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CAPITOL’S FIRST TOP HIT ON THIS DAY IN 1942

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Freddie Slack and singer Ella Mae Morse

"Cow Cow Boogie” is a "country-boogie" style blues song written for the 1942
Abbott & Costello film Ride ‘Em Cowboy. The first recording was by Freddie
Slack
& his Orchestra, featuring 17-year-old vocalist Ella Mae Morse. The
record was the first release by Capitol Records and their first million-seller.
 
Although Ella Mae’s follow-up recordings sold fairly well, she never obtained
a huge following, but continued to make records until 1957. Morse died of
respiratory failure in Bullhead City, Arizona in 1999 at age 75.  

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AWARD WINNING SINGER IS 73 TODAY

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Vikki Carr (Florencia Bisenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona)
Born in El Paso, Texas

The three-time Grammy Award-winning pop singer has performed in
a variety of music genres from Jazz to country. Her greatest success
has been singing in Spanish. She is best remembered for her 1967
hit single “It Must Be Him” which reached number three on the pop
chart
and spent three weeks at number one on the easy listening
chart
.
 

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RECORD RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN 1954

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From left: Elvis Presley, bass player Bill Black, guitarist Scotty Moore and
Sam Phillips in the control booth


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“That’ All Right” sold around 20,000 copies. It was not enough to
chart nationally, but the single reached number four on the local
Memphis charts. The song is at #113 on the 2010 Rolling Stone
magazine list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".    

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RECORDED ON THIS DAY IN 1964

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“Come See About Me” was recorded in Studio A at Motown’s Hitsville
U.S.A.
It became third of five consecutively released singles by the
Supremes to top the Billboard pop singles chart.

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FORMER TEEN IDOL IS 83 TODAY

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D.J. Fred Fiske (R) of Washington’s WWDC radio interviews Tab Hunter  

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       Tab Hunter (born Arthur Andrew Kelm in New York City)

Actor, singer and author Tab Hunter has starred in over forty films.He
had a 1957 hit record with the song "Young Love", which was #1 on
the Billboard Hot 100 chart for six weeks and became one of the larger
hits of the Rock n’ Roll era.

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