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Ray Conniff

Ray Conniff trombone, vocals, whistling b. 1916 D. 2002

Stonewall Jackson

Stonewall Jackson acoustic guitar, vocals b. 1932 D. 2021

Eugene Pitt

Eugene Pitt The Jive Five · vocals b. 1937 D. 2018 JP Jim Pike The Lettermen · vocals b. 1938 88 YRS

P.J. Proby

P.J. Proby b. 1938 88 YRS

Doug Sahm

Doug Sahm The Sir Douglas Quintet · bajo sexto, dobro, mandolin, steel guitar b. 1941 D. 1999

George Young

George Young AC/DC, The Easybeats · guitar b. 1947 D. 2017

Glenn Frey

Glenn Frey The Eagles · guitar, keyboards, vocals b. 1948 D. 2016

Paul Gilbert

Paul Gilbert Racer X · guitar, vocals b. 1966 60 YRS

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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…

1953 Britain's BBC restricts the airing of Frankie Laine's "Answer Me" ("Answer Me Lord above") and Lee Lawrence's "Crying In The Chapel" after religious groups object to the lyrics. Laine's record would still rise to the top of the UK music chart a week later and stay there for eight weeks in total, while Lawrence's tune would reach #7.
1954 Elvis Presley made his only commercial when he sang a jingle for Southern Maid Doughnuts on the Louisiana Hayride radio program. Elvis sang "You can get 'em piping hot after four p.m., you can get 'em piping hot. Southern Maid Doughnuts scored the spot, you can get 'em piping hot after four p.m." His reward for making the ad was a box of fresh doughnuts.
1960 Elvis travels to L.A. to begin filming Wild In The Country , in which he portrays a troubled young man from a dysfunctional family who pursues a literary career. When issued in the summer of 1961, the movie under played at the box office, bringing in only $2.5 million dollars after against a production budget of nearly $3 million. It was the only Elvis movie to ever lose money.
1961 Jimmy Dean 's "Big, Bad John" becomes the 100th US number one single of the Rock and Roll era. It would prove to be his only chart topper, although he would have another Top Ten record with "P.T. 109" the next year. Jimmy said he wrote the song in an hour and a half while flying to Nashville for a recording session.
1964 During their first promotional visit to the UK, The Beach Boys appear live on TV's Ready Steady Go! , where they perform "I Get Around" and "When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)".
1965 The Rolling Stones earned their second number-one single in the United States when "Get Off Of My Cloud" rose to the top of the Billboard Hot 100. Written as a follow-up to "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", the track staged the peak position for a two-week run after unseating The Beatles' "Yesterday".
1965 Fontella Bass performs her Billboard #4 scored, "Rescue Me" on the ABC-TV program Shindig! . Also appearing on the show are The Rolling Stones, Billy Joe Royal, The Strangeloves and Jackie Wilson.
1966 With "Good Vibrations" rising up the UK chart, The Beach Boys kick off the first of seven moved out shows at Finsbury Park Astoria in London, England. Over six hundred city buses were adorned with posters announcing their arrival.
1968 The Monkees ' $750,000 feature film, Head debuts in New York. Instead of being aimed at their target audience of teeny boppers, the flick contains a dark theme about the manipulation of the group, seemingly pointless walk-on appearances by inappropriate guests, and scenes of Vietnam War atrocities. Reviews are harsh and the picture is a box office disaster. Head 's total failure put an end to any…
1971 Cher scored her first solo US number one scored with "Gypsys, Tramps and Thieves", a song that climbed to #4 in the UK. It was later certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipment of one million copies across the United States. It had been four years since she last appeared on the Billboard singles chart with "You Better Sit Down, Kids".
1971 Isaac Hayes' soundtrack LP "Shaft" hits #1 on the Billboard Top LPs chart. Comprised of mostly instrumental tracks used in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film of the same name, the title song would top the Hot 100 two weeks later. In 2014 the album was added to the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically…
1972 After a show at Wembley Stadium in London, New York Dolls' drummer, 21-year-old Billy Murcia, is accidentally suffocated when his girlfriend tries to wake him by forcing him to drink coffee after he passed out from drugs and alcohol. The final gig of their tour, at the Manchester Hardrock, was canceled and the band flew back to New York.

1958 20-year-old Eddie Cochran makes his UK chart debut with "Summertime Blues", which would peak at #18. The song had already climbed to its highest spot of #8 on America's Billboard chart a week earlier. Cochran sang both the vocal and bass vocal, played all the guitar parts and added the hand clapping.
1963 The Beatles made their first and only appearance in Ireland when they played two gigs in Dublin, at the Adelphi Cinema on Middle Abbey Street. At the end of the show the band had to escape the crowd by hiding in an Evening Herald newspaper delivery van. Although thousands of fans turned out to see them, the local press was anything but kind in their reviews, with one columnist writing about his…
1964 The Marvelettes' "Too Many Fish in the Sea" enters the Billboard Hot 100 where it would reach #25. The song would be the fifth of the group's ten US Top 40 hits.
1966 John Lennon first met Yoko Ono at a showing of her work at the Indica Art Gallery in London. She supposedly doesn't know who Lennon is or how famous The Beatles were. The two would stay in touch as artistic peers, but wouldn't begin their romance until 1968.
1969 Pink Floyd release their fourth album, "Ummagumma" in Britain, to be followed by an American appearance the next day. It is a double disc set, with the first platter featuring live recordings and the second containing studio cuts. Despite favorable reviews, band members would not look back fondly at the LP in later years, even though it went to #5 in the UK and #74 in the US.
1970 MGM Records President Mike Curb announces that the company is dropping eighteen acts from its roster in a move to discredit musicians who "exploit and promote hard drugs through music." Among the acts dropped are Connie Francis , and The Cowsills , but not Eric Burdon . Industry insiders later exposed the purge as a clever corporate cover-up, revealing that MGM simply used the anti-drug…
1972 Atlantic Records releases Bette Midler's debut album, "The Divine Miss M". Co-produced by Barry Manilow, the LP would rise to #9 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart, and be awarded a Platinum disc for sales of one million copies. It would help Midler win Best New Artist at the 15th Annual Grammy Awards in March, 1973 on the strength of three scored singles, "Do You Wanna…
1974 Rolling Stone reported that Ted Nugent had won the National Squirrel-Shooting Archery Contest by picking off a squirrel at 150 yards. The magazine also wrote that Nugent wiped out twenty-seven more of the small mammals with a handgun during the three day event. While the text cemented Nugent's reputation as a fanatical hunter, the physical limitations of archery equipment prove the story was…
1975 Elton John 's tenth studio album, "Rock of the Westies" started a three-week run at the top of the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart. The record marked his seventh American chart-topper and his second consecutive release to debut directly in the top spot.
1981 Daryl Hall and John Oates achieve their third US number one single with "Private Eyes". Over the next three years they would have three more chart toppers. "Private Eyes" climbed to #32 in the UK.
1981 The Kingston Trio played a reunion concert at the Magic Mountain theme park in Los Angeles that is taped for a PBS special. Different configurations of the group took turns performing some of their best-known songs, including "Tom Dooley" (#1 in 1958), "The Tijuana Jail" (#12 in 1959) and "The Reverend Mr. Black" (#8 in 1963). Hosted by Tom Smothers , the show also…
1983 The Rolling Stones release their 17th British and 19th American studio album, "Undercover". The LP would reach #3 in the UK and #4 in the US, breaking a streak of eight consecutive albums to reach #1 in America. Of the three singles issued from the collection, only "Undercover Of The Night" turned into a scored. (US #9, UK #11).