>Today is the 51st anniversary of what I used to consider the greatest radio station on the planet in its best format:

Since WLS didn’t convert from country (they were known as the “Prairie Farmer”) to top 40 until 1960, Link Wray would have been a golden oldie, not on the weekly Silver Dollar Survey:

… who was born the same day as the Kinks drummer Bob Henrit:

… who was born one year earlier than Lesley Gore:

Also with a birthday is Lou Gramm of Foreigner, one of the name-brand rock groups of the ’70s and ’80s: