This Day is from Jan 29th. sorry it is a day late, I had some pressing issues that forced me away from my computer (OHH nooo!)"
Walk This Way” is a Top 10 single in 1977. The
Aerosmith song is inspired by a line in Mel Brooks’ comedy Young Frankenstein.
In 1969,
Steve Winwood leaves
Traffic to join
Blind Faith.
Mary Wilson of the
Supremes is injured and her son is killed in a California auto accident in 1994.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer disband (the first time), 1979
Warner Brothers Records signed
Peter, Paul and Mary to their first recording contract in 1962. Their self-titled album would stay in the US Top 10 for ten months, remained in the Top 20 for two years, and did not drop off the Hot 100 album chart until three-and-a-half years after its release. Their only single to make it all the way to number 1 was 1969's, "
Leaving On a Jet Plane," written by
John Denver.
The Beatles record "
Sie Liebt Dich" (the German version of "
She Loves You"), in 1964.
Rose Royce, the former backing band for the
Temptations, went to #1 on the US singles chart with "
Car Wash” in 1977.
In 2005,the
Arctic Monkeys' "
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not" sells a 363,700 copies in its first week of release to become the No. 1 album in the U.K. and the fastest selling U.K. debut ever.
In 2001, U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle rules that
Funkadelic star
George Clinton signed away his copyright on songs written in the late '70s and early '80s and no, he can't have it back. Clinton claimed rap stars were profiting off tunes he sold to Bridgeport Music in 1983.
Willie Dixon died of heart failure aged 76 in Burbank, CA in 1992. The blues songwriter's "
Little Red Rooster" was famously covered by his acolytes the
Rolling Stones.
Jimmy Durante or, as he was known, The Great Schnozzola, died in Santa Monica, CA in 1980.
In 1958,
The Champs released "
Tequila", an instrumental that will hit number one in mid-March, staying there for five weeks The group included sax player Jim Seals and drummer Dash Crofts, who would go on to score several hits in the seventies, including "
Summer Breeze" as
Seals and Crofts.Tommy Ramone was born with the name Tamás Erdélyi in Budapest Hungary in 1952. He grows up in Queens, NY. Prior to the Ramones, the drummer is a studio intern for the production of the
Jimi Hendrix album “
Band Of Gypsys.” He's the group's manager before becoming a band member. 1952
Singer David Byron of the rock band
Uriah Heep was born in Essex, England in 1947.
In 1967,
Jimi Hendrix and
The Who gave a tribute concert to the Beatles late manager, Brian Epstein.
1996 -
Garth Brooks refused to accept his American Music Award for Favorite Overall Artist. Brooks said that
Hootie and the Blowfish had done more for music that year than he did.
On Saturday, April 19, 2008, hundreds of independently owned music stores across the country will celebrate “Record Store Day.”
