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ALBUM RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN 1958


Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959)

Buddy Holly is singer Buddy Holly‘s debut solo album and his second
album overall (following The "Chirping" Crickets in 1957). Although
billed as a solo record, the personnel once again features Holly’s
band, the Crickets, accompanying him.  It contains one of Buddy’s
best known songs, "Peggy Sue".

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ON THE JOHNNY CASH SHOW IN 1971

The Johnny Cash Show was a music variety television show hosted
by Johnny Cash. The Screen Gems 58-episode series ran from June
7, 1969 to March 31, 1971 on ABC; it was taped before a live audience
at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. The show reached
No. 17 in the Nielsen ratings in 1970.

James Taylor made his prime-time television debut on the “Johnny 
Cash Show."

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NEWS SHOW DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1948


John Cameron Swayze (April 4, 1906 – August 15, 1995)

Launched by NBC as NBC Television Newsreel, and later Camel Newsreel Theatre
it
began as a 10-minute program that featured Fox Movietone News newsreels. John Cameron Swayze provided voice-over for the series. The Camel News Caravan was
an expanded version of the Camel Newsreel Theatre with Swayze on-camera. It was
also known as the Camel Caravan of News.

On February 16, 1954, the Camel News Caravan became the first news program
broadcast in color, making use of 16mm color film. The show was replaced by the Huntley-Brinkley Report on October 29, 1956. According to sources, then President Dwight D. Eisenhower was displeased by the switch. 


The ‘Swayze’ trivia question-and-answer board game from 1954.

 

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SHOW DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1958


Richard Augustus Wagstaff "Dick" Clark Jr.
(November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012)

The Dick Clark Show (also known as Dick Clark’s Saturday Night Beechnut Show)
was a musical variety show broadcast weekly on the ABC television network 7:30-8
PM (Eastern Time) on Saturdays from February 15, 1958 through September 10,
1960, sponsored (except for the first two shows) by Beechnut Gum.

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COMIC STRIP DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1937

Prince Valiant (in the Days of King Arthur) is a long-running comic strip created
by Hal Foster. It is an epic adventure that has told a continuous story during its
entire run, and the full stretch of that story now totals more than 4000 Sunday
strips
. Currently, the strip appears weekly in more than 300 US newspapers,
according to its distributor, King Features Syndicate.

 


Harold (Hal) Rudolf Foster
(August 16, 1892 – July 25, 1982)

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