Rock Source Music Facts Day by Day


May 24 1919	Big band jazz bandleader and RCA recording artist Herbie Fields is born in Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA. (1919)
May 24 1926	Ben Selvin And His Orchestra record Here I Am, for Vocalion Records in New York City, USA. (1926)
May 24 1926	Ben Selvin And His Orchestra record Here I Am, for Vocalion Records in New York City, USA. (1926)
May 24 1926	Fess Williams And His Royal Flush Orchestra record Make Me Know It and My Mama's In Town, for Harmony Records in New York City, USA. (1926)
May 24 1929	Al Starita And The Piccadilly Players record I Lift Up My Finger And I Say 'Tweet Tweet', A House On A Hill Top, It Wasn't Meant To Be and Where Do I Want To Be in London, UK, for Columbia Records. (1929)
May 24 1929	Harry Bidgood And His Broadcasters record I'll Never Ask For More, for Vocalion Records in London, UK. Bidgood is perhaps better known as an accordian bandleader under his pseudonym of Primo Scala. (1929)
May 24 1930	Bill Darby And His Orchestra play at the opening of Playland Amusement Park, Bitter Lake, North Seattle, Washington, USA. Darby's orchestra will become Playland's resident band, performing in Playland's enormous dance pavilion, with 9,600 square feet of maple floor. Admission to the dance hall is 25 cents during the day and 50 cents in the evening -- for men only. Women are allowed in for free. (1930)
May 24 1933	Al Bowlly, accompanied by Ray Noble and his Orchestra, records I Shall Keep Smiling Along, for HMV Records in London, UK. (1933)
May 24 1935	The musical short Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party, filmed at The Cotton Club, Harlem, New York City, is released to cinemas in the USA. (1935)
May 24 1935	Harry Roy And His Orchestra record the Harry Warren composition Lullaby Of Broadway, for Decca Records in London, UK. (1935)
May 24 1937	Ella Fitzgerald and her Savoy 8 record Everybody’s Wrong But Me, All Over Nothing At All, Deep In The Heart Of The South and If You Should Ever Leave for Decca Records in the USA. (1937)
May 24 1937	Jazz saxophonist/composer Archie Shepp is born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (1937)
May 24 1940	The Count Basie Orchestra plays at the Apollo Theatre, Harlem, New York City. (1940)
May 24 1940	Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra, with vocalist Frank Sinatra, play at the Astor Hotel, New York City, during a fourteen?week engagement. (1940)
May 24 1941	Soul jazz composer, organist, and saxophonist Charles Earland is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. (1941)
May 24 1945	Jazz, soul and folk singer, songwriter and guitarist Terry Callier is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. (2006)
May 24 1946	Woody Herman And His Orchestra play in Chiacgo, Illinois, USA. (1946)
May 24 1946	Xavier Cugat And His Orchestra play in New York City, USA. (1946)
May 24 1950	Jazz pianist Erroll Garner and vocalist Florence Wright record The Real Gone Tune and You And Me for National Records in the USA. (1950)
May 24 1950	Louis Armstrong, while in the Horse Shoe Bar, Rock Island, Illinois, USA, writes to Ken 'Stuff' Murray to tell him how much he enjoyed working with him on Murray's 30 minute variety show, The Ken Murray Show, on CBS-tv in New York City, USA. (1950)
May 24 1950	Billie Holiday, backed by The Apollo House Band, makes a live radio broadcast, from The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA. (1950)
May 24 1950	Sidney Bechet plays at The Rendez-vous Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. (1950)
May 24 1950	Tex Beneke And His Orchestra play the tenth night of four weeks at The Cafe Rouge in The Hotel Statler, New York City, USA. (1950)
May 24 1950	Louis Jordan And His Orchestra play the sixth night of a week at The Paramount Theatre, Detroit, Michigan, USA. (1950)
May 24 1950	Jazz pianist Larry Green plays the last night of a ten-day engagement at Bill Green's Casino, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. (1950)
May 24 1950	Jimmy Palmer And His Orchestra play the fourth night of four weeks at The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1950)
May 24 1950	Griff Williams And His Orchestra play the fourth of 28 nights at The Trianon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1950)
May 24 1952	The Squadronnaires Dance Orchestra play at The Festival Hall, Kirkby In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, UK. (1952)
May 24 1955	Pioneering blues vocalist and OKeh Records artist, Sara Martin, known as 'the blues sensation from the west' dies of a stroke in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. (1955)
May 24 1955	Billy Eckstine plays at The Hippodrome, Coventry, UK. (1955)
May 24 1957	Louis Armstrong And His All-Stars play the first of two nights at The Lagoon, Salt Lake City, USA. (1957)
May 24 1959	Acker Bilk And His Paramount Jazz Band plus Mick Mulligan And His Band with George Melly, play at St. George's Hall, Bradford, UK. (1959)
May 24 1959	Kid Thomas Valentine's Creole Jazz Band record Panama, Mama Inez and other tracks in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. (1959)
May 24 1961	Ray Charles plays at L'Olympia, Paris, France. (1961)
May 24 1968	Dick Jurgens And His Orchestra play at The Willowbrook Ballroom, Willow Springs, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1968)
May 24 1977	Weather Report play at The Arlington Theater, Santa Barbara, California, USA. (1977)
May 24 2010	Crossover jazz pianist and singer Jamie Cullum releases a new single, Wheels, in the UK. (2010)
May 24 2011	Multi-award-winning jazz vocalist Clare Teal plays at Epsom Playhouse, Epsom, UK. (2011)