The Doors - Break On Through
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Significant Events In Music This Week - 5.2 - 5.8
May 2nd In Music
1995 - Pink Floyd's album The Wall goes Diamond, with sales of over 10 million in the US. It later eclipses that total with sales of well over 20 million.
Birthdays:
1945 - Goldy McJohn. From Steppenwolf who had the 1969 US No. 2 hit single 'Born To Be Wild'. Steppenwolf sold over 25 million records worldwide, released eight gold albums and scored 12 Billboard Hot 100 singles. Born in Toronto, Canada.
1946 - Lesley Gore. American singer, songwriter, actress and activist, who had the 1963 US No. 1 single 'It's My Party'. Born in Brooklyn, New York. She died on 2.16.2015.
1950 - Lou Gramm. Singer, songwriter,with English-American rock band Foreigner, who scored the 1985 US No. 1 single 'I Want To Know What Love Is'. They are one of the world's best-selling bands of all time with worldwide sales of more than 80 million records. Born in Rochester, New York.
1951 - Jo Callis. Synthesizer, keyboards, guitar, Human League, 1982 US No. 1 single 'Don't You Want Me' plus over 15 other UK Top 40 singles. Callis had been a member of the Rezillos and wrote their 1978 hit 'Top Of The Pops’. Born in Rotherham, England.
1951 - John Glascock. Bassist for Jethro Tull. Born in Islington, Greater London, England.
May 3rd In Music
1975 - Chicago's LP Chicago VIII hits No. 1.
1980 - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band started a six week run at No. 1 on the US album chart with 'Against The Wind'.
1986 - Robert Palmer went to No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'Addicted To Love'. Palmer originally recorded the song as a duet with Chaka Khan but due to contractual problems her voice was removed.
Birthdays:
1934 - Frankie Valli. Singer, from American rock and pop band The Four Seasons who had the 1960s hits 'Sherry', 'Big Girls Don't Cry', 'Walk Like a Man', and the 1976 US No. 1 single 'December 1963, (Oh What A Night'). They are one of the best-selling musical groups of all time, having sold an estimated 100 million records worldwide. Born in Newark, New Jersey.
1944 - Pete Staples. With English garage rock band The Troggs, who had the 1966 US No.1 single 'Wild Thing' and the hits 'With a Girl Like You' and 'Love Is All Around'. Born in Andover, Hampshire, England.
1953 - Bruce Hall. From American rock band REO Speedwagon, who had the 1981 US No. 1's 'Keep On Loving You' and 'Can't Fight This Feeling'. They named the band REO Speedwagon, from the REO Speed Wagon, a flatbed truck. Born in Champaign, Illinois.
1959 - David Ball. English producer and electronic musician who with Soft Cell had the 1981 No. 1 single 'Tainted Love'. Born in Blackpool, England.
May 4th In Music
1961 - The Marcels were at No. 1 on the UK singles chart with the Rodgers & Hart song from the 1930s 'Blue Moon', their only UK No. 1.
1967 - The Young Rascals started a four week run at No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'Groovin.'
1967 - The Turtles' "Happy Together" is certified Gold.
1968 - Steppenwolf make their US television debut, performing "Born to Be Wild" on American Bandstand.
1974 - ABBA were at No. 1 on the UK singles chart with 'Waterloo', the group's first of nine UK No. 1 singles was the 1974 Eurovision song contest winner for Sweden. The song was first called 'Honey Pie'.
1974 - Grand Funk Railroad started a two week run at No. 1 on the US singles chart with their version of the Little Eva hit 'The Loco-Motion.' It was only the second time that a cover version had been a No. 1 (1962) as well as the original.
1974 - The Sting soundtrack, featuring Marvin Hamlisch's adaptations of Scott Joplin's ragtime piano tunes, hits No. 1 in America, where it stays for five weeks.
1978 - Jefferson Starship's album Earth is certified Platinum.
1991 - Governor Ann Richards declares "ZZ Top Day" in Texas, honoring the group for "bringing the powerful beat of Texas boogie to enthusiastic audiences across the globe."
Birthdays:
1942 - Ronnie Bond. Drummer with English garage rock band The Troggs, who had the 1966 US No. 1 single 'Wild Thing' and the hits 'With a Girl Like You' and 'Love Is All Around'. Born in Andover, Hampshire, England. Bond died on 11.13.1992.
1942 - Nicholas Ashford. From husband-and-wife songwriting-production team Ashford and Simpson, who had the 1985 UK No. 3 single 'Solid'. They wrote hits such as: 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough', 'You're All I Need To Get By', 'Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing', and 'Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)'. Ashford died on 8.22.2011.
1945 - George Wadenius. From jazz-rock American music group Blood Sweat & Tears. They scored the 1969 US No. 2 single 'Spinning Wheel', and the 1969 US No. 12 single 'You've Made Me So Very Happy'. They had a US No. 1 with their second album Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1968. Born in Stockholm, Sweden.
1951 - Bruce Day. American bassist and vocalist for the California smooth rock band Pablo Cruise. He previously played in a San Francisco high school band with Carlos Santana. He died on 6.30.1999 at the age of 48.
March 5th In Music
1953 - America learns of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's death when future country music star, Air Force Staff Sergeant Johnny Cash intercepts a coded message from Russia. Cash enlisted in 1950 after he turned 18 and was assigned to the 12th Radio Squadron Mobile of the US Air Force Security Service at Landsberg, West Germany, where he proved his skill as a Morse Code operator.
1956 - Elvis Presley scored his first US No. 1 single and album when 'Heartbreak Hotel' went to the top of the charts. 'Heartbreak Hotel' became his first million-seller, and was the best-selling single of 1956. The lyrics were based on a newspaper article about the suicide of a lonely man who jumped from a hotel window.
1969 - Creedence Clearwater Revival release "Bad Moon Rising."
Birthdays:
1951 - Rex Goh. Guitarist, for the Australian soft rock band Air Supply who scored the 1980 UK No. 11 single 'All Out Of Love' and the 1981 US No. 1 single 'The One That You Love'.
May 6th In Music
1965 - The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, in their Clearwater, Florida hotel room, finalize the opening guitar riff of ’(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’ following Richard's purchase of a Gibson fuzz-box earlier that day. The song is considered to be one of the all-time greatest rock songs ever recorded. In 2004 Rolling Stone magazine placed 'Satisfaction' in the second spot on its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
2002 - 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen was voted the UK's favourite single of all time in a poll by the Guinness Hit Singles book.
Birthdays:
1942 - Colin Earl. Pianist for Foghat and Mungo Jerry, who had the 1970 US No. 3 single 'In The Summertime' as well as the hits 'Baby Jump' and 'Lady Rose'. Born Hampton Court, London, England.
1945 - Bob Seger. American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist, who scored the 1977 hit 'Night Moves', the 1987 US No. 1 single 'Shakedown', and the 1995 hit single 'We've Got Tonight'. Seger has sold more than 100 million records worldwide. Born in Lincoln Park, Michigan.
1948 - Mary MacGregor. American singe who scored the 1977 US No. 1 single 'Torn Between Two Lovers'. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota.
1967 - Mark Bryan. Guitarist with American rock band Hootie & the Blowfish who had the 1995 US No. 1 album Cracked Rear View which sold over 15m copies. Born in Silver Spring, Maryland.
May 7th In Music
1966 - The Mamas & the Papas started a three week run at No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'Monday Monday' becoming the first song with a day of the week in the title to top the chart. The Mamas & the Papas won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for this song.
1977 - The Eagles went to No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'Hotel California', the group's fourth US No. 1. The Eagles also won the 1977 Grammy Award for Record of the Year for 'Hotel California' at the 20th Annual Grammy Awards in 1978. The song's guitar solo is ranked 8th on Guitar Magazine's Top 100 Guitar Solos and was voted the best solo of all time by readers of Guitarist magazine.
Birthdays:
1945 - Cornelius Bumpus. American woodwind, keyboard player and vocalist who toured with The Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan.
1946 - Bill Danoff. American pop group Starland Vocal Band, who had the 1976 US No. 1 single 'Afternoon Delight' one of the biggest-selling singles of 1976. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1946 - Bill Kreutzmann. Drummer of Grateful Dead. He played with the Grateful Dead for its entire thirty-year career, usually alongside fellow drummer Mickey Hart. The group released more than 140 albums, the majority of them recorded live in concert. Born in Palo Alto, California.
May 8th In Music
1976 - ABBA scored their third UK No. 1 single with 'Fernando', the song went on to become ABBA's biggest selling single, with sales over 10 million.
1976 - Abba started a nine-week run at No. 1 on the UK album chart with their 'Greatest Hits' album.
1993 - Aerosmith entered the US album chart at No. 1 with 'Get A Grip'. The album went on to sell over 20 million copies worldwide as well as winning the band two Grammy awards.
Birthdays:
1943 - Danny Whitten. Guitarist, singer, songwriter. Member of Neil Young's Crazy Horse and writer of 'I Don't Wanna Talk About It’. The Neil Young song ‘The Needle and the Damage Done’ was written about Whitten’s heroin use. Born in Columbus, Georgia. Whitten died on 11.18.1972.
1943 - Paul Samwell-Smith. English musician, bassist with The Yardbirds, who had the 1965 US No. 6 single 'For Your Love'. The Yardbirds spawned such noteworthy musicians as Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page. Born in Richmond, Surrey, England.
1943 - Toni Tennille. From husband-and-wife duo The Captain and Tennille who had the 1980 US No. 1 single 'Do That To Me One More Time' and the hit 'Love Will Keep Us Together'. They divorced in July 2014. Born in Montgomery, Alabama.
1951 - Chris Frantz. American musician, drummer, with Talking Heads, who had the 1983 US No. 9 single 'Burning Down The House', 1985 UK No. 6 single 'Road To Nowhere'. Born in the Army hospital at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
1951 - Philip Bailey. American R&B, soul, gospel and funk singer, songwriter with Earth, Wind & Fire, who had the 1975 US No. 1 single 'Shining Star', and the 1981 UK No. 3 single 'Let's Groove'. The band has received 20 Grammy nominations and were the first African-American act to sell out Madison Square Garden. As a solo artist he scored the 1985 UK No. 1 single 'Easy Lover' a duet with Phil Collins. Born in Denver, Colorado.
1953 - Billy Burnette. Guitarist for Fleetwood Mac. Born in Memphis, Tennessee.
