Rock Source Music Facts Day by Day


May 21 1950	Singing cowboy Gene Autry plays the second of two shows at the Marydale Fete of The Good Samaritan Hospital in The Cincinnati Garden, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. (1950)
May 21 1950	Griff Williams And His Orchestra play the first of 28 nights at The Trianon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1950)
May 21 1950	Jimmy Palmer And His Orchestra play the first night of four weeks at The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1950)
May 21 1950	Pee Wee King And His Golden West Cowboys play in Sterling, Illinois, USA. (1950)
May 21 1950	Ruby Braff's Six, Edmond Hall, Frankie Newton, Nat Pierce and Mariano's Boptet play in the Jazz Festival on the Parkman Bandstand, Boston Common, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. (1950)
May 21 1950	Ernest Tubb plays at Radio Ranch Park, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, USA. (1950)
May 21 1950	R'n'b singer Damita Jo records Until The Real Thing Comes Along, Believe Me, Anytime, Any Place, Anywhere and Here I Am for Discovery Records in New York City, USA. (1950)
May 21 1950	Vic Damone is the musical guest on CBS tv's Ed Sullivan Show [aka Toast Of The Town] in New York City, USA. (1950)
May 21 1950	Jazz great Charlie 'Bird' Parker plays at Birdland, New York City, USA. Also on the bill on this night is heroin-addicted trumpet virtuoso Fats Navarro, but this will prove to be his last public performance. Within two months Navarro will be dead. (1950)
May 21 1950	Pat Di Serio is born in Montelongo, Campobasso, Italy, Europe. He will find success as record producer Pat Diserio, working mainly in Canada with disco acts including The Bombers, Kebekelektrik and Bob-a-rela. (1950)
May 21 1950	Songwriter, guitarist, film score composer and producer Pablo Manavello is born in Treviso, Italy, Europe. (1950)
May 21 1950	Country-blues-oriented singer, songwriter, guitarist and recording artist Paul Wookey is born in Healesville, near Melbourne, Australia. (1950)
May 21 1950	Tex Beneke And His Orchestra play the seventh night of four weeks at The Cafe Rouge in The Hotel Statler, New York City, USA. (1950)
May 21 1950	Louis Jordan And His Orchestra play the third night of a week at The Paramount Theatre, Detroit, Michigan, USA. (1950)
May 21 1950	Jazz pianist Larry Green plays the seventh night of a ten-day engagement at Bill Green's Casino, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. (1950)
May 21 1950	Frankie Laine and Patti Page play the fifth night in a three-week season at The Paramount Theater, New York City, USA. (1950)
May 21 1950	George Evans and his 20 Piece Orchestra play at The South Parade Pier, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK. (1950)
May 21 1951	Hank Williams is admitted to the North Louisiana Sanitorium, Louisiana, USA, suffering from acute alcoholism. (1951)
May 21 1951	The Alfred Hitchcock film Stage Fright, starring Jane Wyman and Marlene Dietrich, goes on general release to cinemas in Denmark. The film features an original Cole Porter song, The Laziest Gal In Town, which is performed by Dietrich. (1951)
May 21 1953	Jane Froman sings Cockeyed Optimist, Come Rain Or Come Shine, Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered and It's A Lovely Day, on the CBS-tv show USA Canteen, in the USA. (1953)
May 21 1953	Nora Cabaltera Villamayor is born in Iriga City, Camarines Sur, Philippines. She will find success as actress, singer and producer Nora Aunor, with over thirty gold singles to her credit. (1953)
May 21 1953	Perry Como records I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, for RCA Victor Records in The Manhattan Center, New York City, USA. (1953)
May 21 1953	Folk singer and recording artist Joanie Bartels is born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA. (1953)
May 21 1953	Merle Travis records Re-Enlistment Blues at Capitol Records' studio, Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, California, USA. (1953)
May 21 1953	The Oscar Peterson Trio records I'm Glad There Is You, I Hear Music, Polka Dots And Moonbeams, One For My Baby, Autumn In New York, I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Spring Is Here and The Things We Did Last Summer for Verve Records in New York City, USA. Guitarist on the session is Barney Kessel. (1953)
May 21 1953	The Charlie Parker Quintet opens at Birdland, New York City, USA. (1953)
May 21 1954	Dick Baker plays at Springbrook Gardens, Lima, Ohio, USA. (1954)
May 21 1955	Chuck Berry records Maybellene as his first single, for Chess Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The song is based on an old country tune, Ida Red. (1955)
May 21 1955	Chuck Berry records Maybellene as his first single, for Chess Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The song is based on an old country tune, Ida Red. (1955)
May 21 1955	Tito Burns And His Band play at The Festival Hall, Kirkby In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, UK. (1955)
May 21 1955	Stranger In Paradise by The Four Aces enters the UK popular singles chart at No16. It will peak at No6 during a run of fifteen weeks on the chart. (1955)
May 21 1955	Unchained Melody reaches No1 in the Cash Box best Selling Singles Chart in the USA. The position is achieved by amalgamating sales of versions of the song by Les Baxter And His Orchestra, Al Hibbler and Roy Hamilton. (1955)
May 21 1955	Chuck Berry records Wee Wee Hours for Chess Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA. This is the first track to be recorded for Berry's debut album, After School Session. (1955)
May 21 1957	Frankie Laine plays the ninth night in a two-week season at the Palladium, London, UK. (1957)
May 21 1957	The Coasters, The Cleftones, Shirley And Lee, Bobby Marchan and Huey 'Piano' Smith play the fifth night of a week at the Howard Theater, Washington, DC, USA. (1957)
May 21 1957	Gene Vincent makes a live appearance on the Ozark Jubilee tv show, in Springfield, Missouri, USA. (1957)