Time to take a look back into this day in rock history: August 22
1956
Colonel Tom Parker moves quickly. Just three days after signing on as Elvis Presley’s manager, “the King” begins filming his first film, Love Me Tender. The original title was The Reno Brothers. Meanwhile, Elvis has a double side hit, “Don’t Be Cruel”/”Hound Dog”, at the number one spot on the charts.
1968
They all quit at one point or another and on this date it was Ringo’s turn to leave the Beatles The rest of the guys record “Back In the USSR,” with Paul on drums and John playing bass. Ringo is convinced to come back on September 3 and is greeted with hundreds of flowers around his drum set.
1969
The final photo shoot for the Fab Four. It happened at John Lennon’s Tittenhurst Park estate in England.. Three shots by Ethan Russell become the front and back covers of the Capitol compilation LP Hey Jude. Yoko Ono and a pregnant Linda McCartney appear in some photos with The Beatles. Linda gives birth to daughter, Mary, six days later.
1971
The Cleveland area audience gets a look at veteran London performer Long John Baldry under the Musicarnival tent in Warrensville Heights.
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1985
Two of the greats of fifties and sixties rock join to record Rockin’ With Rick And Fats for PBS. Rick Nelson and Fats Domino perform live at the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles. It will be Nelson’s last TV appearance before his death at age 46 in a plane crash the following year.
2004
If you saw Elvis in concert you probably heard this guy end the show. The man who would announce, “Elvis has left the building”, Al Dvorin died in a car wreck heading home from an Elvis convention in California. He was 81, and the car was driven by another Elvis insider, photographer Ed Bonja, Turns out Dvorin had some bad blood with Elvis Presley Enterprises claiming from the time he started saying the famous phrase on the advice of Colonel Tom Parker starting in the early 70s he had never been paid!
