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RECORDED ON THIS DAY IN 1957

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Jerry Lee Lewis played piano with the backup group The
Little Green Men.

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Jerry Lee Lewis

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RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN 1956

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Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel” was his first recording for his new
label RCA Victor. The single topped Billboard ‘​s Top 100 chart for
seven weeks. In 1995 the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall
of Fame
, and in 2004 Rolling Stone magazine named it one of the
"500 Greatest Songs of All Time". That year “Heartbreak Hotel” was
also included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame‘s "500 Songs that
Shaped Rock and Roll".

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"Heartbreak Hotel" recording session on January 10, 1956,
two days after Elvis turned 21.

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RECORDED ON THIS DAY IN 1956

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Buddy Holly’s first official recording session began on
January 26, 1956 at Decca Records’ Nashville studios. It
was during that session "Blue Days, Black
Nights" was
recorded and became his debut single.

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ALBUM RECORDED ON THIS DAY IN 1968

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At Folsom Prison
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At Folsom Prison is a live album and 27th overall album by Johnny Cash,
released on Columbia Records in May 1968. Backed with June Carter,
Carl Perkins and the Tennessee Three, Cash performed two shows at
Folsom State Prison in California. The result was an album consisting
of fifteen tracks from the first show and two tracks from the second.

The album was a hit reaching number one on the country charts and
the top 15 of the national album chart. The lead single from the album,
a live version of "Folsom Prison Blues", was a top 40 hit,

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SINGLE RECORDED ON THIS DAY IN 1958

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Released in January of 1959, “Charlie Brown” went to #2 on the
Billboard
Hot 100
singles charts, and was the first of three top-ten hits for the
Coasters that year.

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