Today in 1956, the CBS Radio Network premiered Alan Freed’s “Rock and Roll Dance Party.”

The number one single today in 1958:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWBljCO0JQk&feature=fvst

Today in 1962, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards met someone who called himself Elmo Lewis. His real name was Brian Jones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a7cHPy04s8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfGYSHy1jQs

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

Let’s count down the top five singles from today in 1970:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqP3wT5lpa4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G58AErZSNfo

Birthdays begin with Billie Holiday:

Jethro Tull guitarist Mick Abrahams …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsCyC1dZiN8

… was born the same day as Jefferson Airplane drummer Spencer Dryden:

John Oates of Hall and Oates:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0LPNJUGnT8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4igyw4xEDc

Bruce Gary had The Knack for playing drums:

Also happy birthday to Jim Rockford and Capt. John F.X. McIntyre, M.D.