KEY EVENTS ON MAY 21 IN MUSIC HISTORY 1950s On this day May 21 in 1955 – Chuck Berry recorded ‘Maybellene’ at Universal Recording studio in Chicago. It was released as a…

KEY EVENTS ON MAY 20 IN MUSIC HISTORY 1950s On this day May 20 in 1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets released ‘Rock Around the Clock’ as a single. The…

KEY EVENTS ON MAY 19 IN MUSIC HISTORY 1960s On this day May 19 in 1964 – British composer and music publisher Frederick Lawrence Wright died at the age of…

KEY EVENTS ON MAY 18 IN MUSIC HISTORY 1950s On this day May 18 in 1959 – With his rendition of the Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller song ‘Kansas City’, Wilbert Harrison topped…

KEY EVENTS ON MAY 17 IN MUSIC HISTORY 1950s On this day May 17 in 1957 – American pop singer Guy Mitchell scored his seventh and final number one single in the…

KEY EVENTS ON MAY 16 IN MUSIC HISTORY 1950s On this day May 16 in 1953 – Romani multi-instrumentalist and composer Jean Reinhardt also known by his stage name Django…

KEY EVENTS ON MAY 15 IN MUSIC HISTORY 1950s On this day May 15 in 1959 – With the double A-side ‘(Now and Then There’s) A Fool Such as I’…

KEY EVENTS ON MAY 14 IN MUSIC HISTORY 1950s On this day May 14 in 1959 – American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer Sidney Bechet died at the age of 62. 1960s…

KEY EVENTS ON MAY 13 IN MUSIC HISTORY 1950s On this day May 13 in 1955 – With his version of ‘Stranger in Paradise’, Tony Bennet reached number one on the…

KEY EVENTS ON MAY 12 IN MUSIC HISTORY 1950s On this day May 12 in 1958 – The Everly Brothers had the best-selling single in the United States with with ‘All I Have…