Rock Source Music Facts Day by Day


May 26 1950	Tex Beneke And His Orchestra play the twelfth night of four weeks at The Cafe Rouge in The Hotel Statler, New York City, USA. (1950)
May 26 1950	Popular folk group The Weavers record the Leadbelly song Goodnight Irene for Decca Records in New York City, USA. Although originally released as the b-side of Tzena, Tzena, Tzena, it will become a No1 hit for them. (1950)
May 26 1950	The Walt Disney animated film Cinderella, including the songs A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes, Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo, So This is Love, Sing Sweet Nightingale, The Work Song, and Cinderella, is released to cinemas in Brazil. (1950)
May 26 1950	Louis Jordan And His Orchestra begin a week at The Regal, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1950)
May 26 1950	Ray Charles And His Orchestra record Th' Ego Song and Someday for Swing Time Records in Los Angeles, California, USA. (1950)
May 26 1950	Bill Bardo opens at The Miami Hotel, Dayton, Ohio, USA. (1950)
May 26 1950	Paul Weston records Stars Fell On Alabama for Capitol Records in the USA. The track will appear on his album Music For The Fireside. (1950)
May 26 1950	The fifteen-minute radio program, The Les Paul Show, on NBC in the USA, opens with a rendition of Little Rock Getaway. The show features The Les Paul Trio [guitarist Les Paul, singer Mary Ford, and rhythm player Eddie Stapleton]. (1950)
May 26 1950	Johnny Parker, with The Pete Rugolo Orchestra and The King Sisters, records Can't Seem To Laugh Anymore, Never Again, Our Little Ranch House and Two Weeks With Pay at MGM Studios, New York City, USA. The orchestra includes such jazz luminaries as Maynard Ferguson, Art Pepper, Bud Shank, Shelley Manne and Kai Winding. (1950)
May 26 1950	Vic Lewis And His Modern Concert Orchestra record Over The Rainbow, Serenade In Blue, A Hundred Years From Today and Love For Sale for Parlophone Records in London, UK. (1950)
May 26 1950	Harry Gold And His Pieces Of Eight play at The Savoy Ballroom, Portsmouth, UK. (1950)
May 26 1950	Doris Day, accompanied by Alex Stordahl And His Orchestra, records I'll Be Around in Hollywood, California, USA. (1950)
May 26 1950	Owen Bradley records Close Your Pretty Eyes, Say When, La Vie En Rose and I Wanna Be Loved, for Coral Records in Castle Studio [founded by Paul Cohen] in The Tulane Hotel, 206 8th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. (1950)
May 26 1950	Jimmy Palmer And His Orchestra play the sixth night of four weeks at The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1950)
May 26 1950	Griff Williams And His Orchestra play the sixth of 28 nights at The Trianon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1950)
May 26 1950	Frankie Laine and Patti Page play the tenth night in a three-week season at The Paramount Theater, New York City, USA. (1950)
May 26 1950	Judy Garland is rehearsing for the film Royal Wedding in which she co-stars with Fred Astaire. Garland will be fired before the film is completed. (1950)
May 26 1953	Jane Froman sings I'm Sittin' On Top of the World, Take A Trip in a Rocket Ship, Destination Moon, If I Loved You A Mountain, Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better and Black Magic, on the CBS-tv show USA Canteen, in the USA. (1953)
May 26 1953	The first Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Festival is held in Meridian, Mississippi, USA, to honour the anniversary of the great sountry music singer, Jimmie Rodgers' death. (1953)
May 26 1953	Perry Como records The Twelve Days of Christmas, Joy To The World and God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen, for RCA Victor Records in The Manhattan Center, New York City, USA. (1953)
May 26 1955	In Meridian, Mississippi, Elvis Presley pulls his new Cadillac into a paint store, buys a tin of paint and paints his name boldly along both sides of the vehicle. (1955)
May 26 1955	Kenny Baker And His Dozen record Bugler's Lament, There'll Never Be Another You, If You Were The Only Girl, Whistle And I'll Come To You, Gal From Joe's, Coquette, We'll Always Be Sweethearts and Too Cool For The Blues, for Pye/Nixa Records in London, UK. (1955)
May 26 1956	I'm In Love Again by Fats Domino, replaces Long Tall Sally by Little Richard at the top of the Billboard US R?n?B chart. (1956)
May 26 1956	I'm In Love Again by Fats Domino, replaces Long Tall Sally by Little Richard at the top of the Billboard R'n'B chart in the USA. (1956)
May 26 1956	Hot Diggity [Dog Ziggity Boom] by Perry Como enters the UK Popular Singles Chart at No15. It will peak at No4 during a thirteen-week run on the chart. (1956)
May 26 1956	Lillian Roth plays the second of two nights at The Lagoon, Salt Lake City, USA. (1956)
May 26 1956	Liberace plays a three-hour long solo performance to a crowd of 16,000 at Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA. The audience is noted to be mostly female. (1956)
May 26 1957	Frankie Laine plays the last night in a two-week season at the Palladium, London, UK. (1957)
May 26 1957	Ray Charles spends the first of two days recording the Atlantic Records single, That's Enough at Capitol Recording Studios, New York City, USA. (1957)