Cannon is also ( still ) the longest serving Republican House of Representatives member ever, the second longest serving Republican member of congress ever, as well as first member of congress, of either party, ever to surpass 40 years of service ( non-consecutive ), ending his career with 46 years of cumulative congressional service, a record that held until 1959.

A former U. S. Marine who had defected to the Soviet Union between October 1959 and June 1962, Oswald was initially arrested for the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit, on a Dallas street approximately 40 minutes after Kennedy was shot.

Almost immediately, an additional 40 shorts hit the market, and by 1959, all 190 Stooge shorts were airing regularly.

These five submarines made 40 Regulus strategic deterrent patrols between October 1959 and July 1964, when they were relieved by the George Washington class submarines carrying the Polaris missile system.

It was serialized in more than 40 newspapers, and adapted into a 1959 film starring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner.

The camera took 29 pictures over 40 minutes on 7 October 1959, from 03: 30 UT to 04: 10 UT at distances ranging from 63, 500 km to 66, 700 km above the surface, covering 70 % of the lunar far side.

The largest act to chart on the Hot 100 is the 320-person Mormon Tabernacle Choir, whose version of " The Battle Hymn of the Republic " reached # 13 according to the The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits in 1959.

In 2003, for the first time in more than 40 years, the Department updated the labor union financial disclosure regulations under the Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959 to provide rank-and-file members enhanced information on union finances.

Before his 1959 death, War Admiral sired 40 stakes winners.

* L. F. Gates, " The Decided Policy of William Lyon Mackenzie ", Canadian Historical Review 40 ( 1959 )

* 1959: By the end of the 1950s, Campus Crusade is active on 40 U. S. college campuses and in three other countries.

In Australia, a program called Mr. Squiggle, using a marionette central character of the same name, ran for just over 40 years ( 1959 – 1999 ).

He has revisited Columbia University only twice in the 40 years that followed his resignation: in 1984, when his son Adam graduated ; and, in 1999, at a reunion of Columbia's Class of 1959.

It was introduced in 1959, but because only 40 were made in 1959, production is often said to have started in 1960.

The Princess Mark 4 was shelved in 1959 and replaced in the Austin catalogue by a much smaller model, an upgraded Austin Westminster ( Pininfarina-designed Vanden Plas Princess see below ) which retailed at little more than 40 % of the Mark IV's price.

*" Prez " ( 1958 )-Perez's only US Top 40 album, reaching the # 22 spot in May 1959

It is named for the late Daniel A. Reed ( 1875 – 1959 ), U. S. Representative from the Fredonia area for over 40 years.

* 1959 – Play Bach No. 1 ( Decca SS 40 500 )

* 1959 – Play Bach No. 2 ( Decca SSL 40 502 )

* 1959 – Play Bach No. 3 ( Decca SSL 40 507 )

Fox's best season came in 1959, when the White Sox won their first pennant in 40 years.

For the McElroy period, the Defense Department's total obligational authority by fiscal year was as follows: 1958, $ 41. 1 billion ; 1959, $ 42. 1 billion ; and 1960, $ 40. 2 billion.

Cuevas ’ earliest award was in 1959, the International First Prize for Drawing at the São Paulo Biennale, with 40 works from the series Funeral of a Dictator, which was followed by First Prize at the International Black and White Exhibition in Lugano, Switzerland in 1962.

In the late fifties Johnny Cash recorded songs for his first two concept albums, Songs of Our Soil and Ride This Train, in which were released in 1959 and 1960 respectively.

Lemmon played the piano and recorded his own versions of Monroe's trademark songs, I Wanna Be Loved By You and I'm Through With Love, for the album which was released in 1959 as A Twist of Lemmon / Some Like It Hot.

Sketches of Spain ( 1959 – 1960 ) featured songs by contemporary Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo and also Manuel de Falla, as well as Gil Evans originals with a Spanish flavor.

By 1959, the death of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens in a plane crash, the departure of Elvis for the army, the retirement of Little Richard to become a preacher, prosecutions of Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, and the breaking of the payola scandal ( which implicated major figures, including Alan Freed, in bribery and corruption in promoting individual acts or songs ), gave a sense that the initial rock and roll era had come to an end.

During three recording sessions in 1958 and 1959, Orbison and Melson recorded seven songs at RCA Nashville, with Atkins producing, but only two songs were judged worthy of release by RCA ; Wesley Rose maneuvered Orbison into the sights of producer Fred Foster at Monument Records.

Anderson had begun writing songs as early as 1951, and in 1959 he got his breakthrough with the song " Är du kär i mig ännu, Klas-Göran?

* A 1959 recording by the pianist André Previn comprised jazz versions of eight songs from the musical.

Among his earliest songs was " Lonely Boy " ( 1956 ), " The Man From Galilee " ( 1956 ) " inspired by Sunday School stories ", the unreleased " Bopping With My Girl "; " My Feet are on the Rock " ( 1958 ), " The Thanksgiving Song " ( 1959 ); " Country Church, Country People " ( 1959 ), was written for his grandmother Lena.

At least two songs by Anka with French lyrics are known: one reported by the Italian charts (" Faibles Femmes ", 1959 ) and another reported by his official discography (" Comme Avant ") with Mireille Mathieu.

Willcox is also known as the birthplace of Rex Allen, known as " The Arizona Cowboy ", who wrote and recorded many songs, starred in several westerns during the early 1950s and in the syndicated television series Frontier Doctor ( 1958 – 1959 ).

Instead they released four of the songs in June 1978 as the " Bullet " single on their new label Plan 9 Records, named after the 1959 science fiction horror film Plan 9 from Outer Space.

Fischer-Dieskau published a large collection of Mörike songs with him in March 1959.

From his 1959 album, Hava Nagila became part of his regular routine and one of his signature songs.

Category: 1959 songs

The current " Alma Mater " and " WMU Fight Song " are the result of a 1959 contest to replace existing songs.

They signed a new recording contract with Capitol Records ( for whom Patty had become a featured soloist ) and released a dozen singles through 1959, some rock-and-roll flavored and not very well received, and three hi-fi albums, including a vibrant LP of songs from the dancing 1920s with Billy May's orchestra.

Another of his songs to be covered was " Leave My Kitten Alone ", ( 1959 ).

In order to better promote the group, Greenberg asked songwriter Luther Dixon, who had previously worked with Perry Como, Nat King Cole, and Pat Boone and co-written the 1959 hit " 16 Candles ", to write for and produce songs for them.

This group recorded songs such as " Twelve Months of the Year " ( featuring a speaking part by Gaye ), " Beatnik " and " Mama Loocie ", which ( as the first recorded lead by Gaye ), was released in 1959.

There are also a few antecedents to folk rock present in pre-British Invasion American rock ' n ' roll, including Elvis Presley's 1954 cover of the Bill Monroe bluegrass standard " Blue Moon of Kentucky "; Buddy Holly's self-penned material, which strongly influenced both Dylan and The Byrds ; Ritchie Valens ' recording of the Mexican folk song " La Bamba "; Lloyd Price's rock ' n ' roll adaptation of the African-American folk song " Stagger Lee " ( which had originally been recorded by Mississippi John Hurt in 1928 ); Jimmie Rodgers ' rock ' n ' roll flavored renditions of traditional folk songs ; and the folk and country-influenced recordings featured on The Everly Brothers ' 1959 album, Songs Our Daddy Taught Us.

He also worked with composer Paul Klein from the early 1950s onward, contributing songs to the cabaret revue Isn't America Fun ( 1959 ) and the Broadway revue From A to Z ( 1960 ), directed by Christopher Hewett.

He was employed by EMI from 1959 until 1962 arranging orchestral accompaniment for the company's singers, including Adam Faith ; he also composed songs ( along with Les Vandyke ) and scores for films in which Faith was featured.

In 1959 his band, still featuring Matt " Guitar " Murphy, cut LP Memphis Slim at the Gate of the Horn, which featured a lineup of his best known songs, including " Mother Earth ," " Gotta Find My Baby ," " Rockin ' the Blues ," ' Steppin ' Out ," and " Slim's Blues.