Showing posts with label music history. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Time After Time

ON THIS DAY (that would be January 20):

1855 - Composer Amedee-Ernest Chausson was born.

1894 - Composer Walter Hamor Piston was born.

1899 - Composer Alexander Tcherepnin was born.

1942 - Harry Babbitt sang as Kay Kyser and his Orchestra recorded, "Who Wouldn't Love You", on Columbia Records.

1958 - "Get a Job" by the Silhouettes was released.

1958 - Elvis Presley got his orders to report to duty from the U.S. Army. He was allowed a 60-day deferment so he could finish the film "King Creole".

1964 - The album "Meet the Beatles" was released in the U.S. on Capitol Records. It was their U.S. debut LP.

1965 - The Rolling Stones and the Kinks made their first appearance on ABC-TV's "Shindig!"

1973 - Jerry Lee Lewis mades his debut at the Grand Ole Opry.

1974 - Stevie Wonder played his first show after an auto accident that almost took his life five months earlier.

1982 - Ozzy Osborne bit the head off of a bat in Des Moines, IA, and was hospitalized to undertake a series of rabies shots.

1999 - Scott Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots), while on probation for a 1997 heroin case, was arrested for failing to provide a urine sample to his live-in drug treatment center.

2002 - Sting won his first Golden Globe for his song "Until" from the "Kate & Leopold" soundtrack.

(via onthisday)