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| February 5~Two mainstays of Sixties pop make their debuts~Mary Wells with "Bye Bye Baby" and Gene Pitney with "(I Wanna) Love My Life Away." Rock Almanac p. 60 |
| February 13~Frank Sinatra unveils his own label, Reprise Records, with a new single, "The Second Time Around" backed with "Tina." Reprise will come to represent the Beach Boys, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman, the Kinks and Captain Beefheart, among others. Rock Almanac p. 60 |
| March 21~Johnny and the Moondogs perform at the Cavern Club, a dank basement club in downtown Liverpool. The group soon will become the house band, playing at lunchtime some and evenings for 25 shillings a day. The group changed its name to the Silver Beatles~the of the spelling insect changed slightly to form the work "beat"~the word Silver tagged on in an add class attempt to but was soon to be dropped. The group includes John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and an assortment of drummers, most notably Pete Best. Boom p. 35 |
| April 11~Bob Dylan, 19, newly arrived in New Your, makes his stage debut, opening for John Lee Hooker at Gerd's Folk City in Greenwich Village~a venue that appears to bring him luck. In two weeks Dylan will make his recording debut playing harmonica behind Harry Belafonte on "Midnight Special" album, earning him $50. Boom p. 36 |
| May 1~National Airlines flight 337 from Miami to Key West is hijacked to Cuba by Antulio Ramierez Ortiz, 35, in what will be the first of a rash of "skyjackings" of American Planes. Boom p. 237 |
| May 31~Chuck Berry opens Berry Park, an outdoor amusement park in Wentzville, Missouri, about twenty miles outside of St. Louis. Rock Almanac p. 62 |
| September 24~Following in the footsteps of his pal Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Bullwinkle the Moose gets his own show. "The Bullwinkle Show" will continue the Saturday morning antics of a cast of animated characters that will reach near cult status: Natasha Fataley, Boris Badenov, Mr. Big, Dudley Doright, and Mr. Peabody, along with his boy Sherman and the (Wayback) Time Machine. Boom p. 114 |
| November 3~Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933) is Unanimously elected the first member of the Country Music Hall Of Fame in Nashville. Rock Almanac p. 65 |
| November 4~Bob Dylan makes his concert-hall debut at the Carnegie Chapter Hall in New York City. Fifty people~most of them Dylan's friends~pay two dollars apiece to attend, and Dylan earns twenty dollars for the night. Rock Almanac p. 65 |
| November 9~Brian Epstein, the manager of several record shops in Liverpool, pays a noontime visit to the Cavern Club to see the Beatles, Whom he heard about from a teenaged customer. Impressed by the Beatles' performance, he introduces himself to George Harrison and Paul McCartney. By the end of the month, Epstein will have persuaded the Beatles that he should be their manager. On January 24, 1962 a contract is signed. Rock Almanac p. 65 |
| December 8~At the suggestion of his brother Dennis, the only one of the three Wilson brothers ever to have set foot on a surfboard, Brian Wilson writes, "Surfin," which as been released first on a local California label before making the national charts. Boom p. 38 |
| December 11~President Kennedy sends 425 helicopter crewmen, the U.S.' first combat troops, to Vietnam. Boom p. 238 |
| December 14~President Kennedy establishes the President's Commission on the Status of Women, with Eleanor Roosevelt as its first chairwoman. It is the first time since the passage of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote that the federal government has formally addressed "women's issues." Boom p. 235 |
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