Johnny Cash

June 27, 1960 - Connie Francis' "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" hits #1

June 26, 1954 - Sam Phillips, head of Sun Records, calls a young singer named Elvis Presley, who had recorded a few songs there earlier in the year, and asks him to record two songs, "Without You" and "Rag Mop." He sings the first, attempting to match a demo made by an unknown person hanging around the studio, but it proves too much for him, and, according to Dave Marsh's book Elvis, beats the walls of the studio, repeatedly shouting "I hate him! I hate him!" The singer whom Elvis could not match is lost to history. Phillips mollifies the young Elvis by asking him to sing something else, and Presley impresses him anyway, to the point that he makes plans to set the singer up with musicians for a future date

DJ Fontana knotting Elvis´ tie. Rare picture

Elvis Presley

Johnny Burnette

1950´s

Valerie June Carter Cash (June 23, 1929 – May 15, 2003)

June Carter and Carl Smith show off their daughter, Carlene Carter

Jerry Lee Lewis

www.jerryleelewis.org 

June 22, 1963

Lonzo and Oscar

Hank Williams

June 20, 1962 - Ricky Nelson records "Teenage Idol"

Roy Orbison

The Wild One

Red West, Vernon, Lamar Fike, Elvis. Germany

June 18, 1947

Don Francis Bowman Harris (June 18, 1938 – November 30, 1999)

Evelyn Wilson and Minnie Pearl (Owen Bradley´s Quonset Hut Collection)

June 16, 1956 - Wink Martindale and Elvis Presley at WHBQ in Memphis

Charlie Feathers (June 12, 1932 – August 29, 1998)

 Charlie Feathers in 1950

Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys

June 12, 1957 - Jerry Lee Lewis' "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On" enters the country charts

June 12, 1959 - Sam Cooke insists on racially integrated seating for tonight's dual-headlining show with Jackie Wilson in Norfolk, VA

Kim Novak

Pat O'Neil, Billy Lee Riley and Martin Willis recording in the studio at Sun in Memphis - ca. 1958 (Scotty Moore Collection)

June 11, 1958 - Elvis Presley records "I Got Stung"

Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004)

Hank Williams

Jack Leroy "Jackie" Wilson, Jr. (June 9, 1934 – January 21, 1984)

Ken Marvin, Ray Price, Smokey Smith, and Carl Smith, KRNT, Des Moines, Iowa

(Owen Bradley´s Quonset Hut Collection)

Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps

Dean Martin (June 7, 1917 - December 25, 1995)

June 7, 1956 - Long Beach, CA

Little Richard

Jim Reeves poses with his bus, Big Blue

June 6, 1960 - Roy Orbison releases "Only The Lonely"

Coca Cola

June 6-7, 1957 - On the set of Jailhouse Rock

June 6, 1955 - Texarkana, TX

Johnny Cash and The Tennessee Two

Janis Martin

James Dean

Homer Louis "Boots" Randolph III (June 3, 1927 – July 3, 2007)

 Gordon Stoker (The Jordanaires) and Boots Randolph the day I met him in Memphis, August 2005

Boots Randolph on sax, Bob Moore on bass, Floyd Cramer on piano, Scotty Moore and Hank Garland on guitar, DJ Fontana on drums, The Jordanaires vocals.

June 3, 1955 - Elvis at the coliseum with Buddy Holly and Bob Montgomery

Billboard Magazine - June 3, 1957

Boyd Byron Bennett (December 7, 1924 – June 2, 2002)

 (Boyd Bennett and The Rockets, 1955)  

June 2, 1956 - Billboard Magazine

Norma Jeane Mortenson - Norma Jeane Baker aka Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926-August 5, 1962)