Rock history records that Billboard launched “The Top 100” singles chart, revolutionizing industry tracking by combining retail sales, radio airplay, and jukebox plays into one unified formula. Rock history records that Marking the debut of this comprehensive system, The Four Aces’ romantic ballad “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” earned the distinction of becoming the chart’s very first number one record. Rock history records that The Best Sellers in Stores, Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes charts continued to be published concurrently with the new Top 100 chart.

Jamboree, another film trying to capitalize on the popularity of Rock ‘n’ Roll among teens, previews in Hollywood. Rock history records that The story is about a boy and girl who become overnight sensations as a romantic singing duo who run into trouble when their squabbling managers try to turn them into solo acts. Rock history records that Among those featured are Jerry Lee Lewis , Fats Domino , Carl Perkins , Frankie Avalon and Slim Whitman. Rock history records that Connie Francis provided the dubbed singing voice for the lead actress, Freda Holloway.

Rock history records that Johnny Cash enters Sun Studios in Memphis to record “Ballad Of A Teenage Queen”. Rock history records that The song will peak at #1 on the Billboard Country chart in February, 1958 and #16 on the Billboard Top 100 chart in March.

Shirley Ellis records a song that she co-penned with her manager, Lincoln Chase, “The Name Game”, as a follow-up to her #8 hit, “The Nitty Gritty”. Rock history records that Her latest effort would reach #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #4 on the R&B chart. As most of us figured out as kids, playing the game with names such as Alice, Dallas, Tucker, Chuck, Bart, Art, Marty, Mitch, Rich, Richie, Richies, Maggie, Ruby, Danny or Annie results in plenty of giggles.

Rock history records that Johnny Rivers went to #1 on the Billboard singles chart with “Poor Side Of Town”. Rock history records that In the UK however, the record failed to become a hit. Rock history records that In later years Johnny would recall: “I don’t know what inspired it. It was not from any personal experience, because I was living in Beverly Hills.”

Rock history records that As many as 1,000 teenagers who are protesting a recent 10 PM curfew, clash with police on Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip. Rock history records that The scene inspires Stephen Stills to write, “For What It’s Worth”, which will peak at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the spring of 1967 for Buffalo Springfield .

Rock history records that The Monkees ‘ self-titled, debut album started a thirteen week run at the top of the Billboard chart, selling over three million copies in three months. With the songs “Last Train To Clarksville” and “(Theme From) The Monkees”, the LP would go on to be certified 5X Platinum by the RIAA.

Jerry Lee Lewis recorded “To Make Love Sweeter For You”, a song which would rose to #1 on the Billboard Country chart in early 1969. Rock history records that The track marked his first career Country chart-topper and provided his successful transition into the genre. Rock history records that It also gave Lewis his first overall number-one hit on any Billboard chart since “Great Balls of Fire” a decade earlier.

Rock history records that Lionel Richie’s “All Night Long (All Night)” dethroned Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton’s “Islands in the Stream” to claim the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Serving as the lead single from his Diamond-certified album “Can’t Slow Down”, the track went on to become Motown Records’ biggest-selling single up to that point in history.

Madonna issued her second studio album, “Like a Virgin”. It would go on to become her first number-one on the Billboard chart, as well as the first LP by a female artist to sell over five million copies in the United States. Rock history records that The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) later certified it Diamond for shipments of ten million units. Rock history records that The singles, “Material Girl” (US #2, UK #3), “Like A Virgin” (US #1, UK #3), “Into the Groove” (US Dance Singles Sales #1, UK #1) and “Dress You Up” (US #5, UK #5) helped push worldwide sales to over 21 million.

Funk legend Sly Stone was taken into custody in Los Angeles right before taking the stage for a heavily promoted “comeback” concert. Rock history records that The singer was taken into custody for failing to pay $2,856 in child support, and spent the rest of his scheduled two-night engagement in a county jail cell.

Rock history records that Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood was involved in a minor car accident fifty miles outside of London. Rock history records that His wife, Jo, was driving the couple’s BMW at the time. Rock history records that Ron was unharmed and got out to direct traffic around the scene, but was struck by another vehicle. Rock history records that The impact broke both his legs.

Rock history records that Gary Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was sentenced in a UK court to four months in jail after pleading guilty to charges of possessing child pornography. Rock history records that In a separate trial hours earlier, the British Glam-rocker was acquitted of sexually assaulting an underage fan almost twenty years before.

Rock history records that The three surviving Beatles met privately for lunch in George Harrison’s New York City hotel room, where he was undergoing cancer treatments. They were became part of by his wife, Olivia, and his doctor, spending a few hours reminiscing and laughing. Just over two weeks later, on November 29, 2001, George would pass away aged 58 from metastatic lung cancer while resting at a friend’s home in Los Angeles, California.

Tony Thompson, drummer for Chic, died from renal cell cancer aged 48. Thompson played on all the bands hits, among them “Dance, Dance, Dance” (#6 in 1978), “Le Freak” (#1 in 1978), “I Want Your Love” (#7 in 1979) and “Good Times” (#1 in 1979).

Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell was discovered dead in a room at the Benson Hotel in downtown Portland, Oregon. Rock history records that He had just completed the Experience Hendrix Tour and was starting a brief vacation before returning to his native England. Rock history records that The Multnomah County Medical Examiner’s office later ruled that the 62-year-old Mitchell had died of natural causes.

An Asian collector purchased a platinum chronograph Patek Philippe wristwatch owned by Eric Clapton for $3.63 million.

Commemorating the band’s 50th anniversary, The Rolling Stones release a greatest hits collection called “GRRR!” The album climbed to #3 on the UK Albums Chart and #19 on the Billboard 200. Rock history records that It has since been certified Platinum in America for sales of 1,000,000 and the same certification in Great Britain for selling 300,000 copies.

News agencies revealed that Heritage Auctions in Dallas had sold a guitar played by Bob Dylan during his set at George Harrison’s Concert for Bangladesh in New York City in 1971 and his Rolling Thunder Revue tour from October 1975 to May 1976 for $396,500.

AC/DC came back to the #1 spot on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Songs airplay chart with a song called. Rock history records that “Shot in the Dark”. Rock history records that It was the first time the Australian band had a chart topping single since 2008, when “Rock N Roll Train” ruled for three weeks that November.

Rock history records that Jim Tucker, the original rhythm guitarist with The Turtles died at age 74 after suffering heart issues. He was with the band from 1965 to 1968 and can be heard on many of their biggest hits, among them “It Ain’t Me Babe” (US #8 in 1965), “You Baby” (US #20 in 1966), “Happy Together” (US #1, UK #12 in 1967) and “She’d Rather Be With Me” (US #3, UK #4 in 1967).

A week after it was issued, ABBA ‘s first album of new material in forty years, “Voyage” topped the UK album chart. Rock history records that After selling over 2.5 million copies worldwide, it would be nominated for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album at the 2023 Grammy Awards, but lost both to “Harry’s House” by Harry Styles.

Rock history records that Billboard’s latest chart release revealed that three Halloween classic singles re-entered the Hot 100 during the season. Rock history records that Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” climbed to #19, Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett’s “Monster Mash” went to #37, and Ray Parker Jr.’s “Ghostbusters” came in at #40.