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29 EVENTS 1957–2019

1957 CBS broadcast The Edsel Show, an hour-long promotion for Ford’s new automobile starring Bing Crosby with Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Louis Armstrong, Lindsay Crosby, and the… 1958 Billboard noted that 18-year-old Phil Spector, writer and arranger of the Teddy Bears’ “To Know Him Is to Love Him,” was studying to become a court…

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1957 Johnny Mathis topped Cashbox with “Chances Are,” then No. 7 on Billboard’s disc-jockey chart. The single sold more than two million copies and entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998.
1957 While touring Australia, Little Richard renounced rock and roll and threw four diamond rings valued at $8,000 into the Hunter River after a bandmate challenged his faith. He soon began a gospel career, but returned to secular rock five years later.
1962 One week after releasing “Love Me Do,” the Beatles opened for their idol Little Richard at the Tower Ballroom in Wallasey. Backstage photographs captured them with Richard and his young touring keyboard player Billy Preston.
1963 Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs topped Billboard with “Sugar Shack.” The million-selling single became the year’s biggest U.S. record, while reaching No. 45 in Britain.
1963 The Ronettes’ “Be My Baby” reached No. 2 during a ten-week Top 40 run. Phil Spector required 42 takes before accepting the recording, an exhausting process engineer Larry Levine later described as evidence of Spector’s musical genius.
1965 At Abbey Road, the Beatles recorded “Run for Your Life” and an early version of “This Bird Has Flown” for Rubber Soul. They rebuilt the latter recording nine days later and retitled it “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown).”
1968 Big Brother and the Holding Company’s Cheap Thrills began eight nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 and became the year’s best-selling album with more than a million copies. The Library of Congress added it to the National Recording Registry in 2013.
1971 Rockabilly singer Gene Vincent died from a bleeding ulcer at 36. Best remembered for “Be-Bop-A-Lula,” he had four Billboard Top 100 entries but enjoyed even greater British success with eight Top 40 hits from 1956 to 1961.
1972 Diana Ross made her feature-film debut as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues, alongside Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, James T. Callahan, and Scatman Crothers. The film earned five Academy Award nominations, including Best Actress for Ross, who lost to Liza Minnelli for Cabaret.
1974 Olivia Newton-John topped America’s album chart with If You Love Me, Let Me Know. Its title track reached No. 5, while “I Honestly Love You” became her first Hot 100 No. 1 and won the following spring’s Grammy for Record of the Year.
1974 John Denver’s “Annie’s Song,” written for then-wife Annie Martell Denver, reached No. 1 in Britain after topping the American chart in July.
1978 Nancy Spungen, Sid Vicious’s 20-year-old girlfriend, was found fatally stabbed in their Chelsea Hotel room. Vicious was charged and released on bail but died from a heroin overdose in February 1979 before trial, after which New York police closed the case.

1957 CBS broadcast The Edsel Show, an hour-long promotion for Ford’s new automobile starring Bing Crosby with Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Louis Armstrong, Lindsay Crosby, and the Four Preps. It earned an Emmy nomination for Best Single Program but lost to Rod Serling’s Playhouse 90 drama “The Comedian.”
1958 Billboard noted that 18-year-old Phil Spector, writer and arranger of the Teddy Bears’ “To Know Him Is to Love Him,” was studying to become a court reporter. The same issue retired the Best Sellers in Stores chart because retail data had been incorporated into the new Hot 100.
1958 Little Anthony and the Imperials’ debut chart entry, “Tears on My Pillow,” reached No. 4 and became their biggest hit. Six more hits followed through 1965, including the Top 10 singles “Goin’ Out of My Head” and “Hurt So Bad.”
1962 Don Everly collapsed during a London rehearsal on the eve of the Everly Brothers’ 22-date British tour. He returned urgently to America for treatment while Phil completed the scheduled concerts alone.
1963 An early eruption of Beatlemania surrounded the Beatles’ appearance on ITV’s Sunday Night at the London Palladium. Fans struggled with police outside as an estimated 15 million viewers watched the group perform “She Loves You,” “Twist and Shout,” and other hits.
1965 The Who recorded “My Generation,” Pete Townshend’s expression of youth frustration. Roger Daltrey said he stuttered to fit the rhythm; the BBC initially feared the effect mocked people who stammer, then relented. The single reached No. 2 in Britain but only No. 74 in America.
1967 The Who released “I Can See for Miles” in Britain, where it peaked at No. 10. Already issued in America, it became the band’s only Billboard Top 10 single at No. 9 and later ranked No. 262 on Rolling Stone’s 2010 greatest-songs list.
1970 Nine days after Janis Joplin’s death, ten mourners attended a private Los Angeles service before her ashes were scattered over the Pacific Ocean and along California’s Stinson Beach.
1973 The Rolling Stones earned their fourth American No. 1 album as Goats Head Soup began four weeks at the summit. Its ballad “Angie” topped the Hot 100 one week later.
1974 Television host Ed Sullivan died from esophageal cancer at 73. His 23-year Sunday variety show introduced the Beatles and scores of other performers to mass American audiences, won Emmy and Golden Globe honors, and led to his Television Academy Hall of Fame induction in 1985.
1977 Shirley Brickley of the Orlons was shot dead by an intruder in her Philadelphia home at 32. The unsolved killing ended the life of a singer whose group scored five Top 20 hits in 1962–63, including “The Wah-Watusi,” “Don’t Hang Up,” and “South Street.”
1978 Queen released the double A-side “Fat Bottomed Girls” and “Bicycle Race” in Britain. It reached No. 11 there and, after an American issue eleven days later, No. 24 in the United States.

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.