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This Day in Music History – October 9th

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1959 – Bobby Darin became the youngest performer to headline the Sands Hotel’s Copa Room in Las Vegas, NV. Johnny Mathis held the previous record (he had been 23).

1964 – The Rolling Stones announced they had cancelled a planned tour in South Africa because of an anti-apartheid embargo by the British Musicians’ Union.

1967 – Doc Severinsen replaced Skitch Henderson as musical director of “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.”

1974 – Quincy Jones accepted his first gold record. It was for the album “Body Heat.”

1985 – A 2½-acre garden memorial was dedicated to John Lennon by his widow Yoko Ono. The memorial in New York City’s Central Park is called Strawberry Fields.


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