Claude King (February 5, 1923 – March 7, 2013)

(AP) – Country singer-songwriter Claude King, an original member of the
Louisiana Hayride who was best known for the 1962 hit "Wolverton Mountain,"
has died. .

King had just celebrated his birthday and 67th wedding anniversary to his wife,
Barbara, last month. The couple’s eldest son, Duane King, said his father was
found unresponsive in his bed early Thursday morning at his home in Shreveport.

King was one of the original members of the Louisiana Hayride, the Saturday-
night show where Elvis Presley also got his start. The show transformed country
and western music from 1948 to 1960 with music genres including hillbilly,
Western swing, jazz, blues and gospel. 

On March 7, 1955, NBC presented Peter Pan live as part of Producers’
Showcase (with nearly all of the show’s original cast) as the first full-
length Broadway production on color TV. The show attracted a then
record audience of 65-million viewers, the highest ever up to that
time for a single television program.

"All I Have To Do Is Dream" by The Everly Brothers and is ranked
#142 on the Rolling Stone magazine’s list of The 500 Greatest
Songs of All Time. It was recorded in just two takes and features
the guitar of the great Chet Atkins.

“All I Have To Do Is Dream” was the only single ever to be at #1 
on all of Billboard’s singles charts simultaneously, on June 2, 1958.

Sam Colt’s success story began with the issuance of a U.S. patent in
1836 for the Colt firearm equipped with a revolving cylinder containing
five or six bullets and folding trigger, the Paterson .34-caliber pistol.

             
                                                    Samuel Colt 

On March 3, 1956, “Heartbreak Hotel” entered the Billboard pop chart at 
number 68, and the Country and Western chart at number nine. Within
two months, "Heartbreak Hotel" reached number one on both charts. It
also made the top five on the R&B chart, the first Presley single to chart
there. This resulted in the song becoming only the second single to reach
all three Billboard charts, after Carl Perkins‘ "Blue Suede Shoes". It spent
a total of twenty-seven weeks in the top 100. By April, "Heartbreak Hotel” 
became a million-seller.

Elvis Presley’s debut recording session at RCA in Nashville, January 10,
1956, where ”Heartbreak Hotel” was recorded.