Category: On This Day…

January 6, 1957 – Elvis Presley makes his third and final appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” Careful camera work ensures that “Elvis the Pelvis” is only seen from the waist up! #ROCkabillyHop @ElvisPresley #Elvis @EdSullivanShow #theKing #TCB #OTD #RockNRoll #RocHop
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January 6, 1929 – Wilbert Harrison was born “Wilbert Huntington Harrison” in Charlotte, North Carolina. Harrison is known for the 1959 US #1 single “Kansas City” which was released on Fury Records while he was under contract to Savoy Records. Litigation kept him from releasing any follow-up songs while “Kansas City” was still hot. It would be ten years before he scored another hit with “Let’s Work Together” which would also be a hit for Canned Heat and for Bryan Ferry. #OTD #RockNRoll #ROCkabillyHop #HappyBirthday #WilbertHarrison #KansasCity
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January 5, 1958 – Bo Diddley receives his custom-built, square guitar from the Gretsch Guitar Co. He designed the guitar and Gretsch built it to his specifications. #OTD #RockNRoll #ROCkabillyHop #RocHop @BoDiddley #BoDiddley
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January 5, 1923 – Record producer Sam Phillips, founder of Sun Records (which launched careers for Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash), is born in Florence, Alabama. @sunrecords #ROCkabillyHop #HappyBirthday #OTD #RockNRoll #RocHop
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January 4, 1963 – Johnny Thunder sings “Loop De Loop” on “American Bandstand.” #OTD #RockNRoll #ROCkabillyHop #RocHop @DickClarkProd #DickClark #AmericanBandstand #JohnnyThunder #LoopDeLoop
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January 4, 1957 – Elvis Presley reports for his pre-induction Army physical in Memphis. The Colonel was quite concerned that by joining Uncle Sam’s Army, Presley’s career would be over. Elvis was officially drafted on March 24th, 1958, and told reporters: “The Army can do anything it wants with me.” #ROCkabillyHop @ElvisPresley #Elvis #theKing #TCB #OTD #RockNRoll #RocHop
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January 4, 1954 – Four days before his 20th birthday, a young truck driver named Elvis Presley pays to record two songs, “Casual Love Affair” and “I’ll Never Stand In Your Way,” at the Memphis Recording Service. It’s his second visit, and this time MRS head Sam Phillips gets his number and later calls him to record for his Sun label. #ROCkabillyHop @sunrecords @ElvisPresley #Elvis #theKing #TCB #CasualLoveAffair #IllNeverStandInYourWay #OTD #RockNRoll #RocHop
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January 3, 1960 – Bobby Darin appears on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” Darin performs “That’s How It Goes” and “Beyond The Sea.” He also performs two duets with Connie Francis, “You Make Me Feel So Young” and “You’re The Top” #OTD #RockNRoll #ROCkabillyHop #RocHop @bobby_darin2 #BobbyDarin #”ThatsHowItGoes #BeyondTheSea #ConnieFrancis #YouMakeMeFeelSoYoung #YoureTheTop
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January 3, 1957 – Fats Domino records “I’m Walking.” It spent almost a half-year on the Top 100 peaking at #4, and in March it spent six weeks at #1 on Billboard’s R&B Singles chart. @RealFatsDomino #ROCkabillyHop #ImWalking #OTD #RockNRoll #RocHop
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January 2, 1971 – Elvis Presley released his thirty-seventh studio album, titled “Elvis Country (I’m 10,000 Years Old),” on RCA Records. Recorded at the famous RCA Studio B in Nashville, this album reached #12 on the Billboard 200 and eventually went gold with over 500,000 copies sold. It also made a splash across the pond, peaking at #6 in the United Kingdom and selling over one million copies worldwide.
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