The Original Dixieland Jass Band
Have you been wondering who released the first Dixieland Jazz record? You don’t have to look any farther. The answer to that would be the Original Dixieland Jass Band. They recorded the song Livery Stable Blues and Dixie Jass Band One Step on February 26, 1917 for the Victor Talking Machine Company.
The Original [...]
Ghost Riders in The Sky
The song Ghost Riders in The Sky was written in 1948 by Stan Jones (1914-1963) while he was working in Death Valley for the National Park Service. During that summer he was assigned to the movie crew that was filming The Walking Hills as a technical adviser. He would play his songs for them while [...]
Heavy Metal is Born
It was on Friday the 13th, February 1970 that the album that many consider the first Heavy Metal album was released. It was released in the United Kingdom. The debut album of a band from Birmingham England. The band and the album shared the name Black Sabbath.
The album had seven tracks. [...]
The Schnozzola
Nearly everyone knows him as the voice of the narrator of the classic Chrismas cartoon Frosty the Snowman. Jimmy Durante was the voice and at the time he was near the end of a career that lasted for nearly 70 years.
James Francis Durante was born on February 10, 1893 in Brooklyn, New York. [...]
Grammy Awards – Did You Know?
Elvis Presley was nominated for 14 Grammy’s. He won three times, all for gospel recordings. The Albums How Great Thou Art (1967), and He Touched Me (1972) and his live Memphis concert recording of the song How Great Thou Art (1974). In 1971 at the age of 36 he was also [...]
The Rock Hall
The first Rock and Roll induction occurred on January 23, 1986. The first group inducted were Performers: Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, James Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke and the Everly Brothers. Early Influence: Jimmie Rodgers, Jimmy Yancey and Robert Johnson. Non-Performer: Alan Freed and [...]
Movies with Elvis Presley
As an actor Elvis Presley appeared in 31 movies. The first was Love Me Tender made in 1956. The last was Change of Habit in 1969. There are two, Elvis! That’s the Way It Is and Elvis on Tour that are concert documentaries.
Love Me Tender was the only movie that [...]
Ferry Cross the Mersey
It’s nice to learn new things, but sometimes those new things should have been something you already should have known. I have been hearing the 1965 song Ferry Cross the Mersey for 40 years or more, but just realized some things about it.
The Mersey is the River Mersey a 70 miles long river in [...]
Rockers Who Died in 2009
Along with Gordon Waller of Peter and Gordon and Michael Jackson these six Rockers left us in 2009.
Billy Powell
Billy Powell had been working as a roadie for the band Lynyrd Skynrd when he was invited to join the band as the group’s keyboardist in 1972. When he died on January 28, 2009 of a [...]
Gordon Waller
Gordon Waller may not be a well known name. That is unless you are a fan on music of the 1960s and the British invasion into the United States. Gordon Waller was the Gordon of the duo Peter and Gordon. Gordon Waller died in 2009 on July 17th.
Peter Asher and Gordon Waller came [...]
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