Ed Donahue
José Montserrate Feliciano García is 78 years old today.
The Puerto Rican musician, singer and composer. He recorded
many international hits, including his rendition of the Doors‘
"Light My Fire" and his self-penned Christmas song "Feliz
Navidad".
Ed Sullivan talks with Elvis Presley before the show.
(History Channel) – Elvis Presley, at age 21, broke television
records with his first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
on this day in history, Sept. 9, 1956.
Elvis — along with his famous "gyrations" — had been
banned previously by Ed Sullivan from appearing on his
show.
However, after several of his competitors saw massive ratings
when Presley appeared on their shows, Sullivan reconsidered
his ban.
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Charles Hardin Holley – known as Buddy Holly
(September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959)
If you took out a map of the United States and traced
a line beginning at New Orleans and running up the
Mississippi River to Memphis, the tip of your finger
would pass through the very birthplace of rock and
roll—a region where nearly every step in its early
development took place and where nearly every
significant contributor to that development was born.
But if the foundation of rock and roll was mostly laid
down within 100 miles of the Mississippi River in the
mid-1950s, the blueprint for what would follow required
the further contributions of a young man born 700 miles
to the west on this day in 1936: Charles Harden Holley.
Writing and performing under the name Buddy Holly,
this Lubbock, Texas, native would have an influence
on rock and roll that would far outlast his tragically
shortened career.
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A statement posted on his website said Jimmy Buffett passed
away peacefully Friday night "surrounded by his family, friends,
music and dogs.” A cause of death was not immediately released.
Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus)
Experts in pop and rock music consider Costello to be one of the
most gifted and versatile songwriters of his generation.
