Rock Source Music Facts Day by Day


May 19 1950	Hoop-Dee-Doo by Doris Day enters the Billboard Popular Singles Chart in the USA where it will peak at No18 during a 5-week run on the chart. (1950)
May 19 1950	Having recovered from three months of illness, Louis Jordan And His Orchestra begin a week at The Paramount Theatre, Detroit, Michigan, USA. (1950)
May 19 1950	Hank Williams releases a new single Why Don't You Love Me, on MGM Records, in the USA. (1950)
May 19 1950	Nat King Cole records Time Out For Tears, My Brother, Home, A Woman's Got A Right To Change Her Mind and, with his wife Maria Cole on vocals, Ev'ry Day [I Fall In Love], in New York City, USA. (1950)
May 19 1950	Sarah Vaughan records Mean To Me, Come Rain Or Come Shine and Nice Work If You Can Get It, for Columbia Records at their studio in New York City, USA. Playing trumpet on the session is Miles Davis. (1950)
May 19 1950	Romeo Challenger is born in St John's, Antigua, West Indies. He will find success as drummer with the bands Black Widow and Showaddywaddy. (1950)
May 19 1950	Stephen A. Love is born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, USA. He will enjoy an acclaimed career as a professional musician, singer, songwriter and producer, working with Ricky Nelson, Roger McGuinn, The New Riders Of The Purple Sage and as a solo artist. (1950)
May 19 1950	Country music group The Coffee County Playboys win a $200 prize at The Nashville Banner All-Free Square Dance Contest at Sulphur Dell, Nahsville, Tennessee, USA. Runners-up are the Midnight Ramblers of Sumner County and The Stroudsville Polka Dots. (1950)
May 19 1950	Mike Wedgwood is born in Derby, UK. He is best-known as bassist and singer, working with bands including The Overlanders, Curved Air and Caravan. (1950)
May 19 1950	Johnny Cash performs The Whiffenpoof Song at his high school graduation ceremony in Dyess, Arkansas, USA. (1950)
May 19 1950	Western movie Cow Town, starring singing cowboy Gene Autry, is released to cinemas in the USA. (1950)
May 19 1950	Ragtime pianist Johnny Maddox becomes the first artist ever recorded on Dot Records in Gallatin, Tennessee, USA. At the session, Maddox records Crazy Bone Rag and St. Louis Tickle. (1950)
May 19 1950	The Ulf Linde Quintet records On The Alamo and Always for Metronome Records in Stockholm, Sweden, Europe. (1950)
May 19 1950	Jazz pianist Willie Jones plays in Chicago Heights, Cook County, Illinois, USA. The show lands Jones in trouble with the local Musicians Union, because saxophonist Melvin Scott complains he has been replaced in the band by Tom Archia without receiving adequate notice and without being paid the full amount promised. (1950)
May 19 1950	Western-swing fiddler Spade Cooley records Nine-Tenths Of The Tennessee River [Are The Tears That I Shed Over You], Little Liza Lou and Longing, for RCA Victor Records in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. (1950)
May 19 1950	Popular vocalist Leslie Douglas And His Band play at The Savoy Ballroom, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK. (1950)
May 19 1950	The musical revue Touch And Go, with music by Jay Gorney, opens at The Prince Of Wales Theatre, London, UK. (1950)
May 19 1950	The fifteen-minute radio program, The Les Paul Show, on NBC in the USA, opens with a rendition of Hip Billy Boogie. The show features The Les Paul Trio [guitarist Les Paul, singer Mary Ford, and rhythm player Eddie Stapleton]. (1950)
May 19 1950	Jazz pianist Larry Green plays the fifth night of a ten-day engagement at Bill Green's Casino, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. (1950)
May 19 1950	Tex Beneke And His Orchestra play the fifth night of four weeks at The Cafe Rouge in The Hotel Statler, New York City, USA. (1950)
May 19 1950	Frankie Laine and Patti Page play the third night in a three-week season at The Paramount Theater, New York City, USA. (1950)
May 19 1950	Singing duo Ted And Barbara Andrews play the fifth of six nights at The Embassy Theatre, Peterborough, UK, with their daughter Julie Andrews as part of the act. Also on the bill are The Western Brothers(1950)
May 19 1950	Pianist Johnny Maddox records St. Louis Tickle and Crazy Bone Rag for Dot Records in the USA.(1950)
May 19 1952	Jeffrey Hyman, better known to the world as Joey Ramone, singer of The Ramones, is born in New York City. (1952)
May 19 1953	Perry Como records the Rogers And Hammerstein song No Other Love for RCA Victor Records in The Manhattan Center, New York City, USA. (1953)
May 19 1953	The first edition of The Music Show, featuring the vocal talents of Mike Douglas, Henri Noel, Eleanor Warner and Jackie Van, plus a 34-piece orchestra conducted by Robert Trendler, is broadcast live from Chicago, Illinois, USA, on the DuMont Television Network. (1953)
May 19 1953	The Miles Davis Quartet records When Lights Are Low, Smooch, Miles Ahead and Tune Up at WOR Studios, New York City, USA. (1953)
May 19 1953	Electric blues singer, songwriter and guitar virtuoso Jimmy Thackery is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. (1953)
May 19 1953	The Maddox Brothers And Rose record I'd Rather Die Young [Than Grow Old Without You], These Wasted Years, The Nightingale Song and I'm A Little Red Caboose [On The Choo Choo Train Of Love] for Columbia Records in the USA. (1953)
May 19 1953	Jane Froman sings It's A Big Wide Wonderful World, Allez Vous En and Again on the CBS-tv show USA Canteen, in the USA. (1953)
May 19 1954	Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs record Foggy Mountain Special for Columbia Records in Castle Studio, Tulane Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. (1954)
May 19 1954	I Understand [Just How You Feel] by The Four Tunes on Jubilee Records enters the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA where it will peak at No8 during a fifteen-week run on the chart. (1954)
May 19 1956	Vic Lewis And His Orchestra play at The Festival Hall, Kirkby In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, UK. (1956)
May 19 1956	My September Love by David Whitfield peaks at No3 in the Popular Singles Chart in the UK, during a 24-week run on the chart. (1956)
May 19 1956	A uniquely British musical form, skiffle gets its first television airing in the USA as Lonnie Donegan makes his American TV debut, singing his huge UK hit Rock Island Line on NBC's Perry Como Show in New York City. The song was first recorded in 1934 in a field recording by inmates in an Arkansas State Prison, but Donegan's version is adapted from a 1944 recording by Leadbelly. Intriguingly, though, Donegan's version will inspire New York teenager Phil Spector to acquire a guitar and thus begin the career which will introduce a whole new production style, The Wall Of Sound, to popular music. (1956)
May 19 1957	Frankie Laine plays the seventh night in a two-week season at the Palladium, London, UK. (1957)
May 19 1957	The Coasters, The Cleftones, Shirley And Lee, Bobby Marchan and Huey 'Piano' Smith play the third night of a week at the Howard Theater, Washington, DC, USA. (1957)
May 19 1957	Ed Sullivan?s Toast Of The Town tv show, recorded in New York City, USA, features young vocalist Tommy Sands. (1957)
May 19 1958	Splish Splash by Bobby Darin, is released in the USA as the first eight-track master recording pressed to a plastic 45-RPM disc. (1958)
May 19 1959	R'n'b pianist Bill Doggett plays the second of two nights at The 53 Club, Oakland, California, USA. (1959)