Today in Oldies Music History: March 22

Today In Oldies Music History: March 22

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Births

1930: Stephen Sondheim
1932: Juke Boy Bonner
1936: Roger Whittaker
1937: Johnny Ferguson
1943: Keith Relf
1943: George Benson
1944: Jeremy Clyde (Chad and Jeremy)
1944: Tony McPhee (The Groundhogs)
1947: Harry Vanda (The Easybeats)
1947: Patrick Olive (Hot Chocolate)
1948: Andrew Lloyd Webber
1948: Randy Hobbs (The McCoys)

Deaths

1986: Mark Dinning
1991: Dave Guard (The Kingston Trio)
1994: Dan Hartman
1996: Don Murray (The Turtles)
2001: Earl Beal (The Silhouettes)
2005: Rod Price (Foghat)

Events

1955: New York's Coral Records hires DJ Alan Freed for A&R duties, and gives him his own contract to record under his name.
1956: Sammy Davis, Jr. becomes an instant celebrity when he stars in the Broadway play Mr. Wonderful.
1958: Hank Williams Jr. makes his stage debut, at the age of eight, singing on stage in Swainsboro, GA.
1962: 19-year-old Barbra Streisand becomes an instant celebrity when she stars in the Broadway play I Can Get It For You Wholesale.
1967: Elvis Presley begins filming his 25th movie, Clambake, in Los Angeles.
1967: The Who make their US stage debut, performing at the Paramount Theater in New York City.
1971: The Allman Brothers are arrested at a truck stop in Jackson, AL, and charged with possession of marijuana and heroin.
1975: Barry Manilow makes his first US television appearance, performing "Mandy" and "It's A Miracle" on ABC-TV's American Bandstand.
1976: While campaigning for US President, Jimmy Carter tells NARM (The National Association of Record Merchandisers) that he listened to Dylan, the Grateful Dead, and Led Zeppelin while Governor of Georgia.
1977: ABC-TV airs the John Denver special Thank God I'm A Country Boy.
1978: The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, a Beatles parody special that grew out of sketches on ex-Monty Python member Eric Idle's show Rutland Weekend Television, gets its first US airing on ABC-TV.
1979: Chaka Khan gives birth to her second child, Damien Milton Patrick Holland.
1994: Ted Nugent, always a straight arrow, makes a PSA warning kids of the dangers of abusing inhalants.
1997: Paul McCartney's original birth certificate is sold to a private Beatles collector for $84,146.
2000: An audience member falls 90 feet off of an electrical tower at a KISS concert in at California's Oakland Arena.
2006: Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler's upcoming throat surgery forces the band to cancel their latest tour North America, sparking rumors that Tyler is in fact battling throat cancer.

Releases

1963: The Beatles, Please Please Me
1965: Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home
1967: Elvis Presley, Easy Come, Easy Go
1971: Elvis Presley, You'll Never Walk Alone
1971: John Lennon, "Power To The People"
1974: The Eagles, On The Border

Recording

1955: Johnny Cash, "Hey Porter"
1961: Dee Clark, "Raindrops"
1961: Elvis Presley, "Blue Hawaii," "Ito Eats," "Hawaiian Wedding Song," "Island Of Love," "Steppin' Out Of Line," "Almost Always True"
1967: The Beatles, "Within You Without You"

Charts

1975: Frankie Valli's "My Eyes Adored You" hits #1
1975: Led Zeppelin's LP Physical Graffiti hits #1

Certifications

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