The song "Twistin’ the Night Away" was written and recorded by
Sam Cooke with session musicians The Wrecking Crew. It charted
in the top ten of both the Billboard Hot 100 (#9) and Billboard’s R&B
chart (#1).

The song "Twistin’ the Night Away" was written and recorded by
Sam Cooke with session musicians The Wrecking Crew. It charted
in the top ten of both the Billboard Hot 100 (#9) and Billboard’s R&B
chart (#1).

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) –  Elvis Presley was born 80 years ago today and
eighteen years after his birth, in 1953, Presley walked into Sun Records
in Memphis and recorded the song "My Happiness” for $4. The 78 RPM 
acetate record was his first recording, a gift for his mother Gladys. 

But, as the story goes, Presley stopped by a friend’s house to listen to the
recording and left it there. The Presley family did not have a record player,
according to Elvis Presley Enterprises, which operates Graceland.

The record has remained in his friend’s safe for decades and today, it will
be auctioned off at Graceland, the late singer’s longtime Memphis home,
along with other Presley-related memorabilia on what would have been
‘the King’s’ 80th birthday. The acetate is in original condition and it is
playable.

                           
                             Elvis Presley at eighteen

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"Hello Goodbye" became The Beatles 15th Billboard number one hit. The  
flip side, "I Am The Walrus" reached #56, the lowest ranking for any charted
"B" side of a Beatles number one single.

The Lemon Pipers

"Green Tambourine" was the primary hit by the 1960s Ohio-based rock
group The Lemon Pipers, as well as the title track to their debut-album
Green Tambourine. The song has been credited as being one of the
first bubblegum pop chart-toppers. Released towards the end of 1967,
it peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for one week at the
start of February, 1968 and earned the group a gold record for over
a million copies sold. The record remained on the chart for three
months. It was also the first number-one hit for the Buddah label.

A radio station cartridge (cart) recording.