Good Tuesday evening, This Day In The History Of Music. 1940: Billboard's first comprehensive record chart was published. The magazine had previously published best-seller lists submitted by the individual record companies, but the new chart combined the top sellers from all major labels. Their first number one song was ‘I'll Never Smile Again’ by Frank Sinatra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. 1942: Time Magazine puts Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich on its cover. 1954: The Blue Moon Boys made their live debut appearing on the back of a flatbed truck outside a new drug store for its grand opening in Memphis. The band lineup was Elvis Presley Scotty Moore and Bill Black. The name was taken from a song they had recorded just two weeks previously, 'Blue Moon of Kentucky.' 1962: Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 13th Symphony. 1963: Jan and Dean started a two-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Surf City', written by The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, with the Beach Boys on backing vocals. The single peaked at No.26 in the UK. 1964: Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 10th String quartet. 1968: Jane Asher announced on the national British TV show, Dee Time, that her engagement to Paul McCartney was off. Paul reportedly was watching at a friend's home and was surprised by the news. She was said to have inspired many of McCartney's songs, such as 'All My Loving', 'And I Love Her, and 'We Can Work It Out. Jane went on to have a career in films and television as well as becoming a successful author and businesswoman. 1968: Cream started a four-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Wheels Of Fire'. The double album which consisted of a studio and a live record reached No.3 in the United Kingdom. 1968: Iron Butterfly's second album, 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida', entered the US album chart for the first time. The album contained the 17-minute title track that filled the second side of the LP which went on to sell over four million copies in the US alone. 1971: The Carpenters show 'Make Your Own Kind Of Music', started a six-week run on NBC-TV. 1973: TV talent show Opportunity Knocks winners Peters And Lee were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with their first single and only chart-topper 'Welcome Home.' 1975: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played the opening night on their Born To Run Tour at The Palace Theatre, Providence, Rhode Island. This also saw the live debut of Steven Van Zandt, (Miami Steve) as a member of The E Street Band. 1976: Buzzcocks made their live debut supporting the Sex Pistols and Slaughter & The Dogs at The Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester. In the audience was Morrissey, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook (soon to form Joy Division) and Mark E Smith, (The Fall), and Mick Hucknall. Tickets cost £1. 1977: Gary Kellgren studio engineer at the Los Angeles Record Plant studio drowned in a Hollywood Swimming pool. Kellgren had worked with John Lennon, George Harrison, Jimi Hendrix, Barbra Streisand, and Rod Stewart. 1982: T Macauly & D Vosburghs musical "Windy City," premieres in London. 1984: Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America due to the publication of nude photos of her. 1986: The film based on the life of Sex Pistols bassist, Sid Vicious, 'Sid And Nancy' premiered in London, England. 1986: Carlos Santana celebrated his 39th birthday, and 20th anniversary in the music business, with a concert in San Francisco. Previous group members were assembled for the event, as 17 of them performed together on stage. 1991: EMF went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Unbelievable' it spent 14 weeks on the chart before reaching the top. 1996: Gary Barlow scored his first UK No.1 single with 'Forever Love' taken from his debut album Open Road. Barlow became the first member of Take That to top the charts with a solo record. 1999: The Rolling Stones reported a gross income of $337 million, (£168m), from almost two years of touring from their Bridges to Babylon and No Security tours. The Stones had played to over 5.6 million people, selling out all but 20 shows. 1999: Church groups in middle America claimed that pictures of Britney Spears printed in Rolling Stone magazine encouraged child pornography. The shots showed Britney with not many clothes on in her bedroom. 2000: The Evergreen Ballroom in Lacey, Washington was destroyed by a fire. During the ballroom's heyday in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, many of music's greats played there: Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Duke Ellington, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Ike & Tina Turner, and Fats Domino. Glen Campbell had lived in the kitchen at the venue for a while before he became famous. 2003: A tooth said to have been pulled out of Elvis Presley's mouth after an injury failed to sell on the auction site eBay. The tooth had been put on a 10-day sale with a reserve price of $100,000 (£64,100). Bids had pushed the price up to $2m (£1.28m) but they were later found out to be fraudulent. 2008: Rapper DMX was arrested on suspicion after he gave a false name to get out of paying for hospital medical expenses. County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said the star told Mayo Clinic in Arizona that his name was Troy Jones and failed to pay a $7,500 (£3,752) bill in April. The rapper whose real name is Earl Simmons - was arrested at a shopping center in Phoenix. 2008: John Lydon denied claims by Kele Okereke from Bloc Party that he was racially abused and attacked by a member of the Sex Pistols' entourage at a music festival in Barcelona. Okereke claimed he had been attacked by several men after approaching Lydon backstage at the Summer case festival. He said the 'unprovoked' attack left him with a split lip and bruises. Lydon said: ‘I feel very sorry for a man that needs to lie about what was a perfect evening.’ 2009: Jackson Browne settled his lawsuit against US Senator John McCain and the Republican Party after his 1977 hit 'Running On Empty' was used without permission in a 2008 McCain presidential campaign ad that aired on TV and the Internet. McCain and the Republican Party apologized for using the song in the ad and said that McCain himself "had no knowledge of, or involvement in, the creation or distribution of the video." 2011: Never-before-seen photographs of The Beatles' first US concert in Washington DC sold in New York for more than $360,000 (£223,600). The Fab Four played their first US concert on February 11, 1964, at the Washington Coliseum, two days after their debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. Mike Mitchell, of Washington, was 18 at the time and took photographs just feet away. Among the highlights was a backlit photograph Mitchell shot while standing directly behind the Fab Four which sold for more than $68,000 dollars. 2015: American country musician, songwriter, and record producer Wayne Carson died at the age of 72 after suffering congestive heart failure. He co-wrote 'Always on My Mind', (a hit for Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, and others), 'The Letter', (recorded by The Box Tops, Joe Cocker, and Leon Russell), and 'Soul Deep'. 2017: Linkin Park lead singer Chester Bennington died aged 41. His body was found at a private home, Bennington apparently hanged himself. The singer was said to be close to Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell, who took his own life in May of this year. Formed in 1996, Linkin Park had sold more than 70 million albums worldwide and won two Grammy Awards. Born On This Day In the Music World: 1600: Simon Ives, English court composer (d. 1662). 1726: William Jones, British composer, and clergyman, born in Lowick, England (d. 1800) 1744: Henri Hamal, Belgian organist, and composer, born in Liège (d. 1820) 1761: Joseph Lefèbvre, French composer, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1822?) 1762: Jakob Haibel, Austrian composer, born in Graz, Austria (d. 1826) 1779: Ignaz Schuster, Austrian composer, born in Vienna (d. 1835) 1796: Edward Hodges, English organist and composer, born in Bristol (d. 1867) 1803: Jakob Zeugheer, Swiss composer, born in Zürich (d. 1865) 1819: Paul Henrion, a French composer, was born in Paris (d. 1901). 1837: Hans Sommer, German theatre composer, born in Brunswick (d. 1922) 1872: Alexander "Alick" Maclean, British composer and conductor (Scarborough Spa Orchestra, 1912-35), born in Windsor, Berkshire, England (d. 1936) 1872: Déodat de Séverac, French composer (Cerdaña), born in Saint-Félix-de-Caraman, France (d. 1921) 1873: Witold Maliszewski, Polish composer (founder and first director of Odessa Conservatory), was born in Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (d. 1939) 1902: Jimmy Kennedy, Irish singer-songwriter ("Teddy Bears' Picnic"; "My Prayer"), born in Omagh, Ireland (d. 1984) 1908: Gunnar de Frumerie, Swedish pianist and composer (Circulus Quintus), born in Nacka, Sweden (d. 1987) 1910: Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor (BBC Concert Orchestra, 1956-66), opera director and educator (Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 1966-92), and composer, born in Prerov, Moravia (d. 2004) 1911: William Dillard, American jazz trumpeter and Broadway singer, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1995) 1918: Cindy Walker, American songwriter ("Dream Baby"; "You Don't Know Me") and country singer, born in Mart, Texas (d. 2006) 1922: Karel Krautgartner, Czech jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, arranger, composer, conductor, and teacher, born in Mikulov, Moravia (d. 1982) 1924: Lola Albright, American singer, and actress (Delta Country; Kid Galahad; A Cold Wind in August), was born in Akron, Ohio (d. 2017) 1924: Mort Garson, Canadian-American composer ("Our Day Will Come") and Moog synthesizer pioneer, born in St. John, New Brunswick (d. 2008) 1927: Michael Gielen, Austrian conductor (Frankfurt Opera, 1967-87); Cincinnati Symphony, 1980-86); Southwest German Radio Symphony, 1986-99), and composer, born in Dresden, Germany (d. 2019) 1928: Peter Ind, British jazz double bassist, born in Middlesex, England. 1930: Sally Ann Howes, British singer and actress (Truly Scrumptious - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; Brigadoon), born in London, England. 1932: Nam June Paik, Korean avant-garde composer, and video artist (Medium is the Medium; hommage à john cage), born in Seoul, Korea (d. 2006) 1933: Buddy Knox, singer, a songwriter who had the 1957 US No.1 & UK No.29 single 'Party Doll' which sold over one million copies. He was the first person in the rock 'n' roll era to write and record a No.1 hit. His other hits include 'Rock Your Little Baby To Sleep' and 'Hula Love'. Knox died of lung cancer on 14 February 1999. 1933: José Vicente Asura, Chilean electronic music composer, born in Santiago, Chile (d. 2017) 1936: Kaleria Fadicheva, Russian ballerina (Kirov) and choreographer, born in Ust-Ijori, Leningrad, Russia (d. 1994) 1938: Jo Ann Campbell, American pop singer ("I'm The Girl From Wolverton Mountain"; "Mother, Please!"), born in Jacksonville, Florida 1938: Natalie Wood [Natasha Gurdin], American actress (Gypsy; Rebel WithoutAa Cause; West Side Story), was born in San Francisco, California (d. 1981) 1942: T.G. Sheppard [William Browder], American country singer ("Devil in the Bottle"), born in Humbolt, Tennessee. 1943: Dennis Yost, American vocalist (The Classics IV), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2008) 1945: John Lodge, bass, vocals, with English rock band The Moody Blues who had the 1965 UK No.1 & US No.10 single 'Go Now' and the hits singles including 'Go Now', 'Nights in White Satin' and 'Question'. 1945: Kim Carnes, US female singer, (1981 US No.1 & UK No.10 single 'Betty Davis Eyes'). 1945: Johnny Loughrey, Irish singer, born in Newtownstewart, Northern Ireland (d. 2005) 1946: Wendy Richard, actress, (1962 UK No.1 single with Mike Sarne, 'Come Outside', cast member of UK TV soap 'Eastenders'). 1947: Carlos Santana, Mexican and American rock guitarist. Santana had the 1977 UK No.11 single 'She's Not There', and their 1999 US No.1 single 'Smooth' spent eleven weeks at No.1, (also No.1 in the UK). He won eight Grammy Awards for his Supernatural album at the 2000 awards. 1947: Tony Thorpe, from English pop band The Rubettes who had the 1974 UK No.1 single 'Sugar Baby Love'. 1952: Jay Jay French, guitar, Twisted Sister, (1983 UK No.18 single 'I Am, I'm Me', 1984 album 'Stay Hungry'). (Side Note: This Day & Wikipedia agree with 1952, On this Day has his D.O.B at 1954). 1953: Marcia Hines, American-born Australian singer (Marcia Shines), born in Boston, Massachusetts. 1955: (Jeremy) "Jem" Finer, British Celtic-folk-punk banjo player (The Pogues; Longplayer), born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. 1955: Marisa DeFranco, from family pop group The DeFranco Family, who scored the 1973 US No.3 single 'Heartbeat-It's A Lovebeat', the biggest selling US single of 1973. Based on The Osmonds, the group featured 10-year-old Tony DeFranco. 1956: Paul Cook, drums, Sex Pistols, (1977 UK No.2 single 'God Save The Queen', and 1977 UK No.1 album Never Mind The Bollocks, Here are The Sex Pistols'. 1957: Gernot Wolfgang, Austrian contemporary composer (Dance Of The Polar Bears; Yugoslavian Railroad Song), was born in Bad Gastein, Austria. 1958: Michael McNeil, keyboards, with a Scottish rock band, Simple Minds, who had the 1985 US No.1 single 'Don't You, Forget About Me', and the 1989 UK No.1 single 'Belfast Child', plus over 20 other UK Top 40 singles. 1959: Radney Foster, American country singer, and songwriter (Foster & Lloyd - "Crazy Over You"), was born in Del Rio, Texas. 1959: James Irvin, a singer from British new wave band Furniture, had the 1986 UK No.21 single 'Brilliant Mind'. 1962: Dig Wayne, with British new wave group Jo Boxers, who had the 1983 UK No.3 single 'Boxer Beat'. 1962: Lee Harris, an English drummer who joined Talk Talk in 1981. They had the hits 'It's My Life' (1984) and Life's What You Make It', (1986). 1964: American musician, singer, and songwriter Chris Cornell, best known as the lead vocalist, primary songwriter, and rhythm guitarist for Seattle rock band Soundgarden and as lead vocalist and songwriter for the group Audioslave. Cornell died suddenly in Detroit on 17 May 2017 after performing at a show with Soundgarden. 1966: Andrew Levy, bassist from English group The Brand New Heavies, had the 1994 UK No.13 single with their version of 'Midnight At The Oasis'. 1966: Stone Gossard, guitar, Pearl Jam, (1992 UK No.15 single 'Jeremy', 1993 US No.1 & UK No.2 album 'Vs', 1994 US No.1 & UK No.4 album Vitalogy' and 1996 US No.1 & UK No.3 album 'No Code') Also a member of Brad. (Side Note: This Day & Wikipedia agree on 1966, On this Day has his D.O.B in1965) 1968: Kool G Rap [Nathaniel Thomas Wilson], American rapper, born in Queens, New York. 1969: Tobi Vail, an American musician (Bikini Kill, The Go Team, The Frumpies), was born in Auburn, Washington. 1972: Vitamin C [Colleen Ann Fitzpatrick], American singer and actress, born in Old Bridge, New Jersey. 1976: Andrew Stockdale, Australian rock musician (Wolfmother), was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. 1980: Mike Kennerty, American guitarist (The All-American Rejects) and record producer was born in Houston, Texas. 1987: Brent Wilson, American rock bassist (Panic! At The Disco, 2004-06), was born in Las Vegas, Nevada 1987: Nicola Benedetti, Scottish classical violinist, born in West Kilbride, North Ayrshire. 1988: Julianne Hough, American ballroom dancer and TV personality (Dancing With The Stars) was born in Orem, Utah. 1999: American rapper, singer, and songwriter Pop Smoke. His debut studio album, Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon, was posthumously released in July 2020 and debuted at No.1 on the Billboard chart with all 19 tracks from the album charting on the Billboard Hot 100. He died on 19 Feb 2020 after being shot twice in the chest during a home invasion in Hollywood Hills, California. Until sometime tomorrow take care and stay safe.
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