Birthdays:
Two members of Quicksilver Messenger Service were born today in 1946. In San Diego, it's guitarist Gary Duncan. At the Coronado Naval Air Station in California, it's drummer Greg Elmore.
Merald "Bubba" Knight of Gladys Knight and The Pips ("Midnight Train To Georgia") was born in 1942.
Sonny Charles ("Black Pearl") is 68.
History:
Gladys Knight & the Pips were formed at a birthday party for her brother Bubba in 1952.
In 1962, the Beatles recorded their first sessions at EMI Studios in London, with George Martin as producer. Things get off to a bad start when Martin tries to force them to learn Mitch Murray's song "How Do You Do It." When they say they have material just as good, he makes them play "Love Me Do" 16 times. They finally succeed in recording that and five other songs, including "P.S. I Love You."
Disco Inferno! "You Should Be Dancing" from the album 'Children of the World' became the latest Bee Gees single to top the charts in 1976. It is the third single to go to #1.
"Valley Girl," co-written by Frank Zappa and daughter Moon Unit, entered the Top Forty in 1982, where it peaked at #2.
Bobby Darin was riding high with "Mack the Knife." But not in New York, where WCBS bans the song in 1959 following the fatal stabbing of two teenagers by 17-year-old Salvador Agron.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono appeared on Jerry Lewis' muscular dystrophy telethon in 1972.
Today in 1965, the song "Help!" by the Beatles topped the charts and stayed there for 3 weeks.
In 1965, the Who stopped by London's Battersea Dog's Home to buy a guard dog. When they come out, the quartet discovered that their equipment van has been stolen. They even took the woofers!
1969- If you tuned into The Tonight Show to see the Youngbloods ("Get Together"), you'd be disappointed. Johnny Carson said, "They complained about the set, the lighting, the sound, the show - everything. So we wiped their noses, told them they'd been in show business a day and a half, and sent them home."
The Animals gave their debut performance in Brooklyn, NY, at the U.S. Paramount Theater in 1964.
To coincide with the release of his second Sun single, "Good Rockin' Tonight", Elvis Presley, along with Bill Black and Scotty Moore made their first appearance at The Grand Old Opry in 1954. Audience reaction is so poor, the Opry's manager, Jim Denny suggests that Elvis go back to driving a truck.
In 2003, nearly 26 years after the death of Elvis Presley, BMG/RCA, unearthed a never-before-heard song called "I'm A Roustabout". The song was originally commissioned and written for the film Roustabout (1964) by long-time Presley collaborators Winfield Scott and Otis Blackwell, but was never used. Instead, a completely different song written by the team Giant/Baum/Kaye was recorded for the film and eventually became the title song for both the movie and the album. Winfield Scott found the original acetate in the basement of his New Jersey home and BMG/RCA has said they will add the track to the album "Elvis, 2nd to None".
Kiss released the Soft Rock ballad, "Beth" in 1976. It will rise to #7 and become their only US Top 10 hit.
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