They took up a long residency at San Francisco's Black Hawk nightclub and gained great popularity touring college campuses, recording a series of albums with such titles as Jazz at Oberlin ( 1953 ), Jazz at the College of the Pacific ( 1953 ), and Brubeck's debut on Columbia Records, Jazz Goes to College ( 1954 ).

By 1954, Brown had tried to get a deal with his gospel group, the Ever Ready Gospel Singers after recording a version of " His Eye Is on the Sparrow ", but returned to Toccoa when they failed to get a deal.

* 1954 – Elvis Presley made his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, " That's All Right.

The most important Prestige recordings of this period ( Dig, Blue Haze, Bags ' Groove, Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants, and Walkin ') originated mostly from recording sessions in 1951 and 1954, after Davis ' recovery from his addiction.

Guaraldi's first recording was made in November 1953 with Cal Tjader and came out early in 1954.

This was later shortened to "( We're Gonna ) Rock Around the Clock ", though this form is generally only used on releases of the 1954 Bill Haley Decca Records recording ; most other recordings of this song by Haley and others ( including Sonny Dae ) shorten this title further to " Rock Around the Clock ".

After leaving Essex Records in the spring of 1954, Bill Haley signed with the then-important Decca Records label, and the band's first recording session was set for April 12, 1954 at the Pythian Temple studios in New York City.

In a 2005 retrospective on his uncle Milt Gabler's work ( The Milt Gabler Story ), Billy Crystal identifies Haley's 1954 recording of " Rock Around the Clock " as the single most important song Gabler ever produced.

Although originally released to vinyl at a running time of 2 minutes and 8 seconds, most digital / CD releases of the original 1954 recording, starting with the " From The Original Master Tapes " compilation of Bill's work with Decca Records, mastered by Steve Hoffman and released in 1985, clock in at 2: 10.

Sound recording of 1954 assassination attempt on Nasser while he was addressing a crowd in Mansheya, Alexandria

Much more impressive was " Shake, Rattle and Roll ", a somewhat bowdlerized cover version of the Big Joe Turner recording of earlier in 1954.

* The 1954 – 55 Comets ( a. k. a. The Original Comets ) have been the most prolific, recording a half-dozen albums since 1993 -

In 1954, Monk paid his first visit to Europe, performing and recording in Paris.

Blue plaque recording the first ever sub-four-minute mile run by Roger Bannister on 6 May 1954 at Oxford University's Roger Bannister running track | Iffley Road Track.

* Symphony No. 5: Erik Tuxen – 1950 ( EMI ); Thomas Jensen – 1954 ( Decca — first LP recording )

Phillips suggested changes to the lyrics (" Go, cat, go ") and the band changed the end of the song to a " boogie vamp ". On Ozark Jubilee Presley left Sun for a larger opportunity with RCA in November, and on December 19, 1955, Phillips, who had begun recording Perkins in late 1954, told Perkins, " Carl Perkins, you're my rockabilly cat now.

In 1954 he played for a Natty Dominique recording session which also featured bassman Israel Crosby and pianist Lil Hardin Armstrong.

Harris transitioned between several recording contracts between 1954 and 1964.

The British Decca recording engineers Arthur Haddy, Roy Wallace and Kenneth Wilkinson developed in 1954 the famous Decca tree, a stereo microphone recording system for big orchestras.

Decca started recording in stereo on 14 – 28 May 1954, in Victoria Hall in Geneva, the first European record company to do so, only three months after RCA Victor began recording in stereo in the U. S. Decca archives show that Ernest Ansermet and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande recorded Tamara by Mily Balakirev ; the overture to Benvenuto Cellini by Hector Berlioz ; Stenka Razin by Alexander Glazunov ; and Anatoly Liadov's Baba-Yaga, Eight Russian Folksongs, and Kikimora.

He led the orchestra on its first overseas tour, and also produced their first stereo recording in February 1954 for RCA Victor.

In February 1954, RCA Victor began recording the orchestra in stereo, under the direction of Charles Munch.

The demand for unissued Holly material was so great that Norman Petty resorted to overdubbing whatever he could find: alternate takes of studio recordings, originally rejected masters, " Crying, Waiting, Hoping " and the other five 1959 tracks ( adding new surf-guitar arrangements ), and even Holly's amateur demos from 1954 ( where the low-fidelity vocals are often muffled behind the new orchestrations ).

When Kelly returned to Hollywood in 1953, the film musical was already beginning to feel the pressures from television, and MGM cut the budget for his next picture Brigadoon ( 1954 ), with Cyd Charisse, forcing the film to be made on studio backlots instead of on location in Scotland.

With the aid of the studio, Hergé managed to produce The Calculus Affair from 1954 until 1956, followed by The Red Sea Sharks in 1956 to 1957.

The Blue package contained leases on land-lines and on studio facilities in New York, Washington, D. C., Chicago and Los Angeles ; contracts with talent and with about sixty affiliates ; the trademark and " good will " associated with the Blue name ; and licenses for three stations ( WJZ in New York, San Francisco's KGO, and WENR in Chicago — really a half-station, since WENR shared time and a frequency with " Prairie Farmer " station WLS, with which it would later merge under full ABC ownership in 1954 ).

This was changed in 1954, when the studio changed their house aspect ratio to 1. 85: 1.

From 1945 until the original Warner Bros. Cartoons studio closed, Freleng had almost exclusive use of Tweety at the Warner cartoon studio ( much like Yosemite Sam ), with the exception of a brief cameo in No Barking in 1954, directed by Chuck Jones ( that year, Freleng used Pepé Le Pew, a Jones character, for the only time in his career and the only time in a Tweety short, Dog Pounded ).

Johnson's compositions Enigma and Kelo were recorded by Davis for Blue Note and J. J. was part of the Davis studio session band that recorded the jazz classic Walkin ' ( 1954 ).

One " Ed Sullivan Show " was broadcast on August 22, 1954 from the new studio, but it was mostly used for one-time-only specials such as Rodgers and Hammerstein's March 31, 1957 " Cinderella.

Toscanini made his first recordings in December 1920 with the La Scala Orchestra in the Trinity Church studio of the Victor Talking Machine Company in Camden, New Jersey and his last with the NBC Symphony Orchestra in June 1954 in Carnegie Hall.

Appearing at the Newport Jazz Festival with her in 1958 which was filmed and the 1954 live studio audience recording of Dinah Jams, considered to be one of the best and most overlooked vocal jazz albums of its genre.

Barraqué then produced his only electronic piece, the musique concrète Etude ( 1954 ), made at Pierre Schaeffer's studio.

When razed in 1954, the Center Theatre was an NBC television studio.

The most prolific Norma of the postwar period was Maria Callas, with 89 stage performances ( several of which exist on recording ), along with two studio recordings ( made in 1954 and 1960 ).

After appearing in some of the earliest major studio films to feature black casts such as Carmen Jones ( 1954 ) and Porgy and Bess ( 1959 ), she starred in Julia ( 1968 ), one of the first series on American television to star a black woman in a non-stereotypical role.

They included Andy Amato, Harvey Curtis, Walter Johnson and, notably, a young Frank Frazetta, who penciled the Sunday continuity from studio roughs from 1954 to the end of 1961 — before his fame as a fantasy artist.

Desilu soon outgrew its first space and in 1954 bought its own studio: the Motion Picture Center on Cahuenga Boulevard in Hollywood, what is now the Ren-Mar rental studio.

A television studio was dedicated at 130 Beacon in 1954, with its first closed-circuit TV program the following year as WERS-TV.

From 1954 – 1955 the studio produced Stories of the Century, starring and narrated by Jim Davis.

In 1954, Marjorie Main played her last roles for the studio ; Mrs. Hittaway in The Long, Long Trailer and Jane Dunstock in Rose Marie.

Since her debut recording for Norgran Records in 1954, Akiyoshi has recorded continuously – almost exclusively as a leader of small jazz combos and of her big bands – averaging one studio album release per year for well over 50 years.

As an occasional bit player, Young can be glimpsed briefly in The Country Girl ( 1954 ) playing a recording studio leader conducting Crosby while he tapes " You've Got What It Takes ".

Grantray-Lawrence Animation was an animated cartoon studio active from 1954 to 1967 and founded by Grant Simmons, Ray Patterson ( hence " Grant-Ray "), and Robert Lawrence.