This Day In Music - May 15
What a day! From the archives:
1918 - Country singer Eddy Arnold is born on a farm near Hendersonville, Tennessee.
1937 - Pop singer and guitarist Trini Lopez, known for the '60s hits "If I Had A Hammer" and "Lemon Tree," is born in Dallas, Texas.
1942 - Country singer-songwriter K.T. Oslin, known for '80s hits like "Hold Me" and "80s Ladies," is born Kay Toinette Oslin in Crossett, Arkansas.
1944 - Tich (Ian Amey of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich) born.
1945 - The first album chart - albums meaning a collection of 78 RPM singles - was introduced in the USA.
1947 - Graeham Goble (Drummond, Mississippi, Little River Band) was born in Adelaide.
1948 - Gary Thain (bassist for Uriah Heep) is born in Christchurch, New Zealand.
1948 - Brian Eno (Brian Peter George St. John Le Baptiste de la Salle Eno) born in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England.
1949 - Herman Kovac (Velvet Underground, Ted Mulry Gang) was born in Graz, Austria.
1951 - Dennis Fredericksen (Toto) born in Grand Rapids, Michigan .
1953 - Mike Oldfield born in Reading, Berkshire, England - https://youtu.be/ZHhJINr2vI4 .
1957 - Elvis Presley inhales the cap from one of his teeth and is taken to a Los Angeles hospital to have it removed from his lung.
1959 - A Fool Such As I / I Need Your Love Tonight (Elvis Presley) started a 5 week run at #1 on the UK chart.
1963 - Tony Bennett's "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" wins a Grammy for Record of the Year, while Vaughn Meader's The First Family wins a Grammy for Album of the Year.
1963 - The Hollies began recording their first sessions for their first album. "Stay with The Hollies" was released in January 1964.
1965 - Burt Bacharach marries his second wife, Angie Dickinson. The composer and the actress stay together for 15 years and share a daughter, Nikki.
1967 - Paul McCartney first meets Linda Eastman at a Georgie Fame concert in London. They get married two years later, a union that lasts until her death in 1998.
1971 - Two films made by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, "Apotheosis" and "Fly" were shown at the Cannes Film Festival.
1971 - Pink Floyd, Mountain and the Faces perform the "Garden Party" concert at Crystal Palace Park in London. A small pond in front of the stage becomes an aquatic graveyard when hundreds of fish die during Pink Floyd's performance. What killed the fish? Reports vary, but it is either vibrations from the band's estimated 95-decibal sound system or smoke flares set off in the water. The band receives a bill for the dead fish.
1975 - Fleetwood Mac play their first concert with new members Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks at a show in El Paso, Texas.
1976 - The Rolling Stones album Black and Blue goes to #1 in America - https://youtu.be/gVpzrxjiAtc
1982 - A Little Peace (Nicole) started a 2 week run at #1 on the UK chart. It was the 500th #1 on the chart, from the German winner of the Eurovision Song Contest. The stigma of non-British Eurovision winners remained as her follow up "Give Me More Time" charted for a single week at #75.
1983 - Spandau Ballet enjoyed their only week at the top of the British LP chart with "True".
1985 - Prince released the single "Raspberry Beret."
1986 - Run-DMC release their Raising Hell album, featuring the ground-breaking rap reworking of "Walk This Way."
1992 - '60s singer Barbara Lee (of The Chiffons) dies of a heart attack the day before her 45th birthday.
2003 - June Carter Cash dies after undergoing heart-valve replacement surgery at age 73.
2014 - Rapper Evan Plunkett, who performed as Hollywood Will, is shot dead at a Las Vegas casino.
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