July 6th 2026

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This week, Mickey "velcomes" you to a show of '50s-'60s oldies by doo wop groups with names starting with VEL — many being the same or similar. You didn't know there were so many VELS, did you? It's a "veluva" show.

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This week, Mickey "velcomes" you to a show of '50s-'60s oldies by doo wop groups with names starting with VEL — many being the same or similar. You didn't know there were so many VELS, did you? It's a "veluva" show.THIS WEEK IN ROCK HISTORY
Events involving 1950s & '60s performers & their influences
July 3, 1969 — Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones is found dead at age 27 in his swimming pool in England. The death is ruled accidental, although Jones, who had just quit the band, has high levels of alcohol in his blood.

July 4, 1955 — Gene Vincent's leg is crushed when his motorcycle is struck by a car in Franklin, Virginia.

1964 — The Beach Boys score their first #1 hit as "I Get Around" tops Billboard's Hot 100 chart, where it stays for two weeks.

July 5, 1954 — Elvis Presley's first professional recording session is held at Sun Records in Memphis, resulting in his first single, "That's All Right," a cover of a 1946 Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup R&B record. The Presley version is ranked number 113 on the 2010 Rolling Stone magazine list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time."

July 6, 1957 — Paul McCartney and John Lennon meet for the first time at the Village Fete in the Liverpool suburb of Woolton, where Lennon's group, the Quarrymen, are performing. When they meet again, Lennon asks McCartney to join his band.

July 8, 1908 — Bandleader Louis Jordan, considered the father of rhythm and blues, is born in Brinkley, Arkansas. His innovative jump blues style and humorous themes make him the most popular R&B artist of the 1940s and help pave the way for rock 'n' roll, influencing Chuck Berry, Bill Haley, and many others. However, rock eclipses him and many other popular R&B artists of the post World War II era.

1954 — Disc Jockey Dewey Phillips at WHBQ in Memphis becomes the first to play an Elvis Presley record when he spins "That's All Right" on his evening Red Hot & Blue show. The switchboard lights up, so Phillips keeps playing it. When he calls Elvis' home to invite him for an interview, his parents pull him out of a movie theater and drive the nervous lad to the studio.

July 9, 1955 — Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" becomes the first rock 'n' roll record to reach #1 on the Billboard pop chart. It had languished when originally released in 1954, but its choice as the theme for the 1955 movie Blackboard Jungle propels it to the top, where it remains for eight weeks, igniting the rock revolution in earnest.
1956 — Dick Clark takes over as emcee of the Philadelphia teen television dance show Bandstand from longtime host Bob Horn, fired by WFIL-TV after a drunk driving arrest. The show goes nationwide on the ABC network the next year retitled American Bandstand with Clark as host until 1989.

Sources:
Eight Days a Week (Ron Smith)
On This Day in Black Music History (Jay Warner)
Chronology of American Popular Music, 1900-2000 (Frank Hoffman)

Birthdays Singers and Song Writers

1937 - Gene Chandler

American soul singer,Gene Chandler, (Eugene Dixon) who had the 1962 US No.1 single 'Duke Of Earl', and the 1979 UK No.11 single 'Get Down'.

1925 - Bill Haley

Bill Haley, (William John Clifton Haley), singer, guitarist, 'The first Rock 'n' Roll star.' As Bill Haley and his Comets he had the 1955 UK & US No.1 single Rock Around the Clock Haley was one of the earliest acts to bring rock and roll to the attention of white America and the rest of the world. He sold over 60 million records during his career. Haley died on 9th February 1981.

Early Beatles News

On the 40th anniversary of the world premiere of The Beatles film A Hard Day's Night, a private reunion of the cast and crew was hosted in London by DVD producer Martin Lewis. The screening was attended by Paul McCartney actors Victor Spinetti (the television director), John Junkin (the band's road manager), David Janson (the small boy met by Ringo on his "walkabout") and many of the crew members.

Albums having a birthday in July, Steely Dan Countdown to Ecstasy 1973

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