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25 EVENTS 1955–2018

1955 Buddy Holly and Bob Montgomery, performing as Buddy and Bob with bassist Larry Welborn, opened for Bill Haley and His Comets in Lubbock. Talent scout Eddie… 1957 Despite bans by some American stations over its suggestive story, the Everly Brothers’ “Wake Up Little Susie” topped Billboard’s singles chart and reached No. 2 in…

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1957 CBS broadcast The Edsel Show, an hour-long promotion for Ford’s new automobile starring Bing Crosby with Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Louis Armstrong, Lindsay Crosby, and the Four Preps. It earned an Emmy nomination for Best Single Program but lost to Rod Serling’s Playhouse 90 drama “The Comedian.”
1958 Billboard noted that 18-year-old Phil Spector, writer and arranger of the Teddy Bears’ “To Know Him Is to Love Him,” was studying to become a court reporter. The same issue retired the Best Sellers in Stores chart because retail data had been incorporated into the new Hot 100.
1958 Little Anthony and the Imperials’ debut chart entry, “Tears on My Pillow,” reached No. 4 and became their biggest hit. Six more hits followed through 1965, including the Top 10 singles “Goin’ Out of My Head” and “Hurt So Bad.”
1962 Don Everly collapsed during a London rehearsal on the eve of the Everly Brothers’ 22-date British tour. He returned urgently to America for treatment while Phil completed the scheduled concerts alone.
1963 An early eruption of Beatlemania surrounded the Beatles’ appearance on ITV’s Sunday Night at the London Palladium. Fans struggled with police outside as an estimated 15 million viewers watched the group perform “She Loves You,” “Twist and Shout,” and other hits.
1965 The Who recorded “My Generation,” Pete Townshend’s expression of youth frustration. Roger Daltrey said he stuttered to fit the rhythm; the BBC initially feared the effect mocked people who stammer, then relented. The single reached No. 2 in Britain but only No. 74 in America.
1967 The Who released “I Can See for Miles” in Britain, where it peaked at No. 10. Already issued in America, it became the band’s only Billboard Top 10 single at No. 9 and later ranked No. 262 on Rolling Stone’s 2010 greatest-songs list.
1970 Nine days after Janis Joplin’s death, ten mourners attended a private Los Angeles service before her ashes were scattered over the Pacific Ocean and along California’s Stinson Beach.
1973 The Rolling Stones earned their fourth American No. 1 album as Goats Head Soup began four weeks at the summit. Its ballad “Angie” topped the Hot 100 one week later.
1974 Television host Ed Sullivan died from esophageal cancer at 73. His 23-year Sunday variety show introduced the Beatles and scores of other performers to mass American audiences, won Emmy and Golden Globe honors, and led to his Television Academy Hall of Fame induction in 1985.
1977 Shirley Brickley of the Orlons was shot dead by an intruder in her Philadelphia home at 32. The unsolved killing ended the life of a singer whose group scored five Top 20 hits in 1962–63, including “The Wah-Watusi,” “Don’t Hang Up,” and “South Street.”
1978 Queen released the double A-side “Fat Bottomed Girls” and “Bicycle Race” in Britain. It reached No. 11 there and, after an American issue eleven days later, No. 24 in the United States.

1955 Buddy Holly and Bob Montgomery, performing as Buddy and Bob with bassist Larry Welborn, opened for Bill Haley and His Comets in Lubbock. Talent scout Eddie Crandall was impressed enough to arrange a demo and help Holly secure his first major solo contract with Decca.
1957 Despite bans by some American stations over its suggestive story, the Everly Brothers’ “Wake Up Little Susie” topped Billboard’s singles chart and reached No. 2 in Britain.
1962 Actor and singer Rex Allen’s narrative single “Don’t Go Near the Indians” peaked at No. 17. Its dated storyline concerns a young man who ignores his father, falls for a Native American woman, and then learns she is his biological sister.
1967 Bobbie Gentry’s Ode to Billie Joe replaced Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band at No. 1 on Billboard’s album chart, ending the Beatles LP’s fifteen consecutive weeks at the summit.
1967 The Bee Gees earned their first British No. 1 with “Massachusetts,” which sold more than five million copies worldwide. Robin Gibb later acknowledged that the brothers had never visited the state and simply liked its name.
1969 Motown released “Someday We’ll Be Together” as Diana Ross and the Supremes’ farewell single, though Ross was the only Supreme on the recording. Merry Clayton, Julia Waters Tillman, Maxine Waters Willard, and producer Johnny Bristol supplied the background vocals.
1970 President Richard Nixon convened radio executives at the White House to discuss youth drug abuse after the deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. He urged voluntary screening of rock lyrics and removal of songs seen as promoting drugs, pressure followed by an FCC warning and informal bans at many stations.
1971 Arco Industries sued John Fogerty for $500,000, claiming Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Travelin’ Band” copied substantial elements of Little Richard’s “Good Golly, Miss Molly.” The parties settled privately, awarding the publisher a share of future royalties.
1972 Fourteen-year-old Michael Jackson reached No. 1 in America and No. 7 in Britain with “Ben,” the title song from the film and his third hit within a year.
1972 Australian police arrested Joe Cocker and members of his touring band for marijuana possession in Adelaide. Cocker paid a $300 fine and initially continued touring, but a later Melbourne hotel disturbance prompted the government to order him out within 48 hours.
1975 Art Garfunkel released his second solo album, Breakaway, featuring “I Only Have Eyes for You,” “Break Away,” and the Simon & Garfunkel reunion “My Little Town.” The LP reached No. 7 in both Britain and America, going Gold in the UK and Platinum in the United States.
1977 Bing Crosby died from heart failure at 74. The defining crooner and actor also placed two singles in the rock-era Top 40, while his recording of “White Christmas” remains the world’s best-selling song with more than 50 million copies.

1955 The Four Lads’ first hit, “Moments to Remember,” peaked at No. 4 on Billboard’s disc-jockey chart. Perry Como’s management had rejected the song, which remained listed for 25 weeks and sold more than four million copies.
1956 Little Richard recorded “Good Golly, Miss Molly” at J&M Studio in New Orleans. Released in January 1958, it reached No. 10, became a rock-and-roll standard, and later ranked No. 92 on Rolling Stone’s 500 greatest songs list.
1957 RCA Victor released Elvis’ Christmas Album. It spent four weeks atop Billboard’s pop-album chart and, with more than 17 million U.S. and 20 million worldwide sales, became the best-selling Christmas album ever.
1958 Jackie Wilson recorded “Lonely Teardrops,” his first U.S. Top 10 single. The song reached No. 7 on the Hot 100 and No. 1 R&B, joined the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll, and entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.
1959 Jim Reeves recorded “He’ll Have to Go” at RCA Studio B in Nashville with musicians including pianist Floyd Cramer and the Anita Kerr Singers. The record topped the country chart and reached No. 2 on the Hot 100 the following February.
1960 Ringo Starr substituted for Pete Best while the Beatles backed Rory Storm and the Hurricanes bassist Wally Eymond at Hamburg’s Akustik studio. Nine 78-rpm acetates of “Summertime” were pressed, though none is known to survive; Starr joined the Beatles permanently almost two years later.
1961 Elvis Presley recorded “Good Luck Charm” at RCA in Nashville. It became his twelfth Hot 100 No. 1, also topped Cashbox and Britain’s chart, and received RIAA Platinum certification in 1992.
1963 The Rip Chords recorded “Hey Little Cobra,” with Terry Melcher—Doris Day’s son—singing lead and future Beach Boy Bruce Johnston supplying the high harmony. It entered the Hot 100 in December and reached No. 4 in February.
1965 An unknown Jimi Hendrix, then spelling his name Jimmy, signed an exclusive three-year PPX Enterprises contract for a one-dollar bonus and one-percent royalty. Mistaking it for routine session paperwork, he entered a restrictive deal that created major legal disputes after his rise to fame.
1965 Beach Boys singer Mike Love married Suzanne Celeste Belcher in Las Vegas. They had two children before divorcing in December 1968.
1966 The Four Tops earned their final American No. 1 with “Reach Out I’ll Be There,” which also topped the British singles chart.
1966 Original Jefferson Airplane singer Signe Toly Anderson played her last concert with the band at the Fillmore Auditorium, leaving to raise her newborn daughter. Grace Slick, freshly departed from the Great Society, replaced her the next evening.