Ephéméride du Vendredi 7 Mars 2008

1917 - Un premier disque de jazz est mis sur le marché. L'album est l'oeuvre du groupe Original Dixieland Jazz Band.

1924 - Riley Puckett and Gid Tanner had their first session for Columbia Records.

1933 - Le jeu MONOPOLY est inventé. Il sera commercialisé par Parker Brothers en 1935.

1944 - Townes Van Zandt 1944-1997, singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in Fort Worth, Texas.

1951 - Decca Records newest artist Webb Pierce recorded his first cuts for the label today. The early releases did not sell well. The second session was more fruitful.

1953 - Patsy Cline "Virginia Patterson Hensley" married her first husband, Gerald Cline . They divorced in 1957

1956 - Carl Perkins sort le disque "Blue Suede Shoes".

1958 - Bill Carlisle released "Dumb Bunny."

1960 - Hank Locklin's "Please Help Me I'm Falling" charted.

1961 - Buck Owens recorded "Heartaches By The Number."

1963 - Jack Anglin 1916-1963, age 46, of Johnnie & Jack, was killed in a traffic accident while en route to Patsy Cline's memorial service. He was the fourth member of the Grand Ole Opry cast to die in the past 48 hours.

1964 - Ernie Ashworth and Jim & Jesse, became members of the Grand Ole Opry.

1964 - Bobby Bare's single "Miller's Cave" debuted on Billboard's Top 40 Chart.

1972 - Buck Owens recorded "Made In Japan."

1985 - Randy Travis made his first guest appearance on the Grand Ole Opry.

2000 - Edsel Records released Glenn Barber's album "Close But No Cigar."

2000 - Doug Stone was injured when his ultra-light aircraft crashed near Nashville. His guitarist, Rusty Van Sickle, rushed him to NorthCrest Medical Center in Springfield, Tennessee.

2000 - Pee Wee King 1914-2000, a.k.a. 'Julius Frank Kuczynski,' age 86, died from a heart attack in Louisville, Kentucky. He was inducted into the NSHF in 1970, and the CMHF in 1975.

2005 - Merle Haggard and Bob Dylan's first ever joint tour opened in Seattle, Washington.

Chanteur et chef d'orchestre US né le 18 février 1914, originaire d'Abrams (Wisconsin), de son vrai nom Frank Kuczynski. Pee Wee King apprend tout jeune l'harmonica, le fiddle et l'accordéon. A 14 ans, il se produit dans les radios locales et en 1934, il rencontre Gene Autry qui l'embauche comme accordéoniste et fiddle. Autry, appelé à Hollywood, Pee Wee monte son propre orchestre: les "Golden West Cowboys", groupe légendaire dont feront parti des chanteurs comme Eddie Arnold, Cowboy Copas et Ernest Tubb!!! Pee Wee King fut élu au Country Music Hall Of Fame en 1974. Pee Wee un un show à la télé (WBBM-TV, Chicago, Illinois). Il est décédé en 2000.

02/1955	SP RCA VICTOR 47-6005 (US)	Tweedle Dee (1) / You Can't Hardly Get Them No More (1)
03/1956	SP RCA VICTOR 47-6450 (US)	Blue Suede Shoes (2) / Tennessee Dancin' Doll (3)
07/1956	SP RCA VICTOR 47-6584 (US)	Catty Town (4) / Hoot Scoot (4)
09/1956	SP RCA VICTOR 47-6666 (US)	Ballrom Baby (4) / Absolutely Positively
11/1957	SP RCA VICTOR 47-7090 (US)	Congratulations Joe (5) / Prelude To A Broken Heart (5)
10/1958	SP RCA VICTOR 47-7375 (US)	Unbreakable Heart / Janie (instr.)

(1) Pee Wee King & His Band, Featuring Redd Stewart
(2) Pee Wee King & His Band / Vocal By Walter Hayes
(3) Pee Wee King & His Band / Vocal By The Trio
(4) Pee Wee King & His Band / Vocal By Dick Glasser
(5) Pee Wee King & His Kentuckians / Vocal By Redd Stewart

1982	LP 12" DETOUR 33-001 (UK)		BALLROOM KING - Catty Town / Plantation Boogie / I Don't Mind / Blue Suede Shoes / Stell Guitar Rag / Railroad Boogie / Rootie Tootie / Half A Dozen Boogie / Ballrom Baby / Ten Gallon Boogie / Hoot Scoot / Chew Tobacco Rag / Forty Nine Women / Indian Giver / Bull Fiddle Boogie / Tweedlee Dee
1983	LP 12" BEAR FAMILY BFX 15101 (D)		ROMPIN', STOMPIN', SINGIN', SWINGIN' - Birmingham Bounce / The Ghost And Honest Joe / Say Good Morning, Nellie / Going Back To A.L.A. / Tennessee Central Number Nine / Texas Toni Lee / Keep Them Icy Cold Fingers Off Of Me / Lonesome Steel / Quit Honkin' That Horn / New York To New Orleans / I Hear You Knockin' / Oh Monah / Mop Rag Boogie / Juke Box Blues / Flying Home / Slow Bloke
1985	LP 12" RCA VICTOR RPL 2046 (JAP)		COUNTRY CLASSICS - Tennesse Waltz / Texas Toni Lee / Slowpoke / Bonaparte's Retreat / Kentucky Waltz / Ten Gallon Boogie / Silver And Gold / Bull Fiddle Boogie / San Antonio Rose / Varsoviana / The One Rose / Under The Double Eagle / My Adobe Hacienda / Spanish Two Step / Steel Guitar Rag / Over The Waves