From the MCRFB music calendar:
Events on this date: MARCH 14
1955: Popular country star Jimmy Dean interviews Elvis Presley on his Washington D. C. television show Town and Country Time. A nervous Elvis answers every question with a “yep” or “nope.”
1956: The Alan Freed film, Rock Around The Clock, starring The Platters and of course, Bill Haley and the Comets, premiers in New York City.
1958: The RIAA awards its first-ever gold record for sales of a million copies that year, the honor going to Perry Como’s, “Catch A Falling Star.”
1963: Gerry Marsden of the Pacemakers sneaks a custom-made guitar purchased in Germany through British customs and is fined 60 pounds.
1964: The Beatles “Twist And Shout” enters the Billboard charts on this day.
1965: Petula Clark makes her American TV debut on CBS-TV’s Ed Sullivan Show singing “Downtown” and “I Know A Place.”
1968: The BBC-TV program Top Of The Pops broadcasts the Beatles new promotional video for “Lady Madonna,” which, oddly enough, is made up entirely of clips from the band’s recording of “Hey Bulldog.”
1970: On this date, the Supremes (without Diana Ross) enters the Billboard charts with “Up The Ladder To The Roof.”
1972: At tonight’s Grammys Awards, Carol King’s massively popular Tapestry LP is awarded the Album Of The Year honors.
1980: On the occasion of his forty-seventh birthday, Quincy Jones is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame at 1500 Vine.
1981: Bleeding ulcers forces Eric Clapton to cancel the remainder of his 60-date US tour. Clapton checks himself in a hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota.
2005: The New York Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inducts Percy Sledge, The O’Jays, U2, Buddy Guy and the Pretenders.
2008: In London, ex-Foundations member Peter MacBeth is sentenced to six years in prison on pedophilia and sexual assault charges.
And that’s just a few of the events which took place in pop music history, on this day . . . . M A R C H 1 4
