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Today in Rock History

36 EVENTS 1956–2015

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… 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…

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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.

1947 Chuck Berry was released from prison on his 21st birthday after serving three years for armed robbery. Back in St. Louis he worked factory, janitorial, and beautician jobs before Chess Records released his breakthrough “Maybellene” in 1955.
1956 Elvis Presley attracted autograph seekers at a Memphis gas station until manager Edd Hopper struck him and Presley punched back. Employee Aubrey Brown joined the confrontation; police charged Hopper and Brown with assault and fined them $25 and $15 respectively.
1957 Fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney made his Quarry Men debut on lead guitar at New Clubmoor Hall in Liverpool. Though nerves spoiled his “Guitar Boogie” solo, the John Lennon-led group secured regular Saturday dance bookings.
1964 During a single day off from touring, the Beatles completed a nine-hour Abbey Road session that produced “I Feel Fine” and finished “Eight Days a Week,” “Mr. Moonlight,” and “I’ll Follow the Sun.”
1966 The newly formed Jimi Hendrix Experience played a fifteen-minute opening set for Johnny Hallyday at Paris’s Olympia. It closed a short promotional tour whose combined audience totaled about 14,500.
1967 How I Won the War premiered in London with all four Beatles attending and John Lennon appearing as Private Gripweed. Reviews were largely negative, with critic John Simon dismissing it as pretentious foolishness.
1968 Police raided John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Montagu Square flat and found cannabis resin. Lennon accepted sole responsibility to protect Ono; obstruction charges were cleared, charges against her disappeared, and he paid a £150 possession fine.
1969 The Temptations began two weeks at No. 1 with “I Can’t Get Next to You,” the second of their four American pop chart-toppers. It reached No. 13 in Britain.
1969 Richard Nader staged his first 1950s Rock & Roll Revival at Madison Square Garden’s Felt Forum. Bill Haley and His Comets made their first major U.S. appearance in more than a decade and received an eight-minute standing ovation.
1969 The Jackson 5 made their national television debut on Hollywood Palace. Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, and 11-year-old Michael performed “I Want You Back,” “Can You Remember,” and a dance routine to “Sing a Simple Song.”
1974 After an argument, Al Green’s girlfriend Mary Woodson poured boiling grits over him as he left a bath, causing second-degree burns. Woodson then died by suicide with Green’s pistol; police found a note and closed the case without charges.
1975 Paul Simon hosted Saturday Night Live’s second episode and reunited onstage with Art Garfunkel for “Scarborough Fair,” “The Boxer,” and “My Little Town.”