On This Date in Music

1964 - Ring Of Fire, The Best of Johnny Cash, became the first No. 1 album when Billboard debuted their Country Album Chart. It was his sixteenth album in total and the first compilations album by Cash. (I know it’s not rock, but it’s totally worthy of mention.)

 

 

1967 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded 'Purple Haze' at De Lane Lea studios in London. Hendrix later stated 'The Purple Haze,' was about a dream he had and that he was walking under the sea.