Marilyn Monroe

Robert Thomas Velline "Bobby Vee" (April 30, 1943 – October 24, 2016)

John LaGale "Johnny" Horton (April 30, 1925 – November 5, 1960)

April 30, 1957 - Elvis Presley recorded the classic "Jailhouse Rock". (Note: Some websites report that Presley recorded the song "Jailhouse Rock" on April 30 and May 3, and some say that he recorded it in three sessions--2 on April 30 and May 3 at Radio Recorders and 1 at MGM Studios in Hollywood, California. Presley did record songs for the movie 'Jailhouse Rock' on those other two days, but according to the book 'Elvis Presley: A Life In Music' by Ernst Jorgensen, Presley completed recording of the song "Jailhouse Rock" on April 30 at Radio Recorders.)

Wanda Jackson

Alan Freed

 

1950's

April 25, 1957 - Gene Vincent

April 25, 1960 - Elvis Presley started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Stuck On You', his first hit single after his two-year stint in the US Army. It became his first No.1 single of the 1960s and thirteenth overall

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917-June 15, 1996)

1950's

April 24,1959 - Buddy Holly was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with the Paul Anka song 'It Doesn't Matter Anymore.' A No.1 hit six weeks after Holly's death Picture: Buddy fishing at The Brazos Box

April 24, 1954 - Billboard Magazine

Pat Boone and Shirley Jones. April Love, 1957

Marilyn Monroe

April - May, 1956 - New Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas

Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 - December 6, 1988)

Life

April 1956 - Elvis made his Las Vegas debut at the New Frontier Hotel in the first night of a two-week residency. Rare picture

April 22, 1958

Kim Novak, 1958

1950's

April 18, 1956 - Elvis Tulsa, OK

Bill Haley

April 1955 – Pontiac Automobiles ~ New Yorker Magazine

April 17, 1961 - "Blue Moon" was #1 for the second week in a row for the Marcels

April 17, 1960 - Touring in the UK, 21-year-old US singer Eddie Cochran was killed when the taxi he was travelling in crashed into a lamppost on Rowden Hill, Chippenham, Wiltshire, (where a plaque now commemorates the event). Songwriter Sharon Sheeley and singer Gene Vincent survived the crash, Cochran's current hit at the time was 'Three Steps to Heaven'. The taxi driver, George Martin, was convicted of dangerous driving, fined £50, disqualified from driving for 15 years, and sent to prison for six months

Ronald Wycherley "Billy Fury" (17 April 1940 – 28 January 1983)

Elvis Presley in Paris, 1959

April 16, 1956 - Buddy Holly released his first single, "Blue Days, Black Nights"

Chuck Berry and Johnny Hallyday

Clint Eastwood

Gene Vincent, Dickie Harrell and The G-Clefs

New Frontier hotel, Las Vegas, April-May 1956

Marilyn Monroe

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Natalie Wood

Fats Domino and Eddie Cochran. Rare picture

April 13, 1959 - The Fleetwoods had the #1 song with "Come Softly To Me"

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The Contours

April 10, 1958 - Bobby Darin records "Splish Splash" and "Queen Of The Hop" at Atlantic Studios in New York Picture: Bobby Darin and Fabian

Elvis Presley, 1956

Elvis Presley, 1956

April 9, 1958 - Buddy Holly's Fender Stratocaster was stolen in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The replacement guitar was also stolen later the same month

Carl Lee Perkins (April 9, 1932 – January 19, 1998)

1950's

Eleanora Fagan Gough "Billie Holiday" (April 7, 1915 - July 17, 1959) Picture: Billie and Mister, 1949

April 7, 1956 - The CBS Radio Network debuts the first regularly scheduled, nationally broadcast Rock and Roll show, Rock 'n' Roll Dance Party, with Alan Freed as host

Kim Novak, Alfred Hitchcock and James Stewart on the set of Vertigo, 1958