Give us this day, September 26, our daily Elvis
1887
Emile Berliner, a 36 year old German immigrant living in Washington DC, applies for a patent on his invention, the gramophone. The machine was the first to play flat discs as opposed to Thomas Edison’s wax cylinder apparatus. The patent would be granted in November.
1928
Operations began at Chicago’s new Galvin Manufacturing Corporation, where work would take place on the first mass-produced, commercial car radio. In 1930, Galvin would introduce the Motorola to the Radio Manufacturers Association’s annual meeting in Atlantic City. .
Sept 26, 1937
American blues singer Bessie Smith died aged 43 after being involved in a car accident while traveling along Route 61 outside Memphis, Tennessee. Her 1923 song ‘Downhearted Blues’ was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2006.
September 26, 1955
Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher married in Grossinger, New York.
Elvis began another tour booked by Bob Neal. Elvis performed at the Jr. High Gymnasium, Gilmer, Texas.
September 26, 1956
Fats Domino‘s version of “Blueberry Hill” enters the Billboard Pop chart where it will reach number two. The song had been written in 1940 and was recorded by several artists including The Glenn Miller Orchestra who took it to #1 in 1941.
Elvis drove to Tupelo with Nick Adams.- Elvis was late and missed the parade.
The town of Tupelo, MS, declared “Elvis Presley Day.”
Elvis performed at the Mississippi Alabama Fair And Diary Show, Tupelo Fairgrounds where as a 10 year old, he’d placed 5th in a talent contest.
Elvis performed at the Mississippi Alabama Fair And Diary Show, Tupelo Fairgrounds where as a 10 year old, he’d placed 5th in a talent contest.
The classic image of Elvis and a stage shot showing Nick Adams, who was an opening act doing impressions of other celebs at the side of the stage: Elvis wore a velvet shirt, made for him by Natalie Wood’s dressmaker.
The show was filmed by Fox Movietone News, but the bad audio made it almost a “silent” movie, and is the only professionally filmed 1950s concert of Elvis.
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Tammy Wynette, at the age of 14, watched the show from the first row.
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Opening Acts:
| Mother Maybelle The Carter Sisters Rod Brasfield John Gordy Delores Watson The Jordanaires |
Afternoon show:
Heartbreak Hotel
Long Tall Sally
Introduction and Presentation
I Was The One
I Want You I Need You I Love You
I Got A Woman
Dont Be Cruel
Ready Teddy
Love Me Tender
Hound Dog
Evening Show:
Love Me Tender
I Was The One
I Got A Woman
Announcement
Don’t Be Cruel
Blue Suede Shoes
Announcement
Baby Lets Play House
Hound Dog
Tupelo Fairgrounds, Tupelo, MS – Scotty Moore
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Elvis Presley backstage in Tupelo, Wednesday, September 26 …‘Elvis at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show …http://www.elvisinfonet.com › book_Elvis-at-Tupelo-Mississippi-Alabama-FairVol.8 1976-1977′ Sneak preview – by Piers Beagley – Elvis Information Network. … ‘Elvis at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show: September 26 1956‘ … Elvis Presley, Elvis and Graceland are trademarks of Elvis Presley Enterprises.
September 26, 1957
The classic musical West Side Story opened at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City.
Elvis and some friends spent the evening at the Fairgrounds, attracting a huge crowd.
September 26, 1958
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September 26, 1960
Connie Francis becomes the first female singer in the Rock and Roll era to have two consecutive number one singles when “My Heart Has a Mind Of Its Own” went to the top of the Billboard chart. It followed “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool”.
Flaming Star
September 26, 1961
The Greenbriar Boys started a two-week residency at Gerde’s Folk Club in New York. The opening act was Bob Dylan.
September 26, 1962
The sitcom “The Beverly Hillbillies,” starring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer, Jr., Raymond Bailey and Nancy Kulp, began its nine-season run on CBS-TV.
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September 26, 1964
Herman’s Hermits were at the top of the British singles chart with “I’m Into Something Good”, the group’s only UK #1. The song was recorded earlier in the year by Earl-Jean McCrea, who had been the lead singer of the R&B vocal group The Cookies. Her version peaked at #38 in the US.
Roy Orbison‘s “Oh, Pretty Woman” reaches the top of the Billboard Hot 100. It would be the last of a string of nine straight Top Ten records for The Big O. The title was inspired by Orbison’s wife Claudette interrupting a conversation to announce she was going out; when Orbison asked if she was okay for cash, his co-writer Bill Dees interjected “A pretty woman never needs any money.”
The Rolling Stones released the single “Time Is On My Side”.
the Kinks debuted on the U.S. chart with their first single release “You Really Got Me”.
Elvis and the whole caravan left for Hollywood.
September 26, 1965
Queen Elizabeth II presented the Beatles with the Order of the British Empire. The award had been recommended by Prime Minister Harold Wilson who explained, “I saw the Beatles as having a transforming effect on the minds of youth, mostly for the good. It kept a lot of kids off the streets.” The Fab Four, who reportedly got high in a bathroom before the event, were said to be delighted, but many older and more conservative previous honorees returned their awards in protest.
September 26, 1968
Dusty Springfield enters a recording studio in Memphis to lay down tracks for what will prove to be the critically acclaimed LP “Dusty In Memphis”, which will include her US #10 hit, “Son Of A Preacher Man”.
Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones was found guilty of possession of marijuana by a jury at the Marlborough Street Magistrates Court.
Elvis went to the Memphian, like almost every night for this period in Graceland. He was accompanied by Priscilla, Sonny West, Gee Gee Gambill, Charlie Hodge and Lamar Fike.
They watched The Thomas Crown Affair, with Steve McQueen and Hang ‘Em High, with Clint Eastwood.
September 26, 1969
The Beatles release their 13th album in the UK, “Abbey Road”, which debuts at #1 and will stay there for eleven straight weeks. It is issued in the US a week later and will top the Billboard album chart for twelve weeks. It has since gone on to sell over 31 million copies world wide. The album cover, showing the band crossing the street just outside the recording studio, will become one of the most imitated in recording history. The zebra crossing itself has become so popular with Beatle fans, it has its own webcam. In their interviews for The Beatles Anthology, the surviving band members stated that, although none of them ever made the distinction of calling it the “last album”, they all felt at the time this would very likely be the final Beatles product and therefore agreed to set aside their differences and “go out on a high note”.
Elvis with Charlie Hodge at RCA Studio A for an overdub session
September 26, 1970
Tamla-Motown Records announces that The Jackson 5 sold 10 million singles world wide in nine months with “I Want You Back”, “ABC” and “The Love You Save”.
Pink Floyd performed at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the opening show of their Fall tour of North America.
Elvis spent the weekend in Palm Springs.
September 26, 1974
John Lennon releases “Walls and Bridges”, an LP that will prove to be his last album of new material for nearly six years. It will reach #1 in the US and #6 in the UK.
Elvis flew out of Memphis to begin his 4th tour of 1974.
September 26, 1975
The Rocky Horror Picture Show opened in theaters. Movie-going would never be the same.
September 26, 1976
Elvis flew from Palm Springs to Memphis.
1987
Michael Jackson started a six-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Bad’. Released nearly five years after Jackson’s previous studio album, Thriller, Bad, went on to become the world’s best-selling album having sold between 30 to 45 million copies worldwide. The album produced five US No.1’s, the first album to do so.
Nina Notes: Elvis was a singles artist era, when the hit singles became LPS, rather than an LP Spawning singles.
Whitney Houston started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Didn’t We Almost Have It All’.
1989
Paul McCartney started his world tour at The Drammenshallen, in Drammen, Norway. It was McCartney’s first major tour outing in ten years, since Wings UK Tour 1979, and his first appearances in North America in thirteen years.
1992
Paul Simon, Crosby, Stills & Nash and Jimmy Buffett performed at Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, Florida to raise money for victims of Hurricane Andrew.
The soundtrack album “Honeymoon In Vegas” hit #18 in the U.S. The film featured cover versions of Elvis songs by Billy Joel, Ricky Van Shelton, Amy Grant, Dwight Yoakam, Trisha Yearwood, Jeff Beck and Jed Leiber, John Mellancamp and Bono.
1997
The initial 300,000 units of Elton John’s single “Candle In The Wind 1997” sold out in Japan on the first day of release.
1998
Prince slipped and pulled a ligament onstage in Atlantic City, New Jersey, forcing a postponement of the remainder of his U.S. tour. After recovery, Prince resumed the tour on October 17.
MTV Russia debuted at midnight. The first video shown on the network was Mumiy Troll’s “Vladivostok 2000.”
1999
The Dixie Chicks landed at #1 on the Album chart with Fly.
Kenny Rogers put his 360-acre Beaver Dam Farms estate in Colbert, Georgia up for auction.
2000
The Elvis Presley compilation “White Christmas” was released on CD.
2006
Jerry Lee Lewis released “Last Man Standing,” an album of duets with Jimmy Page, B.B. King, Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger, Neil Young, John Fogerty, Rod Stewart, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Don Henley, Willie Nelson, and Little Richard, among others. The album title refers to Lewis being the lone survivor of the half-dozen household names on the Sun Records talent roster of the 1950s.
2008
After a 43-year wait, Paul McCartney performed his first concert in Tel Aviv, kicking it off with the Beatles’ song “Hello, Goodbye” to the joy of tens of thousands of cheering fans.
2009
Jay-Z started a two-week run at No.1 on the US album charts with ‘The Blueprint 3’, the rappers eleventh studio album.
2019
Lisa Marie Presley Scores Small Victory in $100M Battle Over Elvis Presley InheritanceLisa Marie Presley is currently in the midst of a legal battle with her ex-business manager, and the 51-year-old earned a victory in a recent hearing when a judge agreed to Presley’s motion seeking to shut down subpoenas relating to her bank records.Court documents obtained by The Blast show that […]
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