A Few Monster Hits From This Date In The Evolution of Rock ‘n Roll…
January 18, 1955: The Robins hit #79 with "Smokey Joe's Cafe"…
January 18, 1961: Rosie and the Originals
hit #1 with "Angel Baby"…
January 18, 1969: Young-Holt Unlimited hits #3 with "Soulful Strut"…
AND THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMIN’!!!
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January 23, 1956: Producer and talent scout Ralph Bass travels to Macon to sign James Brown to the King/Federal label, beating Leonard Chess (of Chess Records) to the punch…
As a signing bonus, they receive $200. Their first effort, "Please, Please, Please", would become a million seller later in the year, but their next nine releases failed to live up to the success of their debut…
January 23, 1959: The "Winter Dance Party," an ill-advised tour through the frigid Midwest, is launched at George Devine's Million Dollar Ballroom in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Buddy Holly, who has parted ways with the Crickets, is the headliner…
January 23, 1961: "Angel Baby" by Rosie & the Originals goes to #5…
January 23, 1986: Chuck Berry is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the first induction dinner, held in New York City. He is inducted by Rolling Stone Keith Richards, who said, "It's hard for me to induct Chuck Berry, because I lifted every lick he ever played!"…
January 23rd:
A GREAT DAY IN ROCK AND ROLL FOR SOME, A SAD ONE FOR OTHERS...
R.I.P. BUDDY…
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Rosie and the Originals were a 1960s musical group best known for her single Angel Baby…
Rosie Hamlin wrote the lyrics for Angel Baby as a poem when she was 14 years old and still attending Mission Bay High School in San Diego, California…
Lonely Blue Nights was an “almost hit” on Highland records and got Rosie signed to Brunswick, but just didn’t have “enough” to make her career take off...
—She was only 16 years at time!
Rosie and the Originals were first elected Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one-hit wonders in 1995...
In 2000, Ace Records released Angel Baby Revisited with previously unreleased cuts and lost materials…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ROSIE!
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