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1958 Mary Chapin Carpenter is born in Princeton, New Jersey.
1952 A 17-year-old Jerry Lee Lewis marries his first wife, preacher's daughter Dorothy Barton, in what is rumored to be a shotgun wedding.
1951 Vince Welnick (keyboardist for The Tubes, Grateful Dead) is born in Phoenix, Arizona.
1949 Jerry Harrison (keyboardist, guitarist for Talking Heads) is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1948 Paul Newton (bassist for Uriah Heep) is born in Andover, Hampshire, England.
1943 Record executive David Geffen, founder of Geffen Records and the film company DreamWorks, is born in Borough Park, Brooklyn.
1941 Bob Day (of the "Are You Sure?" singers The Allisons) is born in England.
1938 Bobby Charles, composer of the Bill Haley hit "See You Later Alligator," is born in Abbeville, Louisiana.
1891 Circus music composer Karl Lawrence King is born in Ohio.
Johnny Cash Leaves Hospital, Goes To Grammys
2001Johnny Cash gets out of the hospital, where he is treated for pneumonia, and makes it to the Grammy Awards that night, where he wins for Best Male Vocal Country Performance for "Solitary Man" - his 10th Grammy.
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1995 Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band perform live together for the first time in seven years, playing the new song "Murder Incorporated" at a club in New York City.
1987 Twenty-six years after becoming a hit in America, Ben E. King's "Stand By Me" goes to #1 in the UK following its release in the movie of the same name.
1984 Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones meets 13-year-old Mandy Smith at the Lyceum in London. They get married five years later, when he is 52 and she is 18.
1981 REO Speedwagon's ninth album, Hi Infidelity, goes to #1 in America, displacing John Lennon's Double Fantasy.More
1977 At a concert stop at the Nassau Coliseum, every member of Kiss has some blood drawn. It's not for the Red Cross: the blood will be mixed with ink used to print the first Kiss comic book, which appears in June. The process from bloodletting to print is notarized for authenticity.
1970 The Jackson 5 perform their #1 hit "I Want You Back" and their new single, "ABC," on American Bandstand. It's their first appearance on the show; frontman Michael tells host Dick Clark he likes the weather in Los Angeles (it's much warmer than their hometown of Gary, Indiana) and digs The Beatles.
1933 Nina Simone is born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina, where she begins playing the piano at age 3.
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