Chips Moman Has Died

Chips Moman, who helped revive the career of Elvis Presley and also produced for Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas and Willie Nelson, died in LaGrange, Georgia one day after his 79th birthday.  Moman had been suffering from a disease of the lungs.

Moman also wrote "(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" for B.J. Thomas, which won him a Grammy Award.

Moman worked for Stax Records before founding the American Sound Studios in Memphis, Tennessee.

This Date in Rock Music History: June 13

1958 - Frank Zappa graduated from Antelope Valley High in Lancaster, CA. 
1960:  Little Brenda Lee took a giant leap up the charts, moving from 76 to 38 with "I'm Sorry".

The Top 30 Songs of 2006*: #20-11

In 2006, the NASA spacecraft Cassini-Huygens detected liquid geysers shooting from the Saturn moon Enceladus, indicating a possible presence of water.  The Winter Olympics were held in Turin, Italy.   Anja Pärson of Sweden won the gold medal in the women's slalom and took bronze in the downhill and combined.  Meanwhile, the social networking website Twitter was founded.  In sports, the Miami Heat turned back the Dallas Mavericks 4 games to 2 to win the National Basketball Association Championship while the St. Louis Cardinals ran over the Detroit Tigers 4 games to 1 to win the World Series.

In music, these songs were among the year's best: