24 JANUARY
In Music History
1934 R&B/gospel singer Ann Cole is born Cynthia Coleman in Newark, New Jersey.
1933 Zeke Carey (of The Flamingos) is born in Chicago, Illinois.
1829 Composer William Mason, who becomes the first American piano student of Franz Liszt and Ignaz Moscheles, is born in Boston, Massachusetts.
Aretha Franklin Gets The Muscle Shoals Sound And Her First Hit
1967Aretha Franklin records her first Top 10 pop hit, "(I Never Loved A Man) The Way That I Love You," at a tumultuous session at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama where her husband gets into an altercation with one of the musicians.
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2018 Elton John announces his retirement from touring, ending with a five-year Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour.More
2005 The second Britney Spears album, Oops!... I Did It Again, is certified Diamond for sales of over 10 million in America, making her the only female artist to reach this milestone with her first two albums.
1998 The Titanic soundtrack goes to #1 in America, replacing Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love. Both albums contain the hit song from the movie, "My Heart Will Go On."
1982 The Super Bowl is held in Pontiac, Michigan, so the halftime show is a salute to Motown. Diana Ross sings the national anthem.
1962 "The Twist" craze peaks, with a re-released version of Chubby Checker's song at #1 for the last time.
1961 Bob Dylan arrives in New York after dropping out of the University of Minnesota. He immediately gets to work, playing a show at the club Cafe Wha? in Greenwich Village.
1947 Warren Zevon is born in Chicago, Illinois. He tours as a keyboardist with The Everly Brothers in the '70s while attempting to kickstart a solo career. He gets a boost when Linda Ronstadt begins recording several of his tunes.
1941 Neil Diamond (yep, that's his real name) is born in Brooklyn, New York.
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