Tuesday’s Nostalgic News – May 9

“MUSIC TODAY”

• 1960 – The great instrumental “White Silver Sands” by Bill Black’s Combo was #1 for the third out of four weeks on the R&B chart.
• 1960 – Elvis Presley held on to #1 for a third week with “Stuck On You”.  Incredibly, it was Elvis’s 74th week at #1 in his career.
• 1964 – Chuck Berry began his first ever UK tour at The Astoria Theatre, London, supported by The Animals, The Swinging Blue Jeans, Karl Denver and the Nashville Teens.
• 1964 – Chuck Berry began his first British tour.
• 1964, Louis Armstrong went to No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Hello Dolly’ making him the oldest artist to hit No.1 at the age of 62. In 2011, 85 year-old Tony Bennett broke this record when his Duets album topped the US album chart.
• 1966 – The Doors played at the Whisky A Go Go, West Hollywood, California auditioning for the position of the venue’s house band.
• 1966 – Karen Carpenter signed her first recording contract with Magic Lamp Records at the age of 16.
• 1967 – Sandie Shaw was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Puppet On A String’. This week’s two highest new entries were Jimi Hendrix with ‘The Wind Cries Mary’ and The Kinks ‘Waterloo Sunset’.

• 1969 – Beatles guitarist George Harrison’s experimental album Electronic Sounds was released on Zapple records.
• 1970 – Tyrone Davis owned the #1 song on the R&B chart for the second consecutive week with “Turn Back The Hands Of Time”.
• 1970 – Guess Who started a three-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘American Woman’, it was the group’s sixth Top 30 hit and only chart topper.
• 1973 – Mick Jagger added $150,000 of his own money to the $350,000 by The Rolling Stones January benefit concert for victims of the Nicaraguan earthquake.
• 1974 – Bonnie Raitt played two shows at Harvard Square Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts; opening act was Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. Rolling Stone critic John Landau saw Springsteen and wrote ‘I have seen rock & roll’s future and his name is Bruce Springsteen’.
• 1975 – KISS, The James Gang and Rush all appeared at Ohio Northern University in Ada Ohio. Advance tickets cost $5.00.
• 1981 – “Morning Train” by Sheena Easton remained at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
• 1981 – Adam and the Ants were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Stand And Deliver.’ The song enjoyed a five-week run at No.1.

• 1985 – Phil Collins released the single “Sussudio.”
• 1987 – Starship started a four-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with a song co-written by Albert Hammond and Diane Warren, ‘Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now.’ At 48, it made lead singer Grace Slick the oldest female to reach No.1 on the UK chart, (later broken by Cher’s ‘Believe’ in 1999).
• 1987 – Starship began a four-week stay at #1 in the U.K. with “Nothing’s Gonna’ Stop Us Now”.
• 1992 – “Under The Bridge” gave the Red Hot Chili Peppers their first Top 10 song.
• 1998 – The Soundtrack to “Titanic” was #1 on the Album chart for the 16th week in a row
• 1999 – The Backstreet Boys scored their first UK No.1 single with ‘I Want It That Way’ their 8th UK Top 10 hit and a hit in over 25 countries.