Rocking50s Blog

Sunday December 27
Elvis Presley's original guitarist, Scotty Moore ("Heartbreak Hotel") is 78
Dick St. John of Dick & Dee Dee ("Thou Shalt Not Steal") dies of injuries sustained in a fall off a ladder, 2003
Bob Luman ("Let's Think About Living") dies of pneumonia in 1978
Walter Scott, lead singer of Bob Kuban & the In-Men ("The Cheater"), is shot to death by his wife's lover (his body is discovered three years later), 1983
Delaney Bramlett of Delaney and Bonnie ("Only You Know And I Know") dies from complications of gall bladder surgery, 2008
John Lennon meets his first wife, Cynthia Powell, at a class at the Liverpool College of Art, 1958
Chuck Berry is sued by the former cook of his Wentzville, Missouri restaurant for allegedly putting a video camera in the ladies' restroom, 1989
The "Sonny And Cher Comedy Hour" CBS-TV show begins its 3-year regular season run (it had previously been a Summer replacement show), 1971
The Supremes make the first of 20 appearances on CBS-TV's "Ed Sullivan Show", 1964
Davy Jones appears on an episode of ABC-TV's "Ben Casey" a year before "The Monkees" debuts, 1965
Ray Charles records "One Mint Julep", 1960

Sunday December 27
Elvis Presley's original guitarist, Scotty Moore ("Heartbreak Hotel") is 78
Dick St. John of Dick & Dee Dee ("Thou Shalt Not Steal") dies of injuries sustained in a fall off a ladder, 2003
Bob Luman ("Let's Think About Living") dies of pneumonia in 1978
Walter Scott, lead singer of Bob Kuban & the In-Men ("The Cheater"), is shot to death by his wife's lover (his body is discovered three years later), 1983
Delaney Bramlett of Delaney and Bonnie ("Only You Know And I Know") dies from complications of gall bladder surgery, 2008
John Lennon meets his first wife, Cynthia Powell, at a class at the Liverpool College of Art, 1958
Chuck Berry is sued by the former cook of his Wentzville, Missouri restaurant for allegedly putting a video camera in the ladies' restroom, 1989
The "Sonny And Cher Comedy Hour" CBS-TV show begins its 3-year regular season run (it had previously been a Summer replacement show), 1971
The Supremes make the first of 20 appearances on CBS-TV's "Ed Sullivan Show", 1964
Davy Jones appears on an episode of ABC-TV's "Ben Casey" a year before "The Monkees" debuts, 1965
Ray Charles records "One Mint Julep", 1960