Music History for
May 20
Today's:
1941 - Harry James and his orchestra recorded "You Made Me Love You."
1942 - "I've Got A Gal in Kalamazoo" was recorded by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra.
1954 - Bill Haley and the Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" was
released. It was not successful until it was released in
1955 on the soundtrack to "Blackboard Jungle."
1960 - Alan Freed, a disc jockey, was indicted for income tax
evasion stemming from payola.
1968 - Pete Townshend and Karen Astley were married.
1969 - Peter Cetera (Chicago) was beaten up by four men at a
Chicago Cubs-Dodgers baseball game. The men objected to
the length of Cetera's hair. Cetera underwent four hours
of emergency surgery.
1970 - The Beatles film Let It Be opened in the U.K.
Today in Beatles History
1977 - The stage show Beatlemania opened at the Winter Garden
Theater, New York.
Today in Beatles History
1978 - The Buddy Holly Story premiered in of Lubbock, TX.
1980 - KISS released the album Unmasked.
1980 - In Hamburg, Germany, Joe Strummer (The Clash) was arrested for hitting a violent audience member with his guitar during a show.
1992 - Aerosmith donated $10,000 to support "Corporal Politics," a
controversial art exhibition at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
1996 - The Metallica single "Until It Sleeps" was released world-wide, excluding North America, where it was released the next day.
1998 - Tommy Lee (Motley Crue) started serving a 6-month sentence
for felony spousal abuse.
2008 - The U.S. Congress passed a resolution that designated Frank Sinatra Day to honor his contributions to American culture.
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