| 64 | years ago | 1961 | The Tokens' The Lion Sleeps Tonight is released. |
| 61 | years ago | 1964 | Trumpeter Walter Kibby of Fishbone is born. |
| 60 | years ago | 1965 | James Brown's I Got You enters both the pop and R&B charts. The song will reach #1 R&B and #3 pop and will become the Godfather of Soul's most enduring and most readily identifiable songs. |
| 60 | years ago | 1965 | The McCoys' Fever is released. |
| 57 | years ago | 1968 | Rolling Stone Brian Jones buys Cotchford Farms in Sussex, England where A.A. Milne wrote Winnie the Pooh. There are statues of Pooh characters on the grounds. |
| 57 | years ago | 1968 | The Beatles' animated movie Yellow Submarine premieres nationally. |
| 54 | years ago | 1971 | Three Dog Night's Old Fashioned Love Song is released. |
| 52 | years ago | 1973 | Jerry Lee Lewis, Jr. is killed in a highway accident near Hernando, Mississippi. Just several days earlier, the 19-year-old had appeared on TV's Midnight Special as a drummer in his father's band. In 1962, the elder Lewis' only other son, Steven Allen, drowned in the family swimming pool. |
| 52 | years ago | 1973 | Peter, Paul and Mary's In The Wind LP goes gold. |
| 51 | years ago | 1974 | An imposter posing as Deep Purple guitar player Ritchie Blackmore smashes up a borrowed Porsche in Iowa City; the real Ritchie Blackmore was playing a concert in San Francisco. |
| 47 | years ago | 1978 | Nikolai Fraiture, bassist for The Strokes, is born in New York City. |
| 45 | years ago | 1980 | Cashing in on the resurgence of his old tribal stomp sound, glitter-ear rock star Gary Glitter launches a comeback tour of the U.K. in Norwich's Cromwell's Club. The next day, he releases his first record in several years, What Your Mama Don't See. |
| 33 | years ago | 1992 | Elton John performs in Mexico for the first time. 90,000 people attend the concert in Mexico City. |
| 26 | years ago | 1999 | Drummer R.J. Vealey of the Atlanta Rhythm Section dies of a massive heart attack. He collapsed 10 minutes after their show in Orlando, Florida. Vealey was 37 and had joined the band in 1995. |
| 19 | years ago | 2006 | U. S. District Court Judge Samuel Kent issues a restraining order telling Robert Akard to shut down his Web site until a dispute with Jimmy Buffett is resolved. Buffett had filed suit against Akard for unlawfully selling bootleg and marked-up Buffett items like T-shirts. Akard ignores the order and ends up spending a few hours in jail for contempt. Ultimately, the suit from Buffett is settled. |
| 19 | years ago | 2006 | WRNO, “The Rock of New Orleans” for decades, switches to a news/talk format. The morning show features former WKZN deejay Bo Walker and failed New Orleans mayoral candidate Rob Couhig. The local line-up also includes former TV newswoman Andre Trevigne and former Louisiana Commisioner of Insurance Jim Brown, who had served a six-month jail term earlier in the decade for lying to federal agents during an investigation. Syndicated hosts Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and Dave Ramsey are also on the station’s new program schedule. The last song before the format switch is The End by The Doors, which was released in 1967, the year WRNO first went on the air. |
| 15 | years ago | 2010 | Aaron Neville marries photographer Sarah Friedman at New York's Eleven Madison Park restaurant. They met in New Orleans in 2008 when People magazine sent her to photograph the Neville Brothers. |