Hank Snow and His Rainbow Ranch Boys headlining and opening The Louvin Brothers and Cowboy Copas
Elvis returned to Roanoke perform with the TCB band in 1972, 1974 and 1976 and was scheduled to appear again on Aug. 24, 1977, eight days after his death.
September 15, 1956
Elvis Presley started a five-week run at No.1 on the US charts with ‘Don’t Be Cruel’. The track went on to become Presley’s biggest selling single, with sales over six million by 1961. This “double-sided hit” which had ‘Hound Dog’ on the B side, became the most successful on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. One side reached No.1 on the chart, the other No.2. The two titles spent a combined 55 weeks in the Top 100 in 1956-1957.
Elvis Presley is presented with a Gold record for “Don’t Be Cruel”, which has just taken over from “Hound Dog” as the best selling single in the US. When the song was recorded on July 2nd, Elvis, along with Scotty Moore, Bill Black, D.J. Fontana and The Jordanaires ran through 28 takes of “Don’t Be Cruel” before he was satisfied.
In Montreal, Alan Freed’s “The Biggest Show Of Stars For 1957” concert tour played the Forum. Performers included Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Frankie Lymon, Paul Anka, Clyde McPhatter, Buddy Knox, LaVern Baker, the Drifters, Eddie Cochran, the Bobettes, Johnnie & Joe, Jimmy Bowen, and the Spaniels.
Billy Wardand His Dominoes sang “Star Dust” on CBS-TV’s “The Ed Sullivan Show.” The Andrews Sisters, Jill Corey, Florian Zabach, Nick Todd, Joe E. Lewis, Mildred Miller and Ronnie Sweetz also performed on the program.
The Presleys lived at Graceland
The Military Service Disruption
September 15, 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 15, 1959
Military Service in Germany
Feb 3 1959 – March 1960: Goethestr.14 in Bad Nauheim, Germany
A group from Hawthorne, California called The Pendletones attend their first real recording session at Hite Morgan’s studio in Los Angeles. The band recorded ‘Surfin’, a song that would help shape their career as The Beach Boys.
September 15, 1962
A Chinese newspaper reports what it calls “ugly displays”, as teens have been seen dancing The Twist in Maoming Cultural Park.
Brian Epstein brings The Beatles to an interview with Peter Jones of the London Daily Mirror. Jones concludes they are “a nothing group.”
Elvis Presley’s single “She’s Not You” hit #1 in the U.K.
The Four Seasons started a five week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Sherry’, it made No.8 in the UK. They became the first American group to have three No.1’s in succession.
The Beatles on tour in the USA, appeared at the Public Auditorium in Cleveland, Ohio. During the performance a group of fans managed to break through the line of police fronting the stage and get up on-stage. Police ordered The Beatles off-stage in the middle of a song, and the concert only resumed after Derek Taylor got on the PA system and pleaded for order to be restored so that the rest of the performance would not be cancelled by the police.
September 15, 1965
The Ford Motor Company becomes the first auto maker to offer an 8-track tape player as an option for their entire line of vehicles. Tapes were initially only available at auto parts stores, as home 8-track equipment was still a year away.
Otis Redding released his third studio album Otis Blue. The album mainly consists of cover songs by popular R&B and soul artists, and, bar one track, was recorded in a 24-hour period over July 9/10 1965 at the Stax Recording Studios in Memphis, Tennessee and includes the classic tracks ‘Ole Man Trouble”, ‘Respect’, and ‘Down in the Valley’.
Paradise, Hawaiian Style
September 15, 1967
Filming continued for The Beatles ‘Magical Mystery Tour’. Lunch was at James and Amy Smedley’s fish and chip shop in Taunton, Somerset with The Beatles being filmed and photographed eating their fish and chips.
September 15, 1968
NBC-TV airs a new music program called Soul, a completely Black production both in front of and behind the cameras. Featured guests are Lou Rawls and Martha And The Vandellas.
The Doors were forced to perform as a trio at a concert in Amsterdam after singer Jim Morrison collapsed while dancing during the Jefferson Airplane’s performance.
Elvis spent most of September in Palm Springs.
September 15, 1969
Ed Sullivan releases his first and only Rock ‘n’ Roll record, “The Sulli-Gulli”, credited to The Ed Sullivan Singers And Orchestra. The song failed to crack the Billboard Hot 100.
The Vegas Artist in Residence and Tour Decade
September 15, 1970
US Vice-President Spiro Agnew says the youth of America are being “brainwashed into a drug culture” by Rock music, movies, books and underground newspapers.
Elvis left Mobile at 3.00 p.m. He flew back home to Memphis to complete a 2 day recording session in Nashville. He would return to the West Coast again the 24th.
September 15, 1973
Helen Reddy reached the top spot on the Billboard Pop chart for the second time with “Delta Dawn”. Her recording beat out a rendition by Bette Midler that was released at the same time and an earlier version by Country singer Tanya Tucker, who took the song to number 6 on Billboard’s Country chart, but only 72 on the Pop chart.
In the U.K The album “Elvis” hit #16 while it’s single “Fool” hit #15.
September 15, 1975
Pink Floyd released their ninth studio album Wish You Were Here in the UK. The album which explores themes of absence, the music business, and former band-mate Syd Barrett’s mental decline peaked at No.1 on both sides of the Atlantic and went on to spend a total of 84 weeks on the chart.
Gary Thain (Uriah Heep) was nearly electrocuted on stage during a show in Dallas.
While riding his 3-wheeled motorcycles again, dressed in a windbreaker, sunglasses on and smoking a cigar, Elvis told a reporter he was feeling fine again.
The Wake and Aftermath
1977
The Rolling Stones released “Love You Live,” a double album drawn from Tour of the Americas shows in the United States in the summer of 1975, Tour of Europe shows in 1976 and performances from the infamous El Mocambo nightclub concert venue in Toronto in 1977.
1978
Bob Dylan kicked off his longest and most continuous US tour of his career in Augusta, Maine, playing the first of sixty-five gigs in sixty-two cities.
1979
Led Zeppelin scored their sixth US No.1 album when In Through The Out Door started a seven-week run at the top of the charts. The eighth studio album by Zeppelin, was their final album of entirely new material.
Bob Dylan had a double edged sword on his hands when he released an album of religious songs called “Slow Train Coming”. A single called “Gotta Serve Somebody” won a Grammy Award, but the LP alienated many of his long time fans.
“The Devil Went Down To Georgia” by The Charlie Daniels Band peaks at #3 during it’s twelve week stay in Billboard’s Top 40. It also topped the Country chart and was certified Platinum with sales of over two million copies. After the song became available as a digital download, it sold nearly two million more. The original line in the song “I done told you once, you son of a bitch, I’m the best that’s ever been” was altered to “I done told you once, you son of a gun, I’m the best that’s ever been” in order to gain radio air play.
1982 Elvis Presley Enterprises/Graceland Tourism
1982
In southern California, Queen played the Inglewood Forum in their last U.S. concert with Freddie Mercury.
1984
Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s ‘Relax’ became the longest running chart hit since Engelbert Humperdink’s ‘Release Me’, after spending 43 weeks on the UK singles chart.
1990
George Michael scored his second UK No.1 solo album with his second release ‘Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1’. The album went on to sell over 8 million copies worldwide.
1994
A reel to reel tape of The Quarry Men appearing at St Peter’s Parish Church garden party in July, 1957, sells for $125,000 at Sotheby’s.
1997
Elton John’s “Candle In The Wind 1997” tribute to Princess Diana sold more than 600,000 copies in its first day of availability in Britain and later became the biggest-selling single of all time.
2003
ABBA tribute acts overtook Elvis Presley impersonators in the battle of British covers singers according to a survey. The Swedish group jumped from third most tributed act in 2001 to top in 2002 with imitators like Abba Fever and Voulez Vous putting on Abba shows. Elvis dropped to number two while The Beatles dropped to three. The Performing Right Society carried out the research.
Madonna‘s children’s book “The English Roses” went on sale.
2007
“More Than A Memory” by Garth Brooks became the first single to debut at #1 on the Billboard Country Music chart.
Prince announced plans to sue YouTube and other major Web sites for unauthorized use of his music in a bid to “reclaim his art on the Internet.”
2010
The New York Parole Board released the transcript of Mark David Chapman’s parole hearing in which he told the board that he had also considered killing either Johnny Carson or Elizabeth Taylor, but John Lennon was “top of the list” the day he gunned down the former Beatle. Chapman agreed with a parole board member that he did the killing for “instant notoriety.”
Michael Jackson‘s mother and his three children filed a wrongful death lawsuit against AEG Live, the promoters of a series of planned concerts by the King Of Pop before his death last year. The civil lawsuit accused the company of “putting its desire for massive profits” over the health and safety of Michael.
2014
Apple released a tool to remove U2’s new album from its customers’ iTunes accounts six days after giving away the music for free. Some users had complained about the fact that their latest album Songs of Innocence had automatically been downloaded to their devices without their permission.
2016
A company called Sid Bernstein Presents brought suit against Apple Corps and Subafilms, Ltd for using footage of the 1965 concert at Shea Stadium which they say is their property. Promoter Sid Bernstein produced the 1965 show and booked The Beatles and the other artists who played on the bill and, although the Beatles’ business enterprises obtained the copyright to the concert footage in that year, he always disputed their copyright claim.
In London’s Leicester Square, “The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years,” a documentary directed by Ron Howard and featuring rare and exclusive footage, had its world premiere. Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Howard were among those who attended the event.
2018
Paul McCartney achieved his first #1 album on the Billboard 200 chart in over 36 years, as his latest studio effort, “Egypt Station” debuted at the top of the list. Macca had not had a chart topper since “Tug Of War” in 1982. The only other artist to have a longer wait between number one albums was Johnny Cash, who waited 36 years, 10 months and 9 days between “Johnny Cash at San Quentin” on September 13th, 1969 and the posthumous release “American V: A Hundred Highways” dated July 22nd, 2006.
Video: How Elvis Introduced Paul McCartney to the Remote Control
Joel Goldenberg: I Got Lucky by Elvis Presley | Arts & Entertainment | thesuburban.comUnlike last week’s Retro Roundup entry, Elvis Presley’s C’mon Everybody on RCA Victor’s Camden budget label, the companion album I Got Lucky did not receive five stars in the 1979
Priscilla Presley Shares ‘Sad, Sad News’ About Her Graceland Horse, and Fans Light up Comments With CondolencesPriscilla Presley took to social media Saturday afternoon to share some “sad, sad news” with her fans alongside a photo capturing a tender moment that brought the actress and Graceland estate owner, great comfort. Over the weekend, Presley took to Instagram to post a snapshot of herself […]
Ernest Tubb recorded “It Just Doesn’t Matter Now” and “Love Turns to Hate.”
September 11, 1952
At Atlantic Records on West 56th St in New York, Ahmet Ertegun begins recording his newest signing, 21 year old Ray Charles, whose contract had been purchased from the Swingtime label for $2,500 last June.
The Sun Records Rockabilly Era
September 11, 1954
Elvis performed at the Eagle’s Nest, Memphis. (not listed on Scotty Moore’s site)
September 11, 1955
Elvis joined the Hank Snow Jamboree for 2 days, and performed at the Municipal Auditorium, Norfolk, Virginia at 3.00 and 8.00 p.m. The other acts were Hank Snow, His Rainbow Ranch Boys and The Louvin Brothers along with Cowboy Copas.
The RCA Victor Atomic Powered Singer
September 11, 1956
Police are called to break up a crowd of rowdy teenagers following the showing of the film Rock Around The Clock at the Trocadero Cinema in London, England. The following day, The Times prints a reader’s letter that says in part: “The hypnotic rhythm and the wild gestures have a maddening effect on a rhythm loving age group and the result of its impact is the relaxing of all self control.” The film is quickly banned in several English cities.
Love Me Tender
September 11, 1957
Jerry Lee Lewis hits the number three position on the US record charts with “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On”. The song had already been released by a handful of artists and Jerry Lee had been using it in his live act for several months.
In Cincinnati, Alan Freed’s “The Biggest Show of Stars For 1957” concert tour played the Cincinnati Gardens. Performers included Fats Domino, Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Chuck Berry, Paul Anka, Frankie Lymon, Clyde McPhatter, the Everly Brothers, LaVern Baker, the Drifters, Eddie Cochran, the Bobettes, Buddy Knox, Johnnie & Joe, the Spaniels, and Jimmy Bowen.
Elvis went home by train, but in Houston he got out and drove the rest to Memphis. He arrived home at 10.00 p.m.
The Military Service Disruption
September 11, 1958
At Atlantic Records studios in New York City, LaVern Baker recorded “I Cried A Tear,” featuring saxophonist King Curtis.
At Bell Sound Studio in New York City, Lloyd Price, backed by the Ray Charles Singers, recorded “Stagger Lee.”
At the Capitol Tower Studios in Los Angeles, Frank Sinatra recorded “Mr. Success,” “Sleep Warm” and “Where Or When.”
Poet Robert Service, “Bard of the Klondike,” (The Shooting of Dan McGrew) died at 84.
The Hollywood Decade/The Elvis Establishment
September 11, 1960
Nancy Sinatra married American teen idol Tommy Sands in Las Vegas. The pair would split in 1965.
September 11, 1961
At the Cosimo Recording Studio in New Orleans, Fats Domino recorded “What A Party.”
Three new songs debuted in the Top 10–“Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It’s Flavor (On the Bedpost Over Night)” by Lonnie Donegan, Barry Mann moved from 14-8 with “Who Put the Bomp (In the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)” and Elvis Presley climbed in with “Little Sister”.
September 11, 1962
The Beatles return to Abbey Road Studios where they record “P.S., I Love You”. Producer George Martin is concerned with Ringo Starr’s ability and hires session drummer Andy White to re-record “Love Me Do”, on which Ringo played maracas and tambourine. The single that was released on October 5th featured a version of ‘Love Me Do’ with Ringo on drums, but the album ‘Please Please Me’ included a version with Andy White on drums. It remained a sore spot with Ringo for many years. The Beatles also came up with a new arrangement of “Please Please Me” with White on drums, that was rediscovered in 1994 and released on the album Anthology I.
Neil Sedaka married his wife Leba.
It Happened at the World’s Fair Production: September 4-13 in Seattle
September 11, 1963
An unauthorized two-disc set of Bob Dylan songs, called “The Great White Wonder” first appears in a Los Angeles record store. It’s believed to be the first commercial release of a bootleg album.
Elvis completed his part for Viva Las Vegas and returned to Memphis.
September 11, 1964
The London Evening News reported that a 16 year-old Eltham Collage boy, introduced as Laurie Yarham, was everyone’s idea of a winner in a Mick Jagger look-a-like competition. Laurie looked like Mick Jagger and seemed to know his every action and the audience at Greenwich Town Hall were delighted, until the winner turned out to be Mick’s younger brother Chris Jagger.
The Beatles performed in the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida.
George Harrison formed Mornyork Ltd. as his own song publishing company. The name was later changed to Harrisongs, Ltd.
September 11, 1965
The Rolling Stones hit #1 in the U.K. with “Satisfaction”.
The Beatles registered what still is the eighth biggest leap to #1 in the Rock Era on the Album chart–Help! moved from 61 to 1 on this date. Sonny & Cher moved up with Look at Us, the Rolling Stones fell with Out of Our Heads and the Soundtrack to “The Sound of Music” was fourth. The rest of the Top 10: Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) by the Beach Boys, Herman’s Hermits on Tour, The Soundtrack to “Mary Poppins” came in #7, Beatles VI was #8, Sinatra ’65, and Bob Dylan brought up the rear with Bringing It All Back Home.
The Beatles started a nine-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Help!’, the group’s sixth US chart topper.
Paradise, Hawaiian Style
September 11, 1966
The Beatles receive a Gold record for the single, “Yellow Submarine”.
The Rolling Stones performed “Paint It, Black” on The Ed Sullivan Show.
September 11, 1967
The Beatles‘ “All You Need Is Love” is certified as a million-seller. The boys also begin filming the movie, Magical Mystery Tour. The idea was to cruise the English countryside in a bus “just to see what would happen.” Unfortunately, nothing did and the film was a disaster, receiving scathing reviews and condemned as The Beatles’ first failure. The Evening News TV critic may have summed it up best when he wrote “There was precious little magic and the only mystery was how the BBC came to buy it.”
The Jimi Hendrix Experience performed at the Gröna Lund in Stockholm, Sweden.
Frank Sinatra was denied credit by new owner Howard Hughes at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, and lost two teeth in the ensuing fight
At the recording session Elvis took over the piano part in You’ll Never Walk Alone. They worked from 6.00 p.m. till 3.30 a.m.
September 11, 1968
The Beatles recorded 34 takes of “Glass Onion” for The White Album. The 33rd was considered the best, and overdubs began the next day.
“Variety” announced that the bordello scene from the 1968 TV Special “Elvis” had been cut. It was cited that the scene had passed NBC censors but the sponsor singer had requested that it be removed.
Elvis spent most of September in Palm Springs.
The Vegas Artist in Residence and Tour Decade
September 11, 1970
Donny Osmond‘s version of “Go Away Little Girl” hits number one in the US. The song was also a chart topper for Steve Lawrence in 1963 and reached #12 for The Happenings in 1966.
The Jackson 5 Saturday morning cartoon show debuts on ABC-TV. The show features the voices of the five brothers.
Jimi Hendrix gives his final interview in his suite at the Cumberland Hotel in London, where he talked with Keith Altham, a journalist for the British weekly music newspaper Record Mirror. During their dialogue the guitarist confirmed that his bassist, Billy Cox, was leaving the band due to exhaustion, a condition that Hendrix himself was suffering.
Elvis performed at the Olympia Arena, Detroit, Michigan.
September 11, 1971
The animated Jackson Five series premiered on ABC-TV in the US.
Joan Baez had the #1 Easy Listening song again with “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”.
Aretha Franklin held on to #1 on the R&B chart for the third week with her great song “Spanish Harlem”.
Donny Osmond started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Go Away Little Girl’. The singers only US solo chart topper. The song had also been a No.1 for Steve Lawrence in 1963.
The Elvis Presley boxed compilation “World Wide Gold Award Hits, Vol. 2” hit #120 in the U.S. a 4 LP set, which included a poster of elvis and a swatch of cloth from his personal clothing and movie costumes he’d kept.
September 11, 1973
Elvis stayed in Las Vegas. While working out karate with Kang Rhee, Elvis ruined some hotel furniture and even broke his finger on his left hand. During this stay there, Elvis held rehearsals with Voice, a group he’d put together to give to Tom Jones and ended up using himself.
September 11, 1974
Elvis and Sheila Ryan spent 5 days (Sept 9 – 13) in Palm Springs together before Elvis had to leave for Memphis.
September 11, 1975
Janis Ian is awarded her first Gold record for the album “Between The Lines”. The LP contains her biographical single “At Seventeen”, which was still climbing the charts and will peak in the US at number three.
Aerosmith‘s self-titled debut album was certified gold.
September 11, 1976
Elton John & Kiki Dee’s multi-format smash “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” was #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
Peter Frampton hopped up to #1 for the third time on the Album chart with Frampton Comes Alive!, sending the self-titled Fleetwood Mac to #2. Jefferson Starship was at 3 with Spitfire and George Benson remained at 4 with Breezin’. The rest of the Top 10: Silk Degrees from Boz Scaggs, Linda Ronstadt jumped from 18 to 6 with Hasten Down the Wind, Lou Rawls came in at #7 with All Things in Time, the self-titled Wild Cherry was #8, Chicago X, and Spirit from John Denver.
Back in Memphis after his tour, Elvis was seen riding his motorcycle. By now there were rumors that Red and Sonny West and Dave Hebler were writing a book about their lives with Elvis.
The Wake and Aftermath
1977
David Bowie and Bing Crosby filmed a duet version of “Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy” for what turned out to be Crosby’s last television Christmas special. The recording of the song first appeared on Crosby’s “Merrie Olde Christmas” album. Released as a single, it has become a perennial holiday favorite. David Bowie and Bing Crosby recorded a duet version of “The Little Drummer Boy.” The song appeared on Crosby’s “Merrie Olde Christmas” LP.
Bernie Taupin made his television acting debut on ABC’s “The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew meet Dracula.” He played the character Circus. Taupin was known for being Elton John’s lyricist.
1982 Elvis Presley Enterprises/Graceland Tourism
1984
Bruce Springsteen broke the attendance record at Philadelphia’s Spectrum. 16,800 fans attended the first of six sold-out shows.
1987
Canadian born actor Lorne Green, whose spoken word recording of “Ringo” went to #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 in 1964, passed away at the age of 72.
Level 42’s ‘It’s Over’, became the first CD video single to go on sale in the UK. It contained twenty minutes of music and five minutes of video (which remained unseen until CDV players went on sale).
Elton John’s “Greatest Hits Volume 3” was released.
Prince’s recording studio Paisley Park officially opened in Chanhassen, Minnesota at the intersection of Highway 5 and Audubon Road. It was a 10-million dollar, 65,000 square foot facility with two 48-track studios, a 24-track studio, a 12,000-foot soundstage, a rehearsal and dance hall, video editing suites, and dozens of offices. It is no longer active, but in its prime, artists from around the world recorded at Paisley Park, including Jermaine Jackson and Patti LaBelle.
1988
Michael Jackson appeared at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool, England on his Bad World Tour. Over 3,000 fans were treated by the St. John Ambulance service for passing out, hysteria and being crushed amongst the crowd of 125,000 fans, the largest concert of the 123-date world tour.
1990
George Michael released his second solo album, the incredible Listen Without Prejudice.
2000
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio unveiled the new Jimi Hendrix Surround Sound Theater and exhibit.
Boyz II Men appeared at Beacon Theater in New York City to raise nearly $60,000 to benefit the VH1 Save the Music foundation.
The Elvis Presley movie “Viva Las Vegas” was released on DVD.
2001
9/11
Walking to work in New York (as an comic book illustrator) Gerard Way witnessed the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre. The day’s events inspired him to start a band, which became My Chemical Romance with Way becoming their lead singer.
Dream Theater released the album “Live Scenes From New York“. The original artwork was recalled the same day due to the artwork portraying the New York skyline and World Trade Center towers engulfed in flames. The album was re-released with different artwork.
Olivia Newton-John released the compilation album “Magic: The Very Best Of Olivia Newton-John.”
The Elvis Presley CD compilation album “The 50 Greatest Love Songs” was released.
2006
A study from the University of Leicester found that more than a quarter of classical music fans had tried cannabis. Researchers were trying to find out what people’s taste in music revealed about their lifestyles. The UK study also revealed that blues buffs are the most likely to have received a driving penalty. Hip hop and dance music fans were more likely to have multiple sex partners and were among the biggest drug-takers surveyed. More than 2,500 people were interviewed for the study, which was published in the scientific journal Psychology of Music.
2011
The Beatles album “1” re-appeared in the UK Top Ten chart when it rose to #6 on the strength of sales of over 23,000 copies. Overall, “1” has sold 30 million physical copies since its 2000 release, according to EMI, and is the bestselling album in the world over the past decade.
87-year-old Doris Day became the oldest female artist ever to hit the U.K. Top Ten with an album of newly-released material when “My Heart” debuted at #9.
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Priscilla Presley Might Have A Part In The Upcoming Elvis Biopic, Details InsideAustralian director, Baz Luhrmann is working on an upcoming film which is based on the life of late American Singer and Actor Elvis Presley. Priscilla Presley, who is Presley’s ex-wife, has a vital role in the biopic. Presley said, “I have been involved with Baz.” She added, “He has come to my home, and he …
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Tupelo, Mississippi
1935-1948
Memphis, Tennessee
1949 – 1977
1950
In Nashville, Hank Snow and His Rainbow Ranch Boys recorded the Snow composition “I’m Movin’ On.” The record went to #1 on theBillboard country singles chart and stayed there for 21 weeks. It peaked at #27 on the pop singles chart.
1953
Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton charted with “Hound Dog,” – a song about a cheating lover, reaching #1 for seven weeks on the R&B hit parade.
The Sun Records Rockabilly Era
The RCA Victor Atomic Powered Singer
1957
Elvis performed at the International Amphitheatre, Chicago. Elvis wore the $2,500 gold-leaf suit, that the Colonel had had made up by Nudie Cohen. The 12,000 crowd had to sit through Rex Marlowe, Patti Kelly, Jimmy James, Frank Connors, Frankie Trent, The Jordanaires, June Day before Elvis
Chicagoan Ral Donner, who recorded four successful Elvis soundalike singles in 1961 and later narrated as Presley’s voice in the 1981 documentary film, “This Is Elvis,” was in the audience.
Donner was so good a sound alike that Elvis Presley covered Ral Donner’s “Girl of my Best Friend” for his own Elvis is Back LP.
The Military Service Disruption
1958
In Hollywood, Eddie Cochran recorded “Summertime Blues.” The song is ranked #73 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Blues musician/bandleader/composer W.C. Handy, “The Father of the Blues,” died of bronchial pneumonia at 84. (St. Louis Blues, Yellow Dog Blues, Memphis Blues, Beale Street Blues, Ole Miss Rag)
The Hollywood Decade/The Elvis Establishment
1966
Country singer, Kitty Wells, Elvis Presley, John Wright (Kitty’s husband), and their son.
Barbra Streisand attended the midnight show and met backstage with Elvis afterward. She offered him the costarring role in her upcoming remake of “A Star Is Born”. It is unclear whether Col Parker quashed it, or Elvis did owing to the second billing or the character suicide – the role went to Kris Kristofferson.
The Wake and Aftermath
1983 Elvis Presley Enterprises/Graceland Tourism
1983
Don Henley’s single “Dirty Laundry” was certified Gold. Lisa Marie Presley would later cover it, with greater meaning of consequence, than the media sensationalism general social anxiety commentary insider snide original excellent version.
1984 Actor ExWife: Priscilla Presley
2004 Recording Artist: Daughter Lisa Marie Presley
2005
After playing a warm-up date the night before at the Los Angeles Sports Arena, U2 kicked off their Vertigo tour at the iPay One Center in San Diego, California. The 131 date world tour would see the band playing in North America, Europe, South America and Japan. By the time it finished, the Vertigo Tour had sold 4,619,021 tickets, grossing $389 million; the second-highest figure ever for a world tour.
On the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Internet radio show, Michael Jackson claimed that recent child-molestation charges against him were part of a racist conspiracy.
Lisa Marie Presley appeared on television’s “Oprah.
2011 Actor: Granddaughter Riley Keough
2013,
Justin Bieber ran into some trouble at Munich airport when customs officials detained and quarantined his monkey. Bieber had recently been given the capuchin monkey as a pet by record producer Mally Mall. Bieber apparently brought the monkey along to join him on the Austrian and German leg of his European tour, but he didn’t have the documentation required to bring his new friend into Germany. Bieber went on to perform in Munich while the monkey was kept in the custody of authorities.
2014
Tickets for Kate Bush first live shows in 35 years sold out in less than 15 minutes. The Before the Dawn concerts, which were booked to take place this August and September, marked the singer’s first return to the stage since The Tour Of Life in 1979. Demand was so high that the singer’s own website, as well as some ticket-selling sites, crashed as people tried to log on.
2016
In New York City, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band continued The River Tour with a concert at Madison Square Garden.
Non-Movie B side “It Hurts Me” hit #29 in the U.S, while “Kissing Cousins” the A-side would reached number 12 in the U.S. singles charts. Elvis re-recorded the song for his 1968 TV special.
306 Old Satillo Road, Elvis’ birthplace, is now 306 Elvis Presley Drive.
, 1938
Vernon Presley awaiting prison ( May 25 1938 to February 6 1939)
,1939
Hal Kemp and his orchestra recorded “Three Little Fishies.”
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
Frank Sinatra appeared on the charts for the first time with “Night And Day”
Kelly Street, a rented, small apartment.
1943
1944
August 8, 1945 to July 18, 1946
Berry Street -“Doll” Smith lived here with the Presleys and then Minnie Mae Presley moved in.
1946
Commerce Street, a rental
510 1/2 Maple Street, South Tupelo -the Presleys lived with Glady’s cousin Frank Richards and his wife, Leona.
1947
Mulbery Alley
Memphis, Tennessee
1948-1953 – Humes High School
Sept. 12, 1948-Sept. 20, 1949
572 Poplar Avenue
Sept 2o 1949 to January 7, 1950
185 Winchester Street, a two- bedroom apartment (number 328)
1950
In Nashville, Hank Snow and His Rainbow Ranch Boys recorded the Snow composition “I’m Movin’ On.” The record went to #1 on theBillboard country singles chart and stayed there for 21 weeks. It peaked at #27 on the pop singles chart.
January 7, 1950 to April 1953
398 Cypress Street
1953
Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton charted with “Hound Dog,” – a song about a cheating lover, reaching #1 for seven weeks on the R&B hit parade.
The Sun Records Rockabilly Era
March 28, 1954
The Presleys lived at 2414 Lamar Avenue, rented til the end of 1954 to mid-1955
There was a press conference at the Saddle and Sirloin Club at the Stockyards Inn in Chicago.
Gene Smith and Elvis meet the press in the Saddle and Sirloin Club – Mar. 28, 1957 Photo courtesy David English
Elvis debuts his Gold shoes in the Saddle and Sirloin Club – Mar. 28, 1957 Photo courtesy David English
Elvis performed at the International Amphitheatre, Chicago. Elvis wore the $2,500 gold-leaf suit, that the Colonel had had made up by Nudie Cohen. The 12,000 crowd had to sit through Rex Marlowe, Patti Kelly, Jimmy James, Frank Connors, Frankie Trent, The Jordanaires, June Day before Elvis
Scotty, Elvis and DJ onstage at the International Amphitheatre – Mar. 28, 1957 Photo courtesy FECC/denon3910
Scotty, Elvis, DJ and Bill onstage at the International Amphitheatre – Mar. 28, 1957
Chicagoan Ral Donner, who recorded four successful Elvis soundalike singles in 1961 and later narrated as Presley’s voice in the 1981 documentary film, “This Is Elvis,” was in the audience.
Elvis Presley covered Ral Donner’s “Girl of my Best Friend” for his own Elvis is Back LP.
In Hollywood, Eddie Cochran recorded “Summertime Blues.” The song is ranked #73 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Brooklyn Paramount Theatre in Brooklyn, New York: The Alan Freed’s Big Beat Show starring Buddy Holly also featured Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon, The Diamonds, Billy Ford, Danny & The Juniors, The Chantels, Larry Williams, Screaming Jay Hawkins, The Pastels, Jo-Ann Campbell and Ed Townsend.
Buddy Holly kicked off the first night of a 43 date tour at Brooklyn Paramount Theatre in Brooklyn, New York. The Alan Freed’s Big Beat Show also featured Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon, The Diamonds, Billy Ford, Danny & The Juniors, The Chantels, Larry Williams, Screaming Jay Hawkins, The Pastels, Jo-Ann Campbell and Ed Townsend. On most days the acts played two shows.
Blues musician/bandleader/composer (St. Louis Blues, Yellow Dog Blues, Memphis Blues, Beale Street Blues, Ole Miss Rag) W.C. Handy, “The Father of the Blues,” died of bronchial pneumonia at 84.
Elvis Presley arrived at Fort Hood, TX, for basic training as part of the Second Armored Division. Elvis was declared off-limits to the press from the next day on. He was stationed there for six months.
March 28, 1959
Frankie Avalon had a great song at #1–“Venus”.
Feb 3 1959 – March 1960: Goethestr.14 in Bad Nauheim, Germany
The Hollywood Decade/The Elvis Establishment
March 28, 1960
Percy Faith remained at #1 for a sixth week with the classic instrumental, “The Theme From ‘A Summer Place'”. Bobby Rydell was second with “Wild One”.
At Owen Bradley’s Quonset Hut studio in Nashville, Brenda Lee recorded what became her first #1 single, “I’m Sorry.”
Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in London unveiled statues of the Beatles, the museum’s first rock stars. The figures became more famous in 1967 when the Beatles used them in the cover photograph for their “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album.
While the Beatles were changing music forever, Louis Armstrong held on to his style with “Hello, Dolly!” and paved the way on the Easy Listening chart.
Jan And Dean‘s double sided hit, “Dead Man’s Curve” / “New Girl in School” enters the US chart where it will rise to #8.
The Beatles scored one of the highest debuts in the Rock Era to that point as “Can’t Buy Me Love” came in at #27.
“She Loves You” from the Beatles was #1 for the second week, giving the band nine straight weeks at the top. The group also were at #2 with their former #1 song of seven weeks–“I Want To Hold Your Hand”. The Beatles were also #3 with their new song “Twist And Shout” and #4 with “Please Please Me”. The Four Seasons fell with “Dawn (Go Away)” and the Beach Boys slipped with “Fun, Fun, Fun”. The rest of the Top 10: “Suspicion” from Terry Stafford, Louis Armstrong climbed up with “Hello, Dolly!”, Bobby Vinton moved into the Top 10 with My Heart Belongs To Only You” and the Dave Clark Five joined the invasion with “Glad All Over”.
Meet the Beatles! was #1 on the Album chart for the seventh week and Introducing…The Beatles was #2.
Radio Caroline, the UK’s first all-day English-language “pirate” radio station, began broadcasting from the Fredericia, a former Danish ferry, in the North Sea.
Non-Movie B side “It Hurts Me” hit #29 in the U.S, while “Kissing Cousins” the A-side would reached number 12 in the U.S. singles charts. Elvis re-recorded the song for his 1968 TV special.
March 28, 1965
On CBS-TV’s “The Ed Sullivan Show.” Sergio Franchi, Marilyn Michaels, Elizabeth Allen and Jackie Vernon also appeared with Little Anthony and the Imperials and Bobby Vintonperforming.
Van Morrison records “Brown Eyed Girl”, which will enter the Billboard chart next August and rise to #10. The song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2007.
Working on sessions for the new Beatles album Sgt. Pepper at Abbey Road studios in London, John Lennon recorded his lead vocal for ‘Good Morning Good Morning’, and Paul McCartney added a lead guitar solo to the track. Lennon had decided he wanted to end the song with animal sound effects, and asked that they be sequenced in such a way that each successive animal was capable of scaring or eating the preceding one.
Pink Floyd recorded a performance for the BBC 2 TV Omnibus – The Sound of Change show from Barnes Common, London, England. The special, which was produced by Tony Palmer, also featured performances by The Who, Cream and The Jimi Hendrix Experience. The show was later broadcast in September of this year.
Simon and Garfunkel were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’, the duo’s only UK No.1. in the USA, it was the #1 Adult song for the fifth week with “Bridge Over Troubled Water”. Only Art Garfunkel sang on the track at Paul Simon’s insistence and eventual regret.
A Detroit band called Frijid Pink sees their cover version of The Animals’ 1964 hit “House Of The Rising Sun” peak at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 during an eleven week run in the Top 40. The Michigan group’s rendition actually sold over seven and half million records worldwide, while the British rocker’s #1 hit sold about 750,000.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young released the single “Woodstock.”
Simon and Garfunkel were still on top after five weeks overall with “Bridge Over Troubled Water”. The Beatles made their move (6-2) with “Let It Be” while John Lennon edged up with “Instant Karma”. The Jaggerz had their one and only, “The Rapper” while Edison Lighthouse were up to #5 with “Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)”. The rest of the Top 10: The Jackson 5 were up from 14-6 with “ABC”, the Hollies remained in the #7 spot with the timeless “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother”, Norman Greenbaum moved in with “Spirit In The Sky”, Chairmen of the Board slipped to #9 with “Give Me Just A Little More Time” and Badfinger was a determined group with a 23-10 move for “Come And Get It”.
Simon and Garfunkel remained in the #1 position on the Album chart with the landmark Bridge Over Troubled Water. Hey Jude from the Beatles took second with Led Zeppelin II falling. The Doors were fourth with Morrison Hotel/Hard Rock Cafe while Santana was up to #5 with their self-titled release. The rest of an superb Top 10: Chicago II, Abbey Road by the Beatles, CCR were at #8 with Willy and the Poorboys, Tom Jones Live in Las Vegas captured #9 and Hello, I’m Johnny Cash by Johnny Cash was tenth.
March 28, 1971
CBC cancelled The Ed Sullivan Show. With musical guests Gladys Knight And The Pips slated to perform, Ed Sullivan took to the stage for the last time as the host of America’s most popular variety show. The program’s twenty-three year run on CBS would come to an end a few days later when producer Bob Precht got a call from CBS president Bob Wood, advising him that the show would not be back for another season. Sullivan did not take the news well, reportedly saying, “Well I’ll be a son of a bitch… after all I’ve done for the network over the years.” More than any other venue, Sullivan’s show provided a springboard to stardom for many Rock ‘n’ Roll acts of the day, introducing Elvis Presley, The Beatles and many, many more to America. Comedian Alan King may have summed it up best when he earlier quipped, “Ed does nothing. But he does it better than anyone else on television.”
“The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour” on CBS-TV welcomed guests Bobby Goldsboro, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Paul Lynde.
Still in the RCA studio Elvis was persuaded to try a rock-song like “Burning Love” – his last great rock n roll single, blocked by Chuck Berry’s my ding-ling for #1.
Originally recorded by country soul artist Arthur Alexander, who included it on his 1972 self-titled album, Elvis’ Burning Love rose to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, being kept from #1 by Chuck Berry‘s novelty song “My Ding-a-Ling.” However, it reached #1 on Cashbox’s Top 40 Charts for the week of November 11, which gave him 20 US #1 hits.
Led Zeppelin released Houses Of The Holy in the UK. The album title was a dedication by the band to their fans who appeared at venues they dubbed ‘Houses of the Holy’.
March 28, 1974
Bluesman Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup died today after a massive heart attack. Crudup had six chart hits in the ’40s and performed with the likes of Sonny Boy Williamson, Elmore James, and Lightnin’ Hopkins. He was so discontented and broke from his music-business experiences that he quit in the ’50s to farm sweet potatoes in Mississippi. He was sixty-eight. He wrote ‘That’s All Right (Mama)’ and ‘My Baby Left Me’ that Elvis recorded at SUN.
Queen appeared at Aberystwyth University in Wales.
Barbra Streisand attended the midnight show and met backstage with Elvis afterward. She offered him the costarring role in her upcoming remake of “A Star Is Born”. It is unclear whether Col Parker quashed it, or Elvis did owing to the second billing or the character suicide – the role went to Kris Kristofferson.
Elvis did Vegas Dinner and Evening Shows
Date:
28 Mar 1975
Time:
8.30pm
Venue:
Las Vegas, NV.
Hilton Hotel
Tickets:
1,600
Costume:
Unknown
Track list:
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
Love Me
If You Love Me
And I Love You So
Big Boss Man
It’s Midnight
Help Me
I’m Leavin’
Band Introductions / What’d I Say (by James Burton) / Drum Solo (by Ronnie Tutt) / Bass Solo (Duke Bardwell) / Piano Solo (Glen Hardin) / Electric Piano and Clavinet Solo (by David Briggs) / School Day ( by Joe Guercio Orchestra) / Introduction of Tanya Tucker
My Boy
I’ll Remember You
Let Me Be There
Heartbreak Hotel
Teddy Bear/Don’t Be Cruel
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Recordings:
Date:
28 Mar 1975
Time:
Midnight
Venue:
Las Vegas, NV.
Hilton Hotel
Tickets:
1,600
Costume:
Unknown
Track list:
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
Love Me
If You Love Me
And I Love You So
Big Boss Man
It’s Midnight
Promised Land
Fairytale
[band introductions]
My Boy
I’ll Remember You
Heartbreak Hotel
Hound Dog
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Recordings:
‘See See Rider’ and a short ‘I Got A Woman/Amen’ warms up the crowd. You can tell this is going to be a good show with Elvis joking to the audience, “You’re going nuts and you’re just cracked up out there. Is something showing that shouldn’t be? !”
Elvis introduces himself as, “Good evening ladies and gentlemen, I’m Ann-Margret” before an astoundingly funny conversation with a member of the audience including the comments:
Female fan, “Don’t keep me waiting I love you, I love you.”
Elvis, “Honey there’s 2 thousand people listening to you, you know that don’t you?”
F.F, “I don’t care”
Elvis, “Ok! I’ve got a fever blister you know, so if you catch it … Don’t say I didn’t warn you”
F.F, “You can have anything I’ve got, so I will take anything that you’ve got!”
Elvis sounding a little flustered, “Whooo! Can you kill those lights for a minute?”.
KISS played the first of five sold-out nights on their Alive II world Tour at the Budokan in Tokyo, Japan.
Pink Floyd began the first of four sold-out shows at New Bingley Hall at the Staffordshire County Showground in Stafford, England.
Elvis performed at the Municipal Auditorium, Austin, Texas.
Date:
28 Mar 1977
Time:
8.30pm
Venue:
Austin, TX.
Municipal Auditorium.
Tickets:
6,000
Costume:
King Of Spades (white) Suit
Track list:
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
If You Love Me
You Gave Me A Mountain
Jailhouse Rock
O Sole Mio/It’s Now Or Never
Little Sister
Teddy Bear/Don’t Be Cruel
That’s All Right
Steamroller Blues
Help Me
Fever
Band Introductions / Early Morning Rain ( featuring John Wilkinson ) / Whatd I Say ( featuring James Burton ) / Johnny B Goode ( featuring James Burton ) / Bass Solo ( featuring Jerry Scheff ) / Piano Solo ( featuring Tony Brown ) / Electric Piano Solo ( featuring Bobby Ogdin ) / School Day
Early Morning Rain
What’d I Say
Johnny B. Goode
School Days
Hurt
Hound Dog
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Blondie started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Rapture’, the group’s fourth US No.1 and the first No. 1 song in the US to feature rap and its lyrics, notable for name-checking hip-hop pioneers Fab Five Freddy and Grandmaster Flash.
Elton John’s version of The Beatles ‘I Saw Her Standing There’ was released as a tribute to John Lennon.
Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb combined for a third week at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart with their great duet “What Kind Of Fool”.
Blondie had the world’s first #1 rap song with “Rapture”, which began a two-week run at the top. “Woman” from John Lennon was second with Styx peaking at #3 with “The Best Of Times”. REO Speedwagon’s first #1 song, “Keep On Loving You”, fell to 4. The rest of the Top 10: Don McLean’s remake of the Roy Orbison hit “Crying”, Neil Diamond and “Hello Again”, Dolly Parton with “9 To 5”, Grover Washington, Jr. enlisted the help of Bill Withers and it paid off as “Just The Two Of Us” vaulted from 23 to 8, Hall & Oates had their 13th hit but just their fourth Top 10 with “Kiss On My List” and Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb remained at #10 with “What Kind Of Fool”.
REO Speedwagon held on to #1 on the Album chart for a sixth week with Hi Infidelity.
1982
In San Diego, David Crosby was arrested for driving under the influence and possession of Quaaludes, cocaine, drug paraphernalia, and an unlicensed .45 pistol. When the police asked Crosby why he was carrying the gun, he replied, “John Lennon.”
1983 Elvis Presley Enterprises/Graceland Tourism
1983
Irene Cara released her remarkable single “Flashdance”.
Don Henley’s single “Dirty Laundry” was certified Gold. Lisa Marie Presley would later cover it, with greater meaning of consequence, than the media sensationalism general social anxiety commentary insider snide original excellent version.
1984 Actor ExWife: Priscilla Presley
1985
6,000 radio stations in the US and Canada simultaneously played “We Are the World”, the fundraising song for African famine relief recorded by 45 superstar performers. Sales of the single, album, video and related merchandise initially raised more than $38 million US.
1987
Arizona, the home for bad laws, is the backdrop for this item–the Doobie Brothers shifted a concert scheduled for Phoenix to Las Vegas instead to protest Arizona Governor Evan Mecham’s decision to rescind Martin Luther King Day.
Club Nouveau took the Bill Withers classic “Lean On Me” to #1, holding off Starship’s “Nothing’s Gonna’ Stop Us Now”. Janet Jackson slipped from her peak of #2 with “Let’s Wait Awhile”, and Genesis was up to #4 with “Tonight, Tonight, Tonight”. The rest of the Top 10: “Mandolin Rain” from Bruce Hornsby & the Range, Linda Ronstadt & James Ingram were at 6 with “Somewhere Out There”, Expose were up to #7 with “Come Go With Me”, Europe advanced into the Top 10 with “The Final Countdown”, Crowded House were up from 14 to 9 with the great song “Don’t Dream It’s Over” and Aretha Franklin & George Michael moved from 17-10 with “I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)”.
1988
Tina Turner’s Break Every Rule tour ended today in Osaka, Japan, after she performed 230 dates in twenty-five countries, playing to more than 3 million people.
1992
Pearl Jam appeared at the Cabaret Metro in Chicago with Smashing Pumpkins as the opening act
“Save The Best For Last” by Vanessa Williams was the new #1 on the R&B chart, also rose to #1 on the AC chart
Ozzy Osbourne’s fans caused over 100-thousand dollars’ worth of damage at California’s Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre after the Prince of Darkness invited the first two rows of the audience on stage. Many others took up the offer and the band had to flee to backstage.
1992
Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” was one of the hottest songs, rising from #81 to #49, 16 years after it first was a smash hit.
Garth Brooks lassoed the competition for an 18th week at #1 with Ropin’ the Wind on the Album chart, tied for seventh all-time.
1994
Pink Floyd released the album “The Division Bell” in the U.K.
1995
Singer Jimmy McShane died of Aids. He had the 1985 UK No.3 single and European hit ‘Tarzan Boy with Italian dance outfit Baltimora.
1996
Phil Collins announced he was leaving Genesis after 25 years. He joined the band as drummer after the departure of John Mayhew in 1970 and became lead singer when Peter Gabriel left five years later.
1998
The “Titanic” Soundtrack was #1 on the Album chart for the 10th week. Ray of Light from Madonna remained second with Celine Dion taking #3 with Let’s Talk About Love.
2000
Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin won his libel lawsuit against Ministry, a UK magazine that had claimed Page watched bandmate John Bonham choke to death while trying to revive him with Satanic spells. The money awarded to Page was donated to the Action for Brazil’s Children Trust.
2001
The artist formerly known as both Puffy and Puff Daddy said in an interview on MTV he now wanted to be known as P. Diddy. In August 2005, he changed his stage name to simply “Diddy.”
2002
The National Museum of American History put a cornet that had belonged to Louis Armstrong on display.
2003 Recording Artist: Daughter Lisa Marie Presley
2003
Avril Lavigne announced that she was covering Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” for a charity CD benefiting victims of the Iraq War.
Rusty Draper, who had 11 hits in the early Rock Era including a version of “The Shifting, Whispering Sands” in 1955, died of pneumonia in Bellevue, Washington at the age of 80.
2004
Usher held down #1 on the U.K. Album chart with Confessions.
2005
After playing a warm-up date the night before at the Los Angeles Sports Arena, U2 kicked off their Vertigo tour at the iPay One Center in San Diego, California. The 131 date world tour would see the band playing in North America, Europe, South America and Japan. By the time it finished, the Vertigo Tour had sold 4,619,021 tickets, grossing $389 million; the second-highest figure ever for a world tour.
Queen started their first tour without the late Freddie Mercury and bassist John Deacon at the Brixton Academy in London. Paul Rodgers took over lead vocals.
On the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Internet radio show, Michael Jackson claimed that recent child-molestation charges against him were part of a racist conspiracy.
Lisa Marie Presley appeared on television’s “Oprah.
2006
Tina Brown the sister-in-law of Whitney Houston sold pictures taken in her bathroom to the National Enquirer claiming Whitney Houston had been taking crack cocaine. The pictures showed drug paraphernalia including a crack-smoking pipe, rolling papers, cocaine-caked spoons and cigarette ends strewn across the surface tops of the bathroom.
2009
Kelly Clarkson began a two-week stay at #1 on the U.S. Album chart with All I Ever Wanted.
2011 Actor: Granddaughter Riley Keough
2013,
Justin Bieber ran into some trouble at Munich airport when customs officials detained and quarantined his monkey. Bieber had recently been given the capuchin monkey as a pet by record producer Mally Mall. Bieber apparently brought the monkey along to join him on the Austrian and German leg of his European tour, but he didn’t have the documentation required to bring his new friend into Germany. Bieber went on to perform in Munich while the monkey was kept in the custody of authorities.
It was not Micheal Jackson that set that have a monkey trend.. Elvis with Scatter.
2014
Tickets for Kate Bush first live shows in 35 years sold out in less than 15 minutes. The Before the Dawn concerts, which were booked to take place this August and September, marked the singer’s first return to the stage since The Tour Of Life in 1979. Demand was so high that the singer’s own website, as well as some ticket-selling sites, crashed as people tried to log on.
2016
In New York City, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band continued The River Tour with a concert at Madison Square Garden.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491. Beethoven hears the work in rehearsal and remarks in admiration to a colleague that “[we] shall never be able to do anything like that.”
March 24, 1837
In Québec City, Lower Canada gave African Canadian men the right to vote.
March 24, 1896
In St. Petersburg, Russia, physicist Alexander Popov, revered in his homeland and in much of Eastern Europe as the inventor of radio,demonstrated the use of radio waves and wireless communication by receiving a Morse code message from a building 250 meters away.
1916
After a German U-boat torpedoes the SS Sussex, a passenger ferry crossing the English Channel, Spanish composer Enrique Granados drowns while attempting to rescue his wife.
Tupelo, Mississippi
1935-1948
1935-1940
306 Old Satillo Road, Elvis’ birthplace, is now 306 Elvis Presley Drive.
, 1938
Vernon Presley awaiting prison ( May 25 1938 to February 6 1939)
,1939
Vernon Presley in prison ( May 25 1938 to February 6 1939)
march 24, 1941
Glenn Miller began work on “Sun Valley Serenade,” his first movie, co-starring Sonja Henie, John Payne, Milton Berle, Lynn Bari, Joan Davis, Dorothy Dandridge, and the Nicholas Brothers.
1940-41
Reese Street, where the Presleys stayed with Vester and Clettes Presley and their daughter Patsy,
1941
Glenn Miller began work on his first motion picture for 20th Century Fox. The film was “Sun Valley Serenade.
1942
Kelly Street, a rented, small apartment.
1943
1944
August 8, 1945 to July 18, 1946
Berry Street -“Doll” Smith lived here with the Presleys and then Minnie Mae Presley moved in.
1945
Billboard magazine published their first album chart with Nat King Cole’s “A Collection of Favorites” named as #1.
1946
Commerce Street, a rental
510 1/2 Maple Street, South Tupelo -the Presleys lived with Glady’s cousin Frank Richards and his wife, Leona.
1947
Mulbery Alley
Memphis, Tennessee
1948-1953 – Humes High School
Sept. 12, 1948-Sept. 20, 1949
572 Poplar Avenue
Sept 2o 1949 to January 7, 1950
185 Winchester Street, a two- bedroom apartment (number 328)
January 7, 1950 to April 1953
398 Cypress Street
1952
Elvis Presley’s first driver’s licence
The Sun Records Rockabilly Era
March 24, 1954
The Presleys lived at 2414 Lamar Avenue, rented end of 1954 to mid-1955
March 24, 1955
Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” starring Barbara Bel Geddes, Burl Ives, Mildred Dunnock, and Ben Gazzara, opened at New York’s Morosco Theatre for 694 performances.
Elvis with Scotty and Bill played a High School show with Bud Dickerman and Onie Wheeler on the playbill. Elvis sang “I got a woman”
The El Capris’ (“Simmy, Shimmy) Ko Ko-Wop” was released. Four years later it became a hit for Little Anthony & the Imperials as “Skimmy, Shimmy, Ko Ko-Bop.”
The Platters charted with “(You’ve Got) the Magic Touch, reaching #4 pop and R&B. It would become their second million-seller of only three releases.
“Later Alligator,” by Bobby Charles, hit the R&B hit list going on to #14. The song was recorded by Charles in 1955, and with a name variation Bill Haley & the Comets had the pop hit as “See You Later Alligator” in 1956.
Billboard magazine debuts their first weekly chart ranking the top albums as measured by sales. Topping the first chart is Belafonte by Harry Belafonte. The chart lists anywhere from 15-30 spots, but is gradually expanded, and in 1967 it grows to 200. The chart goes through several name changes before settling on The Billboard 200 in 1992.
Due to a snowstorm Elvis and the band arrived too late in New York, where they stayed at the Warwick Hotel.
The $185 EP initial ring which Elvis had bought the week before was delivered to him by jeweler Benny Kaplan.
At 8.00 p.m. Elvis performed for the last time at the Stage Show, CBS Studio. Elvis performed Money Honey and his big hit Heartbreak Hotel. Because of Carl Perkins’ accident and missing his own tv show appearance, Elvis chose not to perform Blue Suede Shoes.
Ratings from the Neilson Corp. gave ‘Stage Show’ 20.9% of the national audience, compared to Perry Como’s 31.8%. Over the past eight weeks, the ratings for ‘Stage Show’ had not been significantly improved by Elvis’ half-dozen appearances. Following the show, Scotty, Bill. D.J. and Red West, who had accompanied the group for the past few weeks, loaded the instruments into two cars and set off for Memphis. Elvis remained in New York for an extra day or two to do a few interviews and talk business with RCA Victor and the William Morris Agency.
For these appearances the band rented instruments in New York while Elvis associates Red West and Gene Smith transported the band’s own instruments to the next concert appearance using a pink trailer that Elvis’ father Vernon had built for this purpose. After the fourth ‘Stage Show’ the rented standup bass that Bill Black had enthusiastically played had to be repaired. Bill had broken the neck, sound post and the back of the instrument. The repairs cost $32.96.
The Presleys lived at at 1414 Getwell Street until May 11 1956 – Audobon Drive March 1957
March 24, 1957
The live cross-country concert tour “Biggest Show of Stars for ’57” made a stop at the mUnicipal Auditorium in San Antonio for a show featuring Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, LaVern Baker, Bill Doggett, Clyde McPhatter, the Five Keys, Ann Cole, the Moonglows, the Five Satins, and Charlie Brown.
The Presleys lived at Audobon Drive, Graceland purchased on March 19.
Mahalia Jackson’s version of “He’s Got the Whole World In His Hands” was released.
Accompanied by Anita Wood, Judy Spreckles and assorted pals; With his parents Elvis reported to the draft board at 6.35 a.m. Elvis was assigned serial number 53 310 761 and starting pay was $78 a month.
Elvis Presley on the day of his induction into the army March 24, 1958. ‘There’s not much difference between this and making a movie’, he said. ‘In Hollywood, you have to get up at 5 a.m. and be on the set at 6. The only different thing here is that you don’t have a limousine’.
After reporting for duty about 6:30 a.m. at the Draft Board office in the M&M Building, 198 South Main, he and other inductees would spend much of the day at Kennedy Veterans Hospital for processing and physicals before boarding a bus for Fort Chaffee, During this bus trip Elvis would meet Rex Mansfield, who would become one of his closest army friends.
Halfway through his military service, suspicions that Elvis’s star had faded reached their height.
Dealer orders for his latest stateside RCA Victor release of “A Fool Such As I” coupled with “I Need Your Love Tonight” had just gone over 1,000,000. It was Presley’s 20th consecutive gold record.
“(Now and Then There’s) A Fool Such as I” recorded by Hank Snow for whom it peaked at number four on the country charts early in 1953. Elvis’ version reached number one in the UK and number two Pop and #16 R&B in the United States (1959). It became a platinum record.
I Need Your Love Tonight reached number four on the Billboard Pop Charts, while No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart for five weeks
In a Billboard article by Hazel Guild filed on this day in Germany for the next day’s edition:
“Meanwhile, Presley is just one of the boys at Ray Kasern,” Guild explained of Elvis’s current army profile. “Under orders from the Pentagon, he’s being given no special treatment and no special publicity during his tour of duty overseas. Both Stars and Stripes and AFN, military-controlled newspaper and radio station for servicemen overseas, have been told [to put] no special emphasis on Presley being here.”
“I have no way of telling if my fame is fading,” Elvis admitted in March 1959. “I stay homesick all the time. I’d give my neck to be back. You just don’t know. I hope the folks back home haven’t forgotten me.”
Elvis was in Miami for the Timex Presents Frank Sinatra – Welcome Home Elvis Episode.
Frank Sinatra rehersals
March 24, 1961
March 24, 1962
Sam Cooke’s “Twistin’ The Night Away” wrestled the #1 spot on the R&B chart away from Gene Chandler’s “Duke Of Earl”.
Connie Francis reached #1 on the Easy Listening chart with “Don’t Break The Heart That Loves You”.
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards perform their first paid gig when they appear as Little Boy Blue & the Blue Boys at a club in Ealing, England.
March 24, 1963
The Beatles, on tour with Chris Montez and Tommy Roe, perform in their hometown of Liverpool, at the Empire Theatre. This is The Beatles’ first appearance in Liverpool in more than a month. The group’s loyal Cavern fans saw their worst fears being realized: that The Beatles’ rocketing popularity would take them away from Liverpool.
March 24, 1964
The Beatles go on display as wax figures in Madame Tussaud’s Waxwork Museum in London.
The Rolling Stones‘ bass player Bill Wyman is knocked unconscious by an electrical shock from a microphone stand in Odense, Denmark.
The Beatles continued filming ‘Help!’ at Twickenham Studios, England. They shot the interior temple scenes, including the one where they “dive through a hollow sacrificial altar and into water”. That scene was then cut to the swimming pool scene filmed in the Bahamas on February 23.
The Temptations released ‘Its Growing’, the follow-up to ‘My Girl’. The track was the first to feature David Ruffin as the Temptations new lead singer. Interestingly both ‘My Girl’ and ‘Its Growing’ were the only Motown tunes ever covered by Otis Redding.
“Shindig!” on ABC-TV featured Jackie Wilson, Bobby Goldsboro, Shirley Ellis, Dick and Dee Dee, and the Standells.
In New York State, the first major U.S. bootleg law was passed, a bill that made the processing of unlicensed recordings a misdemeanor. In 1978 on this day, England granted its record companies the right to seize bootleg recordings.
Simon and Garfunkel made their UK singles chart debut with ‘Homeward Bound,’ was also a No.5 hit in the US.
Roy Orbison’s album “Roy Orbison’s Greatest Hits” was certified Gold.
The Beatles posed with mutilated and butchered dolls for the cover of the album, “Yesterday and Today”. After a public outcry, the L.P. was pulled from stores and re-issued with a new cover that showed them sitting in and around a steamer trunk.
The Godfather opens in theaters. Musically significant because the character Johnny Fontane is supposedly based on Frank Sinatra, and because “Godfather of…” becomes a common musical honorific.
March 24, 1973
The O’Jays topped the pop and R&B charts with the message song, “Love Train,” which also reached #9 in England.
During a Lou Reed show in Buffalo, New York, a fan jumped on stage and bit Lou on the bottom. The man was thrown out of the theatre and Reed completed the show.
Alice Cooper owned the top U.K. album with Billion Dollar Babies.
Pink Floyd released the album Dark Side of the Moon in the U.K. They had released the album in the United States on March 17
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
Love Me
Little Sister
You Gave Me A Mountain
Blue Suede Shoes
O Sole Mio/It’s Now Or Never
My Way
All Shook Up
Teddy Bear/Don’t Be Cruel
And I Love You So
Fever
[band introductions]
Early Morning Rain
What’d I Say
Johnny B. Goode
Blueberry Hill
Love Letters
School Days
Hurt
Hound Dog
Danny Boy
Walk With Me [S. Nielsen] Jailhouse Rock
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Recordings:
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Engagement – Tour Ref: On Tour number 29 – March 23rd – April 3rd 1977
The British courts grant British record companies the rights to seize bootleg and pirate recordings.
Paul McCartney’s band Wings released the single “With a Little Luck.”
Tom Jones does a tv tribute to Elvis
1979
The Bee Gees started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Tragedy’, the group’s eighth US No.1. and also No.1 in the UK.
1970s Country Down Under Olivia Newton-John, post movie Grease, releases her first rock album “Totally Hot” and the single is #10 with “A Little More Love”.
The Bee Gees were as hot as nearly anyone has been at any one time in the Rock Era. The group scored their fifth consecutive #1 song and ninth in the last five years with “Tragedy”. Gloria Gaynor slipped to second with “I Will Survive” while the Doobie Brothers were up from 6 to 3 with “What A Fool Believes”. Donna Summer with Brooklyn Dreams remained fourth with “Heaven Knows” and Peaches & Herb had a second straight big hit with “Shake Your Groove Thing”. The rest of the Top 10: Rod Stewart’s former #1 “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy”, Dire Straits enjoyed their first hit with “Sultans Of Swing”, the Pointer Sisters were on their way down with “Fire”, Bobby Caldwell and “What You Won’t Do For Love” while Olivia Newton-John stopped off at #10 with “A Little More Love”.
Spirits Having Flown by the Bee Gees remained as the top album for a fourth week. Minute By Minute from the Doobie Brothers was right behind and the excellent debut from Dire Straits moved to challenge. Rod Stewart’s Blondes Have More Fun fell while Love Tracks from Gloria Gaynor was #5.
Former Commodores lead singer Lionel Richie held the top spot on the UK singles chart with “Hello”.
Christine McVie’s solo hit “Got A Hold On Me” was #1 for the third straight week on the Adult Contemporary chart.
1986
At the 58th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Lionel Richie wins the Oscar for Best Original Song for his track “Say You, Say Me” from the film White Nights. The song topped three different Billboard charts but didn’t appear on the soundtrack album for the movie. It was finally released on Lionel’s 1986 album, Dancing on the Ceiling.
Sinead O’Connor went to No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got’, featuring the single ‘Nothing Compares To You. Also No.1 in 13 other countries and six weeks at No.1 in the US.
Forever Your Girl by Paula Abdul was the #1 album for the eighth week. Janet Jackson came in second with Rhythm Nation 1814 while Phil Collins was stuck at 3 with …But Seriously. Michael Bolton’s excellent Soul Provider moved up and Cosmic Thing from the B-52’s was fifth. The rest of the Top 10: The great Nick of Time from Bonnie Raitt, storming into the list after 50 weeks of release, Girl You Know It’s True from Milli Vanilli, Alannah Myles with her self-titled album, Cry Like a Rainstorm – Howl Like the Wind from Linda Ronstadt and Storm Front by Billy Joel slipped to #10.
“Black Velvet,” Alannah Myles‘ tribute the King, Elvis Presley, who spurred a “new religion that’ll bring you to your knees,” began a two-week reign on the Billboard Hot 100.
Christopher Ward was reportedly inspired to write the song (with David Tyson) after riding on a bus full of Presley fans on their way to Memphis for the icon’s 10th-anniversary vigil at Graceland.
1992
A Chicago judge ruled in the Milli-Vanilli class-action suit that $3.00 cash rebates would be given to anyone that could prove that they bought the group’s music before November 27, 1990 (the date the lip synching scandal broke). Milli Vanilli won the 1989 best new artist Grammy after hits like ‘Blame it on the Rain’ and ‘Girl, You Know It’s True,’ selling 30 million singles and 14 million albums. But in late 1990, the performers were stripped of the award after it was revealed that neither actually sang on the Milli Vanilli album.
Amway Corp. announced that it had agreed to pay $9 million to settle a lawsuit over the company’s use of songs by top artists in videotaped sales pitches.
2000
MTV debuts the reality series Making the Band, with the first season spawning the boy band O-Town. Lou Pearlman, the creator of Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, manages the group.
World Wide Video paid $1,079,500 for more than nine hours of film taken in February 1970 by Yoko Ono’s ex-husband, Anthony Cox. The film contains shots of John Lennon smoking hash, blow drying Yoko’s hair, composing “Mind Games,” and talking about his political beliefs. The company edited the film into a two-hour documentary called “3 Days in the Life.” Yoko Ono, claiming ownership of the film’s copyright, sued World Wide Video in 2008 to stop distribution of the documentary. In Boston on June 30, 2009, a federal judge ruled in favor of Yoko Ono, that she is the rightful copyright holder of this rare, intimate footage of John Lennon. Ono says she intends to keep the material private.
Al Grey, the heavy-swinging trombonist from the Count Basie Big Band, died at seventy-four. Grey was one of the innovators of the “growl” style of playing that traced its roots to the Duke Ellington “jungle” sound of the ’20s. He influenced rockers like Jimi Hendrix and played with legends such as Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Ella Fitzgerald, and Frank Sinatra. He appeared on almost 100 albums, including thirty of his own.
Anthony Jackson, choreographer for Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation Tour, became the first Black choreographer to ever use that expertise for a country act for the Mother Daughter The Judds’ Country Act.
2001
After being dubbed Worst Actress of the Century a year earlier, Madonna lands her fifth Razzie for Worst Actress, for her role as Abbie Reynolds in The Next Best Thing, at the 21st Golden Raspberry Awards.
The stretch of Highway 19 in Macon, Georgia where Duane Allman died in a motorcycle crash (October 29, 1971) was renamed Duane Allman Boulevard.
2002
Randy Newman, who had been previously nominated 15 times, finally won his first Oscar for “If I Didn’t Have You”, from the animated feature Monsters Inc.
2003
Madonna had to re-edit her “American Life” clip when war broke out in Iraq. The video featured her lobbing grenades at a fashion show.
2004 Recording Artist: Daughter Lisa Marie Presley
2004
Norah Jones’ second album Feels Like Home topped the Album charts for a fifth consecutive week.
In Fort Knox, Kentucky, the Patton Museum of Calvary and Armor opened a new exhibit that focused on the years Elvis spent in the U.S. Army. The exhibit was planned to stay at the museum until March of 2005.
2005
Rod Price, a founding member of Foghat, died after falling down a stairway at his home. The 57 year old guitarist was with the band for three Platinum and eight Gold records, including their highest charting US single “Slow Ride” in 1976.
The “Hannah Montana” television series, starring Miley Cyrus, debuted on the Disney Channel.
2008
Britney Spears makes the first of two appearances on How I Met Your Mother, playing a receptionist smitten with Josh Radnor’s character, Ted.
2009
Prince launches Lotusflow3r.com, which for $77 subscriptions, offers access to his videos and music. It shuts down after a year.
Deputy District Attorney Truc Do, the prosecutor in the Phil Spector murder trial, described Spector as a “demonic maniac” when he drinks and “a very dangerous man” around women. During her closing argument she also accused Spector of demonstrating a “conscious disregard for human life” and urged the jury to find the music producer guilty of murdering actress Lana Clarkson in 2003. On April 13th the jury would return a guilty verdict and Spector was sentenced to 19 years to life in the California state prison system.
2010
Johnny Maestro died of cancer at the age of 70. He was the lead singer for The Crests on their seven US Top 40 records, including the 1959, #2 hit “Sixteen Candles”. He also led The Brooklyn Bridge to #3 with “The Worst That Could Happen” in 1969.
2011 Actor: Granddaughter Riley Keough
2012
2013
Pictures of The Beatles’ 1965 Shea Stadium concert, taken by an amateur photographer who bluffed his way backstage, sold for £30,000 at auction. Marc Weinstein used a fake press pass to get next to the stage for the historic New York show. His 61 black and white images with copyright fetched £30,680, the successful bidder was a South American gentleman currently living in Washington who is a huge collector of Beatles memorabilia.
2015
Albums by The Doors, Steve Martin and Sly And The Family Stone were selected for inclusion into America’s Library of Congress National Recording Registry. “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin'” by The Righteous Brothers, “Sixteen Tons” by Tennessee Ernie Ford and “Stand By Me” by Ben E. King were also chosen.
In Liverpool, the childhood home of Ringo Starr sold at auction for nearly $100,000 (US) to a Beatles fan who already owns properties that belonged to or were connected to George Harrison and John Lennon. Under terms of the purchase agreement, the new owner may not turn the house into a tourist attraction.
2017
Pete Shotton, a former member of John Lennon’s pre-Beatles group The Quarrymen, passed away at the age of 75. In 1956, Lennon formed a Skiffle group named after Quarry Bank High School, and Shotton joined on percussion, playing a washboard. He left shortly after Lennon met Paul McCartney because they were moving more towards Rock ‘n’ Roll, thus negating the need for a washboard.
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal – No mere fan, Shutts has built a career on musical memorabilia. He’s bought and sold cars, jet skis and jewelry that belonged to Presley, even a television set once …
Paul McCartney attended a March Of Our Lives protest in New York City. Macca told CNN, “One of my best friends was killed in gun violence right around here, so it’s important to me,” referring to the murder of John Lennon on December 8th, 1980.
A collection of unseen Beatles photos documenting the Fab Four’s earliest American concerts in 1964 were sold by English auction house Omega for over $358,000. The cache of 413 negatives and their copyrights came from the collection of photographer Mike Mitchell, who as an 18-year-old took photos of the Beatles’ February 11 concert in Washington, D.C. and in Baltimore on September 13th. The photographs show the band both on stage and in pre-show activities.
In the American colony of Virginia, legislation was passed exempting the upper class from whipping.
1735
Handel’s Organ Concerto in B flat major, Op 4 No 2 was performed for the first time.
March 5, 1750
In New York City, the play “King Richard III” was performed at the Theatre on Nassau Street, a two-story structure that held about 280 people. It was the first Shakespearean play to be
Tupelo, Mississippi
1935-1948
1935-1940
306 Old Satillo Road, Elvis’ birthplace, is now 306 Elvis Presley Drive.
, 1938
Vernon Presley awaiting prison ( May 25 1938 to February 6 1939)
,1939
Vernon Presley in prison ( May 25 1938 to February 6 1939)
1940-41
Reese Street, where the Presleys stayed with Vester and Clettes Presley and their daughter Patsy,
1942
Kelly Street, a rented, small apartment.
1943
1944
August 8, 1945 to July 18, 1946
Berry Street -“Doll” Smith lived here with the Presleys and then Minnie Mae Presley moved in.
1946
Commerce Street, a rental
510 1/2 Maple Street, South Tupelo -the Presleys lived with Glady’s cousin Frank Richards and his wife, Leona.
1947
Mulbery Alley
Memphis, Tennessee
1948-1953
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)
1951
Ike Turner And His Kings of Rhythm record “Rocket 88” with producer Sam Phillips at his Memphis Recording Service. When the up-tempo combination of Swing and Jazz is released, it is credited to Jackie Brenston And His Delta Cats and is considered by music historians to be the first true Rock ‘n’ Roll record. But rock n roll was strings and a beat, not horns.
In response to an appeal by the University of North Carolina, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld its (Brown vs. Board of Education) May 1954 ban on racial segregation in America’s state schools, colleges and universities.
Frank Sinatra released his tenth studio album Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! (the first album ever to top the UK Albums Chart). Sinatra aficionados often rank it his best album and many music critics consider it one of the greatest albums of its era. The original cover had Sinatra facing away from the young couple, but in 1957 Capitol altered the cover with a new image of Sinatra facing the couple.
Elvis and Gene Smith flew to Nashville and returned the same evening to Memphis. This was most likely to reaffirm the new exclusive contract with the Colonel. Bob Neal and Hank Snow were now officially out of the picture.
The Presleys lived at at 1414 Getwell Street until May 11 1956 – Audobon Drive March 1957
March 5, 1957
The cross-country concert tour “Biggest Show of Stars for ’57” made a stop at Memorial Auditorium in Portland, Oregon for a show featuring Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, LaVern Baker, Bill Doggett, Clyde McPhatter, the Five Keys, Ann Cole, the Moonglows, the Five Satins, and Charlie Brown.
Disc jockey Alan Freed tried to fool the panel on the CBS-TV game show “To Tell The Truth.”
on TV, Sgt Bilko satirizes Elvis Presley (Elvis Pelvin)
Bobby Darin recorded “Dream Lover”, which would reach #2 in the US the following summer.
Elvis and Vera – with Red West and Lamar File – went for a boat ride at Lakes Starnberg and once again Elvis returned to the Moulin Rouge that evening, to wind up his 3 day leave.
Elvis was release form the army at 9.15 a.m. He received his mustering out check of $109.54 and was honorable discharged. By limousine, he and the Colonel traveled to New Jersey, where they were joined by Lamar and Rex Mansfield. In the evening they all went to Washington, D.C.
Elvis Presley (left), being discharged from the Army with Rex Mansfield (foreground, right), in 1960.
The Twist was still the world’s biggest dance craze, and, singing “Twistin’ Postman”, the Marvelettes became the first Motown act on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand.
March 5, 1963
The Beatles recorded what would be their third single ‘From Me to You’ just five days after John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote the song. Originally planned as the B-side of the record, it was switched to the A-side during the recording session, with ‘Thank You Girl’ demoted to the B-side.
Frankie Avalon was a guest on The Jack Benny Program on CBS-TV.
Country singers Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins were killed in a plane crash near Camden, Tennessee. They were travelling to Nashville after appearing at a benefit concert for the widow of Kansas City disc jockey ‘Cactus’ Jack Call, who had died in a car crash. Cline was 30, Copas was 49, and Hawkins was 41.
Patsy Cline is most often remembered for her hits, “Crazy”, “Walkin’ After Midnight”, “I Fall To Pieces” and “She’s Got You”, Cline’s Greatest Hits L.P. has sold over eight million copies, making it the largest selling female Country album of all time, until Canada’s Shania Twain came along and then Taylor Swift.
On 7 March, country singer Jack Anglin was killed in a car crash on his way to Cline’s funeral. Cline was the first country singer to cross over as a pop artist.
Neil Sedaka was the celebrity guest on the CBS-TV game show “I’ve Got A Secret.” His secret was that he had been invited to perform at a 1966 music competition in Russia as a classical pianist. The invitation was later withdrawn when sponsors of the competition discovered that Sedaka was primarily a rock ‘n’ roll singer, a type of music forbidden in Russia at the time.
The Manish Boys, featuring a young David Bowie, released their first single “I Pity The Fool”.
Elvis was on his way to Los Angeles when he confided to Larry Geller his disappointment that after all of his study and meditation he had had no “experience of God”. Shortly after this conversation Elvis stopped the motor home in the middle of the desert as he saw a cloud formation that resembled the face of Joseph Stalin, turning into the face of Jesus.
March 5, 1966
One Hit Wonder Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler’s “The Ballad of the Green Berets” topped the Hot 100, selling more than two million copies in the first two weeks after its release. It made #24 in the UK. His follow up single, “The A-Team”, would peak at #28 the following May.
The Rolling Stones were anxious to get to the top as “19th Nervous Breakdown” moved from #46 to #12.
“The Ballad of the Green Berets” was the new #1 song, sending Nancy Sinatra backwards with “These Boots Are Made for Walkin'”. Lou Christie’s former #1 “Lightnin’ Strikes” was third with Herman’s Hermits jumping from 13 to 4 with “Listen People”. The rest of the Top 10: The Mamas and the Papas with their classic “California Dreamin'”, Bob Lind’s “Elusive Butterfly”, Petula Clark was at #7 with “My Love”, Stevie Wonder was down with “Uptight (Everything’s Alright)”, the 4 Seasons edged up with “Working My Way Back to You” and the Supremes’ former #1–“My World Is Empty Without You” was #10.
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass that they owned the top two albums, and very few in the Rock Era have ever done that. Going Places took over at #1 from Whipped Cream & Other Delights, which was in its 43rd week. Both were ahead of Rubber Soul by the Beatles. The durable Soundtrack for “The Sound of Music” was #4 after 51 weeks while September of My Years from Frank Sinatra remained fifth.
Elvis went to California by plane with Charlie Hodge, Ray Sitton, Marty Lacker, Red West, Billy Smith, Larry Geller, as well as a new member of the group, Gee Gee Gambill, who was married to Elvis’ cousin Patsy.
At the Ahmanson Theater in Hollywood, Jerry Lee Lewisopened in “Catch My Soul,” a rock musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Othello.
Sales of “Simon Says” by The 1910 Fruitgum Company reached the one million mark as the song topped out at #4 on the Billboard Pop chart. The New Jersey ensemble would go on to enjoy four more US Top 40 hits this year, including “1-2-3 Red Light” (#5) and “Indian Giver” (#5)”
Elvis began with script readings and rehearsals for his new film. Live A Little, Love A Little.
Elvis was back in Los Angeles and began with his last feature film Change Of Habit. On this and the following night Elvis recorded the movie soundtrack at the Decca Universal Studio, working each evening from 7.00 p.m. to 2.00 a.m.
Following ratification by 43 nations, a nuclear non-proliferation treaty went into effect.
March 5, 1971
Led Zeppelin started a 12-date ‘Thank You’ tour for British fans, appearing at the clubs from their early days and charging the same admission prices as in 1968. The first show was at The Ulster Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland where they played songs from their upcoming fourth album, including the first public performances of ‘Black Dog’, ‘Stairway To Heaven’, ‘Going To California’ and ‘Rock And Roll’.
In Toledo, Ohio, Badfinger began their first tour as headliners.
Olivia Newton-John’s single “Have You Never Been Mellow” was certified Gold.
March 5, 1976
march 5, 1977
The Supremes “Let Yourself Go” became their last of forty-three R&B chart singles (#83).
“The Love Theme from A Star Is Born”, from the film starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, was the top tune in the US. It reached number 3 in the UK. Elvis turned down the movie.
Barbra Streisand started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Love Theme From A Star Is Born’, her second US No.1. It made No.3 in the UK – the movie and soundtrack Elvis could have done, but turned down. . The Eagles were at No.2 with ‘New Kid In Town’ and The Steve Miller Band was at No.3 with ‘Fly Like An Eagle’.
Glen Campbell enjoyed a fourth week at #1 on the Adult chart with “Southern Nights”.
Barbra Streisand registered her third career #1 with “Evergreen” as the Eagles surrendered with “New Kid In Town”. Steve Miller was up to #3 with “Fly Like An Eagle”, Kenny Nolan’s “I Like Dreamin'” was next and Manfred Mann’s Earth Band was down to #5 with their former #1. The rest of the Top 10: “Night Moves” from Bob Seger, ABBA had their second Top 10 with “Dancing Queen”, Al Stewart jumped into the Top 10 with “Year Of The Cat”, newcomer Mary MacGregor fell with “Torn Between Two Lovers” and Barry Manilow remained at #10 with “Weekend In New England”.
Elvis Presley’s single “Moody Blue” hit #31 in the U.S.
The rock ‘n’ roll film American Hot Wax debuted in theaters nationwide. Included in the film based on famous deejay Alan Freed was Chuck Berry playing himself, the ultimate parody.
1979
The NASA space probe Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter and sent back photographs of the planet and its moons.
MCA Records dissolved its recent acquisition, ABC Records.
1982
John Belushi died of a drug overdose at the age of 33. He and Dan Aykroyd had a hit record as The Blues Brothers in 1978 with a remake of the Sam And Dave classic, “Soul Man”, while their album “Briefcase Full of Blues” reached #1 on the Billboard 200, going double Platinum.
1983 Elvis Presley Enterprises/Graceland Tourism
1983
Michael Jackson started a seven week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Billie Jean’, his fourth solo US No.1, also No.1 in the UK. And on this day Jacksons album Thriller went to No.1 for the first time on the UK album chart, it went on to become the biggest selling album of all time with sales over 65 million.
Michael Jackson moved to #1 with “Billie Jean”, just ahead of the great song “Shame On The Moon” by Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band. The Stray Cats held steady with “Stray Cat Strut”. The only new Top 10 was the Pretenders song “Back On The Chain Gang”.
George Michael once again had the #1 song with “Father Figure”. Rick Astley was up to #2 with “Never Gonna’ Give You Up”. Patrick Swayze and Wendy Fraser were motionless with “She’s Like The Wind” with former Go-Go Belinda Carlisle moving from 8 to 4 with “I Get Weak”. The rest of the Top 10: The Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield with “What Have I Done to Deserve This?”, Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine were up to #6 in their 16th week with “Can’t Stay Away From You”, David Lee Roth had a solo hit with “Just Like Paradise”, Richard Marx had his third consecutive Top 10 to begin his career with “Endless Summer Nights”, Michael Jackson shot up from 17 to 9 with his 27th career solo hit, and his 13th in the last four years (“Man In The Mirror”) and Cher moved to #10 with “I Found Someone”.
Faith by George Michael remained as the album to beat for the sixth week. The Soundtrack to “Dirty Dancing” was next with Kick from INXS third.
1994
Celine Dion remained at #1 for the fourth week with “The Power Of Love”. Ace of Base was patiently waiting with “The Sign” while Salt ‘N’ Pepa and En Vogue combined for #3–“Whatta’ Man”.
Music Box by Mariah Carey returned to #1 on the Album chart for the third time and a seventh total week at #1. That meant a short stay for Toni Braxton’s self-titled debut. Other albums of note: The Counting Crows were at #7 with August and Everything After, Celine Dion was up to #8 with The Colour of My Love, Ace of Base cracked the Top 10 with The Sign and Greatest Hits from Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers was #10.
2000
Madonna went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with her version of the Don McLean 1972 hit ‘American Pie’. It was her 50th UK hit and the singers ninth UK No.1 and taken from the soundtrack to the 2000 film The Next Best Thing.
Hammer (the album Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em) locked himself in a makeshift jail in San Jose, California to protest Proposition 21, California’s “Juvenile Crime Initiative”, that would give police the power to define groups of four or more people as a “gang”.
2002
Brandy released the album Full Moon.
The first episode of Osbourne’s TV Show was aired on MTV in the US. Focusing on the madman and his family (his wife Sharon, and two of their three children). Oblivious to the camera, they bicker, squabble, curse and hang out backstage at Ozzy shows.
2004 Recording Artist: Daughter Lisa Marie Presley
2004
Paul McCartney’s wealth was estimated at $1.3 billion, more than Elton John, Mick Jagger and Madonna combined.
2005
A commemorative plaque for the The Jimi Hendrix Experience was unveiled in Loisin-sous-Lens. Hendrix had appeared at The Twenty Club when it opened in 1967. It was his first European tour where he was totally unknown. Club owner Rikki Stein stated: “The place was packed and at the end of ’Wild Thing’, his first number, there was total silence. The entire audience just stood there, open-mouthed. They’d never seen or heard anything like it in their life.”
Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys was arrested in Huntington Beach, California for driving under the influence.
2006
Corinne Bailey Rae went to No.1 on the UK album chart with her debut album ‘Corinne Bailey Rae.’ Rae became only the fourth female British act in history to have her first album debut at No.1 on the UK chart.
2007
Records by the Rolling Stones and Paul Simon were chosen for preservation by the US Library of Congress. The Stones ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’ and Paul Simon’s Graceland album entered the National Recordings Registry, which preserves historic works for future generations. Other recordings chosen this year included Carl Perkins’ ‘Blue Suede Shoes’, ‘Be My Baby’ by The Ronettes, ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’ by Sam Cooke and the eponymous album The Velvet Underground and Nico.
March 5, 2009
Singer Taylor Swift made her television acting debut as she guest-starred in an episode of CBS-TV’s “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.”
Britain’s Serious Organized Crime Agency arrested two men and charged them with hacking into Sony Music’s computers and stealing Michael Jackson’s back catalogue. The pair of men in their mid-20s were said to have illegally downloaded more than 50,000 digital files.
Sony admitted that a number of Michael Jackson tracks had been stolen after its website was hacked. The singer, who died in June 2009 at the age of 50, had recorded unreleased duets with artists ranging from the late Freddie Mercury and Black Eyed Peas singer will.i.am.
2014
Movie director Richard Lester, who directed The Beatles’ film Help!, announced that he was putting the piano John Lennon and Paul McCartney played while filming the movie was going up for auction. The instrument was expected to sell for 50,000 Pounds (over US $83,600).
2015
72-year-old Soul legend Aretha Franklin appeared on US TV’s American Idol and told the group of 16 finalists that they should “Keep physically fit… and stay away from the wrong kind of people… anything that would be career ending.” She went on to say “Meet the challenge and kick butt!”
2016
Rihanna and Drake jumped to #1 with “Work”, the first Dance song to hit #1 since Sean Paul’s “Temperature” in 2006. “Love Yourself” by Justin Bieber was second, followed by “Stressed Out” by Twentyone Pilots and “Sorry” by Bieber.
The Gibson guitar company laid off about fifteen employees from it’s Custom Shop as it continued to battle bankruptcy. Founded by Orville Gibson in 1902 as The Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company, the firm reportedly had an outstanding debt of $519 million as of December 31, 2017.
She added, jokingly, “And I want to be the sole surviving Elvis leading lady — there are about 18 of them left who I have to kill off! But seriously, I’ll be 78 this year, I’ve had a good life, and have nothing to cry about.”
The first teddy bear in America was introduced by Russian immigrants Morris and Rose Michtom.
Tupelo, Mississippi
1935-1948
1935-1940
306 Old Satillo Road, Elvis’ birthplace, is now 306 Elvis Presley Drive.
, 1938
Vernon Presley awaiting prison ( May 25 1938 to February 6 1939)
,1939
Vernon Presley in prison ( May 25 1938 to February 6 1939)
1940-41
Reese Street, where the Presleys stayed with Vester and Clettes Presley and their daughter Patsy,
1941
Duke Ellington and his orchestra recorded “Take the “A” Train” for the first time.
1942
Kelly Street, a rented, small apartment.
1943
1944
August 8, 1945 to July 18, 1946
Berry Street -“Doll” Smith lived here with the Presleys and then Minnie Mae Presley moved in.
1946
Commerce Street, a rental
510 1/2 Maple Street, South Tupelo -the Presleys lived with Glady’s cousin Frank Richards and his wife, Leona.
1947
Mulbery Alley
Memphis, Tennessee
1948-1953
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
The Sun Records Rockabilly Era
February 15, 1954
Joe Turner recorded the classic “Shake, Rattle, & Roll,” six months before Bill Haley’s hit version. As sung by Turner, it is ranked #126 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Elvis worked at Precision Tool company, operating a drill press for $1.55 a hour from September 21, 1953 to March 19, 1954
The Presleys lived at 2414 Lamar Avenue, rented end of 1954 to mid-1955
Elvis performed at the Fairpark Auditorium, Abilene, Texas at 7.00 and 9.00 p.m. “Elvis and his Bop Band” were advertised below headliner Hank Snow and popular hillbilly comedian the Duke of Paducah, with Charlene Arthur and Jimmie Rodgers Snow.
Elvis performed at the Walter Williams High School, Auditorium, Burlington, North Carolina , along with Justin Tubb
The Louvin Brothers, The Alabama Sanddusters, Mother Maybelle, The Carter Sisters, June Carter, and Benny Martin
The Presleys lived at at 1414 Getwell Street until May 11 1956 – Audobon Drive March 1957
February 15, 1957
Irving Feld’s Greatest Show of 1957 rock package: LaVern Baker, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Clyde McPhatter, the Five Keys, the Moonglows, Charles Brown, the Schoolboys, Ann Cole, and the Five Satins — The extravaganza would run through May 5 starting in Pittsburgh, PA, for eighty straight days and nights.
The Coasters record “Searchin'”, which will reach #3 in the US and become the first of their ten Billboard Top 40 hits.
The Presleys lived at Audobon Drive until March 1957, moving into Graceland
Frankie Avalon scored his first US Top 10 smash when “Dede Dinah” reached number 7. He would follow it with a string of hits over the next couple of years, including “Ginger Bread” (#9), “Venus” (#1), “Bobby Sox to Stockings” (#8), “A Boy Without a Girl” (#10), “Just Ask Your Heart” (#7) and “Why” (#1).
Jerry Lee Lewis performs “Great Balls of Fire” and his latest release “Breathless” on American Bandstand. Later in the day, he would appear on Dick Clark’s Rock ‘n’ Roll program, Saturday Night Beechnut Show, along with Pat Boone, Chuck Willis, Connie Francis, The Royal Teens and Johnnie Ray.
“The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beechnut Show” debuted on ABC-TV with guest performers Connie Francis, Pat Boone, Chuck Willis, the Royal Teens, Johnnie Ray and Jerry Lee Lewis.
Elvis Presley’s five-song EP “Jailhouse Rock” hit #18 in the U.K.
Elvis Presley’s single “Don’t” hit #1 in the U.S. The b-side “I Beg of You” hit #8.
Bobby Vee performed his first professional concert (as the “Winter Dance Party” was unpaid), traveling with the Shadows to earn $15 each.
Military Service in Germany
Janie Wilbanks, the girl that Elvis met at the Memphis train station when the troop train passed through, had come to Germany, to visit her uncle, and stayed with Elvis for nearly a week – Feb 8 to?
Feb 3 – March 1960: Goethestr.14 in Bad Nauheim, Germany
February 15, 1960
“The Theme from ‘A Summer Place'” by Percy Faith & His Orchestra, the #2 Instrumental of the Rock Era*, climbed into the Top 10 on the weekly singles chart.
Military Service in Germany
Feb 3 – March 1960: Goethestr.14 in Bad Nauheim, Germany
The Hollywood Decade/The Elvis Establishment
February 15, 1961
Jackie Wilson was shot in his apartment in New York City by Juanita Jones, either a a jealous lover or crazed fan. In wrestling the gun from her, Wilson was hit in the stomach. Though he survived the ordeal, 21 days in a coma and losing a kidney, doctors were never able to remove the difficult-to-reach bullet.
At the RCA Studios in New York, the Marcels recorded “Blue Moon.”
February 15, 1962
At United Studios in Hollywood, Ray Charles recorded “I Can’t Stop Loving You” and “You Don’t Know Me.”. The tunes will go on to top both the US and UK charts, and become an American Songbook Classic – with many covers, including Elvis.
February 15, 1963
February 15, 1964
Sam Cooke announced that he was cutting back on live performances to concentrate on songwriting and building his record labels, Sar and Derby.
The Dave Clark Five first appeared on the radio and on the chart with their first hit song–“Glad All Over”.
I Want To Hold Your Hand” by the Beatles was the #1 song for a third week. Lesley Gore peaked at #2 with “You Don’t Own Me” while the new Beatles song “She Loves You” moved from 7 to 3. “Hey Little Cobra” was #4 for the Rip Chords while Major Lance was stuck with “Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um”. The rest of the Top 10: “For You” from early Rock Era star Rick Nelson, the Marketts with “Out Of Limits”, Dionne Warwick edged up with “Anyone Who Had A Heart”, Al Hirt’s great instrumental “Java” entered the Top 10 and the Tams had song #10–“What Kind of Fool (Do You Think I Am)”.
The Beatles scored their first US No.1 album with Meet The Beatles! The album stayed at No.1 for eleven weeks. The album sold over four million copies in the US by December 31, 1964.
Beatles fever had hit big-time. The group had just appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and their first album in the United States, Meet the Beatles, was now the #1 album after only three weeks. When one artist bursts onto the scene, there’s always a downside and Beatles fever meant that The Singing Nun had to relinquish her spot at #1 after 10 weeks. Peter, Paul & Mary were one of the acts that dominated the charts prior to the Beatles–they had three albums in the Top 10: In the Wind at #3, their self-titled debut at #6 and (Moving) at #7.
February 15, 1965
After completing the movie “Cat Ballou” starring Jane Fonda, Nat King Cole died of lung cancer at the age of 47. His daughter Natalie had just turned 15 the previous week. Nat originally played piano in Jazz bands, but stepped to the front of the stage for good when “Mona Lisa” became a number one hit in 1950. Cole continued his hit streak with “Unforgettable” (#12 in 1951), “A Blossom Fell” (#2 in 1955), “Send For Me” (#6 in 1957), “Looking Back” (#5 in 1958), “Ramblin’ Rose” (#2 in 1962) and “Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer” (#6 in 1963). He hit the charts again in 1991 when his voice was dubbed into a duet with Natalie on an updated version of “Unforgettable” which rose to #14.
At EMI’s Abbey Road Studios in London, the Beatles recorded “Ticket To Ride.” This was the first song by the band in which Paul McCartney was featured on lead guitar. The meaning of the title phrase remains unclear. McCartney said it was “a British Railways ticket to the town of Ryde on the Isle of Wight,” and John Lennon said it described cards indicating a clean bill of health carried by Hamburg prostitutes in the 1960s. The Beatles played in Hamburg early in their musical career, and “ride/riding” was slang for having sex.
The Beatles released the single “Eight Days a Week,” but only in North America. Although it was a huge American hit, the group did not think highly of the song (John Lennon called it ‘lousy’) and they never performed it live.
24-year-old John Lennon passes his L-Test, becoming the last Beatle to obtain a driver’s licence.
The first laws concerning anti-bootlegging were enacted.
The six founding members of Chicago got together and in their words, “agreed to devote our lives and our energies to making this project work.” Starting out as The Big Thing, they would evolve into The Chicago Transit Authority, placing their debut on the Billboard chart just over two years later.
The main ranch house on the property, Circle G, was too small for the whole group, so Elvis started buying house trailers and initiated extensive repairs on the septic system.
February 15, 1968
John and Cynthia Lennon, along with George and Patti Harrison, fly to India to study meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Paul and Ringo would join them a few days later, but Starr would become bored and leave on March 1st. Much of the Beatles’ “White Album” was written during their stay.
February 15, 1969
Diana Ross and the Supremes Join the Temptations was the #1 album in the U.K.
Sly and the Family Stone started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Everyday People’, their first No.1.
Blood, Sweat & Tears released the single “(You’ve) Made Me So Very Happy”.
Sammy Davis, Jr. held on to #1 on the Adult chart for a fourth week with “I’ve Gotta’ Be Me”.
For the third week, Tyrone Davis had the #1 R&B song–“Can I Change My Mind”.
Sly & the Family Stone hit #1 for the first time with “Everyday People”, knocking off the great song “Crimson And Clover” from Tommy James & the Shondells. “Touch Me” by the Doors was third, just ahead of “Build Me Up Buttercup” from the Foundations and “Worst That Could Happen” by Brooklyn Bridge. The rest of the Top 10: Tyrone Davis and “Can I Change My Mind”, the Turtles jumped from 14 to 7 with ‘You Showed Me”, Marvin Gaye’s former #1 “I Heard It Through The Grapevine”, “Hang ‘Em High” from the movie of the same name by Booker T. & the MG’s and Diana Ross & the Supremes & the Temptations had #10–“I’m Gonna’ Make You Love Me”.
On the five-year anniversary of their first album reaching #1, the Beatles hit #1 with their latest, The White Album. Wichita Lineman from Glen Campbell moved to #2 with TCB from Diana Ross & the Supremes with the Temptations third. Greatest Hits by the Association captured position #4 while Diana Ross & the Supremes Join the Temptations was #5. The rest of the Top 10: The Beatles were full speed ahead, moving from #86 to #6 in their second week of release with the “Yellow Submarine” Soundtrack, Iron Butterfly slipped with In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Elvis by Elvis Presley was #8, Young-Holt Unlimited remained at #9 with Soulful Strut and the great Blood, Sweat & Tears album was #10.
In Fort Myers, Florida, Vickie Jones, a hairdresser from Virginia, was arrested for impersonating Aretha Franklin during a concert at a local club. Jones’ performance was so realistic that no one asked for a refund.
The Vegas Artist in Residence and Tour Decade
February 15, 1970
After a Sly & the Family Stone concert ran hours late and resulted in more $1,000 damage at Washington D.C.’s Constitution Hall, the Daughters of the American Revolution imposed a ban against any further rock concerts at the venue.
Opening Theme
All Shook Up
I Got A Woman
Long Tall Sally
Dont Cry Daddy
Hound Dog
Love Me Tender
Kentucky Rain
Let It Be Me
I Cant Stop Loving You
Walk A Mile In My Shoes
– segued medley with –
In The Ghetto
Sweet Caroline
Polk Salad Annie
Band Introductions
Suspicious Minds
Cant Help Falling In Love
Closing Vamp
Recordings:
Official Release of concert on the Follow That Dream Label
Engagement – Tour Ref: Las Vegas Season 2 – Las Vegas January 26th – February 23rd 1970
The United States government’s new anti-piracy laws were enacted as a response to the widespread bootlegging of work by major recording artists.
Elvis did Dinner and Midnight Vegas Shows
Date:
15 Feb 1972
Time:
8.30pm
Venue:
Las Vegas, NV.
Hilton Hotel
Tickets:
2,200
Costume:
Unknown
Track list:
All Shook Up
Teddy Bear
– segued medley with –
Dont Be Cruel
Hound Dog ** Tracklist Is Incomplete
Recordings:
0
Date:
15 Feb 1972
Time:
Midnight
Venue:
Las Vegas, NV.
Hilton Hotel
Tickets:
2,200
Costume:
Unknown
Track list:
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
Proud Mary
Never Been to Spain
You Gave Me A Mountain
Until It’s Time For You To Go
Polk Salad Annie
Love Me
All Shook Up
Teddy Bear/Don’t Be Cruel
Hound Dog
A Big Hunk O’ Love
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Suspicious Minds
[band introductions]
An American Trilogy
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Recordings:
0
Engagement – Tour Ref: Las Vegas Season 6 – Las Vegas January 26th – February 23rd 1972
Elvis did Dinner Vegas Shows: Elvis walked off stage during the dinner show. When he returned, he said, “I’m sorry, ladies and gentlemen, but I have a touch of the flu, and my voice suddenly disappeared.” He finished the show, but again the midnight show was canceled.
Date:
15 Feb 1973
Time:
8.30pm
Venue:
Las Vegas, NV.
Hilton Hotel
Tickets:
2,200
Costume:
White Sunlight suit
Track list:
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
Love Me Tender
You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me
Steamroller Blues
You Gave Me A Mountain
FeverElvis left the stage and Charlie Hodge took over, singing:Lonesome Road
Sweet, Sweet Spirit
When It’s My Time
How Great Thou Art
Crucified– Elvis returned to the stage and continued the show, singing:Can’t Help Falling In Love– Elvis changes his mind about leaving and continues:Faded Love
I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
Polk Salad Annie
American Trilogy
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Deep Purple released the album they recorded in Montreux, Switzerland–Burn.
February 15, 1975
Linda Ronstadt went to No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘You’re No Good’, the singers only solo chart topper out of 12 other top 40 hits. Also today Ronstadt went to No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Heart Like A Wheel.’
Singer Gino Vannelli became the second Caucasian artist to perform on the syndicated TV dance show, “Soul Train.” (The first was Detroit guitarist Dennis Coffey who appeared in January 1972.)
Linda Ronstadt had her first and only #1 song of her career–“You’re No Good”. “Pick Up The Pieces” from AWB was runner-up with the Eagles picking up another big hit at #3–“Best Of My Love”. Grand Funk enjoyed one of their biggest with “Some Kind Of Wonderful” and the Doobie Brothers headed up with “Black Water”. America landed at #7 with “Lonely People”, Stevie Wonder placed at #8 with “Boogie On Reggae Woman”, Frankie Valli had a big solo hit with “My Eyes Adored You”, and John Lennon entered the list with the great song “#9 Dream”.
Linda Ronstadt’s Heart Like a Wheel took over at #1 on the Album chart. AWB by Average White Band was second, bumping Joni Mitchell’s live album Miles of Aisles. Bob Dylan moved from 15-4 with one of the best albums of his career, Blood on the Tracks. The rest of the Top 10: Dark Horse from George Harrison, Jethro Tull’s War Child edged up to #6, Fire from the Ohio Players fizzled out to #7, B.T. Express and Do It (‘Til You’re Satisfied), Rufusized by Rufus featuring Chaka Khan moved from 14 to 9 and Barry Manilow II.
February 15, 1976
February 15, 1977
George Harrison’s album “The Best Of George Harrison” was certified Gold.
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
O Sole Mio/It’s Now Or Never
All Shook Up
Teddy Bear/Don’t Be Cruel
Help Me
Big Boss Man
My Way
[Band introductions]
Early Morning Rain
What’d I Say Johnny B. Goode
Love Letters
School Days
Hurt
Hound Dog
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Recordings:
Orlando
Elvis seemed tired and worn during this tour show. The sound was poor in the ‘aluminum and steel’ building.
At the 21st Grammy Awards, the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack won Album Of The Year and The Bee Gees won Best Pop Group and Best Arrangement For Voices for “Staying Alive”. Billy Joel‘s “Just The Way You Are” won Record Of The Year and Song Of The Year. Donna Summer‘s “Last Dance” won two Grammys: Best Female R&B Vocal and Best R&B Song.
1981
Mike Bloomfield, elite guitarist of the Paul Butterfield Band who also played on the album Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan, died of drugs at age 37 in San Francisco, California.
1982
The J. Geils Band released the single “Freeze-Frame”.
1983 Elvis Presley Enterprises/Graceland Tourism
1984 Actor ExWife: Priscilla Presley
1986
Sade scored a #1 album with Promise. Whitney Houston’s self-titled debut was moving back up after 48 weeks of release.
Whitney Houston’s “How Will I Know” reached #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart and doubled at #1 on the pop chart
1988
After allegedly referring to El Paso, Texas as “the place with all those greasy Mexicans”, Joe Elliot and the rest of Def Leppard are forced to cancel a show in that city due to various threats.
1991
Model Kelly Emberg launches a $25 million palimony suit against Rod Stewart. The pair lived together from 1985 to 1990. Rod has often been quoted as saying “Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and just give her a house.”
1992
Krinjabo, a village on the Ivory Coast, named Michael Jackson the “King of the Sanwis”.
Michael Jackson had his 33rd hit, and on this day it also became his 23rd solo Top 10–“Remember The Time”.
Garth Brooks had the rest of the competition lassoed as Ropin’ the Wind remained at #1 on the Album chart for the 12th week. Nirvana fell far short with Nevermind while another Brooks release, No Fences, was third after 74 weeks of release. Michael Jackson had #4–Dangerous, while Boyz II Men rose to the #5 spot with Cooleyhighharmony. The rest of the Top 10: C.M.B. from Color Me Badd, Hammer dropped with Too Legit to Quit, Michael Bolton’s excellent Time, Love & Tenderness album was #8, U2 slipped with Achtung Baby and the self-titled Metallica was now #10.
1993
Duran Duran performed “Ordinary World” on The Tonight Show on NBC-TV.
“This is the crowning achievement of my career and they want to give it to me secretly. It’s like I’m in the kitchen doing all the cooking and the waiters get all the credit. I cried. . . .I’ve been waiting so long.” This was the reaction from Little Richard upon hearing he was being given a Lifetime Achievement Grammy but would have to accept it at a dinner the night before.
1994
A federal court jury ruled Michael Jackson did not steal the idea for his hit song “Dangerous” from a Denver woman who had sent him a demo tape.
1996
Take That were the top sellers in the U.K. in 1995, with singles sales over 3.9 million.
1997
U2 went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Discotheque’, the bands third UK No.1 single. The entire track was leaked onto the internet in December 1996, forcing U2 to move the release date.
Jewel’s Pieces of You, one of The Top 100 Albums of the Rock Era*, moved back into the Top 10 on the weekly Album chart after 51 weeks of release.
1998
The Rolling Stones completed a tour at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Tokyo area phone system went down due to high activity attributable to people trying to reserve tickets for an upcoming Glay concert.
The state of Minnesota declared it “Rolling Stones Day”, a proclamation issued by Governor Jesse Ventura, once a bodyguard of the Stones
2000
Sting canceled a concert in Vienna, Austria to protest the inclusion of Jorg Haider’s far right freedom party in the new government. Other artists did the same thing.
2002
The movie Cross Roads, starring Britney Spears, opened in theaters.
2004 Recording Artist: Daughter Lisa Marie Presley
2004
Norah Jones had the #1 album in the U.K.–Feels Like Home.
2011 Actor: Granddaughter Riley Keough
2012
Michael Jackson‘s estate sued the singer’s former manager, Tohme R. Tohme, claiming he lined his own pockets by persuading the singer to sign unconscionable contracts in the final year of his life.
2013
Chubby Checker launched a half-billion dollar lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard for including an app on its phones and tablets that used the same name as the 71-year-old musician to measure a man’s penis length based on his shoe size. The app had already been removed in 2012 after it was downloaded just 84 times at a cost of 99 cents. In July, 2014, the suit would be settled out of court for undisclosed terms.
2016
the 58th annual Grammy Awards were Best Blues Album: “Born To Play Guitar” by Buddy Guy, Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media: “I’ll Be Me” by Glen Campbell and Best Spoken Word Album: “A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety” by Jimmy Carter.
Taylor Swift became the first woman to capture Album of the Year honors (for the album 1989) at the Grammy Awards. “Uptown Funk” by Mick Ronson and Bruno Mars was named Record of the Year while Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud” took home Song of the Year.
The Grammys paid tribute to the late Glenn Frey when Eagles co-founders Don Henley and Bernie Leadon, along with guitarist Joe Walsh, bassist Tim Schmit and Jackson Browne, took the stage for a rendition of “Take It Easy”. After their performance, show producer Ken Ehrlich presented the band with the Grammy Award that they won for “Hotel California” which were they were not on-hand to receive at the 1977 Grammys.
Sir Paul McCartney was denied access to a Grammy after-party which was being held at the Argyle club in Hollywood. McCartney, along with Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins and Beck, then headed to another party hosted by Republic Records, and had no problem getting in. Alluding to the incident, Maca quipped, “How VIP do we gotta get? We need another hit.”
Broadway World– 40 years ago, Elvis Presley died and left millions heartbroken with devastation. For award-winning Australian actor and musician, Marty Rhone, ..
2018
Shelby County Chancery Court for Elvis Presley Enterprises et al. v. City of Memphis
306 Old Satillo Road, Elvis’ birthplace, is now 306 Elvis Presley Drive.
January 16, 1938
Benny Goodman and his band played their historic concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City, regarded as a significant turning point in jazz history. It signaled the beginning of the acceptance of jazz by mainstream audiences.
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.
January 16, 1943
Ernest Tubb made his debut appearance at “The Grand Ole Opry” in Nashville, TN
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
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
The Sun Records Rockabilly Era
January 16, 1954
September 21, 1953 to March 19, 1954
Elvis worked at Precision Tool company, operating a drill press for $1.55 a hour.
The Presleys lived at 2414 Lamar Avenue, rented end of 1954 to mid-1955
January 16, 1955
The Presleys lived at 1414 Getwell Street rented from mid-1955 to May, 11 1956.
Tennessee Ernie Ford was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with his version of the Merle Travis coal-mining song ‘Sixteen Tons.’ Written in 1947 about the misery of coal mining.
Elvis performed at the Municipal Auditorium, Galveston, Texas along with Hank Snow, His Rainbow Ranch Boys, Rod Brasfield and Biff Collie
The Presleys lived at Audobon Drive May 11 1956 to March 1957.
January 16, 1957
In New Orleans, Little Richard recorded “Lucille.”
The Cavern Club in Liverpool, England first opened its doors. It will forever be remembered as the place where the Beatles got their start. . The Quarry Men first played there seven months later and four years after, they would return as The Beatles. Paul McCartney visited the re-built club near the end of 1999 for a short set of old Rock and Roll tunes.
The Presleys lived at Graceland
Loving You recording session and pre-production: on the Paramount Scoring Stage in Los Angeles, Elvis Presley recorded “Teddy Bear.” It became the third of his four #1 pop hits that year and also topped the R&B and Country music charts.
The soundtrack session at Paramount went on from 9.00 a.m. to 3.30 p.m. However, Elvis was clearly not working well on the giant soundstage and recording went slowly.
Gene Pitney lip-synced his current chart hit, “Town Without Pity,” on ABC-TV’s “American Bandstand.”
January 16, 1963
January 16, 1964
The Beatles played two shows at the Olympia Theatre, Paris, France, the first of an 18-night engagement. This first show was attended mostly by Paris’ ‘top society’ members (all dressed in formal evening attire). The French press had little good to say about The Beatles in the next day’s papers, but The Beatles didn’t care, because they’d just received news that their single ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’ had hit No.1 in the US, selling 10,000 copies an hour in New York City alone.
The Dave Clark Five owned the #1 U.K. song with “Glad All Over”.
January 16, 1965
In Britain’s Melody Maker music magazine, Beatles manager Brian Epstein was quoted as saying, “I give the Beatles two or three years more at the top.”
Chad Allen And The Expressions release their first album under their new name, Guess Who. A single issued from the L.P. was a cover version of Johnny Kidd’s “Shakin’ All Over” that helped launch the career of one of Canada’s most successful Rock bands.
Julie Rogers had the top Adult song for the third week–“The Wedding”.
The Supremes achieved their third straight #1 song with “Come See About Me”. That sent “I Feel Fine” by the Beatles to the runner-up spot with the Searchers finding #3 with “Love Potion Number Nine”. “Downtown” from Petula Clark, which had roared from 87 to 41 to 12 to 5 in its chart run was temporarily slowed, only edging up to #4. The rest of the Top 10: the Righteous Brothers were going to be a factor with “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling”, Bobby Vinton’s big hit “Mr. Lonely” was now sixth, “The Jerk” from the Larks, Little Anthony & the Imperials were at #8 with “Goin’ Out Of My Head”, Marvin Gaye moved from 15 to 9 with “How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You” and Del Shannon placed “Keep Searchin'” at 10.
The soundtrack to the Elvis Presley film “Roustabout” hit #12 in the U.K.
January 16, 1966
January 16, 1967
The Rolling Stones released the single “Ruby Tuesday”.
Still in Nashville, the work was resumed at 10.00 p.m. until 5.00 a.m. Elvis started with the second movie song, Stay Away. This was the end of the soundtrack part of the session and with no good material in sight Elvis finally settled on a new Jerry Reed tune: U.S. Male, which was suggested by guitarist Chip Young. In spite of the rule that Elvis was not allowed to pitch any song he liked, there was no demurral from Freddy Bienstock this time. With Reed’s typical offbeat accompaniment U.S. Male was a fitting complement to Guitar Man and the only sensible choice for the next single.
Two days after it opens, the Bag One Gallery in London, England is raided by Scotland Yard. The police remove eight John Lennon lithographs under the Obscene Publications Act.
George Harrison had one of The Top 100 Songs of the Rock Era*, as his solo release “My Sweet Lord” remained at #1 for a fourth week. Dawn was one step away with “Knock Three Times”, while there was a logjam at 3, 4 and 5 with “One Less Bell To Answer” from the 5th Dimension, Santana’s “Black Magic Woman” and “I Think I Love You” from the Partridge Family. The rest of the Top 10: The Bee Gees had their 14th career hit, but first Top 10 in three years with “Lonely Days”, King Floyd joined the group with “Groove Me”, the Supremes were at 8 with “Stoned Love”, Barbra Streisand kept the theme going with “Stoney End” and the former #1 “The Tears Of A Clown” from Smokey Robinson & the Miracles was now at #10.
George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass was #1 on the Album chart for a third week. Abraxas, the former #1 from Santana, was still at #2 and Stephen Stills remained third with his self-titled release. Sly & the Family Stone checked in with Greatest Hits and The Partridge Family Album was fifth. The rest of the Top 10: The Soundtrack to “Jesus Christ Superstar”, Pendulum from Creedence Clearwater Revival, Grand Funk Railroad were at #8 with Live Album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, and Led Zeppelin III.
Elvis Presley was named One of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation for 1970 by the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce (the Jaycees). Elvis and Priscilla attended the JCC prayer breakfast at the Memphis Holiday Inn Rivermont.
Afterwards there was a press conference where Elvis responded to a question about the effect of music on today’s youth. “I don’t go along with music advocating drugs and desecration of the flag. I think an entertainer is for entertaining and to make people happy.”
At 5.00 p.m. Elvis gave a reception at Graceland for award winners and Jaycee officials, during which he conducted informal tours of the house. One hour later Elvis and Priscilla hosted a formal dinner for 100 guests at the Four Flames Restaurant, where place cards had been embossed with the TCB logo and signed by the star.
During the 8.00 p.m. awards ceremony at Ellis Auditorium Elvis proudly accepted an honor that clearly meant as much to him as any public recognition he had ever received. The trophy he received became one of his most treasured possessions, which he even took with him on his travels.
David Seville, (real name: Ross Bagdasarian) who provided the voices of TV cartoon characters the Chipmunks, died just days short of his 53rd birthday. He also recorded the number one hit “Witch Doctor” in 1958.
January 16, 1973
January 16, 1974
After years of disappointing fans with missed performances and weak albums, Sly And The Family Stone find that they can’t sell enough tickets to an eight show, six night engagement at Radio City Music Hall.
January 16, 1975
Paul McCartney and Wings arrived in New Orleans to begin recording sessions at Allen Toussaint’s Sea Saint studios for their “Venus and Mars” album. They stayed through Mardi Gras.
A weekly television variety show, headlined by Osmond siblings “Donny and Marie,” began a three-year stay on ABC. They were 18 and 16 years old, respectively, when the show premiered..
Peter Frampton‘s “Frampton Comes Alive!” is released. The album takes just five weeks to go Gold and turns Platinum in less than three months. It sold 19 million copies in its first year.
The construction on the racquetball court at Graceland was completed.
January 16, 1977
Tv’s Starsky and Hutch Actor David Soul rose to #1 on the U.K. chart with “Don’t Give Up On Us”.
Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel and James Taylor combined for a great remake of “(What A) Wonderful World”.
1979
Cher and Gregg Allman divorced.
1980
Paul McCartney was arrested in Tokyo after customs officials found 7.7 ounces of marijuana in his luggage. He was jailed for ten days and then deported.
Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin and Eric Clapton attended a reception to celebrate the release of The Summit, a Swan Song Records compilation to benefit the International Year of the Child.
1982 Elvis Presley Enterprises/Graceland Tourism
1982
Earth, Wind & Fire had one of The Top 100 R&B Songs of the 80’s* as “Let’s Groove” spent an eighth week at #1.
“Yesterday’s Songs” by Neil Diamond held on to #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart for a fifth week.
Bertie Higgins‘ “Key Largo” entered the Billboard Hot 100, where it would reach #8, as well as #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart. The song was inspired by the 1948 film starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. In the UK, it could climb no higher than #60.
Juice Newton had the only new Top 10 song with her remake of “The Sweetest Thing (I’ve Ever Known)”.
Foreigner’s album 4 returned to #1 on the chart, making it the sixth week the incredible release was at the top. Escape from Journey was now #2 with previous #1 For Those About to Rock We Salute You from AC/DC third. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra had a major hit with Hooked on Classics, which moved from 13-4, while Raise! by Earth, Wind & Fire was #5. The rest of a solid Top 10: Tattoo You from the Rolling Stones, Bella Donna from Ms. Stevie Nicks, the J. Geils Band had their first Top 10 album with Freeze Frame, the Police tumbled with Ghost in the Machine and Barbra Streisand’s compilation album Memories was #10.
1983 Actor ExWife: Priscilla Presley
1984
The Eurythmics released the single “Here Comes The Rain Again”.
Paul and Linda McCartney were arrested in Barbados for possession of cannabis. They were fined the equivalent of $200 each.
1986
ABBA reunited briefly to record “Tivedshambo” for their former manager Stig Anderson on the Swedish television show This is Your Life. The show was televised on January 18.
1987
The Beastie Boys became the first act censored on “American Bandstand.”
1988
George Michael went to No.1 on the US album charts with his debut solo album ‘Faith’, which went on to sell over 8 million copies.
Belinda Carlisle had a worldwide smash and hit #1 in the U.K. with “Heaven Is A Place on Earth”.
Fleetwood Mac reached #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart with “Everywhere”.
Tina Turner performed in front of a crowd of more than 184,000 people in Rio De Janeiro, (up to that date) the largest audience ever for a single artist.
With his recent #1 recording “Got My Mind Set On You,” the Beatles’ George Harrison became the act with the longest span of chart-toppers in pop music history, two weeks short of 24 years. George Harrison tops the Billboard chart with the first single from his “Cloud Nine” album, “Got My Mind Set On You”, an old favorite of George’s that was originally recorded by James Ray in 1962. In the UK, Harrison’s version spent four weeks at number 2. Later in 1988, the Beach Boys eclipsed Harrison’s achievement when their #1 record “Kokomo” gave them a span of 24 years and four months.
“The Way You Make Me Feel” by Michael Jackson spent a fourth week at #1 on the R&B chart.
Debbie Gibson released the single “Lost In Your Eyes”.
George Harrison reached # with “Got My Mind Set On You”, knocking Whitney Houston from the top after one week with “So Emotional”. Michael Jackson had his 11th Top 10 song in the last seven years with The Way You Make Me Feel”. Meanwhile, INXS was up to #4 with their great song “Need You Tonight” and Tiffany’s breakthrough hit “Could’ve Been” moved from 14 to 5. The rest of the Top 10: The Bangles registered their fifth career hit with their remake of the Simon & Garfunkel hit “Hazy Shade Of Winter”, a live version of “Candle In The Wind” by Elton John reached #7, Taylor Dayne was at position #8 with “Tell It To My Heart”, “Faith” from George Michael and Whitesnake was at #10 with “Is This Love”.
1989
The Fine Young Cannibals released the single “She Drives Me Crazy”.
Michael Jackson wrapped up the highly successful Bad tour with the first of five nights at the Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles. Jackson donated more than $1 million to a charitable organization fighting child cruelty. Blogger Nina Notes. I thought he was at the 1984 grammies, before the first public accuser accepted money to be silent.
1990
Ike Turner was convicted of driving under the influence of cocaine and was sentenced to four years in prison.
Mick Jagger attended the premiere of Freejack, the movie in which he starred in, at Mann’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
Eric Clapton recorded an “unplugged” session that included his hit “Tears In Heaven” and an acoustic version of “Layla”. The work went on to win six Grammy Awards including Record of the Year.
1993
Bob Dylan and Quincy Jones & His Orchestra performed at an Inaugural Ball for U.S. President Bill Clinton.
Whitney Houston collected a seventh week at #1 on the R&B chart with the across-the-board smash “I Will Always Love You” and held a grip on #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart for the fifth week with “I Will Always Love You”, while same song continued its climb up history with an eighth week at #1. That moved Whitney into a four-way tie and at that time only seven songs had spent more weeks at #1.
1994
Bryan Adams played to an audience of 2,500 people in Ho Chi Minh City, the first Western entertainer to perform in Vietnam, 19 years after the war ended.
The movie Out of Darkness starring Diana Ross aired on ABC-TV.
1996
Wayne Newton performed his 25,000th Las Vegas show.
Jamaican authorities fired upon on Jimmy Buffett’s seaplane, after mistaking it for a drug trafficker’s plane. U2 singer Bono was with Buffett, but neither was hurt.
Richard Kermode, keyboardist with Janis Joplin’s Kozmic Blues Band, died of cancer in Denver, Colorado at the age of 49.
1998
The Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, cancelled the premiere of Nick Broomfield’s documentary “Kurt and Courtney” due to unresolved legal issues.
1999
Brandy had the #1 song with “Have You Ever”.
2000
Coasters singer Will Jones died aged 71. (1958 US No.1 single ‘Yakety Yak’, 1959 US No.2 and UK No.6 single ‘Charlie Brown’).
2001
Bjork won the Outstanding Dramatic Performance award from the National Board of Review for her role in Dancer in the Dark
2002
Part of the I-10 freeway in California was named “The Sonny Bono Memorial Freeway”.
2003 Recording Artist: Daughter Lisa Marie Presley
2004
In Santa Barbara, California, Michael Jackson appeared in court and pled not guilty to seven charges of child molestation. He arrived 21 minutes late and was admonished by the judge who said, “Mr. Jackson, you have started out on the wrong foot here; it is an insult to the court.”
John Siomos, who played drums on countless albums and singles with a host of bands and in studio recordings for artists such as Peter Frampton, Todd Rundgren, Mitch Ryder and Carly Simon, died at the age of 56.
2005
Elvis Presley’s single ‘One Night’ made chart history by becoming the 1,000th UK No.1. Elvis, who led last week’s chart with ‘Jailhouse Rock’, had now scored more number one UK hits than any other artist with 20 No.1’s, beating The Beatles’ 17 chart toppers.
The re-released “One Night” took over at #1 for “Jailhouse Rock” by Elvis to become the 1000th #1 song in the U.K., as the king accomplished the rare feat of replacing himself at #1, and all this 28 years after his death.
Europe’s Copyright was about to expire, so all the singles were re-released and re-charted and culminated in a box set of the singles.
2007
Bob Dylan and his brother bought Aultmore House, a mansion in the Scottish Cairngorms National Park near Nethybridge, Inverness-shire.
Pookie Hudson, the lead singer and songwriter for the Doo Wop group, The Spaniels, died of complications from cancer of the thymus at the age of 72. Hudson lent his romantic tenor to hits like “Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight” and influenced generations of later artists.
2009
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry reported that ninety-five per cent of music downloaded online was done so illegally in 2008. The IFPI, which represents 1,400 companies in 72 countries, said that there were 1.4 billion tracks legally downloaded last year, but estimated that more than 40 billion music files were illegally shared.
Boy George was sentenced to 15 months in jail for falsely imprisoning a male escort. The 47-year-old singer admitted handcuffing Audun Carlsen to a wall in April 2007, but said he did so because Carlsen had stolen photos from his laptop.
2010 Actor: Granddaughter Riley Keough
2014
Michael Jackson’s physician Dr. Conrad Murray lost his appeal to have his conviction of involuntary manslaughter overturned by a Los Angeles court.
73-year-old Toni Tennille filed for divorce from Daryl Dragon (The Captain), 71, after 39 years of marriage. The couple rose to fame in the Seventies for their songs “Love Will Keep Us Together”, “Muskrat Love” and “Do that to Me One More Time”.
2015
London’s O2 arena, O2 Academy Brixton and SSE Wembley Arena were among a string of U.K. venues that banned the use of “selfie sticks” over health and safety concerns. A selfie stick is an extendable phone and camera holder that allow the user to take a wider image or group shot.
After deliberating for just one hour, a jury ruled that ’80s Pop star Rick Springfield did not injure a woman at a New York State Fair concert more than a decade earlier. A woman claimed that Springfield’s buttocks hit her head, causing lasting injuries when the “Jessie’s Girl” singer fell on her during a 2004 concert in suburban Syracuse.
Glenn Frey’s widow, Cindy filed a wrongful death lawsuit against doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. The suit claimed that hospital staff and the gastroenterologist who cared for the Eagles guitarist in 2015, were negligent in treating the singer’s bowel disease.
Big Joe Turner, Fats Domino, the Clovers, Moonglows, Drifters and Harptones performed two shows at the 6,000-seat St. Nicholas Arena in Harlem as disc jockey and concert promoter Alan Freed presented his first Rock and Roll Ball in New York City. Both shows sold out well in advance.
originally rumored but now suspect: Elvis performed at the Futrell High School Gym, Marianna, Arkansas.
Engagement – Tour Ref: 1955
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Marianna, Arkansas
The Presleys lived at 1414 Getwell Street rented from mid-1955 to May, 11 1956.
Little Richard’s “Tutti Frutti” debuted on the charts.
Elvis performed at the Louisiana Hayride, Municipal Auditorium, Shreveport. He sang Baby Let’s Play House, I Got A Woman, Only You, Tutti Frutti and That’s All Right.
Elvis went to the Paramount makeup department to have his hair dyed black for the first time. Afterwards he went to the wardrobe department. The script, is about to be re-titled “Loving You,” after the Leiber-Stoller song.
The Presleys lived at Graceland
January 14, 1958
King Creole Production
The Military Service Disruption
January 14, 1959
Military Service in Germany
October 1958 to February 2, 1959: Hotel Grunwald in Bad Nauheim, Germany
January 14, 1960
Elvis Presley’s ‘GI Blues’ started a seven-week run at No.1 on the UK chart.
Two months before the end of his U.S. Army hitch, CorporalElvis Presley was promoted to the rank of sergeant, which gave him a $22.94 per month pay increase.
Military Service in Germany
Feb 3 – March 1960: Goethestr.14 in Bad Nauheim, Germany
Military Service in Germany – on leave Jan 2 to 17
The movie Teenage Millionaire, featuring Jimmy Clanton, Jackie Wilson, Dion and Chubby Checker, debuted in theaters.
January 14, 1963
Skeeter Davis released her single “The End Of The World”.
George Wallace was sworn in as governor of the U.S. state of Alabama. In his inaugural address, he proclaimed “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!”
January 14, 1964
The Beatles (minus Ringo Starr who was fog-bound in Liverpool) departed from Liverpool for Paris, France for an 18-day run at the Olympia Theatre. Arriving in Paris, John, Paul, and George were met by 60 fans. Ringo, accompanied by roadie Neil Aspinall, arrived the next day.
January 14, 1965
Bob Dylan recorded “Subterranean Homesick Blues” at the Columbia Recording Studios in New York City for his upcoming album Bringing It All Back Home.
David Jones changed his name to David Bowie to avoid confusion with Davy Jones from The Monkees, just in time for the release of his single, ‘Can’t Help Thinking About Me’. He would later say that he chose “Bowie” because he liked that “big American bear-killin’ knife.”
Elvis ordered a professional slot car racetrack for $4,990. By the end of the month all of the guys had their own personal cars and soon there were many contested races.
January 14, 1967
Over 25,000 people attend The Human Be-In-A Gathering Of The Tribes at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The event was a forerunner of major, outdoor rock concerts and featured The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Big Brother And The Holding Company.
Cliff Richard announced that he was retiring from show business to teach religious education in the schools.
5th Dimension charted with their first career single–“Go Where You Wanna’ Go”.
A group of Florida teens called The Nightcrawlers see their only Billboard chart entry, “The Little Black Egg”, peak at #90. The song has since gone on to be a garage band classic, with thousands of budding guitarists learning to play it. Despite its meaningless lyrics, by 2008 there were nearly forty known recorded versions of the tune. According to band member Sylvan Wells, the song was recorded in a home studio with the singer actually outside, over a tree branch. Unfortunately for the band, their two follow-up releases, “A Basket Of Flowers” and “I Don’t Remember”, failed to catch on.
The Monkees held on to #1 for a third week with “I’m A Believer”. “Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron” by the Royal Guardsmen would have to settle for #2. Aaron Neville remained third with “Tell It Like It Is” while Boise, Idaho’s Paul Revere & the Raiders moved from 7-4 with “Good Thing”. The rest of the Top 10: Nancy Sinatra and “Sugar Town”, the Mamas & Papas with “Words Of Love”, the Four Tops were at 7 with “Standing In The Shadows Of Love”, the New Vaudeville Band’s former #1 “Winchester Cathedral”, Frank Sinatra was down with “That’s Life” and the Seekers exploded from 20-10 with “Georgy Girl”.
The Monkees remained #1 on the Album chart with their self-titled debut. S.R.O. from Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass was second.
The movie Monterey Pop, about the famous Monterey Pop Festival of 1967, opened in theaters.
Elvis continued recording at American from 7.00 p.m. to 8.30 a.m. with several more successful sides. However Elvis’ cold got worse and vocal tracks on I’m Movin’ On and Gentle On My Mind had to be redone later. Elvis didn’t return to the studio until the next week. The band continued the followings days laying down new tracks and overdubbed some songs already recorded.
A display of John Lennon’s erotic “Bag One” lithographs opened in London. 2 days later Scotland Yard seized prints as evidence of pornography.
Diana Ross made her last appearance with The Supremes at The Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas. During the show, Diana introduced her replacement, Jean Terrell, who would lead the group to seven more Top 40 hits, including the Top 10 entries ‘Up The Ladder To The Roof’ and ‘Stoned Love’ later in the year.
Elvis in rehearsals at RCA Studio, Hollywood, California
January 14, 1971
The Temptations released the single “Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)”.
January 14, 1972
Paul Simon released his second solo album, his self-titled release.
Denmark had its first queen since 1412, as Queen Margrethe II ascended the throne. She also holds the distinction of being the first Danish monarch since 1513 who was not named Frederick or Christian.
The Aloha Concert was performed in the early hours of the day, to be live for Japan Prime Time.
Elvis made television and entertainment history with his ‘Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii – Via Satellite’ concert special. The show was performed at the Honolulu International Center Arena on January 14, 1973 at 12:30 AM Hawaiian time. The concert was beamed live via Globecam Satellite to Australia, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, South Vietnam and other countries, and was seen on a delayed basis in approximately thirty European countries.
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Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
Burning Love
Something
You Gave Me A Mountain
Steamroller Blues
My Way
Love Me
Johnny B. Goode
It’s Over
Blue Suede Shoes
I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
I Can’t Stop Loving You
Hound Dog
What Now My Love
Fever
Welcome To My World
Suspicious Minds
[band ntroductions]
I’ll Remember You
Long Tall Sally/Whole Lotta Shakin Going On
An American Trilogy
A Big Hunk O’ Love
Can’t Help Falling In Love– pre-taped RECORDINGS:Blue Hawaii
KU-U-I-PO
No More
Hawaiian Wedding Song
Early Morning Rain
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Joan Deary sat in a room recording the show’s audio for RCA and the tapes were rushed to the factory, where the covers were already printed with a photo from the Madison Square Garden Concert.
The first American airing was April 4, 1973 on NBC-TV and the Concert Double LP TV special soundtrack already in stores.
Elvis Presley makes television and entertainment history with his Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii – Via Satellite special. Performed at the Honolulu International Center Arena on January 14, 1973, broadcast live at 12:30 AM Hawaiian time, beamed via Globecam Satellite to Australia, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, the Phillipines, South Vietnam and other countries. It is seen on a delayed basis in around thirty European countries. A tape of the show will be seen in America on April 4th on NBC. The live broadcast in January attracts 37.8% of the viewers in Japan, 91.8% in the Philippines, 70% in Hong Kong, and 70-80% of the viewers in Korea. The April showing in America will attract 51% of the television viewing audience, and will be seen in more American households than man’s first walk on the moon.
After sleeping, the plan was for the group to tour parts of the island, but Linda Thompson found Elvis on the Suite Balcony, back on pills after 2 weeks of not using.
Engagement – Tour Ref: On Tour number 8 – January 12th – January 14th 1973
Three Dog Night are awarded their 12th and final Gold record for the album, “Joy to the World – Their Greatest Hits”.
Joe Walsh is presented a Gold record for his third solo album, “So What”. Don Henley, Glenn Frey and Randy Meisner of The Eagles contributed background vocals.
It was “car buy day” for Elvis. Elvis purchased two Lincolns and a Cadillac for Jerry Kennedy, Ron Pietrafeso and police surgeon Gerald Starkey, along with Cadillacs for Linda Thompson and Joe Esposito’s girlfriend, Shirley Dieu. In all the bill comes to $70,000.
David Bowie released his eleventh studio album Low, the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno termed the “Berlin Trilogy”. The track ‘Sound and Vision’ was released as a single and used by the BBC in the UK on trailers at the time, providing much needed exposure, as Bowie opted to do nothing to promote the single himself, and helped the song reach No.3 on the UK charts.
The Sex Pistols played their last concert before breaking up. The show was in San Francisco, CA. The following day, Johnny Rotten (born John Lydon) will quit the band, effectively bringing their brief and tumultuous career to an end. Since 1996 and into the new millennium they have reunited from time to time.
After 16 weeks, Player reached #1 with “Baby Come Back”. That ended three weeks at #1 for “How Deep Is Your Love” from the Bee Gees. Dolly Parton found herself at #3 with “Here You Come Again”, just ahead of Rod Stewart’s “You’re In My Heart”. The rest of the Top 10: L.T.D.’s hot R&B song “(Every Time I Turn Around) Back In Love Again”, Paul Simon was up to 6 with “Slip Slidin’ Away”, Shaun Cassidy with “Hey Deanie”, former Fleetwood Mac member Bob Welch and “Sentimental Lady”, Styx had their first Top 10 with “Come Sail Away” although they had many worthy songs previously, and Queen stopped at #10 with “We Are The Champions”.
Rumors by Fleetwood Mac posted a 31st week at #1 on the Album chart out of 47 weeks of release. That record would stand for six years until Michael Jackson’s Thriller and is still easily #2 in the Rock Era for weeks at #1.
1982 Elvis Presley Enterprises/Graceland Tourism
1983 Actor ExWife: Priscilla Presley
1984
Paul McCartney was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Pipes Of Peace.’ With this release McCartney made chart history by becoming the first artist to have a No.1 in a group, (The Beatles), in a duo, (with Stevie Wonder) in a trio, (with Wings) and as a solo artist.
Kool & the Gang took over at #1 on the R&B chart with “Joanna”.
Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson combined for “Say Say Say”, #1 for a fifth week. Yes was one step away with “Owner Of A Lonely Heart”, Hall & Oates backed down with “Say It Isn’t So” and Duran Duran slithered down with “Union Of The Snake”. The rest of the Top 10: “Twist Of Fate” from Olivia Newton-John, the Romantics held steady with “Talking In Your Sleep”, Matthew Wilder and “Break My Stride”, Elton John was at #8 with “I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues”, Culture Club had another Top 10 –“Karma Chameleon” and Lionel Richie scored his seventh consecutive solo Top 10 with “Running With The Night”.
Thriller by Michael Jackson continued at #1 on the Album chart for the 24th week. Other than albums on their way down, however, the competition wasn’t great. Can’t Slow Down from Lionel Richie was the closest, with What’s New from Linda Ronstadt and Synchronicity by the Police trailing. The rest of the Top 10: Metal Health by Quiet Riot, 90125 by Yes, Culture Club was at 7 with Colour By Numbers, Billy Joel’s An Innocent Man remained in the #8 spot, the “Yentl” Soundtrack and Hall & Oates with their compilation album Rock ‘N Soul, Part 1.
1986
Hank Snow refused to appear on the CBS-TV tribute to the Grand Ole Opry after producers of the show told him he would be allowed to sing only one verse of his classic “I’m Movin’ On.”
1989
Paul McCartney released his album “Back In The U.S.S.R.” exclusively in Russia.
Phil Collins registered a fourth week at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart with “Two Hearts”.
Anita Baker earned a fourth week at #1 on the Album chart with Giving You the Best That I Got. U2’s “Rattle and Hum” Soundtrack was second, followed by the “Cocktail” Soundtrack and New Jersey from Bon Jovi. The veteran Appetite for Destruction was #5 after 73 weeks for Guns N’ Roses. The rest of the Top 10: Don’t Be Cruel from Bobby Brown, Def Leppard’s Hysteria, still #7 after 74 weeks, Volume One from the Traveling Wilburys, Poison remained at 9 with Open Up and Say…Ahh! and Kenny G had #10–Silhouette.
1991
Gloria Estefan released her single “Coming Out Of The Dark”.
1992
Michael Jackson released the single “Remember The Time”.
1995
Pearl Jam performed with Neil Young for a Voters for Choice benefit in Washington.
“Creep” by TLC remained at #1 on the R&B chart for the sixth week.
With their resurgence back to the top on December 31, Boyz II Men now enjoyed their fifth week at #1 with “On Bended Knee”. Including their smash “I’ll Make Love to You”, the group had now been #1 in 18 of the last 20 weeks, the hottest streak for any artist of the Rock Era.
Sollie McElroy, lead singer of the Flamingoes (“I Only Have Eyes For You”) died in Chicago, Illinois at age 61.
1996
Ruby Starr, vocalist for Black Oak Arkansas on their 1974 hit “Jim Dandy” as well as having her own solo career, died of cancer at the age of 45.
1997
The Spice Girls released their debut single, “Wannabe,” in North America.
The Beach Boys guest star on an episode of ABC-TV’s Home Improvement. They played the cousins of ‘Wilson’, Tim ‘The Tool Man’ Taylor’s next door neighbor and sang “Barbra Ann” with the show’s cast.
1999
Garth Brooks appeared on Sesame Street. He sang the song called “Together We Make Muisc”.
Metallica sued Victoria’s Secret, claiming that the manufacturer infringed on its trademark by marketing a line of “Metallica” lip pencils.
2000
The January issue of Rolling Stone magazine reveals that the two children of Melissa Etheridge and her partner Julie Cypher were fathered by David Crosby.
2001
Jennifer Lopez owned the #1 song in the U.K. with “Love Don’t Cost A Thing”.
2002
Adam Ant was taken to the Royal Free Hospital by police. He was taken under the Mental Health Act which allows doctors to hold Ant for up to 28 days while they assessed his condition. Ant had been arrested on firearms offenses on January 12.
2003 Recording Artist: Daughter Lisa Marie Presley
2005
A $100,000 (£58,823) statue honouring the late punk guitarist Johnny Ramone was unveiled by his widow Linda at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Johnny died from prostate cancer in September 2004 at the age of 55. Hundreds turned out for the ceremony, including Tommy Ramone the only surviving band member. Dee Dee Ramone died of a drugs overdose in 2002 and Joey died in 2001 of lymphatic cancer.
2006
Leif Garrett (“I Was Made for Dancin'” from 1979) was arrested for possession of drugs.
2007
Amy Winehouse started a two week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘Back To Black’. The album has sold over 3.58 million copies in the UK alone, becoming the UK’s second best-selling album of the 21st century. Worldwide, the album has sold over 20 million copies.
2010 Actor: Granddaughter Riley Keough
2010
The BBC admitted coverage of the launch of U2’s album No Line On The Horizon in 2009 went too far – giving “undue prominence” to the band. RadioCentre, the trade body for commercial radio companies, had made a formal complaint over the coverage saying the BBC had given U2 “the sort of publicity money can’t buy”.
Guitar great Jimmy Page was honored with the United Nations’ first ever Pathways To Peace Award. Pathways To Peace is an international peace building, educational and consulting organization which has consultative status with the United Nations.
2011
As her latest release “Haven’t Seen the Last of Me” raced up Billboard’s Dance Club Song chart, 64-year-old Cher was poised to mark the sixth decade in which she had a #1 hit. Her track record of achieving chart topping records includes: The 1960s – “I Got You Babe”. The 1970s – “Gypsys, Tramps And Thieves”, “Half Breed”, “Dark Lady” and “All I Ever Need Is You.” The 1980s – “If I Could Turn Back Time” and “After All” (with Peter Cetera) The 1990s – “Believe”, “Strong Enough” and “All or Nothing”. The 2000s – “Song For the Lonely”, “A Different Kind of Love Song” and “When The Money’s Gone”.
2017
Elton John and Mariah Carey were reportedly paid millions each to perform at a private wedding ceremony in London, England. Russian billionaire Valery Kogan footed the bill for the wedding of his grand-daughter Irene Kogan to Daniel Kenvey at the city’s Landmark Hotel. Carey dedicated her 2005 chart-topping ballad “We Belong Together” to the young couple, while Elton dedicated his 1972 hit “Tiny Dancer” to the bride.
Brian Wilson returned to California’s Hawthorne High School to receive an upgraded mark for his 1959 composition of “Surfin'”. His music teacher, Fred Morgan had originally given Brian an “F” for the assignment, but the current principal, Dr. Landesfeind officially changed the mark to an “A”. Two years after it was written, the song would become The Beach Boys‘ first national hit when it reached #75.
Nielsen Music reported that The Beatles, Pink Floyd, David Bowie and other Classic Rock acts helped boost vinyl sales by 15 percent during 2018. The Beatles were the best-selling act on vinyl, with three albums, “Abbey Road”, “The Beatles”, (the White Album) and “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” all in the Top 15. That gave them a total of 321,000 sales, followed by Pink Floyd (177,000), David Bowie (150,000), Fleetwood Mac (139,000), Led Zeppelin (138,000), Michael Jackson (131,000), Jimi Hendrix (119,000), Metallica (116,000) and Queen (113,000).
President Harry Truman announced the U.S. has developed a hydrogen bomb (H-Bomb). He made this announcement in his final State of the Union Address.
The Presley’s left Lauderdale Courts, and moved to 698 Saffarans Street, where they would remain for less than 3 months.
The Sun Records Rockabilly Era
January 7, 1954
In Chicago, Muddy Waters recorded “Hoochie Coochie Man.” The Hoochie Coochie was a sexually provocative dance that became wildly popular during and after the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893. Since the dance was performed by women, a “hoochie coochie man” either watched them or ran the show.
Elvis worked at Precision Tool company, operating a drill press for $1.55 a hour. September 21, 1953 to March 19, 1954
The Presleys lived at 2414 Lamar Avenue, rented end of 1954 to mid-1955
Marian Anderson became the first African-American to sing at New York’s Metropolitan Opera.
‘Rock Around the Clock’ by Bill Haley and his Comets, entered the UK chart for the first time. The original full title of the song was ‘We’re Gonna Rock Around the Clock Tonight!’ and is often cited as the biggest-selling vinyl rock and roll single of all time with sales over 25m.
Elvis performed at the Midland high School Auditorium, Midland, Texas. Elvis appeared with other Louisiana Hayride stars before a crowd of more than 1,600.
Production began on the movie “Rock Around the Clock,” featuring Bill Haley And His Comets, Alan Freed, the Platters, and Freddie Bell.
Scotty, Elvis and DJ at the Louisiana Hayride – Jan. 7, 1956
Elvis performed at the Louisiana Hayride, Municipal Auditorium, Shreveport. Elvis and Red West flew in to Shreveport for a bill that included George Jones.
“Don’t”was Presley’s eleventh number-one hit in the United States. “Don’t” also peaked at number four on the R&B charts and #2 on the country chart. Billboard ranked it as the No. 3 song for 1958
“I Beg of You” would peak at # 8 on the Hot 100 and #4 on the country chart.
The Military Service Disruption
January 7, 1959
At Radio Recorders in Hollywood, Sam Cooke recorded “Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha.”
Jerry Lee Lewis makes an offer to buy Graceland from Elvis in the Media.
Military Service in Germany, Vernon, reading The Stars and Stripes Newspaper to Elvis has never seen his son so livid.
Military Service in Germany
October 1958 to February 2, 1959: Hotel Grunwald in Bad Nauheim, Germany
January 7, 1960
The United States first test launched the Polaris Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) from their launching facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Polaris would be the first missile deployed in the world that could be launched from a submerged submarine and carry a nuclear warhead, changing the game of nuclear brinkmanship forever.
At Owen Bradley’s Quonset Hut studio in Nashville, Johnny Horton recorded “Sink The Bismarck.”
At United Recording in Hollywood, Johnny Burnetterecorded “Dreamin.'”
Military Service on Paris Leave
Feb 3 – March 1960: Goethestr.14 in Bad Nauheim, Germany
The Hollywood Decade/The Elvis Establishment
January 7, 1961
Johnny Tillotson held down the top spot on the UK singles chart with “Poetry In Motion”. Songwriters Paul Kaufman and Mike Anthony later said that their inspiration came from seeing a procession of young ladies from a nearby school pass by on the sidewalk each afternoon.
At Owen Bradley’s Quonset Hut studio in Nashville, Faron Young recorded the Willie Nelson composition “Hello Walls.”
Gary “U.S.” Bonds files a $100,000 suit against Chubby Checker, charging Checker rearranged “Quarter to Three” and turned it into “Dancin’ Party”. The suit was later settled out of court.
The Colonel turns down a nonpaying television guest spot for Elvis to promote Paramount’s new picture, “Fun in Acapulco.” Col Parker was both concerned about Elvis over-exposure, but also saturating the market over radio, television, movies and in person. His decisions for most money now were short sighted and denied Elvis the experience of other celebrities and denied him many career opportunities.
The Beatles recorded a seven-song appearance for the BBC Radio program Saturday Club. They played ‘All My Loving’, ‘Money’, ‘The Hippy Hippy Shake’, ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’, ‘Roll Over Beethoven’, ‘Johnny B. Goode’, and ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’. The show was broadcast on February 15, while the Beatles were in the US.
January 7, 1965
January 7, 1966
January 7, 1967
The Doors and the Young Rascals played the second of two nights at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, California.
Aaron Neville had the first #1 R&B song of the New Year with “Tell It Like It Is”.
Charley Pride debuted and becames the first African-American solo singer to perform on the Grand Ole Opry. Following an introduction from Ernest Tubb; Pride sings ”The Snakes Crawl At Night” and ”I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still In Love With You)”. Pride would become RCA’s biggest seller in the 1970s since Elvis and dropping Elvis to number 2 on the label.
The Monkees made it nine weeks on top of the Album chart with their self-titled release.
The Monkees continued at #1 into the New Year with “I’m A Believer”. One of the all-time great novelty songs, “Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron” by the Royal Guardsmen was second with Aaron Neville making a push for the top with “Tell It Like It Is”. Former #1 “Winchester Cathedral” by the New Vaudeville Band grabbed the #4 spot, followed by Nancy Sinatra (“Sugar Town”) and Dad Frank (“That’s Life”). The rest of the Top 10: Boise, Idaho’s Paul Revere & the Raiders with “Good Thing”, the Mamas and the Papas climbed from 19-8 with “Words Of Love”, the Four Tops nearly matched that with “Standing In The Shadows Of Love (15-9) while Donovan took a turn downward with “Mellow Yellow”.
January 7, 1968
January 7, 1969
The music / comedy trio, Scaffold, which included Paul McCartney’s younger brother Mike, led the UK singles chart with a novelty tune called “Lily The Pink”. Elton John, along with Graham Nash of The Hollies, contributed backing vocals and Jack Bruce of Cream played bass guitar.
The Vegas Artist in Residence and Tour Decade
January 7, 1970
Max Yasgur was sued for $35,000 in property damages by neighboring farmers. It was Yasgur’s on which the August 1969 Woodstock Festival was held. Festival organizers themselves faced over 70 other lawsuits.
January 7, 1971
Judy Collins cracks the Billboard Top 40 with “Amazing Grace”, a song she recorded in St. Paul’s chapel at Columbia University, chosen for the acoustics. It would prove to be her second highest charting single, topping out at #15.
Former record company executive Kenneth Moss is sentenced to 120 days in the Los Angeles County Jail and four years probation. He had earlier pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the 1974 drug induced death of Average White Band drummer Robbie McIntosh.
Billy Joel had the new #1 Adult song with “Just The Way You Are”.
Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, already the record holder for weeks at #1 with 29, returned to #1 on the Album chart after 46 weeks of release.
The Bee Gees made it three weeks at #1 with “How Deep Is Your Love”. Player made a move (6-2) with “Baby Come Back” while Linda Ronstadt remained third with “Blue Bayou”.
The Bee Gee’s soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever enters the US album charts where it will eventually hit number one and stay there for six weeks starting February 18. The album had a chart stay of 39 weeks and to this date has sold over 15 million copies.
1980
Pink Floyd released ‘Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)’ in the US. The single peaked at No.1 on both the US and UK charts, giving Pink Floyd their first and only No.1 hit single. The single went to No.1 in many other countries, including Australia, Germany and Italy.
Led Zeppelin’s “In Through The Out Door” album was certified Platinum. It’s the last album issued before the September 25th death of drummer John Bonham.
Rupert Holmes released the follow-up to “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)”–“Him”.
45 year old Larry Williams, who had hit songs with “Dizzy Miss Lizzy” and “Bony Maronie”, was found dead in his Los Angles home of a gunshot wound to the head. The case has never been solved.
1981
The “Eagles Live” album goes Platinum. The two-record set will turn out to be the final Eagles album until 1994’s comeback LP, “Hell Freezes Over”.
The Police kicked off their Zenyatta Mondatta tour at the Centre Sportif de l’Université de Montreal in Quebec, Canada.
1982 Elvis Presley Enterprises/Graceland Tourism
1982
“Fame,” based on the motion picture of the same name and starring Albert Hague, Carlo Imperato, Debbie Allen, Gene Anthony Ray, and Carol Mayo Jenkins, began a six-season run, airing on NBC-TV for the first two years, then in syndication.
1983 Actor ExWife: Priscilla Presley
1984
DeBarge logged a fifth straight week at #1 on the R&B chart with “Time Will Reveal”.
Barry Manilow remained at #1 for a third week on the Adult Contemporary chart with “Read ‘Em And Weep”.
Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson’s fourth week at #1 with “Say Say Say” highlighted a good Top 10. Hall & Oates had several #1’s in their career but they couldn’t quite do it here–“Say It Isn’t So” was stuck at #2. Double Duran (“Union Of The Snake”) and Yes (“Owner Of A Lonely Heart”) were content in their spots while Olivia Newton-John moved “Twist Of Fate” to #5, although few stations played it. The rest of the Top 10: The Romantics moved from 12-6 with “Talking In Your Sleep”, Matthew Wilder jogged up to #7 with “Break My Stride”, Elton John registered his 18th Top 10 with “I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues”, the Rolling Stones were stuck at 9 with “Undercover Of The Night” and Lionel Richie was at 10 with “All Night Long (All Night)”.
Thriller by Michael Jackson was still #1 in its fourth trip to the top of the Album chart since it came out 55 weeks previous. All told, the epic album had spent 21 weeks as the #1 album and at this point, and was behind only Rumours by Fleetwood Mac (31) and the Soundtrack to “Saturday Night Fever” (24).
1989
Poison of all people had a #1 song for the third week with “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”. Bobby Brown was poised to take over with “My Prerogative” while “Two Hearts” from Phil Collins moved from 6 to 3. Anita Baker peaked with “Giving You The Best That I Got” but the Bangles were on the move with “In Your Room”. The rest of a good Top 10: Taylor Dayne with her fourth consecutive Top 10 to begin her career–“Don’t Rush Me”, Boy Meets Girl and “Waiting For A Star To Fall”, Chicago’s 44th career hit “Look Away”, Def Leppard had a record fifth Top 20 song from a hard rock album (Hysteria) with “Armageddon It” and Michael Jackson joined the group with “Smooth Criminal”.
Anita Baker held on to #1 on the Album chart for the third week with Giving You the Best That I Got. The “Cocktail” Soundtrack and the “Rattle and Hum” Soundtrack trailed, while New Jersey from Bon Jovi was next and the Wilburys moved from 8-5 with Volume One. The rest of the Top 10: Def Leppard moved back up after 73 weeks with the incredible Hysteria album, Guns N’ Roses and Appetite for Destruction, Bobby Brown was on the way down with Don’t Be Cruel, Poison were at position #9 with Open Up and Say…Ahh! and Kenny G placed Silhouette at #10.
1992
Capitol Records decided against renewing the contract of singer Anne Murray. During her 22 years with the label, Murray recorded 30 albums and had four Top 10 singles.
US Postmaster General Anthony Frank announces that a commemorative stamp honoring Elvis Presley will be issued next year on the King’s birthday.
1994
The Hits by Garth Brooks moved to #1 on the Album chart followed by the previous #1 Miracles – The Holiday Album by Kenny G and Pearl Jam’s excellent Vitalogy. II by Boyz II Men was up to 4 while Hell Freezes Over by the Eagles captured the next position. The rest of the Top 10: Merry Christmas from Mariah Carey, Dookie by Green Day was moving back up after 46 weeks, MTV Unplugged in New York from Nirvana came in at #8, Smash by Offspring and the Beatles took #10 with Live at the BBC.
1995
For the fifth straight week, TLC’s “Creep” led the R&B chart.
The Spice Girls debut single “Wannabe” was released in the United States.
1998
American record producer Owen Bradley died aged 82. Along with Chet Atkins and Bob Ferguson, he was one of the chief architects of the 1950s and 1960s Nashville sound in country music and rockabilly. Bradley produced artists such as Patsy Cline, Brenda Lee, Loretta Lynn, Lenny Dee, and Conway Twitty.
2003 Recording Artist: Daughter Lisa Marie Presley
2003
The UK fan magazine called The Beatles Book Monthly closed after 40 years. Author Sean O’Mahony, who set up the publication in 1963, said there was nothing more to say, as the number of things the former Beatles are doing got less and less as the years went by.
The Elvis Presley movies “Easy Come, Easy Go”, “Fun in Acapulco” and “Girls! Girls! Girls!” were released on DVD.
2004
OutKast again had the top album with the double release Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. Alicia Keys was right behind with The Diary of Alicia Keys.
2005
James Brown‘s former publicist, 48 year old Jacque Hollander, launched a lawsuit against The Godfather of Soul, claiming that he raped her at gun point in 1988. A judge would later dismiss the case because the two year statute of limitations on that charge had run out.
2006
Gary Glitter (“Rock And Roll, Part II”) was formally charged with committing obscene acts with two girls aged 11 and 12 in Vietnam.
2008
The Eagles album Long Road Out of Eden was certified as having sold seven million copies in the U.S. alone
2009
Led Zeppelin‘s Robert Plant was voted the Greatest Voice In Rock by listeners of the UK’s Classic Rock radio station Planet Rock, beating out Queen‘s Freddie Mercury, Free’s Paul Rodgers and Deep Purple‘s Ian Gillan.
Michael Jackson‘s manager released a statement that said that The King Of Pop had leased a $100,000 a month, Bel-Air mansion in order to be closer to “where all the action is” in the entertainment industry.
2010 Actor: Granddaughter Riley Keough
2010
According to Nielsen SoundScan’s final 2009 figures, Michael Jackson was the best selling artist of the year, moving 8,286,000 units. Forty years after their break-up, The Beatles were still the best selling group, thanks to their remastered catalog which sold 3,282,000 copies. Digital downloads however, were a different story. Lady Gaga was the queen of the downloads, selling 15,297,000 digital tracks. The Black Eyed Peas, Michael Jackson and Taylor Swift all finished in the vicinity of 12 million digital units.
The Royal Mail in Britain issued stamps which honored selected album covers such as Led Zeppelin IV and Let It Bleed.
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