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1957 The Tune Weavers record "Happy Happy Birthday Baby."

1953 Circuit Judge Vincent M. Brennan sings "April Showers" to prove he is musically qualified after giving his decision in a contract suit.

1952 Ernie Isley (of The Isley Brothers) is born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1946 Peter Wolf (lead vocalist for The J. Geils Band) is born Peter Walter Blankfield in the Bronx, New York.

1946 Matthew Fisher (organist for Procol Harum) is born in Croydon, England.

1945 Arthur Lee (frontman for the rock band Love) is born in Memphis, Tennessee.

1944 Townes Van Zandt is born in Fort Worth, Texas.

1943 Chris White (bass guitarist for The Zombies) is born in England.

1942 Disco drummer Bohannon is born in Newnan, Georgia.

1939 Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians record "Auld Lang Syne."

1923 Mahlon Clark (clarinetist with the Lawrence Welk Orchestra) is born in Portsmouth, Virginia.

1918 Lena Guilbert Ford, who wrote the lyric to "Keep The Home Fires Burning," is killed in a zeppelin raid on her London home.

1917 "The Dixie Jass Band One Step," by Nick LaRocca's Original Dixieland Jass Band (Victor 18255), becomes the first jazz recording released for sale in the US.

1875 Composer Maurice Ravel is born in France.

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Parody Protected In 2 Live Crew Case

1994

The Supreme Court rules that parody constitutes fair use in deciding that 2 Live Crew's version of Roy Orbison's "(Oh) Pretty Woman" (where the woman is now big and hairy) is legal.

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