Rock Source Music Facts Day by Day


May 18 1933	Spike Hughes And His Negro Orchestra record Sweet Sorrow Blues, Arabesque, Fanfare, Sweet Sue Just You and Music At Midnight, for Decca Records in New York City, USA. (1933)
May 18 1950	The Paul Williams Sextette records Jeep's Blues, Rye Boogie, Weasel Swing and Kugel Head for Savoy Records in New York City, USA. (1950)
May 18 1950	Blues and r'n'b shouter Wynonie Harris records Rock Mr. Blues, Stormy Night Blues, Good Morning Judge and Be Mine My Love, for King Records in New York City, USA. (1950)
May 18 1950	Vocalist and pianist Amos Milburn records Let's Rock A While, Hard Luck Blues, Two Years Of Torture and Remember for Aladdin Records at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. (1950)
May 18 1950	R'n'b pianist Ivory Joe Hunter plays the final night of a week at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA. (1950)
May 18 1958	Guitar Slim plays the first of two nights at The Blue Eagle, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. (1958)
May 18 1959	Bo Diddley releases a new single, Crackin' Up, on Checker Records in the USA. (1959)
May 18 1961	Jimmy Rogers plays the seventh night of two weeks in The Camellia House Lounge at The Drake Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1961)
May 18 1962	Hank Ballard and the Midnighters play the fifth of fourteen nights at the Roundtable Club, New York City, USA, supported by Dale Hawkins. (1962)
May 18 1962	When the Kansas City 5 play at The Downbeat, Newcastle, UK, their keyboardist, Alan Price, fails to turn up. The Kansas City 5 will, in due course, evolve into The Animals. (1962)
May 18 1965	Country music guitarist Doc Watson and The Danny Kalb Quartet [later known as The Blues Project] play the thirteenth of fifteen nights at The Gaslight Cafe, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA. (1965)
May 18 1967	The Bluesbenders play at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, supported by Cellars Of Sound, Just Us and The Nightshift. (1967)
May 18 1968	Canned Heat play the second of three nights at The Kinetic Playground [aka The Electric Theater], 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA, supported by The Litter. (1968)