This Day In Music - June 23

 Today In Music - 23 June

TBA - Brenton Dehn of Dee Minor and The Dischords and, since 2013, The Radiators was born.

1929: June Carter Cash (of The Carter Family) is born Valerie June Carter in Maces Spring, Virginia, to Maybelle and Ezra Carter - https://youtu.be/AVzooGQNaO8 .

1937: Niki Sullivan (original guitarist for Buddy Holly's Crickets) is born in South Gate, California - https://youtu.be/sn8QJj-7ljY .

1940: British teen idol Adam Faith is born Terence Nelhams-Wright in Acton, London, England. Known for chart-toppers "What Do You Want" (1959) and "Poor Me" (1960) - https://youtu.be/q43cTvoXa6M .

1940: The Beatles original bass player Stu Sutcliffe is born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He leaves the group before they hit it big so he can pursue painting - https://youtu.be/WARyYtwSoWM .

1940: Diana Roselyn Trask was born on the 23rd of June 1940 in Camberwell, Victoria . In the early 1960s she was a regular pop music performer on United States TV shows. From 1968 to 1981 she was a country music singer in the US and in Australia. In the , she had eighteen singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, where her top 20 hits are "Say When" and "It's a Man's World (If You Have a Man Like Mine)" (both 1973), "When I Get My Hands on You" and "Lean It All on Me" (both 1974) - https://youtu.be/sGASyx_FMts .

1941: Robert Hunter (Grateful Dead lyricist) is born Robert Burns in Oceano, California - https://youtu.be/d160GSGtPxY .

1944: Rosetta Hightower (lead singer of The Orlons) is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1945: Paul Goddard of Atlanta Rhythm Section born. ARS is an American Southern rock band, formed in 1971 by Rodney Justo (singer), Barry Bailey (guitar), Paul Goddard (bass), Dean Daughtry (keyboards), Robert Nix (drums) and James B. Cobb, Jr. (guitar), originating in Doraville, Georgia, - https://youtu.be/lPkEpfwJX_Q.

1952: Betty Dragstra (Pussycat) born. Pussycat was a Dutch country and pop group led by the three Kowalczyk sisters: Toni, Betty and Marianne. Their song "Mississippi" was a #1 hit in most European countries and - https://youtu.be/NFoRRcRsZwU .

1956: The Rock And Roll Waltz (Kay Starr) remained #1 in this week - https://youtu.be/pJcJIK5olDo .

1957: Lee John, from English three piece band Imagination, who had the 1982 No.2 single 'Just An Illusion' was born - https://youtu.be/F73ZcPH0MF8 .

1960: 20-year-old Paul Anka opens at New York's Copacabana nightclub, the youngest act ever to do so at the time - https://youtu.be/xIwWGBYVvwU .

1960: Eddie Cochran was at No.1 in the with the single 'Three Steps To Heaven'. The American singer had been killed three months earlier in a car crash while touring the UK - https://youtu.be/j2RPl5RQam8 .

1961: Ewan Sommerville was born. Based in Wollongong , he was a founding member of Whose Muddy Shoes, and played for some years with Johnny Green's Blues Cowboys.

1962: Richard Coles from British pop duo The Communards who had the 1986 No.1 single with a cover version of the Thelma Houston hit 'Don't Leave Me This Way' - https://youtu.be/F7lb-ILZ-j4 .

1962: I Can’t Stop Loving You (Ray Charles) becomes the #1 song in - https://youtu.be/w-YqaTDDCDM .

1965: The Miracles released "Tracks Of My Tears."- https://youtu.be/q_MRhDh61sg .

1967: The Beatles record "All You Need Is Love." - https://youtu.be/_7xMfIp-irg .

1967: Aretha Franklin records "Chain Of Fools." - https://youtu.be/o0s5CP2kXsc .

1972: Smokey Robinson appears onstage for the last time with his group The Miracles in Washington, DC.

1973: George Harrison's album Living In The Material World hits #1 in - https://youtu.be/LYW9cjcO_SY .

1973: 10cc were at No.1 on the singles chart with 'Rubber Bullets', the first of three UK No.1's for the band, (who also had a No.1 as Hotlegs) - https://youtu.be/_mem_nhhUEU .

1975: January (Pilot) remains the #1 song in this week.

1975: Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall born. She had the 2005, No.3 album, Eye To The Telescope. Her hit 'Suddenly I See' won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song in 2006 - https://youtu.be/41OnUgvcc5Q .

1975: At a stop in Vancouver on his Welcome To My Nightmare tour, Alice Cooper falls from the stage and breaks six ribs.

1977: Jason Mraz is born in Mechanicsville, Virginia - https://youtu.be/7gO-jFLIgdk .

1979: Supertramp's LP Breakfast In America hits #1 - https://youtu.be/KbdN8ug7aXQ .

1979: The Charlie Daniels Band release "The Devil Went Down To Georgia." Daniels plays the fiddle parts for both Johnny and the Devil; he says the Devil part is "just a bunch of noise." - https://youtu.be/sh7BZf7D5Bw .

1980: Turning Japanese (The Vapors) becomes the #1 song in this week - https://youtu.be/IWWwM2wwMww .

1980: The Rolling Stones release Emotional Rescue - https://youtu.be/9iw_BE_X9sA .

1984: Duran Duran's "The Reflex" hits #1 in - https://youtu.be/Eotbo-DsPTo .

1986: Addicted To Love (Robert Palmer) becomes the #1 song in this week - https://youtu.be/XcATvu5f9vE .

1989: George Michael received the Silver Clef award for outstanding achievements relating to British music.

1997: MMMBop (Hanson) remained the #1 song in this week.

2003: Innocent Eyes (Delta Goodrem) became the #1 song in this week - https://youtu.be/78HyG5IsKYs .

2016: John Mower of Mississippi (b. 10 March 1941 in London, UK) died aged 75. The band started as Allison Gros in Adelaide in 1970 and moved to Melbourne in 1971 where they recorded as Allison Gros, Drummond and, early in 1972, became Mississippi. As Drummond they issued a cover version of "Daddy Cool" (July 1971), which peaked at No. 1 on the Go-Set National Top 40 for eight weeks. As Mississippi they reached No. 10 with "Kings of the World" (October 1972). In early 1975, with Birtles, Goble and Pellici aboard and the addition of Glenn Shorrock, the group were renamed, Little River Band - https://youtu.be/G3SMVmlePm0 .

2019: American musician Dave Bartholomew died of heart failure age 100. Many musicians recorded Bartholomew's songs, but his partnership with Fats Domino produced some of his greatest successes.