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1958 The Flamingos recorded “I Only Have Eyes for You” at New York’s Bell Sound Studios. It reached No. 11 on the Hot 100 and later ranked No. 158 on Rolling Stone’s 500 greatest songs list.
1960 Elvis Presley’s G.I. Blues entered Billboard’s pop album chart, beginning a run that included ten weeks at No. 1 and 111 weeks overall—his career longevity record until ELV1S: 30 #1 Hits surpassed it in the digital era.
1960 Seventeen-year-old Fabian’s “Kissin’ and Twistin’” entered the Hot 100 at No. 99 and disappeared the next week, becoming his final chart record. Seven later singles failed, though he continued acting in films and television into the 1990s.
1962 Elvis Presley’s eleventh film, Girls! Girls! Girls!, premiered in Honolulu, where it had been filmed. The musical comedy cast him as a poor fisherman who dreamed of owning his boat.
1963 Ed Sullivan saw roughly 3,000 screaming fans welcome the Beatles home at Heathrow after a five-date Swedish tour. Witnessing Beatlemania persuaded him to book their three landmark American television appearances in early 1964.
1964 The Supremes earned their second Hot 100 No. 1 with “Baby Love,” only four months after fellow Motown performers had mocked them as the “no-hit Supremes.”
1964 Gale Garnett’s “We’ll Sing in the Sunshine” topped Cashbox, reached No. 4 on Billboard, and later won the Grammy for Best Folk Recording. “Lovin’ Place” became her only other American chart entry.
1964 Customs officers arrested Ray Charles at Boston’s Logan Airport for heroin possession, his third drug case after 1958 and 1961 incidents. After treatment in Los Angeles he avoided prison but served a year of parole in 1966.
1964 For the first time since January, the Beatles had no song on the Hot 100, ending a remarkable stretch in which fourteen records appeared through five labels.
1970 Michelle Phillips married Dennis Hopper after meeting during The Last Movie. Substance abuse, paranoia, and erratic behavior helped end the union after eight days when she filed for divorce, making it one of rock’s shortest marriages.
1970 James Taylor’s Sweet Baby James went Gold as “Fire and Rain” reached No. 3. Its autobiographical lyrics referred to childhood friend Suzanne Schnerr’s suicide and the collapse of his earlier band, the Flying Machine.
1975 Queen released “Bohemian Rhapsody,” beginning a nine-week UK No. 1 run; it initially reached No. 9 in America. A 1991 British reissue and its use in Wayne’s World drove the song back to No. 2 on the Hot 100 in 1992.

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1894 William Donaldson and James H. Hennegan published their first edition of Billboard as "A monthly resume of all that is new, bright and interesting on the boards." The eight page magazine was "devoted to the interests of advertisers, poster printers, bill posters, advertising agents & secretaries of fairs." It later began reporting on circuses, carnivals, vaudeville and…
1955 An R&B group called The Famous Flames, led by singer James Brown , cut their first demo of "Please, Please, Please" at radio station WIBB in Macon, Georgia. It would lead to their signing with Nathan King's Federal Records, where they re-cut the song in February, 1956 and watched it climb to #5 on both the Billboard Best R&B Sellers In Stores and Most Played R&B by Jockeys…
1956 A Rock 'n' Roll oddity happened when two different versions of the same song, "Cindy, Oh Cindy", climbed to the Top Ten of the Billboard chart. Eddie Fisher's version sat at #10 and proved to be his last Top 40 entry, while the rendition by Vince Martin And The Tarriers climbed to #9 and was the only time they made the list.
1959 After cracking the Billboard Top 40 three times while with Atlantic Records, Ray Charles signs with ABC-Paramount, where he would have twenty-four more Billboard hits.
1959 For the first time since 1954, Elvis Presley doesn't have a record on any of the Billboard charts. He is currently in Germany serving with the US Army and won't leave active duty until March 5th, 1960.
1964 The Dave Clark Five appear on The Ed Sullivan Show singing their newest release, "Anyway You Want It". Sullivan likes them much better than The Rolling Stones, saying that unlike the latter, the DC5 are "nice, neat boys."
1964 The Nashville Teens ' rendition of "Tobacco Road" climbed to its peak position of #14 on the Billboard Hot 100. Oddly enough, the band wasn't really from Nashville, they were actually from Weybridge, Surrey, England. Their two vocalists had already aged out of their teenage years.
1965 A Rolling Stones ' concert at the Rochester Community War Memorial was canceled by police just seven minutes into the set after thousands of frenzied fans rushed the stage. Rather than waiting for the crowd of 3,500 to restore order, the local police chief pulled the plug due to safety concerns, cutting the performance short after just six songs.
1966 Three Elvis Presley albums are certified Gold by the RIAA: his 1956 debut album, "Elvis Presley", "Elvis' Golden Records, Vol. 2" and "Elvis' Golden Records, Vol. 3".
1968 George Harrison issued "Wonderwall Music", marking the first solo album by a Beatle and the debut LP for Apple Records. The experimental Indian-Western instrumental soundtrack featured contributions from Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton. Despite failing to chart at all in the United Kingdom, the release achieved moderate commercial traction overseas, peaking at #49 on the Billboard Top LPs…
1969 "Suspicious Minds" reaches the top of the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Elvis Presley 's 18th and final US number one scored during his lifetime. Elvis had cut the song in a 4 AM to 7 AM session last January, with the eighth take being the keeper. The song climbed to #2 in the UK, and thirty years later was enshrined into the Grammy Hall Of Fame.
1969 The Beatles earned their 13th number-one album in the United States when "Abbey Road" went to the top of the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart. issued just a month prior, the LP would go on to spend eleven weeks at the peak position.

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1955 'Tennessee' Ernie Ford's "Sixteen Tons" enters the Billboard Country chart, where it would enjoy a ten week stay at #1. The song would cross over to the Pop chart and lead that list for eight weeks. The record would become one of the biggest selling singles of the 1950s and was inducted into the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry on March 25, 2015.
1956 Police use tear gas to break up a riot that broke out during a Fats Domino concert in Fayetteville, North Carolina. In a frantic bid to escape the melee and the gas, Domino and two of his bandmates jumped through a window, escaping the venue with only minor cuts and bruises.
1957 Elvis Presley had eight hits in the UK Top 30, an all-time record up to that point. The songs were: "Party" (#3, )"Teddy Bear" (#11), "All Shook Up" (#17), "Got a Lot of Livin' To Do" (#19), "Trying to Get to You" (#21), "Loving You" (#24), "Paralyzed" (#26) and "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" (#30).
1959 Wink Martindale's rendition of a 1948 Country scored called "The Deck Of Cards" peaks at #7 on the Billboard chart, on its way to selling over a million copies. After becoming a disc jockey, Martindale would move on to TV where he would host his first game show, What's This Song? in 1964.
1963 London's Daily Mirror ran a headline reviewing a frenzied concert in Cheltenham, bringing the term "Beatlemania" into the public lexicon. Though rival papers had printed the word weeks earlier, this specific feature brought the expression into popular use.
1963 The album "In the Wind" by Peter, Paul And Mary led the Billboard Top LPs chart for the first of five consecutive weeks. The lead single from the LP, "Blowin' In The Wind" would reach #2 on the Hot 100, selling a million copies in the process. A second release, "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" peaked at #2 on the Adult Contemporary chart and #9 on the Pop Singles…
1963 Jerry And The Pacemakers version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "You'll Never Walk Alone" tops the UK chart, giving them the distinction of having their first three singles all rise to number one. This feat would not be duplicated for twenty-one years when Frankie Goes To Hollywood also took each of their first three singles to the top.
1963 Dion angrily walks off the set of the British TV television program Ready Steady Go! after trying to rehearse his scored "Donna The Prima Donna", claiming he was distracted by the dancers surrounding him during the song.
1966 Paul Revere And The Raiders appear on an episode of ABC-TV's Batman , where they portray a local Rock group hired by the Penguin (played by Burgess Meredith). They played an instrumental track for a belly dancer named "Little Egypt" and backed up the villain for his campaign song set to the tune of "Yankee Doodle".
1967 The British label Reaction issues Cream's second album, "Disraeli Gears". It would rise to #4 in America and #5 in Britain, and included the singles "Strange Brew" (UK #17) and "Sunshine of Your Love" (US #5, UK #25). Inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999, Rolling Stone still had it ranked at #170 on their 2020 list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
1968 Stevie Wonder 's rendition of "For Once In My Life" enters the Billboard Top 40, where it would reach #2. The song had previously been cut by Barbara McNair, Jack Soo, Tony Bennett and The Temptations.
1968 Appearing at Madison Square Garden on their farewell tour of the US, Atco Records presents Cream with a Platinum disc for $2 million worth of sales of the double album "Wheels of Fire".

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