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King Records, a race record company, would be created for african-american singers
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Race Records, which was a record company for African-American singers and songwriters was created by King Records
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Little Richards first single is released
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"That's All Right" was Elvis Presley's first single back on this date, This song was relesased by Sun Records.
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Ray Charles and his band form
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Carl Perkins recorded "Blue Suede Shoes" in 1955
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Bill Haley and the Comets debuted the song "Rock Around the Clock" which was a best seller in 1955.
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The Everly Brothers debuted in the year of 1955
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Little Richard would debut the song "Tutti Frutti" and be #1 on the pop charts
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American Bandstand was first aired on National Television in 1956
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Jerry Lee Lewis releases his first debut single "A Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"
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Jerry Lee Lewis sings "Great Balls Of Fire" which is #1 on billboard charts in 1957.
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Elvis moves into the army. He would end up serving from 1958 until 1960.
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Muddy Waters goes to England, where he shocked the people with his blues music
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On Feburary 3rd, 1959, a small charter plane crashed just north of Clear Lake, Iowa. 4 were found dead, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, J.P. Richardson "BIg Bopper", and Richard Peterson (the pilot). They were found dead in a fencline of a field.
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Elvis comes back from the army to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show
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Ray Charles comes out with his first top charting single "Georgia on my Mind"
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The Beatles would debut on this day at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, England
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Robert Zimmerman, known as Bob Dylan, reports to New York City in search of a career
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The Supremes first recordings are released
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Stevie Wonder comes out with his #1 hit single "Fingertips"
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Bob Dylan, folk singer would play at Newport Folk Festival for the first time
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In 1964, The Who was created and started to create topping singles
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Alan Freed, known as "Moondog" dies at age 43
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Bob Dylan goes electric gutair, his fans outrage
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"Big Boy" would be the Jackson 5 first single
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A 3 day concert series feauturing some of the greatest rock and roll singers at the time dragged thousands of people for a big get together
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The beatles would quit recording together and split up
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On this day, Jimi Hendrix would be found dead by overdose of herion
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One year later, movie producers created a documentary of woodstock in 1969
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The band KISS forms
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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band debut
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The Rockband KISS debut album comes out
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The sex pistols came to the United States
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Elvis dies in his bathroom
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Prince debuted his first album, For You
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MTV is created
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Prince's album "Purple Rain" goes 1 for 25 straight weeks
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Michael Jackson is rushed to the hospital after his hair catches fire during filming for a pepsi commercial
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Madonna's album "Like a Virgin" is released and is on the charts for the US and UK
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Run DMC remaked the song "Walk This Way" original song by Aerosmith
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Wal-Mart Bans music labled "explict"
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Lolopoolooza was a big concert feauturing a bunch of big singers
