1963: Ray Charles won Best R&B Recording at the Grammies with "I Can't Stop Loving You".
1965: The Byrds released "Mr. Tambourine Man".
The Hermits had two of the Top Ten
1965: Herman's Hermits remained at #1 with "Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter". Gary Lewis & the Playboys were stuck at 2 with "Count Me In', the Beatles held at 3 with "Ticket To Ride" and the Seekers had the #4 song--"I'll Never Find Another You". The rest of the Top Ten: "Silhouettes" from Herman's Hermits was #5, the Beach Boys got a 21-6 jump from "Help Me Rhonda", Petula Clark had song #7 with "I Know a Place" and there were three new songs in the top ten--"I'll Be Doggone" from Marvin Gaye, "Just Once In My Life" by the Righteous Brothers at #9 and "Wooly Bully", the classic from Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs at #10.
1965: Music fans were introduced to two big 60's artists on this date. Donovan ("Catch the Wind") and the Byrds ("Mr. Tambourine Man") were the debuts on 5/15/65.
1967: Paul McCartney goes to the Bag O' Nails club in London, where he meets Linda Eastman, who would be Linda McCartney before long.
1970: Black Sabbath released their debut album.
1970: The Carpenters released their second album Close to You.
1971: The Cannes Film Festival in France showed two short films by John Lennon.
1971: "Knock Three Times" from Tony Orlando & Dawn is the #1 song in the U.K.
1971: Lobo hit #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart with "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo".
1973: The Pointer Sisters were off and running, making their live debut at the Troubadour in Los Angeles.
1974: Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones released a solo album Monkey Grip.
1975: Fleetwood Mac appeared in El Paso, Texas with a new lineup: Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, John McVie and their two newest members--Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.
1981: The Moody Blues released their comeback album Long Distance Voyager.
1982: Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder reached #1 for the first of five weeks with "Ebony and Ivory".
1984: Nils Lofgren took over for "Miami" Steve Van Zandt in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.
1993: Janet Jackson completed one of the fastest rises to #1 in the rock era when "That's the Way Love Goes" went from #14 to 2 to 1 in three weeks.
1994: Sting and Nancy Wilson of Heart received honorary music Doctorate Degrees from Berklee College of Music in Boston.
1995: Scott Weiland of the Stone Temple Pilots was arrested for trying to buy drugs in a motel parking lot in Pasadena, California.
1995: R.E.M. resumed their Monster tour after Bill Berry recovered from an aneurysm.
1998: Sonny and Cher received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2000: Bob Dylan received Sweden's Polar Music Prize.
Born This Day:
1937: Trini Lopez ("If I Had a Hammer" in 1963) was born in Dallas
1938: Lenny Welch ("Since I Fell For You)
1947: Graeham Goble of Little River Band and record producer
1948: Brian Eno, keyboardist and synthesizer player with Roxy Music and record producer with U2, the Talking Heads, and others, was born in Woodbridge, England
1953: Mike Oldfield, the artist behind the haunting "Tubular Bells", the theme used in the great movie "The Exorcist", was born in Reading, Pennsylvania
1982: Jessica Sutta of the Pussycat DollsSource URL: http://acsblogrock.blogspot.com/2011/05/this-day-in-rock-music-history-may-15.html
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