The number one single today in 1958:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKn6h2x5IcY

Today in 1963, the producers of CBS-TV’s Ed Sullivan Shew told Bob Dylan he couldn’t perform his “Talking John Birch Society Blues” because it mocked the U.S. military.

So he didn’t. He walked out of rehearsals and didn’t appear on the show.

The number one album today in 1973 was Led Zeppelin’s “Houses of the Holy”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5s9illHQlc

Birthdays today begin with Burt Bacharach, who you may have never heard sing, but you’ve heard plenty of his work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Dgw_LSJ5w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmmTDOY2hYY&ob=av2n

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XpAuu8G3Wk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnp7Uwf1o3c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYtbCjV7dFk

The helpful Billy Swan:

Willie Parnell, singer for Archie Bell and the Drells (does that make him Parnell a Drell?):

Ian McLagen of the Faces, best known when Rod Stewart sang and Ronnie Wood played for them:

youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiAypzL9dFk

And Billy Squier:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLHc-yIAPbg