March 31, 1958 – United Airlines, Time Magazine

March 31, 1957 - Olympia Stadium, Detroit, Michigan

March 31, 1956 - Brenda Lee made her television debut on Ozark Jambouree on ABC, singing "Jambalaya"

March 31, 1949 - The 45 rpm single record was first introduced by RCA Victor, one year after the LP record was introduced by Columbia. Both provided better sound quality and longer playing time than the 78 rpm that had been the standard

March 30 ,1957 - At Allen Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana

March 30, 1957 - Buddy Knox became the first artist in the Rock 'n' Roll era to write his own number one hit when 'Party Doll' topped the US singles chart. Knox would go on to score four more US Top 40 hits between 1957 and 1961 Picture: Eddie Cochran with Buddy Knox & Jimmy Bowen and Ray Price backstage at The biggest show of stars in 1957. Rare picture

Natalie Wood

When Better Automobiles Are Built Buick Will Build Them

March 1959 - Elvis Presley, Lamar Fike and Red West

Louis Armstrong at Paramount Theatre on Broadway, 1937

Patsy Cline

Chuck Berry and Little Walter

Marilyn Monroe Niagara, 1952

March 28, 1958 - Eddie Cochran recorded "Summertime Blues."

Ritchie Valens

March 27, 1957 (Graham Knight Collection)

March 27, 1957 - Elvis and George Klein at Memphis Central Station, waiting to leave on the Panama Limited 11.25pm departure

March 27, 1958 - CBS announced the invention of stereophonic records. The new discs could be played on existing record players, but when played on new stereo players, the listener could hear a much richer and fuller sound

Janis Darlene Martin (March 27, 1940 – September 3, 2007)

March 26, 1955 - Johnny Ace was still cooking with the #1 R&B song--"Pledging My Love" was there for a ninth week

Jack Scott

Jerry Lee Lewis

March 24, 1956

March 24, 1958 - At 6.35am, Elvis Presley reported to the Memphis draft board. From there Elvis and twelve other recruits were taken by bus to Kennedy Veterans Memorial Hospital where the singer was assigned army serial number 53310761

Elvis Presley, 1959

March 23,- 1959 "Venus" by Frankie Avalon spent a third week at #1

John Wayne and Frankie Avalon

March 23, 1959 - Brook Benton had the #1 song on the R&B chart with "It's Just A Matter Of Time"

Marilyn Monroe

Marty Robbins

March 22, 1957 - Elvis Presley released the single "All Shook Up"

March 22, 1956 - March 22, 1956 - While driving to New York for appearances on 'The Perry Como Show', and 'The Ed Sullivan Show', the car that Carl Perkins was traveling in was involved in an accident putting Perkins in hospital for several months. The singer received four broken ribs and a broken shoulder

March 21, 1952 - The Moondog Coronation Ball, 25000 people attend the first "Rock 'n' Roll" stage show, was held at the Cleveland Arena

Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis and Audrey Hepburn

Grace Kelly

Red

 

March 12, 1957 - Buddy Holly & the Crickets recorded "Maybe Baby" at Norman Petty's studio in Clovis, New Mexico

March 1955 - Patsy on stage at the Brunswick, MD - Moose Lodge, with Bill Peer and His Melody Boys

Elvis Presley

March 5, 1963 - Country singers Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins were killed in a plane crash near Camden, Tennessee. They were travelling to Nashville after appearing at a benefit concert for the widow of Kansas City disc jockey 'Cactus' Jack Call, who had died in a car crash. On 7 March, country singer Jack Anglin was killed in a car crash on his way to Cline's funeral. Cline was the first country singer to cross over as a pop artist

March 5, 1955 - Elvis Presley made his TV debut when he appeared on the weekend show 'Louisiana Hayride' on KWKH TV, broadcast from Shreveport Auditorium in Shreveport, Louisiana

(Jason Wilburn Collection)

Louis Armstrong

Elizabeth Taylor

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Eddie Cochran - March 1959

1950's

March 3, 1960 - Elvis arrives at McGuire Air Force Base near Fort Dix, New Jersey in the middle of a snowstorm after spending two years in the army in Germany

Elvis interview; March 3, 1960 Fort Dix, New Jersey

March 3, 1947 - Can´t Get You Out of My Mind by Hank Williams

March 3, 1959