May 7, 1937

The Hindenburg at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey in 1936, a
year prior to the crash

Radio announcer Herbert Morrison‘s recorded eyewitness report
from the landing field,which was broadcast the next day. Of the 97
people on board (36 passengers, 61 crew), there were 36 total 
fatalities, including one death among the ground crew.

Herbert Morrison

     
          George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985)

Welles was an actor, director, writer and producer who worked extensively in
theater, radio and film. He is best remembered for his debut of the Mercury
Theatre; The War of the Worlds (1938), the most famous broadcast in the
history of radio; and Citizen Kane (1941), which many critics and scholars
name as the best film of all time.

Gene Vincent (center) and the Blue Caps in the recording studio

Gene Vincent first performed “Be-Bop-A-Lula” on a radio show in Norfolk, Virginia
during which time a demo was recorded and passed on to Capitol Records, who
were looking for a singer to rival Elvis Presley. Vincent and the Blue Caps recorded
the song for Capitol in Nashville. It was released in June 1956 and peaked at #7 on
the Billboard pop music chart, #8 on the R&B chart, and also made the top ten on
the C&W Best Seller chart reaching the #5 spot. By the following year “Be-Bop-A-
Lula” had sold over two million copies.