Felix Cavaliere of the Rascals turns 64.
Chuck Mangione is 58.
Billboard chart guru Joel Whitburn was born in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin in 1939.
Boston guitarist Barry Goudreau (1951)
John Mayall (Bluesbreakers) (1933)
They Are Missed:
Beatles' guitarist George Harrison passed away in 2001 at the age of 58, while resting at a friend's home in Los Angeles. The news came as a shock to the world, despite Harrison's much-chronicled cancer treatments. Speaking outside his home in St John's Wood, north west London, Paul McCartney said: 'I am devastated and very very sad'. Ringo Starr, speaking from Vancouver, Canada said: 'We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.'
The late Denny Doherty of the Mamas & the Papas ("I Saw Her Again") was born in 1941.
History:
At the 1959 Grammy Awards, held just six months after a similar award show, Bobby Darin won Record of the Year for "Mack the Knife" as well as the Best New Artist of the Year. Song of the Year was awarded to Jimmy Driftwood, writer of Johnny Horton's hit, "The Battle Of New Orleans.” The winner of Album of the Year was Frank Sinatra's "Come Dance With Me."
The Beatles' fifth British single "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was released in 1963. Advance orders exceeded 700,000 and within three days the record sold one million copies, making it their second million seller. It was released in the US on December 26th and spent seven weeks at #1.
The Beatles score a two-sided #1 hit in 1969 with John Lennon’s “Come Together” and George Harrison’s “Something.” Both songs are on “Abbey Road.”
Donovan hits #1 in 1966 with "Sunshine Superman."
Yes released their self-titled debut album in 1969.
Today in 1975, the song "Fly, Robin, Fly" by the Silver Convention topped the charts and stayed there for 3 weeks.
In England, in 1968, it was announced that the Beatles double album (aka The White Album) had sold 2 million copies in its first week on sale, a new record.
The Who released their first concert record in 1968, "The Who Sell Out."
In 1979, the original four members of KISS performed their last show together-until 1996, when they reunited for a makeup tour.
Metallica played their first headlining show in 1982. They played the song "Whiplash" for the first time.
Kansas goes platinum with “Point Of No Return” in 1977. The album contains one of their best songs “Carry On Wayward Son.”
Neil Young’s “Comes A Time” goes gold in 1978.
Elvis Presley's LP "From Memphis to Vegas / From Vegas to Memphis" reached the Billboard album chart in 1969, where it will stay for the next 24 weeks, climbing as high as #12.
In 1997, Whitney Houston backed out of a slated one million dollar performance at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC after finding out the event was a mass wedding for over 1,000 Moonie couples. Ohmmmmmmm
Bon Jovi hit #1 in 1986 with "You Give Love a Bad Name.”
In 2006, a two-day auction begins on items that belonged to the late founding Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett. Among the articles on the block at the fine-art sale in Cambridge is Barrett's own never-before-seen artwork, some signed by the musician, two hand-painted bicycles, homemade speakers and a classical guitar. Ten paintings sell for more than $100,000 while the auction raises $200,000. A portion funds "educational development" in the art world. Barrett, who left Floyd in ‘68, passed away July 7th. 2006
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