“MUSIC TODAY”
- 1928 – King Oliver and his band recorded “Tin Roof Blues.”
- 1940 – The Ink Spots recorded “Maybe.”
- 1949 – Hank Williams made his debut at the ‘Grand Ole Opry’ in Nashville and received an unprecedented total of six encores.
- 1957 – Elvis Presley released the single “(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear”.
- 1962 – The Beatles recorded a BBC radio program, “Here We Go”, at the Playhouse Theatre in Manchester, in front of a studio audience composed largely of loyal Cavern fans.
- 1964 – Manfred Mann recorded “Do Wah Diddy Diddy”
- 1966 – The Rolling Stones started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Paint It, Black’, the group’s third US No.1 single. Also a No.1 in the UK, it was the first No.1 single to feature a sitar on the recording.
- 1966 – European radio stations mistakenly reported that The Who’s lead singer Roger Daltrey was dead. Actually, it was guitarist Pete Townshend who had been injured in a car accident a few days earlier.
- 1967 – Printed in this week’s music weekly Melody Maker’s ad’s pages, ‘Freaky lead guitarist, bass and drummer wanted for Marc Bolan’s new group. Also any other astral flyers like with car’s amplification and that which never grows in window boxes, phone Wimbledon 0697.’ The band who formed as Tyrannosaurus Rex, went on to release four underground folk albums before becoming known as T Rex.
- 1969 – The Beatles were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘The Ballad Of John and Yoko’ the group’s 17th UK No.1. The only two Beatles that played on the track were John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
- 1976 – AC/DC appeared at Glasgow City Hall, Scotland, on the first night of their Lock Up Your Daughters 19 date UK tour.
- 1976 – The Carpenters released the album A Kind of Hush.
- 1977 – As Britain celebrated the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, The Sex Pistols reached No. 2 in the singles chart with ‘God Save The Queen’.
- 1977 – KC and the Sunshine Band became only the second group after The Jackson Five to achieve four US No.1’s when ‘I’m Your Boogie Man’ went to the top of the charts.https://youtu.be/PJysQxMnPKE
- 1983 – Irene Cara was halfway through her run at #1 (three weeks already) with “Flashdance…What A Feeling”.
- 1983 – Loverboy had the highest debuting song with “Hot Girls In Love”
- 1983 – “My Love” by Lionel Richie was #1 for the fourth straight week on the Adult Contemporary chart.
- 1988 – George Michael remained at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart for the third week with “One More Try”.
- 1988 – Nelson Mandellas 70th birthday tribute took place at Wembley Stadium, London, featuring Whitney Houston, Phil Collins, Dire Straits, Stevie Wonder, Tracy Chapman, George Michael, Eric Clapton, UB40, The Eurythmics and Simple Minds. The event was broadcast live on BBC 2 to 40 different countries with an estimated audience of 1 billion.
- 1994 – “Any Time, Any Place” by Janet Jackson was the new #1 song on the R&B chart.https://youtu.be/wQARSXi1Cig
- 1996 – A Metallica concert at a small club in San Francisco was broadcast live via the Internet.
- 2000 – Aaliyah went to No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Try Again’. It became the first “airplay-only” song to reach No.1 on the US singles chart (no points from a commercial single release).
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