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Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry Chuck Berry & His Combo · guitar, vocals b. 1926 D. 2017

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Russ Giguere The Association · guitar b. 1943 83 YRS

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26 EVENTS 1947–2021

1947 Chuck Berry was released from prison on his 21st birthday after serving three years for armed robbery. Back in St. Louis he worked factory, janitorial, and… 1956 Elvis Presley attracted autograph seekers at a Memphis gas station until manager Edd Hopper struck him and Presley punched back. Employee Aubrey Brown joined the confrontation;…

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1956 Mickey Baker and Sylvia Vanderpool recorded Bo Diddley’s “Love Is Strange” at Groove Records in New York. It later topped the R&B chart, reached No. 11 pop, and entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2004; the duo charted seven more times but never returned to the Top 40.
1957 Jailhouse Rock premiered at Memphis’s Loew’s State Theatre, where Elvis Presley had worked as an usher five years earlier. Co-star Judy Tyler died in a crash shortly after filming; although Presley saw a private final cut, grief kept him from watching the released movie.
1960 The Drifters topped the U.S. pop chart with “Save the Last Dance for Me,” still led by former member Ben E. King’s vocal. Originally the B-side of “Nobody but Me,” it gained attention after Dick Clark favored it and later reached No. 2 in Britain.
1960 Dion DiMucci left the Belmonts amid stated musical differences, saying the group favored middle-of-the-road material too heavily. People close to the act maintained that disputes over dividing income were the deeper cause.
1961 Elvis’ Golden Records received RIAA Gold certification. The collection of 1956–57 singles is widely regarded as rock’s first greatest-hits album and later advanced through Platinum, five-times-Platinum, and six-times-Platinum awards.
1962 The Beatles made their first British television appearance on Granada’s regional People and Places, performing “Some Other Guy” and “Love Me Do.” Their first nationwide UK broadcast followed on Thank Your Lucky Stars in January 1963.
1963 Bobby Goldsboro recorded his composition “See the Funny Little Clown” at Bell Sound in New York. It became the first of eleven Billboard Top 40 hits, reaching No. 9 pop, No. 3 easy listening, and No. 10 on Cashbox.
1963 The Beatles recorded their first annual fan-club Christmas message on a flexible vinyl disc. It combined “Good King Wenceslas,” individual greetings, and a closing chorus of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Ringo.”
1964 Manfred Mann topped the Hot 100 with “Do Wah Diddy Diddy,” a remake of the Exciters’ earlier No. 78 single. Sung by Paul Jones, it had already reached No. 1 in Britain in August.
1964 The Rolling Stones released their second American album, 12 X 5. It reached No. 3 and included “It’s All Over Now” and “Time Is on My Side,” the latter a No. 6 U.S. hit.
1966 MGM premiered Elvis Presley’s musical comedy Spinout in Memphis; Britain received it as California Holiday. Presley earned $750,000 plus 40 percent of profits, though the film later appeared in the book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.
1967 Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart, and Phil Spector guest-starred on I Dream of Jeannie in a storyline where Jeannie conjured a music group for an assignment given to Tony Nelson.

1947 Chuck Berry was released from prison on his 21st birthday after serving three years for armed robbery. Back in St. Louis he worked factory, janitorial, and beautician jobs before Chess Records released his breakthrough “Maybellene” in 1955.
1956 Elvis Presley attracted autograph seekers at a Memphis gas station until manager Edd Hopper struck him and Presley punched back. Employee Aubrey Brown joined the confrontation; police charged Hopper and Brown with assault and fined them $25 and $15 respectively.
1957 Fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney made his Quarry Men debut on lead guitar at New Clubmoor Hall in Liverpool. Though nerves spoiled his “Guitar Boogie” solo, the John Lennon-led group secured regular Saturday dance bookings.
1964 During a single day off from touring, the Beatles completed a nine-hour Abbey Road session that produced “I Feel Fine” and finished “Eight Days a Week,” “Mr. Moonlight,” and “I’ll Follow the Sun.”
1966 The newly formed Jimi Hendrix Experience played a fifteen-minute opening set for Johnny Hallyday at Paris’s Olympia. It closed a short promotional tour whose combined audience totaled about 14,500.
1967 How I Won the War premiered in London with all four Beatles attending and John Lennon appearing as Private Gripweed. Reviews were largely negative, with critic John Simon dismissing it as pretentious foolishness.
1968 Police raided John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Montagu Square flat and found cannabis resin. Lennon accepted sole responsibility to protect Ono; obstruction charges were cleared, charges against her disappeared, and he paid a £150 possession fine.
1969 The Temptations began two weeks at No. 1 with “I Can’t Get Next to You,” the second of their four American pop chart-toppers. It reached No. 13 in Britain.
1969 Richard Nader staged his first 1950s Rock & Roll Revival at Madison Square Garden’s Felt Forum. Bill Haley and His Comets made their first major U.S. appearance in more than a decade and received an eight-minute standing ovation.
1969 The Jackson 5 made their national television debut on Hollywood Palace. Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, and 11-year-old Michael performed “I Want You Back,” “Can You Remember,” and a dance routine to “Sing a Simple Song.”
1974 After an argument, Al Green’s girlfriend Mary Woodson poured boiling grits over him as he left a bath, causing second-degree burns. Woodson then died by suicide with Green’s pistol; police found a note and closed the case without charges.
1975 Paul Simon hosted Saturday Night Live’s second episode and reunited onstage with Art Garfunkel for “Scarborough Fair,” “The Boxer,” and “My Little Town.”

1958 Brenda Lee recorded “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” in Nashville. It failed to chart in 1958–59 but reached No. 14 after a 1960 reissue, sold more than 15 million copies worldwide by 2008, and entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2019.
1961 Members of the Beatles and Gerry and the Pacemakers combined as the Beatmakers at Liverpool’s Litherland Town Hall. The expanded lineup included Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Pete Best, Gerry and Freddie Marsden, Les Chadwick, Les Maguire, and Karl Terry.
1961 Helen Shapiro began three weeks at No. 1 in Britain with “Walkin’ Back to Happiness,” her second and final UK chart-topper. It reached only No. 100 in America.
1963 The Greatest Record Show tour opened at London’s Finsbury Park Astoria with Lesley Gore, Brook Benton, Dion, Timi Yuro, and newcomer Trini Lopez, then holding America’s No. 3 single with “If I Had a Hammer.”
1964 Capitol released Beach Boys Concert, drawn from Sacramento performances in 1963 and 1964 and extensively refined in post-production without added musicians. It became the first live album to top Billboard, staying No. 1 for four weeks during a 62-week chart run.
1964 The Animals opened their first headlining British tour at Liverpool’s Odeon with Carl Perkins, Tommy Tucker, and the Nashville Teens supporting.
1966 The Yardbirds arrived in New York for a North American tour featuring both Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. Exhaustion, tonsillitis, and frustration drove Beck out in Texas two weeks later; Page became sole lead guitarist while Beck returned home to form the Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart.
1967 José Feliciano recorded his acoustic Latin interpretation of “Light My Fire” at RCA in Hollywood. Released the next summer, it reached No. 3 and earned the 1969 Grammy for Best Contemporary Male Pop Vocal Performance.
1967 Motown released Smokey Robinson and the Miracles’ “I Second That Emotion.” It reached No. 4 pop, No. 1 R&B, and No. 27 in Britain, becoming the group’s sixth million-seller.
1967 Sgt. Pepper stood at No. 2 in Britain while The Sound of Music soundtrack held No. 1 during its 132nd week on the UK album chart.
1968 Cass Elliot released her first solo album, Dream a Little Dream, less than a month after leaving the Mamas and the Papas. Recorded in ten days with leading session players, it reached No. 87 and sold 150,000 copies, while the title single climbed to No. 12 in America and No. 11 in Britain.
1968 Eighteen-year-old Peter Frampton guested with the Small Faces in London as Steve Marriott considered recruiting him. The band rejected the idea, but Marriott helped Frampton form a group and, after leaving the Small Faces, joined him to launch Humble Pie in 1969.