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35 EVENTS 1955–2018

1955 Elvis Presley’s “I Forgot to Remember to Forget” reached No. 2 on the Memphis record chart. After RCA Victor acquired the recording, it became his first… 1956 Chicago radio station WAIT began a twelve-hour Elvis Presley marathon at 7 a.m., repeatedly playing 33 of his recordings. Callers described postponing dental appointments, laundry, and…

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How a Chart Hit Derailed Steve Howe’s Pre-Yes Band Tomorrow

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1954 Britain’s New Musical Express expanded its weekly singles ranking from a Top 12 to a Top 20. The chart was assembled by phoning roughly twenty record shops for their ten best sellers, and its popularity soon prompted competitors including Record Mirror and Melody Maker to publish charts of their own.
1956 20th Century Fox recalled Elvis Presley to film a revised ending for Love Me Tender after preview audiences were devastated by his character’s death. The plot remained unchanged, but a ghostly image of Elvis singing the title song was placed over the closing credits; because he had recently dyed his naturally brown hair black, the added footage also created a continuity error. The reaction…
1958 Elvis Presley reached West Germany aboard a troopship at Bremerhaven and traveled by dedicated military train to Ray Barracks in Friedberg. He joined Company D, 32nd Armor Regiment of the U.S. Army’s 3rd Armored Division, beginning a German posting that lasted into early 1960.
1961 Lonnie Donegan earned his biggest American hit when the novelty song “Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight?)” climbed to No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. The record had originally reached No. 3 in Britain two years earlier.
1962 Brian Epstein formally signed his management agreement with the Beatles. John Lennon and Ringo Starr signed for themselves, while Harold Harrison and James McCartney signed for their underage sons; Epstein’s sliding commission could rise to 25 percent once the group’s combined weekly earnings exceeded £800.
1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson premiered on NBC. Its familiar instrumental opening, “Johnny’s Theme,” was composed by Paul Anka, with unused lyrics credited to Carson; the theme reportedly earned each man about $200,000 annually during a run that ended in May 1992 after 6,714 episodes.
1964 Vee-Jay Records issued the double album The Beatles vs. The Four Seasons before a legal deadline ended its Beatles distribution rights. The expensive package contained no new material, combining existing pressings of Introducing... The Beatles and Golden Hits of the Four Seasons; it lasted three weeks on Billboard’s album chart and peaked at No. 142.
1965 Bob Dylan introduced a new touring group at Carnegie Hall consisting of Robbie Robertson, Garth Hudson, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, and Levon Helm. Then billed as Levon and the Hawks, the musicians would become known simply as the Band by 1968.
1965 The Byrds released “Turn! Turn! Turn!” in the United States. Adapted by Pete Seeger from Ecclesiastes apart from its final line, the recording reportedly required 78 takes over five days, became the Byrds’ second No. 1 and final Top 10 single, and entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001.
1966 Chicago station WGN-TV aired the half-hour special An Evening with Gary Lewis and the Playboys. Alongside material from their seven consecutive Billboard Top 10 hits, the band performed the Beatles’ “Run for Your Life,” and Gary Lewis impersonated his comedian father Jerry Lewis during “Time Stands Still.”
1967 Burglars ransacked Mick Jagger’s London flat while he was away, escaping with valuable jewelry and designer furs belonging to his girlfriend Marianne Faithfull.
1968 John Sebastian officially left the Lovin’ Spoonful to begin a solo career that included twelve albums, session work, and music for children’s films and television. His greatest commercial success came in 1976 with the Billboard No. 1 “Welcome Back,” written as the theme for Welcome Back, Kotter.

1955 Elvis Presley’s “I Forgot to Remember to Forget” reached No. 2 on the Memphis record chart. After RCA Victor acquired the recording, it became his first nationally prominent release, spending 39 weeks on Billboard’s country-and-western chart and reaching No. 1 there in February 1956 as well as No. 4 on the Most Played by Jockeys listing.
1956 Chicago radio station WAIT began a twelve-hour Elvis Presley marathon at 7 a.m., repeatedly playing 33 of his recordings. Callers described postponing dental appointments, laundry, and even work to keep listening, while one mother said her normally restless six-month-old slept peacefully throughout Presley’s music.
1957 After arguing with her father, Connie Francis reluctantly recorded the 34-year-old standard “Who’s Sorry Now” in two takes at New York’s Brunswick Studios. Though she disliked the song, it became her breakthrough the following spring, reaching No. 4 in America and No. 1 in Britain.
1958 At an Army press conference in Friedberg, West Germany, 23-year-old Elvis Presley was asked whether fans might forget him during his two-year service. He admitted the possibility but said he could not complain because he had already enjoyed success; meanwhile, a supply of previously recorded singles kept him on the charts throughout his deployment.
1959 East German authorities jailed fifteen teenagers who marched through Leipzig shouting support for Elvis Presley and mocking officially approved local music. Treating the rock-and-roll demonstration as capitalist subversion, the government imposed sentences ranging from six months to more than four years.
1960 Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs entered the U.S. chart with “Stay,” which went on to No. 1. Running only 1 minute 36 seconds, it remains the shortest chart-topper in Billboard Hot 100 history.
1965 The McCoys topped Billboard’s singles chart with “Hang On Sloopy,” replacing Barry McGuire’s “Eve of Destruction.” The record also became a British hit, peaking at No. 5.
1965 ABC’s Shindig! presented the Who’s first American television appearance. The episode also featured Motown stars the Four Tops and Liverpool group Gerry and the Pacemakers.
1967 California narcotics officers raided the Grateful Dead’s communal home at 710 Ashbury Street in San Francisco, seized about a pound of marijuana, and arrested eleven people. Most of the band was away; Bob Weir and Ron “Pigpen” McKernan were the only members taken into custody, alongside crew, managers, and visitors.
1968 Motown sued Holland-Dozier-Holland for $4 million over breach of contract after the songwriting team’s year-long slowdown during a royalty and profit-sharing dispute. Prevented from working under their own names, the trio left to establish Invictus and Hot Wax and wrote new hits under aliases; the competing lawsuits were privately settled in 1977.
1969 Bobby Darin appeared on ABC’s This Is Tom Jones, performing his folk-rock composition “Distractions” and joining Jones for a medley of “A Worried Man,” “Aquarius,” and “Let the Sunshine In.”
1970 Pink Floyd released its fifth studio album, Atom Heart Mother, through Harvest Records in Britain. It became the band’s first UK No. 1; although it reached only No. 55 in America, steady sales eventually brought an RIAA Gold certification.

1901 The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated. After merging with the Radio Corporation of America in 1929, RCA Victor became a dominant manufacturer of both phonographs and records for decades.
1945 Ten-year-old Elvis Presley made his public singing debut at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show talent competition. Standing on a chair to reach the microphone, he sang Red Foley’s “Old Shep” a cappella, finished fifth, and received five dollars in ride tickets that he promptly used despite his mother’s objections.
1957 Pat Boone, 23, began hosting The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom on ABC. The musical-variety program welcomed many leading recording stars but ended after three seasons when it lost its ratings contest with NBC’s Bachelor Father; ABC replaced it with My Three Sons.
1964 The Animals’ American self-titled debut entered Billboard’s album chart and eventually reached No. 7, powered by “House of the Rising Sun.” A substantially different British edition followed a month later and climbed to No. 6 in the UK.
1967 Woody Guthrie died from Huntington’s disease after spending his final decade at Creedmoor State Hospital. The writer of “This Land Is Your Land” and interpreter of traditional songs such as “Cumberland Gap” profoundly influenced Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, and generations of folk musicians.
1978 Aerosmith offered to post bail for concertgoers arrested on marijuana and other minor charges at the Fort Wayne Coliseum. As many as 28 fans accepted, and the band’s tour accountant ultimately paid approximately $4,200 in bail and fines through separate court appearances.
1980 Paul Simon’s film One Trick Pony opened in U.S. theaters and became a critical and financial disappointment, earning under $150,000 against a budget of roughly $8 million. Its soundtrack fared better: the title song reached No. 40 and “Late in the Evening” climbed to No. 6.
1981 During Saturday Night Live’s season premiere, Rod Stewart brought out Tina Turner for an energetic duet on his 1978 hit “Hot Legs.” Stewart used the national appearance to highlight Turner’s solo potential while her career was rebuilding after her divorce.
1987 Lithonia, Georgia, proclaimed Brenda Lee Day and named a street for its hometown star, born Brenda Mae Tarpley. Lee placed 29 songs in Billboard’s Top 40 between 1960 and 1967, including “Sweet Nothin’s,” “I’m Sorry,” “Fool #1,” and “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.”
1988 Twenty-year-old Lisa Marie Presley married musician Danny Keough. They had two children, Riley and Benjamin, before divorcing in May 1994, and remained close friends and committed co-parents afterward.
1992 Sinéad O’Connor ended her Saturday Night Live performance by tearing up a photograph of Pope John Paul II and urging viewers to “fight the real enemy,” an unscripted protest against abuse in the Catholic Church. She had concealed the plan during rehearsal, and the broadcast prompted thousands of complaints, a lifetime ban from SNL, and years of controversy before the moment was later restored to…
1999 Tom Jones returned to No. 1 on Britain’s album chart with Reload. At 59 he became the oldest performer to top the UK ranking with newly recorded material; the album sold more than six million copies worldwide, and Jones broke his own age record with Surrounded by Time in 2021 at 80.