On This Date In Music

1964 - The Temptations release "The Way You Do The Things You Do."

1971 - Dawn started a three week run at No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'Knock Three Times', the group's first No. 1.

1988 - The California Raisins' "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" peaks at No. 84 on Billboard's Hot 100.

1991 - John Sebastian, owner and general manager of KLSK FM in Albuquerque, New Mexico, played Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway To Heaven' for twenty-four solid hours to inaugurate a format change to Classic Rock. It plays more than 200 times. Police showed up with guns drawn: once after a listener reported that the DJ had apparently suffered a heart attack, and later because of suspicion that, this being eight days into the Gulf War, the radio station had been taken hostage by terrorists dispatched by Saddam Hussein.

2000 - Santana started a three week run at No. 1 on the US album chart with 'Supernatural'. The album which went on to win eight Grammy awards spent a total of nine weeks at No. 1 during this year.