Category: On This Day…

December 12, 1960 – Dante and the Evergreens perform their cover of “Alley Oop” on “American Bandstand.” Also appearing is Jo Ann Campbell. #ROCkabillyHop #RocHop @DickClarkProd #OTD #RockNRoll #DickClark #AmericanBandstand
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December 12, 1959 – Gene Vincent appears on the weekly television show “Boy Meets Girls” in London. #ROCkabillyHop #RocHop @ClaceVincent #GeneVincent #OTD #RockNRoll #BoyMeetsGirls
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December 12, 1957 – Jerry Lee Lewis married his second cousin, Myra Gale Brown, in Hernando, Mississippi. She’s the daughter of J.W. Brown, his bass player, and cousin. Myra is 13 years old, though she claims in the marriage license to be 20. @jerryleelewis #ROCkabillyHop #JerryLeeLewis #RocHop #OTD #RockNRoll
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December 12, 1955 – Bill Haley and His Comets recorded “See You Later, Alligator.” It would become Haley’s third and final million-selling single, topping out at #6 on both the Billboard and Cash Box singles charts and #7 on the UK and the Netherlands singles charts. #ROCkabillyHop @billhaleymusic #BillHaley #SeeYouLaterAlligator #RocHop #OTD #RockNRoll
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December 12, 1954 – The Crew Cuts performed “Sh-Boom” on “Ed Sullivan’s Toast of the Town.” The Crew Cuts’ cover of this song originally by The Chords spent nine weeks at #1 between Billboard’s Best Sellers in Stores, Most Played by Jockeys, and Most Played in Jukeboxes charts. #OTD #ROCkabillyHop #RocHop @EdSullivanShow #EdSullivan #CrewCuts #ShBoom #ToastOfTheTown
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December 11, 1961 – Motown achieved its first #1 with “Please Mr. Postman” by the Marvelettes. #OTD #ROCkabillyHop #RocHop #Motown #PleaseMrPostman #Marvelettes
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December 11, 1961 – Elvis Presley started a 20-week run at #1 on the US album chart with “Blue Hawaii,” his seventh #1 album in the US. It is the soundtrack to the film of the same name starring Presley. In the United States, the album spent 20 weeks in the #1 slot and 39 weeks in the Top 10 on Billboard’s Top Pop LPs chart. #ROCkabillyHop #Elvis #TCB @ElvisPresley #BlueHawaii #RocHop #OTD #RockNRoll
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December 11, 1926 – R&B singer Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton was born in Ariton, Alabama. She was the first to record Leiber and Stoller’s “Hound Dog,” which was later famously recorded by Elvis Presley. #ROCkabillyHop #HappyBirthday #BigMama #OTD #RockNRoll #HoundDog
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December 10, 1991 – Alan Freed, the disc jockey who is credited with coining the phrase “Rock and Roll,” is posthumously awarded a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. #ROCkabillyHop #AlanFreed #RockAndRoll #RocHop #OTD #RockNRoll
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December 10, 1960 – “Saturday Prom” is broadcasted in color with guests Jack Scott, the Kalin Twins, and Hank Ballard and the Midnighters. #ROCkabillyHop #RocHop #OTD #RockNRoll
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