1958 – Alan Freed’s Big Beat Show played 2 shows at the Central High School Auditorium in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The tour featured Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon, Buddy Holly, The Diamonds, Billy Ford, Danny & The Juniors, The Chantels, Larry Williams, Screaming Jay Hawkins and The Pastels.
1969 – The album Chicago Transit Authority was released to debut the career of the classic supergroup.
1969 – Three Dog Night released the single “One”.
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1973 – Faces had the #1 album in the U.K. with Ooh La La.
1973 – Sylvia owned the top R&B song with “Pillow Talk”.
1973 – Tony Orlando & Dawn remained at #1 with “Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree”.
1973 – Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of The Moon went to No.1 in the US. The album went on to enjoy a record-breaking 741 discontinuous weeks on the Billboard chart, and has now sold over 45 million copies world-wide.
1979 – The Very Best of Leo Sayer topped the U.K. Album chart.
1979 – Peaches & Herb climbed to #1 on the R&B chart with their great song “Reunited”.
1979 – Donna Summer titled her new song right as “Hot Stuff” was up from #79 to #29 on this date.
1979 – Blondie had their first #1 song with “Heart Of Glass”
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1980 – Elton John released the single “Little Jeannie”.
1980 – Bob Seger released the single “Against The Wind”.
1983 – During the second leg of their ‘War’ North American tour, U2 appeared at the Rochester Institute Of Technology Ice Rink, Rochester, New York.
1984 – Phil Collins continued to set the pace at #1 with “Against All Odds”.
1986 – For the first time, a compact disc of an album was released before its vinyl version. The album was “The Art of Excellence” by Tony Bennett. It was his first album upon re-signing with Columbia Records.
1987 – On a plane that was returning to Boston from Miami Ozzy Osbourne bought three rounds of drinks and sang “Crazy Train” over the PA system.
1990 – Sinead O’Connor started a six-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got.’
1998 – The Dave Matthews Band released the album Before These Crowded Streets.
1998 – Stevie Nicks released the boxed set Enchanted.
1999 – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
“TV/RADIO TODAY”
1957 – Mike Wallace was seen on TV for the first time. He was the host of “Mike Wallace Interviews.”
1958 – The Big Beat Show, Alan Freed’s rock and roll show, had two performances at Central High School Auditorium in Kalamazoo, Michigan
1959 – Arthur Godfrey was seen for the last time in the final broadcast of “Arthur Godfrey and His Friends” on CBS-TV.
1964 – The Beatles recorded the TV special ‘Around The Beatles’ at Wembley studios England.
1965 – Barbara Streisand’s first TV special aired on CBS. It was titled “My Name is Barbara”.
1968 – The Seeds (“Pushin’ Too Hard”) were the guests on The Mothers-In-Lawon NBC-TV.
1975 – John Lennon was a guest on Johnny Carson’s The Tonight Show.
1975 – Ringo Starr sang “No No Song” on The Smothers Brothers Show.
“OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS…”
1932 – The yellow fever vaccine for humans was announced.
1967 – Muhammad Ali refused induction into the U.S. Army and was stripped of boxing title. He cited religious grounds for his refusal.
1968 – The Broadway musical ‘Hair’ opened at the Biltmore Theatre in New York City. The show featured the songs ‘Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In’, ‘Good Morning Starshine’ and the title song. The production ran for 1,729 performances, finally closing on July 1st, 1972.
1980 – Marshall Tucker Band bass player Tommy Caldwell died of injuries from a car accident aged 30 in his hometown of Spartanburg, South Carolina. Original frontman for the Marshall Tucker Band between 1973 and 1980.
1981 – Former member of T Rex, Steve Currie was killed in a car crash returning to his home near Vale de Parra, Algarve, Portugal, he was 33 years old.
1982 – The California State Assembly consumer-protection-committee heard testimony from “experts” who claimed that when ‘Stairway To Heaven’ was played backward, contained the words: “I sing because I live with Satan. The Lord turns me off, there’s no escaping it. Here’s to my sweet Satan, whose power is Satan. He will give you 666. I live for Satan.”
1989 – Jon Bon Jovi and Dorothea Hurley were married. They had been high school sweethearts.
1992 – The U.S. Agriculture Department unveiled a pyramid-shaped recommended-diet chart.
1999 – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2000 – Jay Leno received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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