Paul Cotton – Poco (1943)
Fats Domino turns 81.
Mitch Ryder ("Devil With A Blue Dress") is 64.
Sandie Shaw (1947)
Erykah Badu (1971)
Michael Bolton (1953)
They Are Missed:
Bob “The Bear” Hite, vocalist and harmonica player with Canned Heat, was born in 1945. He died on April 5, 1981.
Bluesman Booker T. Washington "Bukka" White, who composed "Fixing to Die," died in 1977 (age 70).
53 year-old Cornell Gunter, former lead singer of The Coasters died in a hail of gunfire in 1990 when an unknown assailant sprayed his '78 Camaro at a Las Vegas intersection.
Legendary drummer Buddy Miles died from congestive heart failure in 2008. He was 60.
The late Johnny Cash was born in 1932.
History:
Lonestar started a two week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 2000 with “Amazed.”
In 1955, sales of 45 rpm records outsold 78 rpm discs in the US for the first time. The number 45 came from taking 78 and subtracting Columbia's 33 rpm. RCA introduced the first 45 on March 31, 1949, when they released 104 single vinyl records. The first 45 to hit the Billboard charts was "You're Adorable" by Perry Como, on May 7, 1949.
Also in 1955, R&B singer LaVern Baker appealed to the US Congress in a letter to Michigan Representative Charles Digges Jr., to revise the Copyright Act of 1909. She said that recording artists should be protected against "note-for-note copying" of already recorded R&B tunes and arrangements by white artists and arrangers. Her request was denied.
In 1966, the Beatles' LP "Rubber Soul" rose to #1 on the Billboard Hot 200 chart, becoming the group's seventh US album chart topper.
Joe Tex's funk record "I Gotcha" entered the Billboard Pop chart in 1972 and climbed to #2. Much the success of the song was rumored to be Tex's slurred delivery of the line "Told you not to play with my affection," which causes many listeners to mistake the last word for one that rhymes with it.
Michael Jackson's album "Thriller" rose to #1 on the US album chart in 1983, where it would stay for 37 weeks. It’s gone on to become the most successful album of all time, with sales over 100 million.
In 1987, "The Beatles", more commonly called "The White Album", became the first Beatles' LP to be issued on CD. According to the RIAA, the disc is group's best-selling album, going 19-times Platinum and is the tenth-best-selling album of all time in the United States.
Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" (his first million-seller) debuts on the Billboard charts in 1956.
The Rolling Stones' "19th Nervous Breakdown" was released in 1966.
The Eagles' "Hotel California" was released in 1977.
Nancy Sinatra went to #1 on the US singles chart in 1966 with “These Boots Are Made For Walking,” also a UK #1.
In 1964, the Beatles worked on the final mixes for “Can't Buy Me Love” and “You Can't Do That” tracks. The single, which was released the following month, topped the charts all over the world
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