There seems to be a blue theme today, starting with the first birthday, Harold Melvin, who had Blue Notes:
Carly Simon:
Presty the DJ for June 24
Proving that there is no accounting for taste, I present the number six song today in 1972:
Twenty years later, Billy Joel got an honorary diploma … from Hicksville High School in New York (where he attended but was one English credit short of graduating due to oversleeping the day of the final):
Presty the DJ for June 23
Today in 1956, perhaps the first traffic safety song, “Transfusion,” reached number eight:
Today in 1975 was not a good day for Alice Cooper, who broke six ribs after falling off a stage in Vancouver:
Today in 1979, the Knack released “My Sharona”:
Presty the DJ for June 22
Today in 1959, along came Jones to peak at number nine:
Today in 1968, here came the Judge to peak at number 88:
Today in 1985, Glenn Frey may have felt the “Smuggler’s Blues” because it peaked at number 12:
Presty the DJ for June 21
Today’s takeaway is that in 1982, Paul McCartney released “Take It Away”:
Birthdays today start with the great Lalo Schifrin:
Presty the DJ for June 20
Birthdays today begin with guitarist Chet Atkins:
Bobby Nunn of the Coasters:
Presty the DJ for June 19
Nothing but birthdays today, beginning with Tommy DeVito of the Four Seasons:
Presty the DJ for June 18
Today in 1967 was the Monterey International Pop Festival:
Happy birthday first to Paul McCartney:
A taste of 1976
Upper Midwest Airchecks brings us the day that was two weeks after my 11th birthday and two weeks and three days before the Bicentennial:
Presty the DJ for June 17
The number five song today in 1967 …
… was 27 spots higher than this song reached in 1978:
Birthdays start with Jerry Fielding, who composed the theme music to …
