GOOD MORNING! Today is Area Code Day; Marine Corps Birthday; Sesame Street Day; Windows Day (Microsoft); World Science Day for Peace and Development, and; National Young Readers Day. On this date in music history: - Births 1907: Jane Froman 1916: Billy May 1932: Paul Bley 1939: Tommy Facenda 1940: Screaming Lord Sutch 1941: Kyu Sakamoto 1944: Tim Rice 1945: Donna Fargo 1947: Dave Loggins 1947: Glen Buxton (Alice Cooper) 1948: Greg Lake (Emerson, Lake and Palmer) 1950: Ronnie Hammond (Atlanta Rhythm Section) Deaths 1990: Ronnie Dyson 1994: Carmen McRae 1997: Tommy Tedesco 2002: Johnny Griffith (Funk Brothers) Events 1955: In his Nashville hotel room, songwriter Mae Axton plays Elvis Presley a demo of a song shes co-written called Heartbreak Hotel. 1956: Billboard magazines DJ survey reveals that Elvis Presley is the countrys number one male artist on both the pop and country charts. 1958: Billboard magazine reports that Dick Clarks American Bandstand show on ABC is the hottest merchandising opportunity on television, noting that sales of Beechnut gum have doubled since the company begin buying ad space on the program. 1958: Sam Cooke and Lou Rawls, then a member of Cookes backup band, are badly injured in a car crash in Marion, AR, while touring with the gospel group the Pilgrim Travellers. Rawls is hurt so badly he is actually pronounced dead at the scene; chauffeur Edward Cunningham, however, is the only actual casualty. 1965: Marianne Faithfull gives birth to her first child, Nicholas, from artist John Dunbar. 1966: British newspapers break the news that the Beatles will indeed refuse all future offers to tour. 1967: The Beatles film three separate videos for their new single, Hello Goodbye, at Londons Saville Theatre. The three are eventually edited together to form one video, but the BBC, which has just given in to a Musicians Union ban on lip-syncing, refuses to air the clip. 1968: After performing their latest single, Crown Of Creation, on CBS-TVs Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour , Jefferson Airplane singer Grace Slick -- already in partial blackface -- gives the black power salute (made infamous when a black athlete at that years Olympics had raised his fist instead of putting his hand over his heart during the US National Anthem). 1970: Martha Reeves of the Vandellas gives birth to her first and only son, Eric. 1973: John Lennon meets with legendary producer Phil Spector in New York to begin work on an album of oldies covers entitled Rock n Roll. 1975: The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks suddenly in Lake Superior during a storm, killing all 29 men aboard and inspiring Canadian folkie Gordon Lightfoot to write a song about the tragedy, The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald. 1994: Led Zeppelins Jimmy Page and Robert Plant perform an all-acoustic version of Stairway To Heaven while visiting a Japanese talk show. 2002: On tonights How I Spent My Strummer Vacation episode of FOX-TVs The Simpsons , guest stars Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Tom Petty, Elvis Costello, Lenny Kravitz, and Brian Setzer operate a rock and roll fantasy camp. 2003: David Bowie is forced to cancel the remainder of his concert in Nice, France, when laryngitis causes his voice to go out completely in the middle of Ziggy Stardust. 2003: An emotional tribute to the recently-deceased Johnny Cash is held at Nashvilles famous Ryman Auditorium, featuring classic Cash songs performed by Sheryl Crow, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Kid Rock, and Steve Earle, among others. Releases 1967: The Moody Blues, Nights In White Satin Recording 1939: Muggsy Spanier, Dipper Mouth Blues 1965: The Beatles: The Word, Im Looking Through You Charts 1958: Conway Twittys Its Only Make Believe hits #1 1973: Elton Johns LP Goodbye Yellow Brick Road hits #1 1973: Eddie Kendricks Keep On Truckin hits #1 1979: The Eagles Heartache Tonight hits #1 Certifications 1969: Gene Autrys Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is certified gold
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