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May 1, 1960
Johnny Horton performs "Sink The Bismarck" on CBS-TV's "The Ed Sullivan Show" from New York
May 1, 1960
Chicago radio station WLS adopts a rock & roll format, a day after "The WLS Barn Dance" had its final broadcast
May 1, 1960
Ernest Tubb and his second wife, Olene, have a fifth child, Karen Delene Tubb
May 2, 1960
Stonewall Jackson records "A Little Guy Called Joe"
May 2, 1960
Convicted sex offender Caryl Chessman is executed at San Quentin. Fellow inmate Merle Haggard, who communicated with him during a stay in isolation, knows Chessman is dead when he sees a puff of smoke go up from the Death Row chimney
May 2, 1960
Elvis Presley begins filming "G.I. Blues," where he plays soldier Tulsa McLean
May 3, 1960
George Hamilton IV records "Before This Day Ends" at the Bradley Film & Recording Studio in Nashville
May 3, 1960
Gene Vincent performs at the Liverpool Stadium in England. In attendance: future Beatles John Lennon and Paul McCartney
May 4, 1960
Roy Drusky records "Anymore"
May 5, 1960
Jim Reeves records "I Know One" and "I Missed Me" in an evening session at RCA Studio B in Nashville
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