Ephéméride du Jeudi 3 Avril 2008

1905 - Hank Newman 1905~1978, singer, guitar, and bass, member of "The Georgia Crackers," and the "Newman Brothers.," born in Cochran, Georgia.

1920 - Al Gannaway producer of music films was born today.

1924 - Naissance de Doris Kappelhoff, dite Doris Day, actrice et chanteuse.

1924 - Naissance de Marlon Brando, acteur : "Un tramway nommé désir", "Viva Zapata", "L'équipée sauvage", "Sur les quais " Oscar, "Les révoltés du Bounty", "Le parrain", "Le dernier tango à Paris", "Apocalypse Now",...

1926 - Marshall Claiborne a one armed fiddle player made his first appearance on the WSM Barn Dance. He was invited to come back for two more broadcasts that same month.

1928 - Don Gibson 1928~2003, singer, songwriter and guitarist born in Shelby, North Carolina. Don was inducted into the NSHF in 1973, and the CMHF in 2001.

1942 - Billy Joe Royal was born in Valdosta, Georgia.

1948 - The Louisiana Hayride debuted on KWKH in Shreveport, Louisiana. The Bailes Brothers headlined this debut performance, and Shot Jackson was their steel guitar player. Also appearing on the show was Curly Kinsey and the Four Deacons, Johnny and Jack and the Tennessee Boys featuring Miss Kitty Wells, the Tennessee Ridge Runners, Harmie Smith and his Ozark Mountaineers, the Mercer Brothers and Tex Grimsley and the Texas Playboys. The master of ceremonies was Horace Logan. Admission to the show was 60 cents for adults, and 30 cents for children. The price remained the same for eleven years, when on March 28, 1959, the price of admission rose to $1 for adults and 50 cents for children. Shot Jackson met Johnnie & Jack at the Hayride, and the following year went with them to Atlanta to record. Shot Jackson played on Kitty Wells first #1 hit "It Wasn' t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," and Johnny & Jacks first #1 "Oh Baby Mine," in the early 1950' s.

1948 - Eddy Arnold's single "Anytime" topped the charts for 9 weeks.

1956 - Elvis Presley appeared on "The Milton Berle Show."

1959 - Earl Taylor and his Stoney Mountain Boys became the first Bluegrass group to perform at New York City's Carnegie Hall.

1959 - Ingrid Bergman retourne à Hollywood après une absence de 10 ans. Elle avait causé un scandale qui avait entraîné son bannissement du cinéma américain en abandonnant son mari et sa fille pour le metteur en scène Roberto Rossellini.

1960 - The Everly Brothers played the first concert of their debut British tour.

1961 - Spade Cooley murdered his wife Ella Mae. He was sentenced to life in California' s Vacaville Prison, and died from a heart attach on November 23, 1969, two months prior to being released on parole.

1961 - Patsy Cline' s "I Fall To Pieces," hit the charts today.

1969 - Tom T. Hall recorded "Margie' s At The Lincoln Park Inn" b/w "Flat-Footin' It.

1972 - Jack Drake, session bass player died in Nashville today.

1972 - Capitol Records released Buck Owens' # 1 single "Made In Japan."

1993 - Harley "Red" Allen 1930~1993, a highly regarded bluegrass singer, songwriter, and guitarist, died from cancer at age 63. Red began his recording career with Kentucky Records in 1954. He partnered with the Osborne Brothers two years later, and they joined the cast of the Wheeling Jamboree. The group signed with MGM Records and toured and recorded at a steady pace. In 1959 in partnership with Frank Wakefield, Allen formed the Kentuckians in Washington D.C. In the mid-sixties they released their classic album "Bluegrass" on the Smithsonian Folkways label. Allen replaced Lester Flatt in Flatt & Scruggs in 1967, while Lester recovered from health problems. Harley "Red" Allen was on of the finest singers to ever sing a bluegrass song. Eight years after his death, Smithsonian Folkways released "The Folkways Years: 1964~1983." By today's standards this is a compilation album, containing 28 of Red's finest recordings from half a dozen albums, and 6 songs that had never been released before.

2003 - Johnny Cash, recovering from a three week bout with pneumonia, learned that his older sister, Louise, age 79, had died earlier in the day at her home in Hendersonville, Tennessee.


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Elvis Presley and Debra Paget as a guests on The Milton Berle Show in 1956.



Elvis Presley performing Hound Dog on the Milton Berle Show from 5th June 1956