This Day in Music History – December 11th
1957 - Jerry Lee Lewis secretly married his 13-year-old third cousin Myra Gale Brown. The marriage caused Lewis to be blacklisted from many radio stations and he was dropped from Dick Clark's shows. 1958 - The Coasters recorded "Charlie Brown." 1960 - Aretha Franklin made her New York debut at the Village Vanguard. 1964 - Sam Cooke was shot to death at a the Hacienda Motel in Los Angeles, CA. […]