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In Music History
1962 Steve Shelley (drummer for Sonic Youth) is born in Midland, Michigan.
1960 20-year-old Paul Anka opens at New York's Copacabana nightclub, the youngest act ever to do so at the time.
1960 Dean Martin and Judy Holliday sing "Just In Time" in the romantic comedy Bells Are Ringing, an adaptation of the hit Broadway musical.
1959 Eddie Cochran records "Somethin' Else."
1951 Nat King Cole's "Too Young" hits #1.
1950 Gary and Bing Crosby record "Play A Simple Melody," 36 years after its debut in the Irving Berlin musical Watch Your Step.
1944 Rosetta Hightower (lead singer of The Orlons) is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1941 Lyricist Robert Hunter, best known for his work with the Grateful Dead, is born Robert Burns in Oceano, California.
1940 Disco-funk saxophonist Jimmy Castor, known for the 1972 hit "Troglodyte (Cave Man)," is born in Manhattan, New York.
1940 The Beatles' original bass player Stu Sutcliffe is born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He leaves the group before they hit it big so he can pursue painting.
1940 British teen idol Adam Faith is born Terence Nelhams-Wright in Acton, London, England. Known for UK chart-toppers "What Do You Want" (1959) and "Poor Me" (1960).
1937 Niki Sullivan (original guitarist for Buddy Holly's Crickets) is born in South Gate, California.
1929 June Carter Cash (of The Carter Family) is born Valerie June Carter in Maces Spring, Virginia, to Maybelle and Ezra Carter.
1907 Eddie Pola, co-writer of the Christmas classic "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year," is born in New York City.
Tiffany Begins Her Mall Tour
198715-year-old Tiffany starts her Mall Tour at the Bergen Mall in Paramus, New Jersey, performing what in November will be her #1 hit, "I Think We're Alone Now."
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Featured Events
2016 After a trial in which the three living members of Led Zeppelin testified, a jury rules that they are not guilty of plagiarizing the intro of "Stairway To Heaven" from the 1968 song "Taurus" by the band Spirit. In 2018, the case is sent back to trial on a technicality, but is upheld in a 2020 ruling.
1994 The stage musical Copacabana (based on Barry Manilow's song) opens in London.
1984 Duran Duran's "The Reflex" hits #1 in America. This version is a remix of the album cut done by Chic's Nile Rodgers.
1979 The Charlie Daniels Band release "The Devil Went Down To Georgia." Daniels plays the fiddle parts for both Johnny and the Devil; he says the Devil part is "just a bunch of noise."
1962 Ray Charles' landmark album Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music hits #1 in America.
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