On This Date in Music

1941 - The world's first commercial FM radio station, Nashville's W47NV, begins broadcasting. Later renamed WSM-FM.

1973 - Pink Floyd released their eighth studio album The Dark Side Of The Moon in the US. It remained in the US charts for 741 discontinuous weeks from 1973 to 1988, longer than any other album in history. After an inauspicious No. 95 start on the US charts, it moved to the Billboard Top Pop Catalog Chart, the album notched up a further 759 weeks, and had reached a total of over 1,500 weeks on the combined charts by May 2006. With an estimated 45 million copies sold, it is Pink Floyd's most commercially successful album and one of the best-selling albums worldwide.

1975 - The Eagles went to No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'Best Of My Love', the first of five US No. 1's for the band. The song was included on their 1974 album On the Border and was released as the third single from the album.

1979 - The Coca-Cola Company introduces Mello Yello as a competitor to Pepsi's Mountain Dew in the urine-colored soda category. Donovan tries to sell them on using his song "Mellow Yellow" in their advertising, but the company declines.

 

Donovan - Mellow Yellow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfaNi3WrTC0