This Day in Music History – December 10th

1949 – Fats Domino cut eight tracks during his first recording session at Cosimo Matassa’s J&M Studios.

1959 – The four male members of the Platters were acquitted on charges of aiding and abetting prostitution, lewdness and assignation. The charges stemmed from their August 10, 1959 arrest in Cincinnati, OH.

1963 – Donny Osmond made his debut with the Osmonds on NBC’s “Andy Williams Show.”

1965 – The Grateful Dead played their first concert. The show took place at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, CA.

1966 – The Rolling Stones released the album “Got Live If You Want It” in the U.S.

1967 – The Steve Miller Blues Band signed with Capitol Records for $750,000. The group dropped the “Blues” from its name.

1967 – Otis Redding, at age 26, was killed when his tour plane crashed into a Wisconsin lake. Redding’s tour band, the “Bar-Kays,” was also killed.

1968 – John Lennon made his first solo TV appearance.

1971 – Frank Zappa was pushed from a London stage by the jealous boyfriend of a Zappa fan. Zappa spent months in a wheelchair recovering from a broken leg and ankle and fractured skull.

1972 – Roberta Flack and two members of her backup band are injured in a car accident while driving into Manhattan.

1976 – The Wings album “Wings over America” was released.

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