Nostalgic News For Sunday, May 14

“MUSIC TODAY”

• 1956 – The Platters released their self-titled debut album on Mercury Records.
• 1960 – The Silver Beats (John Lennon, Paul McCartney George Harrison, Stu Sutcliffe, and Tommy Moore) performed at Lathom Hall, Seaforth, Liverpool. They played a few songs during the “interval” to audition for promoter Brian Kelly.
• 1968 – The Rascals recorded “People Got to Be Free.”
• 1977 – During a UK tour, Talking Heads played a gig at The Rock Garden in London where Brian Eno who was in the audience saw the band, who then went on to produce them.
• 1977 –  For the third week, Marvin Gaye held on to #1 on the R&B chart with “Got to Give It Up”.

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