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The Coasters make their Billboard singles chart debut in the USA with Down In Mexico.
(You've Got) The Magic Touch by The Platters enters the Billboard Top 40 singles chart in the USA, where it will peak at No4.
Bob Gallion releases a new single, My Square Dancin' Mama (She's Done Learned To Rock'n'Roll) on MGM Records in the USA.
US music trade magazine Billboard reports that the new Fats Domino single, I'm In Love Again, "has paydirt written all over it. This is a simple tune with a flavoursome medium tempo swing to which the singer adds his telling vocal job in a traditional bluesy pattern."
Irish singer Ruby Murray unveils an 11 foot square picture of herself at the HMV West End showrooms in Oxford Street, London, UK. EMI uses the occasion to announce a 'National Birthday Week' for Ruby to celebrate her 21st birthday.[You've Got] The Magic Touch by The Platters enters the Billboard Top 40 singles chart in the USA, where it will peak at No4.
Asa Carter of the North Alabama White Citizens' Council, announces that rock'n'roll, which he regards as an 'immoral' music, is a plot hatched by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. With this in mind, he begins a campaign to get radio stations to ban rock'n'roll records.
Asa Carter of the North Alabama White Citizens' Council, announces that rock'n'roll, which he regards as an 'immoral' music, is a plot hatched by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. With this in mind, he begins a campaign to get radio stations to ban rock'n'roll records.Irish singer Ruby Murray unveils an 11 foot square picture of herself at the HMV West End showrooms in Oxford Street, London, UK. EMI uses the occasion to announce a 'National Birthday Week' for Ruby to celebrate her 21st birthday.
US music trade magazine Billboard reports that the new Fats Domino single, I'm In Love Again, "has paydirt written all over it. This is a simple tune with a flavoursome medium tempo swing to which the singer adds his telling vocal job in a traditional bluesy pattern."
US music trade magazine Billboard reports that the new Fats Domino single, I'm In Love Again, "has paydirt written all over it. This is a simple tune with a flavoursome medium tempo swing to which the singer adds his telling vocal job in a traditional bluesy pattern."
Bob Gallion releases a new single, My Square Dancin' Mama (She's Done Learned To Rock'n'Roll) on MGM Records in the USA.
Jack Parnell And His Music Makers play at The Festival Hall, Kirkby In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, UK.