Archive for January 21, 2009
This Day in Music…January 21
Jan 21st
1942 – Count Basie and His Orchestra recorded “One O’Clock Jump.”
1957 – Singer Patsy Cline appeared on Arthur Godfrey’s nighttime TV show. She performed “Walking After Midnight.”
1957 – Chuck Berry recorded “School Day.”
1957 – Filming began on Elvis Presley’s second movie, “Loving You.”
1962 – Jackie Wilson appeared on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”
1965 – The Byrds recorded “Mr. Tambourine Man.”
1966 – George Harrison and Patricia Anne Boyd were married. Patty eventually left Harrison for Eric Clapton.
1982 – B.B. King donated his entire record collection to the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture. The collection included about 20,000 rare blues records.
1984 – Jackie Wilson died after being in a coma for 8 years.
1987 – Aretha Franklin inducted into the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame.
1990 – MTV’s “Unplugged” made its debut with Squeeze as the first performers.
1997 – Dick Griffey files a $6 million lawsuit against Dr. Dre for an alleged breach of contract concerning a business deal in 1991 which would have seen Griffey earning 25% of Dre’s income.
1998 – James Brown was released from a hospital where he had been treated for an addicition to painkillers at the age of 64. He was admitted on January 15, 1998.
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