Today In Entertainment History - 1955: Brooklyn High School in Cleveland, OH, is host to a rock and roll concert featuring Bill Haley, LaVern Baker, Roy Hamilton, Johnnie Ray, the up-and-coming artist Elvis Presley, and also, improbably, Pat Boone and The Four Lads. The concert is filmed for a documentary of local DJ Bill Randle, entitled The Pied Piper of Cleveland: A Day in the Life of a Famous Disc Jockey, but the film, which includes the very first known footage of Elvis, has never been released. 1962: The Contours hits #3 with Do You Love Me. * Stop the Music by the Shirelles peaks at #36. 1964: A riot predictably breaks out during the Rolling Stones first-ever Paris gig, leading to the arrest of 150 concertgoers at the Olympia Theatre. 1966: The Yardbirds (featuring Jimmy Page) record a version of their hit Over Under Sideways Down as a jingle for General Foods Great Shakes beverages. 1968: The Yardbirds end their stage career with a gig at Liverpool University. 1969: The Who begin a six-night run at the Fillmore East in New York, performing their new rock opera Tommy in its entirety. 1973: Joe Walsh hits #23 with Rocky Mountain Way. 1974: Former Animals lead singer Eric Burdon and his wife Rose celebrate the birth of their first daughter, which they name Mirage. (They will later think better of it and rename her Alexandria.) 1976: Marking time while lead singer Robert Plant recovers from a debilitating car accident, Led Zeppelin release the concert documentary The Song Remains The Same, a document of three 1973 shows at Madison Square Garden interspersed with several slightly ridiculous fantasy sequences. Though critical reaction is not kind, it goes on to be a success, as does the obligatory soundtrack album. 1977: Guitarist Steve Gaines, lead singer Ronnie Van Zandt, and backup singer Cassie Gaines of Lynyrd Skynyrd are all killed when the bands small Convair plane runs out of fuel and does down en route from Greenville, SC, to their next gig in Baton Rouge, LA. Crash landing in a forest near Gillsburg, MS, the accident also takes the lives of the bands assistant road manager as well as the two pilots, not to mention severely injuring the rest of the band and most of the other two dozen passengers. The remaining members would not reunite for another decade. 1978: The debut performance of the Police in the United States takes place at CBGBs in New York. 1979: Bob Dylan appears on tonights episode of NBCs Saturday Night Live to perform three new religious songs from his upcoming album Slow Train Coming, shocking listeners with his new fundamentalist Christian direction. * Herb Alpert hits #1 with Rise. 1984: Spandau Ballet hits #15 in the UK with Highly Strung. 1985: Saving All My Love For You by Whitney Houston was a hit. 1990: MTV announces it is giving away a radio station and $10,000 in MTVs Radio Station contest. 1994: In a surprise appearance, Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young take the stage during Bob Dylans concert at New Yorks Roseland Ballroom and perform Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 and Highway 61 Revisited with the legend himself. 1995: Playback, a box set that marks Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 20th anniversary, is released. One of the best of its kind, the six-disc set contains 92 tracks, plus a booklet, poster and laminated backstage pass. 1996: Carly Simon cancels a planned show aboard the famous cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II, docked in New York, after she comes down with a bad case of stage fright. 1998: George Martins final studio project-a various-artists album of Beatles covers called In My Life - is released, formally ending a 48-year career in record production. 2001: The Concert For New York City, a benefit show for victims of the recent 9/11 terrorist attacks, is staged at Madison Square Garden, featuring (among others) The Who, Elton John, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Billy Joel, James Taylor, and David Bowie. 2003: Jimmy Cliff is awarded Jamaicas prestigious Order of Merit for his contributions to the world of music and movies. Todays Birthdays Include: 1890: Jelly Roll Morton 1937: Wanda Jackson 1939: Jay Siegel (The Tokens) 1939: Ray Jones (The Dakotas) 1942: John Carter (Ivy League) 1945: Ric Lee (Ten Years After) Deaths 1983: Merle Travis 1997: Henry Vestine (Canned Heat) 2008: Dee Dee Warwick
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