This Day in Rock Music History: April 14

    1962:  "Johnny Angel" spent a second week at #1 on this date 49 years ago; it was the big hit for Shelley Fabares.
    1963:  The Beatles met the Rolling Stones after the latter gave a concert in Richmond, England.


    Millie Small


    1965:  Millie Small sang her hit "My Boy Lollipop" on the television show "Shindig!".
    1965:  The movie "Girl Happy" starring Elvis Presley opened in theaters.
    1966:  The Spencer Davis Group was at #1 in the UK with "Somebody Help Me".
    1966:  Roy Orbison, the Walker Brothers and Lulu performed at the Colston Hall in Bristol, England.
    1967:  The Bee Gees released "New York Mining Disaster 1941".
    1967:  The final episode of "Where the Action Is" starring Paul Revere & the Raiders aired on ABC-TV.
    1969:  The "33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee" special aired on NBC-TV.
    1969:  The Beatles recorded "The Ballad of John and Yoko".
    1970:  CCR made their live debut in the UK at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
    1970:  Stephen Stills broke his wrist in a car accident.
    1973:  Led Zeppelin moved into #1 on the UK album chart with Houses of the Holy.



           War had themselves a Top 10 with "The Cisco Kid"


    1973:  "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" by Vick Lawrence was #1 for the second week in a row on this date 38 years ago.  Gladys Knight & the Pips once again were at #2 with "Neither One Of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)".  The rest of the Top Ten as long titles were the order of the day--#3 "Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" by Dawn, #4 was "Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)" by the Four Tops, the Carpenters moved into position #5 with "Sing", War had #6 with "The Cisco Kid", Anne Murray was at 7 with "Danny's Song", the Stylistics slipped to #8 with "Break Up to Make Up", Roberta Flack's former #1 "Killing Me Softly With His Song was at #9 and Al Green cracked the top ten with "Call Me (Come Back Home)". 
    1973:  "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Ole Oak Tree" by Tony Orlando & Dawn was #1 for the second week in a row on the Adult Contemporary chart.
    1975:  Art Garfunkel began a six-week run at #1 in the UK with his beautiful song "Bright Eyes" from the movie "Watership Down".  It would go on to become the biggest selling single of the year.  In the U.S., it has to settle for being a top "Underrated Song".
    1975:  The Rolling Stones announced that singer/guitarist Ron Wood would join them for their upcoming tour.
    1976:  Stevie Wonder signed a $13 million deal with Motown Records.
    1979:  "Crazy Love" by Poco spent a sixth of seven weeks it would reign as #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.  It was one of the top AC hits of the decade.
    1979:  The Doobie Brothers took over at #1 on the Hot 100 with "What a Fool Believes".  The remainder of a pretty good Top 10:  Gloria Gaynor's former #1 "I Will Survive" was at 2, Amii Stewart moved up to #3 with "Knock On Wood", the debut from Dire Straits "Sultans of Swing" was at #4, Frank Mills' catchy instrumental "Music Box Dancer" moved into the top five, the Bee Gees were at #6 with their former #1 "Tragedy", Peaches & Herb were headed that way, going from 15-7 with "Reunited", Blondie had song #8 with "Heart of Glass", Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman had a top ten record with "Stumblin' In" and the Little River Band was at #10 with "Lady".
    1980:  Iron Maiden released their debut album.
    1980:  Pete Townshend released his very good solo album Empty Glass.
    1980:  Gary Numan released "The Touring Principle", the first rock videocassette available for purchase.





    1980:  A bill was introduced in the New Jersey state assembly to make "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen the official state song.
    1983:  Pete Farndon of the Pretenders died from drugs at the age of 29.  Farndon had been fired from the group one year earlier because of his addiction.  Yet he hadn't learned.
    1984:  "Hello" by Lionel Richie led the way on the Adult Contemporary chart for the second out of an eventual six weeks at #1.
    1989:  Tom Petty released his first solo album Full Moon Fever.
    1990:  Madonna had the #1 song in the UK with "Vogue".
    1990:  Tommy Page had his first and only #1 with "I'll Be Your Everything".  Jane Child was at 2 with "Don't Wanna' Fall in Love", Lisa Stansfield remained at #3 with "All Around the World", Sinead O'Connor was headed for the top with "nothing Compares 2 U" and Taylor Dayne fell from #1 to #5 with "Love Will Lead You Back".



           Dayne ruled the AC chart


    1990:  Taylor Dayne spent a fourth week at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart with "Love Will Lead You Back".
    1993:  Paul McCartney began a 24-date tour of North America at the Sam Boys Silver Bowl in Las Vegas.
    2002:  Phil Selway of Radiohead ran in the London Marathon, raising $25,000 for the Samaritans.
    2004:  Sophie B. Hawkins ("As I Lay Me Down") won a lawsuit against a man selling pirated copies of her new album Wilderness.
    2004:  Usher was on top of the album chart for the third week in a row with Confessions.
    2006:  The Beatles announced they would digitally remaster their back catalog and sell the music online.
    2009:  George Harrison was recognized with a posthumous star (Why don't they ever do these things on time?) on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles.  Sir Paul McCartney was there to witness the event, joining Olivia Harrison and son Dhani.  Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks and Tom Petty also were on hand.




    Born This Day:
    1942:  Tony Burrows, who sang lead for Edison Lighthouse, White Plains, the Pipkins and Brotherhood of Man--all four groups were in the British Top Ten at once in 1970.





    1945:  Ritchie Blackmore, great guitarist of Deep Purple
    1946:  Patrick Fairley of Marmalade ("Reflections of My Life")
    1948:  Larry Ferguson of Hot Chocolate
    1949:  Dennis Bryon of Amen Corner, who worked with the Bee Gees in the 70's and 80's.
    1949:  June Millington of the group Fanny ("Butter Boy")
    1974:  Shawntae Harris

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