ON THIS DAY IN MUSIC JUNE 16th (Dont forget to LIKE AMERICANA MUSIC FOUNDATION to get your daily posts of daily history) 1956: Roy Orbison humbly debuted on the chart with Ooby Dooby.1958: The first single for Jerry Butler & the Impressions (originally known as the Roosters before this time) first appeared on the charts on this day with For Your Precious Love,” going on to peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Best Sellers in Stores and Top 100 charts. The song was ranked as the 327th greatest song of all-time by Rolling Stone magazine in 2004. Jerry Butler & the Impressions would go on to register 39 hits.1959: Russ Conway had the top U.K. hit with Roulette.1961: Gary U.S. Bonds appeared on American Bandstand. 1962: The Konrads (featuring Dave Jay later to become David Bowie), made their live debut when they played at Bromley Technical School in Kent, England1962: I Cant Stop Loving You by Ray Charles was #1 on the R&B chart for the fourth week in a row. 1964: The Rolling Stones paid £1,500 ($2,500) in return air fares from America back to the UK to honor a booking made a year earlier for £100 ($170) at Magdalen College Oxford. The local group, The Falling Leaves was the opening act, and the Stones’ bass player, Bill Wyman, had to use one of the Oxford band’s amplifiers because of a malfunction with their equipment. 1965: After having had an unsuccessful day in the studio the previous day, Bob Dylan is back at Columbia Recording Studios in New York City for a 2nd day recording “Like a Rolling Stone” during the sessions for the forthcoming “Highway 61 Revisited” album. Session musicians included Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper, whose Hammond organ on “Like a Rolling Stone became one of rocks most recognizable sounds. Dylan’s record label, Columbia Records, was unhappy with both the songs length at over six minutes and its heavy electric sound, and was hesitant to release it but the song was leaked and then released. Radio stations also were reluctant to play such a long track but Like a Rolling Stone reached number two in the US charts and became a worldwide hit. 1965: Petula Clark and Gerry & the Pacemakers appeared on the television show Shindig. 1966: John Mayalls Bluesbreakers, which at the time featured Eric Clapton on guitar, performed at the Marquee Club in London, England.1966: The Beatles made a surprise live appearance on the UK television program Top of the Pops, performing Paperback Writer and Rain. It became The Beatles last live musical television appearance, with the sole exception of the June 1967 worldwide transmission of “All You Need Is Love.” 1966: Cliff Richard appeared on stage with the Reverend Billy Graham at Earls Court in London and talked about his discovery of the Christian faith. 1967: The place to be this weekend was at the three day Monterey Pop Festival which took place in Monterey, California as The Summer of Love was born! All the proceeds went to charity; all the artists having agreed to perform for free. The festival saw the first major US appearances by The Who, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. Also on the bill: The Byrds, Grateful Dead, Otis Redding, Simon & Garfunkel, The Steve Miller Band, Canned Heat, The Mamas And The Papas, Jefferson Airplane, Buffalo Springfield and The Electric Flag. Tickets cost $3.50 - 6.50 (£2 - 3.80). John Phillips, of The Mamas and The Papas would lwrite the song “San Francisco, (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)” to promote the festival; an instant which would go on to become a historical hit for Scott McKenzie. It was released on May 13, 1967 in the United States and was an instant hit, reaching #4 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was also a #1in the UK and several other countries. The single is purported to have sold over 7 million copies worldwide. The song is credited with bringing thousands of young people to San Francisco, California, during the late 1960s. The following year in Central Europe, young people adopted San Francisco as an anthem for freedom, and it was widely played during Czechoslovakias 1968 Prague Spring uprising. 1967: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Soft Machine both appeared at The Liverpool Love Festival in Liverpool, England. 1967: Pink Floyd released the single See Emily Play.” 1968: Santana, Steve Miller and Janis Joplin performed at the Fillmore in San Francisco with proceeds going towards keeping the Matrix Club in San Francisco open. 1969: Zager & Evans released In the Year 2525.” 1970: Woodstock Ventures, sponsors of the famous concert and gathering, announced that they had lost more than $1.2 million on the festival. 1970: Mungo Jerry was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with In the Summertime. It went on to become the best-selling UK single of 1970 spending seven weeks at No.1 and was a hit in 26 other countries. The UK release was a maxi-single playing at 33 rpm, (whereas singles generally played at 45 rpm).1973: The Spinners owned the top R&B song for the second week with One of a Kind (Love Affair) still at #1.1973: The Carpenters had the Biggest Mover from #69 to #38 with Yesterday Once More.” 1973: Paul McCartney & Wings spent a third week at #1 with My Love. Clint Holmes moved to #2 with Playground In My Mind and Sylvia remained at #3 with Pillow Talk. Barry White was at 4 with Im Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby, Daniel was down to #5 for Elton John and Frankenstein slipped to #6 for the Edgar Winter Group. The rest of the Top 10: Billy Preston moved from #14 to #7 with Will It Go Round In Circles, George Harrison posted his third Top 10 solo hit with Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) at #8, Paul Simon jumped from #17 to #9 with Kodachrome and the former No.1 from Dawn, “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree was at #10. 1973: Suzi Quatro had her first UK No.1 single with the Nicky Chinn & Mike Chapman song “Can The Can.” 10CC were #2 with “Rubber Bullets” and Fleetwood Mac at #3 with “Albatross.” 1975: John Lennon sued Attorneys General John Mitchell and Richard Kleindienst of the United States government, charging that he was being denied immigration through selective prosecution and that Mitchell and Kleindienst had harassed him in deportation proceedings. 1975: Elton John released the single Someone Saved My Life Tonight 1975: James Taylor released the single How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You). 1975: Record label executive Don Robey (November 1, 1903 – June 16, 1975), whose Peacock Records was the home of Little Richard and Bobby Bland, among others, died at the age of 71 of a heart attack.1976: The Jackson Five summer variety show premiered on CBS- TV featuring The Jacksons plus sisters Latoya, Rebbie and Janet. The show aired for four weeks.1977: The play Beatlemania opened on Broadway in New York City.1977: Kenny Rogers rose to #1 in the U.K. with Lucille. It was the American Country music singers first of two UK No.1s. 1978: Mac Davis hosted The Midnight Special with guests Rod Stewart, Todd Rundgren and Andrew Gold.1978: The movie Grease (adapted from the famous Broadway play) premiered in New York City.1979: The Electric Light Orchestra started a five-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with Discovery, their first #1 LP, featuring the tracks “Shine A Little Love,” “Dont Bring Me Down” and “The Diary of Horace Wimp.” 1979: Donna Summer had the hottest song around with Hot Stuff.” Sister Sledge reached #2 with “We Are Family, while “Ring My Bell from Anita Ward was #3. At #4, Randy Vanwarmer was heating up with Just You When I Needed You Most and The Bee Gees sixth consecutive #1, Love You Inside Out, slipped from the very top down to #5. The rest of the Top 10: Supertramps The Logical Song #6, Rickie Lee Jones was at #7 with Chuck E.s in Love, Kenny Rogers moved from #10 to #8 with She Believes in Me, former No.1 Reunited from Peaches & Herb dropping from #4 to #9 and Earth Wind & Fire with the Emotions jumped from #18 to #10 with Boogie Wonderland.1980: The movie The Blues Brothers premiered in Chicago. The film starred John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as the Blues Brothers and also featured Aretha Franklin, James Brown and Ray Charles.1982: Donny Van Zandt of .38 Special was arrested on stage during a concert in Tulsa, Oklahoma (a “dry town”) for public drinking.1982: James “Jimmy” Honeyman Scott (November 4, 1956- June 16, 1982), the great guitarist and a co-songwriter of the Pretenders, died of cocaine intolerance at the age of 25 two days after Pete Farndon had been dismissed from the Pretenders due to Farndon’s increasing substance dependence. Farndon himself would die approximately a year later of a heroin overdose.1984: Lets Hear it For the Boy made it three weeks atop the R&B chart at #1 for Deniece Williams. 1984: Cyndi Lauper held on to #1 on the Billboard 100 with Time After Time. 1984: Frankie Goes to Hollywood had their second UK No.1 single with Two Tribes. It stayed at No.1 for nine weeks making Frankie Goes to Hollywood the first band to have their first two singles go to the top of the UK chart. During this run the groups previous single Relax climbed back up the charts to No.2.1987: The Ben & Jerry ice cream company was given permission to sell a flavor called Cherry Garcia, after longtime Grateful Dead leader Jerry Garcia.1988: Pink Floyd played a concert in West Berlin, Germany. More than 2,000 East Berliners lined up at the wall to listen. 1988: Vince Neil of Motley Crue married mud wrestler Sharisse Rudell.1989: The first day of the UK three day Glastonbury Festival took place featuring Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Throwing Muses, Pixies, All About Eve, Hot House Flowers, The Waterboys, Suzanne Vega and Fairground Attraction. Tickets cost £28 ($48). 1989: Smokey Robinson introduced a new womans fragrance on the market called Smoke. 1990: After a court battle, pop duo Bros paid over £40,000 in settlement of a legal dispute over management.1990: Roxette started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with “It Must Have Been Love.” The song, taken from the film Pretty Woman became the duos third US No.1 and a No.3 hit in the UK. 1993: In Cleveland, Ohio, The United States Postal Service unveiled a new set of stamps featuring Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Bill Haley, Otis Redding, Ritchie Valens, Clyde McPhatter and Dinah Washington in their new Legends of American Music Series. The new series began in January with the issue of the single Elvis stamp, “Oklahoma!” and a Hank Williams stamp followed a few months later. 1994: Oasis played at The Erotika Club, Paris in France, the band’s first gig outside the UK.1994: The bass guitarist Kristen Marie Ptaff (May 26, 1967 – June 16, 1994) of the alternative rock band Hole (1993-1994) died of heroin overdose at age 27. She was found dead in her apartment by her friend Paul Erickson who was planning on traveling with her that day as she had planned to return back to Minneapolis to rejoin her former group janitor Joe Permanently. Posthumously Pfaff was inducted into the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame; her mother accepted the award on behalf of her daughter.1996: Rage Against The Machine, Beastie Boys, Smashing Pumpkins, Fugees, Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Lee Hooker, Beck, Sonic Youth, Yoko Ono, De La Soul and Richie Havens all appeared at the two-day Tibetan Freedom Concert at the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California to a sell-out crowd of over 100,000 making it the largest US benefit concert since Live Aid in 1985. 1996: Metallica had the top album with Load as the #1 UK album charts where it would stay for one week. In the U.S., Load would become the #1 album on The Billboard 200 chart the following week, staying in that position for 4 weeks.1997: Radiohead released the album OK Computer.1999: Cher debuted her Believe Tour at America West Arena in Phoenix, Arizona. 1999: Phil Collins was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6834 Hollywood Blvd. 1999: Screaming Lord Sutch, born David Edward Sutch (November 10, 1940 –June 16, 1999), was found dead after hanging himself following the death of his mother the previous year. Sutch suffered from depression and according to his fiancée he had manic depression. The singer turned politician was 58. He was the first long-haired pop star-boasting hair over 18 inches long and was Britains longest-serving political leader (1983- 1999), winning nearly 40 elections. 2000: On the first night of his Up in Smoke tour in Chula Vista, Snoop Doggs tour bus was stopped at the Temecula border checkpoint in San Diego after the border patrol smelled marijuana wafting from the tour bus. One member of the crew was arrested. 2001: Four-year-old Daniel Karven-Veres drowned in Tommy Lees swimming pool while attending a birthday party for Lees 5-year-old son, Brandon. His parents, James Veres and Ursula Karven, sued Lee for negligence, claiming they should have been told that a swimming pool was involved, (their son could not swim). Lee was cleared by a jury in April 2003. 2002: 46 years after his first hit, Elvis Presley started a four week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with A Little Less Conversation, (Elvis vs. JXL), giving Elvis a total of 18 UK No.1 singles, the most by any artist in chart history. This also set a new record for the longest span of No.1 hits with 44 years, 11 months and 9 days. His first UK No.1 single was All Shook Up in 1957.2004: Ben Shabalala, a former member of the South African group Ladysmith Black Mambazo that was featured on Paul Simons landmark Graceland album was shot to death in Durban, South Africa.2004: Velvet Revolver owned the #1 album with Contraband.2005: We Belong Together by Mariah Carey was the #1 song for a fourth week.2007: Rod Stewart married model girlfriend Penny Lancaster on the Italian Riviera just outside the resort of Portofino. The 62 year old singer was previously married to models Alana Hamilton and Rachel Hunter and has eight children (including two from Penny) in total. Stewart, who after 6 years is still together with after 6 years even though they were separated for two weeks the beginning of May 2013. Steward stayed in their house in Tahiti and she stayed in their house in the Hollywood hills until things cooled down. During those two weeks Stewart kept a phot of Penny at his bedside so he could see her when he went to bed and as soon as he woke up. His relationship rule for success: “Don’t argue after a glass of wine – leave debating until the morning.” Stewart stated “I have always loved women, won some, lost some, but it’s not about the magic touch, it’s about being a better person and a good listener.” I guess all those marriages combined with the wisdom of age are paying off for Rod Stewart these days. 2008: Coldplay kicked off their Viva la Vida, 161-date world tour at the Brixton Academy in London, England. 2010: Gary Shider, the guitarist for Parliament-Funkadelic who was featured on their hit One Nation Under A Groove, died from complications of cancer at the age of 56. 2013: Black Sabbath established a new UK chart record for the longest gap between #1 albums when their new release, 13 debuted at the top, 42 years and 8 months after their second album Paranoid reached the peak. 2014: It was announced today that Justin Bieber will not be facing charges of robbery because the case has been rejected by the Los Angeles City Attorney due to insufficient evidence; therefore. no charges will be filed against the star on the matter. The 20-year-old singer has been the subject of an investigation by LAPD after a Californian woman claimed he grabbed her phone out of her purse when she attempted to snap photos of him at a batting cage last month.. Americana Music Foundation takes as much care as possible to check the accuracy of the information provided. However, we can not guarantee the absolute accuracy of any listing. If you have any information different to or in addition to that provided by our site, we encourage you to contact us.
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