19 AUGUST
In Music History
1976 Multi-instrumentalist and Arcade Fire co-founder Régine Alexandra Chassagne is born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
1972 Chicago's LP Chicago V hits #1.
1969 Cleanup begins at Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, New York, where the Woodstock festival has finished up. Bulldozers are used to wrangle the trash into a pit, where it is burned.
1967 Ringo Starr and his wife, the former Maureen Cox, welcome their second son, Jason.
1967 The Beatles' "All You Need Is Love" hits #1, where it stays for one week.
1966 Country singer Lee Ann Womack is born in Jacksonville, Texas.
1957 Debbie Reynolds' "Tammy" hits #1 for the first of five weeks.
1951 John Deacon (bassist for Queen) is born in Oadby, Leicester, England.
1948 Country/pop singer Susan Jacks (of The Poppy Family) is born Susan Pesklevits in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
1948 Elliot Lurie (lead guitarist, vocalist for Looking Glass) is born in Brooklyn, New York.
1947 George Newsome (original drummer for The Climax Blues Band) is born in Stafford, Staffordshire, England.
1945 Deep Purple lead singer Ian Gillan is born in Chiswick, London, England.
1943 Edwin Hawkins, who with his choir records "Oh Happy Day," the first traditional gospel song to cross to the pop charts, is born in Oakland, California.
1943 Pop singer Don Fardon (of The Sorrows) is born Donald Maughn in Coventry, Warwickshire, England.
1943 Rock 'n roller Billy J. Kramer (of Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas) is born William Howard Ashton in Bootle, Lancashire, England.
Rap Single Certified Gold For The First Time
1980"The Breaks" by Kurtis Blow becomes the first rap single certified Gold.
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2003 MTV debuts the reality series Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica, following the recent marriage of Jessica Simpson and 98 Degrees' Nick Lachey. The show is a hit thanks to Jessica's "dumb blonde" antics and lasts three seasons, after which the couple promptly divorce.
1973 They aren't quite the Sonny and Cher power couple, but Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge get married. They divorce in 1980.
1972 The Midnight Special debuts on NBC. At first just a one-off special presentation, the next year it is launched as a regular show, with Wolfman Jack serving as announcer. The first performance is "Slippin' Into Darkness" by War.
1969 Crosby, Stills and Nash appear on the Dick Cavett Show, giving a first-hand account of the Woodstock festival that took place over the weekend. Joni Mitchell, who skipped the festival to make sure she could keep her appearance on the show, performs a song she wrote about it called "Woodstock."
1957 In a "Special Music Report," Newsweek puts Pat Boone on the cover with the tagline, "His Refreshing Song Fills The Air."More
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