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1957 – Can you imagine that legendary Buddy Holly and the Crickets were to audition for Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts, but they were rejected.
1963 – The Beatles first LP was released titled Please Please Me and it rose to the top of the UK album chart and stayed there for an impressive 30 weeks.
1965 – The Byrds made their TV debut on NBC’s Hullabaloo with the song “Mr. Tamborine Man”.
1967 – The Bee Gees made their TV debut in the U.K. on Top of the Pops singing “New York Mining Disaster 1941”. I think this is one of the least remembered songs by them so I have included it here. It is interesting to note that in 1941 there was no mining disaster in New York but one occurred in McIntire, Pennsylvania, killing six people.
1974 – “The Show Must Go On” was the last Top Twenty Hit and Gold single for the band Three Dog Night.
1989 – Legendary singer Roy Orbison was inducted into the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame with Eric Clapton presenting the award to his widow, Barbara.
1990 – Ritchie Valens is best known for the song “La Bamba” was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 31 years after his death.
Bee Gees were always a favorite of mine.
That’s a very interesting post about the history of music!
The day the music died. Why fly in a snow storm>? What would motivate people to have to be somewhere at a specific time?
Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper were taken from us too soon.
Great writeup for the music history buffs. Some of the singers had rather sad lives.
I was so crazy about the Bee Gees and the Beatles.