10 DECEMBER
In Music History
1967 The previously unknown San Francisco group The Steve Miller Blues Band signs to Capitol for an unprecedented $750,000, dropping "Blues" from their name in the process.
1967 Drummer Carl Cunningham dies in a Wisconsin plane crash along with three of his Bar-Kays bandmates and Otis Redding. He was 18 years old.
1967 Along with three of his Bar-Kays bandmates, 18-year-old guitarist Jimmie King dies in a Wisconsin plane crash that also takes the life of Otis Redding.
1967 Bar-Kays saxophonist Phalon Jones, age 19, dies in a Wisconsin plane crash along with three of his bandmates and Otis Redding.
1966 Timothy Christian Riley (drummer, keyboardist for Tony! Toni! Tone!) is born.
1966 The Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" hits #1.
1965 The Grateful Dead perform their first concert in San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium (and only their second overall).
1963 Five-year-old Donny Osmond performs with The Osmonds for the first time when they appear on The Andy Williams Show.
1959 The Platters' four male members are acquitted of charges made on August 10th in Cincinnati, Ohio, of "aiding and abetting prostitution, lewdness and assignation."
1952 Susan Dey (of The Partridge Family) is born in Pekin, Illinois. She has no previous acting experience when she lands her first TV role as Laurie Partridge in 1970.
1951 Country singer Johnny Rodriguez is born Juan Raul Davis Rodriguez in Sabinal, Texas. Among other hits, reached #5 on the country charts with a cover of the Eagles' "Desperado."
1949 At J&M Studio in New Orleans, Fats Domino records his first single, "Detroit City Blues," backed with "The Fat Man." The B-side becomes the hit, the first of many for Domino.
1948 Jessica Cleaves (lead singer for Friends of Distinction) is born in Los Angeles, California.
1946 Ace Kefford (bass guitarist for The Move) is born Christopher John Kefford in Moseley, Birmingham, England.
1941 Kyu Sakamoto is born Hisashi Oshima in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.
Led Zeppelin Reunite For One Show Only
2007Led Zeppelin play a one-off show at the O2 Arena in London, the biggest reunion in rock history. John Bonham's son, Jason, plays drums at the show, which is hailed by critics and fans as triumphant.
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2016 Bob Dylan accepts the Nobel Prize in Literature. He doesn't attend the ceremony, but sends an insightful speech that is read by the US ambassador to Sweden.More
2015 The TV movie Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors airs on NBC.More
2005 After five years of dating, country singers Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood tie the knot in a private ceremony at their home in Owasso, Oklahoma. The marriage is Brooks' second and Yearwood's third.
1974 The Rankin/Bass animated holiday special The Year Without A Santa Claus airs on ABC.More
1967 Otis Redding dies at age 26 when his personal Beechcraft plane crashes into Lake Monona near Madison, Wisconsin. Members of his road band The Bar-Kays also die in the crash; the only survivor is the band's trumpet player Ben Cauley. One month later, "Dock of the Bay" is released, becoming the first #1 song issued after the artist's death.
1953 The first issue of Playboy magazine is published (Marilyn Monroe is on the cover). Over the next two decades, "playboy" shows up in several hit songs:
"Playboy" by Marvelettes (1962)
"He's Just A Playboy" by The Drifters (1964)
"Playboy" by Gene & Debbe (1968)
"International Playboy" by Wilson Pickett (1973)More
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