was fined £5.
Elvis upstairs at Graceland to the balance of the month
The Wake and Aftermath
1979
The Clash released their first U.S. single. It was their remake of Bobby Fuller Four’s “I Fought The Law.” two years after it was originally released in Britain, The Clash’s self-titled debut album received an American release.
1980
The Rolling Stonesbegan a seven-week run on top of the album chart with their record Emotional Rescue. was the first Rolling Stones album recorded following Keith Richards’ exoneration from a Toronto drugs charge that could have landed him in jail for years.
April Wine, the Scorpions, Rainbow and Judas Priest headlined the Monsters of Rock Festival in Donington Park, England.
1982 Elvis Presley Enterprises/Graceland Tourism
1984
Prince’s movie “Purple Rain” premiered in Hollywood, CA.
1985
The unrelated three person group “The Thompson Twins” released the single “Lay Your Hands On Me”.
1986
Peter Gabriel scored a #1 with “Sledgehammer”, taking over from, ironically enough, Gabriel’s former group, Genesis (“Invisible Touch”). Kenny Loggins moved to challenge with “Danger Zone”, Janet Jackson was at 4 with “Nasty” and Peter Cetera saw “Glory Of Love” move up to #5. The rest of the Top 10: Madonna moved from 12-6 with “Papa Don’t Preach”, Rod Stewart’s “Love Touch” was at Song #7, Belinda Carlisle moved into the Top 10 with “Mad About You”, Simply Red were on their way down with the former #1 “Holding Back The Years” and Billy Joel’s “Modern Woman” was at #10.
The Soundtrack to “Top Gun” was #1 on the Album chart with Peter Gabriel’s So grabbing the runner-up position. Control from Janet Jackson was third, Genesis moved up with Invisible Touch and Patti LaBelle fell from the top with Winner in You. The rest of the Top 10: Love Zone from Billy Ocean, Whitney Houston’s self-titled album, Like a Rock from Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band, Madonna jumped up from 29 to 9 with True Blue and the Moody Blues were at 10 with The Other Side of Life.
1987
Billy Joel plays a concert in Leningrad, after which, audience members carry him out on their shoulders. The show is released as the album KOHUEPT (Concert).
1990
Brent Mydland, keyboard player for The Grateful Dead, was found dead of a drug overdose in his home in Lafayette, California. He was 37. He joined the band in 1979, replacing Keith Godchaux.
1992
Mary Wells, most often remembered for her hits “My Guy” and “You Beat Me To The Punch”, died of cancer of the larynx at the age of 49. When she was diagnosed in 1990, she had no medical insurance and lost her modest home in L.A. when she couldn’t pay the rent. Wells’ old Motown friends including Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, The Temptations and Martha Reeves, along with Dionne Warwick, Rod Stewart, Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin and Bonnie Raitt, personally pledged donations in support. The following year she received a six figure settlement from Motown Records after she filed a lawsuit for unpaid royalties. Mary was laid to rest in Glendale California’s Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
1994
Motown Records releases the Boyz II Men song “I’ll Make Love To You” against the group’s wishes – they think it sounds too much like their earlier hit “End of the Road.” In this case, the record company gets it right: the song becomes the biggest hit of 1994 in America.
1997
Puff Daddy and Faith Evans went back to No.1 on the UK singles chart for another three weeks with ‘I’ll Be Missing You’.
It was reported that eight people who had attended this years Glastonbury Festival had been admitted to hospital after contracting the E-Coll bug which had claimed the lives of 22 people in Scotland earlier in the year.
2000
A U.S. federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against Napster, Inc. The injunction had been requested by the Recording Industry of Association of America (RIAA). The website was ordered to cease trade in music covered by RIAA member copyrights by midnight July 28, 2000.
Oasis were booed of stage during a show at the Paleo Festival in Switzerland after singer Liam Gallagher had insulted the 35,000 strong audience.
VH-1 premiered the movie “Meatloaf: To Hell and Back.”
The Beastie Boys postponed their tour with Rage Against the Machine due to Mike D.’s shoulder injury incurred July 22 in a bicycle accident.
The celebrity management company Cassandra left dozens of acts out of pocket when it was rocked by fraud charges, filing for bankruptcy at the Manhattan Bankruptcy Court. Clients included Alanis Morissette, Pish and Afghan Wiggs.
2001
Catatonia singer Cerys Matthews was admitted to a rehabiliation centre, after collapsing with exhaustion. Her record company said the Welsh singer was “receiving treatment for exhaustion and a recurrent asthma complaint – both of which have been exacerbated by drinking and smoking”.
2002
the movie Austin Powers in Goldmember opened in cinemas. The movie marked the big screen debut of Beyoncé, who played Foxxy Cleopatra, and included a cameo by Britney Spears.
The movie Country Bears starring Don Henley premiered at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood, California.
Mariah Carey checked into a New York hospital for “extreme exhaustion” shortly after midnight. Bodyguards had rushed to her suite at the TriBeCa Grand Hotel in Manhattan, New York after hearing loud crashing noises. Carey had broken down into hysterics and had intentionally broken scores of dishes and glasses in the kitchenette. Carey suffered several cuts on her body from the outburst. She canceled all public appearances but her record company denied that she had tried to commit suicide.
2003 Recording Artist: Daughter Lisa Marie Presley
2003
Limp Bizkit appear at the Hawthorne Racetrack in Chicago as part of Metallica’s Summer Sanitarium tour with Deftones, Linkin Park and Mudvayne. But the crowd soon shows how they feel about frontman Fred Durst and his crew, as the band is booed and Durst is pelted with coins and bottles, leading him to launch into homophobic taunts. As a result, Limp Bizkit leaves the stage after 30 minutes and only six songs, but not before Durst challenges audience members to a fight.
Nicko McBrain, drummer of Iron Maiden, was arrested outside of Wantagh, New York after running over a parking attendant.
Mick Jagger celebrated his 60th birthday at a private party in Prague, Czech Republic.
Vegas mainstay Tom Jones in inducted into the Gaming Hall Of Fame, along with Harrah’s exec Phil Satre.
2006
The final edition of Top Of The Pops was recorded at BBC Television Centre in London. The show was co-hosted by yet to be charged with sex crime against children: Sir Jimmy Savile, the first presenter of the show. The Rolling Stones, who were the first band to appear on the show in 1964 performed, as did Madonna, Beyonce, the Spice Girls, Wham and Robbie Williams.
The guitar on which Paul McCartney learned his first chords sold for 330,000 Pounds at an auction at London’s Abbey Road Studios.
Arvel Jett Reeves, who bugged a jet used by singer Michael Jackson, intending to make recordings to sell to the media, was sentenced to eight months in jail.
2008
Paul Anka married Anna Yeager on the island of Sardinia.
2009
AC/DC singer Brian Johnson appeared as the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car on the BBC television programme Top Gear. His time of 1:45.9 tied him with Simon Cowell for the second fastest time. He was introduced by host Jeremy Clarkson as “a man who has sold more albums than The Beatles and I bet almost none of [the audience] have ever heard of him.”
2010 Actor: Granddaughter Riley Keough
2011
Ford became the first major auto manufacturer to announce plans to ditch the CD player in favor of a USB port. A company spokesperson said “The in-car CD player, much like pay telephones, is destined to fade away in the face of exciting new technology.” GM and Chrysler would follow in 2015, although the devices were still available on some models. CD players have been estimated to cost auto makers about $30 to install.
2012
Two people charged with attempting to extort $500,000 from Stevie Wonder over a video that portrays the Grammy-winning musician in a negative light, pleaded not guilty. Next September they would change their plea to no contest and were sentenced to time served.
Searching For Sugar Man, an Academy Award-winning documentary about Detroit Rocker Sixto “Sugar Man” Rodriguez, is released in the UK.
2013
J.J. Cale, singer, songwriter, guitarist and drummer, whose songs were recorded by artists such as Tom Petty, Eric Clapton, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Kansas, died of a heart attack in La Jolla, California at the age of 74. He became famous in 1970, when Eric Clapton covered his song ‘After Midnight’. In 1977 Clapton also popularised Cale’s ‘Cocaine’. The two worked together on an album which won a Grammy award in 2008.
Mike Shipley, producer and mixer for Foreigner, Queen, the Cars, Kelly Clarkson, AC/DC, Joni Mitchell, Tom Petty, Aerosmith, Jefferson Airplane, Def Leppard, Blondie, Van Halen, Michael Bolton, Green Day, Shania Twain, Cheap Trick, Faith Hill, Kim Carnes, Nickelback, Mr. Mister, the Clash, Meat Loaf, the Barenaked Ladies, Keith Urban, Winger, Devo, Berlin, Thomas Dolby, A Flock of Seagulls, and the Corrs, died of an apparent suicide in Studio City, California at age 56.
Jul 26, 2013 – Today is July 26. On this day in 1976, Elvis Presley rocked the Rochester War Memorial. The King played in Rochester two times throughout his …
2015
In a field just outside of Cesena, Italy, 1000 musicians and singers play Foo Fighters “Learn to Fly” simultaneously with the dream of attracting the band to play a show in their city for the first time in nearly 20 years.
Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of Bobby Brown and the late Whitney Houston, died almost six months after being found unconscious in her bathtub.
2016
A group of 40 or so Broadway stars takes the stage on Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia to sing “What the World Needs Now Is Love” in support of gun control legislation. These stars are part a group called Broadway For Orlando that was put together to record the song in honor of victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting on June 12, when 49 people were killed.
A video of celebrities performing an a cappella version of Rachel Platten’s “Fight Song” is shown at the Democratic National Convention before Hillary Clinton takes the stage to accept the nomination.
2017
A jury awards Quincy Jones $9.4 million in royalties for the use of Michael Jackson songs he produced in two Cirque du Soleil shows and the This Is It documentary. Jones filed suit in 2013, asking for $30 million.
2018
The Broadway musical Head Over Heels, an Elizabethan farce inspired by the music of The Go-Go’s, premieres at the Hudson Theatre in New York City.
2018
Paul McCartney plays a gig at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, where The Beatles did about 300 shows in the early ’60s. At one point, he chastises the crowd for using their phones.
Don’t Be Cruel to The King By John Christian Hopkins Social media is abuzz with the rumor that statues honoring Elvis Presley are about to be all shook
R&B singer and guitarist Smiley Lewis, known for the 1955 hit “I Hear You Knocking,” is born Overton Amos Lemons in DeQuincy, Louisiana.
1934
“Love in Bloom”, by Bing Crosby with Irving Aaronson’s orchestra, was recorded.
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.”
April 17, 1952 to May 28, 1952
Elvis worked as an user at Loew’s State Theatre
1953
Elvis had a temporary job as an assembler At M. B. Parker Company for the month of July, making 90-cents an hour or $36.00 a week.
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
July 5, 1954
Elvis, Scotty and Bill reported to Sun after work. This was his first commercial session. They tried to get something right, but Sam was not impressed.
Harbour Lights, nice, eventually released on the RCA Legendary Performer Series of what was thought to be bottom of the bin leftovers – masters of unreleased songs or substantially different versions or particular live performances.
I love You Because – sweet and not released by Sun but used by RCA to fill out Elvis’ first album – the Iconic Pink n Green Elvis Presley Hillbilly Cat Yowling Guitar
During a break Elvis burst out in “That’s All Right” and Sam Phillips demanded to know what Elvis was doing – and to do it again with the tape machine running. and he’s on the take, a hot damn little man, that’s a pop song now!
Not everyone was convinced of its commercial appeal. Upon hearing the playback, lead guitarist Scotty Moore said, “They’ll run us out of town when they hear this.”
Sam Phillips then rushed the one sided record to the biggest DJ in Memphis, Dewey Phillips (no relation) and it became Elvis’s breakout hit – and is the first rock n roll record that established the Rock n Roll band as Strings with drums later.
Ray Charles performed at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, RI. Atlantic Records recorded the performance for a live album.
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 with his parents, his grandmother Minnie, cousins Gene and Junior Smith, and friend Lamar Fike.
July 5, 1959
Military Service in Germany
Feb 3 1959 – March 1960: Goethestr.14 in Bad Nauheim, Germany
The Hollywood Decade/The Elvis Establishment
July 5, 1960
After returning from his army service, Elvis had 4 consecutive #1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart; “Stuck On You”, “It’s Now Or Never”, “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” and “Surrender”. The second single in this amazing string of hits was “It’s Now Or Never”. The single spent 5 weeks on the top spot, and are now Elvis’ bestselling single ever, besides “Hound Dog”! Some sources claim that the single has sold 25,000,000 copies worldwide.
RCA releases “It’s Now Or Never.” It was a number-one record in the U.S., with five weeks at number one and in the UK, where it spent eight weeks at the top in 1960 and an additional week at number one in 2005 as a re-issue, and numerous other countries, selling in excess of 25 million copies worldwide,
The Beatles played at the Plaza Ballroom in Dudley in the West Midlands. Appearing with The Beatles – Denny and the Diplomats, led by Denny Laine, who went on to join the Moody Blues and eventually, Paul McCartney’s group Wings.
Wilson Pickett released the single “In The Midnight Hour” so it could be added to radio stations in time for the reporting deadline and debut on that Saturday’s chart.
Berry Gordy, Jr., president of Motown Records, was the guest on the popular television show To Tell the Truth on CBS. The Supremes perform after his identity is revealed.
Marty Balin and Paul Kantner formed a Folk-Rock group that would evolve into the Jefferson Airplane, the premier San Francisco psychedelic band of the late ’60s. The Airplane made its debut the following month at a Haight-Ashbury club, and was signed to RCA later in the year.
Dick Clark launches a musical variety show called Where The Action Is, with Paul Revere & the Raiders as the house band. The show lasts 3 seasons on ABC and features many top musical acts of the era.
July 5, 1966
Chas Chandler of the Animals saw Jimi Hendrix at the Cafe Wha? in Manhattan, New York. Chandler became Hendrix’s manager.
Bill Medley, the great singer with the Righteous Brothers and later a solo performer, had an operation in Los Angeles to remove nodules on his vocal chords.
Ray Stevens performed “Ahab The Arab” on the television show Where the Action Is.
Chuck Berry and The Who at the Pop Proms in the Royal Albert Hall in London. The Albert Hall banned rock ‘n’ roll after over-zealous fans charged the stage.
Jerry Butler and the Impressions reunited on the popular television show American Bandstand.
The Rolling Stones gave a free concert in London’s Hyde Park before an audience of 250,000, as a tribute to Brian Jones who had died two days earlier. Mick Jagger read an extract from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘Adonais’ and released 3,500 butterflies; it was also guitarist’s Mick Taylor’s debut with the Stones, King Crimson, Family, The Third Ear Band, Screw and Alexis Korner’s New Church also appeared on the day.
Led Zeppelin, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker, Chuck Berry, Johnny Winter and Spirit performed on the final night of the Atlanta Pop Festival in Atlanta, Georgia.
Henry Mancini had Easy Listening audiences captivated with his instrumental “Love Theme From ‘Romeo & Juliet’“, which remained at #1 for the fifth week.
Henry Mancini’s great “Love Theme from ‘Romeo & Juliet’” remained at #1, with Blood, Sweat & Tears moving from 6-2 with “Spinning Wheel”. Creedence Clearwater Revival had their fourth hit and second Top 10 with “Bad Moon Rising”. Oliver moved up with “Good Morning Starshine” while Three Dog Night remained at five with their classic “One”. The Rest of a fantastic Top 10: The Beatles were at #6 with hit #57–“Get Back”, Tommy James & the Shondells moved from 18-7 with “Crystal Blue Persuasion”, Zager & Evans were headed somewhere in a hurry (moving 35-8) with “In The Year 2525”, the Winstons entered the Top 10 with “Color Him Father” and Marvin Gaye was on his way down with “Too Busy Thinking About My Baby”.
Elvis Presley’s “In The Ghetto” hit #2 in the U.K. The song was Presley’s first Top 10 hit in the US in four years, peaking at number 3, and his first UK Top 10 hit in three years, peaking at No. 2. It hit No. 1 on Cashbox. It was a number-one hit in West Germany, Ireland, Norway, Australia and New Zealand.
Elvis flew to Los Angeles to prepare for his Las Vegas opening.
The Vegas Artist in Residence and Tour Decade
July 5, 1970
Elvis flew to the West Coast by way of Chicago, where he checked into the Marriott during his layover.
July 5, 1971
Yet another Led Zeppelin concert went bad and police had to fire tear gas into the crowd at the Vigorelli Velodrome in Milan, Italy. Numerous arrests were made.
Elvis leaves for Los Angeles to start rehearsals for an engagement at the Sahara Tahoe beginning on July 20.
July 5, 1972
Three Dog Night released the single “Liar”.
Procol Harum and a new group called the Eagles were in concert at the Golden Hall in San Diego, California.
The Rolling Stones performed at the Norfolk Scope, Norfolk, Virginia.
July 5, 1973
Dobie Gray is awarded a Gold record for the biggest hit of his career, “Drift Away”. In 2002, Gray re-recorded this as a duet with Uncle Kracker. When the track reached the Billboard Top 10 in 2003, 30 years after the original, Gray broke the record for the biggest gap between US Top 10 appearances.
July 5, 1974
The Everly Brothers started their reunion tour at the Riverbend Music Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Linda Ronstadt records her breakthrough hit “You’re No Good” at the Sound Factory in Hollywood with producer Peter Asher.
David Bowie played at the Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina.
A major redecoration of Graceland begins today, orchestrated by girlfriend Linda Thompson, including the infamous “Jungle Room.” For his part, Elvis stays in a nearby Howard Johnson’s while the work is done.
Elvis remained in Memphis for the rest of the month, screening movies, shopping at Lansky’s and attending the opening game of the Football League.
Bad Company’s “Feel Like Making Love” was released.
Guitarists Keith Richards and Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones was arrested in Fordyce, Arkansas for reckless driving and possession of a concealed knife.
Steve Miller, Pink Floyd and Captain Beefheart were in concert at the Knebworth Festival in England.
The Carpenters had the top album in the U.K. with Horizon.
Captain & Tennille held on to #1 for a third week with “Love Will Keep Us Together”, Van McCoy’s instrumental “The Hustle” had people dancing all over the country and Wings moved up to #3 with “Listen To What The Man Said”. Michael Murphey’s amazing song “Wildfire” was at #4 while Major Harris was stalled with “Love Won’t Let Me Wait”. The rest of the Top 10: Pilot’s one and only hit “Magic”, Jessi Colter with “I’m Not Lisa” falling to 7, Linda Ronstadt at 8 after peaking at #2 with “When Will I Be Loved”, the Eagles moved from 16-9 with “One Of These Nights” and Olivia Newton-John also headed into the Top 10 with “Please Mr. Please”.
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy by Elton John was #1 on the Album chart, where it had been every week since its release back on June 7. Venus and Mars, the great album from Wings, was waiting to get a shot while the Eagles flew from 9 to 3 with One of These Nights. The Captain & Tennille moved to 4 with their debut Love Will Keep Us Together. The rest of the Top 10: That’s the Way of the World from Earth, Wind & Fire, Cut the Cake by Average White Band, Made in the Shade from the Rolling Stones at 7, the Stones with Metamorphosis at #8, the Soundtrack to “Tommy” at #9 and James Taylor’s Gorilla at #10.
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
Love Me
Fairytale
You Gave Me A Mountain
All Shook Up
Don’t Be Cruel
And I Love You So
Jailhouse Rock
Fever
America
One Night
That’s All Right
Blue Christmas
[band introductions]
Early Morning Rain
What’d I Say
Johnny B. Goode – Solos –
Love Letters
School Days
Hurt
Hound Dog
Funny How Time Slips Away
Help Me – How Great Thou Art
Softly, As I Leave You
Polk Salad Annie
Jambalaya
It’s Now Or Never
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Recordings:
Elvis’ last Memphis concert
Instead of the usual “Elvis has left the building” the 1970s memphis concerts end with “Elvis has left for Graceland”
Elvis at Graceland, and mostly upstairs at Graceland – for the balance of the month.
The Wake and Aftermath
1978
The manufacturing of Some Girls the new album by The Rolling Stones was halted at EMI’s pressing plant after complaints from celebrities including Lucille Ball who were featured in mock advertisements on the album sleeve.
1980
The Rolling Stones had the #1 album in the U.K. with Emotional Rescue.
At a concert in Munich, Simon Kirke of Bad Company joins Led Zeppelin to provide a two-drum assault on the song “Whole Lotta Love.” Kirke is the last guest musician to perform with the band, as the tour ends two days later and John Bonham dies in September.
1981
At the “Rock Werchter” festival in Belgium, The Cure play a 9-minute version of “A Forest” when they are told to hurry off stage so Robert Palmer can begin his set.
Rush appeared at Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, Wisconsin.
1982 Elvis Presley Enterprises/Graceland Tourism
1982
Paul McCartney released his latest single “Take It Away” in the United States.
Sun records musical director Bill Justis died of cancer aged 55. He worked with Sam Phillips at Sun Records, worked with also worked with Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Charlie Rich and Jerry Lee Lewis. Had the 1957 US No. 2 single ‘Raunchy’ (the first Rock and Roll instrumental hit). Also had a No.1 hit in Australia in 1963 with ‘Tamoure.’
Eric Clapton played at Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Maryland.
1984 Actor ExWife: Priscilla Presley
1984
In Cincinnati, the Everly Brothers began their reunion tour, playing together onstage again for the first time since 1973.
1986
Janet Jackson started a two-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Control’. The album featured the hit singles: ‘What Have You Done for Me Lately’, ‘Nasty’, ‘Control’, ‘When I Think of You’, and ‘Let’s Wait Awhile’.
“Your Wildest Dreams” by the Moody Blues took over at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
Billy Ocean went to #1 on the US singles chart with “There’ll Be Sad Songs, (To Make You Cry)”, a #12 hit in the UK.
Billy Ocean held down the #1 song with There’ll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)”. Simply Red had a smash at the runner-up position with “Holding Back The Years” and El DeBarge moved up with his solo release “Who’s Johnny”. Howard Jones edged up to 4 with “No One Is To Blame”. The Rest of the Top 10: Janet Jackson with “Nasty”, Genesis crawled up to 6 with “Invisible Touch”, the Jets crashed down with “Crush On You”, Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald took one of the biggest tumbles from #1 in the Rock Era, falling to #8, Peter Gabriel moved “Sledgehammer” to #9 while Kenny Loggins registered his 15th hit with “Danger Zone”.
Control from Janet Jackson became the new #1 album, with Whitney Houston falling to 3 after 67 weeks. Patti LaBelle stayed put with Winner In You at #2. Bob Seger had another solid album–Like a Rock at 4 and Peter Gabriel’s solo release So was at #5. The Rest of the Top 10: Billy Ocean at #6 with Love Zone, Van Halen’s 5150 dropping to 7, the Soundtrack to “Top Gun” moving into the Top 10 at #8, The Other Side of Life from the Moody Blues at #9 and Genesis moving from 23 to 10 in their second week with the album Invisible Touch.
Police had to be called to calm a rowdy crowd after Rocker Ted Nugent cancelled a concert in Williamsburg, Virginia. So many fans jammed the lobby for refunds that box office workers ran short of cash.
1989
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers performed at the Miami Arena in Miami, Florida.
1992
Helix guitarist Paul Hackman, age 38, is killed after a concert in Vancouver when the band’s van rolls down a 40-foot embankment and throws him from the vehicle.
1993
Whitney Houston opened her world tour at the James L. Knight Center in Miami, Florida.
Björk releases her first post-Sugarcubes solo album, titled Debut. Featuring the tracks “Human Behaviour” and “Big Time Sensuality,” it sets the stage for her rise as a solo star.
1994
Mariah Carey was sued by songwriter Kevin McCord, who said that Carey used his song “I Want 2 Thank U ” without authorization in her 1992 hit “Make It Happen”.
Hootie & the Blowfish release their debut album Cracked Rear View. It takes off at the beginning of 1995, eventually selling a staggering 21 million copies.
1995
More than 100 Grateful Dead fans were hurt when a wooden deck collapsed at a campground lodge in Wentzville, Missouri. Hundreds of people were on or under the deck sheltering from heavy rain. More than 4,000 Deadheads were staying at the campground while attending Grateful Dead concerts in the St. Louis suburb.
The U.S. Justice Department decided not to take antitrust action against Ticketmaster.
1996
Eric Clapton released the single “Change The World”.
Dolly the Sheep, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, is born. She is named after Dolly Parton because the scientist thought the country star was the person most synonymous with mammary glands.
The Eurythmics announced their first world tour for more than 10 years and that all profits would be given to charity. The duo made the announcement from the Greenpeace boat ‘Rainbow Warrior’ moored on the River Thames in London.
2001
Ernie K-Doe, who gave us “Mother-In-Law”, died of kidney and liver failure after years of alcoholism at the age of 65 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
2002
The Eagles were in concert at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky.
It was reported that Dr Dre had become the richest music star after earning £62m in the last year, £37m from his own earnings plus £25m from his record label Aftermath.
The family of Jimi Hendrix won an injunction at the High Court in London against a music production company from New York City from releasing Hendrix recordings.
2003 Recording Artist: Daughter Lisa Marie Presley
2003
Johnny Cash made his last ever live performance when he appeared at the Carter Ranch. Before singing “Ring of Fire”, Cash read a statement about his late wife that he had written shortly before taking the stage: “The spirit of June Carter overshadows me tonight with the love she had for me and the love I have for her. We connect somewhere between here and heaven. She came down for a short visit, I guess, from heaven to visit with me tonight to give me courage and inspiration like she always has.” Cash died on Sept 12th of this year.
2004
Elvis Presley`s “That`s All Right” was played simultaneously on radio stations around the world to mark the 50th anniversary of The King’s first professional record. Scotty Moore, Presley’s first guitarist, hits the button on a control board at Sun Studios to begin the satellite broadcast to over 1,200 stations.
Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour said artists who had seen album sales soar after the Live 8 concerts should donate their profits to charity, saying: “This is money that should be used to save lives.” UK sales figures released two days after the London concert showed Pink Floyd’s Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd had risen by 1343%, The Who – Then and Now by 863% and Annie Lennox – Eurythmics Greatest Hits by 500%.
Shirley Goodman of Shirley & Lee (“Let The Good Times Roll” and later Shirley & Company (“Shame, Shame, Shame” died after a stroke in Los Angeles at the age of 69.
2008
Katy Perry‘s “I Kissed a Girl” hits #1 in the US, where it stays for seven weeks. Perry’s first chart-topper, it’s a startling turnabout from just seven years earlier, when she was a gospel singer recording under her real name: Katy Hudson.
2009
Michael Jackson started a seven week run at No.1 on the UK album charts with ‘The Essential Michael Jackson’, and was one of eight Jackson albums in the top twenty after the singers death on 25th June.
2010 Actor: Granddaughter Riley Keough
2014
The four surviving members of The Grateful Dead gave what they said would be their final performance, playing to over 70,000 fans at Chicago’s Soldier Field. The shows came 20 years after the death of lead guitarist Jerry Garcia, who played his last show in the nation’s third-largest city in 1995.
After his triumphant appearance at England’s Glastonbury Festival on June 28th, Lionel Richie saw the LP “Lionel Richie & The Commodores: The Definitive Collection” climb to the top of the UK album chart. It had previously made it to number 10 when it was released in 2003.
The four surviving members of The Grateful Dead gave what they said would be their final performance, playing to some 70,000 singing, dancing and tearful fans at Chicago’s Soldier Field. The shows came 20 years after the death of lead guitarist Jerry Garcia, who played his last show in the nation’s third-largest city in 1995.
Opumo – Elvis Presley once lived here. Now this 1950s flat roofed, glass walled Beverly Hills mansion, gazing out over the city of dreams, has been …
2019
Three Michael Jackson fan clubs in France filed a lawsuit against Wade Robson and James Safechuck, the two men who accused the late King Of Pop of sexual abuse in the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland. While libel laws in the United States and the United Kingdom did not extend to dead people, there are laws in France against the public denunciation of a deceased person. Blogger Nina Notes: you can not slander the guilty.
As he left the stage for the final time in 1977 the King of Rock n’ Roll told his fans “We’ll meet you again, God bless, adios”. Around the world today people are remembering the King of Rock n Roll Elvis Presley who performed his very last concert today, June 26, in 1977.
Elvis Presley’s Granddaughter Riley Keough Embraces Beachside Style in 4th of July Photos
Elvis Presley’s granddaughter, actress and model, Riley Keough is embracing a stunning beachside style this Fourth of July while spending time with friends on a sunny weekend getaway.In photos shared to her Instagram Thursday, the 30-year-old daughter of singer, Lisa Marie Presley, is sporting […]
Why fifty years after the split the Beatles still are the original rock stars. From expression of protest against racism to songs stitched up from news …
306 Old Satillo Road, Elvis’ birthplace, is now 306 Elvis Presley Drive.
1937
Del Mar Turf Club, with crooner Bing Crosby as president and actor Pat O’Brien as a club officer, opens for racing
, 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.”
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
July 3, 1954
Dixie left for a vacation in Florida with her family.
Later that day after supper, Scotty Moore tried to reach Elvis by phone. Although Elvis was at the movies, his mother fetched him and when Elvis called back, Scotty explained that he has gotten Elvis name from Sam Philips and that he was wondering if Elvis would be interested in an audition.
July 3, 1955
Elvis performed at the Hoedown Club, Corpus Christi, Texas from 4.00 to 8.00 p.m.
The Presleys lived at 1414 Getwell Street rented from mid-1955 to May, 11 1956.
The RCA Victor Atomic Powered Singer
July 3, 1956
On his way to Memphis after an appearance on “The Steve Allen Show,” Elvis Presley met Gene Vincent at Pennsylvania Station in New York and congratulated him on his success with “Be-Bop-A-Lula.”
Given that Alfred Wertheimer was photographing Elvis- it is strange that there are no photos of this meeting.
Actress Judy Tyler, (Jailhouse Rock, Bop Girl Goes Calypso) , who played Princess Summerfall Winterspring for several years in the early 1950s on TV’s “Howdy Doody” show and shortly after completeing Jailhouse Rock, died in a car accident at the age of 24.
The Presleys lived at Graceland
The Military Service Disruption
July 3, 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 3, 1959
Military Service in Germany / Goethestr.14 in Bad Nauheim, Germany
The Hollywood Decade/The Elvis Establishment
July 3, 1960
Vernon Presley married his second wife, Davada “Dee” Stanley. They divorced in 1977.
Cher had her first solo hit debut on the chart as “All I Really Want To Do” made the list.
The Beach Boys Summer Spectacular tour stops at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. This date includes performances by The Byrds, Sonny & Cher, The Righteous Brothers, and of course, The Beach Boys. Also on the bill: The Kinks, who are having a miserable time in America and at war with their manager Larry Page, who flies back to England the next day.
Elvis reigned at #1 on the Easy Listening chart for the seventh week with “Crying In The Chapel”.
The Four Tops first rose to #1 on this date with “I Can’t Help Myself”. It was a great Top 10 with the Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction” rising to #2 while “Mr. Tambourine Man” from the Byrds fell from #1 to #3. Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs were at 4 with “Wooly Bully”, Herman’s Hermits stayed at 5 with “Wonderful World” and the Yardbirds edged up with “For Your Love”. The Rest of the Top 10: Johnny Rivers with “Seventh Son”, Elvis at #8 with “Crying In The Chapel”, Barbara Mason entered the Top 10 with “Yes, I’m Ready” and Jackie DeShannon posted the first Top 10 of her career with “What the World Needs Now Is Love”.
July 3, 1966
The Grateful Dead played the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco.
A Stamford, Connecticut band called The 5th Estate reaches #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 with a Rock and Roll version of “Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead” from the 1939 movie The Wizard Of Oz.
Tiny Tim‘s “Tiptoe Through the Tulips With Me” peaks at number 17 in the US. The original version of the song, recorded by Nick Lucas in 1929, held the #1 position for 10 weeks. Although Tim’s falsetto performance caused many to believe that he had no real talent, he actually possessed a beautiful baritone voice which he showcased during ‘live’ performances.
The Equals were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Baby Come Back’. The group’s only UK No.1. The song was first released in 1966 but did not chart. The song was covered by and became a No.1 hit for Pato Banton in 1994, (with Robin and Ali Campbell of UB40).
Despite selling millions of records and being voted “The Most Listened-To Band of 1967” by Billboard Magazine, The Buckingham’s latest release, “Back in Love Again” falls off the US charts shortly after it peaked at #57. It would prove to be their last chart appearance.
At an impromptu gathering at Joni Mitchell’s house in Lookout Mountain, Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash played together for the very first time.
Elvis spent a week resting in Palm Springs. July 1 – 7
July 3, 1969
78,000 attend Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island where Led Zeppelin, Blood, Sweat & Tears, James Brown and Johnny Winter performed.
Brian Jones drowned while under the influence of drugs and alcohol after taking a midnight swim in his pool, aged 27. His body was found at the bottom of the pool by his Swedish girlfriend Anna Wohlin. The coroner’s report stated “Death by misadventure”, and noted his liver and heart were heavily enlarged by drug and alcohol abuse. Jones was one of the founding members of The Rolling Stones and in the early 60’s used the name “Elmo Lewis.”
The Beatles‘ “The Ballad of John and Yoko” hits #8 on the US singles chart despite being banned by many radio stations because of the lyrics, “Christ, you know it ain’t easy …”
Elvis at Graceland – meeting with fans at the Gate.
She has published her diaries in three volumns:”Hurry Home Elvis” Volume I deals with 1962-1966, Volume II with 1967-1968 and Volume III is about 1969-1977. Donna’s diaries offer a day-by-day account of Elvis’ semi-public comings and goings.
200,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival. The Allman Brothers, B.B. King, Procol Harum, John Sebastian and Mountain performed on the opening night.
July 3, 1971
Earth, Wind & Fire charted with “Love Is Life”, debut single.
The Bee Gees had a smash with “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart”, which moved from 73 to 39.
Carole King remained at #1 with “It’s Too Late”. Paul Revere & the Raiders, from Boise, Idaho, were at #2 with “Indian Reservation” while Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose moved up to 3 with “Treat Her Like A Lady”. The Carpenters fell after peaking at #2 with “Rainy Days And Mondays” and Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds were at #5 with “Don’t Pull Your Love”. The rest of the Top 10: “Want Ads” from the Honey Cone, the Rolling Stones slipped to #7 with “Brown Sugar”, James Taylor climbed up from 14 to 8 with “You’ve Got A Friend”, Jerry Reed stayed at position #9 with “When You’re Hot, You’re Hot” and Ringo Starr fell to #10 with “It Don’t Come Easy”.
American singer, songwriter and poet, Jim Morrison of The Doors was found dead in a bathtub in Paris, France, the cause of death was given as a heart attack. He co-wrote some of the group’s biggest hits, including ‘Light My Fire’, ‘Love Me Two Times’, and ‘Love Her Madly.’ News of his death wasn’t made public until after his burial in a Paris cemetery on July 9th. On the 25th anniversary of his death an estimated 15,000 fans gathered at Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France to pay their respects.
Elvis and his gang went to the Memphian.
July 3, 1972
In 1972, blues singer and guitarist Mississippi Fred McDowell died in Memphis, Tenn., of cancer at age 68. He did not make his first recordings until 1959 when he was 55 years old, but he became one of the best known of all country blues singers during the 1960s. Singer and guitarist Bonnie Raitt was responsible for bringing McDowell to the attention of rock fans, including him on her tours and recording his songs. McDowell’s best known composition is “You Got to Move,” recorded by “The Rolling Stones” on their “Sticky Fingers” album. McDowell’s own LP, “I Do Not Play No Rock and Roll,” was nominated for two Grammy Awards in 1970. He coached Bonnie Raitt on slide guitar technique.
July 3, 1973
After 182 Ziggy Stardust concert performances, David Bowie announced he was about to retire from live performing, although it eventually transpires that Ziggy Stardust the stage persona is being retired and not Bowie himself. Only his guitarist Mick Ronson knew about the announcement, which came as a complete shock not only to the audience but the rest of Bowie’s band and crew.
Clint Holmes received a Gold record for his US #2 single, “Playground in My Mind”. Although he would never achieve that measure of success again, Holmes continued singing in nightclubs and became the announcer for The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers from 1986 to 1988. He has also been a Las Vegas headliner for many years.
61-year-old Perry Como, the crooner who scored a string of hits in the 1950s, makes an unlikely return to the US record charts when his recording of Don McLean’s “And I Love You So” cracks the Top 30. The guitar you hear in the background was played by Chet Atkins.
Laurens Hammond, who invented the Hammond organ, died at the age of 78. Many rock artists including Procol Harum, Keith Emerson, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, The Allman Brothers Band and The Faces featured the sound of the Hammond. He also invented a silent spring-driven clock and during the second world war he helped design guided missile systems.
Elvis performed at the Omni, Atlanta, Georgia.
Vernon, Linda and Lisa : July 3, 1973 at the Atlanta show
Date:
03 Jul 1973
Time:
8.30pm
Venue:
Atlanta, GA.
Omni Coliseum
Tickets:
17,143
Costume:
White Today 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/Mama Don’t Dancece/Flip, Flop And Fly/Shake Rattle & Roll/Jailhouse Rock
My Way
How Great Thou Art
Hound Dog
Fever
Something
All Shook Up
Memphis Tennessee
What Now My Love
Suspicious Minds
I’ll Remember You
I Can’t Stop Loving You
Release Me
An American Trilogy
A Big Hunk O’ Love
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Lead singer from Three Dog Night Chuck Negron was arrested at his Louisville hotel room on the opening night of the bands tour and charged with possession of cocaine.
July 3, 1976
Wings held down #1 for the fourth week with “Silly Love Songs” with newcomer Starland Vocal Band moving from 7 to 2 with “Afternoon Delight”. Dorothy Moore remained at #3 with “Misty Blue”, Hall & Oates stayed at 4 with “Sara Smile” and the Captain & Tennille were next with “Shop Around”. The rest of the Top 10: Andrea True Connection with “More, More, More”, Silver Convention fell after three weeks at #2 with “Get Up And Boogie”, the Brothers Johnson had a great summer hit with “I’ll Be Good To You” at #8, the Manhattans were at #9 with “Kiss And Say Goodbye” while Gary Wright scored his second Top 10 with “Love Is Alive”.
Brian Wilson played his first live show with The Beach Boys in seven years when they appeared at the Anaheim Stadium, California.
Elvis performed at the Tarrant County Convention center, Fort Worth, Texas.
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
And I Love You So
Jailhouse Rock
Fever
America
Polk Salad Annie
[band introductions]
Hurt
Funny How Times Slip Away
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Recordings:
This concert was released as “Elvis Rocking Across Texas”
Hot Chocolate were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘So You Win Again’. Their only UK chart topper they went on to score over 20 other UK Top 40 hits.
Elvis at Graceland, and mostly upstairs at Graceland – for the balance of the month.
The Wake and Aftermath
1978
Olivia Newton-John released “Hopelessly Devoted To You” from Grease.
Exile released their classic single “Kiss You All Over”.
The United States Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had the right to reprimand New York radio station WBAI for broadcasting George Carlin’s “Seven Dirty Words.”
1981
On the 10th anniversary of Jim Morrison’s death, the surviving members of The Doors, Robby Kreiger, Ray Manzarek and John Densmore led fans in a graveside tribute in the Paris cemetery where Morrison is buried.
1982 Elvis Presley Enterprises/Graceland Tourism
1982
The Human League started a three week run at the top of the US singles charts with “Don’t You Want Me”, also a UK #1.
Billy Idol first hit the chart on this date when “Hot In The City” debuted.
Crosby, Stills & Nash had a fast-rising song as “Wasted On The Way” moved from 48 to 29.
After a record breaking jump from No.33 on the UK singles charts, The Damned’s guitarist Captain Sensible started a two week run at No.1 with his version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein song ‘Happy Talk’ from the 1949 musical South Pacific.
The Human League rose to #1 with “Don’t You Want Me” but Toto’s “Rosanna” threatened. Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder finally fell from their perch after seven weeks with “Ebony And Ivory”. Asia’s premiere 45 was “Heat Of The Moment” while John Cougar hit #5 with “Hurts So Good”. The rest of the Top 10: Willie Nelson edged up with “Always On My Mind”, Dazz Band with “Let It Whip”, Juice Newton was at #8 with “Love’s Been A Little Bit Hard On Me”, Survivor shot up from 19 to 9 with “Eye Of The Tiger” and 38 Special reached the Top 10 with “Caught Up In You”.
1983
Michael Jackson released “Human Nature” as a single.
Red Hot Chili Peppers take the stage at the Kit Kat Club in Hollywood wearing nothing but socks – not on their feet.
1984 Actor ExWife: Priscilla Presley
1985
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played the first of three sold out shows at Wembley Stadium, London, England.
Back to the Future, starring Michael J. Fox as a time-traveling teenager, opens in theaters. When he plays “Johnny B. Goode” in 1955 at the “Enchantment Under the Sea” dance, he gives birth to rock and roll. In the real-life present, a new generation gets a lesson in Chuck Berry from the scene.
1986
The lead singer for Harold Melvin And The Blue Notes, Teddy Pendergrass, who was already paralyzed from a 1982 auto crash, was critically injured when the specially-equipped van he was driving slammed into a utility pole in Philadelphia.
U2 crew member Greg Carroll was killed in a motorcycle accident in Dublin while running an errand for Bono. The song ‘One Tree Hill’ on the bands Joshua Tree album is dedicated to Carroll.
1988
George Michael released the fifth single from Faith, “Monkey”.
1989
The New Kids on the Block released the single “Hangin’ Tough.”
1993
Janet Jackson remained at #1 for the eighth week with “That’s the Way Love Goes” as there was nothing good enough to knock her off. I offer up “Knockin’ Da Boots” by H-Town, “Whoomp! (There It Is)” by the Tag Team and “Dre Day” by Dr. Dre” as examples of the weakness. You always want to consider competition when analyzing #1 songs and Janet certainly did not have it.
1995
Jewel lands her first television gig, appearing on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, where she is spotted by actor Sean Penn. The two begin dating shortly after.
The members of R&B group TLC file for bankruptcy despite continued success. The group claims their money was mismanaged by Perri “Pebbles” Reid and her production company Pebbitone Inc. Reid denies the claim and says she was trying to get TLC a better deal with their record label, LaFace Records, but things weren’t working out.
During a rain delay at the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships, Cliff Richard launches into a seemly spontaneous concert, where he led spectators through some of his old hits. It was later learned that Sir Cliff had planned the moment as a publicity stunt.
AC/DC played the second of two nights at Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona, Spain on their Ballbreaker world tour.
At the Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Alice in Chains play their last show with lead singer Layne Staley, who dies in 2002.
2000
Harvard professor Ronald Ferguson accused the culture of hip-hop and rap music of stalling academic progress among young American blacks. He claimed time spent learning intricate rhyming lyrics detracted from reading.
James Brown was accused of pulling a knife on a utility worker and holding the man against his will at Brown’s home in Beech Island, South Carolina.
2001
American singer, songwriter Johnny Russell died aged 61. Wrote ‘Act Naturally’ covered by The Beatles and Buck Owens. Jim Reeves, Jerry Garcia, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Ronstadt all covered his songs.
2002
A session violinist serenaded a High Court judge during a copyright battle worth an estimated £100,000. The case was over the rights to The Bluebells version of ‘Young At Heart.’ Bobby Valentino won his case as joint owner of the song.
Sir Elton John became the first person to be made an honorary doctorate from the Royal Academy Of Music.
Three diners at a newly opened Britney Spears owned restaurant suffered food poisoning. The three students who had eaten wild striped bass at the New York restaurant made official complaints and vowed never to eat they’re again.
Sony/ATV Publishing announced it would buy a country music catalog from Gaylord Entertainment for $157 million.
2003 Recording Artist: Daughter Lisa Marie Presley
2003
Incubus, Jane’s Addiction and Audioslave performed at the Ionia County Fairgrounds in Grand Rapids, Michigan as the Lollapalooza Festival got underway.
2004
David Crosby was fined $5,000 (£2,745) by a US court after admitting attempted criminal possession of a weapon. It followed his arrest in New York in March when a gun, knife and marijuana were found in his luggage.
Glenn Danzig gets in a fight backstage after a Danzig show when a member of support band North Side Kings confronts him because they were bumped from the bill and didn’t play that night. Danzig pushes the guy but gets punched in the face in retaliation.
2005
Audrey Brickley of The Orlons, who placed 5 songs in the Billboard Top 20 in the early 1960s, including “The Wah Watusi” and “South Street”, died of acute respiratory distress syndrome. She was 58.
2007
Boots Randolph, the saxophone player best known for the 1963 hit “Yakety Sax”, died from a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 80. Boots played on “Elvis is Back” and performed in concert with Elvis for his only 1960s concerts.
Kylie Minogue received an OBE for services to music from the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace, England. Earlier this year, she was also presented with the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her “contribution to the enrichment of French culture”.
2009
Algerian music star Cheb Mami (real name Ahmed Khelifati Mohammed) is sentenced by a French court to five years in prison for abducting his former girlfriend and trying to force her to have an abortion. Mami is best known in America for his collaboration with Sting on the song “Desert Rose.”
2010 Actor: Granddaughter Riley Keough
2011
Unable to walk since a botched operation two years earlier, Little Richard is wheeled in with a piano to perform at the “A Capitol Fourth” concert at the National Mall in Washington, DC. It’s his first performance since the operation.
2012
Meat Loaf launched a legal battle against tribute artist Dean Torkington who had registered the domain name meatloaf.org in 2000. Although he was seeking $100,000 in damages, Meat Loaf would later settle for $25,000 and control of the website, which now re-directs to meatloaf.net.
KISS announced that they were set to release a guitar size book containing unseen photographs from their 40-year career. The limited edition called Monster carried a $4,299 price tag and at 3 feet tall, 2.5 feet wide, was reported to be the largest music book ever published.
2013
The first inductions were held into the new American Pop Music Hall of Fame. The inductees were: The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Neil Diamond, Stevie Wonder, Bobby Vinton, Bobby Darin, Johnny Mathis, Brenda Lee and Perry Como.
2018
Cardi B becomes first female rapper to get two number one US Billboard hits, with “I Like It” with Bad Bunny and J Balvin
Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul And Mary was uninvited from the Colorscape Chenango Arts Festival in New York because of an indecency case that dated back nearly fifty years. In March, 1970 Yarrow pleaded guilty to taking “immoral and improper liberties” with a 14-year-old girl on August 31st, 1969 at the Shoreham Hotel in New York City. He served three months of a one to three year prison term, and was pardoned by U.S. President Jimmy Carter in 1980. Yarrow later recalled the incident as “the most terrible mistake I have ever made.”
Elvis Presley’s Grandson Benjamin Keough Should Star in Biopic
On Tuesday, Billboard reported that five young performers were up for the role of Elvis Presley in a forthcoming Baz Luhrmann biopic. They are: Miles Teller, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ansel Elgort, Austin Butler, and my boyfriend, Harry Styles. All of these selections are wrong, because none of them are Elvis’s gothy grandson Benjamin Keough. Just look at him! He looks like he is perpetually in a goth Elvis costume, and it is very, very, good.
Willie Dixon, blues singer, guitarist, ‘the poet laureate of the blues’. Credited with writing more than 500 songs by the end of his life. Wrote classic songs: ‘Hoochie Coochie Man’, ‘I’m Ready’, ‘You Shook Me’, ‘I Can’t Quit You Baby’, ‘Little Red Rooster.’ Major influence on The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin. Dixon died on 29th January 1992.
1928
Bobby Day, US singer, had the 1958 hit ‘Rockin Robin’, one half of the duo, Bob And Earl (recorded ‘Harlem Shuffle’ in 1963). Day died on July 27, 1990.
Tupelo, Mississippi
1935-1948
1935-1940
306 Old Satillo Road, Elvis’ birthplace, is now 306 Elvis Presley Drive.
1935
Benny Goodman and his band recorded the “King Porter Stomp.”
American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter James Cotton. He worked in Howlin’ Wolf’s band in the early 1950s. In 1955, he was recruited by Muddy Waters to come to Chicago and join his band. In 2006, Cotton was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. He died from pneumonia aged 81 on 16 March 2017.
, 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.”
July 1, 1953
Elvis went to the Tennessee Employment Security office once again.
April 20, 1954 – mid October 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
July 1, 1955
Elvis performed at the Plaquemine Casino Club, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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.
Procol Harum had an amazing hit on their hands as “A Whiter Shade Of Pale” rocketed up from 80 to 28.
The Association took over at #1 with their classic “Windy; “Groovin'” by the Young Rascals was #2 followed by “Little Bit O’ Soul” from the Music Explosion.
Beatles first hit #1 on the Album chart with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. After debuting at #8 , the Beatles closed the deal to #1.
With Speedway in production, Elvis and Vernon traveled to Las Vegas to see Ann-Margret’s show.
The Rascals released the single “People Got To Be Free” on Atlantic Records.
The Band released their debut album Music From Big Pink. The album, which features their first hit single ‘The Weight’, was recorded in studios in New York and Los Angeles in 1968, and followed the group’s backing of Bob Dylan on his 1966 tour (as The Hawks).
John Lennon unveiled a set of drawings called “You Are Here” at the Robert Fraser Gallery in London.
Elvis spent a week resting in Palm Springs.
July 1, 1969
John Lennon and Yoko Ono were involved in a serious car crash in the Highlands of Scotland that required John to have 17 stitches. Lennon later had the car crushed into a cube and exhibited it on his lawn at Tittenhurst Park.
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.
Jim Croce’s first song, “You Don’t Mess Around With Jim” debuted on this date. Croce, who would soon record “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” and “Time In A Bottle”, among others, would die a little over a year later in a plane crash.
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”.
“Outa-Space” by Billy Preston was the top R&B song.
“Song Sung Blue” became Neil Diamond’s 28th hit, his seventh Top 10 song and his second #1 (following “Cracklin’ Rosie”) on this date. Sammy Davis, Jr. fell with “The Candy Man” while Billy Preston’s instrumental “Outa-Space” remained at 3. The timeless “Lean On Me” from Bill Withers rose to #4 and Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose were at 5 with “It’s Too Late To Turn Back Now”. The rest of the Top 10: Jimmy Castor Bunch with “Troglodyte”, Gallery were on their way down with “Nice To Be With You”, Elton John moved “Rocket Man” from 14-8, America landed in the Top 10 again with “I Need You” and Wayne Newton had a hit with “Daddy Don’t You Walk So Fast”.
Elton John’s Honky Chateau moved from 37-7 after just three weeks on the Album chart. This was the first sign that he was becoming a megastar.
Jesus Christ Superstar closed after 720 performances on Broadway in New York City.
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
Connie Francis received a $2.5 million judgement against Howard Johnson’s Lodges, as she was raped at a Howard Johnson’s in New York two years earlier. Francis spent the entire $2.5 million on victim’s rights groups.
July 1, 1976
Paul McCartney purchased Buddy Holly’s entire publishing catalog from Norman Petty.
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
Pink Floyd played a sold out show in the first of four concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Elvis at Graceland, and mostly upstairs at Graceland – for the balance of the month.
The Wake and Aftermath
1978
Joe Walsh had the fastest climber as “Life’s Been Good” moved from #50 to #31.
1979
The Doobie Brothers celebrated their 10th anniversary with a jam at Friar’s Club in Los Angeles.
The Walkman, the world’s first portable cassette player, was introduced by Sony.
1982 Elvis Presley Enterprises/Graceland Tourism
1984 Actor ExWife: Priscilla Presley
1983
The new group Bon Jovi signed a recording contract with Mercury Records.
1985
Billy Joel released “You’re Only Human”.
MTV hosted a competition in which the winner (Lisa Barber) attended a world premiere of Prince’s movie Under a Cherry Moon in Lisa’s hometown of Sheridan, Wyoming. As part of the prize, Lisa and 200 of her friends viewed a private concert by the Purple One.
1989
“Batman” by Prince was the #1 song in the U.K.
R.E.M., Joe Jackson, the Robert Cray Band, Lou Reed and Elvis Costello were at the Rock Torhout Festival in Torhout, Belgium.
Milli Vanilli as the #1 song, The Fine Young Cannibals were second with “Good Thing” while the previous #1 “Satisfied” from Richard Marx fell to 3. Neneh Cherry remained at #4 with “Buffalo Stance”. Simply Red’s “If You Don’t Know Me By Now” entered the Top 10 at #5. The rest of the Top 10: “Express Yourself” from Madonna moved from 13-6, Donna Summer was at 7 with “This Time I Know It’s For Real”, Cyndi Lauper moved to #8 in an active Top 10, Natalie Cole had song #9 with “Miss You Like Crazy” and New Kids on the Block tumbled to #10 with “I’ll Be Loving You (Forever)”.
1995
Cracked Rear View by Hootie & the Blowfish, which ranks 12th in the Rock Era for the longest time to reach #1 on the Album chart, returned back to #1 after taking a week off. The Soundtrack to “Pocahontas” was #2 followed by Pulse from Pink Floyd, which fell to #3 after just one week at the top. TLC’s CrazySexyCool was #4 and Live’s great album Throwing Copper was #5. The rest of the Top 10: The Soundtrack to “Batman Forever” moved from 15-6, the debut from John Michael Montgomery came in seventh, Soul Asylum was at 8 with Let Your Dim Light Shine, the great second album from Boyz II Men was at 9 and another great one from Blues Traveler, four, entered the Top 10
R.E.M., the Cure and the Cranberries performed at the Rock Torhout Festival in Torhout, Belgium.
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.
1997
The Radiohead album “OK Computer” was released in the U.S.
1999
Jamaican reggae singer Dennis Brown died aged 42, the official cause of his death was a collapsed lung. During his career, he recorded more than 75 albums and had the 1979 UK No.14 single ‘Money In My Pocket.’ Bob Marley cited Brown as his favourite singer, naming him ‘The Crown Prince of Reggae.”
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.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
2001
Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones was asked to paint a group portrait of regular diners at the Ivy, a West End restaurant in London. Elton John and Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys were two of the regular customers who were to be painted.
2002
Six stamps designed by Sir Paul McCartney went on sale in the Isle of Man–all proceeds went to the charity Adopt-A Mine field.
2003 Recording Artist: Daughter Lisa Marie Presley
2003
The boxed set “Elvis – Close Up” was released. The set included 89 previously unreleased tracks.
Glen Campbell began serving 10 nights in jail along with two years of probation for a November 2003 drink-driving, hit-and-run collision. The 68 year old entertainer was also sentenced to 75 hours of community service and fined $900.
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.’
Renaldo “Obie” Benson of the Four Tops died of lung cancer in Detroit, Michigan at the age of 69. He was diagnosed after having a leg amputated due to circulation problems. The Four Tops sold over 50 million records and had hits including ‘Reach Out (I’ll be There)’ and ‘I Can’t Help Myself.’ Benson also co-wrote ‘What’s Going On’ which became a No.2 hit for Marvin Gaye.
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
Rolf Harris (“Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport”) was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Hall of Fame. Not so fast. In 2014, his place in the ARIA Hall of Fame was taken when he was found guilty of 12 counts of indecent assault against four girls.
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
2010
The Eagles were in concert at the Verizon Center in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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”.
Ed Sheeran returned to No.1 for the forth time with his third studio album ÷ (pronounced ‘divide’). The album also topped the charts in 14 other countries and won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards.
Elvis Presley was known as quite a lothario in his life following the break down in his marriage to Priscilla Presley. One of his later girlfriends, …
meanwhile, in 2020 reality
The Rolling Stones, Sir Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa are among 1,500 musicians and bands calling for the government to take urgent action to help live music in Britain avoid collapse due to the coronavirus pandemic.
A letter signed by artists, including Ed Sheeran, Rita Ora, Coldplay, Annie Lennox and Sam Smith, warned that the UK could lose its prime spot on the world’s musical stage unless the government commited to supporting businesses and set out a timetable for reopening live music venues.
The performers said venues are at risk of mass insolvencies and that hundreds of thousands of jobs could be lost.
The joint letter to the culture secretary, Oliver Dowden, said: “Live music has been one of the UK’s biggest social, cultural, and economic successes of the past decade. But, with no end to social distancing in sight or financial support from government yet agreed, the future for concerts and festivals and the hundreds of thousands of people who work in them looks bleak. Until these businesses can operate again, which is likely to be 2021 at the earliest, government support will be crucial to prevent mass insolvencies and the end of this world-leading industry.”
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Finale risk: Rolling Stones, Lennox and McCartney among stars seeking music aid | Music industry | The Guardian
Finale risk: Rolling Stones, Lennox and McCartney among stars seeking music aid | Music industry | The Guardian
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
The wire recorder was patented by Marvin Camras.
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.”
1952
At the Castle Studio in Nashville’s Tulane Hotel, Hank Williams recorded his compositions “Jambalaya (On the Bayou),” “Settin’ The Woods On Fire” and “I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive.”
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
1955
The Presleys lived at 1414 Getwell Street rented from mid-1955 to May, 11 1956.
The RCA Victor Atomic Powered Singer
June 13, 1956
Elvis and June Juanico in Houston: When Elvis and June were having breakfast at a restaurant on South Main Street, Elvis got himself surrounded by a lot of girls. He told a reporter he was engaged to only one: his career.
The Presleys lived at Audobon Drive, Graceland purchased on March 19.
The Military Service Disruption
June 13, 1958
“High School Confidential,” starring Russ Tamblyn, Jan Sterling, John Drew Barrymore, Diane Jergens, Mamie Van Doren, Ray Anthony, Michael Landon, and featuring Jerry Lee Lewis performing the title song, opened in U.S. and Canadian movie theaters.
Ed Sullivan phones Colonel Tom Parker and says he wants Elvis to make a fourth appearance on his show as soon as he is discharged from the Army. Unfortunately for Sullivan, Elvis would never return to his program as The Colonel chose to book his client on Frank Sinatra’s variety show on May 12th, 1960 for a then unheard of fee of $125,000. (In 2020 dollars – $1,082,744.93)
Military service Fort Hood in Texas. On Leave @ Graceland May 31 to June 13
June 13, 1959
Military Service in Germany / At the beginning of a 15 day furlough Elvis traveled to Munich and later Paris with Lamar, Rex and Charlie Hodge.
U.S. Army Pvt. Elvis Presley received a 15-day furlough and used it to travel from his post in Germany to Paris. While there, he and his entourage stayed in a suite at the Prince De Galles Hotel on the Champs Elysees and made frequent visits to the Moulin Rouge and the Lido club.
Feb 3 1959 – March 1960: Goethestr.14 in Bad Nauheim, Germany
The Hollywood Decade/The Elvis Establishment
June 13, 1960
Little Brenda Lee took a giant leap up the charts, moving from 76 to 38 with “I’m Sorry”.
“Cathy’s Clown” by the Everly Brothers was becoming one of the biggest hits of the ’60s, remaining at #1 for a fourth week. Elvis Presley was stuck at two with “Stuck On You”.
DOLORES HART, the 24-year-old film actress and co- star of Elvis Presley, is becoming a nun a Hollywood spokesman said
June 13, 1964
The Beatles performed another two shows at Centennial Hall, Adelaide, South Australia. For the four shows that The Beatles performed in Adelaide there were 12,000 tickets, for which 50,000 requests had been placed. The two shows on this day were drummer’s Jimmy Nicol’s last as a “temporary Beatle”. Ringo Starr (who had been ill), re-joined The Beatles in Melbourne the next day.
The Rolling Stones make a television appearance on Hollywood Palace, a show hosted by Dean Martin. Dino made some jokes at the Stones’ expense. After a trampolinist’s act, Dean quipped, “That’s the father of The Rolling Stones; he’s been trying to kill himself ever since.”
“People” became Barbra Streisand’s first Top 10 of her storied career.
The Rolling Stones‘ “Tell Me (You’re Coming Back)” was released in the U.S.
Elvis Presley’s cover of Ray Charles 1959 hit “What’d I Say” hit #21 in the U.S.
The b-side “Viva Las Vegas” hit #29 in the U.S. reached #12 on the UK Singles Chart, improving to #15 after a reissue in 2007. and it was certified Gold Award issued on March 27, 1992.
June 13, 1965
Tom Jones, Dee Dee Sharp and the Seekers sang on CBS-TV’s “The Ed Sullivan Show.” Sid Caesar, London Lee and Marty Allen & Steve Rossi also performed on the program.
– The Temptations’ “You’re My Everything” was released.
The Bee Gees appear on the UK TV show As You Like It, where they perform their new single “New York Mining Disaster 1941”. Originally titled “Have You Seen My Wife, Mr. Jones”, the song would go on to reach #12 in the UK and #14 in the US.
Priscilla’s pregnancy is announced. The group stayed over two nights in Flagstaff, Arizona, while visiting the Grand Canyon.
Elvis continued with the rehearsals at Binder-Howe Productions office throughout the week and the weekend.
June 13, 1969
Trumpeted as the biggest-ever soul music festival to date, Sam & Dave, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Percy Sledge, the Staple Singers, Reverend James Cleveland, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, Sister Clara Ward, and more performed at Soul Bowl ’69 at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
Uriah Heep release their debut album, …Very ‘Eavy …Very ‘Umble, in the UK. Critic Melissa Mills of Rolling Stone says she’ll commit suicide if the group “makes it,” but the negative critical reaction doesn’t stop Heep from appealing to fans and moving on to have a long, successful career as a trailblazing heavy metal band.
The Beatles started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘The Long And Winding Road’, the group’s 20th US No.1. The album ‘Let It Be’ started a four-week run at No.1 the US album chart on the same day. The 12th and final studio album by The Beatles, was recorded in January 1969, before the recording and release of Abbey Road. Since then, they’ve reached the top of the charts with re-releases of “Got to Get You Into My Life” and “Back in the USSR” (1976), “The Beatles’ Movie Medley” (1982), “Twist and Shout” (1986, included in the movies Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Back to School), “Baby It’s You” and “Free As a Bird” (both 1995) and “Real Love” (1996).
Christine McVie released a solo album and then announced her retirment from music. She later came out of retirement.
Mungo Jerry, a British band with an unusual name and a unique sound, had the top tune in the UK with “In The Summertime”. It went on to become the best selling UK single of the year, spending seven weeks at #1 and was a hit in 26 other countries including the US, where it would rise to #3 in mid-August.
Grand Funk Railroad, with Steel Mill (featuring Bruce Springsteen) opening, performed at the Ocean Ice Palace in Bricktown, New Jersey.
June 13, 1971
Frank Sinatra performed his “retirement” concert at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles, a benefit performance marking the 50th anniversary of the Motion Picture And Television Relief Fund. His 11-song set ended with the song “Angel Eyes” and its last line, “‘S’cuse me … while I … disappear,” after which the spotlight that had been reduced to illuminate only his face was extinguished. Sinatra returned a year and a half later with the legendary comeback album “Ol’ Blue Eyes Is Back.”
Mungo Jerry, a British band with an unusual name and a unique sound, had the top tune in the UK with “In The Summertime”. It went on to become the best selling UK single of the year, spending seven weeks at #1 and was a hit in 26 other countries including the US, where it would rise to #3 in mid-August.
June 13, 1972
The Drifters’ original lead singer, Clyde McPhatter died in his sleep after years of alcohol abuse left him with heart, liver, and kidney disease.. He was considered by many as one of rock ‘n’ roll’s greatest voices and Elvis Presley was one of his biggest fans. Joined Billy Ward & the Dominoes in 1950, formed The Drifters in 1953, had several solo hits including 1962 ‘Lover Please,’ was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
2001 Theme
Thats All Right
Proud Mary
Never Been To Spain
You Dont Have To Say You Love Me
Until Its Time For You To Go
Polk Salad Annie
Love Me
All Shook Up
Heartbreak Hotel
Teddy Bear
– segued medley with –
Dont Be Cruel
Ill Remember You
Hound Dog
How Great Thou Art
Suspicious Minds
Band Introductions
For The Good Times
Funny How Time Slips Away
I Cant Stop Loving You
Cant Help Falling In Love
Closing Vamp
At RCA Studio B in Nashville, Dolly Parton recorded her composition “I Will Always Love You,” inspired by her professional partner and mentor Porter Wagoner, whom she was leaving at the time in order to begin a solo career.
James Brown‘s eldest son, 19-year-old Teddy, was killed in an accident on the New York Thruway when car that he was a passenger in hit a concrete bridge abutment after the driver fell asleep.
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 13, 1974
Elvis flew into Memphis before taking off on his third tour of 1974.
June 13, 1975
John Lennon made his last ever TV appearance when he appeared on ‘Salute To Sir Lew Grade’, performing ‘Slippin And Slidin’, and ‘Imagine’. The performance was recorded at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on April 18, 1975.
Peter Frampton played the first of two nights at the Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, California. Recordings from these two shows were used as part of his No.1 double album ‘Frampton Comes Alive’. It became the best-selling album of 1976, selling over 6 million copies in the US and Frampton Comes Alive! was voted “Album of the year” in the 1976 Rolling Stone readers poll. It stayed on the chart for 97 weeks.
The newly reformed and renamed Jefferson Starship released the song “Miracles”, which would become their first Top 10 song in eight years.
June 13, 1976
June 13, 1977
Three days after escaping prison, the convicted assassin of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., James Earl Ray, was recaptured.
James Taylor released the single “Handy Man”.
Elvis called President Jimmy Carter to try to help out his friend George Klein in a federal court case. President Carter returned the phone call, but could not understand anything Elvis said.
The Wake and Aftermath
1978
The movie version of “Grease,” starring John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, and Jeff Conaway, had its world premiere in New York City.
1980
“Roadie,” starring Meat Loaf, Art Carney and Kaki Hunter, with Roy Orbison, Hank Williams, Jr., Alice Cooper, Merle Kilgore, Blondie, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Peter Frampton, and Don Cornelius, opened in U.S. and Canadian movie theaters.
Pat Benatar performed at a home baseball game for the Philadelphia Phillies.
1981
Smokey Robinson had the #1 U.K. hit with “Being With You”.
Neil Diamond scored a #1 on the ever more popular Adult Contemporary chart with “America”.
It was week #5 at the top for Kim Carnes’ smash “Bette Davis Eyes”. The Stars on 45 had a surprise hit with “Medley” and A Taste of Honey was moving up with their remake of “Sukiyaki”. The rest of the Top 10: Smokey Robinson slipped to #4 with “Being With You”, Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio found themselves at #5 with “A Woman Needs Love (Just Like You Do)”, Gino Vannelli had song #6–“Living Inside Myself”, George Harrison, who was inspired to write “All Those Years Ago” following the tragic death of John Lennon, Neil Diamond edged up to #8 with the third hit from “The Jazz Singer” Soundtrack–“America”, REO Speedwagon were on their way down with “Take It On The Run” and Franke & the Knockouts had a fine song at #10 with “Sweetheart”.
1982 Elvis Presley Enterprises/Graceland Tourism
1987
Whitney Houston started a six-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with her second LP Whitney. With this album, Houston set various records on the US charts. Houston became female artist, to debut at No.1 with an album and its first four singles, ‘I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)’, ‘Didn’t We Almost Have It All’, ‘So Emotional’ and ‘Where Do Broken Hearts Go’, all peaked at No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making her the first female artist to achieve that feat.
The Joshua Tree spent an eighth week at #1 on the Album chart for U2. Whitesnake’s impressive debut was at #2 with Bon Jovi still hanging around with Slippery When Wet.
1988
George Harrison released the single “This is Love.”
Paula Abdul‘s debut album, Forever Your Girl, is released. An accomplished cheerleader and choreographer, she proves successful as a singer as well, as the album produces four #1 hits: “Straight Up,” the title track, “Cold Hearted” and “Opposites Attract.”
The biggest charity Rock concert since Live Aid three years earlier took place at London’s Wembley Stadium to denounce South African apartheid. Among the performers were Sting, Stevie Wonder, Bryan Adams, George Michael, Whitney Houston and Dire Straits. Half of the more than $3 million US in proceeds from the event went towards anti-apartheid activities in Britain. The rest was donated to children’s charities in southern Africa.
1989
Jerry Lee Lewis gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6631 Hollywood Blvd.
1992
Law enforcement officials in Texas call for a ban on Ice-T’s “Cop Killer” LP. Following the publicity, sales double on the West Coast and in Texas. In an ironic twist, Ice-T (real name: Tracy Morrow) would land a role on the TV police drama, Law and Order in 1999, portraying Odafin “Fin” Tutuola, a former undercover narcotics officer transferred to the Special Victims Unit.
Future U.S. President Bill Clinton criticized Sister Souljah for making remarks “filled with hatred” towards whites.
Blogger Nina Notes: the oppressed calling out oppressors is not the same as oppressors oppressing.
1995
Alanis Morissette released her studio album, Jagged Little Pill. The album went on to sell over 30 million copies world-wide, and made Morissette the first female Canadian to score a US No.1 album. ‘Jagged Little Pill’ featured the massive hits, ‘You Oughta Know’, ‘Hand in My Pocket’, ‘Ironic’, and ‘You Learn’.
1998
During the Dave Matthews Band set at the Tibetan Freedom Concert in Washington, DC’s RFK Stadium, concert-goer Lysa Selfon is struck by lightning. With help from an off duty paramedic, she is revived and eventually makes a full recovery.
2000
Sinead O’Connor releases Faith and Courage, her first studio album in six years.
37-year-old Susan E Santodonato collapsed and died of a heart attack outside New York radio station Star 105.7. after a Britney Spears impersonator left the building. A crowd had gathered after a DJ claimed Britney Spears was in the studio.
Bobby Brown admitted in a Florida court that he was an alcoholic saying “I have a disease, I am an addict.”
Michael Jackson, Barry Manilow, Sting, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson were honored by the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York.
2003 Recording Artist: Daughter Lisa Marie Presley
2004
Warner Music Group announced that it would buy Madonna’s shares of the Maverick Records label. Madonna had co-founded the label 12 year earlier.
2005
Michael Jackson was found not guilty of charges of child abuse by a jury of eight women and four men at the end of a 16-week hearing in Santa Maria, California. Jackson was found not guilty of all 10 charges including abusing a 13-year-old boy, conspiracy to kidnap and supplying alcohol to a minor to assist with a felony. Blogger Nina Notes – not guilty is not the same as innocent or cleared of charges.
2006
Three of the original Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, Mike Love and Al Jardine, along with Bruce Johnston, who joined the touring lineup in 1965, gathered at the Capitol Records office tower for the presentation of double-platinum plaques marking US shipments of more than 2 million copies of the band’s 2003 collection, “Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys”.
2007
Widely hailed by critics as one of the best albums in Paul McCartney’s solo career, “Memory Almost Full” sold 160,541 copies across all retail outlets in the US in its debut week, landing the record at #3 on Billboard Hot 200 chart.
2008
After a six-year legal battle, R Kelly is acquitted of all charges after less than a day of deliberations in his child pornography trial. Prosecutors had argued that a video tape mailed to the Chicago Sun-Times in 2002 showed Kelly doing horrible things with a 13-year-old girl.
2010 Actor: Granddaughter Riley Keough
2010
Businessman (Jimmy Dean Sausage)/singer (P.T. 109,Big Bad John)/actor (J.J. Starbuck, Daniel Boone, Diamonds Are Forever)/television host (The Jimmy Dean Show)/radio host (Town and Country Time)/Country Music Hall of Famer Jimmy Dean died at age 81. Along with placing eight songs on Billboard’s Top 40 between 1958 and 1976, Dean was also elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in February, 2010. His remains are entombed in a 9-foot-tall piano-shaped mausoleum overlooking the James River on the grounds of his Virginia estate. Borrowing from the lyrics of his biggest hit single, “Big Bad John,” Dean’s epitaph reads “Here Lies One Hell of a Man.”
Stevie Wonder was inducted into the Hall of Fame at New York’s Apollo Theater, the same venue where he began his professional career as a 12-year-old in 1962.
2012
Adele notched her 24th week at #1 on the Album chart with the album 21. The achievement put her in rarified air–behind only the albums Thriller by Michael Jackson and Rumours by Fleetwood Mac for weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 (which made its debut in 1963).
The Beach Boys‘ first album of all-new material since 1992, “That’s Why God Made the Radio”, raced up the Billboard 200 chart to number 3. Their span of Billboard Top Ten LPs stretched to 49 years and one week since they first graced the chart with “Surfin’ U.S.A.” the week of June 15, 1963.
Ringo Starr’s birthplace at Nine Madryn Street, in Dingle, was spared from demolition by Liverpool City Council. Housing Minister Grant Shapps said “a tide of community support” had saved the home, which he described as a “beacon of Beatlemania”.
2013
Foreigner, Holly Knight, Tony Hatch and JD Souther were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York City.
Roger LaVern, the keyboard player for The Tornados on their 1962 instrumental hit, “Telstar”, died of cancer at the age of 75. The group is noted for being the first British band to reach #1 in America. The song, named after the world’s first communications satellite, sold over five million copies worldwide.
Songwriter Lincoln Wayne “Chips” Moman, who produced hits for Elvis Presley, Neil Diamond, Willie Nelson, Merrilee Rush, the Box Tops, the Gentrys and Carla Thomas died of complications from emphysema at age 79. (Hey Won’t You Play-Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song, Luckenbach Texas-Back To The Basics Of Love)/ record producer (Suspicious Minds, In The Ghetto, Kentucky Rain, Don’t Cry Daddy, Sweet Caroline, Always On My Mind, Angel Of The Morning, Cry Like A Baby, Keep On Dancing, Gee Whiz)
D.J. Fontana, who played drums with Elvis Presley from 1954 to 1968, died in his sleep at the age of 87. Joining guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black as Presley’s backing band, he recorded “Hound Dog”, “Heartbreak Hotel”, “Jailhouse Rock” and “Don’t Be Cruel” and was inducted into Cleveland’s Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2009.
Lisa Marie Presley’s ‘Tea Time’ Photo With All 4 Children Continues to Draw Attention
Lisa Marie Presley might not post photos of her life as frequently as other celebrity users on social media, but one photo shared to her account most recently continues to draw in a barrage of comments from fans.On April 18, Presley took to Instagram to share a rare snapshot of all her four […]
Guglielmo Marconi was granted a patent for his electro-magnetic wave communication system, later to be called radio.
June 2, 1897
Mark Twain was quoted by the New York Journal as saying “the report of my death was an exaggeration.” The 61-year-old author was responding to rumors that he had died.
June 2, 1924
Native Americans were granted American citizenship by the U.S. Congress.
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 2o 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
June 2, 1953
The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II took place in Westminster Abbey in London, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI. It was the first coronation to be televised.
Elvis Presley graduated from L.C. Humes High School in Memphis, TN. He was the first of both family sides Presley and Smith to do so.
Elvis delivered supplies to job sites for Crown Electric for $1.00 an hour.
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 2, 1954
U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy made the unsubstantiated charge that there were communists working in the Central Intelligence Agency and at American atomic weapons plants.
A sleepy Jazz tune called “Moonglow” by Morris Stoloff And The Columbia Pictures Orchestra pushed Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel” out of the top spot on the Cashbox Best Sellers List.
Gene Vincent released the single “Be-Bop-A-Lula” on Capitol Records.
Elvis and Gene Smith flew to Oakland, California, where they arrived at 4.00 a.m. and met with the band who drove the whole way.
The Presleys lived at Audobon Drive
June 2, 1957
Johnnie Ray was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Yes Tonight Josephine’, the US singers third and final UK No.1. Ray became deaf in his right ear at age 13 after an accident during a Boy Scout “blanket toss,” a variation of the trampoline. (Ray later performed wearing a hearing aid).
Jailhouse Rock Elvis filmed the scene in the prison coal yard.
The Presleys lived at Audobon Drive, Graceland purchased on March 19.
Alan Freed kicks off his new Rock ‘n’ Roll radio show on WABC in New York, which will run from 7:15 PM to 11:00 PM, Monday through Friday.
Military service – On Leave At Graceland May 31 to June 13 – photos of Elvis in the Graceland driveway.
Elvis in his driveway becomes a photo for the “A Date with Elvis” LP.
Fans greet Elvis at the Graceland Gates.
The Memphis Press covered the homecoming.
June 2, 1959
Military Service in Germany
Feb 3 1959 – March 1960: Goethestr.14 in Bad Nauheim, Germany
The Hollywood Decade/The Elvis Establishment
June 2, 1960
Bobby Darin performed for the first time at New York’s famed Copacabana night club. His shows on June 15 and 16 were recorded, edited and released in the album “Darin At The Copa.”
“Gidget Goes Hawaiian,” starring James Darren, Deborah Walley, Michael Callan, Carl Reiner, and Peggy Cass, opened in U.S. and Canadian movie theaters.
June 2, 1962
Owen Gray’s ‘Twist Baby’ became the first single released on UK based Island Records. The label became home to Free, Traffic, Jethro Tull, Bob Marley and U2.
Making believers out those who told him he would lose his fan base if he recorded Country And Western songs. The album it came from sold over a million copies, becoming the first Gold record for ABC-Paramount; Ray Charles started a five week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with the Don Gibson penned country ballad ‘I Can’t Stop Loving You’, also No.1 in the UK.
“Stranger On The Shore” was #1 for the seventh week on the Easy Listening chart for Mr. Acker Bilk, but dropped to #2 on the top ten, replaced by Ray CHarles I Can’t Stop Loving you.
The Rolling Stones played two gigs in one day. The first at Studio 51, Ken Colyer Club in Soho, London. The Stones played a regular Sunday afternoon gig at the club from 4 until 6.30 and were billed as Rhythm and Blues with The Rolling Stones. That evening they appeared at the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, Surrey.
June 2, 1964
The Rolling Stones made their American television debut on “The Les Crane Show,” then a local program on WABC-TV in New York City.
At EMI’s Abbey Road Studios in London, the Beatles recorded “Any Time At All,” “When I Get Home,” and “Things We Said Today.
Gerry and the Pacemakers began filming their movie debut, “Ferry Cross The Mersey,” which also starred singer Cilla Black.
The original Broadway cast album of “Hello Dolly!” was certified Gold.
June 2, 1965
James Brown released the single “Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag.”
ABC-TV’s “Shindig!” featured performances by the Righteous Brothers, Diane Renay, Major Lance, and Patty Duke.
The movie “I’ll Take Sweden,” starring Bob Hope, Dina Merrill, Frankie Avalon, and Tuesday Weld, had its world premiere.
Frank Sinatra was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Strangers In The Night’, the singers second UK No.1. The song was originally composed by Avo Uvezian as ‘Broken Guitar’ and later under the title ‘Beddy Bye’ as part of the instrumental score for the movie A Man Could Get Killed. Sinatra ad-libbed the “Doo-be doo-be doo” closing scat. Iwao Takamoto, the animator who created the cartoon dog Scooby-Doo, said that he got the inspiration to name his character from Sinatra’s ad-lib.
The Who were in concert at the Grona Lund in Stockholm, Sweden.
June 2, 1967
David Bowie released his first album, which contained the single, “Love You ‘Til Tuesday”. Although the LP got positive reviews, neither it or the single sold well.
The Beatles released the “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album in North America a day after the UK
June 2, 1968
Elvis and Priscilla returned from Hawaii to Los Angeles.
At EMI’s Abbey Road Studios in London, George Harrisonbegan recording “Isn’t It A Pity” for his “All Things Must Pass” album. It was also issued on a double A-side single with “My Sweet Lord.”
June 2, 1971
June 2, 1972
Dion And The Belmonts reunited for a concert at Madison Square Garden in New York. The performance was recorded and released as a live album the following year. They had parted company a dozen years earlier after which Dion had a successful solo career, while The Belmonts managed to chart only a couple of times.
June 2, 1973
Paul McCartney had both the No.1 positions on the US charts when ‘Red Rose Speedway’, went to the top of the album chart and ‘My Love’, started a four week run as the No.1 single.
Paul McCartney & Wings made it a triple crown with the new #1 song “My Love”. Elton John found himself at #2 with his biggest hit to that point with “Daniel”. Edgar Winter Group tumbled to 3 with “Frankenstein” while Sylvia’s solo hit “Pillow Talk” was at #4.
Paul Simon watched as his “Kodachrome” rapidly moved up the chart, moving from 57 to 28.
Elvis Presley’s live version of “Steamroller Blues” hit #17 in the U.S.
ELO began their first tour of the United States at San Diego Stadium in San Diego, California.
Red Rose Speedway, the new album from Paul McCartney & Wings, pulled away from the competition in its fourth week of release, moving from 13 to 1. The album it displaced at #1 was the Beatles/1967-1970 (the “Blue” album).
June 2, 1974
June 2, 1975
The Bee Gees released the album that would launch them into superstardom, Main Course, on RSO Records.
Elvis performed at the Municipal Auditorium, Mobile, Alabama, at 4.30 and 8.30 p.m.
Photo by George Hill
Date:
02 Jun 1975
Time:
4.30pm
Venue:
Mobile, AL.
Municipal Auditorium
Tickets:
10,620
Costume:
Silver Phoenix suit
Track list:
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
I’ll Remember You
Why Me Lord
Let Me Be There
American Trilogy
Funny How Time Slips Away
Little Darlin’
Mystery Train/Tiger Man
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Recordings:
After this show, Elvis fought with Linda Thompson regarding the amount of his money she spent. They spoke of breaking up.
Iconic Elvis image would be used as a cover for “Elvis Presley Blvd”, recorded “live” at Graceland.
Date:
02 Jun 1975
Time:
8.30pm
Venue:
Mobile, AL.
Municipal Auditorium
Tickets:
10,620
Costume:
Indian feather suit
Track list:
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
[band introductions]
School Days
T-R-O-U-B-L-E
I’ll Remember You
Let Me Be There
American Trilogy
Funny How Time Slips Away
Little Darlin’
Mystery Train/Tiger Man
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Wings set a new world record when they performed in front of 67,100 fans in Seattle, the largest attendance for an indoor crowd.
Elvis performed at the Civic Center Coliseum, El Paso, Texas.
Elvis and Guitarist James Burton – photo by Bud Sanders
Date:
02 Jun 1976
Time:
8.30pm
Venue:
El Paso, TX.
Civic Center Grand Hall
Tickets:
9,000
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
Help Me
Fever
Jailhouse Rock
And I Love You So
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
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Recordings:
“An Excitement Frenzy – It’s Elvis in Person” by Barbara Funkhouser
El Paso Times (June 3, 1976) (Concert Review)
“Elvis Arrives Quietly Under Tight Security” by Francisco Trejo
El Paso Times (June 3, 1976) (Concert Review)
Red West, Dave Hebler, Dick Grob and an exhausted Elvis leave the building Photo Copyright;Keith Alverson
Engagement – Tour Ref: On Tour number 21 – May 27th – June 6th 1976
Elvis performed at the Municipal Auditorium, Mobile, Alabama.
Date:
02 Jun 1977
Time:
8.30pm
Venue:
Mobile, AL.
Municipal Auditorium.
Tickets:
11,000
Costume:
Mexican Sundial Suit
Track list:
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
Love Me
Fairy Tale
You Gave Me A Mountain
Jailhouse Rock
It’s Now Or Never
Help Me
American Trilogy
Polk Salad Annie [band introductions]
Early Morning Rain
What’d I Say
Johnny B. Goode
School Days
I Really Don’t Want To Know
Hurt
Hound Dog
Unchained Melody
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Recordings:
After the show, Elvis returned to Memphis – Elvis Left the Building with Dr Nick and Ginger Alden.
Bruce Springsteen released his fourth album, “Darkness On The Edge Of Town.”
Crystal Gayle hosted Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers on The Midnight Special on NBC-TV.
1979
Donna Summer started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Hot Stuff’, her second US No.1, it made No.11 in the UK.
“Hot Stuff” gave Donna Summer her third #1 song after “Last Dance” and “MacArthur Park”. “Hot Stuff” was one of a select few songs I called “Disco Rock”, for it really was a melding of two musical styles. Had more songs been like this, disco would have lasted much longer. Peaches & Herb relented from their hold on #1 with “Reunited” while the Bee Gees edged closer with “Love You Inside Out”. Supertramp had their first Top 10 with “The Logical Song”.
1981
Prince made his live British debut at The Lyceum Ballroom, London, (he would not play the UK again for five years).
1983 Elvis Presley Enterprises/Graceland Tourism
1984 Actor ExWife: Priscilla Presley
1984
Wham! had their first UK No.1 with ‘Wake Me Up Before You Go Go.’ Written and produced by George Michael, one half of the duo. Inspiration for the song was a scribbled note left by his Wham! partner Andrew Ridgeley for Andrew’s parents, originally intended to read “wake me up before you go” but with “up” accidentally written twice, so Ridgeley wrote “go” twice on purpose.
“Time After Time” from newcomer Cyndi Lauper on the Adult Contemporary chart, reaching the #1 position.
Huey Lewis & the News had the fastest-rising song within the Top 10 with “The Heart Of Rock & Roll”, moving from 13 to 8.
1986
Peter Cetera released the single “Glory Of Love”.
1987
Whitney Houston released her follow-up album Whitney on Arista Records.
Dance band leader Sammy Kaye died of cancer at age 77. (Harbor Lights, The Old Lamp-Lighter, I’m A Big Girl Now, Chickery Chick, Daddy, Dream Valley, Love Walked In, Rosalie)
Former Temptations lead singer David Ruffin was sentenced in Detroit to two years probation and 50 days of community service after being convicted of using cocaine. A bag containing cocaine residue was found with Ruffin’s personal papers when police raided a house in July 1987.
Adrienne Brown’s lawyer, Allen W. Johnson, introduced a novel defense at her trial where she was answering to charges of driving under the influence of drugs, speeding and criminal trespass. Johnson claimed that Adrienne’s status as the wife of James Brown, the “ambassador of Soul”, gave her diplomatic immunity. Johnson reconsidered and withdrew the motion the next day.
1989
Rolling Stone Bill Wyman secretly married 19-year-old Mandy Smith. Wyman’s 28-year-old son was best man. All other four Stones attended. The marriage lasted 17 months.
1990
Mariah Carey first appeared on the scene with “Vision Of Love”, her first chart hit.
“Do You Remember” by Phil Collins moved into the #1 slot on the Adult Contemporary chart.
1992
Singer k.d. lang’s interview with the Advocate, a gay and lesbian publication, speaking frankly about being a lesbian and her unrequited love for a married woman, inspiring “Constant Craving” is published.
1993
Ronald Ray Howard’s murder trial began in Austin, TX. Howard killed a state trooper after listening to Tupac Shakur’s “2Pacalypse Now” album. Howard was convicted and sentenced to death.
2000
The RIAA certified Garth Brooks’ “Double Live” at the 13 million level. This matched the highest-certified live album record held by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band’s “Live 1975-1985.”
2002
Jimmy Buffett flew his biplane into a runway sign at Florida’s Palm Beach International Airport, but was not injured. The Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman said the plane was pushed off the runway by a gust of wind.
2003 Recording Artist: Daughter Lisa Marie Presley
2003
After negative public reaction and protests from Yoko Ono, Paul McCartney agreed to drop his quest to have certain Beatles songwriting credits reversed to read McCartney-Lennon.
The New York Philharmonic announced that it would return to Carnegie Hall. The orchestra cited Carnegie’s acoustics as a key reason for the move.
2006
Vince Welnick, keyboard player for The Tubes and later The Grateful Dead, committed suicide. The 55-year-old musician stood on a hillside behind his Forestville home and drew a knife across his throat in front of his wife.
2008
American guitarist and singer Bo Diddley, (Ellas Otha Bates) died of heart failure at his home in Archer, Florida aged 79. The legendary singer and performer, was known for his homemade square guitar and his ‘shave and a haircut, two bits’ rhythm, which influenced artists from Buddy Holly to Bruce SpringsteenThe Rolling Stones and U2.
Cher launched a lawsuit against Universal Music Group, claiming that the label shortchanged her and the heirs of her late ex-husband, Sonny Bono, by underpaying about $5 million in royalties. A UMG spokesman said “The claims are meritless and we are confident that we will prevail in court.”
2010 Actor: Granddaughter Riley Keough
2010
Paul McCartney received the Gershwin Prize for popular song from the Library of Congress by United States President Barack Obama at the White House.
2015
A 26-year-old Cordova, Tennessee man was handed a two-year suspended sentence with probation after stealing a pair of Elton John’s sunglasses from the Memphis Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last May.
2016
The limited edition vinyl pressing of the David Bowie album ChangesOneBowie was at No.1 on the UK’s Official Vinyl Album Chart. Bowie had four other vinyl albums on the chart; Blackstar at No.14, Hunky Dory at No. 17, The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars at No. 18 and Nothing Has Changed – The Very Best of David Bowie at No.23. Sales of vinyl records were up 32% to $416 million, their highest level since 1988, according to the RIAA.
2017
In Atlanta, Paul Simon continued his summer tour with a concert at Chastain Park Ampitheatre.
Neil Diamond continued the North American leg of his 50-Year Anniversary World Tour with a concert at the Palace of Auburn Hills in suburban Detroit.
306 Old Satillo Road, Elvis’ birthplace, is now 306 Elvis Presley Drive.
1933
The Century of Progress Exposition (World’s Fair) opened in Chicago. Originally designed to celebrate the city’s centennial, it came to symbolize hope for the future of Chicago, and America, in the midst of the Great Depression.
, 1938
Vernon Presley awaiting prison ( May 25 1938 to February 6 1939)
,1939
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
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 2o 1949 to January 7, 1950
185 Winchester Street, a two- bedroom apartment (number 328)
January 7, 1950 to April 1953
398 Cypress Street
1950
Frank Sinatra made his television debut on NBC’s Bob Hope-hosted “Star-Spangled Review.”
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
The Sun Records Rockabilly Era
1954
Twenty days after Uncle Sam called Clyde McPhatter, the Drifters’ “Honey Love” was released. It became their second #1 R&B hit of three releases.
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
Elvis, DJ and Bill perform during first show in the fieldhouse
WHAT’S SECRET?
Elvis Presley’s Rise
Show Biz Phenomenon
What’s the magic formula that Elvis Presley has discovered? And who are his fans?
As far as the formula goes, few have figured it out. People just latch on to something that’s new, and Presley certainly is new and different.
But one thing about his audience–for the first time in the history of the recording industry, one record leads all possible fields–popular, hillbilly and rhythm – and – blues. That record is Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel.” and it has led the three categories not once, but for two straight weeks.
Presley will appear at the University of Dayton fieldhouse for two shows today at 2 p. m. and 8 p. m., rated the hottest show business attraction in the history of the music business. He now commands a fee of $10,000 an appearance.
With him Sunday will be several acts of vaudeville, including the Jordanaires of the Eddy Arnold TV show. Guest MC’s will be Al Morris of WAVI, for the 2 p. m. show, and Gene Barry of WING at night.
General admission tickets will go on sale an hour before each show.
Dayton Daily News Photo courtesy Dayton Public Library Archives
Polly Thomas, a staff writer for the Journal Herald in Dayton, Ohio, who took her daughter, with Elvis above, to the show:
“He took them ecstatically through all conceivable contortions of voice and body. Beyond all precedence, he worked tirelessly, as though he were offering himself to some strange medium, understood only by those who feel beyond all feeling.
The obvious gyrations, to the unartistic eye (most of all, mine) may have appeared ribald. But in all fairness, I must admit that there is an explanatory background that lifts them into the field of art.
Elvis was born in Tupelo, Miss., and spent his childhood days in the deep south. As a child he heard the plaintive chants and blues and saw potential shoe-shine boys ‘jig’ until they were exhausted. He captured the beat of the south and began to take part in amateur productions. Performing was as natural as breathing.
That primitive almost savage expression may be, in itself, a part of the hypnotic fascination. Then, too, the young southerner with straight, slicked-back hair and long sideburns, is dedicated to his audience. He sets his course and steers it straight, completely oblivious and uninhibited.
“That’ll Be the Day” by Buddy Holly And The Crickets is released. The Nashville rendition of this song, done by Buddy Holly and the Three Tunes in July 1956 and released on the Decca label, failed to chart. This new version, recorded in February 1957 at Norman Petty’s studio in Clovis, New Mexico went to #1. The song would reach #1 in the UK and #3 in the US and was later ranked at #39 on Rolling Stone’s list of The 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time. In 2005, the recording was placed in the National Recording Registry, a list of sound recordings that “are culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States.” It was also the first song to be recorded by The Quarrymen, the skiffle group that subsequently became The Beatles.
At Norman Petty’s studio in Clovis, New Mexico, At Norman Petty’s studio in Clovis, New Mexico, Buddy Holly and the Crickets recorded “Not Fade Away” and “Everyday.” recorded “Not Fade Away” and “Everyday.”
Toronto radio station CHUM went to a Top 40 format and published its first hit record chart 50 years ago today, in 1957. The No. 1 song was Elvis Presley’s All Shook Up. The 1,500th issue of the chart made its appearance on March 14, 1986, making it the oldest surviving radio station chart in North America. The chart was discontinued later in 1986 when CHUM dropped its Top 40 format.
“All Shook Up” by Elvis Presley was the #1 R&B song for the fourth week in a row.
The Presleys lived at Audobon Drive, Graceland purchased on March 19.
The Military Service Disruption
May 27, 1958
Military service at Fort Hood in Texas., for basic training as part of the Second Armored Division. He was stationed there for six months.
The Presleys lived at Graceland
May 27, 1959
Military Service in Germany
Feb 3 1959 – March 1960: Goethestr.14 in Bad Nauheim, Germany
The Hollywood Decade/The Elvis Establishment
May 27, 1960
Jackie Wilson broke the attendance record at the Apollo Theater in New York while performing for a week. Meanwhile, the Philadelphia Arena hosted a rock ‘n’ roll extravaganza featuring LaVern Baker, the Coasters, Llyod Price, Little Anthony & the Imperials, Bo Diddley, Jimmy Jones, Sammy Turner, and Jimmy Reed.
Ruth Brown appeared at the Cafe Tia Juana in Cleveland. Brown was once asked by a reporter, “At what point did rhythm & blues start becoming rock ‘n’ roll?” Without hesitation she fired back: “When the white kids started to dance to it.”
The Chiffons released the single “One Fine Day”.
The album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan was released by Columbia in the USA. Establishing Bob Dylan as a leader in the singer-songwriter genre and a supposed spokesman for the youth-orientated protest movement, it reached No.22 in the US charts and No.1 in the UK charts. The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan showcased Dylan’s songwriting talent for the first time and propelled him to national and international fame.
The Beatles released “From Me To You” b/w “Thank You Girl” on the Vee-Jay label in the U.S. It failed to chart, but later in the year a Del Shannon cover version of “From Me To You” became the first Lennon-McCartney composition to enter the U.S. pop chart.
Elvis went to RCA’s Studio B in Nashville and recorded from 7.00 p.m. to 4.00 a.m.
In London, prior to his concert at the Royal Albert Hall, Bob Dylan welcomed the Beatles in his dressing room. Paul McCartney, who was eager to impress the singer, played him an electronic version of a song that would later become “Tomorrow Never Knows.” Dylan laughed and left the room after saying to Paul, “Oh, I get it, you don’t want to be cute anymore.”
Elvis went into the recording studio from 7.00 p.m. to 5.00 a.m.
The RCA Victor and Columbia labels announced that on June 1 they would raise the list price of their record albums by a dollar to $4.98. It was the first increase since 1953.
Pink Floyd performed at the Civic Hall in Nantwich, England.
Otis Redding‘s backup band, The Bar-Kays, enter the US charts with “Soul Finger”, an instrumental that will peak at #3 R&B and #17 Pop. Six months later, four members of the band died in the plane crash that killed Redding.
Three brothers from England by way of Australia debuted on the chart for the first time. You can count on one hand the number of artists who have been more successful. Their first single, “New York Mining Disaster 1941”, was released earlier in the week, and on this date, the Bee Gees had their first hit.
Elvis Presley’s single “That Someone You Never Forget” hit #92 in the U.S.
Elvis Presley’s single “You Gotta Stop/Love Machine” hit #38 in the U.K.
More of the Monkees was the #1 album, followed by I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You from Aretha Franklin and Revenge by funnyman Bill Cosby. The Mamas & The Papas Deliver slipped to #4 while the Soundtrack to “Doctor Zhivago” was in the fifth position. The rest of the Top 10: The Soundtrack to “The Sound of Music” was still in the Top 10 after 115 weeks, The Monkees sat at #7, The Best of the Lovin’ Spoonful came in eighth, My Cup Runneth Over from Ed Ames was #9 and the psychedelic Surrealistic Pillow from Jefferson Airplane moved from 16-10.
May 27, 1968
The 5th Dimension released the single “Stoned Soul Picnic”.
At the Capitol Tower Recording Studio in Hollywood, Glen Campbell recorded “Wichita Lineman.”
Hawaii Vacation and USS Arizona Memorial visit
There was a plaque that commemorated Elvis’s concert to raise funds for the memorial.
It was removed by the Federal government in 1987, citing Elvis as a poor role model – at the peak of the Elvis Aliver hysteria, which also had threatened the US Post Office issue the first Elvis Presley postal stamp, that same year.
Actor Jeffrey Hunter (Temple Houston, The Searchers, Kings of Kings, Sergeant Rutledge, The Longest Day, Seven Angry Men, The Proud Ones, Call Me Mister, A Guide for the Married Man, A Kiss Before Dying, No Man Is an Island, The True Story of Jesse James, original Star Trek pilot) died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 42.
Elvis flew back to Memphis, where he stayed until July 5, except for a brief trip to Las Vegas and Los Angeles.
The Vegas Artist in Residence and Tour Decade
May 27, 1970
May 27, 1971
The Canadian light Rock group, The Bells were awarded a Gold record for “Stay Awhile”, thanks in part to the sexy, breathy vocals of singers Cliff Edwards and Jackie Ralphs.
May 27, 1972
Roxy Music played their first major show at the Great Western Express Festival in Bardney, Lincolnshire, England.
“I’ll Take You There”, the great soul song from the Staple Singers, was #1 for the fourth week in a row on the R&B chart.
“Oh Girl” by the Chi-Lites moved into #1 while the Staple Singers closed with “I’ll Take You There”. Roberta Flack finally fell from the top after six great weeks at #1 with “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”. Al Green slid up one with “Look What You Done For Me” and Sammy Davis, Jr. motored up from 13 to 5 with “The Candy Man”. The rest of the Top 10: “Morning Has Broken” from Cat Stevens got a nice move (10-6), the Rolling Stones were at 7 with “Tumbling Dice”, Joe Tex had song #8–“I Gotcha'”, Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show as they called themselves then had their first release “Sylvia’s Mother” moving from 14-9 and “Hot Rod Lincoln”, the great song from Commander Cody & His Los Planet Airmen was at #10.
May 27, 1973
May 27, 1974
already become superstars all over the rest of the world; ABBA debuted with their first single, “Waterloo” on the U.S. charts.
Backstage after a Jackson 5 show at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas, 6-year-old Lisa Marie Presley was introduced to 15-year-old Michael Jackson.
Elvis performed in Tahoe.
Date:
27 May 1974
Time:
3am
Venue:
Stateline, NV.
Sahara Tahoe Hotel
Tickets:
Unknown
Costume:
Unknown
Track list:
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
Love Me
Tryin’ To Get To You
All Shook Up
Love Me Tender
You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me
Hound Dog
Fever
Polk Salad Annie
Why Me Lord
Suspicious Minds
[band introductions]
I Can”t Stop Loving You
Help Me
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Let Me Be There
The Wonder Of You
Big Boss Man
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
Steamroller Blues
And I Love You So
Fever
Polk Salad Annie
[band introductions]
Early Morning Rain
What’d I Say
Johnny B. Goode
Love Letters
School Days
Hurt
Burning Love
Funny How Time Slips Away
Little Darlin’
It’s Now Or Never
Hound Dog
Can’t Help Falling In Love
“Presley’s evolution from a skinny young rebel to the well-heeled showman makes for the ideal statement about what can happen to a person or a country, if they have the right attitude.”
Virgin Records releases the anti-establishment anthem “God Save The Queen” by The Sex Pistols. UK sales will reach over 150,000 in the first five days, despite the fact that major retailers refuse to sell the record and the BBC bans it from air-play. Against all odds, the single still reached #2 on the UK singles chart. It sold 200,000 copies in one week and peaked at No.2 on the UK charts behind Rod Stewart’s ‘I Don’t Want to Talk About It’. There have been persistent rumours, (never confirmed or denied), that it was actually the biggest-selling single in the UK at the time, and the British Phonographic Industry conspired to keep it off the No.1 slot.
At the Nashville club in London, Declan McManus made his stage debut as Elvis Costello.
Elvis performed at the Broome county Veterans Memorial Arena, Binghamton, New York
Len Leech shot of Elvis in his Mexican Sundial jumpsuit holding an apple inside the limo in Binghampton, NY
Date:
27 May 1977
Time:
8.30pm
Venue:
Binghamton, NY.
The Broome County Arena
Tickets:
?
Costume:
Mexican Sundial Suit
Track list:
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
Love Me
If You Love Me
You Gave Me A Mountain
Blue Suede Shoes
Teddy Bear/Don’t Be Cruel
Heartbreak Hotel
Bridge Over Troubled Water [band introductions]
Early Morning Rain
What’d I Say
Johnny B. Goode
School Days
Hurt
Hound Dog
Unchained Melody
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Bob Seger released the classic album Stranger in Town.
“Use Ta Be My Girl” by the O’Jay’s took over as the #1 R&B song.
“Even Now” by Barry Manilow was the new #1 Adult Contemporary song.
The Soundtrack to “Saturday Night Fever” was the #1 album for the 19th week in a row.
1983 Elvis Presley Enterprises/Graceland Tourism
1983
The Smiths were at No.1 on the UK independent chart with their debut single ‘Hand In Glove.’ The Smiths recorded the track after their manager Joe Moss paid £250 for a one-day recording session at Strawberry Studios in Stockport, England.
1984 Actor ExWife: Priscilla Presley
1987
During a show in Rome, U2’s sound system set off earthquake alarms in two neighborhoods.
U2 released the single “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” on this date in North America, the second release from their great album The Joshua Tree. The group had released the song in Europe the day before.
1988
Def Leppard promoted their blockbuster album Hysteria with a concert at the George M. Sullivan Arena in Anchorage, Alaska.
Van Halen‘s “Monster Of Rock” touring festival opened at the Alpine Valley Music Theatre in Wisconsin.
1989
The Beach Boys and Chicago began touring together for the first time in 14 years. Brian Wilson joined the group for a few shows during the tour.
“My First Love” by Atlantic Starr gained the #1 spot on the R&B chart.
“Forever Your Girl” by Paula Abdul was the #1 song for a second week.
Cliff Richard released his one hundredth single, ‘The Best Of Me’, which became his 26th Top 3 UK hit.
Lech Walesa, leader of the labor movement in Poland, awarded a Badge of Solidarity to Stevie Wonder.
1991
Wilson Phillips released the single “The Dream Is Still Alive”.
1994
Another famous day in the Rock Era as the Eagles reunited for a concert in Burbank, California after 14 years apart. The two-and-a-half-hour show ended with two encores capped by “Desperado”.
1995
“This Is How We Do It” by Montell Jordan remained at #1 for the seventh consecutive week while Bryan Adams awaited his turn with “Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?”. Boyz II Men’s “Water Runs Dry” moved to #3 while Method Man with Mary J. Blige sat still at #4 with “I’ll Be There For You/You’re All I Need To Get By”. The rest of the Top 10: “Freak Like Me” from Adina Howard, Nicki French’s version of the Bonnie Tyler classic “Total Eclipse of the Heart” was at #6, the great song “I Know” by Dionne Farris was on its way down, TLC’s “Red Light Special” was song #8, “I Believe” from Blessid Union of Souls was #9 and Monica shocked everyone by moving from 22 to 10 with “Don’t Take It Personal”.
Cracked Rear View reached #1 on the Album chart 45 weeks after its release on July 23, 1994, one of the longest times in the Rock Era that an album has taken to reach #1.
1999
Rod Stewart won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Ivor Novella Awards show.
2003 Recording Artist: Daughter Lisa Marie Presley
2003
Liza Minelli sang an a cappella version of “Liza With a Z” with Luciano Pavarotti live via satellite for a charity show on Italian television. She had been hospitalized two days early after falling and breaking her right kneecap.
The Johnny Cash albums “Super Hits,” “Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison,” and “Johnny Cash at San Quentin” were certified Platinum.
Metallica premiered the video from “St. Anger”, which was filmed at San Quentin Prison, on MTV2.
2004
Usher tied a Rock Era record by the Beatles and Bee Gees by placing all three songs in the Top 3 on this date–“Burn” at #1, “Yeah!” at #2 and “Confessions, Part II” at #3.
In London, the Bee Gees were made Commanders of the Order of the British Empire by Prince Charles in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace. Maurice Gibb’s son Adam accepted on behalf of his father, who died sixteen months earlier. The brothers had been named as recipients in the 2001/2002 New Year’s Honours List. The official presentation ceremony was delayed until 2004 because of Maurice’s death and Barry’s fear of flying after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
2005
Robbie Williams was voted into first place beating Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix and David Bowie to be named the best live solo artist. A UK nation-wide survey of 5,000 people saw the former Take That star beat music icons including Madonna, Michael Jackson and Bob Dylan. U2 were named best live band, ahead of Queen and Oasis, in a poll by Carling to celebrate the UK’s live music scene.
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails was awarded $3 million in his fraud suit against his former manager.
2006
Michael Jackson received the Legend Award at the MTV Japan’s Video Music Awards.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers owned the top album with Stadium Arcadium.
2010 Actor: Granddaughter Riley Keough
2010,
Dozens of AC/DC fans needed treatment after complaining of burning eyes during a concert on the runway of Wels Airport, Wels, Austria. Around 150 fans had to be treated. Doctors found that the fans showed allergic reactions to bark mulch spread at the venue – the runway of Wels Airport, to avoid the soil getting too muddy after hours of massive rainfall.
2011
Actor Jeff Conaway died at age 60, one day after being taken off life support. An autopsy ruled his death was accidental and caused by major internal infection. (Taxi, Babylon 5, Grease, The Patriot, The Eagle Has Landed, Pete’s Dragon, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden)
2012
Lady Gaga cancelled her sold-out June 3 Born This Way Ball concert in Indonesia after Islamist hard-liners threatened violence, claiming her sexy clothes and provocative dance moves would corrupt the youth.
2013,
A report was published saying how many musicians were frustrated with fans filming gigs on their smartphones. Jack White and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs had both put up signs at their concerts asking people to leave their mobiles in their pockets.
2015
A U.S. District Judge granted a motion for class certification in a lawsuit against Sirius-XM over its performance of pre-1972 sound recordings. The suit, originally launched by Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan (Flo and Eddie) of The Turtles, was now open to anyone who owns a pre-1972 recording that got played on Sirius-XM’s satellite radio service after August 21, 2009.
2016
– The Monkees album “Good Times!” was released. The album was recorded to commemorate the band’s 50th anniversary.
In Chicago, Beyoncé continued her Formation World Tour with a concert at Soldier Field.
2017
Cher’s ex husband, Gregg Allman, guitarist and keyboard player for The Allman Brothers Band died due to complications from liver cancer at the age of 69.
‘Elvis: The Searcher’ on Australian SBS TV: Good news for all Australian Elvis fans as the free-to-air broadcaster SBS TV are showing ‘Elvis Presley: The Searcher’ documentary. ‘Elvis: The Searcher’ Part 1 on Sunday 27 May 8:30pm – 10:30pm ‘Elvis: The Searcher’ Part 2 on Sunday June 3 8:30pm – 10:30pm
In fact it is a good weekend for ELVIS on Australian TV as FOXTEL is also broadcasting a “Elvis TRIPLE movie special” plus a repeat of ‘Elvis & Nixon’ FOX Classics is showing
– Kissin’ Cousins Sun 27 May 12:00pm – 1:40pm
– Speedway Sun 27 May 1:40pm – 3:15pm
– King Creole Sun 27 May 3:15pm – 5:15pm
Masterpiece movie channel
– ‘Elvis & Nixon’ late at night Mon 28 May 12:15am – 1:40am
Thanks to EIN fan club member Peta Garriga
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