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26 EVENTS 1955–2025

1955 The Four Aces topped Cashbox with “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing,” the first American No. 1 written specifically for a motion picture. It reached No. 2… 1957 Jerry Lee Lewis recorded “Great Balls of Fire” at Sun Studio in Memphis as the follow-up to “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On.” Released a month later,…

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1938 Sixteen-year-old Judy Garland recorded “Over the Rainbow” on an MGM soundstage in Beverly Hills for The Wizard of Oz. It became her signature song and remained part of her live performances for the next three decades.
1952 Bandstand began as a weekday program on Philadelphia’s WFIL-TV with Bob Horn as host. Dick Clark took over after Horn’s 1956 dismissal, guided the renamed American Bandstand onto national television, and eventually turned it into a Saturday institution central to rock-and-roll culture.
1955 Houston police arrested Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, and several others backstage at the Music Hall and fined them for gambling. Many believed the raid reflected resistance to newly integrated audiences rather than the stated offense; the musicians nevertheless returned in time to play the second set without the crowd learning what had happened.
1957 RCA had already received 500,000 advance orders for Elvis’ Christmas Album a week before release, although only 200,000 copies had been pressed. Irving Berlin unsuccessfully campaigned against Presley’s blues-influenced “White Christmas”; the album still spent four weeks at No. 1, later sold more than 17 million U.S. copies, and became Presley’s first Diamond-certified LP.
1957 Little Richard entered Billboard’s Top 40 with “Keep A-Knockin’,” driven by Grady Gaines’s forceful saxophone. The single reached No. 8 during a twelve-week run and marked Richard’s seventh pop-chart appearance in two years.
1960 Elvis Presley recorded “Flaming Star” at Radio Recorders in Hollywood for the film of the same name. It reached No. 14 in May 1961 but appeared only on Britain’s Elvis by Request EP rather than as a standalone single.
1963 Capitol released the Beach Boys’ fourth album, Little Deuce Coupe. Featuring a 1932 Ford supplied by Hot Rod magazine on its cover, the LP peaked at No. 4 during 46 weeks on Billboard’s chart and later went Platinum.
1964 The Beatles appeared from London on a taped edition of the American television show Shindig!, performing “I’m a Loser,” “Boys,” and “Kansas City.”
1964 Police stopped soul singer Joe Tex in Baton Rouge and cited him for watching a television mounted in the dashboard of his new Cadillac while driving. The new safety ordinance made him only the second American motorist formally charged with that particular distracted-driving offense.
1967 Scotland Yard arrested Cass Elliot in London over alleged theft of expensive hotel linens. The accusation was quickly dropped, and later accounts indicated that authorities had used it as a pretext to question her about an associate suspected of drug trafficking.
1967 Promoter Sid Bernstein offered the Beatles an unprecedented $1 million to return to Shea Stadium. The group rejected the proposal, choosing to remain focused on studio work after ending live touring the previous year.
1967 The Association’s “Never My Love” peaked at No. 2 on the Hot 100. By the end of 1999, BMI counted more than seven million radio performances, making it the century’s second-most-played song behind the Righteous Brothers’ “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’.”

1955 The Four Aces topped Cashbox with “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing,” the first American No. 1 written specifically for a motion picture. It reached No. 2 in Britain and won the 1956 Academy Award for Best Original Song.
1957 Jerry Lee Lewis recorded “Great Balls of Fire” at Sun Studio in Memphis as the follow-up to “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On.” Released a month later, it sold more than a million copies in ten days and eventually six million, reaching No. 2 behind “At the Hop” in January 1958.
1962 Little Richard ended a five-year withdrawal from secular music by opening his first British tour in Doncaster alongside Sam Cooke and Gene Vincent. He initially planned a gospel-only set but, inspired by the audience response to Cooke, returned explosively to rock and roll with “Long Tall Sally.”
1966 Cream drummer Ginger Baker collapsed from exhaustion at Sussex University after his demanding solo in “Toad.” He recovered in a local hospital and soon resumed touring.
1966 British rocker Johnny Kidd died in a Lancashire car crash at 30. Though he never charted in America, his UK hits and authorship of “Shakin’ All Over”—the Guess Who’s 1965 chart debut—secured his transatlantic influence.
1968 Cass Elliot opened a planned fourteen-day, $40,000-a-week solo engagement at Caesars Palace, but severe tonsillitis and an under-rehearsed band produced a disastrous first night. The casino canceled the run immediately, and Newsweek compared the performance to an ocean liner sinking on its maiden voyage.
1974 Dionne Warwick returned to the U.S. Top 10 with the Spinners collaboration “Then Came You.” During this period she added an “e” to Warwick for astrological luck before later restoring the familiar spelling, itself a variation of her actual surname Warrick.
1976 Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s album chart, only the third LP to do so. His first release after a $13 million Motown agreement, the three-record set went Platinum and produced “Sir Duke,” “I Wish,” and “Isn’t She Lovely.”
1977 Billy Joel’s breakthrough LP The Stranger entered Billboard’s album chart and eventually reached the Top 10. It yielded four American Top 30 singles and became his first UK-charting album, peaking there at No. 24.
1977 Actor and singer David Soul earned his second UK No. 1 of the year with “Silver Lady.” His earlier chart-topper “Don’t Give Up on Us” had also reached No. 1 in America that April.
1977 Debby Boone’s “You Light Up My Life” began eight weeks atop Cashbox and ultimately led Billboard for ten, making it one of the decade’s dominant singles. Britain was less receptive, where it stopped at No. 48.
1977 Stephen Bishop’s “On and On” reached its No. 11 Hot 100 peak during a 28-week stay. It rose to No. 6 in Canada but did not become a UK hit.

1961 Ray Charles earned his second Billboard pop No. 1 with “Hit the Road Jack,” which also reached No. 6 in Britain. Rolling Stone placed it at No. 387 on its 2010 list of the 500 greatest songs.
1962 The BBC banned Bobby “Boris” Pickett’s harmless Halloween novelty “Monster Mash” under a rule against material considered too morbid. After restrictions eased and the single was reissued in 1973, it climbed to No. 3 in Britain.
1962 Bobby Vee recorded “The Night Has a Thousand Eyes” at United Recorders in Hollywood. Written by Benjamin Weisman, Dorothy Wayne, and Marilyn Garrett, it later reached No. 3 in both the United States and Britain.
1964 The Rolling Stones canceled a proposed South African tour in accordance with the British Musicians’ Union boycott of segregated audiences. The band did not perform in the country until March 1995, after apartheid had ended.
1964 The Beach Boys recorded “Dance, Dance, Dance” at RCA Victor Studios in Los Angeles with Glen Campbell on guitar. It became the group’s twelfth U.S. Top 40 single, reaching No. 8, and Campbell toured with them from December 1964 into March 1965.
1965 The Beatles’ “Yesterday” led both the Billboard Hot 100 and Cashbox. Although Britain did not receive it as a contemporary single, it won the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Song of 1965 and finished second to “Michelle” among the year’s most-performed works.
1969 Top of the Pops refused for the first time to broadcast Britain’s No. 1 single, Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin’s provocative French-language “Je t’aime... moi non plus.” Dropped by Fontana but rescued by Major Minor, it became the first French song to top the UK chart and reached No. 58 in America despite limited radio support.
1969 A&M released the Carpenters’ debut album, Offering, which included their cover of “Ticket to Ride.” The LP initially reached only No. 150 and the single No. 54, but after the duo’s breakthrough the record was reissued under the title Ticket to Ride.
1970 Elvis Presley purchased a prototype 1971 Stutz Blackhawk. A chauffeur crashed it while taking it for a wash the following July, and the stored car was not fully restored until the early 1980s, when headlights from a 1961 Chrysler Imperial were fitted.
1971 John Lennon marked his 31st birthday at Yoko Ono’s first major exhibition, This Is Not Here, at Syracuse’s Everson Art Museum. Ringo Starr, Phil Spector, Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa, and numerous actors attended.
1972 Polydor issued Cream’s two-record compilation Heavy Cream internationally, combining “White Room,” “Sunshine of Your Love,” “Strange Brew,” and other catalogue tracks. Existing UK compilations limited domestic interest, while the delayed North American release eventually reached No. 135 in 1973.
1973 Elvis and Priscilla Presley finalized their divorce after six and a half years. Priscilla received property, $725,000, $4,200 monthly support for Lisa Marie, half the proceeds from a Los Angeles home, and shares in two publishing companies; the former couple left the Santa Monica courthouse arm in arm and kissed goodbye.