1945: Elvis Presley gave his first performance, singing "Old Shep" at the age of 10 at a Mississippi-Alabama Dairy Show talent contest.
1957: The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom premiered on ABC-TV.
1960: Ike and Tina Turner performed "A Fool In Love" on American Bandstand on ABC-TV.
1964: The Beatles taped a performance for broadcast on Shindig! at Granville Theatre in London.
One of the landmark albums of all-time
1964: The album A Hard Day's Night by the Beatles had been out for 12 weeks, with 11 of those at #1. Something New by the Beatles was runner-up followed by Everybody Loves Somebody from Dean Martin and the album Peter, Paul and Mary in Concert. The rest of the Top 10: All Summer Long from the Beach Boys, How Glad I Am by Nancy Wilson, one of The Top 100 Albums of the Rock Era*--Getz/Gilberto by Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto at #7, Funny Girl from Barbra Streisand, Hello, Dolly! by Louis Armstrong and the Impressions pressed up from 17 to 10 with Keep On Pushing.
1965: Manfred Mann became the first band from the West to perform behind what was then the Iron Curtain. Luckily for them, those people are now as free as everyone else (except for China, Iran, Syria and North Korea as notable exceptions). Maybe someday.
1969: The Beatles released Abbey Road in the United States, a week later than its England release date.
Unrealized potential
1970: Janis Joplin listened to the instrumental "Buried Alive in the Blues", intending to record the vocal for her album Pearl. She died the next day.
1970: Diana Ross reached #1 on the R&B chart with "Ain't No Mountain High Enough".
They'll go down in history as one of the Top Acts of All-Time
1970: "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" was #1 for a third week from Ms. Ross while CCR would move into a familiar position--#2--with "Lookin' Out My Back Door". Dawn rose to #3 with "Candida" and Neil Diamond came in fourth with "Cracklin' Rosie". The rest of the Top 10: "Julie, Do Ya' Love Me" by Bobby Sherman, which in reality was not actually played in many markets, "I'll Be There" from the Jackson 5 moved from 19-6, Rare Earth and "(I Know) I'm Losing You", Anne Murray's "Snowbird" at #8, Edwin Starr was on his way down with the former #1 "War" and Free moved into #10 slot with "All Right Now".
1970: Cosmo's Factory, one of The Top 100 Albums of the Rock Era*, from CCR was #1 for the seventh consecutive week. The Soundtrack to "Woodstock" was second with Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs & Englishmen at #3. We were already figuring out how special Chicago was as Chicago II was #4 in its 34th week. The rest of the Top 10: Stage Fright from the Band, Closer To Home by Grand Funk Railroad, A Question of Balance by he Moody Blues, Tommy by the Who in its 55th week, Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 and a new entry from Neil Young--After the Gold Rush.
1972: The Eagles performed at the Charlotte Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina.
1972: Led Zeppelin played at Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan.
1977: Linda Ronstadt released her remake of the Buddy Holly classic "It's So Easy".
1980: Bob Seger joined Bruce Springsteen onstage to perform "Thunder Road" in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1981: Diana Ross and Lionel Ritchie remained at #1 for a seventh week on the R&B chart with "Endless Love".
1981: The Police cruised up from 66 to 44 with "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic".
1981: The Kinks were in concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
It was said of Al: "He has an entire orchestra in his throat."
1981: Tattoo You by the Rolling Stones was the #1 album for the third week with 4 by Foreigner moving up. Escape from Journey and Bella Donna by Stevie Nicks provided competition. The rest of the Top 10: Pirates from Rickie Lee Jones, Nine Tonight at #6 from Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band, the great album The Innocent Age by Dan Fogelberg moved from 20 to 7, Pat Benatar's Precious Time held down #8, the Soundtrack To "Endless Love" was in the #9 position and Al Jarreau made the list with Breakin' Away.
1987: "Lost In Emotion" by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam moved into the #1 position on the R&B chart.
1987: "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" by Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes moved from #73 to #54.
Everything's good...When Smokey Sings
1987: "Didn't We Almost Have It All" by Whitney Houston was #1 with Whitesnake in the bridesmaid's position with "Here I Go Again". Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam were back with the #3 song "Lost In Emotion, followed by "I Heard A Rumour" by Bananarama and Europe's "Carrie". The rest of the Top 10: Prince and Sheena Easton with "U (sic) Got the Look", Heart's 23rd career hit "Who Will You Run To", which cleared the Top 10 moving 13-8, "When Smokey Sings" from ABC, John Cougar Mellencamp and his 16th hit "Paper in FIre" and Smokey Robinson in person with "One Heartbeat".
1988: Imagine, a documentary about John Lennon that was compiled from 240 hours of unreleased footage, premiered in Hollywood, California.
1992: Abba dominated the U.K. album chart with the #1 album Gold-Greatest Hits.
1992: If you're keeping count, Boyz II Men made it eight weeks at #1 with "End of the Road".
1994: Eric Clapton started out on his "Nothing But the Blues" tour in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
1996: Van Halen fired lead singer David Lee Roth for a second time following a recording session for the group's Greatest Hits package.
2000: Green Day released the album Warning.
2000: Benjamin Orr, bassist and lead singer on "Just What I Needed" and "Drive" for the Cars, died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 53.
2003: At a conference on domestic violence, the wife of Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich sharply criticized how sex was marketed to teens and said "If I had an opportunity to shoot Britney Spears, I think I would." Doubt if she had too many dissenters.
2003: Life for Rent by Dido was the fastest-selling album in England in six years as it moved 250,000 copies in five days.
2004: Joss Stone debuted at #1 on the U.K. album chart with Mind, Body & Soul.
Born This Day:
1938: Eddie Cochran ("Summertime Blues") was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1941: Ernest Evans, better known as Chubby Checker, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1941: Lenny Waronker, producer for Randy Newman and Arlo Guthrie and president of Warner/Reprise Records
1949: Lindsay Buckingham was born in Palo Alto, California.
1954: Elite guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan was born in Dallas, Texas.
1959: Jack Wagner ("All I Need" from 1985) was born in Washington, Missouri.
1969: Gwen Stefani of No Doubt and a solo star, was born in Anaheim, California.
1971: Kevin Richardson of the Backstreet Boys was born in Lexington, Kentucky.
1975: India.Arie was born in Denver, Colorado.
1979: Nate Wood, drummer of the Calling
1984: Ashlee Simpson was born in Waco, Texas.
1957: The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom premiered on ABC-TV.
1960: Ike and Tina Turner performed "A Fool In Love" on American Bandstand on ABC-TV.
1964: The Beatles taped a performance for broadcast on Shindig! at Granville Theatre in London.
One of the landmark albums of all-time
1964: The album A Hard Day's Night by the Beatles had been out for 12 weeks, with 11 of those at #1. Something New by the Beatles was runner-up followed by Everybody Loves Somebody from Dean Martin and the album Peter, Paul and Mary in Concert. The rest of the Top 10: All Summer Long from the Beach Boys, How Glad I Am by Nancy Wilson, one of The Top 100 Albums of the Rock Era*--Getz/Gilberto by Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto at #7, Funny Girl from Barbra Streisand, Hello, Dolly! by Louis Armstrong and the Impressions pressed up from 17 to 10 with Keep On Pushing.
1965: Manfred Mann became the first band from the West to perform behind what was then the Iron Curtain. Luckily for them, those people are now as free as everyone else (except for China, Iran, Syria and North Korea as notable exceptions). Maybe someday.
1969: The Beatles released Abbey Road in the United States, a week later than its England release date.
Unrealized potential
1970: Janis Joplin listened to the instrumental "Buried Alive in the Blues", intending to record the vocal for her album Pearl. She died the next day.
1970: Diana Ross reached #1 on the R&B chart with "Ain't No Mountain High Enough".
They'll go down in history as one of the Top Acts of All-Time
1970: "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" was #1 for a third week from Ms. Ross while CCR would move into a familiar position--#2--with "Lookin' Out My Back Door". Dawn rose to #3 with "Candida" and Neil Diamond came in fourth with "Cracklin' Rosie". The rest of the Top 10: "Julie, Do Ya' Love Me" by Bobby Sherman, which in reality was not actually played in many markets, "I'll Be There" from the Jackson 5 moved from 19-6, Rare Earth and "(I Know) I'm Losing You", Anne Murray's "Snowbird" at #8, Edwin Starr was on his way down with the former #1 "War" and Free moved into #10 slot with "All Right Now".
1970: Cosmo's Factory, one of The Top 100 Albums of the Rock Era*, from CCR was #1 for the seventh consecutive week. The Soundtrack to "Woodstock" was second with Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs & Englishmen at #3. We were already figuring out how special Chicago was as Chicago II was #4 in its 34th week. The rest of the Top 10: Stage Fright from the Band, Closer To Home by Grand Funk Railroad, A Question of Balance by he Moody Blues, Tommy by the Who in its 55th week, Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 and a new entry from Neil Young--After the Gold Rush.
1972: The Eagles performed at the Charlotte Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina.
1972: Led Zeppelin played at Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan.
1977: Linda Ronstadt released her remake of the Buddy Holly classic "It's So Easy".
1980: Bob Seger joined Bruce Springsteen onstage to perform "Thunder Road" in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1981: Diana Ross and Lionel Ritchie remained at #1 for a seventh week on the R&B chart with "Endless Love".
1981: The Police cruised up from 66 to 44 with "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic".
1981: The Kinks were in concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
1981: Tattoo You by the Rolling Stones was the #1 album for the third week with 4 by Foreigner moving up. Escape from Journey and Bella Donna by Stevie Nicks provided competition. The rest of the Top 10: Pirates from Rickie Lee Jones, Nine Tonight at #6 from Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band, the great album The Innocent Age by Dan Fogelberg moved from 20 to 7, Pat Benatar's Precious Time held down #8, the Soundtrack To "Endless Love" was in the #9 position and Al Jarreau made the list with Breakin' Away.
1987: "Lost In Emotion" by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam moved into the #1 position on the R&B chart.
1987: "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" by Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes moved from #73 to #54.
Everything's good...When Smokey Sings
1987: "Didn't We Almost Have It All" by Whitney Houston was #1 with Whitesnake in the bridesmaid's position with "Here I Go Again". Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam were back with the #3 song "Lost In Emotion, followed by "I Heard A Rumour" by Bananarama and Europe's "Carrie". The rest of the Top 10: Prince and Sheena Easton with "U (sic) Got the Look", Heart's 23rd career hit "Who Will You Run To", which cleared the Top 10 moving 13-8, "When Smokey Sings" from ABC, John Cougar Mellencamp and his 16th hit "Paper in FIre" and Smokey Robinson in person with "One Heartbeat".
1988: Imagine, a documentary about John Lennon that was compiled from 240 hours of unreleased footage, premiered in Hollywood, California.
1992: Abba dominated the U.K. album chart with the #1 album Gold-Greatest Hits.
1992: If you're keeping count, Boyz II Men made it eight weeks at #1 with "End of the Road".
1994: Eric Clapton started out on his "Nothing But the Blues" tour in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
1996: Van Halen fired lead singer David Lee Roth for a second time following a recording session for the group's Greatest Hits package.
2000: Green Day released the album Warning.
2000: Benjamin Orr, bassist and lead singer on "Just What I Needed" and "Drive" for the Cars, died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 53.
2003: At a conference on domestic violence, the wife of Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich sharply criticized how sex was marketed to teens and said "If I had an opportunity to shoot Britney Spears, I think I would." Doubt if she had too many dissenters.
2003: Life for Rent by Dido was the fastest-selling album in England in six years as it moved 250,000 copies in five days.
2004: Joss Stone debuted at #1 on the U.K. album chart with Mind, Body & Soul.
Born This Day:
1938: Eddie Cochran ("Summertime Blues") was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1941: Ernest Evans, better known as Chubby Checker, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1941: Lenny Waronker, producer for Randy Newman and Arlo Guthrie and president of Warner/Reprise Records
1949: Lindsay Buckingham was born in Palo Alto, California.
1954: Elite guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan was born in Dallas, Texas.
1959: Jack Wagner ("All I Need" from 1985) was born in Washington, Missouri.
1969: Gwen Stefani of No Doubt and a solo star, was born in Anaheim, California.
1971: Kevin Richardson of the Backstreet Boys was born in Lexington, Kentucky.
1975: India.Arie was born in Denver, Colorado.
1979: Nate Wood, drummer of the Calling
1984: Ashlee Simpson was born in Waco, Texas.
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