This Day in Music History! Elvis gets his first interview! ALSO- Apple records sues the ob-la-di outta Nike! Births 1901: Rudy Vallee 1915: Frankie Yankovic 1937: Peter Duchin 1938: George Cummings (Dr. Hook) 1943: Mike Bloomfield 1945: Rick Wright (Pink Floyd) 1946: Jonathan Edwards 1949: Simon Kirke (Free, Bad Company) 1949: Peter Doyle (The New Seekers) 1949: Steve Took (T. Rex) 1962: Rachel Sweet 1933: The first singing telegram is sent -- to a popular singer, crooner Rudy Vallee, on the occasion of his 32nd birthday. 1954: Elvis Presley gets his first interview, with an article published in his hometown paper, the Memphis Press-Scimitar. 1956: Gene Vincent makes his first national TV appearance, singing Be-Bop-A-Lula on NBCs The Perry Como Show. 1957: Jerry Lee Lewis makes his first national TV appearance, singing Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On on NBCs The Steve Allen Show. 1968: The Beatles hold their Mad Day Out, an all-day group photography session across London, which produces most of their well-known latter-day photographs, including the cover of Life and the inside gatefold of their Beatles 1967-1970 album. 1969: After a Moscow magazine explains how to turn an acoustic guitar into an electric one using only parts from a telephone, police report that thousands of the citys phone booths have been stripped. 1970: The Rolling Stones Mick Jagger makes his acting debut in Ned Kelly, a film about the legendary Australian outlaw, which makes his debut in Kellys own hometown of Glenrowan. 1973: One of the last of the great outdoor rock festivals was held at Watkins Glen racetrack in New York, with over 600,000 attending a Summer Jam featuring the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers, and The Band. This was the largest human gathering ever assembled at the time. 1985: Portland, OR, declares today Kingsmen Day in honor of their garage-rock native sons, who scored a legendary hit with their version of Louie Louie. 1987: The Beatles company, Apple, sues shoemaker Nike, Capitol Records, EMI, and Wieden+Kennedy advertising agency for $15 million for unauthorized use of the Beatles song Revolution in one of their Nike Air TV ads. Nike claimed it had paid their US label, Capitol, $250,000 for the rights, and also that Yoko Ono had given her blessing. The suit was eventually settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. 1989: Anne Murray opens the Anne Murray Centre, a multimedia museum of her career, in her hometown of Springhill, Nova Scotia. 1992: Patti Labelle walks offstage during her concert in Warwick, RI, having complained to the audience about the catering backstage. 1995: After decades of legal wrangling, James Al Hendrix, surviving father of Jimi, is once again granted legal use of his sons name and likeness for merchandising. Releases 1973: Grand Funk Railroad, Were An American Band Recording 1939: Judy Garland, Over The Rainbow 1961: The Tokens, The Lion Sleeps Tonight 1969: The Beatles: Polythene Pam, She Came In Through The Bathroom Window Charts 1951: Rosemary Clooneys Come On-A My House hits #1 1954: The Crew Cuts Sh-Boom hits #1 1956: Elvis Presleys I Want You, I Need You, I Love You hits #1 1958: Doris Days Everybody Loves A Lover enters the charts 1958: The Poni Tails Born Too Late enters the charts 1958: The Elegants Little Star enters the charts 1962: Tommy Roes Sheila enters the charts 1973: Chicagos Chicago IV LP hits #1 Certifications 1976: The Steve Miller Bands Fly Like An Eagle LP is certified gold
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