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TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 06/27/1956 ( www.youtube.com )

Fats Domino records his rendition of "Blueberry Hill" at Master Recorders in Hollywood. Rising to #2 on Billboard's Top 100, it will prove to be the highest charting of his thirty-seven Top 40 hits. The tune had been recorded by at least six other popular artists in the 1940s.

TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 06/26/1977 ( www.youtube.com )

Elvis Presley played the final concert of his career at Market Square Arena, Indianapolis to a crowd of only half the venue's capacity. The top price ticket for the event was just $15. Before the show, Presley was presented with a plaque commemorating the two billionth record to come out of RCA's pressing plant. The last song...

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