This Day In Music - May 19

 This Day In Music: May 19:

1945 - Pete Townsend (Peter Dennis Blandford Townsend) (The Who) born in Chiswick, United Kingdom.

1947 - Steve Currie (bass player for T. Rex) is born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England.

1947 - Greg Herbert (Gregory Delano Herbert) born in Philadelphia (Blood, Sweat and Tears).

1947 - Jerry Hyman (Blood, Sweat and Tears) born in Brooklyn, New York.

1948 - Grace Jones is born in Spanish Town, Jamaica.

1949 - Dusty Hill (bassist, keyboardist, co-vocalist of ZZ Top) is born Joseph Michael Hill in Dallas, Texas.

1951 - Jeffrey Ross Hyman is born in Queens, New York. He forms the Ramones and takes the stage name Joey Ramone. At first, he's the drummer, but he becomes the lead singer when Dee Dee struggles to sing and play bass at the same time.

1954 - Phil Rudd (Buster Brown, AC/DC) was born in Melbourne Vic. Rudd was ousted from AC/DC when he was sentenced to eight months of home detention by a New Zealand court in 2015 after pleading guilty to charges of threatening to kill and drug possession.

1956 - Martyn Ware (Human League, Heaven 17) born in Sheffield UK.

1957 - James Reyne (The Party Boys, Australian Crawl) was born in Lagos, Nigeria.

1958 - Ritchie Valens records "Come On, Let's Go," "Peggy Lee," and "Fever."

1960 - Annette Funicello performs at Radio City Music Hall in New York, missing her high school graduation.

1960 - The Drifters record "Save the Last Dance for Me." https://youtu.be/n-XQ26KePUQ .

1960 - Yazz (Yasmin Evans) born in shepherd's Bush, London.

1961 - The Everly Brothers form their Calliope Records label (its first release is Don performing "Pomp And Circumstance" as "Adrian Kimberly").

1962 - Less than three months before her death, Marilyn Monroe makes one of her last public appearances at President John F. Kennedy's 45th birthday celebration, where she famously sings "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" in his honour - https://youtu.be/OaP5MN9DthM .

1962 - Iain Harvie (guitarist for Del Amitri) is born in Glasgow, Scotland.

1962 - Mick Jagger is mentioned in print for the first time when the British music magazine Disc prints this item: "A 19-year-old Dartford rhythm-and-blues singer, Mick Jagger, has joined Alexis Korner's group, Blues Inc., and will sing with them regularly on their Saturday night dates at Ealing and Thursday session at the Marquee Jazz Club, London. Jagger, at present completing a course at the London School of Economics, also plays harmonica."

1972 - Jenny Berggren (lead singer of Ace of Base) is born Jenny Cecilia Petrén in Gothenburg, Sweden.

1972 - Elton John releases Honky Chateau, which includes "Rocket Man." It becomes his first #1 album in America, igniting a run of six consecutive chart toppers.

1973 - Stevie Wonder hits #1 in America with "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life," a song inspired by his wife (and sometimes co-writer) Syreeta Wright.

1978 - See My Baby Jive (Wizzard) started a 4 week stint at #1 on chart.

1979 - Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison performed together for the first time since the break-up of the band at the wedding reception of Eric Clapton and Harrison’s ex-wife, Patti (Boyd). Clapton and Mick Jagger joined them on stage. The reception took place two months after the marriage ceremony.

1984 - Bob Marley topped album chart for the first time with Legend, an album released to coincide with the third anniversary of his death from cancer.

1984 - The song "Thriller" falls off the Hot 100, ending a run of hits from the Thriller album that started on November 6, 1982, when "The Girl Is Mine" entered the tally. In that stretch, only two weeks went by without a Thriller song on the chart.

1984 - Irish trio The Bachelors, who had scored 8 top 10 hits in the 60’s called it a day.

1990 - Five weeks after debuting at #39 on the Hot 100 chart, Madonna's "Vogue" moves into the #1 spot.

1992 - Billy Ray Cyrus releases his debut album, Some Gave All, featuring his signature song "Achy Breaky Heart.".

2000 - Folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary celebrate their 40th year together with a US tour that kicks off with a three-night stand in Las Vegas.

2006 - Freddie Garrity (frontman of Freddie & the Dreamers) dies at age 69 while on holiday in North Wales.