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24 EVENTS 1955–2022

1955 Billboard reported that independent record companies were expanding at an unprecedented pace. Regional labels including Sun, Chess, Atlantic, and Dot had collectively taken in about $20… 1955 Bandleader and powerful A&R executive Mitch Miller reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Top 100 with “The Yellow Rose of Texas,” a song whose origins dated to…

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1956 Elvis Presley recorded “Too Much,” along with several other songs, at Radio Recorders in Hollywood. RCA released it as a single on January 4, 1957, and Presley performed it on The Ed Sullivan Show two days later; the record reached No. 2 on Billboard’s Top 100, No. 1 on Cashbox, and No. 3 on Billboard’s R&B chart.
1964 The Rolling Stones recorded Willie Dixon’s “Little Red Rooster” at Regent Sound Studios in London. Brian Jones’ prominent slide guitar helped define the arrangement, which became the only pure blues song to top the UK singles chart.
1965 The RIAA certified the Beatles’ “Help!” Gold for one million U.S. sales. Capitol president Alan Livingston had presented plaques for the single and its namesake album at the group’s Los Angeles press conference on August 29; the song reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 two days later.
1965 The earliest Doors lineup, still billed as Rick & the Ravens, entered World Pacific Studios in Los Angeles to record a six-song demo containing early versions of “Moonlight Drive” and “Hello, I Love You.” The session featured Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, John Densmore, Rick and Jim Manzarek, and bassist Patty Sullivan, credited as Patricia Hansen.
1965 Roadies for the Who went to London’s Battersea Dogs Home to buy a guard dog for the band’s equipment. While they were inside, thieves stole their unattended van and removed approximately £5,000 worth of gear; the empty vehicle was later recovered.
1978 George Harrison, 35, married Olivia Trinidad Arias, 30, who had worked as a secretary at his Dark Horse label. Their son Dhani had been born on August 1, and the couple remained married until Harrison’s death in 2001.
1978 Former Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes lead singer Teddy Pendergrass promoted Life Is a Song Worth Singing with a women-only concert. The concept proved so popular that additional women-only performances sold out.
1989 Paula Abdul reached No. 1 in the United States with “Cold Hearted.” The single’s British release came the following year, where it peaked at No. 46.
1989 Ozzy Osbourne was charged with threatening to kill his wife Sharon after an attack at their Buckinghamshire home. He later said he awoke in police custody with no memory of the incident; he was released on the condition that he immediately enter detox, and the case was eventually dropped after the couple reconciled.
1995 The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opened its Cleveland building with performances and appearances by artists including Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Booker T. & the M.G.’s, Little Richard, the Allman Brothers Band, Boz Scaggs, James Brown, and Martha Reeves.
1995 Michael Jackson’s “You Are Not Alone” became the first single in the 37-year history of Billboard’s main singles chart to debut at No. 1, earning a Guinness World Record. It spent one week on top before Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise,” featuring L.V., displaced it.
2004 R&B singer Tyrone Davis, known for the 1970 No. 1 soul hit “Turn Back the Hands of Time,” suffered a major stroke after a Labor Day weekend performance. He remained in a coma until his death in Hinsdale, Illinois, on February 9, 2005.

1955 Billboard reported that independent record companies were expanding at an unprecedented pace. Regional labels including Sun, Chess, Atlantic, and Dot had collectively taken in about $20 million during the previous year, beginning to erode the market once dominated by the major corporations known as the “Big Seven.”
1955 Bandleader and powerful A&R executive Mitch Miller reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Top 100 with “The Yellow Rose of Texas,” a song whose origins dated to 1853. Despite his success as a producer and recording artist, Miller was openly hostile toward rock and roll.
1955 Toronto vocal quartet the Four Lads entered Billboard’s Top 100 with “Moments to Remember.” The single became their biggest hit, peaking at No. 2 during a 25-week chart run and launching a sequence of twelve Top 40 records.
1965 Lou Christie recorded “Lightnin’ Strikes” at Olmstead Studios in New York, with backing vocals by Bernadette Carroll, Peggy Santiglia, and Denise Ferri of the Delicates. The song topped both the Billboard Hot 100 and Cashbox chart the following February; Santiglia had also sung with the Angels of “My Boyfriend’s Back” fame.
1966 Donovan earned his only U.S. No. 1 when “Sunshine Superman” began a one-week stay atop the Billboard Hot 100. Recorded in December 1965, it featured future Led Zeppelin members John Paul Jones on bass and Jimmy Page on lead guitar; contractual problems delayed its British release, where it later reached No. 3.
1966 The Happenings’ debut chart single, “See You in September,” peaked at No. 3 on Billboard. The New Jersey quartet would place four more songs in the Top 40, including another No. 3 hit, “I Got Rhythm,” in 1967.
1966 ABC aired The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet in prime time for the final time, ending a landmark 14-season network run. The Nelson family sitcom, which helped make Ricky Nelson a teen idol, had become the first scripted U.S. prime-time series to last more than a decade.
1966 Michigan garage-rock band ? and the Mysterians made their national chart debut when “96 Tears” entered the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 75. Driven by its stark Vox-organ riff, the record climbed to No. 1 on October 29.
1968 Ringo Starr returned to the Beatles at Abbey Road after a tense two-week absence that included a stay in Sardinia. George Harrison welcomed him by covering his drum kit with flowers; while Starr was away, the other three Beatles had recorded “Back in the U.S.S.R.” and “Dear Prudence,” with Paul McCartney handling drums.
1970 The Dave Clark Five announced their breakup, closing one of the British Invasion’s most successful runs. Between 1964 and 1967 the Tottenham group accumulated 17 U.S. Top 40 hits, while placing 19 records on the UK chart from 1963 through 1970.
1970 Canned Heat co-founder Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson was found dead behind bandmate Bob Hite’s home in Topanga Canyon from a barbiturate overdose, aged 27, shortly before the group was due to leave for Europe. The gifted guitarist, harmonica player, and environmentalist sang lead on “On the Road Again” and “Going Up the Country.”
1970 Shock-rock pioneer Arthur Brown was arrested for public obscenity at Sicily’s Palermo Pop ’70 Festival after setting his trademark helmet alight and stripping naked onstage. Italian authorities held him in solitary confinement for four days before deporting him; a later story about a citizens’ petition ordering him out of Italy has never been verified.

1959 Following several teenager killings in New York, WCBS banned every version of “Mack the Knife.” Bobby Darin’s recording later won Grammys for Record of the Year and Best New Artist and entered the National Recording Registry in 2016.
1962 John, Paul, George, and Ringo held their first formal EMI session together. They rehearsed six songs but recorded only “Love Me Do” and a version of “How Do You Do It?” that remained unreleased until “Anthology 1” in 1995.
1964 The Animals played their first U.S. concert at New York’s Paramount Theatre just as “House of the Rising Sun” was reaching No. 1 in America.
1967 The Doors released “People Are Strange,” from “Strange Days”; it reached No. 12 on the Hot 100 and No. 10 on Cash Box.
1968 Radio stations in Chicago and other cities banned The Rolling Stones’ “Street Fighting Man” after violence at the Democratic National Convention, fearing its lyrics could inflame further unrest. Mick Jagger joked that censorship had previously helped one of the band’s records sell a million copies.
1970 The Rolling Stones released the live album “Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out!” It reached No. 6 in America, went Platinum there, and became the first live album to top Britain’s official chart.
1971 Paul McCartney earned his first solo U.S. No. 1 with “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey,” inspired partly by his real uncle and American admiral William “Bull” Halsey.
1972 John Lennon and Yoko Ono appeared on Jerry Lewis’s Muscular Dystrophy Telethon, performing “Imagine,” Yoko’s “Now or Never,” and a reggae version of “Give Peace a Chance” with Lewis on trumpet.
1976 Blue Öyster Cult’s “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” entered the Top 40 and later peaked at No. 12. Fleetwood Mac’s self-titled album, its first with Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, reached No. 1 after nearly 14 months and eventually went nine-times Platinum.
1980 A reconfigured Yes lineup began a record-setting three-night sold-out run at Madison Square Garden, promoting “Drama.”
1982 Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger” moved from a six-week U.S. No. 1 run to the top of the British chart, where it stayed four weeks. The Steve Miller Band’s “Abracadabra” also reached No. 1 in America.
2003 BMG/RCA announced the discovery of Elvis Presley’s previously unheard “I’m a Roustabout,” an unused song written for the 1964 film “Roustabout” and later added to “Elvis, 2nd to None.”