On This Date In Music
1954 - Bill Haley and His Comets' "Rock Around The Clock" is released for the first time. It stalls on the charts, but becomes a hit a year later when it is used in the movie Blackboard Jungle.
1967 - The Young Rascals started a two week run at No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'Groovin’.
1978 - Wings' "With A Little Luck" hits No. 1 in America.
Born:
1959 - Israel Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole or IZ, a Native Hawaiian singer-songwriter, musician and Hawaiian sovereignty activist. His 1993 medley of ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World’ was featured in several films, television programs, and television commercials. He died on 6.26.1997. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwo’ole - Somewhere over the Rainbow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I
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