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This is the week that was in matters musical …1937, Merle Haggard is born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, a town that will loom large in his career when the country singer’s anti-hippie anthem “Okie From...
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This is the week that was in matters musical …1954, Bill Haley & His Comets first recording session for Decca produces the track “(We’re Gonna) Rock Around the Clock” … the track, which melds...
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This is the week that was in matters musical …1954, Bill Haley & His Comets first recording session for Decca produces the track “(We’re Gonna) Rock Around the Clock” … the track, which melds...
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This is the week that was in matters musical…1883, New York sees the grand opening of its Metropolitan Opera House …1956, R&B singer Clarence Henry’s "Ain’t Got No Home" is released on the Argo...
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This is the week that was in matters musical…1944, a plane carrying bandleader Glen Miller vanishes over the English Channel … the fate of the aircraft and its passengers remains a mystery …1952,...
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This is the week that was in matters musical…1954, Bill Haley and the Comets’ “Rock Around the Clock” is released … however, it will not be successful until 1955, when it is featured on the soundtrack...
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This is the week that was in matters musical…1883, New York sees the grand opening of its Metropolitan Opera House …1908, Columbia runs an ad in The Saturday Evening Post touting its new two-sided...
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This is the week that was in matters musical…1945, The Andrews Sisters’ “Rum & Coca Cola” is the #1 pop hit and will become the biggest seller of the year …1956, The Coasters are signed to Atlantic...
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This is the week that was in matters musical…1958, Billie Holiday is sentenced to a year’s probation after pleading guilty to narcotics possession … Perry Como’s “Catch a Falling Star” becomes the...
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This is the week that was in matters musical…1933, at New York City’s Academy of Music, Bell engineers demonstrate the realism of stereo before an audience of 300 guests who had come to listen to the...
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