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    • May 1, 1958
    KLLL signs on the air in Lubbock, Texas. Among its disc jockeys in its first year of operation: Waylon Jennings
    May 3, 1958
    Jimmie Rodgers performs "Honeycomb" and "Secretly" during ABC's telecast of "The Dick Clark Show"
    May 3, 1958
    Police turn the house lights on before the end of a Jerry Lee Lewis concert at the Boston Arena. When a riot erupts, mayor John Hynes bans rock & roll shows from the city. Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly are also on the Alan Freed-promoted bill
    May 6, 1958
    Ray Price records Roger Miller's "Invitation To The Blues" during a midnight session at Nashville's Bradley Studios
    May 7, 1958
    Conway Twitty records "It's Only Make Believe" at the Bradley Film & Recording Studio in Nashville
    May 8, 1958
    Mel Tillis records "A Violet And A Rose." The song becomes a hit for Little Jimmy Dickens in 1962
    May 8, 1958
    Bill Phillips signs his first recording contract, with Columbia Records
    May 9, 1958
    The Alfred Hitchock movie "Vertigo" premieres in San Francisco. It merits a mention in The Statler Brothers' 1977 country hit "The Movies"
    May 10, 1958
    Robert Mitchum stars as the war-themed picture "Thunder Road" debuts in theaters. The film will be memorialized in The Statler Brothers' 1977 country hit "The Movies"
    May 12, 1958
    Decca releases The Kalin Twins' "When"
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