On This Date In Music

1818 - Josef Mohr, an assistant pastor of a St. Nicholas chapel in Oberndorf, Austria takes a ‘poem’ he had written previously to an amateur composer friend, Franz Xaver Gruber, who puts the poem to music. That night at Midnight Mass he introduces a new Christmas song: "Stille Nacht!" better known as "Silent Night."

 

1976 - The Eagles sixth album, Hotel California spent the first of eight non-consecutive weeks at the top of the Billboard chart. The band's first LP with Joe Walsh and last with bassist Randy Meisner which has now sold over 34 million copies worldwide.

1988 - Hair metal reaches its apogee as Poison's power ballad "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" hits No. 1 in the US. It stays for three weeks.