The musical My Fair Lady premiered on Broadway March 15, 1956, at the Mark
Hellinger Theatre in New York City. It transferred to the Broadhurst Theatre and
then The Broadway Theatre, where it closed after 2,717 performances. A 6 1/2
year run on Broadway. The show, at the time, held the record for the longest-
running musical.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
Jerry Lee Lewis (The Killer) is 81 years old today.
Lewis was expelled from Southwest Bible Institute for playing
what they termed "devil’s music." He played music in Natchez,
Mississippi to make a living. Jerry Lee Lewis has been described
as "rock & roll’s first great wild man and is the last living member
of the Sun Records Million Dollar Quartet (below).
Released in November of 1957, this is one of the best-selling singles in the United States, as well as one of the world’s best-
selling singles of all time.
The song "To Know Him Is to Love Him" was written by Phil Spector, inspired
by words on his father’s tombstone, "To Know Him Was To Love Him." It was
first recorded by the only vocal group of which he was a member, the Teddy
Bears. Their recording spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100
singles chart in 1958.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
The Beatles was an animated television series that ran from 1965 to September
7, 1969 on A total of 39 episodes were produced. The series was shown on
Saturday mornings at 10:30 AM EST until the 1967 third season when it was
moved to 12:00 PM EST. For the fourth season, which consisted of reruns, the
series was shown at 9:30 AM EST on Sunday mornings.
Each episode has a name of a Beatles song, so the story is based on its lyrics
and it is also played at some time in the episode.
