On This Date In Music

1956 - Jay Hawkins records "I Put A Spell On You."

1958 - The Monotones release "Book Of Love."

1961 - The Miracles, 'Shop Around' became Motown Record's first million-selling single. It was also the label's first No. 1 hit on Billboard's R&B singles chart. In the following ten years, The Miracles would have six more million sellers.

1977 - Pink Floyd released their tenth studio album Animals in the US, where it reached No. 3 in the charts. The album's cover image, a pig floating between two chimneys on Battersea Power Station, was conceived by bassist Roger Waters and realized by long-time design and photographic collaborators Hipgnosis.

2015 - ”Weird Al" Yankovic becomes the first-ever guest editor at MAD magazine when it is announced that he will be assisting with issue #533. “A lot of people consider what I do sort of the audio equivalent of Mad magazine,” said Yankovic.
Yankovic’s experience at Mad revolved around creativity. He used “things on the magazine that were too horrible to actually record on an album.”

“There is an article called ‘Pages from Weird Al’s Notebook,’ which are kind of bad ideas on purpose,” Yankovic said. “It’s like it’s too horrible to record but good enough for Mad magazine.”