Music History - February 15

[Dawn]

Today in music history:

1954 - Big Joe Turner recorded the original "Shake, Rattle & Roll".

1958 - "The Dick Clark Show" debuted on ABC-TV. Connie Francis, Pat Boone and Jerry Lee Lewis were the first performers to appear on the show.

1961 - The Marcels recorded "Blue Moon".

1964 - The Beatles released the single "Eight Days a Week" and the album "Meet The Beatles."

1964 - Sam Cooke announced that he was cutting back on live performances to concentrate on songwriting and building his record labels.

1965 - Nat "King" Cole died of complications following surgery for lung cancer at the age of 48.

1967 - The first laws concerning anti-bootlegging were enacted.

1967 - The band Chicago formed.

1969 - A Florida woman was arrested for impersonating Aretha Franklin during a concert at a club.

1975 - Gino Vannelli became the first white artist to perform on "Soul Train."

1976 - Bette Midler bailed seven members of her entourage out of jail. They were arrested on cocaine and marijuana possession charges.

1977 - Sid Vicious joined the Sex Pistols replacing bassist Glen Matlock.

1981 - Mike Bloomfield died of an accidental drug overdose.

1992 - The Ivory Coast village of Krinjabo named Michael Jackson "King of the Sanwis."

1995 - Metallic began recording their sixth album "Load."

1998 - The Tokyo area phone system went down due to high activity attributable to people trying to reserve tickets for an upcoming Glay concert.

1999 - "Rolling Stones Day" was declared in Minnesota.

2002 - The movie "Cross Roads," starring Britney Spears, opened in theaters.

[SAT-I need more room!!]

1964-That's gotta be wrong-Eight Days a Week did not come out in Feb of 64!

1967-And thus began the lack of respect Chicago would get their whole career.

1999-Steppenwolf got a day before the Rolling Stones?? LOL!

[Dawn]

sat said:

1964-That's gotta be wrong-Eight Days a Week did not come out in Feb of 64!

1967-And thus began the lack of respect Chicago would get their whole career.

1999-Steppenwolf got a day before the Rolling Stones?? LOL!

You're right - I just checked my Whitburn, and Eight Days A Week first charted in February '65, not '64. The person who originally compiled the entry for the website I copy these from must have mistyped the year.