Month: November 2021

November 10, 1955 – Elvis Presley attended the fourth Country Music Disc Jockey Convention in Nashville Tennessee. Back at his hotel Mae Boren Axton (Hoyt Axton’s mother) played him a demo of a new song she had written with Tommy Durden called ‘Heartbreak Hotel’. Presley released the track as a single on January 27, 1956, his first on his new record label RCA Victor. The song gave him his his first No.1 one pop record. #ROCkabillyHop #HeartbreakHotel @ElvisPresley #Elvis #theKing
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November 9, 1958 – Elvis Presley’s ‘Hound Dog’, exceeded three million copies sold in the USA, becoming only the third single to do so. Bing Crosby’s ‘White Christmas’ & ‘Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer’ by Gene Autry being the other two. #ROCkabillyHop @ElvisPresley #Elvis #theKing #HoundDog
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November 9, 1955 – The Everly Brothers made their first studio recordings cutting four tracks in 22 minutes, at Nashville’s Old Tulane Hotel studios. Family friend Chet Atkins engineered a chance for The Everly Brothers to record for Columbia Records in early 1956. However, their first and only single for the label, ‘Keep A’ Lovin’ Me’, was a flop, and they were quickly dropped from Columbia. #ROCkabillyHop #EverlyBrothers
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November 8, 1957 – Elvis Presley’s third movie, Jailhouse Rock, opens nationally. It had a premiere a few weeks earlier at the Memphis theater where Elvis was once an usher. #elvis #JailhouseRock #ROCkabillyHop @ElvisPresley #theKing
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November 8, 1887 – Emile Berliner is granted the first patent for the gramophone. In the 1890s, he starts manufacturing gramophone players and discs, but in the early 1900s the Victor Talking Machine company became the market leader. #ROCkabillyHop #gramophone
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November 7, 1958 – Eddie Cochran made his UK chart debut with ‘Summertime Blues’. It reached No.18 in the UK & No.8 in the US. The song has been covered by many artists, including being a No.1 hit for country music artist, Alan Jackson, and a notable hit for the English rock band, The Who. #ROCkabillyHop @EddieCochran_ #EddieCochran #SummertimeBlues
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November 7, 1942 – Rock singer Johnny Rivers is born John Henry Ramistella in New York City but shortly moves to Baton Rouge, where he is influenced by the Louisiana music scene. #ROCkabillyHop #JohnnyRivers #HappyBirthday
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November 6, 2005 – The Four Seasons musical “Jersey Boys” opens on Broadway to rave reviews. It is presented in a documentary-style format that dramatizes the formation, success and eventual break-up of the 1960s rock ‘n’ roll group The Four Seasons. #ROCkabillyHop #FourSeasons #JerseyBoys
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November 6, 1961 – Jimmy Dean’s “Big Bad John” hits #1 for the first of five weeks. In the US, it also hits number one for two weeks at on the country chart, and nine weeks on the Easy Listening chart. It was also a number 2 hit in the United Kingdom. #ROCkabillyHop #JimmyDean #BigBadJohn
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November 5, 1971 – Elvis Presley kicked off a 15-date North American tour at the Metropolitan Sports Center in Minneapolis. Announcer Al Dvorin uttered the well known phrase: “Elvis has left the building” at the end of the show. He was asked to make the announcement in an effort to quiet the fans who continued to call for an encore. #ROCkabillyHop @ElvisPresley #Elvis #theKing #LeftTheBuilding
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