Video: 'Little Stevie Wonder - Thank You For Loving Me All The Way'
(Tuesday, October 23, 1962) — A 12-year-old named Little Stevie Wonder, born Stevland Hardaway Judkins, recorded his first single for Motown Records today at the label’s Hitsville Studio. It was called Thank You For Loving Me All The Way.
Video: 'The Beatles meet Little Richard'
(Friday, October 12, 1962) — Little Richard played a gig tonight at The Tower Ballroom in New Brighton, Wallasey, England, with a then-unknown local band called The Beatles opening for him.
Video: 'Moon River'
(Tuesday, May 29, 1962) — Composer Henry Mancini walked away with five awards tonight, all from his score for the movie Breakfast At Tiffany’s, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year for Moon River, at the 4th Grammy Awards held in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York. Judy Garland won Album of the Year (other than classical) for Judy at Carnegie Hall and Best New Artist went to Peter Nero.
Video: Ode to Brian Jones
(Saturday, April 7, 1962) — The core group of what would make the early Rolling Stones first came together today when Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were introduced to future Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones at the Ealing Jazz Club in London.
(Sunday, January 14, 1962, 8 p.m. EST) — Patti Page sang The Boll Weevil Song on tonight’s edition CBS-TV variety show The Ed Sullivan Show, broadcast live from the Stardust night club in Las Vegas.
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The Beatles: "Cry For A Shadow" (1961)
(Friday, June 23, 1961) — The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best), an English rock band formed in Liverpool, today completed their first professional studio recording sessions (which began yesterday, Thursday, June 22) at Friedrich Ebert Halle in Hamburg, West Germany, backing Tony Sheridan on four tracks, plus recording their own Cry For a Shadow, an instrumental written by John Lennon and George Harrison.
