1962: The Beatles began performing at the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany. The band would play 3-4 hours a night for 48 days with one day off.
1963: The Beach Boys released "Surfin' U.S.A."
1963: The Chiffons spent their third of four weeks at #1 with "He's So Fine". Ruby & the Romantics were at #2 with "Our Day Will Come". The rest of the Top Five--"The End of the World" by Skeeter Davis remained at #3, the Orlons had #4 with "South Street" and Andy Williams shot up from 18 to 5 with "Can't Get Used To Losing You".
1964: Bobby Darin is nominated for but does not win Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards for Captain Newman, M.D.
1965: The Beatles recorded "Help!" at Abbey Road Studios in London.
1965: Roger Miller wins five awards at the Grammy Awards. Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto win Record of the Year ("The Girl From Ipanema" and Album of the Year (Getz/Gilberto). The Beatles take home the award for Best New Artist and Best Performance by a Group for "A Hard Day's Night".
1967: The Rolling Stones appear in concert behind the old Iron Curtain at the Palace of Culture in Warsaw, Poland.
1968: This was one of the best years in music and Bobby Goldsboro's classic "Honey" was one of the reasons why. It moved from 10 to 1 to sit atop the charts on this date 43 years ago. That represents the seventh-biggest jump to #1 in Billboard chart history. "Young Girl" by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap was #2 and the former #1 (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding slipped to 3. The remainder of the Top Ten: The Box Tops had #4 with "Cry Like a Baby", Aretha Franklin held down #5 with "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone", the Beatles were at 6 with "Lady Madonna", Georgie Fame had #7 with "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde", the Delfonics were at #8 with "La-La-Means I Love You", the Monkees slipped to 9 with "Valleri" and Manfred Mann moved into the top ten with "The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)".
1968: "Love is Blue" topped the Adult Contemporary chart for a ninth week in a row.
1969: Diana Ross appeared without the Supremes on the Dinah Shore show "Like Hep".
1970: Genesis appeared at Friars in Aylesbury, England.
1970: Led Zeppelin became the first act to sell out the Montreal Forum.
1971: The Rolling Stones released "Brown Sugar", the first 45 from their new Rolling Stones Records.
1973: Roger Daltrey released the solo album Daltrey.
1974: Paul McCartney & Wings had the #1 album with Band on the Run.
1974: Elton John scored another #1 with "Bennie and the Jets" on this date 37 years ago. Blue Swede fell to #2 with "Hooked On a Feeling" after a week at the top. MFSB was at #8 with "TSOP", Sister Janet Mead moved "The Lord's Prayer" to #4, Redbone had #5 with "Come and Get Your Love", John Denver was at 6 with his former #1 "Sunshine on My Shoulders", Gladys Knight & the Pips were at #7 with "Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me", Terry Jacks fell to #8 with his former #1 "Seasons in the Sun", Ringo Starr moved into the top ten with "Oh My My" and Carly Simon & James Taylor had song #10 with "Mockingbird".
1978: The Supremes (without Diana Ross) played the first of three nights at the Palladium in London.
1979: Just five nights into Van Halen's tour, lead signer David Lee Roth collapsed on state from exhuastion at the Spokane Coliseum.
1980. "Grease" closed on Broadway after 3,883 performances and $8 million in ticket revenue.
1985: USA for Africa rose to #1 with "We Are the World"--it would stay there for four weeks. The rest of the Top Ten--#2 was "One More Night" by Phil Collins, Maddona at 3 with "Crazy For You", the Commodores without Lionel Richie were at #4 with "Nightshift", Madonna slipped to #5 with "Material Girl", Bruce Springsteen was climbing up with "I'm On Fire", DeBarge had #7 with "Rhythm of the Night", "Lovergirl" by Teena Marie was #8, Animotion had a fast-rising "Obsession" at #9 and Diana Ross moved into the top ten with "Missing You".
1985: "One More Night" spent one more week at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart for Phil Collins.
1991: Going back to this date 20 years ago, Londonbeat moved into the #1 slot with their great song "I've Been Thinking About You". Wilson Phillips used their harmonies to hold down #2 with "You're In Love". Tara Kemp had song #3 with "Hold You Tight", Amy Grant was moving towards the top with "Baby Baby" and Enigma had "Sadeness Part 1" at #5.
1991: Wilson Phillips spent their third of four weeks at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart with "You're In Love".
1993: The first "Aerosmith Day" was observed in Massachusetts after the Boston band was given its own holiday.
1994: Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley announced their separation.
1995: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony began a two-week stay at #1 on the album chart with E 1999 Eternal.
1999: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers released the album Echo.
2000: Gavin Rossdale of Bush collapsed at the end of a show in Los Angeles.
2003: The Beatles' Apple Corporation was listed as the fastest-growing firm in Britain with a growth rate of 194%.
2005: Switchfoot won four awards, including Artist of the Year, at the Gospel Music Association Awards.
2005: Johnnie Johnson, keyboardist with Chuck Berry died; he was the inspiration for the standard "Johnny B. Goode".
2007: Julian Lennon sold a "significant" stake of his share in the songs his father John wrote for the Beatles to Primary Wave, a publishing company.
Born This Day:
1936: Tim Field of the Springfields ("Silver Threads and Golden Needles")
1940: Lester Chambers of the Chambers Brothers
1942: Bill Conti
1943: Eve Graham of the New Seekers
1944: Jack Casady of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna
1945: Lowell George of Little Feat
1946: Al Green
1951: Max Weinberg of the E Street Band
1954: Jimmy Destri, the keyboardist with Blondie
1955: Louis Johnson of the Brothers Johnson
1957: Wayne Lewis of Atlantic Starr ("Always")
1961: Butch Taylor, keyboardist for the Dave Matthews Band
1962: Hillel Slovak, guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers; died from heroin on June 27th, 1988
1966: Marc Ford of the Black Crowes
1972: Aaron Lewis, vocalist with Staind
1975: Lou Bega ("Mambo No. 5")
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1963: The Beach Boys released "Surfin' U.S.A."
1963: The Chiffons spent their third of four weeks at #1 with "He's So Fine". Ruby & the Romantics were at #2 with "Our Day Will Come". The rest of the Top Five--"The End of the World" by Skeeter Davis remained at #3, the Orlons had #4 with "South Street" and Andy Williams shot up from 18 to 5 with "Can't Get Used To Losing You".
1964: Bobby Darin is nominated for but does not win Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards for Captain Newman, M.D.
1965: The Beatles recorded "Help!" at Abbey Road Studios in London.
1965: Roger Miller wins five awards at the Grammy Awards. Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto win Record of the Year ("The Girl From Ipanema" and Album of the Year (Getz/Gilberto). The Beatles take home the award for Best New Artist and Best Performance by a Group for "A Hard Day's Night".
1967: The Rolling Stones appear in concert behind the old Iron Curtain at the Palace of Culture in Warsaw, Poland.
1968: This was one of the best years in music and Bobby Goldsboro's classic "Honey" was one of the reasons why. It moved from 10 to 1 to sit atop the charts on this date 43 years ago. That represents the seventh-biggest jump to #1 in Billboard chart history. "Young Girl" by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap was #2 and the former #1 (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding slipped to 3. The remainder of the Top Ten: The Box Tops had #4 with "Cry Like a Baby", Aretha Franklin held down #5 with "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone", the Beatles were at 6 with "Lady Madonna", Georgie Fame had #7 with "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde", the Delfonics were at #8 with "La-La-Means I Love You", the Monkees slipped to 9 with "Valleri" and Manfred Mann moved into the top ten with "The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)".
1968: "Love is Blue" topped the Adult Contemporary chart for a ninth week in a row.
1969: Diana Ross appeared without the Supremes on the Dinah Shore show "Like Hep".
1970: Genesis appeared at Friars in Aylesbury, England.
1970: Led Zeppelin became the first act to sell out the Montreal Forum.
1971: The Rolling Stones released "Brown Sugar", the first 45 from their new Rolling Stones Records.
1973: Roger Daltrey released the solo album Daltrey.
1974: Paul McCartney & Wings had the #1 album with Band on the Run.
1974: Elton John scored another #1 with "Bennie and the Jets" on this date 37 years ago. Blue Swede fell to #2 with "Hooked On a Feeling" after a week at the top. MFSB was at #8 with "TSOP", Sister Janet Mead moved "The Lord's Prayer" to #4, Redbone had #5 with "Come and Get Your Love", John Denver was at 6 with his former #1 "Sunshine on My Shoulders", Gladys Knight & the Pips were at #7 with "Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me", Terry Jacks fell to #8 with his former #1 "Seasons in the Sun", Ringo Starr moved into the top ten with "Oh My My" and Carly Simon & James Taylor had song #10 with "Mockingbird".
1978: The Supremes (without Diana Ross) played the first of three nights at the Palladium in London.
1979: Just five nights into Van Halen's tour, lead signer David Lee Roth collapsed on state from exhuastion at the Spokane Coliseum.
1980. "Grease" closed on Broadway after 3,883 performances and $8 million in ticket revenue.
1985: USA for Africa rose to #1 with "We Are the World"--it would stay there for four weeks. The rest of the Top Ten--#2 was "One More Night" by Phil Collins, Maddona at 3 with "Crazy For You", the Commodores without Lionel Richie were at #4 with "Nightshift", Madonna slipped to #5 with "Material Girl", Bruce Springsteen was climbing up with "I'm On Fire", DeBarge had #7 with "Rhythm of the Night", "Lovergirl" by Teena Marie was #8, Animotion had a fast-rising "Obsession" at #9 and Diana Ross moved into the top ten with "Missing You".
1985: "One More Night" spent one more week at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart for Phil Collins.
1991: Going back to this date 20 years ago, Londonbeat moved into the #1 slot with their great song "I've Been Thinking About You". Wilson Phillips used their harmonies to hold down #2 with "You're In Love". Tara Kemp had song #3 with "Hold You Tight", Amy Grant was moving towards the top with "Baby Baby" and Enigma had "Sadeness Part 1" at #5.
1991: Wilson Phillips spent their third of four weeks at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart with "You're In Love".
1993: The first "Aerosmith Day" was observed in Massachusetts after the Boston band was given its own holiday.
1994: Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley announced their separation.
1995: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony began a two-week stay at #1 on the album chart with E 1999 Eternal.
1999: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers released the album Echo.
2000: Gavin Rossdale of Bush collapsed at the end of a show in Los Angeles.
2003: The Beatles' Apple Corporation was listed as the fastest-growing firm in Britain with a growth rate of 194%.
2005: Switchfoot won four awards, including Artist of the Year, at the Gospel Music Association Awards.
2005: Johnnie Johnson, keyboardist with Chuck Berry died; he was the inspiration for the standard "Johnny B. Goode".
2007: Julian Lennon sold a "significant" stake of his share in the songs his father John wrote for the Beatles to Primary Wave, a publishing company.
Born This Day:
1936: Tim Field of the Springfields ("Silver Threads and Golden Needles")
1940: Lester Chambers of the Chambers Brothers
1942: Bill Conti
1943: Eve Graham of the New Seekers
1944: Jack Casady of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna
1945: Lowell George of Little Feat
1946: Al Green
1951: Max Weinberg of the E Street Band
1954: Jimmy Destri, the keyboardist with Blondie
1955: Louis Johnson of the Brothers Johnson
1957: Wayne Lewis of Atlantic Starr ("Always")
1961: Butch Taylor, keyboardist for the Dave Matthews Band
1962: Hillel Slovak, guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers; died from heroin on June 27th, 1988
1966: Marc Ford of the Black Crowes
1972: Aaron Lewis, vocalist with Staind
1975: Lou Bega ("Mambo No. 5")
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