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HE Harry Elston Friends Of Distinction · vocals b. 1938 88 YRS

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Delbert McClinton vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica b. 1940 86 YRS

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1956 Elvis Presley 's "Love Me Tender" took over the number one spot on the Billboard Top 100, knocking his double sided scored "Don't Be Cruel" / "Hound Dog" to number two. That made him the first artist to ever push himself out of the number one position. Jim Lowe staged down #3 with "Green Door", Johnnie Ray was at #4 with "Just Walkin' In The Rain&quot…
1957 Sam Cooke appears on The Ed Sullivan Show to sing "You Send Me", but is cut off before he can finish the number when the show ran out of time. He is invited to come back next month to make up for it.
1957 Sun Records issued "Great Balls of Fire" by Jerry Lee Lewis . The single peaked at #2 in the United States, #1 in Britain, and moved more than five million copies globally. This incredible commercial success made it one of the best-selling singles of all time.
1958 Private First Class Elvis Presley is deployed on field maneuvers for the first time with the U.S. Army's 32nd Armor Regiment. This cold-weather training exercise pulled his tank battalion out of Ray Barracks and sent them to the rugged Grafenwohr training grounds situated near the heavily fortified Czechoslovakian border.
1962 A song called "He's A Rebel" rose to the top of the Billboard Hot 100, credited to The Crystals . In reality, the song was cut by a trio known as The Blossoms, featuring lead singer Darlene Love . Phil Spector had hastily put the song together while The Crystals were out of town and put their name on the label because they had already had two top twenty hits with "There's No Other…
1963 Coming in at #83, The Kingsmen 's version of "Louie Louie" enters the Billboard Hot 100 where it would peak at #2 during a sixteen week run. Costing just $50 to record in one take, the effort would go on to sell over a million copies and be ranked by Rolling Stone magazine at #54 on their list of The 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time. In 1999 it would be inducted into the Grammy Hall Of…
1965 The Beatles gathered at EMI Studios in London to record the song "Michelle" for their upcoming album, "Rubber Soul". The track was not issued as a single in the US or the UK, but was pressed as a 45 in several European countries. It would top the charts in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Italy and France.
1967 Pink Floyd launched their disastrous inaugural United States tour with a live debut at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. The highly anticipated promotional run was quickly cut short due to frontman Syd Barrett's worsening psychological state and uncooperative behavior on national television. During these infamous TV appearances, Barrett left host Dick Clark baffled on American Bandstand…
1972 James Taylor and Carly Simon are wed by a judge in Simon's Manhattan apartment, beginning their eleven year relationship. That evening she joined him on stage at New York's Radio City Music Hall and announces their union to a cheering audience.
1976 Country / Rock band Firefall is awarded a Gold record for sales of 500,000 of their self-titled debut album, which includes the #9 US scored single, "You Are the Woman".
1977 During a concert at the Empire Pool in London, Elton John stuns the crowd by announcing that he would not tour anymore. True to his word, he would stay retired for fifteen months, but on February 5, 1979, he would resume touring with a concert at the Konserthuset in Stockholm, Sweden.
1979 British musician Robin Scott, using the pseudonym M , rose to the top of the US singles chart with a Techno-Pop, dance tune called "Pop Muzik". The record had climbed to number two in England the previous May.

1957 Jackie Wilson debuted on Billboard with “Reet Petite,” entering at No. 93 before falling off the following week; he later placed 24 Hot 100 songs, including six Top Ten hits. Danny and the Juniors’ “At the Hop” rose from 7,000 local Philadelphia sales to No. 1 in the US and R&B chart, and No. 3 in Britain.
1961 Bob Dylan’s first Carnegie Chapter Hall show drew about 50 people; he was paid $20. Cliff Richard’s “21 Today” topped the UK chart, becoming his first of seven No. 1 albums.
The Beatles played the Royal Command Performance for the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon, where John Lennon made his famous jewelry remark before “Twist and Shout.” An auction at Elvis Presley’s Circle G Ranch drew 2,000 people and raised over $108,000. Johnny Nash’s “I Can See Clearly Now” reached No. 1 in the US and No. 5 in Britain and later went Gold in both countries.
Lynyrd Skynyrd played Cardiff’s Capitol Theatre; the recording was released in 2009. Rod Stewart released “Foot Loose & Fancy Free,” Van Morrison issued “Wavelength,” Linda Ronstadt’s “Simple Dreams” reached No. 1, and the Sex Pistols’ “Never Mind the Bollocks” went Gold in America. Elvis’s estate sued the National Enquirer over a cover claiming he had faked his death. Fred “Sonic” Smith and…
The Eagles’ “Hell Freezes Over” opened at No. 1 and went multi-Platinum. AC/DC’s “Ballbreaker” went Gold, and Mariah Carey’s “Butterfly” became her first album to debut at No. 1. Ken Hensley died in 2020. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s 2024 class included Mary J. Blige, Cher, Dave Matthews Band, Foreigner, Peter Frampton, Kool & the Gang, Ozzy Osbourne and A Tribe Called Quest.

1956 The Nat 'King' Cole Show debuted on NBC-TV, becoming the first US musical variety show hosted by an African-American. After failing to secure national sponsorship, Cole decided to end the show in December, 1957, saying, "Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark."
1960 35-year-old Johnny Horton, who had a US number one scored in 1959 with "Battle of New Orleans", passed away when his Cadillac was scored by a drunk truck driver in Milano, Texas. Ironically, Johnny had just played his last show at the Skyline in Austin, where Hank Williams had played his last show as well. Horton's widow, Billy Jean, was also Hanks Williams' widow.
1966 Eight weeks after their TV series debuted, The Monkees had the number one record in the US with "Last Train To Clarksville". With lead vocals by Mickey Dolenz, the music on the record was played by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart's band, Candy Store Prophets.
1967 The Bee Gees ' Robin Gibb miraculously survived the catastrophic Hither Green rail crash in London, England, an accident caused by a broken track that claimed the lives of 49 passengers. Riding in a first-class carriage with his girlfriend, Molly Hullis, Gibb escaped the derailment with minor injuries. After Gibb pulled Hullis out of the twisted wreckage, he stayed on-site to assist emergency…
1967 Kenny Rogers And The First Edition make their TV debut on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour , performing their Psychedelic Pop scored "Just Dropped In". Over the next three years they would place seven songs on the Billboard Top 40 and have their own TV show in the Fall of 1971.
1968 On his 21st birthday, Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits marries Mireille Strasser at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in London. Because Strasser was Jewish, the Catholic Noone needed a special dispensation for the couple to be wed at the church. They would have one daughter, Natalie.
1969 Country artist Jerry Reed cut his classic Swamp-Rock song "Amos Moses" at RCA Victor Studios in Nashville. issued in October, 1970 as the final single from his "Georgia Sunshine" album, the track turned into a major crossover scored and climbed to #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #16 on the Hot Country Songs chart. The record moved over one million copies and earned a Gold…
1970 During a rare stage appearance with The Beach Boys at Los Angeles's Whisky A Go Go, Brian Wilson loses his balance several times and has to be helped backstage by crew members. His left ear, the better of the two, sustains severe damage because of the volume level on-stage.
1970 Atlantic Records releases Led Zeppelin 's "Immigrant Song". It would climb to #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 and be ranked at #18 on Rolling Stone 's 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Songs of All Time list in March, 2023. Although it made the Top Ten in eight other countries, the song was not issued as a 45 in the UK because the band maintained a strict anti-single policy in their home country.
1971 Announcer Al Dvorin utters the well known phrase: "Elvis has left the building" at the end of a Bloomington, Minneapolis concert. He was asked to make the announcement, which had been the custom at all Presley concerts since 1956, in an effort to quiet the fans who continued to call for an encore. Ironically, Dvorin was killed in an automobile accident following a concert by an Elvis…
1971 Elton John releases his fourth studio album, "Madman Across the Water". The LP features two scored singles, "Levon" (US #24) and "Tiny Dancer" (US #41) and would go on to be certified 2X Platinum by the RIAA in August, 1998. In his home country of England, the album proved to be one of his lowest charting efforts, clocking in at #41 on the UK album chart and spending…
1974 After radio station WKMI-AM in Kalamazoo, Michigan began playing it, Asylum Records releases the Eagles ' "Best Of My Love" as the third single from their "On The Border" LP. The song would rise to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the Easy Listening chart for one week in March, 1975. Although the picture on the sleeve for the record showed Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Bernie Leadon…