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This week, Mickey "velcomes" you to a show of '50s-'60s oldies by doo wop groups with names starting with VEL — many being the same or similar. You didn't know there were so many VELS, did you? It's a "veluva" show.THIS WEEK IN ROCK HISTORY
Events involving 1950s & '60s performers & their influences
July 3, 1969 — Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones is found dead at age 27 in his swimming pool in England. The death is ruled accidental, although Jones, who had just quit the band, has high levels of alcohol in his blood.

July 4, 1955 — Gene Vincent's leg is crushed when his motorcycle is struck by a car in Franklin, Virginia.

1964 — The Beach Boys score their first #1 hit as "I Get Around" tops Billboard's Hot 100 chart, where it stays for two weeks.

July 5, 1954 — Elvis Presley's first professional recording session is held at Sun Records in Memphis, resulting in his first single, "That's All Right," a cover of a 1946 Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup R&B record. The Presley version is ranked number 113 on the 2010 Rolling Stone magazine list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time."

July 6, 1957 — Paul McCartney and John Lennon meet for the first time at the Village Fete in the Liverpool suburb of Woolton, where Lennon's group, the Quarrymen, are performing. When they meet again, Lennon asks McCartney to join his band.

July 8, 1908 — Bandleader Louis Jordan, considered the father of rhythm and blues, is born in Brinkley, Arkansas. His innovative jump blues style and humorous themes make him the most popular R&B artist of the 1940s and help pave the way for rock 'n' roll, influencing Chuck Berry, Bill Haley, and many others. However, rock eclipses him and many other popular R&B artists of the post World War II era.

1954 — Disc Jockey Dewey Phillips at WHBQ in Memphis becomes the first to play an Elvis Presley record when he spins "That's All Right" on his evening Red Hot & Blue show. The switchboard lights up, so Phillips keeps playing it. When he calls Elvis' home to invite him for an interview, his parents pull him out of a movie theater and drive the nervous lad to the studio.

July 9, 1955 — Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" becomes the first rock 'n' roll record to reach #1 on the Billboard pop chart. It had languished when originally released in 1954, but its choice as the theme for the 1955 movie Blackboard Jungle propels it to the top, where it remains for eight weeks, igniting the rock revolution in earnest.
1956 — Dick Clark takes over as emcee of the Philadelphia teen television dance show Bandstand from longtime host Bob Horn, fired by WFIL-TV after a drunk driving arrest. The show goes nationwide on the ABC network the next year retitled American Bandstand with Clark as host until 1989.

Sources:
Eight Days a Week (Ron Smith)
On This Day in Black Music History (Jay Warner)
Chronology of American Popular Music, 1900-2000 (Frank Hoffman)

Birthdays Singers and Song Writers

1939 - Paul Williams

American singer Paul Williams, who with The Temptations had the 1971 US No.1 & UK No.8 single 'Just My Imagination' and the re-issued 'My Girl' which was a UK No.2 hit in 1992. He died on 17 August 1973 after shooting himself. Williams was found dead in an alley in a car having just left the new house of his then-girlfriend after an argument.

1939 - Leapy Lee

Leapy Lee, UK singer, (Lee Graham), who scored the 1968 UK No.2 single 'Little Arrows' which was also a Top 40 country and pop hit in the United States.

1936 - Tom Springfield

Tom Springfield, from the British pop-folk vocal trio The Springfields who had the 1962 US No. 20 single 'Silver Threads And Golden Needles', and the 1963 UK No.5 single 'Island Of Dreams'. The Springfields included singer Dusty Springfield and her brother Tom Springfield. He died on 27 July 2022, at the age of 88.

1925 - Marvin Rainwater

American country and rockabilly singer and songwriter Marvin Rainwater, who had the 1957 US No.18 single 'Gonna Find Me A Bluebird', and the 1958 UK No.1 single 'Whole Lotta Woman.' He was known for wearing Native American-themed outfits on stage and claimed to have quarter-blood Cherokee ancestry. Rainwater died on October 18, 1994.

Early Beatles News

1969 - Paul McCartney

Working on tracks for the Abbey Road album, Paul McCartney recorded ‘Her Majesty’. Then Paul, George, and Ringo record 15 takes of ‘Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight’. John Lennon was absent, in hospital in Golspie, Scotland, following a car accident the previous day.

2001 - John Lennon

Liverpool Airport at Speke was renamed John Lennon Airport. Yoko Ono was present to unveil a new logo that included the late Beatle's famous self-portrait and the words, 'Above Us Only Sky' taken from his Imagine album.

Albums having a birthday in July, Steely Dan Countdown to Ecstasy 1973

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