(Saturday, May 21, 1955) — “Dance with Me, Henry” by Georgia Gibbs was the #2 song on today’s Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart for one week.
Category Archives: 1950s
‘Unchained Melody’ by Les Baxter peaks at #2 in USA 60 years ago today (May 14 1955)
(Saturday, May 14, 1955) — “Unchained Melody” by Les Baxter was the #2 song on today’s Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart for six weeks.
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‘Rock Around the Clock’ by Bill Haley and His Comets debuts at #22 in USA 60 years ago today (May 14 1955)
(Saturday, May 14, 1955) — “Rock Around the Clock” by Bill Haley and His Comets (featuring the late Danny Cedrone on the electric guitar solo), widely considered to be the song that, more than any other, brought rock and roll into mainstream culture around the world, debuted at #22 on today’s Billboard Best Sellers in Stores top 30 chart.
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Eight Communist bloc countries sign Warsaw Pact 60 years ago today (May 14 1955)
(Saturday, May 14, 1955, during the Cold War) — Representatives from eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, signed the Warsaw Pact, a collective defense treaty to counter NATO, today in Poland. The Pact was dissolved in July 1991.
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Riot breaks out at Elvis Presley concert in Jacksonville 60 years ago today (May 13 1955)
Video: 'Elvis Presley Interview 1955 Jacksonville, FL'
(Friday, May 13, 1955) — A riot broke out at an Elvis Presley concert today at the Gator Bowl Baseball Park in Jacksonville, Florida, the first time trouble was reported at one of his concerts. Witnesses say the crowd went crazy when Presley said, “Girls, I’ll see you backstage.”
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Manhattan’s last elevated rail line ceases operation 60 years ago this hour (May 12 1955)
Video: 'THIRD AVENUE EL - "The Vanishing El" - New York City's last "El" trains.'
(Thursday, May 12, 1955, 6:00 p.m. EDT) — The main portion of the Third Avenue El closed tonight from Chatham Square to East 149th Street in the Bronx, ending the operation of elevated service in Manhattan.
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‘Lucy and Harpo Marx’ episode airs on ‘I Love Lucy’ 60 years ago this hour (May 9 1955)
Video: 'Reflections Of A Different Time - Lucille Ball and Harpo Marx - I Love Lucy - Mirror Sketch'
(Monday, May 9, 1955, 9:00 p.m. EDT) — The gang meets Harpo Marx and Lucy does the famous ‘mirror’ routine with him on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV sitcom series I Love Lucy.
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‘Damn Yankees’ opens on Broadway 60 years ago this hour (May 5 1955)
Video: 'Damn Yankees (OBC) - Those Were The Good Old Days'
(Thursday, May 5, 1955, 7:45 p.m. EDT) — Damn Yankees, a new musical based on the novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant by Douglass Wallop, opened tonight on Broadway at the 46th Street Theatre in New York. The production starred Ray Walston (Mr. Applegate) and Gwen Verdon (Lola).
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West Germany becomes a fully sovereign state 60 years ago today (May 5 1955)
(Thursday, May 5, 1955; during the Cold War) — The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) became a sovereign state today when the United States, France, and Great Britain end their military occupation, which had begun with the end of World War II in 1945.
With Konrad Adenauer as chancellor (pictured above reading a paper), West Germany was given the right to rearm and become a full-fledged member of the western alliance against the Soviet Union.
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‘Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White)’ by Pérez Prado and His Orchestra peaks at #1 in USA 60 years ago today (Apr 30 1955)
(Saturday, April 30, 1955) — “Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White)” by Pérez Prado and His Orchestra was the #1 song on today’s Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart for 10 consecutive weeks (Apr. 30, May 7/14/21/28, June 4/11/18/25, July 2, 1955).
