This Day In Music - June 7

 This Day In Music - June 7

1911 - Ragtime performers Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan record Irving Berlin's "Alexander's Ragtime Band," which will hold the top spot for 10 weeks - https://youtu.be/IRLss1W4Zkw .

1917 - Dean Martin is born Dino Paul Crocetti in Steubenville, Ohio. As Martin's solo career grew, he and Frank Sinatra became friends. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Martin and Sinatra, along with friends Joey Bishop, Peter Lawford, and Sammy Davis, Jr. formed the Rat Pack. He retired from public life in early 1995 and died of acute respiratory failure resulting from emphysema at his Beverly Hills home on Christmas Day, 1995, at the age of 78, twenty-nine years to the day, and almost to the minute, after his mother died. The lights of the Las Vegas Strip were dimmed in his honour - https://youtu.be/1ja32uS-bD0 .

1940 - Tom Jones (Thomas John Woodward) born in Treforest, Pontypridd, Glamorgan, Wales . Jones has sold over 100 million records, with 36 Top 40 hits in the and 19 in the , including "It's Not Unusual", "What's New Pussycat?", the theme song for the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball, "Green, Green Grass of Home", "Delilah", "She's a Lady", "Kiss" and "Sex Bomb" - https://youtu.be/j64H2aWWU0E .

1944 - Miguel Rios (Miguel Ríos Campaña) born in Granada, Spain. He moved to Madrid in 1961 at the age of sixteen, where he recorded his first four songs. In popular circles he became known as Mike Ríos, the King of Twist - https://youtu.be/QPvp_OlGIho .

1944 - Country rocker Clarence White (guitarist for The Byrds) is born Clarence Joseph LeBlanc in Lewiston, Maine - https://youtu.be/Swqw5a8I4b4 .

1946 - Man guitarist Micky Jones is born Charles Michael Jones in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.

1955 - Joey Scarbury is born in Ontario, California. Known for the 1981 hit "Believe It or Not," the theme from the popular TV series The Greatest American Hero - https://youtu.be/WqF5M7IK7I0 .

1958 - Prince (Prince Rogers Nelson) is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He's named after his father's jazz combo, the Prince Rogers Trio - https://youtu.be/UG3VcCAlUgE .

1958 - He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands (Laurie London) is #1 this week in - https://youtu.be/cqb3NSiSwoc .

1963 - The Rolling Stones release their first single, a cover of "Come On" by Chuck Berry and make their British TV debut on Thank Your Lucky Stars - https://youtu.be/RFmTv9413tw .

1963 - Jimi Hocking aka "The Human" (The Angels / Screaming Jets) was born in Melbourne, Vic. - https://youtu.be/F5JaDPHbFs4 .

1966 - Eric Kretz (drummer for Stone Temple Pilots) is born in San Jose, California.

1967 - Guitarist Dave Navarro, who does time in Jane's Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers and several other bands, is born in Santa Monica, California.

1967 - Three members of Moby Grape were arrested in SAN Francisco for “contributing to the delinquency of minors” by having schoolgirls in the back seat of their car;

1969 - Get Back / Don’t Let Me Down (The Beatles) is #1 this week in - https://youtu.be/IKJqecxswCA .

1969 - The Who's fourth album, 'Tommy' album entered the chart, peaking at No.2. One of two full-scale rock operas from The Who (the other being the 1973 'Quadrophenia') - https://youtu.be/288cvHTOn_k .

1969 - Blind Faith, a supergroup featuring Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton, play their first show: a free concert at Hyde Park in London.

1970 - The Who performed the rock opera “Tommy” at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York;

1971 - Don McLean records "Vincent." - https://youtu.be/ciLNMesqPh0 .

1971 - Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep (Lilly Stott) is #1 this week in - https://youtu.be/EVnVB7p8kQY

1975 - Elton John’s “Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy” became the first album ever to enter the chart at #1 - https://youtu.be/A-2vN3YJ29k .

1975 - John Denver scores his third #1 hit with "Thank God I'm A Country Boy." - https://youtu.be/GSJaaZgIwtE .

1976 - Fernando (ABBA) is #1 this week in - https://youtu.be/dQsjAbZDx-4 .

1982 - Mickey (Toni Basil) is #1 this week in - https://youtu.be/0aqLwHP4y6Q .

1982 - Elvis Presley's Graceland mansion opens to the public. Visitors get to experience the Jungle Room (green shag carpets!), the Trophy Room, and the Meditation Garden.

1990 - Iggy Azalea (Amethyst Amelia Kelly) born in Sydney, New South Wales. A singer who scored the 2014 No.1 single 'Fancy'.

1993 - Informer (Snow) is #1 this week in - https://youtu.be/TSffz_bl6zo .

1993 - Ground is broken for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland.

1993 - On his 35th birthday, Prince changes his name to an unpronounceable symbol, making him, literally, an icon.

1994 - Stone Temple Pilots release their second album Purple, which goes to #1 in and sells over 6 million copies on the strength of the tracks "Big Empty," "Vasoline" and "Interstate Love Song." - https://youtu.be/yjJL9DGU7Gg .

1998 - Songwriter Wally Gold died in a New Jersey hospital aged 70. Wrote 'It's My Party' hit for Lesley Gore and 'It's Now or Never', hit for Elvis Presley. He was a member of late 50s group The Four Esquires and produced Kansas & Gene Pitney.

1999 - No Scrubs (TLC) is #1 this week in - https://youtu.be/FrLequ6dUdM .

2002 - Virgin Records announced they had dropped Victoria Beckham after her debut solo album, which cost over £3 million ($5.1 million) to make, had sold only 50,000 copies.

2004 - AC/DC's Back in Black album goes Double Diamond, becoming just the sixth album with RIAA-certified sales of over 20 million in . In November, the Shania Twain album Come On Over becomes the seventh. Both albums were produced by Mutt Lange.

2004 - Black Betty (Spiderbait) is #1 this week in - https://youtu.be/nU1VfYYKMDk .

2007 - The funeral of guitarist, singer Bo Diddley took place in Gainesville, Florida.

2012 - Bob Welch, Fleetwood Mac's guitarist from 1971–1974, dies of suicide at age 66. Welch left Fleetwood Mac in 1974; his replacement, Lindsey Buckingham, brought his girlfriend Stevie Nicks into the band, establishing their most successful lineup. Welch launched a successful solo career, with the hits "Sentimental Lady" and "Ebony Eyes.". His death comes months after spinal surgery when he learned that he would never walk again - https://youtu.be/ySfQu9aBOT0 .