Month: July 2022

July 31, 1962 – Jack Scott appears on American Bandstand. #ROCkabillyHop #RocHop @dickclarkprod #DickClark #AmericanBandstand #JackScott
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July 31, 1959 – Cliff Richard was at #1 on the UK singles chart with “Living Doll.” The first of his 14 UK #1’s. The song was one of three from the film, “Serious Charge.” #ROCkabillyHop #RocHop @richard_cliffofficial #CliffRichard #LivingDoll
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July 31, 1955 – Elvis Photographer William S. Randolph takes the famous concert shot that will eventually become the cover of the debut Elvis Presley album. #ROCkabillyHop @ElvisPresley #Elvis #theKing #RocHop
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July 30, 1954 – Elvis Presley makes his first billed appearance opening for Slim Whitman at the Overton Park Shell in Memphis. His nervousness causes him to move constantly throughout. And all the while, the girls screamed an enthusiastic response. After the show, Elvis asked Scotty Moore what had the girls so excited. Moore replied, “It was your leg man. It was the way you were shakin’ your left leg.” #ROCkabillyHop @ElvisPresley #Elvis #theKing #RocHop #ThatsAllRight #BlueMoonOfKentucky #IllNeverLetYouGo
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July 29, 1963 – Elvis Presley was at #1 on the UK singles chart with “(You’re The) Devil In Disguise.” His 14th UK #1. When the song debuted to a British audience on the BBC television show Juke Box Jury, the celebrity guest John Lennon voted the song “a miss” stating in the new song that Elvis Presley was “like Bing Crosby now.” #ROCkabillyHop @ElvisPresley #Elvis #theKing #DevilInDisguise #RocHop
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July 29, 1956 – Carl Perkins was on the UK singles chart with his debut UK hit “Blue Suede Shoes.” Johnny Cash planted the seed for the song in the fall of 1955, while Perkins, Cash, and Elvis Presley toured throughout the South. Cash told Perkins of a black airman whom he had met when serving in the military in Germany. He had referred to his military regulation airman’s shoes as “Blue Suede Shoes.” Cash suggested that Carl write a song about the shoes. #ROCkabillyHop @JohnnyCash #CarlPerkins @ElvisPresley #Elvis #BlueSuedeShoes #RocHop
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July 29, 1956 – Brenda Lee records “Jambalaya” and “Bigelow 6-500.” #ROCkabillyHop #BrendaLee #LittleMissDynamite #Jambalaya #Bigelow6500 #RocHop
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July 28, 1957 – Jerry Lee Lewis makes his first national TV appearance, singing “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” on The Steve Allen Show. #ROCkabillyHop @jerryleelewis #WholeLottaShakin @jerryleelewis #SteveAllen #RocHop
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July 28, 1956 – Gene Vincent makes his first national TV appearance, singing “Be-Bop-a-Lula” on NBC’s The Perry Como Show. #ROCkabillyHop @CLaceVIncent #GeneVincent #BeBopALula #PerryComo #RocHop
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July 28, 1956 – Elvis Presley’s “I Want You, I Need You, I Love You” hits #1 on the Country charts. #ROCkabillyHop @ElvisPresley #Elvis #theKing #RocHop
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