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Ralph Peer of Victor Records spends the first of six days in the McCall Building, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, recording blues vocalists, black jazz bands, preachers and guitar evangelists. On this first day, Peer records The Memphis Jug Band performing Sun Brimmer's Blues and Stingy Woman Blues.
Rosco Gordon and Bobby Bland record T-model Boogie, Crying, Letter From A Trench In Korea, Native Chant and Dr. Blues for Chess Records at Sun Studios, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Johnny Cash is honourably discharged from the US Air Force in Germany, Europe, with the rank of Staff Sergeant.
During a break in filming of the movie G.I. Blues, Elvis Presley is spending a weekend in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, with a group of friends.
Elvis Presley flies back to Hollywood, California, USA, to shoot studio scenes, after completing location filming for Blue Hawaii in Hawaii, USA.Bobby Vee, Jack Scott, Faron Young, Del Shannon, Gene Pitney, Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Rich, Patsy Cline, Mark Dinning, Bobby Edwards, Claude Grey and The Bobby Vinton Orchestra play in the WVOK Shower Of Stars show at The Municipal Auditorium, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Murray The K's Boss Holiday Show, with Jackie Wilson, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Belmonts, The Chantels, Tony Orlando and others, plays the fourth day of two weeks at The Paramount Theater, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
Elvis Presley finishes filming studio-based scenes for his latest movie, Follow That Dream, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Bobby Wood releases a new single, Human Emotions / Everybody's Searching, on Sun Records in the USA.
Elvis Presley offers his services to raise money for victims of recent floods in Louisiana, USA.LaVern Baker, The Mar-Keys, The Halos, Little Caesar And The Romans, The Sims Twins, Johnnie And Joe, Wade Flemons, Rickey Allen and The Starlets are playing during a week-long engagement at The Regal Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Elvis Presley continues with location filming for his latest movie, Kid Galahad, in Idyllwild, California, USA.
Country singer and songwriter Johnny Cash records The Danger Zone and Hardin Couldn't Run at Columbia Studio, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Musicians on the session include Johnny Cash on vocals and guitar, Luther Perkins on electric guitar, Marshall Grant on bass, Bill Pursell on piano, W.S. Holland on drums, Joe Babcock on banjo and The Carter Family on backing vocals.
Jerry Lee Lewis, Gene Vincent and Heinz Burt begin a British tour at The Town Hall, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe.
Elvis Presley and his manager Col. Tom Parker send a telegram to Frank Sinatra which reads, "Dear Frank, Happy Father's Day, enough said? Elvis and The Colonel."
Jerry Jackson records It Hurts Me for Kapp Records in the USA. The track will not immediately be released, and it will first be heard by the public when Elvis Presley records it some while later.
Elvis Presley continues with location filming in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, on his latest movie Viva Las Vegas, co-starring Ann-Margret.
The musical comedy film Bye Bye Birdie opens at cinemas in Argentina, South America. The film, based on Elvis Presley being drafted into the US Army, stars Janet Leigh and Dick Van Dyke, with Jesse Pearson as fictitious pop idol Conrad Birdie (a pun on Conway Twitty), along with Ann-Margret and Bobby Rydell. TV show host Ed Sullivan appears as himself.
Elvis Presley continues with filming of studio-based scenes at MGM Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, for his fifteenth movie Viva Las Vegas, co-starring Ann-Margret.
Elvis Presley continues with location filming for his next film, Kissin' Cousins, at Big Bear, near San Bernardino, California, USA.
Johnny Burnette plays at The Whitehall, East Grinstead, England, UK, Europe, with The Rebounds.The Top Ten Singles on WMFJ 1450 AM Radio in Daytona Beach, Florida, USA, is as follows :
1. The Beatles - She Loves You
2. The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand
3. The Beatles - Please Please Me
4. The Beatles - Twist And Shout
5. The Four Seasons - Dawn (Go Away)
6. The Beach Boys - Fun, Fun, Fun
7. Al Hirt - Java
8. Elvis Presley - Kissin' Cousins / It Hurts Me
9. Louis Armstrong - Hello, Dolly!
10. Al Martino - I Love You More And More Every Day
1. The Beatles - She Loves You
2. The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand
3. The Beatles - Please Please Me
4. The Beatles - Twist And Shout
5. The Four Seasons - Dawn (Go Away)
6. The Beach Boys - Fun, Fun, Fun
7. Al Hirt - Java
8. Elvis Presley - Kissin' Cousins / It Hurts Me
9. Louis Armstrong - Hello, Dolly!
10. Al Martino - I Love You More And More Every Day
The Elvis Presley recordings of Ain't That Loving You Baby and Ask Me are copyrighted in Germany, Europe.
Elvis Presley begins filming of studio scenes for his eighteenth film, Tickle Me, at Allied Artists studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Jerry Lee Lewis plays the first of three nights for a private function in San Diego, California, USA.The musical comedy film Bye Bye Birdie opens at cinemas in Barcelona, Spain, Europe. The film, based on Elvis Presley being drafted into the US Army, stars Janet Leigh and Dick Van Dyke, with Jesse Pearson as fictitious pop idol Conrad Birdie (a pun on Conway Twitty), along with Ann-Margret and Bobby Rydell. TV show host Ed Sullivan appears as himself.
Elvis Presley is in Radio Recorders studio, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, working on songs for his next movie, Frankie And Johnny.
Frank Sinatra, Barbara Stanwyck and other celebrities attend a ceremony at Goldwyn Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, to thank Elvis Presley for donating $50,000 to the Motion Picture Relief Fund.
Otis Redding and others play in the Summer Parade Of Stars at The Municipal Auditorium, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA.
Elvis Presley comes to the end of work on the film Paradise Hawaiian Style in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, and sets off to drive back to Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Police in Grand Prairie, Texas, USA, arrest three members of Jerry Lee Lewis' band and a teenage girl when more than two hundred illegal pills are found in the band's Cadillac.It is reported that 1965 was a year of considerable expansion for Atlantic-Atco Records in the USA, increasing by over 100% above the previous year. Sonny And Cher, Wilson Pickett, Barbara Lewis, The Modern Jazz Quartet, The Righteous Brothers and The Drifters are quoted as among the label's best-sellers.
Elvis Presley holds his 30th birthday party at Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, and spends the evening watching films at The Memphian Theater.
The posthumous Otis Redding compilation LP, The Dock Of The Bay is released in the USA on Volt/Atco Records.
Junior Wells, The Sons Of Champlin and The Santana Blues Band play at The Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, Calfornia, USA.
On their Hot In The Shade tour Kiss play at The Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
The R.I.A.A. certifies Good Rockin' Tonight by Elvis Presley as a gold disc in the USA, thus bringing his total US singles sales to 50m.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah release Hysterical, their first album in more than four years, on Memphis Industries in the United Kingdom, Europe, Japan, and Australia.
Justin Timberlake and Brad Paisley are among those attending The 40th Annual People's Choice Awards in Los Angeles, California, USA.
On his 20/20 Experience tour, Justin Timberlake plays the second of two nights at The O2 Arena, London, UK.
During an interview with The Detroit News, Aretha Franklin tells interviewer Susan Whitall that she is taking legal advice about whether or not to sue author David Ritz. She feels that his biography of her, Respect, consists of "lies, lies, lies and then more lies."
Jack White and Loretta Lynn are added to the Nashville Music City Walk Of Fame, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.1927 |
2015 |