* 1956: Buddy Holly's song Modern Don Juan

Before the Beatles, John Lennon and Paul McCartney's band, The Quarrymen, featured a tea-chest bass, as did many young bands around 1956.

In between live dates, Turner took the band to Cincinnati to record for Federal in 1956 and Chicago for Cobra / Artistic in 1958, as well as fulfilling his contract as a session musician back at Sun.

Columbia Pictures cashed in on the new craze by hiring Haley and his band to star in two quickie movies, Rock Around the Clock ( 1956 ) and Don't Knock the Rock ( 1957 ).

Welsh rock band Mclusky recorded the song " 1956 and All That " for their third album The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire.

This 1956 band is the original version of the current ghost band that still tours the United States today.

O ' Keefe formed a band in 1956 ; his hit Wild One made him the first Australian rock ' n ' roller to reach the national charts.

Presley agreed to record it, and did so on January 10, 1956 in a session that featured his band, The Blue Moon Boys, as well as guitarist Chet Atkins and pianist Floyd Cramer.

The pre-The Beatles band The Quarrymen performed the song during 1956 early live performances along with other Presley songs, Paul McCartney later also made another cover of the song in Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road, performing it with Bill Black's bass.

Rock singer Steve Whiteman of the band Kix, best known for their hit song ' Don't Close Your Eyes ', was born in Piedmont in 1956.

A marching band entertains the incoming crowd prior to the 1956 Rugby League Cup Final

* Scalawag for concert band ( 1956 )

* Valley of Enchantment Suite for concert band ( 1956 )

Among the brightest stars of early Australian rock and roll was Johnny O ' Keefe, who formed a band in 1956 ; his hit Wild One made him the first Australian rock ' n ' roller to reach the national charts.

Glen Matlock ( born 27 August 1956, Paddington, West London ) is an English musician best known for being the bass guitarist in the original line-up of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

It is said that Your Hit Parade was nearly cancelled after many weeks of unsuccessful attempts by big band singer Snooky Lanson to perform Elvis Presley's " Hound Dog " in 1956.

After first steps in R & B and swing-styled small groups in the early 1950s, he formed his own band with soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy in 1956.

By 1956, Ike Turner and his band, the Kings of Rhythm were, along with the Johnnie Johnson Trio led by Chuck Berry, one of the most popular live performing attractions to the St. Louis and neighboring East St. Louis nightlife.

Marshalls traces its history to 1956, when Alfred Marshall gathered a band of innovative entrepreneurs on the East Coast who included Bernard Goldston and Norman Barren ( Frank Estey and Bernard Ribas joined the entrepreneurs in 1960 by purchasing Bernard Goldston's shares ) to collectively start up the " Brand Names For Less " concept.

Mick Pointer ( born 22 July 1956 ), originally from Brill in Buckinghamshire, England, was the original drummer and founding member of the progressive rock band, Marillion.

On December 31, 1956, the Lombardo band did their first New Year's TV special on CBS ; the program ( and Lombardo's 20 subsequent New Year's Eve TV shows ) would include a live segment from Times Square ( long the focal point of America's New Year's Eve celebrations ) showcasing the arrival of the New Year.

In the 1956 trumpeter Brian Rutland, who ran a local band called The Grove Jazz Band, started jazz sessions at the newly reopened hotel.

For, after leaving the Army in 1956, I spent five years in Graduate School first at Boston College and then at the University of Toronto.

He missed the 1955 season because of an operation on the ailing knee, then played 77 minutes in 1956.

In 1956, the then board undermined Jimmy Seed and then sacked, and Charlton were relegated the following year.

His albums also became more popular, and he was featured on ABC-TV's The Eddy Arnold Show during the summer of 1956 ; as well as on Country Music Jubilee in 1957 and 58 ( by then renamed Jubilee USA ).

He firmly declined all of the offers and many believed he was foregoing his only opportunity to be president ; Thomas E. Dewey was considered the other probable winner, would presumably serve two terms, and Eisenhower, at age 66 in 1956, would then be too old.

Controversy surrounds Harold Macmillan, who met with Eisenhower on September 25, 1956, then relayed to Prime Minister Anthony Eden the false impression that Eisenhower promised to support an invasion.

Kaye starred in several movies with actress Virginia Mayo in the 1940s, and is well known for his roles in films such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( 1947 ), The Inspector General ( 1949 ), On the Riviera ( 1951 ) co-starring Gene Tierney, Knock on Wood ( 1954 ), White Christmas ( 1954, in a role originally intended for Fred Astaire, then Donald O ' Connor ), The Court Jester ( 1956 ), and Merry Andrew ( 1958 ).

In 1956, Campbell began planning a car to break the land speed record, which then stood at.

In 1956, after the 1954 closing of the U. S. immigration station, the then Mayor of Jersey City, Bernard J. Berry, commandeered a U. S. Coast Guard cutter and led a contingent of New Jersey officials on an expedition to claim the island.

Entering the Olympics in 1928, India won all five games without conceding a goal and won from 1932 until 1956 and then in 1964 and 1980.

Universal Time ( UT ), a term introduced in 1928, initially represented mean time at Greenwich determined in the traditional way to accord with the originally-defined universal day ; then from 1 January 1956 ( as decided by the IAU at Dublin, 1955, at the initiative of William Markowitz ) this " raw " form of UT was re-labeled UT0 and effectively superseded by refined forms UT1 ( UT0 equalized for the effects of polar wandering ) and UT2 ( UT1 further equalized for annual seasonal variations in earth rotation rate ).

A diagnosis was made several weeks later and by then removal of his esophagus, two lymph nodes, and a rib on March 1, 1956, was too late to halt the disease, even with chemotherapy.

They then became known for a series of satirical comedy films, such as Private's Progress ( 1956 ), Lucky Jim ( 1957 ) and I'm All Right Jack ( 1959 ).

" She graduated from Battin High School in 1956, then enrolled in Boston University.

Knerr continued drawing The Katzenjammer Kids until his death in 1949 ; the strip was then written and drawn by Charles H. Winner ( 1949 – 56 ), with Joe Musial taking over in 1956.

* Togoland was split into British Togoland ( under an Administrator, a post filled by the colonial Governor of the British Gold Coast ( present Ghana ) except 30 September 1920 – 11 October 1923 Francis Walter Fillon Jackson ) and French Togoland ( under a Commissioner ) ( United Kingdom and France ), 20 July 1922 separate Mandates, transformed on 13 December 1946 into United Nations trust territories, French Togo Associated Territory ( under a Commissioner till 30 August 1956, then under a High Commissioner as Autonomous Republic of Togo ) and British Togoland ( as before ; on 13 December 1956 it ceased to exist as it became part of Ghana )

In 1956, Mieczyslaw G. Bekker, a native of Poland and then a professor at the University of Michigan and a consultant to the Land Locomotion Laboratory at the U. S. Army Tank-Automotive Command, published two books on land locomotion.

With no male heirs, he is currently to be succeeded as Duke of Gravina by his unmarried brother Benedetto ( b. 1956 ), then by his cousin Don Raimondo Orsini d ' Aragona ( b. 1931 ), whose heir is Don Lelio Orsini ( b. 1981 ).

She then formed the World Women's Wrestling Association in the early 1950s and recognized herself as the first champion, although the championship would be vacated upon her retirement in 1956.

Morton then led the party to defeat at the election on 3 March 1956.

In 1956, the second was redefined in terms of a year ( the period of the Earth's revolution around the Sun ) for a particular epoch because, by then, it had become recognized that the Earth's rotation on its own axis was not sufficiently uniform as a standard of time.

Fabian of the Yard was a television series filmed and transmitted by the BBC between 1954 and 1956, based upon the career of the by then retired Detective Inspector Robert Fabian.

He then became involved with the avant-garde, performing on Jazz Advance ( 1956 ), the debut album of Cecil Taylor, and appearing with Taylor's groundbreaking quartet at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival ; he also made a notable appearance on an early Gil Evans album.