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Friday February 26
Fats Domino ("Blueberry Hill") is 82
Mitch Ryder ("Jenny Take A Ride") is 65
The late Johnny Cash ("A Boy Named Sue") is born in 1932
Cornell Gunter of the Coasters ("Charlie Brown") is shot to death in his car in Las Vegas, 1990
Buddy Miles ("Them Changes") dies of congestive heart failure, 2008
Harry Chapin's revue, "The Night That Made America Famous" opens on Broadway, 1975
Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" (his first million-seller) debuts on the Billboard charts, 1956
Chuck Berry receives a Lifetime Achivement Grammy Award, 1985
A U.S. Congresswoman introduces a bill to prohibit the distribution of "lewd, lascivious or filthy" recordings, 1954
LaVern Baker writes Congress and asks them to change the copyright laws to ban cover records of R&B tunes by white artists (her efforts are no more successful than the previous year's bill), 1955
Al Hirt records "Java", 1962

Friday February 26
Fats Domino ("Blueberry Hill") is 82
Mitch Ryder ("Jenny Take A Ride") is 65
The late Johnny Cash ("A Boy Named Sue") is born in 1932
Cornell Gunter of the Coasters ("Charlie Brown") is shot to death in his car in Las Vegas, 1990
Buddy Miles ("Them Changes") dies of congestive heart failure, 2008
Harry Chapin's revue, "The Night That Made America Famous" opens on Broadway, 1975
Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" (his first million-seller) debuts on the Billboard charts, 1956
Chuck Berry receives a Lifetime Achivement Grammy Award, 1985
A U.S. Congresswoman introduces a bill to prohibit the distribution of "lewd, lascivious or filthy" recordings, 1954
LaVern Baker writes Congress and asks them to change the copyright laws to ban cover records of R&B tunes by white artists (her efforts are no more successful than the previous year's bill), 1955
Al Hirt records "Java", 1962