This Date In Music History- October 16

Birthdays:

Bob Weir, guitarist and vocalist with the Grateful Dead, was born in Atherton, California in 1947.

Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea was born in 1962 in Melbourne, Australia, as Michael Balzary.

Born on this day in 1977, John Mayer, US singer and songwriter.

Fred Turner of Bachman-Turner Overdrive ("Let It Ride") turns 65.

Wendy Wilson of Wilson Phillips ("Hold On") was born to Beach Boy Brian Wilson and his wife, Marilyn (of the Honeys) in 1969.

History:

Jay & the Americans recorded "This Magic Moment" in 1968.

Today in 1976, the song "Disco Duck (Part 1)" by Ricky Dees & His Cast of Idiots topped the charts and stayed there for a week.

Sam Cooke released his single "You Send Me" in 1957. The No. 1, written by his brother Charles Cooke, becomes his first and biggest hit, selling 2.5 million copies.

The Elvis Presley film "Love Me Tender" premiered in 1956.

Chess Records founder Leonard Chess, 52, died of a heart attack in 1969 in Chicago.

In 1972, Creedence Clearwater Revival announced they are splitting up. They say in a statement, "We don't regard this as breaking up. We look at it as an expansion of our activities. We will devote our time to individual rather than group projects."

The New Yardbirds played their first concert in 1968. The band later changed their name to Led Zeppelin.

18 year old Richard Penniman, who was already using the stage name Little Richard, made his first recordings for RCA Camden in 1951, at the studios of Atlanta radio station WGST.

In 1954, two weeks after his appearance at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, Elvis Presley performed on the Country music radio program, Louisiana Hayride, broadcast live on KWKH in Shreveport. After an enthusiastic reception from the audience, Presley was booked to appear every week for a year at $18 per show. His sidemen, Bill Black and Scotty Moore were paid $12 each.

In 1967, Folk singer Joan Baez was arrested, along with 123 others, for blocking the entrance to an Armed Forces Induction Center in Oakland, California.

Issac Hayes' "Theme From Shaft" was released in 1971. When Hayes sings "That John Shaft is a bad mother..." the voice you hear telling Hayes to "shut your mouth" is that of Thelma Hopkins of Tony Orlando and Dawn.

Stevie Wonder's "Song in the Key of Life" is released in 1976. It will immediately hit the Billboard Hot 200 album chart and stay there into 1978. It's Wonder's first release since his $13 million signing with Motown. The three record set goes platinum yielding the hits, "Sir Duke", "Isn't She Lovely" and "I Wish".

Be careful what you wish for: In 2001, two security guards were fired after refusing to allow Bob Dylan into his own concert. Dylan who had demanded that security on his 'Love and Theft' tour should be tighter than ever didn't have a pass when he arrived backstage.

1965- The Beatles recorded ‘Day Tripper’ at Abbey Road studio’s London in three takes, they then added vocals and other overdubs, completing the song before the end of the day.

1992- Two weeks after tearing up a picture of the pope on Saturday Night Live, Sinead O'Connor was booed at a Bob Dylan tribute concert at Madison Square Garden. She replied by reciting the words to Bob Marley's "War" before being escorted from the stage by Kris Kristofferson, who advised her, "Don't let the bastards get you down." George Harrison, Neil Young, Tom Petty, and Eric Clapton also performed, but in less controversial ways.