On This Date In Music

1967 - Jimi Hendrix's debut LP, Are You Experienced? entered the Billboard Hot 200 album chart, where it stayed for 106 weeks, including 77 weeks in the Top 40. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it No. 15 on their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and two years later it was selected for permanent preservation in the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress in the United States.

 

 

1972 - Three Dog Night's "Black And White" hits No. 1, where it will stay for one week.

 1978 - Boston's second album, Don't Look Back, hits No. 1 in America.