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A ‘’REALLY BIG SHEW’ ON THIS DAY IN 1956

 Classic Television Showbiz: The Ed Wynn Show with guests The Three Stooges (1950)       
        
        
        
        
        
       
The King of Rock and Roll teamed up with TV’s reigning variety
program, as
Elvis Presley (21) appeared on “The Ed Sullivan
Show”
for the first time on September 9, 1956.        

       

With 60 million viewers—or 82.6 percent of TV viewers at the time—tuning in, the appearance garnered the show’s best
ratings in two years and became the most-watched TV
broadcast of the 1950s.

Although “The Ed Sullivan Show” was filmed in New York,
Presley performed remotely from CBS’s Los Angeles
studio because he was filming his first movie, Love Me
Tender
, in California. 

       
        
        
        
        
        
  

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 Elvis Presley makes first appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” | Perry Daily Journal 
Ed and Elvis 
       

Elvis Prresley on The Ed Sullivan Show (68 Amazing Photographs) – Elvis Presley         
        
        
          
       

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

September 12, 1962 - Kennedy's "We Go to the Moon" Speech

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SANDY KOZEL

U2start.com | Photos | Young Bono

Bono warns that the UN, EU and NATO are 'under attack' | Daily Mail Online

Singer Bono (Paul David Hewson) is 64 years old today.

The band onstage
The Irish rock band U2 on stage.

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

Today in History: March 25 | Republican-American

WDVM’s Ross Simpson talks about the upcoming Veterans Voices program ...
ROSS SIMPSON

Johnny Cash Childhood Photographs and Home - NSF News and Magazine

Young Johnny Cash High School Picture | Young johnny cash, Johnny cash, Celebrity yearbook photos

Johnny Cash in the USAF colorized by OldHank on DeviantArt
Johnny served four years in the Air Force.

Cash enlisted in the Air Force on July 7, 1950,
shortly after the start of the
Korean War. After
basic training at Lackland Air Force Base and
technical training at
Brooks Air Force Base,
both in
San Antonio, Texas, he was assigned
to the 12th Radio Squadron Mobile of the
U.S.
Air Force Security Service
at Landsberg, West       
Germany.

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The Man in Black.

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Born to poor cotton farmers in Kingsland, Arkansas,
country singer – songwriter Johnny
Cash rose to
fame during the mid-1950s in the burgeoning
rockabilly scene in Memphis, Tennessee.

Cash is one of the best-selling music artists of all
time
, having sold more than 90 million records
worldwide. His genre-spanning music embraced
country, rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk, and
gospel sounds.

His crossover appeal earned him the rare honor of
being inducted into the
Country Music, Rock and
Roll
, and Gospel Music Halls of Fame.

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JIMI HENDRIX ~ BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1942

Inside Jimi Hendrix’s New Album ‘Both Sides of the Sky’ – Rolling Stone


Guitar legend Jimi Hendrix was born in Seattle. Hendrix grew up
playing guitar, imitating blues greats like Muddy Waters as well
as early rockers.

He joined the army in 1959 and became a paratrooper but was
honorably discharged in 1961 after an injury that exempted him
from duty in Vietnam.

In the early 1960s, Hendrix worked as a pickup guitarist, backing musicians including Little Richard, B.B. King, Ike and Tina Turner,
and Sam Cooke.

In 1964, he moved to New York and played in coffeehouses, where bassist Chas Chandler of the British group the Animals heard
him. Chandler arranged to manage Hendrix and brought him to
London in 1966, where they created the Jimi Hendrix Experience
with bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell.

The band’s first single, “Hey Joe,” hit No. 6 on the British pop

In 1967, the Jimi Hendrix Experience made its first U.S. appearance,
at the
Monterey Pop Festival.

Pin on CELEBRITIES WHO SERVED
Hendrix in the Army in 1961

Experience Hendrix: The Best Of Jimi Hendrix | The Official Jimi Hendrix Site


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POPULAR CALIFORNIA DJ IS DEAD AT AGE 77

Who Is Dusty Street DJ? The Popular Radio Star Whereabouts And – Where ...

Sirius Satellite Radio DJ Dusty Street begans her first live broadcast from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.
Dusty was one of the first female rock jocks on the West
Coast
. She is shown here on the air with SiriusXM, KROQ. 

(AP)

Dusty Street, the radio disc jockey who shot to popularity in
Southern California passed away Saturday in Eugene, Ore. 
after a long battle with cancer.
        
   
  



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