September 29, 1959: After a one year dry spell, Little Anthony records his next smash hit...

September 29, 1959:
Following a bit of a dry spell after their #4 hit "Tears On My Pillow" a year earlier,

Little Anthony And The Imperials record "Shimmy Shimmy Koko Bop", which will reach #24 in the US early next year…

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September 22 in The EVOLUTION of ROCK ‘n ROLL: Joan Jett, Phil Spector, Mary Wells, The Marvelettes and The Supremes. OH YEAH…

September 22 in

The EVOLUTION of ROCK ‘n ROLL…

September 22, 1958:

Joan Jett  hits the planet…    

September 22, 1958:

"To Know Him Is To Love Him" by The Teddy Bears enters the Billboard Hot 100 at #88. Lead singer Annette Kleinbard was backed by Phil Spector on guitar, Marshall Leib on bass and last minute addition Sandy Nelson on drums. Although the recording session lasted only 20 minutes and cost just $75, the single would reach #1 in early December and sell over 1.4 million copies…  

September 22, 1962: Mary Wells hits #9 with "You Beat Me tothe Punch” 

September 22, 1962: 

"Beechwood4-5789"

 by the Marvelettes hits #17… 

September  22, 1965:

The Supremes record

"IHear A Symphony"

The tune will go on to become their sixth US number one. In the UK however, it could only reach #39…

MONSTER date

 in The EVOLUTION of ROCK ‘n ROLL…

 

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September 15, 1954: A bit of Rockin' Rhythm 'n Blues...

September 15, 1954:

 Annie Had A Baby by

 Hank Ballard And The Midniters,     

reaches 

on the Billboard R'n'B singles chart in the USA…

 On the same day, a cover of Arthur 'Big Boy'Crudup's  

    That's All Right by Elvis Presley  

    enters the local singles chart in Nashville, Tennessee, at #7, giving him his first chart success outside of his home town of Memphis…

Some “Pre Rock ‘n Roll”

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September 8, 1952: Ray Charles does his first session for Atlantic, cutting four songs…

September 8, 1952:  Ray Charles does his first session for Atlantic, cutting four songs…

 Over the next seven years, he will record such classics as "Mess Around," 

         "I Got a Woman," 
   "Hallelujah, I Love Her So"  
 and "What'd I Say”

Ten years later, on September 8, 1962: Ray Charles hits #2 with "You Don't Know Me"…

AND THE REST IS HISTORY… (R.I.P. Ray)

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