This Day In Music - June 22

 This Day In Music - June 22

1936: Kris Kristofferson is born in Brownsville, Texas. Among his songwriting credits are the songs "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night", all of which were hits for other artists - https://youtu.be/IOoMREvsV9E .

1937: Island Records founder Chris Blackwell is born in Westminster, London, England. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame later declares him "the single person most responsible for turning the world on to reggae music.".

1937: Bernie McGann born in Granville, Sydney, NSW. McGann first came to prominence as part of a loose alliance of modern jazz musicians who performed at the El Rocco Jazz Cellar in Kings Cross, Sydney in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

1942: Jazz pianist Deodato is born Eumir Deodato de Almeida in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - https://youtu.be/RJKsp9_L24Q .

1943: Jimmy Castor (Jimmy Castor Bunch) born in Manhattan, New York. an American funk, R&B, and soul musician. He is credited with vocals, saxophone and composition. He is best known for songs such as "It's Just Begun", "Bertha Butt Boogie", and the biggest hit single, million-seller "Troglodyte (Cave Man) - https://youtu.be/5yE3IBRx2-Y .

1944: Peter Asher (of Peter & Gordon) is born in London, England. While attending the independent Westminster School as a day boy, he first met fellow pupil Gordon Waller (1945–2009), and they began playing and singing together as a duo in cafes. In 1962, they began working formally as Peter and Gordon. Their first (and biggest) hit was the 1964 Lennon/McCartney song "A World Without Love". Asher's sister Jane was, in the mid-1960s, the girlfriend of Paul McCartney. Through this connection, Asher and Waller were often given unrecorded Lennon/McCartney songs to perform - https://youtu.be/Tdx6lLvvRyg .

1947: (conflicting birth year is 1945) - Howard Kaylan is born Howard Kaplan in the Bronx, New York. Best known as a founding member and lead singer of the 1960s band The Turtles. He graduated early (as valedictorian) from Westchester High School. He joined The Mothers of Invention, Frank Zappa's band, after the Turtles broke up - https://youtu.be/xlbSfshymg8 .

1948: Todd Rundgren born outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the '70s, he becomes a top solo artist and one of the most celebrated producers in music, with Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell his biggest commercial success - https://youtu.be/jI_oBXzLNmw .

1949: Alan Osmond (Osmonds) born in Ogden, Utah. The Osmonds

had the 1971 No.1 single 'One Bad Apple', the 1974 hit 'Crazy Horses' and the 1974 No.1 single 'Love Me For A Reason'. - https://youtu.be/TfZPp3IF7os .

1951: Todd Stuart Hunter born in Waitara New Zealand. Todd is a New Zealand musician and composer known for his involvement in the band Dragon, which moved to Australia in 1975. Their best known songs are "April Sun in Cuba", "Are You Old Enough?", "Still in Love With You", and "Rain". Hunter also composed John Farnham's hit song "Age of Reason" with Johanna Pigott - https://youtu.be/zaQ2NFIQf5M .

1953: Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper (born in Brooklyn New York) is an American singer, songwriter, actress and activist. Her career has spanned over 40 years. Her album She's So Unusual (1983) was the first debut album by a female artist to achieve four top-five hits on the Billboard Hot 100—"Girls Just Want to Have Fun", "Time After Time", "She Bop", and "All Through the Night"—and earned Lauper the Best New Artist award at the 27th Grammy Awards in 1985 - https://youtu.be/jRr5EasAq84 .

1956: Derek Forbes (former bass guitarist for Simple Minds) is born in Glasgow, Scotland and had the 1985 No.1 single 'Don't You, Forget About Me', and the 1989 No.1 single 'Belfast Child', plus over 20 other Top 40 singles. - https://youtu.be/vxXfu-Kbtbc .

1956: Green Gartside (Green Strohmeyer-Gartside - Scritti Politti) born. They had the 1984 No.10 single 'Wood Beez, Pray Like Aretha Franklin', and the hit 'The Word Girl'.

1957: Garry Gary Beers (INXS) born in Sydney NSW Australia. Garry William Beers known as Garry Gary Beers, is an Australian musician and was the bass guitarist for the new wave rock group INXS. In 1989, while on hiatus from INXS, he joined Absent Friends as bass guitarist. Their No. 7 album, Here's Looking Up Your Address (May 1990) spawned the No. 4 hit single, "I Don't Want To Be With Nobody But You" - https://youtu.be/QtQLq-wInsA .

1957: Round And Round (Perry Como) scores #1 this week in - https://youtu.be/L6G1v4zADjI .

1961: Pop singer Jimmy Somerville (of Bronski Beat) is born in Glasgow, Scotland - https://youtu.be/v-szBDby1Zg .

1963: Tamoure (Bill Justis) remains the #1 song in .

1963: The Surfaris single "Wipe Out" was released in - https://youtu.be/-YusHyd-duQ .

1963: (Little) Stevie Wonder first entered the POP chart with his single “Fingertips Parts One and Two”, after turning 13 the previous month - https://youtu.be/k3ubgVjp3CY .

1965: Tommy Cunningham drummer with Scottish band Wet Wet Wet who formed in 1982. They are best known for their 1994 cover of The Troggs' 1960s hit 'Love Is All Around', which spent 15 weeks at No.1 on the charts - https://youtu.be/h3gEkwhdXUE .

1967: The Young Rascals record "How Can I Be Sure?" - https://youtu.be/GkufDCTLzFY .

1968: The Unicorn (The Irish Rovers) remains the #1 song in .

1968: The Jeff Beck Group, featuring vocalist Rod Stewart made their concert debut in New York (@ The Fillmore East).

1968: Mason Williams' "Classical Gas" was released - https://youtu.be/mREi_Bb85Sk .

1969: After a long battle with drug and alcohol abuse, Judy Garland dies of an overdose at age 47. She was found on the floor of her rented Chelsea home, in London, UK. Made more than two dozen films, played Dorothy in the 1939 film 'Wizard Of Oz' and sang 'Over The Rainbow' in the film (voted the 'Song Of The Century' in a 2001 poll published in America).

1970: Everything Is Beautiful (Ray Stevens) takes the #1 slot in - https://youtu.be/mlwfGh-SVXw .

1974: Madonna, 15, goes to her first concert: David Bowie at Cobo Arena in Detroit. "I recognized myself in him somehow and he gave me license to dream a different future for myself," she says.

1979: Neil Young releases his highly lauded live album, Rust Never Sleeps. It contains several new songs that go on to be Young favorites, including "Powderfinger," "My My, Hey Hey," and "Pocahontas." - https://youtu.be/tdPs5YXQTSw .

1981: Bette Davis Eyes (Kim Carnes) remains the #1 song in - https://youtu.be/8CFuO554JE4 .

1981: Mark Chapman pleads guilty to the charge of murdering John Lennon outside The Dakota Building, New York in 1980 six months earlier and is sentenced to 20 years-to-life in prison - https://youtu.be/YkgkThdzX-8 .

1987: I Wanna Dance With Someone Who Loves Me (Whitney Houston) is #1 again this week in .

1987: Fred Astaire dies of pneumonia at age 88.

1988: Robert Palmer releases "Simply Irresistible" in his native , where it peaks at #44. It fares much better in and the , where it lands at #1 & #2 respectively - https://youtu.be/UrGw_cOgwa8 .

1990: Doo-wop singer Corinthian "Kripp" Johnson (of The Dell-Vikings) dies of cancer at age 54 - https://youtu.be/6h5tg6Mhris .

1992: Jump (Kris Kross) moves to #1 in this week - https://youtu.be/010KyIQjkTk .

1996: The brother of singer Diana Ross, Arthur Ross and his wife were murdered by suffocation in the basement of their rented Detroit home. The bodies were discovered after neighbours complained of an odour coming from the house. Two men were later charged with murder and robbery. Arthur Ross had written songs for Marvin Gaye, The Miracles and Madonna.

1998: Maria / Cup Of Life (Ricky Martin) moves to #1 this week in - https://youtu.be/dZDj2CnG5dE .

1998: Todd Rundgren marries Michele Gray on his 50th birthday. The wedding takes place in Hawaii, the 50th state.

1998: The Metallica single "Fuel" was released - https://youtu.be/ttNSr4Ecdzo .

2008: Coldplay went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Viva La Vida', their first No.1. History was made by this single, as it had no physical CD-single release in the , being available by internet download only. The song won a Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 2009 - https://youtu.be/dvgZkm1xWPE .

2009: Chris Brown pleads guilty to assaulting Rihanna the night before the Grammy Awards. He avoids jail time, but is sentenced to five years' probation and about 1400 hours of community service.

2011: Glen Campbell's wife, Kim Woollen, announces that the singer has Alzheimer's disease - https://youtu.be/rcMSzOjpirM .

2013: 'Blurred Lines' by Robin Thicke started a 13 week run at No.1 on the singles chart. Featuring American rapper T.I. and American singer and producer Pharrell Williams, the video was made in two versions; the first video features models Emily Ratajkowski, Jessi M'Bengue, and Elle Evans being topless, the second features them covered. The topless version of the video was removed from YouTube for violating the site's terms of service regarding nudity, though it was later restored, but flagged as inappropriate. 'Blurred Lines" peaked at No.1 in 14 countries, including - https://youtu.be/yyDUC1LUXSU .

2013: Wendy Saddington (b. Wendy June Saddington, 26th Sept 1949 in Melbourne, Vic) died. She was also known as Gandharvika Dasi, was an Australian blues, soul and jazz singer, and was in the bands Chain, Copperwine and the Wendy Saddington Band. Some references say she passed 21 June - https://youtu.be/UosZUpSKlXs.

2017: In Los Angeles, CA, a jury found that Led Zeppelin did not steal a riff from another song and use it in the introduction of "Stairway to Heaven."

2018: Pantera drummer and co-founder Vinnie Paul dies at 54.