Who can cling to a Ramblin´Rose

Marilyn Monroe

October 28, 1956 - Backstage Ed Sullivan Show

October 26, 1935 - The NBC Radio show Lux Radio Theatre presents its newest find - a 12-year-old girl singer named Judy Garland

Mahalia Jackson (October 26, 1911 – January 27, 1972) Mahalia Jackson in studio, 1954

Elvis in Germany, 1959

October 25, 1958 - Cliff Richard made his radio debut on Saturday Night on the BBC Picture: Cliff Richard and Vince Taylor in 1959

October 25, 1963 - Ricky Nelson and his wife celebrated the birth of daughter Tracy in Santa Monica, California Picture: Ricky Nelson and his brother David

Elvis Presley in 1956 - 1034 Audubon Drive, Memphis, TN - Rare picture (Billy Stanley Collection)

October 24, 1960 - For the ninth week, "Kiddio" by Brook Benton held off challengers for the #1 spot on the R&B chart

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Hank Sr standing in front of Quincy Jr High School in Quincy, Illinois in early 1950´s

October 23, 1961 - Dion started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Runaround Sue', it reached No.11 in the UK

Louis Armstrong and his band enjoying Coney Island

October 22, 1957

October 2, 1949

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

October 20, 1956 - Elvis Presley entered the chart with "Love Me Tender" Picture: Elvis Presley - Love Me Tender set

October 20, 1958 - Bobby Day enjoyed a third straight week at #1 on the R&B chart with "Rock-in Robin"

Bobby Day,  and songwriter, producer and record company owner Leon Rene stand outside Class Records and a 1959 Cadillac while presenting Bobby Day a gold record for 'Rockin' Robin' in Los Angeles

October 20, 1960 - Roy Orbison had his first UK No.1 single with 'Only The Lonely' and his first of 33 hits. The song was turned down by The Everly Brothers and Elvis Presley so Orbison decided to record the song himself

Johnny Horton and Fabian

October 19, 1957 - The Everly Brothers (Noel Thibault Collection)

Webb Pierce with Martha Lynn

Marilyn Monroe carrying a relative, Venice Beach 1927

Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017)

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

October 17, 1957 - The Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock premiered in Memphis, Tennessee at the same theater where Elvis used to work as an usher-- Loew's State Theatre

October 17, 1956 - Mickey & Sylvia recorded "Love Is Strange"

Picture: April 6, 1957   (Noel Thibault Collection)

Hank Sr with Ernest Tubb, Cowboy Copas and Red Foley in either late 1940´s or early 1950´s

Elvis at the 20th Century Fox Commissary 'Cafe De Paris' in Los Angeles, CA in early October 1956

Doris Day

October 16, 1961 - Decca records released 'Crazy' by Patsy Cline. The ballad, composed by Willie Nelson gave Cline a No.2 country hit in 1962. Nelson originally wrote the song for country singer Billy Walker, but Walker turned it down. The song's eventual success helped launch Nelson as a performer as well as a songwriter. It spent 21 weeks on the chart for Cline, and eventually became one of her signature tunes

Marilyn Monroe

San Francisco, 1958

October 15, 1951 - Little Richard recorded for the first time in Atlanta, Georgia, recording "Every Hour", "Goin' To Get Rich Quick", "Taxi Blues", and "Why Did You Leave Me"

Picture taken at Ann's Tick-Tock Club in Macon, GA. 1953

October 15, 1955 - Buddy & Bob (Buddy Holly) opened for Elvis Presley at the ‘Big D Jamboree’, held at Lubbock’s Cotton Club, Texas. Nashville talent scout Eddie Crandall was in audience and arranged for Holly to audition and record demos for the Decca US label

Buddy Holly and his father

Gene Vincent

October 14, 1955

James Dean visited the town where he had spent his youth, Fairmont Indiana,1955

October 13, 1957 - Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra introduced the new product from Ford, the Ford Edsel, on an hour long television special

Patsy Cline circa 1957 (Pastified Collection)

October 12,1956 - Backstage at the Heart O' Texas Coliseum, Waco, TX

October 12, 1957 (Noel Thibault Collection)

Marilyn Monroe

Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher

October 11, 1955 - Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and a new star by the name of Elvis Presley began an eleven-concert swing through the South with a stop in Abilene, Texas

Elvis with Ron Hendley and Jim Price at the Fair Park Auditorium in Abeline, TX

Packs Punch!

October 1949 - Bob Hope and Doris Day were in the Twin Ports helping WEBC radio celebrate its 25th anniversary

Johnny Cash (Lorrie Davis Bennett Collection)

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. Picture : Dig US Magazine Dec. 1957 (Noel Thibault Collection)

October 9, 1959 - Bobby Darin became the youngest performer to ever headline the Sands Hotel's Copa Room in Las Vegas, Nevada (21 years old). Johnny Mathis held the previous record at age 23