Today in Oldies Music History: February 13

Births

1900: Wingy Manone
1919: Tennessee Ernie Ford
1920: Boudleaux Bryant, Eileen Farrell
1925: Gene Ames (The Ames Brothers)
1927: Jim McReynolds (Jim and Jesse)
1930: Dorothy McGuire (The McGuire Sisters)
1942: Peter Tork (The Monkees)
1944: Stockard Channing
1945: King Floyd
1950: Peter Gabriel (Genesis)
1951: David Naughton
1952: Ed Gagliardi (Foreigner)

Deaths

1999: Miss Toni Fisher
2002: Waylon Jennings

Events

1914: ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, is formed in New York City.
1955: Elvis Presley performs at the Fair Park Coliseum in Lubbock, TX, billed as "The Be-Bop Western Star of the Louisiana Hayride." It is the first concert booked through Col. Tom Parker. Also on the bill that day: Buddy and Bob, a country duo featuring a eighteen-year-old Buddy Holly.
1956: DJ Alan Freed signs with Coral Records to compile four rock and roll dance and party albums in the next year.
1957: Filming is completed on the UK's first rock and roll movie, Rock You Sinners.
1961: Frank Sinatra launches the first completely artist-owned label, Reprise.
1972: Led Zeppelin is forced to cancel a gig in Singapore when local officials, seeing their long hair, refuse to let them off the plane.
1978: Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley officially declares today "Al Green Day."
1981: Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon becomes the rock album to spend the most consecutive weeks on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart -- 402 weeks from March 1973. It would eventually leave the charts April 23, 1988, after 724 weeks.
1982: The 300-pound gravestone of Lynyrd Skynyrd lead singer Ronnie Van Zant is stolen from the cemetery in Orange Park, CA. Police find it two weeks later in a dry river bed.
1983: Marvin Gaye puts a sensual (some say too sensual) spin on the National Anthem at the NBA All-Star Game in Los Angeles.
1988: Michael Jackson purchases a ranch in Santa Ynez, CA, which he renames "Neverland."
1997: Michael Jackson and wife Debbie Rowe become the proud parents of their first child, Prince.

Releases

1967: The Beatles, "Strawberry Fields Forever" b/w "Penny Lane"
1970: The album Black Sabbath enters the charts

Recording

1940: Earl "Fatha" Hines and His orchestra, "Boogie Woogie on the St. Louis Blues"
1965: Gary Lewis and the Playboys, "Count Me In"
1967: The Beatles, "Only A Northern Song"
1975: Jefferson Starship, "Miracles"

Certifications

1969: The Doors' "Touch Me" is certified gold
1969: Sly and the Family Stone's "Everyday People" is certified gold

Charts

1954: Guitar Slim's "The Things that I Used to Do" hits #1 R&B
1961: Lawrence Welk's "Calcutta" hits #1
1965: Jr. Walker & the All Stars' "Shotgun" enters the pop and R&B charts
1971: The Osmonds' "One Bad Apple" hits #1