1966: The Kinks recorded "Sunny Afternoon".
1966: The Rolling Stones released "Paint It Black".
1967: "The Happening" became the Supremes' 10th #1 song of their career on this date. Only Elvis & the Beatles had more to this juncture. "Sweet Soul Music" by Arthur Conley was a strong #2, Nancy & Frank Sinatra fell to 3 with "Something' Stupid. The rest of the Top Ten: The Young Rascals' smash "Groovin'" rose from 19 to 4, the Monkees had #5 with "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You", the Buckinghams moved up one with "Don't You Care", the Dave Clark Five were a familiar top ten fixture at #7 with "You Got What It Takes", the original Peaches and Herb were at 8 with "Close Your Eyes", The Happenings entered the top ten with "I Got Rhythm" and Tommy James & the Shondells were still hanging around in their 14th week with "I Think We're Alone Now".
1970: Badfinger began recording the song "No Matter What".
1970: The movie "Let It Be" premiered in New York City.
1971: Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane crashed her car into a concrete wall in the vicinity of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
1972: "Morning Has Broken" hit #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart for Cat Stevens.
1972: First Take from Roberta Flack continued to rule the album chart for the third straight week, with Neil Young's great album Harvest close behind. The self-titled America album was at 3, Yes at #4 with Fragile and Graham Nash & David Crosby had a winner with their album. The rest of the Top Ten: Smokin' from Humble Pie at #6, Eat a Peach by the Allman Brothers Band at #7, Manassas from Stephen Stills was #8, Carole King remained at #9 in her 58th week with Tapestry and Paul Simon's debut solo release was at #10.
1974: More than 50 people were injured when youths started throwing bottles outside a Jackson 5 concert at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. 43 people were arrested for the incident.
1977: Dolly Parton performed at the Bottom Line in New York City.
1978: Jimmy Buffett sang "Son of a Sailor" on the television show "Saturday Night Live".
1978: "Feels So Good" hit #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart for Chuck Mangione.
1978: The count was up to 17 weeks at #1 for the Soundtrack to "Saturday Night Fever". Wings had a distant #2 with London Town while Eric Clapton Slowhand was #3. Kansas remained at #4 with Point of Know Return and Jefferson Starship checked in at 5 with Earth. The rest of the Top Ten: Jackson Browne's Running On Empty was #6, Chuck Mangione moved up to 7 with Feels So Good, Warren Zevon had a top ten album in Excitable Boy, Billy Joel's great album The Stranger was finally on its way down at #9 in its 32nd week and Champagne Jam, a very underrated album from the Atlanta Rhythm Section was #10.
1978: "If I Can't Have You" by Yvonne Elliman became the fourth song from Saturday Night Fever to reach #1 on this date. It finally toppled "Night Fever" by the Bee Gees, which fell to #5 after eight consecutive weeks at the top. "The Closer I Get To You", from Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway was #2 and Wings had the third most popular song "With a Little Luck". Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams teamed for #4--"Too Much, Too Little, Too Late" and "Night Fever", John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John had already moved on with "You're the One That I Want" from the great Grease Soundtrack, Jefferson Starship's fine "Count On Me" was #8, Kansas placed their classic at #9 after 16 weeks and "Imaginary Lover" became the second top ten for the Atlanta Rhythm Section.
1983: Iron Maiden released the album Peace of Mind.
1985: Bruce Springsteen married Julianne Phillips.
1989: "Ill Be There For You" was Bon Jovi's latest #1. It replaced "Like a Prayer" which fell to #2 for Madonna. Jody Watley remained at 3 with "Real Love", Paula Abdul's "Forever Your Girl" was destined for the top. The rest of the Top Ten: Donny Osmond's comeback "Soldier Of Love" hit #5, Cher & Peter Cetera came in at 6, "Second Chance" was at #7 for .38 Special, Michael Damian's remake of "Rock On" was #8, Guns N' Roses had #9 with "Patience" and Bette Midler moved from 19-10 with "Wind Beneath My Wings".
Born This Day:
1941: Ritchie Valens was born in Pacolma, California; died February 3, 1959 at the age of 17 in a plane crash with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper
1943: Mary Wells was born in Detroit, Michigan
1949: Pete Watts, bass player of Mott the Hoople, was born in Birmingham, England
1950: Steveland Morris, the great Stevie Wonder, was born in Saginaw, Michigan
1950: Danny Kirwan, singer and guitarist for Fleetwood Mac
1951: Paul Thompson, drummer for Roxy Music, was born in Jarrow, England.
1966: Darius Rucker, lead singer of Hootie & the Blowfish
1967: Melanie Thornton of LaBouche
1969: Buckethead, virtuoso guitarist of Guns N' Roses
1979: Michael Madden of Maroon 5Source URL: http://acsblogrock.blogspot.com/2011/05/this-day-in-rock-music-history-may-13.html
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1966: The Rolling Stones released "Paint It Black".
1967: "The Happening" became the Supremes' 10th #1 song of their career on this date. Only Elvis & the Beatles had more to this juncture. "Sweet Soul Music" by Arthur Conley was a strong #2, Nancy & Frank Sinatra fell to 3 with "Something' Stupid. The rest of the Top Ten: The Young Rascals' smash "Groovin'" rose from 19 to 4, the Monkees had #5 with "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You", the Buckinghams moved up one with "Don't You Care", the Dave Clark Five were a familiar top ten fixture at #7 with "You Got What It Takes", the original Peaches and Herb were at 8 with "Close Your Eyes", The Happenings entered the top ten with "I Got Rhythm" and Tommy James & the Shondells were still hanging around in their 14th week with "I Think We're Alone Now".
1970: Badfinger began recording the song "No Matter What".
1970: The movie "Let It Be" premiered in New York City.
1971: Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane crashed her car into a concrete wall in the vicinity of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
1972: "Morning Has Broken" hit #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart for Cat Stevens.
1972: First Take from Roberta Flack continued to rule the album chart for the third straight week, with Neil Young's great album Harvest close behind. The self-titled America album was at 3, Yes at #4 with Fragile and Graham Nash & David Crosby had a winner with their album. The rest of the Top Ten: Smokin' from Humble Pie at #6, Eat a Peach by the Allman Brothers Band at #7, Manassas from Stephen Stills was #8, Carole King remained at #9 in her 58th week with Tapestry and Paul Simon's debut solo release was at #10.
1974: More than 50 people were injured when youths started throwing bottles outside a Jackson 5 concert at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. 43 people were arrested for the incident.
1977: Dolly Parton performed at the Bottom Line in New York City.
1978: Jimmy Buffett sang "Son of a Sailor" on the television show "Saturday Night Live".
1978: "Feels So Good" hit #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart for Chuck Mangione.
1978: The count was up to 17 weeks at #1 for the Soundtrack to "Saturday Night Fever". Wings had a distant #2 with London Town while Eric Clapton Slowhand was #3. Kansas remained at #4 with Point of Know Return and Jefferson Starship checked in at 5 with Earth. The rest of the Top Ten: Jackson Browne's Running On Empty was #6, Chuck Mangione moved up to 7 with Feels So Good, Warren Zevon had a top ten album in Excitable Boy, Billy Joel's great album The Stranger was finally on its way down at #9 in its 32nd week and Champagne Jam, a very underrated album from the Atlanta Rhythm Section was #10.
1978: "If I Can't Have You" by Yvonne Elliman became the fourth song from Saturday Night Fever to reach #1 on this date. It finally toppled "Night Fever" by the Bee Gees, which fell to #5 after eight consecutive weeks at the top. "The Closer I Get To You", from Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway was #2 and Wings had the third most popular song "With a Little Luck". Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams teamed for #4--"Too Much, Too Little, Too Late" and "Night Fever", John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John had already moved on with "You're the One That I Want" from the great Grease Soundtrack, Jefferson Starship's fine "Count On Me" was #8, Kansas placed their classic at #9 after 16 weeks and "Imaginary Lover" became the second top ten for the Atlanta Rhythm Section.
1983: Iron Maiden released the album Peace of Mind.
1985: Bruce Springsteen married Julianne Phillips.
1989: "Ill Be There For You" was Bon Jovi's latest #1. It replaced "Like a Prayer" which fell to #2 for Madonna. Jody Watley remained at 3 with "Real Love", Paula Abdul's "Forever Your Girl" was destined for the top. The rest of the Top Ten: Donny Osmond's comeback "Soldier Of Love" hit #5, Cher & Peter Cetera came in at 6, "Second Chance" was at #7 for .38 Special, Michael Damian's remake of "Rock On" was #8, Guns N' Roses had #9 with "Patience" and Bette Midler moved from 19-10 with "Wind Beneath My Wings".
Born This Day:
1941: Ritchie Valens was born in Pacolma, California; died February 3, 1959 at the age of 17 in a plane crash with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper
1943: Mary Wells was born in Detroit, Michigan
1949: Pete Watts, bass player of Mott the Hoople, was born in Birmingham, England
1950: Steveland Morris, the great Stevie Wonder, was born in Saginaw, Michigan
1950: Danny Kirwan, singer and guitarist for Fleetwood Mac
1951: Paul Thompson, drummer for Roxy Music, was born in Jarrow, England.
1966: Darius Rucker, lead singer of Hootie & the Blowfish
1967: Melanie Thornton of LaBouche
1969: Buckethead, virtuoso guitarist of Guns N' Roses
1979: Michael Madden of Maroon 5Source URL: http://acsblogrock.blogspot.com/2011/05/this-day-in-rock-music-history-may-13.html
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