Pick a Day

28 JANUARY

In Music History

1966 Brian Poole announces his departure from The Tremeloes.

1965 The Who make their UK TV debut when they appear on the show Ready Steady Go! to promote their single "I Can't Explain."

1959 Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin perform together in Vegas for the first time, joining forces at the Sands hotel. They become regular performers at the venue, often joined by fellow "rat pack" members Sammy Davis, Jr., Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford.

1956 Elvis Presley makes his TV debut on the Dorsey Brothers Stage Show, where he sings "Blue Suede Shoes" and "Heartbreak Hotel."

1955 The "Top 10 R&B Show" package tour kicks off its 42-date, 60-day national excursion in New York City, featuring The Clovers, Faye Adams, The Charms, Joe Turner, The Moonglows, Lowell Fulson, and The Bill Doggett Trio.

1955 Twelve-year-old Aretha Franklin gives birth to her first child, a son named Clarence.

1953 Derek Bentley is hanged for the murder of Police Constable Sidney Miles, who on November 2, 1952, was shot dead on a Croydon rooftop by 16-year-old Christopher Craig. Christopher Craig, too young to be executed, was paroled in 1963. The murder and trial later become the topic of the Ewan MacColl song "Ballad Of Derek Bentley."

1946 Rick Allen (keyboardist for The Box Tops, The Gentrys) is born in Little Rock, Arkansas.

1943 Brian Keenan (drummer for Manfred Mann, The Chambers Brothers) is born in New York.

1943 Dick Taylor (lead guitarist for The Pretty Things) is born in Dartford, Kent, England.

1936 Country singer Bill Phillips, known for the 1966 hit "Put It Off Until Tomorrow," is born in Canton, North Carolina.

1929 Clarinettist/vocalist Acker Bilk is born Bernard Stanley Bilk in Pensford, Somerset, England.

1927 Jazz tenor saxophonist Ronnie Scott is born Ronald Schatt in Aldgate, England.

1927 Jean Goldkette and His Dancing Orchestra records "I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover."

1923 Ivo Robic is born in Garešnica, Croatia.