GOOD MORNING! Today is Celebration of the Senses; International Fairy Day or Faerie Day, National Columnists Day, AND; Shelly Elys 39th birthday! On this date in music history: Births 1901: Harry Partch 1939: Paul Oz Bach (Spanky and Our Gang) 1942: Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac) 1942: Arthur Brown (The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown) 1944: Jeff Beck (The Yardbirds) 1944: Chris Wood (Traffic) 1944: John Charlie Whitney (Family) 1945: Colin Blunstone (The Zombies) 1948: Patrick Moraz (Yes, Moody Blues) 1949: John Illsley (Dire Straits Events 1964: Sam Cooke, preceded by a 70-foot billboard in Times Square, begins a famous two-week engagement at New Yorks Copacabana club that would come to define the beginning of supper-club soul. 1966: The Mothers of Invention open for none other than Lenny Bruce at the Fillmore in San Francisco. 1966: John Lennons second whimsical book of original prose, poetry, and drawings, entitled A Spaniard In The Works, is published in his native England. 1966: In an watershed moment for the brother/sister duo later known as the Carpenters, the jazz combo known as the Richard Carpenter Trio wins the Hollywood Bowls Battle of the Bands contest. 1966: With the McCoys and the Standells opening, the Rolling Stones 1966 tour begins at the Manning Bowl in Lynn, Massachusetts, inciting yet another crowd riot that the police counteract with tear gas. Rock concerts are banned from the venue for nearly two decades. 1967: Led by Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd make their TV debut performing their hit single See Emily Play on BBCs Top Of The Pops. 1967: 5th Dimension make their TV debut performing their hit single Up, Up And Away on ABCs American Bandstand. 1967: Guitarist Zal Yanovsky quits the Lovin Spoonful after their gig at the Forest Hills Music Festival in New York. 1972: At tonights show in Fort Worth, TX, the Rolling Stones film the performance that would become the quadrophonic concert documentary Ladies And Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones.. 1973: After an extensive two-year investigation, 19 major music label heads, including Clive Davis of Arista and the Gamble-Huff team behind Philadelphia International, are indicted by the state of New Jersey for payola practices and income tax evasion 1973: Legendary rock organist Al Kooper rejoins his first band, Blues Project, onstage during a concert in Central Park. 1977: En route to his hotel while on tour in Madison, WI, Elvis spots an altercation between two young men and a gas station attendant and immediately gets out of his limo, striking a karate pose, shouting Ill take you on! When all three get a glimpse of their intruder, however, they immediately forget the fight and ask for pictures and photographs. 1984: Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin joins Yes onstage in Dortmund, Germany for a cover of the Beatles Im Down, further fueling rumors that the guitarist will assemble a new band called XYZ (Ex-Yes and Zeppelin). 1989: The Beatles finally get a US #1 Country hit when Rosanne Cashs cover of I Dont Want To Spoil The Party reaches the top spot. 1992: Billy Joels old alma mater, Hicksville High in Long Island, NY, awards the singer-songwriter an honorary diploma in place of the one he never stayed in school to receive. 1993: Hank Williams illegitimate daughter Jett, is awarded a piece of the country legends estate from his son, Hank Jr. 1998: Johnny Cash makes his first public appearance since announcing his battle with Shy-Drager Syndrome, walking onstage at Kris Kristoffersons latest Nashville concert to sing Cashs hit Sunday Morning Coming Down, written by Kris. 1999: Eric Clapton auctions off one hundred of the guitars in his collection to raise money for his Crossroads drug rehab clinic in Antigua, with the 1956 Fender Layla was written on going for nearly half a million dollars, a record at the time. Five years later, a similar auction, held like the first at Christies in New York, nets another record -- almost one million dollars for another Fender Clapton named Blackie, making it the most expensive guitar of all time. 2000: Preparing for retirement, KISS begin auctioning off their quarter-century of band memorabilia, netting $876,000. 2003: Gert van der Graaf, former boyfriend of ABBAs Agnetha Faeltskog, is arrested near her home for stalking the singer, despite having received a restraining order three years earlier. 2004: US President George W. Bush awards the Medal of Freedom to Doris Day. Releases 1972: Helen Reddy, I Am Woman Recording 1966: The Supremes, Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart 1967: The Beatles, All You Need Is Love Charts 1950: The Andrews Sisters I Wanna Be Loved hits #1 1967: The Monkees LP Headquarters hits #1 1967: Procol Harums A Whiter Shade Of Pale enters the charts
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