This Day in Music History – August 20th

1960 – Connie Francis begins working on the film “Where the Boys Are.”

1965 – The Rolling Stones single “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” was released in the U.S.

1967 – The New York Times reported about a noise reduction system for album and tape recording developed by technicians R. and D.W. Dolby. Elektra Record’s subsidiary, Checkmate Records became the first label to use the new Dolby process in its recordings.

1973 – The Rolling Stones released “Angie.”

1996 – Snoop Doggy Dogg settled out of court with the Woldemariam family in a wrongful death suit that the family brought against the rapper three years earlier. Twenty-year-old Phillip Woldemariam was shot and killed by Snoop Doggy Dogg’s body guard from the back of a moving car which the rapper himself drove. The two claimed the shooting occurred in self-defense.

1997 – Alabama Governor Fob James joined the mayors of Montgomery and Georgina, AL, in the Alabama State Capitol to dedicate a 50-mile stretch of Interstate 65 to the memory of Hank Williams. The section of roadway was renamed the “Hank Williams Memorial Lost Highway.”

2000 – Bon Jovi played the last concert to be held at the historic Wembley stadium before its demolition.

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