The single was Fats Domino’s third release in a row to reach number
one on the R&B Best Sellers chart, where it stayed for six weeks. It
peaked at number four on the pop singles chart.

Fats Domino turned 85 on Feb. 26

Roy Brown Jr., a car designer for Ford Motor Co. whose signature creation,  
the supposedly futuristic but ultimately ill-fated Edsel, became a synonym
for bold, bad ideas not long after it was introduced in 1957, died on Feb. 24 
in Michigan.

1958

 

Note: The Liberty Theater dated back to around 1916

Peggy March (Margaret Annemarie Battavio) is best rememered for
her 1963 million-selling recording “I Will Follow Him”.

She was discovered at age thirteen singing at her cousin’s wedding
was introduced to record producers Hugo & Luigi. They gave her the
nickname Little Peggy March because she was only 4ft 9in.