1941 Chad Stuart of Chad & Jeremy is born David Stuart Chadwick in Windermere, Cumbria, England.
1941 R&B singer Ralph Tavares is born, the eldest of his singing brothers that form Tavares.
1930 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra record "Mood Indigo."
1927 The Nashville radio show "WSM Barn Dance" becomes "The Grand Ole Opry."
1926 Guitar Slim is born Eddie Jones in Greenwood, Mississippi.
1924 Pop singer Ken Albers (The Four Freshmen) is born in Woodbury, New Jersey.
1914 Dorothy Lamour, actress and big band singer, is born Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton in New Orleans, Louisiana. Starred with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in their series of Road To... movies.
1906 Lyricist Harold Adamson is born in Greenville, New Jersey. He would write the lyrics for the iconic theme to I Love Lucy. Though it was kept as an instrumental, Desi Arnaz sings the lyrics in the episode "Lucy's Last Birthday."
1822 Composer Cesar Franck is born Cesar-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck in Liege (now in Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of Netherlands).
Led 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.
Read more2016 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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