This Date In Music History-January 22

Birthdays:

Malcolm Mclaren, manager of the Sex Pistols and solo artist (1947)

Steve Perry- Journey (1953)

DJ Jazzy Jeff (1965)

Steven Adler- Guns N' Roses (1965)

Teddy Gentry- Alabama (1952)

Meat Loaf (1946)


They Are Missed:

Born in 1931, Sam Cooke, US soul singer (died December 11, 1964).

Addie Harris, vocals, The Shirelles was born in 1940 (died June 10, 1982).

Steel guitarist Jimmy Day, who was in such demand in Nashville that he became known as "Mr. Country Soul," died in 1999 (age 65).

Born on this day in 1962 the late, Michael Hutchence of INXS.


History:

In 1968, the Beatles' business venture Apple Corps. opened its first London headquarters.

In 1991, twenty-three years after it was released in America, the LP "Elvis' Gold Records" was made available in China on cassette only.

In 1966, the Beach Boys went into the studio to record 'Wouldn't It Be Nice', which would be the opening track on their forthcoming album 'Pet Sounds.'

In 1967, the Monkees performed live for the very first time at The Cow Palace, San Francisco to a sell-out crowd.

In 2001, Santana started a three-week run at #1 on the Billboard Hot 200 chart with "Supernatural.” The album spent a total of nine weeks at the top during this year.

Don McLean's album 'American Pie' started a seven-week run at #1 in the US album chart in 1972.

Wings went to #1 on the US album chart in 1977 with 'Wings Over America', Paul McCartney's sixth US #1 after The Beatles.

In 1959, Buddy Holly was in the recording studio for the last time. He laid down tracks for "Slippin' and Slidin'", "Wait 'Til the Sun Shines Nellie", "Love Is Strange", "Dearest" and "Smokey Joe's Café". Alone with an acoustic guitar and tape recorder in his New York City apartment, he would make his last recordings, including "Peggy Sue Got Married", "Crying, Waiting, Hoping", "That's What They Say", "What To Do", "Learning The Game" and "That Makes It Tough". The recordings would be overdubbed posthumously and released by Coral Records.

Frank Sinatra's daughter Nancy entered the Hot 100 in 1966 for the second time with what will be her biggest hit, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'". The song would later go to #1 for one week and spend three and a half months on the chart.

In 1973, a band called Climax had the #3 song in the US with "Precious And Few.” The group's lead singer, Sonny Geraci, was the former vocalist of The Outsiders, who scored a US chart topper in January, 1966 with "Time Won't Let Me".

Peter Green, who had earlier left Fleetwood Mac, was institutionalized in 1977 after firing a pistol in the general direction of a delivery boy who was attempting to deliver a $30,000 royalty check. Green had renounced Rock and Roll in 1970 and didn't want the money. He later worked as a hospital porter and a gravedigger, but came back in 1979 to record "In the Skies,” which did manage some moderate success.

Gene Chandler made his TV debut on "American Bandstand" in 1962.

The Drifters recorded "On Broadway" in 1963.

Elvis Presley recorded "Bossa Nova Baby" in 1963.

L.L. Cool J's album "Mama Said Knock You Out" was certified platinum by the RIAA in 1991.

In 1980, this week's US Top 5 singles: #5, Rupert Holmes, 'Escape, (The Pina Colada Song)', #4, Smokey Robinson, 'Crusin', #3, Kenny Rogers, 'Coward Of The County', #2, Captain and Tennille, 'Do That To Me One More Time', and #1, Michael Jackson, 'Rock With You.'

The Beatles appeared on three UK radio programs in 1963. First The Beatles recorded a session for the show Pop Inn at the BBC Paris studio, they then went to the Playhouse Theatre also in London, to tape a radio appearance on Saturday Club, recording five songs. Then the Beatles went back to the BBC Paris studio to record an appearance on The Talent Spot recording ‘Please Please Me’, ‘Ask Me Why’ and ‘Some Other Guy’ before a live audience.