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This Day in Music History – April 26th

1960 - Filming for the Elvis Presley movie "G.I. Blues" began. 1964 - The Beatles attended the 28th birthday party for Roy Orbison. 1966 - The New York Times reported Ray Charles would undergo tests to see whether or not he had abstained from narcotic drugs. 1967 - CBS-TV broadcasted "Inside Pop -- The Rock Revolution." 1975 - B.J. Thomas had the longest title of a number one song at […]

todayApril 26, 2021

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This Day in Music History – April 23rd

1953 - Leontyne Price sang Sauguet's "La Voyante" at the Metropolitan Opera. 1965 - The Rolling Stones began their third North American tour with a show at the Forum in Montreal. 1971 - The Rolling Stones album "Sticky Fingers" was released. It was the band's first release on the band's newly-formed label, Rolling Stones Records. 1976 - The Rolling Stones album "Black and Blue" was released. 1978 - Sid Vicious […]

todayApril 23, 2021

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This Day in Music History – April 21st

1960 - Dick Clark testified before a congressional committee investigating payola. He admitted that he had a financial interest in 27 percent of the records he played on his show in a period of 28 months. 1963 - The Beatles and the Rolling Stones met for the first time at the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, England. The Rolling Stones opened show. 1969 - Janis Joplin and the Kozmic Blues Band […]

todayApril 21, 2021

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This Day in Music History – April 20th

1959 - Dolly Parton's first single, "Puppy Love," was released. 1960 - Elvis Presley's returned to Hollywood to film "G.I. Blues." 1963 - Rick Nelson and Kris Harmon were married. 1964 - The Elvis Presley movie "Viva Las Vegas" premiered. 1968 - The band Deep Purple performed gave their concert debut in Tastrup, Denmark. 1971 - Barbra Streisand recorded "We've Only Just Begun." 1973 - Roger Daltrey (Who) released his […]

todayApril 20, 2021

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This Day in Music History – April 19th

1965 - The film T.A.M.I. (Teen-Age Music International) Show opened in London under the title Teenage Command Performance. 1978 - Patti Smith released the single "Because the Night." 1979 - David Lee Roth collapsed from exhaustion during a Van Halen show in Spokane, WA. 1986 - Prince became only the 5th songwriter to have two top ten hits at the same time. The songs were "Kiss" (Prince and the Revolution) […]

todayApril 19, 2021

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This Day in Music History – April 16th

1956 - ABC premiered the TV show "Rhythm on Parade." 1956 - Buddy Holly released his first single, "Blue Days, Black Nights." 1964 - The Rolling Stones' debut album, "The Rolling Stones" was released in the U.K. 1965 - The Hollies opened their first tour of the U.S. at the Brooklyn Paramount theater in New York. 1966 - Percy Sledge's "When A Man Loves A Woman" was released. 1971 - […]

todayApril 16, 2021

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Lost Treasures of Rock ‘n Roll Legend Eddie Cochran Found

Eddie Cochran is an American rock n' roll legend from late 1950s and early 1960s, a contemporary of Elvis Presley with a particularly strong following in the UK. His life was tragically cut short when, after performing at the Bristol Hippodrome, England, he died in a car accident near Chippenham, Wiltshire on the 17th April 1960, aged just 21. A monument to Eddie marks the location of the crash at […]

todayApril 15, 2021

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This Day in Music History – April 14th

1960 - The musical "Bye Bye Birdie" opened in New York City. 1963 - The Beatles met the Rolling Stones after a Stones concert in Richmond, England. 1965 - Millie Small appeared on ABC-TV's "Shindig!" and performed her song "My Boy Lollipop." 1967 - The Bee Gees released their first English single. It was "New York Mining Disaster 1941." 1967 - The final "Where the Action Is" aired on ABC-TV. […]

todayApril 14, 2021

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This Day in Music History – April 13th

1967 - The Rolling Stones performed their first concert behind the Iron Curtain at the Palace of Culture in Warsaw, Poland. 1969 - Diana Ross appeared solo on Dinah Shore's NBC-TV special "Like Hep". 1970 - Led Zeppelin became the first band to sell out the Montreal Forum. 1980 - The Broadway musical "Grease" closed after 3,883 performances. 1982 - David Crosby (Byrds, CSN) was arrested for the second time […]

todayApril 13, 2021

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