Week of June 15,1958

President Tito accuses Premier Khrushchev of

insulting Yugoslavia and to the cheers of a crowd of

50,000 - praises the United States. “In attacking

Yugoslavia - Comrade Khrushchev used words which

have nothing in common with comradely criticism. He

insulted not only the Yugoslav leadership, but the

Yugoslav people too.”

Ex-Premier Imre Nagy and three associates in

Hungary’s 1956 revolt against Soviet rule have been

executed according to Radio Moscow.

The Kremlin suddenly intensifies the cold war against the West, as Russia

breaks-off diplomatic talks for a cultural agreement with Britain. Russia also

issued an ominous threat to send “volunteers” to help the rebels in Lebanon and

was reported ready to launch a harsh campaign of chastisement against

Yugoslavia and possibly Poland.

Sir Winston Churchill receives the Order of Liberation - the highest honor that

can be bestowed upon anyone by the French government. Lady Churchill

received the award from Premier Charles de Gaulle.

In a Gallup Poll - Sen. John Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon are

neck-in-neck in a “trial run.”

Kennedy - 51%

Nixon - 49%

Divorces - Actress Rhonda Fleming

(33) and Dr Lewis V. Morrill.

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Week of June 15,1958

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Hollywood news - Lt Gen Rafael Trujillo Jr. returns to Hollywood in his yacht and

was seen with actress Zsa Zsa Gabor.

Best selling books -

Anatomy of a murder - Robert Traver

The Winthrop Woman - Anya Seton

A Summer Place - Sloan Wilson

Strangers When We Meet - Evan Hunter

Ice Palace - Edna Ferber

The Mountain Road - Theodore White

The Greegage Summer - Rumer Godden

North From Rome - Helen MacInnes

Masters of Deceit - J. Edgar Hoover

Inside Russia Today - John Gunther

Dear Abby - Abagail Van Buren

Kids Say The Darndest Things! - Art Linkletter

The Affluent Society - John K. Galbraith

The Private World of Pablo Picasso - David Douglas Duncan

New at the mart - Jif peanut butter - from Procter & Gamble. “The new Peanut

Butter that melts in your mouth. Jif - it’s terr-r-riff!

Dodger catcher Roy Campanella has three

surprise visitors in the New York hospital where

he is recovering from his near-fatal automobile

accident - Pee Wee Reese, Gil Hodges and Rube

Walker - traveled to see him for the first time

since his accident. Said Hodges - “Campy can

move his arms pretty well, but there’s still no

feeling in his fingers. However, his spirits are

high.”

Movie news - Dean Martin considers himself

lucky to be in his second movie - “Rio Bravo” - no

filming. Dean stars in the picture with John

Wayne, Ricky Nelson, Ward Bond and Walter

Brennan. “It’s a terrific break for me. When Monty

Cliff turned down the part, I called him in New York to thank him. He’s a good pal

and we laughed and laughed. I think maybe he’s still laughing.” It’s Dino’s second

picture solo and dramatic role - away from Jerry Lewis.

Week of June 15,1958

Music news - Robin Luke (16) has a huge hit with “Suzie

Darlin’” in his homestate of Hawaii. Dot records this week

releases the song in the continental U.S. It could be a hit. Also

new this week - “Poor Little Fool” - Rick Nelson. Billboard

magazine reports that Mercury will be the first large record

company to abolish production of 78rpm discs.

Television news - Country singer Jimmy Dean moves over to

CBS. He had been under the management of Connie Gay - a country music

entrepreneur.

This Sunday - Ed Sullivan celebrates his tenth

anniversary on CBS-TV with these stars:

Louis Armstrong, Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz,

Jack Benny, Humphrey Bogart, Victor Borge, Marlon

Brando, Yul Brynner, Maurice Chevalier, Perry Como,

Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Babe Didrikson, Walt

Disney, Jackie Gleason, Oscar Hammerstein , Helen

Hayes, Audrey Hepburn, Charles Laughton, Gertrude

Lawrence, Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe, Elvis

Presley, Johnnie Ray, Sugar Ray Robinson, Richard

Rodgers, Phil Silvers, Margaret Truman, Ed Wynn

Thursday night television -

CBS - Sgt Preston , Richard Diamond,

Private Detective, Climax!, Playhouse 90

NBC - Tic Tac Dough, Groucho Marx,

Dragnet, Peoples Choice, Tennessee Ernie

Ford, Rosemary Clooney, Music Bingo

ABC - Circus Boy, Zorro, The Real McCoys,

Pat Boone, Navy Log, Confession, Falcon

Circus Boy - Corky teams up with an

amateur inventor to bring rain to drought-

plagued district.

Richard Diamond - Diamond tries to protect the life of wealthy financier through

his knowledge of chess.

Zorro - Don Diego resorts to ghostly measures to avert a duel between his father

Week of June 15,1958

and the Eagle.

Dragnet - Smith gets promoted to sergeant.

Pat Boone show - Gale Storm guests.

Playhouse 90 - Rod Serling’s “A Town Has Turned To

Dust.” - story of the moral disintegration of a small

Southwestern town after it has lynched a young

Mexican. Rod Steiger, William Shatner, Fay Spain and

James Gregory star.

Jack Paar - Walter Slezak , Cliff

Arquette, Richard Hayes, Don Adams,

Dave Gardner.

Television news - Ed Sullivan reveals that the Canadian team of

Wayne & Shuster are receiving the highest talent fee he has ever

paid. Elvis Presley he said, was second with $50,000 for three

shows and Sonja Henie, third with $15,000.

Perry Mason producer

Ben Brady is expanding the show’s

production staff as the series goes to a

second season. He’ll employ an

additional group of creative personnel to

alternate on segments of the series.

Week of June 15,1958

Pop music this week in 1958:

THE PURPLE PEOPLE EATER - Sheb Wooley

ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM - Everly Brothers

JENNIE LEE - Jan & Arnie

SECRETLY - Jimmie Rodgers

DO YOU WANT TO DANCE - Bobby Freeman

RETURN TO ME - Dean Martin

YAKETY YAK - Coasters

BIG MAN - Four Preps

WITCH DOCTOR - David Seville

TWILIGHT TIME - Platters

WEAR MY RING AROUND YOUR NECK - Elvis

Presley

PADRE - Toni Arden

ENDLESS SLEEP - Jody Reynolds

LOOKING BACK - Nat “King” Cole

SUGAR MOON - Pat Boone

JOHNNY B. GOODE - Chuck Berry

CHANSON D’AMOUR (Song Of Love) - Art &

Dotty Todd

CHA-HUA-HUA - Pets/ Eddie Platt / Hugo & Luigi

FOR YOUR LOVE - Ed Townsend

HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL - Jerry Lee Lewis

YOU NEED HANDS - Eydie Gorme

NO CHEMISE, PLEASE - Gerry Granahan

I WONDER WHY - Dion & Belmonts

HE’S GOT THE WHOLE WORLD (In His Hands) - Laurie London

KEWPIE DOLL - Perry Como

ENCHANTED ISLAND - Four

Lads

WHEN - Kalin Twins

(It’s Been A Long Time)

PRETTY BABY - Gino & Gina

DON’T GO HOME - Playmates

PATRICIA - Perez Prado &

Orch

ZORRO - Chordettes

ONE SUMMER NIGHT -

Danleers

YOU’D BE SURPRISED - Kathy

Linden

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RUMBLE - Link Wray & Ray Men

TORERO - Renato Carosone

EL RANCHO ROCK - Champs

GOT A MATCH? - Daddy-O’s / Frank Gallup / Lou Stein

TRY THE IMPOSSIBLE - Lee Andrews & Hearts

YOU’RE MAKING A MISTAKE - Platters

FOR YOUR PRECIOUS LOVE - Jerry Butler & Impressions

Radio news - Dick Biondi of WHOT, Youngstown stars

the “Pepsi Hit of the Week”. Biondi offers his listeners “the

record of the week” for six Pepsi bottle caps and 50

cents.

At 1010WINS, New York - June has been tagged “Family

Month” where listeners are asked to send in their names

for daily drawings, whereby WINS will pay one month’s

bills for their rent, groceries, food, cleaning and laundry

and utilities. Each WINS DJ has their own category - so if

you win on the Jack Lacy show, he’ll pay your food bill for

a month and so on.

But wait - the airstaff of station WINS (1010) goes on strike for more pay. They

contend that the station is doing much better financially. The station says it had

offered to guarantee the announcers an income of $16,000 annually, an increase

of $3,000 over the old contract. Jock Fearnhead, station manager, says the

WINS program schedule of top-40 music is being maintained by supervisory

personnel. WINS is one of the most-listened-to stations in the nation.

Over at rival WNEW, they’re staging a Miss National Portable Radio month. A gal

- Ms. Portable Radio - will walk around the New York area carrying a portable

radio tuned to WNEW, while the WNEW alert their audiences on her location.

In retaliation for Mitch Miller’s attack on top-40 stations who play rock ‘n’ roll,

Todd Storz moves to ban all Columbia Records from its radio stations - for two

weeks. The Storz stations - primarily in the mid-west - are big in their markets.

KWKH’s “Louisiana Hayride,” for years a

showcase for country music talent, begins a new

weekly series on CBS radio July 12. Henry B.

Clay, executive vice-president of KWKH which

originates the show from Municipal Auditorium on

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Music news -

Elvis Presley dog tags will on the market next month in conjunction with the

national opening of his new movie “King Creole.” The tags are merchandised by

deejay Norman Prescott and Leo Egan of WBZ, Boston via Bellavance Jewelry

and will retail for $1. The pair, who have made a royalty arrangement with

Presley, said they have shipped 1.5 million tags to date.

Singer Jerry Lee Lewis of Sun Records replies to critics in England and the U.S.

via an open letter. Seems he’s in big trouble for marrying is 13-year-old cousin:

“This whole thing started because I tried and did tell the truth. I told the story of

my past life, as I thought it had been straightened out. I sincerely wanted to be

worthy of the decent admiration of all the people young and old that admired

what talent (if any) I have. If you don’t believe that the accuracy of things can get

mixed up when you are in the public’s eye then I hope you never have to travel

this road I’m on.”

Week of June 15,1958

“I hope that if I am washed up as an entertainer, it won’t be because of this bad

publicity, because I can cry and wish all I want to, but I can’t control the press or

the sensationalism that these people will go to get a scandal started to sell

papers. I you don’t believe me, ask any of the other people who have been

victims of the same.”

Dick Clark moving into Alan Freed’s turf - The Brooklyn

Paramount will continue its rock ‘n’ roll policy during the holiday

season, but with a new deejay - Dick Clark. Look for his show

over the Labor Day holiday.

Lowe’s State Theatre on Broadway, which had planned to book

and Alan Freed rock ‘n’ roll stage show for the second week of

July has changed its mind. Cancellation resulted from the recent

rock ‘n’ roll riot in Boston.

DJ’s Alan Freed and Art Ford debate “Does Anyone Get Hurt By Rock ‘n’ Roll” on

WCBS-TV’s “Right Now” show. Ford is kind of a rock ‘n’ roll foe - saying

basically the music was trash with some good stuff (at times). Freed admitted

that there was a lot of “junky stuff in r ‘n r three or four years ago,” but said the

quality of the music “had improved considerably since then.” He attempted to pin

some of the blame for anti-rock on ASCAP (Rival BMI is making a mint on rock

songs), but didn’t explore this angle very far.

Stereo - Randy Wood’s Dot Records will release its first stereophonic albums in

August… Capitol Records unveils its new 1959 line of hi-fi phonographs

equipped for stereo sound.

Top Country & Western -

All I Have To Do Is Dream - Everly Brothers

Claudette - Everly Brothers

Oh, Lonesome Me - Don Gibson

Guess Things Happen That Way - Johnny

Cash

Just Married - Marty Robbins

Secretly - Jimmie Rodgers

Send Me The Pillow You Dream On - Hank

Locklin

It’s A Little More Like Heaven

Week of June 15,1958

Jacqueline - Bobby Helms

Curtain In The Window - Ray Price

Top hits in Britain -

Who’s Sorry Now - Connie Francis

Tom Hark - Elias & His Zig Zag Jive Flutes

Witch Doctor - Don Lanz

On The Street Where You Live - Vic Damone

Stairway of Love - Michael Holliday

Lollipop - Mudlarks

A Wonderful Time Up There - Pat Boone

Tulips From Amsterdam/You Need hands - Max

Bygraves

Grand Coolie Dam - Lonnie Donegan

At the movies -

Gigi - Leslie Caron, Maurice Chavalier, Louis Jourdan, Eva Gabor

Voice in the Mirror - Richard Egan, Julie

London

Walt Disney’s Peter Pan

Gulliver’s Travels

The Big Beat - Charlie Barnet, The Del-

Vikings, The Diamonds, Fats Domino, The Four

Aces. Harry James, The Mills Bothers, Ross

Morgan, Gogi Grant, William Reynolds, Andra

Martin, Jeffrey Stone, Rose Marie Hans

Conried

No Time For Sergeants - Andy Griffith, Myron

Week of June 15,1958

McCormick

The Key - William Holden, Sophia Loren

The Vikings - Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh

This Happy Feeling - Debbie

Reynolds, Curt Jurgens , John

Saxon, Alexis Smith, Mary Mastor

Fort Massacre - Joel McCrea

The Case of Dr Laurent - Jean Gabin,

Nicole Courcel

Indiscreet - Cary Grant, Ingrid Berman

Too Much, Too Soon - Dorothy

Malone, Errol Flynn

Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo - James

Stewart, Kim Novak

The Bridge on the River Kwai -

William Holden, Alex Guinness, Jack

Hawkins

Paris Holiday - Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg, Martha Hyer

The Sheepman - Glenn Ford, Shirley MacLaine

The High Cost of Living - Jose Ferrer

The Young Lions - Marlon Brando

The Revenge of Frankenstein - Peter Cushing, Eunice Gayson, Francis

Matthews, Michael Gwynn

Curse of the Demon - Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummings

Susannah of the Mounties - Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott

Fort Massacre - Joel McCrea