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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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RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN 1965

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Wilson Pickett (March 18, 1941 – January 19, 2006)

This song was composed by Pickett and Steve Cropper at the historic Lorraine
Motel in Memphis where Martin Luther King, Jr. would later be murdered in April
1968. Pickett’s first hit on Atlantic Records, it reached #1 on the R&B charts and
peaked at #21 on the pop charts.

  

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SWING ERA SINGERS BIRTHDAY TODAY

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   William Clarence ‘Billy’ Eckstine (July 8, 1914 – March 8, 1993)

Billy Eckstine was a singer and bandleader of the swing era. His 1948
recording of "I Apologize" was awarded the Grammy Hall of Fame Award
in 1999.


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