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Today in Music History
1953 - "Amos 'n Andy," TV Comedy, also radio from '29; last aired on CBS
1964 - Chicago police break up Rolling Stones press conference
1964 - Queen Elizabeth orders Beatles to her birthday party, they attend
1966 - "(I'm A) Road Runner" by Jr Walker and The All-Stars peaks at #20
1966 - "I Am A Rock" by Simon and Garfunkel peaks at #3
1966 - "Paint It, Black" by The Rolling Stones peaks at #1
1969 - David Bowie releases "Space Oddity"
1969 - "The Ballad Of John and Yoko" by The Beatles hit #1 in UK
1976 - Australian band AC/DC begin their 1st headline tour of Britain
1976 - Beatles "Rock and Roll Music" LP is released in USA
1977 - "Watch Closely Now" by Kris Kristofferson peaks at #52
1977 - "The Pretender" by Jackson Browne peaks at #58
1977 - "Lonely Boy" by Andrew Gold peaks at #7
1977 - "I'm Your Boogie Man" by KC and Sunshine Band peaks at #1
1977 - "I Need A Man" by Grace Jones peaks at #83
1977 - "Dance and Shake Your Tambourine" by Universal Robot Band peaks at #93
1977 - "Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Fat Woman)" by Joe Tex hits #12
1983 - "When I'm With You" by Sheriff peaks at #61
1983 - "Theme From Doctor Detroit" by Devo peaks at #59
1983 - "My Love" by Lionel Richie peaks at #5
1983 - "Faithfully" by Journey peaks at #12
1983 - "Cool Places" by Sparks and Jane Wiedlin peaks at #49
1983 - "Always Something There To Remind Me" by Naked Eyes peaks at #8
1988 - "Everything Your Heart Desires" by Daryl Hall and John Oates peaks at #3
1988 - "Rooty Toot Toot" by John Cougar Mellencamp peaks at #61
1988 - "We All Sleep Alone" by Cher peaks at #14
1994 - "Meet The Flintstones" by The BC 52's peaks to #33
Births in Music
1672 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, composer
1697 - Francesco A Vallotti, Italian organist/composer/theorist
1704 - Jose Antonio Carlos de Seixas, composer
1740 - Luigi Gatti, composer
1861 - Sigismund Vladislavovich Zaremba, composer
1864 - Richard Georg Strauss, Munich Germany, composer (Don Quixote)
1874 - Richard Stohr, composer
1899 - George Frederick McKay, composer
1902 - Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin, composer
1904 - Clarence "Pinetop" Smith, jazz pianist/singer (Boogie Woogie Piano)
1904 - Emil Frantisek Burian, composer
1907 - Jose Bernabe Marino Barreto y Casanova, pianist vocalist bandleader
1910 - Carmine Coppola, composer/conductor (Godfather II, Apocalypse Now)
1912 - Mukhtar Ashrafi, composer
1913 - Revaz Kondrat'yevich Gabichvadze, composer
1913 - Ris‰ Stevens, NYC, mezzo-soprano (Met Opera)/actor (Going My Way)
1920 - Hazel Scott, Trinidad, singer/pianist (Hazel Scott)
1926 - Brother Dave Gardner, Novelty singer/comedian
1926 - Carlisle Floyd, Latta SC, composer (Slow Dusk)
1927 - Josef Anton Reidl, composer
1933 - Jud Strunk, Jamestown NY, singer/comedian (Laugh-In)
1934 - Pookie Hudson, vocalist (Goodnite Sweetheart Goodnite-Spaniels)
1939 - Wilma Burgess, country-pop singer
1940 - Joey Dee, Passaic NJ, singer (Hey Let's Twist, 2 Tickets to Paris)
1946 - John Lawton, British rock singer (Uriah Heep)
1947 - Glenn Leonard, RandB singer (Temptations)
1948 - Skip Alan, [Alan Skipper], drummer (Them, Pretty Things)
1949 - Frank Beard, rocker (ZZ Top-She Got Legs, Fandango)
1950 - Lindsey de Paul, singer
1952 - Donnie Van Zant, rock vocalist (.38 Special)
1952 - Russell Hitchcock, Melbourne Australia, rock vocalist (Air Supply)
1965 - Giola Bruno, rocker (Expose)
Deaths in Music
1764 - Christoph Stoltzenberg, composer, dies at 74
1775 - Egidio Romoaldo Duni, Italian composer, dies at 67
1808 - Giovanni Battista Cirri, composer, dies at 83
1896 - Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer, dies at 72
1900 - Charles Swinnerton Heap, composer, dies at 53
1924 - Theodore Dubois, composer, dies at 86
1955 - Marcel Louis Auguste Samuel-Rousseau, composer, dies at 72
1975 - Floro Manuel Ugarte, composer, dies at 90
1990 - Clyde McCoy, jazz trumpeter (wah wah sound), dies at 86
1995 - Lovelace Watkins, singer, dies at 58
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