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- Event1956Elvis Presley sings Heartbreak Hotel and Blue Suede Shoes on Milton Berle's NBC-TV show (live from the deck of the U.S.S. Hancock in San Diego).Read more
- Event1956Elvis Presley played the first of two nights in San Diego Arena in San Diego, California. The local Police chief issued a statement saying if Elvis ever returned to the city and performed like he did, he would be arrested for disorderly conduct.Read more
- Event1956Elvis Presley signed a seven-year contract with Paramount Pictures. Through a loan arrangement with Twentieth Century-Fox, Presley would go on to make his big-screen debut in November with the musical western Love Me Tender.Read more
- Event1956Having impressed Paramount Studios with his screen test five days earlier, Elvis Presley is signed to a seven-year, three- picture deal worth nearly half a million dollars.Read more
- Event1956The Capitol Tower, new home of Capitol Records, opens on the corner of Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles. The 13-story building, which resembles a stack of records, houses three new recording studios where Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Linda Ronstadt, and many other stars will lay down tracks. The building becomes an LA landmark, with the red light at the top flashing "HOLLYWOOD" in Morse Code.Read more
- Event1956Elvis Presley signed a seven-year contract with Paramount Pictures. Through a loan arrangement with Twentieth Century-Fox, Presley would go on to make his big-screen debut in November with the musical western Love Me Tender.Read more
- Event1956The Platters make their national television debut on Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey'sStage Show on CBS.Read more
- Event1956The CBS Radio Network premiered the first regularly scheduled national broadcast rock 'n' roll show, Alan Freed's Rock 'n' Roll Dance Party.Read more
- Event1956The CBS Radio Network premiered the first regularly scheduled national broadcast rock 'n' roll show, Alan Freed's Rock 'n' Roll Dance Party.Read more
- Event1956The CBS Radio Network premiered the first regularly scheduled national broadcast rock & roll show, Alan Freed's 'Rock 'n' Roll Dance Party.'Read more
- Event1956During a tour of Colorado, Texas and New Mexico, Elvis Presley played two shows at Denver Coliseum in Colorado, (1 matinee and 1 evening).Read more
- Event1956The Johnny Burnette Trio (with brother Dorsey) make the first of three appearances on Ted Mack's Amateur Hour on ABC-TV.Read more
- Event1956During a tour of Colorado, Texas and New Mexico, Elvis Presley played two shows at Denver Coliseum in Colorado, (1 matinee and 1 evening).Read more
- Event1956Gene Vincent recorded the classic rock 'n roll song 'Be Bop-A-Lula', which went on to be a US & UK Top 20 hit in this year.Read more
- Event1956Jerry Lee Lewis becomes the first artist to sing three songs on an episode of ABC-TV's American Bandstand (and he sings, not lip-synchs them).Read more
- Event1956The movie Rock Around The Clock, about a concert promoter (played by DJ Alan Freed) who brings Rock and Roll to the masses, opens in theaters. The film stars Bill Haley and His Comets and is named after their hit song. It is one of the first movies based on rock music and aimed at teenagers.Read more
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