11 MAY
In Music History
1967 Cream records "Tales Of Brave Ulysses" and "Outside Woman Blues."
1967 The Bee Gees make their first big splash on UK television, performing their new single "New York Mining Disaster 1941 (Have You Seen My Wife, Mr. Jones)" on the BBC's Top Of The Pops.
1965 The Byrds appear on TV for the first time when they play their cover of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" on the NBC show Hullabaloo.
1964 In an early sign of their tendency to disrupt authority, The Rolling Stones are refused service for lunch at Bristol, England's Grand Hotel because they're not properly dressed in jackets and ties. The next day, the Daily Express calls them "the ugliest group in Britain" and remarks, "The Rolling Stones gather no lunch."
1962 Ray Stevens releases "Ahab The Arab."
1959 "The Happy Organ" by Dave "Baby" Cortez goes to #1 in America, marking the first time an instrumental song featuring on organ tops the chart.
1957 The Everly Brothers make their stage debut in Nashville at the Grand Ole Opry.
1955 Electronic musician Jonathan "J.J." Jeczalik (of The Art of Noise) is born in Banbury, England.
1955 Drummer Mark Herndon (of Alabama) is born in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1947 Butch Trucks (drummer for The Allman Brothers Band) is born Claude Hudson Trucks in Jacksonville, Florida.
1943 Les Chadwick (bassist for Gerry and the Pacemakers) is born in Liverpool, England.
1943 Arnie Silver, aka Arnie Satin (of the '60s vocal group The Dovells), is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1941 Eric Burdon (lead singer of The Animals) is born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
1935 Kit Lambert, manager of The Who and co-founder of Track Records, is born Christopher Sebastian Lambert in Middlesex, England.
11 MAY
Featured Events
2008 Leonard Cohen kicks off his first tour in 15 years with a show in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He continues touring on and off for the next five years in a series of highly acclaimed performances.More
1988 Still going strong, the legendary songwriter Irving Berlin turns 100. A concert celebrating his life and music takes place at Carnegie Hall, with Tony Bennett, Bob Hope, Ray Charles and Rosemary Clooney all taking part.
1985 Madonna's "Crazy For You," written for the movie Vision Quest, hits #1 in the US.
1975 "Stand By Your Man," released for the fifth time in the UK, finally catches on, going to #1 for the first of three weeks. First released in the UK in 1969, the song leads a surge of British interest in Tammy Wynette, who begins a tour there when her song is still topping the charts.
1972 John Lennon goes on the Dick Cavett Show and mentions that the FBI is monitoring him. He turns out to be right.
1972 In an effort to shed his teenybopper image, David Cassidy appears shirtless (and pantless) on the cover of Rolling Stone.More
1970 The soundtrack for the movie Woodstock is released, featuring recordings from the festival. Those who were there realize it didn't sound nearly as good as they remembered it.
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