In 1996, Chuck Berry began a residency in his Saint Louis hometown that lasted 209 shows at a restaurant called Blueberry Hill. The restaurant’s underground music venue where Berry played, The Duck Room, was named after the artist’s trademark Duck Walk.

A fan of Ella Fitzgerald, Marilyn Monroe called up the Mocambo club in L.A. & promised to be in the front row every night if they’d book the jazz singer, which they did, and she was. “after that, I never had to play a small jazz club again,” Fitzgerald later lamented.

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