1957: The movie Don't Knock the Rock, starring Bill Haley & the Comets and Little Richard, premieres in Australia. Haley & his group attended the opening.
1958: The Crickets released the single "Maybe Baby".
1961: All signs were that Connie Francis had a big hit. "Where the Boys Are" moved from 90 to 42.
1961: For the third week, Bert Kaempfert held down the #1 song with "Wonderland By Night". Ferrante & Teicher's excellent "Exodus" was second with another instrumental, "Calcutta" from Lawrence Welk close behind. The Shirelles remained fourth with the song written by Stanley, Idaho's Carole King--"Will You Love Me Tomorrow". The rest of the Top 10: "Angel Baby" from Rosie & the Originals, Elvis Presley's former #1 smash "Are You Lonesome Tonight?", the Miracles flew from 12 to 7 with "Shop Around", Neil Sedaka was up six (14-8) with "Calendar Girl", Bobby Vee's "Rubber Ball" bounded downstairs and Ray Peterson had #10 with "Corinna, Corinna".
Can you play "The Name Game"?
1965: Beatles '65 was #1 on the album chart for a third week with Where Did Our Love Go by the Supremes second once again. Soundtrack dominated the Top 10 with "Mary Poppins" #3, "A Hard Day's Night" by the Beatles #5, "My Fair Lady" moving up to #6 and the "Roustabout" Soundtrack from Elvis Presley #8.
1965: Petula Clark sped "Downtown" and it reached #1, holding off "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" by the Righteous Brothers. The Searchers were at #3 with "Love Potion Number Nine". The fastest-rising song within the Top 10 was "The Name Game" from Shirley Ellis.
1966: Stevie Wonder appeared at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, England.
1967: Buffalo Springfield released one of The Most Important Songs of the Rock Era*, "For What It's Worth".
1967: The Supremes released the single "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone".
1969: Alan Parsons engineered his first session with the Beatles as the group recorded "Get Back".
1971: George Harrison reached #1 in the U.K. with his solo hit "My Sweet Lord".
1971: Bobby Goldsboro placed "Watching Scotty Grow" at #1 on the Adult chart for a third week.
1971: Gladys Knight & the Pips reached #1 on the R&B chart with their great song "If I Were Your Woman".
1971: Dawn topped the chart with "Knock Three Times" as "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison was second. The 5th Dimension had a strong #3 with "One Less Bell to Answer" while the Bee Gees were up to #4 with one of their biggest career hits to date--"Lonely Days". Santana was on the way down with "Black Magic Woman". The rest of the Top 10: Barbra Streisand with "Stoney End", King Floyd remained seventh with "Groove Me", Elton John's historic first Top 10--"Your Song", Lynn Anderson moved nicely from 15-9 with "Rose Garden" and Perry Como reached the Top 10 with "It's Impossible".
1973: Neil Young was handed a message onstage in New York City and then announced that a peace accord had been reached in Vietnam. The crowd went crazy for 10 minutes.
1977: Patti Smith ("Because the Night") fell off a stage in Tampa, Florida and broke her vertebrae and required 22 stitches to her head. She quit performing live as a result.
1978: Van Halen released their first single "You Really Got Me".
1978: Linda Ronstadt released the single "Poor Poor Pitiful Me".
1978: Yvonne Elliman released the single "If I Can't Have You".
1978: Terry Kath of Chicago died after accidentally shooting himself in the head at a party with a pistol he didn't know was loaded. He died eight days shy of his 32nd birthday.
1978: Vic Ames of the Ames Brothers died in an automobile accident at the age of 52.
1979: Brian Wilson and wife Marilyn divorced.
1982: "Yesterday's Songs" by Neil Diamond was #1 for a sixth week.
1982: George Benson was the man on the R&B chart with the new #1--"Turn Your Love Around".
1984: The Eurythmics released the single "Here Comes the Rain Again".
1984: Kenny Loggins released the single "Footloose".
1986: The first class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was inducted and the selection committee went hog wild as if they couldn't invite enough people. Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holy, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, disc jockey Alan Freed and Sam Phillips, the boss at Sun Records, all were honored.
1988: Johnny Hates Jazz owned the #1 album in the U.K. with Turn Back the Clock.
Inxs with the great title track from Kick...
1988: Tiffany took over the #1 spot on the album chart with her self-titled release. That ended the run of Faith by George Michael briefly while the "Dirty Dancing" Soundtrack was third. Michael Jackson remained fourth with Bad while Whitesnake's self-titled release was #5. The rest of the Top 10: The great album Kick from INXS, John Cougar Mellencamp with The Lonesome Jubilee, George Harrison moved to #8 with Cloud Nine, Whitney by Whitney Houston was #9 and Hysteria by Def Leppard was at #10.
Expose had a great new song.
1988: Michael Jackson hit #1 for the ninth time as a solo artist with "The Way You Make Me Feel". Expose had the highest new Top 10 with "Seasons Change".
1989: The Fine Young Cannibals released the single "She Drives Me Crazy".
1989: James Brown was sentenced to six years in jail in connection with the police chase through two states.
1990: Allen Collins, guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd and later the Rossington Collins Band, died at age 37 from complications of pneumonia. Collins had been paralyzed from the waist down since 1986 after a car crash that also killed his girlfriend.
1993: Genesis scored a #1 album in the U.K. with Live the Way We Walk Volume II.
1993: Whitney Houston dominated the R&B chart for a ninth week at #1 with one of The Top 10 Songs of the Rock Era*--"I Will Always Love You".
1993: Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle reached #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart with "A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme)".
1993: Whitney Houston held on to #1 for a ninth week with "I Will Always Love You".
1995: Dionne Farris released the single "I Know".
1997: The Spice Girls' movie Spice World was released in the United States.
1997: Richard Berry, who wrote "Louie Louie", died in Los Angeles.
1998: Johnny Funches from the Dells died at age 62.
"Put Your Lights On" from Everlast and Carlos...
2000: Supernatural by Santana was the #1 album.
2002: We hear often that performers sign a recording contract to release albums. This is a new one. On this date, EMI announced that it would pay Mariah Carey $28 million to not put out any more music.
2003: R. Kelly was arrested on 12 more counts of child pornography. He was already facing 21 separate charges of producing child pornography and appearing in a video having sex with an underage girl. The new charges were a result of digital sex pictures being discovered at his home in Florida the previous June.
2004: One had to wonder about fans of Jethro Tull. On this date, David Palmer, who was the former keyboardist for the group, announced he had undergone a sex change and would now be known as "Dee".
2004: Then you get this news about Dave Holland, age 55, drummer of Judas Priest. An English court found Holland guilty of attempting to rape a learning-disabled teenager he was giving drum lessons to.
2005: Ciara had the top U.K. song with "Goodies".
Born This Day:
1943: Millie Jackson ("It Hurts So Good") was born in Thomson, Georgia.
1944: Jerry Lawson of the Persuasions was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
1948: Anita Pointer of the Pointer Sisters was born in Oakland, California.
1950: Patrick Simmons, founding member and guitarist of the Doobie Brothers, was born in Aberdeen, Washington.
1950: Danny Federici, keyboardist of the E Street Band; died April 17, 2008 after battling melanoma for three years.
1950: Bill Cunningham, bassist of the Box Tops, was born in Memphis, Tennessee.
1953: Robin Zander, lead singer of Cheap Trick, was born in Rockford, Illinois.
1955: Earl Falconer, bassist of UB40, was born in Birmingham, England.
1955: Reggie Calloway, trumpeter of Midnight Star and Calloway ("I Wanna' Be Rich")
1975: Nick Harmer, bassist of Death Cab for Cutie, was born in Landstuhl, Germany.
1958: The Crickets released the single "Maybe Baby".
1961: All signs were that Connie Francis had a big hit. "Where the Boys Are" moved from 90 to 42.
1961: For the third week, Bert Kaempfert held down the #1 song with "Wonderland By Night". Ferrante & Teicher's excellent "Exodus" was second with another instrumental, "Calcutta" from Lawrence Welk close behind. The Shirelles remained fourth with the song written by Stanley, Idaho's Carole King--"Will You Love Me Tomorrow". The rest of the Top 10: "Angel Baby" from Rosie & the Originals, Elvis Presley's former #1 smash "Are You Lonesome Tonight?", the Miracles flew from 12 to 7 with "Shop Around", Neil Sedaka was up six (14-8) with "Calendar Girl", Bobby Vee's "Rubber Ball" bounded downstairs and Ray Peterson had #10 with "Corinna, Corinna".
Can you play "The Name Game"?
1965: Beatles '65 was #1 on the album chart for a third week with Where Did Our Love Go by the Supremes second once again. Soundtrack dominated the Top 10 with "Mary Poppins" #3, "A Hard Day's Night" by the Beatles #5, "My Fair Lady" moving up to #6 and the "Roustabout" Soundtrack from Elvis Presley #8.
1965: Petula Clark sped "Downtown" and it reached #1, holding off "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" by the Righteous Brothers. The Searchers were at #3 with "Love Potion Number Nine". The fastest-rising song within the Top 10 was "The Name Game" from Shirley Ellis.
1966: Stevie Wonder appeared at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, England.
1967: Buffalo Springfield released one of The Most Important Songs of the Rock Era*, "For What It's Worth".
1967: The Supremes released the single "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone".
1969: Alan Parsons engineered his first session with the Beatles as the group recorded "Get Back".
1971: George Harrison reached #1 in the U.K. with his solo hit "My Sweet Lord".
1971: Bobby Goldsboro placed "Watching Scotty Grow" at #1 on the Adult chart for a third week.
1971: Gladys Knight & the Pips reached #1 on the R&B chart with their great song "If I Were Your Woman".
1971: Dawn topped the chart with "Knock Three Times" as "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison was second. The 5th Dimension had a strong #3 with "One Less Bell to Answer" while the Bee Gees were up to #4 with one of their biggest career hits to date--"Lonely Days". Santana was on the way down with "Black Magic Woman". The rest of the Top 10: Barbra Streisand with "Stoney End", King Floyd remained seventh with "Groove Me", Elton John's historic first Top 10--"Your Song", Lynn Anderson moved nicely from 15-9 with "Rose Garden" and Perry Como reached the Top 10 with "It's Impossible".
1973: Neil Young was handed a message onstage in New York City and then announced that a peace accord had been reached in Vietnam. The crowd went crazy for 10 minutes.
1977: Patti Smith ("Because the Night") fell off a stage in Tampa, Florida and broke her vertebrae and required 22 stitches to her head. She quit performing live as a result.
1978: Van Halen released their first single "You Really Got Me".
1978: Linda Ronstadt released the single "Poor Poor Pitiful Me".
1978: Yvonne Elliman released the single "If I Can't Have You".
1978: Terry Kath of Chicago died after accidentally shooting himself in the head at a party with a pistol he didn't know was loaded. He died eight days shy of his 32nd birthday.
1978: Vic Ames of the Ames Brothers died in an automobile accident at the age of 52.
1979: Brian Wilson and wife Marilyn divorced.
1982: "Yesterday's Songs" by Neil Diamond was #1 for a sixth week.
1982: George Benson was the man on the R&B chart with the new #1--"Turn Your Love Around".
1984: The Eurythmics released the single "Here Comes the Rain Again".
1984: Kenny Loggins released the single "Footloose".
1986: The first class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was inducted and the selection committee went hog wild as if they couldn't invite enough people. Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holy, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, disc jockey Alan Freed and Sam Phillips, the boss at Sun Records, all were honored.
1988: Johnny Hates Jazz owned the #1 album in the U.K. with Turn Back the Clock.
Inxs with the great title track from Kick...
1988: Tiffany took over the #1 spot on the album chart with her self-titled release. That ended the run of Faith by George Michael briefly while the "Dirty Dancing" Soundtrack was third. Michael Jackson remained fourth with Bad while Whitesnake's self-titled release was #5. The rest of the Top 10: The great album Kick from INXS, John Cougar Mellencamp with The Lonesome Jubilee, George Harrison moved to #8 with Cloud Nine, Whitney by Whitney Houston was #9 and Hysteria by Def Leppard was at #10.
Expose had a great new song.
1988: Michael Jackson hit #1 for the ninth time as a solo artist with "The Way You Make Me Feel". Expose had the highest new Top 10 with "Seasons Change".
1989: The Fine Young Cannibals released the single "She Drives Me Crazy".
1989: James Brown was sentenced to six years in jail in connection with the police chase through two states.
1990: Allen Collins, guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd and later the Rossington Collins Band, died at age 37 from complications of pneumonia. Collins had been paralyzed from the waist down since 1986 after a car crash that also killed his girlfriend.
1993: Genesis scored a #1 album in the U.K. with Live the Way We Walk Volume II.
1993: Whitney Houston dominated the R&B chart for a ninth week at #1 with one of The Top 10 Songs of the Rock Era*--"I Will Always Love You".
1993: Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle reached #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart with "A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme)".
1993: Whitney Houston held on to #1 for a ninth week with "I Will Always Love You".
1995: Dionne Farris released the single "I Know".
1997: The Spice Girls' movie Spice World was released in the United States.
1997: Richard Berry, who wrote "Louie Louie", died in Los Angeles.
1998: Johnny Funches from the Dells died at age 62.
"Put Your Lights On" from Everlast and Carlos...
2000: Supernatural by Santana was the #1 album.
2002: We hear often that performers sign a recording contract to release albums. This is a new one. On this date, EMI announced that it would pay Mariah Carey $28 million to not put out any more music.
2003: R. Kelly was arrested on 12 more counts of child pornography. He was already facing 21 separate charges of producing child pornography and appearing in a video having sex with an underage girl. The new charges were a result of digital sex pictures being discovered at his home in Florida the previous June.
2004: One had to wonder about fans of Jethro Tull. On this date, David Palmer, who was the former keyboardist for the group, announced he had undergone a sex change and would now be known as "Dee".
2004: Then you get this news about Dave Holland, age 55, drummer of Judas Priest. An English court found Holland guilty of attempting to rape a learning-disabled teenager he was giving drum lessons to.
2005: Ciara had the top U.K. song with "Goodies".
Born This Day:
1943: Millie Jackson ("It Hurts So Good") was born in Thomson, Georgia.
1944: Jerry Lawson of the Persuasions was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
1948: Anita Pointer of the Pointer Sisters was born in Oakland, California.
1950: Patrick Simmons, founding member and guitarist of the Doobie Brothers, was born in Aberdeen, Washington.
1950: Danny Federici, keyboardist of the E Street Band; died April 17, 2008 after battling melanoma for three years.
1950: Bill Cunningham, bassist of the Box Tops, was born in Memphis, Tennessee.
1953: Robin Zander, lead singer of Cheap Trick, was born in Rockford, Illinois.
1955: Earl Falconer, bassist of UB40, was born in Birmingham, England.
1955: Reggie Calloway, trumpeter of Midnight Star and Calloway ("I Wanna' Be Rich")
1975: Nick Harmer, bassist of Death Cab for Cutie, was born in Landstuhl, Germany.
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