Category: Music

The Rolling Stones had a big day today in 1963: They made their first TV appearance and released their first single:

The number one song today in 1975 (pictured with the official tractor of Roesch Farms):

Five years later, Gary Numan drove his way to number nine:

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Not that my parents were paying attention, but the number one song two days into my life was:

Twenty-eight years later, the number one song was by a group that sang about aging nearly two decades earlier:

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I was one day old when the Rolling Stones released “Satisfaction”:

Four years later, the Beatles released “The Ballad of John and Yoko”:

The short list of birthdays today includes Roger Brown, who played saxophone for the Average White Band …

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What, you ask, was the number one song on this day in 1972? Your Lincoln dealer is glad you asked:

Birthdays today include Monty Python’s favorite saxophonist, Boots Randolph:

Curtis Mayfield:

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Today in 1958, Alan Freed joined WABC radio in New York, one of the great 50,000-watt rock stations of the AM era.

Birthdays include Captain Beefheart, known to his parents as Del Simmons:

Charles Miller, flutist and saxophonist for War:

One of Gladys Knight’s Pips, William Guest:

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An eclectic group of music anniversaries today:

1963: The number one song is Ray Baretto’s “El Watusi”:

1967: The Beatles release “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”:

1968: The number one song is Simon & Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson”:

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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 eight single today in 1969 …

… the same day John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded …

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Two more Beatles anniversaries today: “Love Me Do” hit number one in 1964 …

… four years before the Beatles started work on their only double album. Perhaps that work was so hard that they couldn’t think of a more original title than: “The Beatles.” You may know it better, however, as “the White Album”:

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