Month: February 2023

February 16, 1957 – Disc jockey Pete Murray began hosting BBC television’s first Rock ‘n’ Roll music program “The Six-Five Special,” named for the time the show began, five minutes after six. The show was given airtime immediately after the abolition of what was called the Toddlers’ Truce, which had seen television stop between 6 and 7 pm so children could be put to bed. #ROCkabillyHop #SixFiveSpecial #RocHop #OTD #RockNRoll
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February 16, 1955 – Elvis Presley plays at the Odessa Senior High School in Odessa, Texas. A young Roy Orbison is in the audience. @ElvisPresley #ROCkabillyHop @ROYORBISON @Royorbisonjr #RoyOrbison #RocHop #OTD #RockNRoll
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February 16, 1939 – Harold and Herbie Kalin are born in Port Jervis, New York. Known as The Kalin Twins, they scored the 1958 UK #1 and US #5 single “When.” The brothers were the first twins to score a #1 record. #OTD #RockNRoll #ROCkabillyHop #HappyBirthday #KalinTwins #RocHop
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February 15, 1958 – “The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beechnut Show” premieres on ABC TV. This first episode features the Royal Teens, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Willis, Johnny Ray, Connie Francis, and Pat Boone. Jerry Lee Lewis performs “Great Balls of Fire” and later closes the show with “Breathless.” #ROCkabillyHop @jerryleelewis @dickclarkprod #DickClark #AmericanBandstand #GreatBallsOfFire #Breathless #RocHop #OTD #RockNRoll #jerryleelewis #RoyalTeens #ChuckWillis #JohnnyRay #ConnieFrancis #PatBoone
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February 15, 1958 – Elvis Presley’s single “Don’t” hit #1 on Billboard’s Top 100 and stayed there for five weeks. It was backed with “I Beg of You” which peaked at #8 on the same chart. #ROCkabillyHop @ElvisPresley #Elvis #TCB #theKing #Dont #IBegOfYou #RocHop #OTD #RockNRoll
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February 15, 1954 – Big Joe Turner records one of the first Rock songs, “Shake, Rattle And Roll,” at Atlantic Records studios in New York. Turner’s recording was released in April 1954 and reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard R&B chart and #22 on the Billboard singles chart. When Turner’s original version hit #1, Bill Haley and His Comets recorded a cover that would reach #7 on the Billboard singles chart. A year later, Elvis recorded a cover for Sun, and a year after that, for RCA. Elvis’ RCA cover was released as a single. #ROCkabillyHop #BigJoeTurner #ShakeRattleAndRoll #BillHaley #ElvisPresley @RocHop #OTD #RockNRoll
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February 13, 1955 – Buddy Holly and Bob Montgomery open for Elvis Presley as the Country and Western duo “Buddy And Bob” at the Fair Park Coliseum in Lubbock. Source: The Buddy Holly Center, 1801 Crickets Ave., Lubbock. @buddyholly @BuddyHollyCtr #ROCkabillyHop #buddyholly #TheCrickets @ElvisPresley #Elvis #TCB #theKing #RocHop #OTD #RockNRoll
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February 13, 1920 – Songwriter Boudleaux Bryant is born in Shellman, Georgia. Bryant co-wrote hit songs with his wife Felice Bryant, including “All I Have To Do Is Dream” and “Bye Bye Love” for The Everly Brothers. #ROCkabillyHop #HappyBirthday #BoudleauxBryant #AllIHaveToDoIsDream #ByeByeLove #RocHop #OTD #RockNRoll
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February 13, 2002 – Rockabilly and Country music great Waylon Jennings died in his sleep of diabetic complications at the age of 64, in Chandler, Arizona. #ROCkabillyHop @OfficialWaylon #WaylonJennings #RocHop #OTD #RockNRoll
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February 14, 1959 – Frankie Avalon performs “Venus” on “The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beechnut Show.” Avalon’s first #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, it also reached #10 on the US Billboard Hot R&B Sides chart. #OTD #RockNRoll #ROCkabillyHop #RocHop @DickClarkProd #DickClark
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