We started and ended with jazz yesterday, so it’s worth noting that today is the anniversary of the release of the first jazz record, “Darktown Strutters Ball”:

The number nine …

… seven …

… and five singles today in 1969:

Birthdays begin with Johnny Paycheck, who sang something everyone who’s ever worked for a living wanted to say at at least one point:

Mick Ralphs played guitar for Mott the Hoople …

… and Bad Company:

John “Bonzo” Bonham, drummer for Led Zeppelin …

… was born the same day as Mike Edwards of ELO:

Vicki Sue Robinson was a one-hit wonder of the ’70s:

This Corey Hart is not the Brewers’ right fielder/first baseman but the two-hit wonder of the 1980s, and arguably winner of the Young Harrison Ford Lookalike Contest:

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