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Bert Kaempfert

Bert Kaempfert accordion, clarinet, piano, saxophone, trumpet b. 1923 D. 1980

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Emile Ford Emile Ford, The Checkmates · drums, guitar, keyboards, vocals b. 1937 D. 2016

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Fred Turner Bachman-Turner Overdrive · vocals, bass, guitar b. 1943 83 YRS

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Today in Rock History

22 EVENTS 1951–2025

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… 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…

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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.

1956 Mickey Baker and Sylvia Vanderpool recorded Bo Diddley’s “Love Is Strange” at Groove Records in New York. It later topped the R&B chart, reached No. 11 pop, and entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2004; the duo charted seven more times but never returned to the Top 40.
1957 Jailhouse Rock premiered at Memphis’s Loew’s State Theatre, where Elvis Presley had worked as an usher five years earlier. Co-star Judy Tyler died in a crash shortly after filming; although Presley saw a private final cut, grief kept him from watching the released movie.
1960 The Drifters topped the U.S. pop chart with “Save the Last Dance for Me,” still led by former member Ben E. King’s vocal. Originally the B-side of “Nobody but Me,” it gained attention after Dick Clark favored it and later reached No. 2 in Britain.
1960 Dion DiMucci left the Belmonts amid stated musical differences, saying the group favored middle-of-the-road material too heavily. People close to the act maintained that disputes over dividing income were the deeper cause.
1961 Elvis’ Golden Records received RIAA Gold certification. The collection of 1956–57 singles is widely regarded as rock’s first greatest-hits album and later advanced through Platinum, five-times-Platinum, and six-times-Platinum awards.
1962 The Beatles made their first British television appearance on Granada’s regional People and Places, performing “Some Other Guy” and “Love Me Do.” Their first nationwide UK broadcast followed on Thank Your Lucky Stars in January 1963.
1963 Bobby Goldsboro recorded his composition “See the Funny Little Clown” at Bell Sound in New York. It became the first of eleven Billboard Top 40 hits, reaching No. 9 pop, No. 3 easy listening, and No. 10 on Cashbox.
1963 The Beatles recorded their first annual fan-club Christmas message on a flexible vinyl disc. It combined “Good King Wenceslas,” individual greetings, and a closing chorus of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Ringo.”
1964 Manfred Mann topped the Hot 100 with “Do Wah Diddy Diddy,” a remake of the Exciters’ earlier No. 78 single. Sung by Paul Jones, it had already reached No. 1 in Britain in August.
1964 The Rolling Stones released their second American album, 12 X 5. It reached No. 3 and included “It’s All Over Now” and “Time Is on My Side,” the latter a No. 6 U.S. hit.
1966 MGM premiered Elvis Presley’s musical comedy Spinout in Memphis; Britain received it as California Holiday. Presley earned $750,000 plus 40 percent of profits, though the film later appeared in the book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.
1967 Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart, and Phil Spector guest-starred on I Dream of Jeannie in a storyline where Jeannie conjured a music group for an assignment given to Tony Nelson.