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Helen Reddy

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29 EVENTS 1962–2024

1962 Paul Petersen sang “My Dad” as Jeff Stone on The Donna Reed Show. The song reached No. 6 the following January, but none of Petersen’s nine… 1963 Peter, Paul and Mary held Billboard’s two leading album positions with In the Wind and their self-titled debut. They later placed nine more albums in the…

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1955 Colonel Tom Parker asked Sun Records owner Sam Phillips what it would cost to release Elvis Presley from his contract. Phillips named a price of $40,000.
1960 Neil Sedaka recorded “Calendar Girl” at RCA’s New York studio. The single later reached No. 4 in America and No. 8 in Britain.
1960 Brenda Lee’s “I Want to Be Wanted” became her second Hot 100 No. 1 and fourth U.S. Top 10 hit of the year; it also reached No. 31 in Britain.
1960 Frank Sinatra’s Nice ’n’ Easy began nine weeks atop Billboard’s stereo album chart. It received an Album of the Year Grammy nomination but lost to Bob Newhart’s comedy LP The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart.
1962 James Brown financed a $5,700 recording of his Apollo Theater performance after his label resisted the idea. Live at the Apollo sold a million copies, preserved the show without breaks between tracks, and later ranked No. 24 on Rolling Stone’s 2003 greatest-albums list.
1963 Bob Dylan recorded “The Times They Are a-Changin’” at Columbia’s New York studio. It was not issued as an American single but reached No. 9 in Britain and later placed No. 59 on Rolling Stone’s 2004 greatest-songs list.
1966 Newsweek examined whether the Monkees were a genuine band, quoting Davy Jones as saying they were an act rather than a rock group. Session musicians had played much of the instrumentation on the group’s early recordings.
1970 Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother became the band’s first UK No. 1 album. It reached No. 55 in America and was certified Gold there in 1994, although Roger Waters and David Gilmour later spoke dismissively of it.
1970 Santana’s Abraxas became the group’s first U.S. No. 1 album, powered by “Oye Como Va,” which reached No. 13, and “Black Magic Woman,” which peaked at No. 4.
1971 Don McLean released American Pie. The album later spent seven weeks at No. 1 and went double Platinum; its title song topped America and reached No. 2 in Britain, while “Vincent” reached No. 12 in America and No. 1 in Britain.
1973 Art Garfunkel’s Angel Clare received Gold certification. The No. 5 album included “All I Know,” a No. 9 single, along with “I Shall Sing” and “Traveling Boy.”
1973 John Lennon sued the U.S. government for records showing he had been placed under surveillance. Later Freedom of Information disclosures confirmed that the FBI had monitored him beginning in 1971.

1962 Paul Petersen sang “My Dad” as Jeff Stone on The Donna Reed Show. The song reached No. 6 the following January, but none of Petersen’s nine later singles through 1968 returned him to the Top 40.
1963 Peter, Paul and Mary held Billboard’s two leading album positions with In the Wind and their self-titled debut. They later placed nine more albums in the Top 25, while their only No. 1 single was 1969’s John Denver composition “Leaving on a Jet Plane.”
1964 The Rolling Stones’ first Ed Sullivan Show appearance triggered such sustained screaming that Sullivan repeatedly demanded quiet before introducing violinist Itzhak Perlman. After the Stones closed with “Time Is on My Side,” he vowed never to invite them back, then relented because of the ratings and booked five more appearances.
1964 While touring, the Beatles accepted four Ivor Novello certificates and statuettes, including a Special Award for Outstanding Services to British Music. “She Loves You” won major honors and “All My Loving” earned a runner-up certificate.
1969 The Archies’ “Sugar, Sugar” began eight weeks at No. 1 in Britain after already topping the Hot 100 and earning an American Gold record. The defining bubblegum-pop hit ultimately sold more than six million copies worldwide.
1973 Rick Nelson guest-starred in The Streets of San Francisco episode “Harem” as a flute-playing drifter who manipulated runaway girls with false promises of protection while secretly operating as a ruthless killer.
1974 Anita, Bonnie, and Ruth Pointer became the first group of Black women to perform at the Grand Ole Opry. Their country-flavored “Fairytale” reached No. 13 pop and No. 37 country, then won a Grammy—the first country-category Grammy for Black women.
1975 Art Garfunkel earned his first solo UK No. 1 with the 1934 standard “I Only Have Eyes for You,” which reached No. 18 in America.
1975 Paul Simon released Still Crazy After All These Years. The No. 1 U.S. and No. 6 UK album won Grammys for Album of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and produced four Top 40 singles, led by No. 1 “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.”
1977 Ronnie Van Zant was buried at Jacksonville Memory Garden five days after the plane crash that also killed two Lynyrd Skynyrd bandmates, their assistant road manager, and the flight crew. Injured keyboardist Billy Powell was the only band member able to attend.
1977 Elton John began taping The Muppet Show, performing “Crocodile Rock,” “Bennie and the Jets,” “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” and “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart.”
1980 Barbra Streisand’s “Woman in Love,” written by Barry and Robin Gibb, began three weeks at No. 1 in America. It was her fifth chart-topper and came from the multi-Platinum Guilty album.

1958 Bill Haley and His Comets played West Berlin’s first rock-and-roll concert for 7,000 people at the Sportpalast. A riot injured five officers and six audience members, caused about 50,000 Deutsche Marks in damage, and prompted a temporary citywide rock ban.
1960 Elvis Presley rented the Memphis Fairgrounds amusement park after closing for a private night with Anita Wood, relatives, and friends, including rides on the Zippin Pippin roller coaster and vintage race cars.
1961 Bob Dylan signed with Columbia Records through talent scout John Hammond. He later placed twelve songs in America’s Top 40 from 1965 to 1979 and thirty-eight albums on Billboard charts between 1962 and 2020.
1965 The Beatles received MBEs from Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, provoking traditionalists and veterans to return their medals. John Lennon defended the honor by contrasting entertainment with wartime service and afterward said the Queen was nicer than she looked in photographs.
1969 Waylon Jennings, 32, married 26-year-old Jessi Colter, his fourth wife; they remained together until his 2002 death. Beyond his Buddy Holly and country careers, Jennings reached No. 21 pop with “Theme from The Dukes of Hazzard,” while Colter reached No. 4 with “I’m Not Lisa.”
1970 Elton John released “Your Song,” his first international Top 10 single, reaching that level in Britain, the Netherlands, Canada, and the United States.
1971 Three days after performing “Tired of Being Alone” on American Bandstand, Al Green received a Gold record for the single, which reached No. 11 pop and No. 7 on the Soul chart.
1974 Dionne Warwick and the Spinners each earned a first Hot 100 No. 1 when their collaboration “Then Came You” topped the chart.
1974 Bad Company’s “Can’t Get Enough” led Cashbox’s best-sellers list, becoming the group’s biggest North American hit before eight more U.S. Top 40 entries.
1974 Barry White’s Can’t Get Enough spent a week atop Billboard’s album chart, fueled by No. 1 “Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe” and No. 2 “You’re the First, the Last, My Everything.”
1980 Jefferson Starship leader Paul Kantner suffered a cerebral hemorrhage during a session. After two weeks in hospital he made a remarkable recovery without brain surgery and returned to recording the following spring.
1984 Wham!’s “Freedom” was No. 1 in Britain, the duo’s second UK chart-topper that year after “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go”; it later reached No. 3 in America.