May 14: Bo Diddley to Frank Sinatra, some cool stuff...

May 14, 1955:

 Bo Diddley's tune "Bo Diddley" debuts on the US R&B chart, where it will stay for 18 weeks, climbing to #1...

 The song will become his most successful record and introduces what will be known as the Bo Diddley beat…

May 14, 1966:  

The Kingsmen's "Louie Louie" enters the Billboard Hot 100 for the ninth time…But, who wrote the tune and recorded it first?

http://tropicaljon.blogspot.com/2013/04/april-11-1935-richard-berry-originator.html

The Kingsmen cover  only stayed on the charts for two weeks, going to #97. When it was first released in 1963, it made it to #2…

May 14, 1968: The Rascals record "People Got To Be Free", a song written by the group because of the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy. It will become their fourth and final million-selling single…

https://youtu.be/sastKEBZhXY

May 14, 1983: Spandau Ballet topped the UK album chart with their third studio LP, "True". The title track spent four weeks at #1 on the UK singles charts, and went to #4 in America. Badazz  jam…

https://youtu.be/ldXgK71pgxs

MAY 14, 1988: Frank Sinatra died at the age of 82 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills. He had his first hit in 1940 and went on to have over 30 US and 40 UK Top 40 singles…

Cool, Frank, R.I.P. Man…

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DECEMBER 30, 1928: BO DIDDLEY HITS THE PLANET!!!

DECEMBER 30, 1928:

BO DIDDLEY HITS THE PLANET!!!

Happy Birthday Bo ~ R.I.P.

 

Ellas Otha Bates

 (December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008)

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January 21st in The Evolution of Rock ‘n Roll: Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Del Shannon, Joey Dee, The Byrds, Stevie Wonder and John Lennon…

January 21, 1955: Chess releases Chuck Berry's "Maybelline" …

January 21, 1955: Chess releases  Bo Diddley's "Bo Diddley” on Chess Record's subsidiary label, Checker…

January 21, 1957: Chuck Berry records "School Days" on Chess Records…

January 21, 1961: Del Shannon records his first single, "Runaway", which will top the US charts by April. The song was written by Shannon and keyboardist Max Crook, and would later be rated as #466 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time…

January 21, 1962: Peppermint Twist Part I (Joey Dee & The Starliters) was a hit…

January 21, 1965:The Byrds record "Mr. Tambourine Man" at Columbia Records' Hollywood Studios. The song was produced by Doris Day's son Terry Melcher, who replaced the rest of the group with session musicians to back Jim McGuinn and his 12 string Rickenbacker guitar…

January 21, 1973: Superstition (Stevie Wonder) was a hit…

January 21, 1984: "Nobody Told Me," by John Lennon, from the posthumously released 'Milk and Honey' album, cracks the Top Forty. It will peak at #5 and be the last of 13 charting singles by Lennon spanning 15 years…

January 21^st

in The Evolution of Rock ‘n Roll!!!

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