May 31, 1958 - Private Elvis Presley completed eight weeks of basic training at Fort Hood, Texas. The next day, he began two weeks furlough by returning to Memphis, Tennessee, and then returned for advanced tank training on June 14

May 31, 1956 - After seeing the movie The Searchers starring John Wayne, Buddy Holly was inspired to write "That'll Be The Day"

Marilyn Monroe

Hank Williams and family

Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra

Sophia Loren having coffee in a coffee shop in Manhattan, New York City, 1958

Audrey Hepburn

Las Vegas - The Thunderbird Hotel

May 26, 1958

Norma Delores Egstrom aka Peggy Lee (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002)

May 26, 1958 - Jerry Lee Lewis played what would be his final concert in the U.K., booed off stage by angry British. People found out that he had been married to his 13 year-old cousin and it was "Bye, Bye Jerry!" When Lewis returned to the United States, he was blacklisted from radio stations, his record company mocked him, and he went from making $10,000 per performance to finding gigs for $250

London, 1958

Breakfast

May 25, 1955 - Elvis performed at the American Legion Hall in Meridian, Missippssi at the Jimmie Rogers Memorial Celebration. Jimmie Rodgers Snow in Elvis car

Cline and Cash, backstage during the 1962 tour

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Pierino Ronald Como aka Perry Como (May 18, 1912 – May 12, 2001) The night of Hank's appearance on Perry Como's show

Joseph Vernon "Big Joe" Turner Jr. (May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985)

Ritchie Valens on the set of the motion picture Go Johnny Go

Roy Orbison

Anna Mae Bullock aka Tina Turner Sumner High School in 1958

Webb Pierce and his son

Betty and Veronica

Eddie Cochran and Yvonne Lime

Richard Edward "Eddy" Arnold (May 15, 1918 – May 8, 2008)

May 15, 1954 - A Memphis truck driver named Elvis Presley auditions with the house band at Memphis' Hi Hat Club and is told he'll never make it as a singer

Humes High School

Marilyn Monroe

Elvis Presley and Scotty Moore in Lacrosse, Wisconsin on May 14th, 1956

Marilyn Monroe in Central Park, 1957

May 14, 1956 - Buddy Holly's doctor gave him contact lenses for his 20/800 eyesight (didn't know they were around back then!), but Buddy could not get used to them, so his trademark glasses remained

May 14, 1956 - The self-titled album by the Platters was released on Mercury Records

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 -May 14, 1998)

RIP Doris Day

James Robert Wills "Bob Wills" (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975)

Richard Steven Valenzuela "Ritchie Valens" (May 13, 1941 – February 3, 1959)

Elvis Presley

Marilyn Monroe at a company picnic with Radioplane Co. in Balboa Park, San Diego in 1944

May 12, 1958 - The movie Let's Rock, starring Paul Anka, Danny & the Juniors and the Royal Teens opened to audiences

Tony Curtis

1950´s

May 11, 1958 - Connie Francis rose to #1 in the U.K. with "Who's Sorry Now"

May 11, 1957 - Buddy Holly and the Crickets auditioned for "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts" and were rejected

May 11, 1957 - The Everly Brothers made their debut on "Grand Ole Opry" in Nashville, TN

1950´s

1950´s

Clarence Eugene "Hank" Snow (May 9, 1914 – December 20, 1999)

May 9, 1958 - Disc Jockey Alan Freed quit radio station WINS in New York City after they refused to stand behind him in the wake of recent charges of inciting a riot at a Boston concert

The McGuire Sisters

Elvis Presley, 1956

Johnny Maestro (May 7, 1939 - March 24, 2010) Johnny Maestro's 21st Birthday standing 2nd, Santo and Johnny, Ralph Lizano, Al Contrera and Albee Cracolici (The Mystics). Rare picture