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Today in Rock History

28 EVENTS 1955–2014

1955 The Four Lads’ first hit, “Moments to Remember,” peaked at No. 4 on Billboard’s disc-jockey chart. Perry Como’s management had rejected the song, which remained listed… 1956 Little Richard recorded “Good Golly, Miss Molly” at J&M Studio in New Orleans. Released in January 1958, it reached No. 10, became a rock-and-roll standard, and…

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1955 Buddy Holly and Bob Montgomery, performing as Buddy and Bob with bassist Larry Welborn, opened for Bill Haley and His Comets in Lubbock. Talent scout Eddie Crandall was impressed enough to arrange a demo and help Holly secure his first major solo contract with Decca.
1957 Despite bans by some American stations over its suggestive story, the Everly Brothers’ “Wake Up Little Susie” topped Billboard’s singles chart and reached No. 2 in Britain.
1962 Actor and singer Rex Allen’s narrative single “Don’t Go Near the Indians” peaked at No. 17. Its dated storyline concerns a young man who ignores his father, falls for a Native American woman, and then learns she is his biological sister.
1967 Bobbie Gentry’s Ode to Billie Joe replaced Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band at No. 1 on Billboard’s album chart, ending the Beatles LP’s fifteen consecutive weeks at the summit.
1967 The Bee Gees earned their first British No. 1 with “Massachusetts,” which sold more than five million copies worldwide. Robin Gibb later acknowledged that the brothers had never visited the state and simply liked its name.
1969 Motown released “Someday We’ll Be Together” as Diana Ross and the Supremes’ farewell single, though Ross was the only Supreme on the recording. Merry Clayton, Julia Waters Tillman, Maxine Waters Willard, and producer Johnny Bristol supplied the background vocals.
1970 President Richard Nixon convened radio executives at the White House to discuss youth drug abuse after the deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. He urged voluntary screening of rock lyrics and removal of songs seen as promoting drugs, pressure followed by an FCC warning and informal bans at many stations.
1971 Arco Industries sued John Fogerty for $500,000, claiming Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Travelin’ Band” copied substantial elements of Little Richard’s “Good Golly, Miss Molly.” The parties settled privately, awarding the publisher a share of future royalties.
1972 Fourteen-year-old Michael Jackson reached No. 1 in America and No. 7 in Britain with “Ben,” the title song from the film and his third hit within a year.
1972 Australian police arrested Joe Cocker and members of his touring band for marijuana possession in Adelaide. Cocker paid a $300 fine and initially continued touring, but a later Melbourne hotel disturbance prompted the government to order him out within 48 hours.
1975 Art Garfunkel released his second solo album, Breakaway, featuring “I Only Have Eyes for You,” “Break Away,” and the Simon & Garfunkel reunion “My Little Town.” The LP reached No. 7 in both Britain and America, going Gold in the UK and Platinum in the United States.
1977 Bing Crosby died from heart failure at 74. The defining crooner and actor also placed two singles in the rock-era Top 40, while his recording of “White Christmas” remains the world’s best-selling song with more than 50 million copies.

1955 The Four Lads’ first hit, “Moments to Remember,” peaked at No. 4 on Billboard’s disc-jockey chart. Perry Como’s management had rejected the song, which remained listed for 25 weeks and sold more than four million copies.
1956 Little Richard recorded “Good Golly, Miss Molly” at J&M Studio in New Orleans. Released in January 1958, it reached No. 10, became a rock-and-roll standard, and later ranked No. 92 on Rolling Stone’s 500 greatest songs list.
1957 RCA Victor released Elvis’ Christmas Album. It spent four weeks atop Billboard’s pop-album chart and, with more than 17 million U.S. and 20 million worldwide sales, became the best-selling Christmas album ever.
1958 Jackie Wilson recorded “Lonely Teardrops,” his first U.S. Top 10 single. The song reached No. 7 on the Hot 100 and No. 1 R&B, joined the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll, and entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.
1959 Jim Reeves recorded “He’ll Have to Go” at RCA Studio B in Nashville with musicians including pianist Floyd Cramer and the Anita Kerr Singers. The record topped the country chart and reached No. 2 on the Hot 100 the following February.
1960 Ringo Starr substituted for Pete Best while the Beatles backed Rory Storm and the Hurricanes bassist Wally Eymond at Hamburg’s Akustik studio. Nine 78-rpm acetates of “Summertime” were pressed, though none is known to survive; Starr joined the Beatles permanently almost two years later.
1961 Elvis Presley recorded “Good Luck Charm” at RCA in Nashville. It became his twelfth Hot 100 No. 1, also topped Cashbox and Britain’s chart, and received RIAA Platinum certification in 1992.
1963 The Rip Chords recorded “Hey Little Cobra,” with Terry Melcher—Doris Day’s son—singing lead and future Beach Boy Bruce Johnston supplying the high harmony. It entered the Hot 100 in December and reached No. 4 in February.
1965 An unknown Jimi Hendrix, then spelling his name Jimmy, signed an exclusive three-year PPX Enterprises contract for a one-dollar bonus and one-percent royalty. Mistaking it for routine session paperwork, he entered a restrictive deal that created major legal disputes after his rise to fame.
1965 Beach Boys singer Mike Love married Suzanne Celeste Belcher in Las Vegas. They had two children before divorcing in December 1968.
1966 The Four Tops earned their final American No. 1 with “Reach Out I’ll Be There,” which also topped the British singles chart.
1966 Original Jefferson Airplane singer Signe Toly Anderson played her last concert with the band at the Fillmore Auditorium, leaving to raise her newborn daughter. Grace Slick, freshly departed from the Great Society, replaced her the next evening.

1951 Eighteen-year-old Richard Penniman, already calling himself Little Richard, made his first RCA Camden recordings at Atlanta station WGST. His early style closely followed gospel-influenced jump-blues singer Billy Wright, a friend who helped arrange the session.
1954 Two weeks after a poorly received Grand Ole Opry appearance, Elvis Presley performed live on Shreveport’s Louisiana Hayride. The audience response earned him a year-long weekly booking at $18 per show, while Scotty Moore and Bill Black received $12 each.
1967 Joan Baez and dozens of peaceful demonstrators were arrested for blocking an Oakland military-induction center. Sentenced to 45 days but serving eleven, Baez later said she had gone to jail for disturbing the peace because she was trying to disturb the war.
1968 Jay and the Americans recorded “This Magic Moment” at O.D.O. Recorders in New York. Their version reached No. 6 on Billboard and No. 5 on Cashbox the following spring, improving on Ben E. King and the Drifters’ No. 16 original.
1968 Reprise released the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Electric Ladyland. The group’s most commercially successful album topped Billboard and reached No. 6 in Britain, while “All Along the Watchtower” climbed to No. 20 in America and No. 5 in the UK.
1969 Chess Records co-founder Leonard Chess died from a heart attack at 52. Born Lejzor Szmuel Czyż in Poland, he and brother Phil recorded foundational work by Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, the Moonglows, the Flamingos, and Fontella Bass; he entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame posthumously in 1987.
1972 Creedence Clearwater Revival formally announced its breakup after Tom Fogerty’s 1971 departure and mounting personal and creative conflict during Mardi Gras. John Fogerty later revived his solo career, while the surviving rhythm section eventually toured as Creedence Clearwater Revisited.
1973 Jazz drummer, bandleader, and composer Gene Krupa died from heart failure at 64. Celebrated by Modern Drummer as a founder of the modern drum set, his work with Benny Goodman brought drumming new national prominence and inspired the 1959 film The Gene Krupa Story.
1976 Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life debuted at No. 1 and remained there for thirteen weeks. The rare chart-topping debut generated the No. 1 singles “I Wish” and “Sir Duke,” plus “Another Star,” “As,” and the unissued-as-a-single radio hit “Isn’t She Lovely.”
1976 Rick Dees’s novelty “Disco Duck” spent one week at No. 1 and then four at No. 2. It also reached the soul Top 20 and No. 6 in Britain and went Platinum for two million sales.
1981 Diana Ross and Lionel Richie’s “Endless Love” was certified Platinum. Ross’s eighteenth No. 1 became the biggest-selling single of her career, including her Supremes recordings.
1982 Dolly Parton topped Billboard’s country chart with a new recording of “I Will Always Love You.” Ten years later Whitney Houston transformed the composition into a worldwide pop and R&B phenomenon for The Bodyguard.