Birthdays:
Bryan Holland, vocals, guitar- Offspring (1966)
Yvonne Elliman- singer (1951)
Neil Giraldo- Pat Benatar group (1955)
Ray Thomas- Moody Blues (1942)
Marianne Faithful (1946)
Mark Day- Happy Mondays (1961)
Rockabilly songwriter and country star Ed Bruce was born in Keiser, Arkansas in 1939. He wrote the classic "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys."
Swamp rocker Charles Mann was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1949.
Badfinger drummer Mike Gibbons (1953)
They Are Missed:
Cozy Powell, drummer, Whitesnake, ELP (Dec 29, 1947-April 5, 1998).
Orchestra leader Paul Whiteman died in 1967 at the age of 76.
Vocalist Gene Tanner of the "5" Royales, an early R&B vocal group, died in Winston-Salem, N.C. in 1994. The Royales originally recorded "Think," which would later become a hit for Aretha Franklin.
Singer/songwriter Tim Hardin died at age forty, of a heroin overdose in 1980. He is best remembered for "If I Were a Carpenter" (a hit for Bobby Darin in 1966 and the Four Tops in 1968) and "Reason to Believe" (a hit for Rod Stewart in 1971).
History:
The top three songs (and five of the top seven) on Billboard's Hot 100 in 1969 all came from Motown labels.
Today in 1951, the song "Cry" by Johnny Ray topped the charts and stayed there for 11 weeks.
Barbra Streisand made her first recording in 1955, at the age of 13.
The Beatles began recording "Penny Lane" in 1966.
In 1963, after Capitol Records agreed to release the Beatles' "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" as a single, New York's WMCA became the first American station to play it today.
Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopes plead guilty to arson charges in 1994 for setting fire to and destroying boyfriend Andre Rison's $1 million-dollar Atlanta mansion.
Sets of commemorative stamps in memory of Bob Marley were issued in Jamaica in 1982.
In 1984, Band Aid were at #1 on the UK singles chart with “Do They Know It's Christmas?” and Madonna was at #1 on the US singles chart with “Like A Virgin.”
Jim Croce scored his second #1 US single of the year in 1973, when “Time In A Bottle” went to the top of the charts. Croce was killed in a plane crash on September 29, 1973.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience made their debut on the UK TV show “Top Of The Pops” in 1966 performing “Hey Joe.”
In 1963, the Weavers, who at one time were America's most popular Folk group, gave their farewell concert at Orchestra Hall in Chicago. The group had hits in the late 40s and early 50s with songs like "Goodnight Irene" and "On Top of Old Smokey".
In 1967, singer, guitarist and songwriter Dave Mason quits Traffic, one of the UK's most popular and successful rock bands, to embark on a solo career.
The first big Rock festival held on the east coast, “The Miami Festival,” got under way in Hallandale, Florida in 1968. Tickets sold for six and seven dollars and 100,000 people turned out for the three-day event. Those appearing included the hottest acts of the day, Jose Feliciano, Procol Harem, Three Dog Night, Chuck Berry, Fleetwood Mac, Marvin Gaye, Joni Mitchell, The Turtles and Canned Heat.
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