* 1951 – Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records " Rocket 88 ", often cited as " the first rock and roll record ", at Sam Phillips ' recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.

Others, such as Robert Quine, lead guitarist of The Voidoids, have employed a wild, " gonzo " attack, a style that stretches back through The Velvet Underground to the 1950s recordings of Ike Turner.

Contenders for the title of " first rock and roll record " include Goree Carter's " Rock Awhile " ( 1949 ); Jimmy Preston's " Rock the Joint " ( 1949 ), which was later covered by Bill Haley & His Comets in 1952 ; and " Rocket 88 " by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats ( actually an alias for Ike Turner and his band The Kings of Rhythm ), recorded by Sam Phillips for Sun Records in March 1951.

Listen: " Cubano Jump " by Ike Turner ( 1954 ).

" He also cites Otis Rush, Ike Turner and Ray Charles, as R & B artists who employed this feel.

* November 5 – Ike Turner, African-American singer and songwriter ( d. 2007 )

Ike Wister Turner ( November 5, 1931 – December 12, 2007 ) was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, arranger, talent scout, and record producer.

He is most popularly known for his 1960s work with his then wife Tina Turner in the Ike & Tina Turner revue.

It was there he met singer Anna Mae Bullock, whom he married and renamed Tina Turner, forming the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, which over the course of the sixties became a soul / rock crossover success.

Turner believed for many years that he was named Izear Luster Turner, Jr. after his father, until he discovered his name was registered as Ike Wister Turner while applying for his first passport.

Turner recorded numerous sessions for Stevens with various vocalists and musician lineups, of which seven singles were released ( these are collected on the Red Lightnin ' compilation " Hey Hey-The Legendary Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm "/ RL0047 ).

Ike & Tina Turner, 1972

Her first professional recording with Ike Turner was singing background for him on Ike's record, " Box Top ".

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It is credited to " Ike & Tina Turner ", but it is now well known that Ike Turner was paid $ 20, 000 to stay away from the sessions ; the backing track was in fact performed by the Wrecking Crew, and the backing vocals were provided by a chorus of 21 singers — Ikettes Janice Singleton and Diane Rutherford and most of the female singers on Spector's roster, including Ronnie Spector, Darlene Love and Cher.

Spector's Wall of Sound production technique also persisted after that time with his select recordings of the Beatles, the Ramones, Leonard Cohen, George Harrison, Dion and Ike and Tina Turner.

Towards the end of the war, saxophonist Ike Quebec was among those who recorded for the label.

Phillips recorded what some — notably music historian Peter Guralnick — consider the first rock and roll record: " Rocket 88 " by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats, a band led by 19-year-old Ike Turner, who also wrote the song.

Like the other " backsliders " and all the artists who preferred a secular acclaim to the gospel obscurity ", like Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke, Lou Rawls, Dinah Washington, Napoleon " Nappy " Brown, Ike and Tina Turner, Brook Benton, Jimmy Witherspoon, and Louis Armstrong, Burke recorded an album of gospel songs, " not to be ' saved ' or under any pressure but for their own pleasure and as a tribute to their roots, because, as kids, all of them, like all black children, had sung in church.

Musicians such as Howlin ' Wolf, Willie Nix, Ike Turner, and B. B. King performed on Beale Street and in West Memphis, and recorded some of the classic electric blues, rhythm and blues and rock & roll records for labels such as Sun Records.

Sam Phillips ' Sun Records company recorded musicians such as Howlin ' Wolf ( before he moved to Chicago ), Willie Nix, Ike Turner, and B. B. King.

Artists who recorded on Perfect included Gene Autry, Al Bernard, Big Bill Broonzy, Cab Calloway, Vernon Dalhart, Walter Dalton, Morton Downey, Cliff " Ukelele Ike " Edwards, Annette Hanshaw, Lee Morse, The Ponce Sisters, Willard Robison, Tito Schipa, and Boyd Senter.

Hurricane Rita made landfall on September 24, 2005 and on September 12 – 13, 2008, Hurricane Ike struck Sabine Pass and Galveston, generating the highest surge of 22 feet which is, according to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 ( NAVD 88 ), the highest ever recorded at Sabine Pass.

In September 2008, Hurricane Ike struck Galveston and managed to generate the highest surge ever recorded at Sabine Pass.

Turner recorded numerous sessions for Stevens with various vocalists and musician lineups of the Kings, of which seven singles were released ( these are collected on the Red Lightnin ' compilation " Hey Hey-The Legendary Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm "/ RL0047 ).

Jimmy Carl Black was a regular in the band, and they have in the past played, recorded and toured with Ike Willis and Don Preston.

One contender is " Rocket 88 " by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats ( in fact, Ike Turner and his band The Kings of Rhythm ), recorded by Sam Phillips for Sun Records in Memphis in 1951.

*" Rocket 88 " was recorded on March 5, 1951 by Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats-actually Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm-and covered later in the year by Bill Haley and the Saddlemen.

*" Rocket 88 " – either Jackie Brenston's original, recorded on March 5, 1951 with Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm, or Bill Haley's cover, later in 1951

A leading contender as the first fully formed rock and roll recording is " Rocket 88 " by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats ( which was, in fact, Ike Turner and his band The Kings of Rhythm recording under a different name ), recorded by Sam Phillips for his Memphis Recording Service in 1951 ( the master tape being sold to and later released by Chess Records ).

Motown artists such as Diana Ross & the Supremes, The Temptations, and The Jackson 5 recorded covers of " Sing a Simple Song ", and the song's guitar riff can be heard on the recordings of Ike & Tina Turner (" Bold Soul Sister " from The Hunter, 1969 ), Jimi Hendrix ( Band of Gypsys, 1970 ), and Miles Davis ( A Tribute to Jack Johnson, 1971 ).

Reputedly the first rock-and-roll single, Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats ' " Rocket 88 " was recorded there in 1951 with song composer Ike Turner on keyboards, leading the studio to claim status as the birthplace of rock & roll.

From 1956 to 1958, he recorded for the Cobra Records and released eight singles, some featuring Ike Turner or Jody Williams on guitar.

Plying their talents in the Miners over the years have been long time stalwarts Rob Thomson ( guitar / vocals ), Ike Eidsness ( drums ) and Paul Gould ( mandolin The band also features the string wizardry on guitar and fiddle of Sexy Pierre Lumoncel who joined the band in 1990 and toured and recorded with the band throughout.

In the early 1960s, he also recorded as a jazz organist with saxophonists Fred Jackson and Ike Quebec for the Blue Note label.

Numerous performances of the song have been released by artists ranging from Elvis Presley ( a 1955 live performance first released commercially in the 1980s ), Teresa Brewer also in 1955, Ike & Tina Turner, Alma Cogan and Little Jimmy Osmond to Bill Haley & His Comets ( recorded in 1979 for Haley's final album, Everyone Can Rock and Roll ).

Numerous versions have been recorded since, including two different recordings by Ike and Tina Turner that do not feature Spector's " Wall of Sound " production style, as well as some by Tina Turner herself without Ike Turner.

In 1954, Ike articulated the domino theory in his outlook towards communism in Southeast Asia and also in Central America ; he believed that if the communists were allowed to prevail in Vietnam, this would cause a succession of countries to fall to communism, from Laos through Malaysia and Indonesia ultimately to India.

In 1954 Ike wanted to increase surveillance inside the Soviet Union.

When Dien Bien Phu fell in May 1954, Ike refused to intervene despite urgings from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Vice President and the head of NCS.

that the employment of communists within the government was a menace and would be a pivotal issue in the 1954 elections ; Ike was urged to respond directly and specify the various measures he had taken to purge the government of communists.

Ike had moved up there from Memphis in 1954 after work as a talent scout for the Modern and RPM labels.

AMC withdrew from the world of works and one-off road racing at the end of the 1954, with the death of Ike Hatch, and in the face of fierce competition from the other European bikes.

AMC withdrew from the world of works and one-off road racing at the end of the 1954 season, following the death of Ike Hatch, and facing fierce competition from the other European bikes.