This Day In Music - June 5

 This Day In Music June 5

1925 - Singer/actor Bill Hayes is born in Harvey, Illinois. Known for his long-running role as Doug Williams on Days of Our Lives and his chart-topping rendition of "The Ballad of Davy Crockett." - https://youtu.be/W1KYpizprfI .

1932 - Pete Jolly is born in New Haven, Connecticut. The jazz pianist and accordionist is known for his work in film and television, including The Love Boat, M*A*S*H, and Dallas.

1937 - R&B singer Floyd Butler (of The Friends Of Distinction) is born in California; some references suggest his birth year is 1941, however the majority say 1937- https://youtu.be/WqjWWH0mQBQ.

1945 - Don Reid (Statler Brothers) born in Staunton, Virginia, United States - https://youtu.be/H027APFs8vc .

1946 - Freddy Stone (Fred Stewart - Sly And The Family Stone) born in Vallejo, California, U.S. - https://youtu.be/YUUhDoCx8zc .

1947 - Tom Evans (Badfinger) born in Liverpool, England - https://youtu.be/dzUqkBAv-T4 .

1950 - Ronnie Dyson born in Washington, D.C., USA. At just 18 years of age, he won a lead role in the Broadway production of Hair, debuting in New York in 1968.

1950 - Laurie Anderson (Laura Phillips Anderson) born in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, U.S.A.. Anderson is a pioneer in electronic music and has invented several devices that she has used in her recordings and performance art shows. n 1977, she created a tape-bow violin that uses recorded magnetic tape on the bow instead of horsehair and a magnetic tape head in the bridge. In the late 1990s, she collaborated with Interval Research to develop an instrument she called a "talking stick", a six-foot (1.8 m) long baton-like MIDI controller that can access and replicate sounds. Anderson met singer-songwriter Lou Reed in 1992, and she was married to him from April 2008 until his death in 2013 - https://youtu.be/Vkfpi2H8tOE .

1952 - Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain is born Michael Henry McBrain outside of London, England.

1956 - Richard Butler (Psychadelic Furs) born in Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom - https://youtu.be/LGD9i718kBU .

1956 - Gene Vincent's "Be-Bop-A-Lula" was released - https://youtu.be/vDU9FP5_B2M .

1956 - Elvis Presley appears on The Milton Berle Show where the pair do a comedy bit performing Elvis' "Hound Dog" and "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You." It marks the first TV appearance of The Jordanaires backing up Elvis, and the last Milton Berle show for 10 years - https://youtu.be/IZSr30yQ8Ts .

1956 - Kenny G is born Kenneth Gorelick in Seattle, Washington - https://youtu.be/QN2RnjFHmNY .

1957 - Bill Justis records the instrumental hit "Raunchy." - https://youtu.be/FQOko-IH46o .

1958 - The first-ever greatest hits compilation, Johnny Mathis' Johnny's Greatest Hits goes #1 in America. It stays on the chart for nine years - https://youtu.be/l6bs77UIQpk .

1959 - Robert Zimmerman graduates from Hibbing High School in Minnesota. He moves on to the University of Minnesota, but soon leaves for New York City to become the full-time folk singer, Bob Dylan.

1960 - Brenda Lee's "I'm Sorry" enters the charts - https://youtu.be/r-TkjEdB1kE .

1961 - Roy Orbison's "Running Scared" hits #1 - https://youtu.be/E7M-g1fW9XM .

1964 - David Jones and The King Bees had their first record, "Liza Jane", released. David Jones later became known as David Bowie - https://youtu.be/KNNfqh-iJXs .

1965 - Mrs Brown You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter (Herman’s Hermits) is #1 this week in - https://youtu.be/LyIlFsQgRvY .

1965 - Joan Baez and Donovan performed at a rally in London’s Trafalgar Square organised by the Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament.

1968 - Senator Robert Kennedy is shot three times while exiting through a kitchen at a hotel where he delivered a speech after winning the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. This event prompts David Crosby to write "Long Time Gone" and The Rolling Stones to insert the lyrics, "Who killed the Kennedys?" to their new song "Sympathy For The Devil."

1969 - The Doors documentary "Feast of Friends" premiered at the Cinematheque in Los Angeles.

1971 - Paul McCartney's second solo album 'Ram' started a two-week run at No.1 on the UK chart. Featuring the US No.1 single 'Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey' - https://youtu.be/8Y8fDsU0hX8 .

1971 - James Taylor's "You've Got A Friend" was released - https://youtu.be/xEkIou3WFnM .

1971 - As the album “Survival” broke into the top 10 at #6, Grand Funk Railroad sold out Shea Stadium in 72 hours, even faster than The Beatles at the height of their fame - https://youtu.be/A_t59To7Snk .

1971 - Mark "Marky Mark" Wahlberg is born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, where he's the youngest of nine children, including older brother Donnie (future member of New Kids on the Block).

1972 - Amazing Grace (Royal Scots Dragoon Guards) is #1 this week in - https://youtu.be/69QlcKGRDHo .

1972 - Maureen McGovern quit her job as a full-time secretary for a new career as a full time singer - https://youtu.be/KEhCuJDAotk .

1974 - Patti Smith recorded her first song. It was her version of "Hey Joe." - https://youtu.be/Qqai2cm07eE .

1975 - Syd Barrett, ex-Pink Floyd member and founder who was forced from the band after becoming an acid casualty, quietly appears in the Abbey Road studios during recording of the band's album Wish You Were Here, which was largely written about him. No one notices Barrett, and he soon leaves as quietly as he entered and none of the band members ever saw him again - https://youtu.be/IXdNnw99-Ic .

1976 - Cat Stevens performs under that name for the last time, wrapping up his Majikat tour with a show in Thessaloniki, Greece. The next year, he embraces the Islamic faith and changes his name to Yusuf Islam.

1977 - Alice Cooper’s pet boa constrictor died, after being bitten by a rat it was about to devour and Alice held a public audition to find a “suitable” replacement, choosing one named Angel.

1978 - Wuthering Heights (Kate Bush) is #1 this week in - https://youtu.be/Fk-4lXLM34g .

1979 - Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy is born in Wilmette, Illinois.

1979 - Muddy Waters, 64, marries his third wife, 25-year-old Marva Jean Brooks, in Chicago with Eric Clapton as best man - https://youtu.be/bSfqNEvykv0 .

1983 - U2 play the Red Rocks amphitheatre in Colorado. Despite rain, the concert is intimate and energetic; it is later released as a concert film called Under a Blood Red Sky.

1989 - Now You’re In Heaven (Julian Lennon) is #1 this week in - https://youtu.be/gmAUwupvcgg .

1995 - Mouth (Merril Bainbridge) is #1 this week in - https://youtu.be/5AlklK5q0wQ .

1996 - An arrest warrant was issued for former Milli Vanilli member Rob Pilatus after he disappeared from a drug treatment centre in Los Angeles. He turned up 6 days later at another centre.

2000 - Oops I Did It Again (Britney Spears) is #1 this week in .

2002 - Eleven weeks after being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Dee Dee Ramone, a founding member of the Ramones, dies of a heroin overdose at age 50.

2003 - The Metallica album "St. Anger" was released.

2006 - Crazy (Gnarls Barkly) is #1 this week in - https://youtu.be/-N4jf6rtyuw .

2012 - Herb Reed (founding member of The Platters) dies of heart disease, among other ailments, at age 83 in Boston, Massachusetts - https://youtu.be/H2di83WAOhU .

2013 - Doo-wop singer Marshall Sewell (of The Edsels) dies of oesophageal cancer at age 75 - https://youtu.be/KStsPPgeka4 .