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Mar 10, 1956
Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, of The Stoneman Family, is a guest on NBC-TV's "The Big Surprise." The game show, taped one week earlier, begins a five-week winning streak for Stoneman, who earns $10,000 by answering trivia questions
Mar 12, 1956
Elvis Presley pays $29,500 for a home at 1034 Audubon Drive in Memphis
Mar 12, 1956
Decca releases Kitty Wells' "How Far Is Heaven" featuring daughter Carol Sue Wright
Mar 13, 1956
RCA releases Elvis Presley's self-titled first album
Mar 14, 1956
Boy Howdy guitarist Larry Park is born in Stockton, California. The group fashions two hits, "A Cowboy's Born With A Broken Heart" and "She'd Give Anything," before disbanding in 1996
Mar 14, 1956
Conway Twitty leaves the Army after a four-year stint
Mar 15, 1956
Elvis Presley's management deal with Bob Neal expires, and Neal chooses not to exercise his option, leaving Colonel Tom Parker as Presley's sole manager
Mar 16, 1956
Jerry Lee and Jane Lewis have their second son, Ronnie Guy Lewis
Mar 17, 1956
Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" reaches #1 on the Billboard country singles chart
Mar 17, 1956
Pete Seeger leads a benefit concert to raise money for singer/songwriter Woody Guthrie, who is suffering from Huntington's chorea, at New York's Pythian Hall. The concert is considered a significant event in the revival of folk music
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