Week of October 23, 1956

Radio Budapest discloses the Soviet

and Hungarian troops began all-out

attacks aimed at “smashing completely”

rebel forces still fighting in Budapest and

many provincial towns.

Meanwhile, Communist East Germany

mobilizes worker fighting groups with a

call for vigilant defense against any tide

of revolution such as that sweeping Hungary.

Revolt over Hungary as Budapest’s anti-red revolution blazes across the

Western Hungary to the border of Austria on a widening panorama of war and

death.

President Eisenhower issues a strong warning to Premier David Ben-Gurion of

Israel against taking any “forceful initiative” in the Middle East.

The Egyptian army says it has begun “liquidating” an Israeli force which thrust its

way deep into Egyptian territory toward the Suez Canal. Israeli forces are

reported deep into Egypt - some 18 miles from Suez.

Disregarding a last-minute appeal from President Eisenhower, Britain and France

move against U.S. and Egyptian protests and begin an invasion of the Suez

Canal zone at dawn.

Sports - Leo Durocher , who was let go as manger of

the New York giants at the close of the 1955 season,

says he’s considering a job as manager of the Cleveland

Indians. Durocher, now an executive with NBC,

reiterated that he would not leave his present job for a

regular salary. “When I retired from baseball, I said I

would never put on a uniform and manage a club for a

salary again,” said Durocher.

Entertainment news -

Marilyn Monroe meets Queen Elizabeth. Ms. Monroe

was one of a group of international movie stars presented to the Queen at the

annual royal command film performance. Also attending - Joan Crawford and

Victor Mature, Dana Andrews, Vera Ellen and Arlene Dahl.

Week of October 23, 1956

Rita Hayworth becomes an apprentice tycoon

as she was named president of a corporation as

yet unnamed. Her duties as president will require

not only that she'd star in its film productions, but

that she buy scripts, hire and fire actors,

directors and the other help.

Gene Autry and his horse Champion push

through a paper map of the super highway to

open the new 236-mile Kansas Turnpike

connecting the State’s three largest cities.

Week of October 23, 1956

Tuesday night television -

CBS - Douglas Edwards with the news, Name That Tune, Phil Silvers Show, The

Brothers, Adlai Stevenson, Red Skelton, $64,000 Question, Do You Trust Your

Wife

NBC - Huntley-Brinkley, Jonathan Winters, Big Surprise, Noah’s Ark, Jane

Wyman, Angels’ Ransom, and $250,000 Bank, Tonight Show

ABC - Cheyenne, Wyatt Earp, Cavalcade Theatre, All-Star Theatre, Damon

Runyon Theatre

Tonight Show with Ernie Kovacs - Louis Jourdan

Music news -

More movies than ever are featuring rock ‘n’ roll with 20 th

Century-Fox, Columbia and Paramount taking the lead.

Latest r&r movie is Fox’s “do re Mi, a saga of the juke box

industry and Jayne Mansfield’s first starring movie. Fats

Domino and Little Richard have already been signed. 20 th

Century-Fox is readying its first rock and roll musical, “Cool It

Baby” along with “Love Me Tender” starring Elvis Presley.

The first rock movie was Columbia’s “Rock Around The

Clock,” with Alan Freed and Bill Haley.

MGM Records completes arrangements for early release of

“The Wizard of Oz” sound track album, which will be closely

tied in with the Ford “Star Jubilee” airing of the complete film

over CBS-TV November 3. Album sets will be on display in

all Ford showrooms. TV and radio plugs are also being set

and record dealers will get special display material as well.

Jerry Marshall, top-rated DJ at WNEW says he hears there’s

a trend with rock ‘n’ roll…

“A top r&r label executive told me that each of his recording

sessions is geared more and more to appeal to the pop field

because he realizes that the long-term trend of rock and roll

is leveling off and the teens themselves are tiring of the monotony and sameness

of beat and performance which have marked so many rock and roll records.”

“Granted that original pop stars are still ‘covering’ established r&r artists, but the

division in performance is now much less pronounced. The line of demarcation

between the rock and roll approach and the pop approach is no longer so strictly

drawn, and all the artists - from both fields - are no leaning much more the

commercial and homogenous appeal of the pop field.”

Week of October 23, 1956

Appearing on Mike Wallace’ WABD-TV show, Harry

Belafonte made these comments on rock and roll… “The

idiom has an importance in American life as early jazz and

the Charleston did in my mother’s day. It gives youth a

much-needed chance to express their feelings. I’d much

rather see them in the theater giving vent to their emotions

than not have any room for outlet and roaming the streets.”

Top Hits -

Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley

Canadian Sunset - Eddy Heywood and Hugo Winterhalter

Honky Tonk - Bill Doggett

Green Door - Jim Lowe

Just Walking in The Rain - Johnny Ray

Tonight You Belong To Me - Patience & Prudence

My Prayer - The Platters

Whatever Will Be Will Be - Doris Day

Friendly Persuasion - Pat Boone

Hound Dog - Elvis Presley

Canadian Sunset - Andy Williams

Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley

Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino

Fool - Sanford Clark

Soft Summer Breeze - Eddy Heywood

Allegheny Moon - Patti Page

Song For A Summer Night - Mitch Miller

True Love - Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly

Tonight You Belong To Me - Lennon Sisters

You’ll Never, Never Know - Platters

After The Lights Go Down Low - Al Hibbler

You Don’t Know Me - Jerry Vale

Bus stop Song - Four Lads

Miracle of Live - Eileen Rogers

Top hits in Britain -

Lay Down Your Arms - Ann Shelton

Woman in Love - Frankie Laine

Hound Dog - Elvis Presley

Whatever Will Be Will Be - Doris Day

Great Pretender/Only You - Platters

Giddy-Up-A-Ding-Dong - Freddie Bell and the Bellboys

Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & The Comets

Ying Tong Song/Bloodnok’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Call - Goons

Week of October 23, 1956

Born To Be With You - Chordettes

Bring A Little Water, Sylvie/Dead or Alive - Lonnie Donegan

Rockin’ Through The Rye - Bill Haley & The Comets

Top Country & Western -

Don’t Be Cruel/Hound Dog - Elvis

Presley

Crazy Arms - Ray Price

I Walk The Line - Johnny Cash

Singing The Blues - Mary Robbins

Searching - Kitty Wells

Sweet Dreams - Faron Young

You Are The One - Carl Smith

Teenage Boogie - Webb Pierce

Conscience, I’m Guilty - Hank Snow

Be Bop A Lula - Gene Vincent

Top Rhythm and Blues -

Honky Tonk (parts I & II) - Bill

Doggett

Don’t Be Cruel/Hound Dog - Elvis

Presley

Let The Good Times Roll - Shirley &

Lee

Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino

Still/I Can’t Get Enough Of You -

LaVern Baker

In the Still Of the Night - Satins

Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley

I Can’t Quit You Now - Otis Rush

Canadian Sunset - Eddy Heywood, Hugo Winterhalter

Lonely Avenue - Ray Charles

Rip It Up - Little Richard

Bad Luck - B.B. King

ABC’s Of Love - Teenagers

Fever - Little Willie John

At the movies -

Bus Stop - Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray

War and Peace

Bandido! - Robert Mitchum

Walk The Proud Land - Audie Murphy

High Society - Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly