Q. I am from Pittsburgh, visiting my son in Fort Lauderdale. I told him my first purchase of a record was in 1939 or 1940 — Blueberry Hill by Louis Armstrong. He told me that song was written and ...

A high school band plays Beethoven. President Calvin Coolidge delivers his inaugural address. Fats Domino turns “Blueberry Hill,” which had been a hit for Glenn Miller, into a rock ’n’ roll classic.