Doris Day

October 26, 1957 - Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, CA

October 24, 1958 - Apollo

Bill Haley

October 22, 1956 - "Clint Reno" bill

October 22, 1957 - Ed Watt´s letter

Hank Williams with his mother

October 21, 1958 - Buddy Holly's last recording session took place at Pythian Temple Studios, New York City. The songs recorded included 'Raining In My Heart', 'Moondreams' and 'It Doesn't Matter Anymore' which became a No.1 hit

October 21, 1957 - Billy Lee Riley

William Patton Black Jr. (September 17, 1926 – October 21, 1965)

 Joe Lee played with Scotty Moore and Bill Black when Elvis went in the army

Fabian

This Friendly World

Bob Wills

October 20, 1955 - Harry Belafonte records a traditional Jamaican Folk tune called "The Banana Boat Song" ("Day-O"). It reached #5 in the US in early 1957 and later became Belafonte's signature song

 Harry Belafonte & Dorothy Dandridge

Patsy Cline

Johnny Horton

October 19 , 1958 - Brenda Lee records "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree". The song will be released as a single but will fail to chart in either 1958 or 1959. When it was re-released in 1960 it rose to #14 and has since become a Christmas standard, being ranked at #4 in the Top 10 All Time Christmas Songs

Frankie Lymon with his grandmother

1950's

Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) October 18, 1947 - On his twenty-first birthday, Chuck Berry leaves jail after serving three years for armed robbery. He would go on to hang bumpers on cars in an automotive factory, a janitor in an apartment building, and then as a beautician before recording "Maybellene" for Chess Records in 1955

     St Louis, 1955

Roy Orbison and Jack Kennelly

October 18, 1957 - Peggy Sue Gerron first heard the song that was named for her when she went to see Buddy Holly & the Crickets in concert in Sacramento, California. Gerron later married Crickets drummer Jerry Allison Picture: July 22, 1958

Julie London (September 26, 1926 - October 18, 2000)

Texaco

October 17 , 1960 - Dion And The Belmonts split up over what is described as "musical differences". Dion DiMucci says that the Belmonts are leaning too much toward "Middle Of The Road" music, but insiders say that the sharing of money is the major factor

October 17, 1957 - "Jailhouse Rock", the Elvis Presley film, premiered in Memphis at Loews State Theatre, where Elvis worked as an usher five years earlier

Audrey Hepburn

October 16, 1957 - Fats is discussing his performance with director Will Cowan during filming The Big Beat

Kim Novak

October 15, 1955 - Buddy Holly, Larry Welborn, and Bob Montgomery opened a show for Elvis Presley in Lubbock, TX

New Pop-Tarts

1950's

William Everett "Bill" Justis, Jr. (October 14, 1926 – July 15, 1982)

Cliff Richard (October 14, 1940) Cliff Richard jives with dancer Doreen Freeman at Elstree Studios, London

October 14, 1956 - San Antonio, TX

Conway Twitty and family

Tab Hunter

October 10, 1959 - Brenda Lee was hospitalized with a thyroid deficiency in Nashville, Tennessee

October 10, 1949 - Life Magazine by Nina Leen

Bowman

October 9, 1958 - Eddie Cochran recorded the classic song, 'C'mon Everybody', which became a 1959 UK No.6 single for Cochran and a 1979 hit for the Sex Pistols

October 9, 1959

October 9, 1956 - Roy Orbison´s contract