Music History for
January 19


Today's:


1853 - Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore" premiered in Rome.

1934 - Laurens Hammond filed for a patent for the pipeless organ with the tonewheel generator. The patent was granted on April 24.

1957 - Johnny Cash made his first network TV appearance, on CBS' "Jackie Gleason Show."

1957 - Pat Boone sang at Dwight Eisenhower's presidential inauguration ball.

1967 - Lesley Gore appeared on ABC-TV's "Batman" as Catwoman's sidekick, Pussycat.

1971 - At the Charles Manson murder trial, the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" was played. At the scene of one of his gruesome murders, the words "helter skelter" were written on a mirror.

1976 - The Beatles turned down an offer of $30 million to play together again on the same stage. The offer was made by rock promoter Bill Sargent.

1977 - Charlie Daniels and the Marshall Tucker Band played for Jimmy Carter's inauguration.

1977 - Aretha Franklin sang "God Bless America" at a special inaugural concert for President-elect Jimmy Carter.







1981 - Styx released the album "Paradise Theater."

1993 - Fleetwood Mac reunited to perform at Bill Clinton's inauguration.

1993 - Tom Waits was allowed to keep the $2.5 million that a judge awarded him after he sued Frito-Lay for using a sound alike in a 1988 commercial. The U.S. Supreme Court supported the amount of the damages.

1998 - Pat Boone was awarded the first annual Michael the Archangel Award by the National Assn. of Chiefs of Police.

1999 - The U.S. Supreme Court without comment refused to hear a 1998 lawsuit brought by ticket buyers against Ticketmaster. The suit charged that the firm engaged in anticompetitive behaviour and price-fixing with promoters.

1999 - Bizzy Bone (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony) went on trial in Columbus, Ohio, on charges that he dragged a student barber down a flight of stairs.

1999 - Jean-Michel Jarre delivered a petition to the European Parliament signed by hundreds of leading European recording artists asking for better legal protection against music piracy on the internet.

2002 - Rapper C-Murder (Corey Miller, 30) was arrested in the shooting death of 16-year old Steve Thomas at a nightclub on January 12.