This Day In Music - June 27

 This Day In Music - June 27

1885: Chichester Bell and Charles Tainter applied for a patent on their invention known as the graphophone - https://youtu.be/dXSJ8CYnMHA .

1925: Doc Pomus, a blues singer and songwriter who would pen several hits of the rock and roll era, is born Jerome Solon Felder in Brooklyn, New York - https://youtu.be/bacBKKgc4Uo .

1942: Bruce Johnston (of The Beach Boys) is born Benjamin Baldwin in Peoria, Illinois. He is adopted by William and Irene Johnston and grows up in Los Angeles. In 1965, Johnston joined the band for live performances, filling in for the group's co-founder Brian Wilson. He wrote the No.1 Barry Manilow hit 'I Write the Songs and also sang on the recordings for Elton John's 'Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me' and several songs on Pink Floyd's album The Wall. - https://youtu.be/FKxP9PeGUFM .

1947: American guitarist Jim Fuller from The Surfaris born. They had the 1963 No.2 & No.3 single 'Wipe Out'. Fuller was known as the "Godfather" of surf music, a Californian instrumental music and with his Fender guitar contributed to the popularity of Leo Fender's instruments. Fuller died on 3 March 2017 aged 69 - https://youtu.be/-YusHyd-duQ .

1951: Gilson Lavis (drummer for Squeeze) is born in Bedford, England. In the United States and Canada, the band and debut album were dubbed UK Squeeze owing to legal conflicts arising from a contemporary American band called "Tight Squeeze". The "U.K." was dropped for all subsequent releases. In Australia, the same name change was used due to legal conflicts arising from an existing Sydney-based band also called "Squeeze". Albums in Australia were credited to UK Squeeze up to and including 1985's Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti - https://youtu.be/uJ2cEc_TCH8 .

1956: At Master Recorders in Hollywood, Fats Domino records "Blueberry Hill," a song popularized by Gene Autry in 1940. Domino's version, with his famous piano intro, becomes his biggest hit and the definitive version of the song - https://youtu.be/Pm4l43exh2M .

1959: Country singer Lorrie Morgan is born Loretta Lynn Morgan in Nashville, Tennessee.

1959: Personality (Lloyd Price) moves to #1 on the charts - https://youtu.be/Mczw7k4t-Ms .

1960: Connie Francis becomes the first solo female act with a Hot 100 #1 hit when "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" tops the chart - https://youtu.be/8a5imvoRZ7E .

1964: The Rolling Stones appeared on the especially revamped set of “Juke Box Jury”, normally accommodating 4 panellists.

1964: Can’t Buy Me Love (The Beatles) reclaims the #1 spot - https://youtu.be/srwxJUXPHvE .

1964: Jan & Dean's "Little Old Lady From Pasadena" was released - https://youtu.be/D7f9hsFrKUY .

1966: Led by Frank Zappa, the Mothers of Invention release their debut album Freak Out! Critics and music fans alike are baffled by what they hear - https://youtu.be/s0JTNVkhyS8 .

1968: Elvis performed his NBC TV special at Burbank Studios in California , after which the album “ Elvis” became his first top 10 entry for 3 years.

1970: The group Smile change their name to Queen and perform for the first time under that moniker. The gig takes place at Truro City Hall in Cornwall, England; the band earn £50 for their efforts. It is lead singer Fred Bulsara's first paid performance with the band, which also includes guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor. The name change is his idea: "Queen" evokes royalty, and has many possible interpretations. Long after adopting the stage name Freddie Mercury, he says, "I was certainly aware of the gay connotations, but that was just one facet of it." The following year, bass player John Deacon joins the band, establishing the line-up that persists until Mercury's death in 1991 - https://youtu.be/HpVQKI-8-4Y .

1971: New York’s dedicated rock auditorium, the Fillmore East, closed. The Allman Brothers Band, Edgar Winter, Country Joe McDonald and the Fish and The Beach Boys are on the bill for the last show - https://youtu.be/RcO0ShhxLMg .

1976: John Lennon receives his "green card" from the Department of Naturalization.

1976: Leigh Nash (lead vocalist for Sixpence None the Richer) is born in New Braunfels, Texas - https://youtu.be/tMfXeuv4kZE .

1977: Help Is On Its Way (Little River Band) moved to the #1 spot on the chart - https://youtu.be/7tcutmdnFvk .

1980: Three songs into Led Zeppelin's concert in Nuremberg, drummer John Bonham collapses while beating out the rhythm to "Black Dog" and is rushed to the hospital, abruptly ending the show (in September, Bonham dies after a night of drinking) - https://youtu.be/6tlSx0jkuLM .

1987: Whitney Houston became the first female artist to simultaneously enter and top the album chart, whilst also becoming the first female to top the singles chart with 4 consecutive singles.

1988: MCA Records bought Motown Records for $61 million.

1989: The B-52s release Cosmic Thing, their first album following the death of guitarist and band co-founder Ricky Wilson. It features two of their biggest hits with "Roam" and "Love Shack." - https://youtu.be/iNwC0sp-uA4 .

1992: Michael Jackson’s European “Dangerous” tour kicks off in Munich . The tour consisted of 69 concerts to approximately 3.9 million fans across three continents. All profits made from the tour were donated to various charities including the Heal the World Foundation.

1995: Neil Young releases Mirror Ball, an album featuring members of Pearl Jam. His 21st studio album, it features the hit single "Downtown." - https://youtu.be/oo-4viCN_w4 .

1996: Fugees headline the "Hoodshock" festival in Harlem, which the group organized as a free event to encourage voter registration. The Notorious B.I.G., Sean "Puffy" Combs and Wu-Tang Clan also perform, but the event makes headlines for a panic set off at the end of the festival when a man fires gunshots into the air. In the chaos, about 30 people are injured.

1996: The sixth edition of Lollapalooza launches at Longview Lake in Kansas City, Missouri. Defying tradition as a showcase for underground acts, the headliner is Metallica, with Soundgarden also on the bill. The tour lasts one more year before going on a 6-year hiatus - https://youtu.be/vENpbe3if00 .

1998: After spending 30 weeks on the UK album chart The Corrs went to No.1 with 'Talk On Corners'. It went on to be the best selling album of 1998 spending 142 weeks on the chart - https://youtu.be/8BglEyv5O2Y .

2000: A San Francisco appeals court ruled that the Rolling Stones improperly borrowed "Love in Vain and "Stop Breakin' Down" from Robert Johnson. The Stones' former record label had wrongly assumed that the songs were public domain.

2002: One day before the scheduled first show of The Who's 2002 US tour, bass player John Entwistle, died aged 57 in his hotel room at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Entwistle had gone to bed that night with a stripper, who woke at 10am to find Entwistle cold and unresponsive. The Las Vegas medical examiner determined that death was due to a heart attack induced by an undetermined amount of cocaine.

2005: We Belong Together (Mariah Carey) enters the singles chart at #1 - https://youtu.be/0habxsuXW4g .

2008: Kings of Leon, The Fratellis, Editors, The Gossip, The Feeling, KT Tunstall, Kate Nash, Jay Z, Amy Winehouse, The Raconteurs, James Blunt, Crowded House, Seasick Steve, Martha Wainwright, The Verve, Leonard Cohen, The Ting Tings, Goldfrapp, Neil Diamond, Pete Doherty, Scouting for Girls, Mark Ronson, Duffy, The Zutons, Groove Armada and John Mayer all appeared at this years 3 day Glastonbury Festival - https://youtu.be/ttEMYvpoR-k .

2009: Soul singer Fayette Pinkney (of The Three Degrees) dies at age 61 of acute respiratory failure after a sudden illness - https://youtu.be/sGqaXU1mvWE .

2012: Geoff Ratz of The Pink Finks, a Melbourne based Pop/Rock band from 1964 - 1967 died. Check them out, especially the line-up... https://youtu.be/5LDOCqY_CKA .

2014: R&B/soul singer Bobby Womack dies of cancer at age 70 - https://youtu.be/IKH52rUZj9E .

2015: Chris Squire, the bass guitarist and co-founder of 1970s British progressive rock band Yes, died at the age of 67 after battling leukemia. He was the only member to appear on each of their 21 studio albums, released from 1969 to 2014.

2016: Mack Rice, the composer who wrote 'Mustang Sally' died in Detroit at the age of 82. Rice originally recorded 'Mustang Sally' himself in 1965, but the song was not initially a hit. It became a chart success two years later, after Rice's former Falcons bandmate Wilson Pickett asked if he could record it - https://youtu.be/w6iSeCTiU88 .

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