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1949 Bill "Hoss" Allen and Gene Nobles play R&B on WLAC, Nashville, Dewey Phillips begins broadcasting on WHBQ, Memphis.
1950 The Weavers score a double-sided hit with "Tzena, Tzena, Tzena" (#2) b/w Lead Belly's "Goodnight Irene" (#1 for 13 weeks).
1951 Sam Phillips records "Rocket 88" with singer Jackie Brenston and Ike Turner's band. for Chess records. This recording is widely considered the first rock and roll record.
1952 Sam Phillips launches his own label, Sun Records, with the release of "Drivin' Slow" by saxophonist Johnny London.
1956 Little Willie John records his classic "Fever" at King Records studio in Cincinnati, Ohio. In May, it will enter the R&B chart, which it will top for five weeks.
1956 'Rock and Rollin' With Fats Domino', his first long-playing album, is released on the Imperial label.
1956 Gene Vincent auditions for 'Country Showtime,' a local radio-station talent in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He performs Elvis Presley songs and an original, "Be-Bop-A-Lula," a tape of which lands him a contract with Capitol Records.
1957 "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," the second single by Jerry Lee Lewis, is released on Sun Records.
1958 Sam Cooke, the singer's debut album, is released on the Keen label. It reaches #16 on Billboard's album chart.
1958 Scotty Moore and Bill Black leave Presley in a dispute over money. Moore releases a single ("Have Guitar Will Travel"), credited to the Scotty Moore Trio.
1959 George Jones reaches #1 on the Country chart with "White Lightning".
1960 Loretta Lynn records "I'm A Honky Tonk Girl"; Jim Reeves stays at #1 for 14 weeks with "He'll Have To Go"
1964 Recording sessions for the Vee-Jay label find Little Richard returning to his rock and roll roots with a then-unknown Jimi Hendrix on guitar.
1970 Joni Mitchell's Ladies of the Canyon, featuring "Big Yellow Taxi," enters the Top 30 on the Billboard album chart.
1971 Carole King's 'Tapestry', produced by Lou Adler, spends the first of fifteen weeks at the top of the album chart.
1971 'Time' puts James Taylor on its cover shortly before the release of his hotly anticipated third album, Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon. Its first single, "You've Got a Friend" (written by Carole King), hits #1 on July 31st.
1972 The Eagles record their eponymous debut album with producer-engineer Glyn Johns in London.
1973 The Session, an album of rerecorded oldies that finds Jerry Lee Lewis accompanied by such British luminaries as Peter Frampton and Alvin Lee, reaches #37. It is the highest-charting album of his career.
1975 Carole King hits #9 with "Nightingale".
1975 "The Best of My Love" becomes the Eagles' first #1 hit and million-selling single. Four more will follow: "One of These Nights" (1975), "New Kid in Town" (1977), "Hotel California" (1977) and "Heartache Tonight" (1979).
1991 'Rock On!', the album that Del Shannon had been working on at the time of his death, is posthumously released.
1994 Ray Charles wins the 12th Grammy of his career, this one for Best Male R&B Performance ("A Song for You").
1995 From the Cradle, an album of blues interpretations released the previous fall, wins Eric Clapton a Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS
1810 - Frederic Chopin, Poland, composer/pianist (Concert in F Minor) [NS]
1903 - Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke, Iowa, jazz cornetist (In a Mist)
1904 - Glenn Miller, bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra-In the Mood)
1917 - Dinah Shore, Winchester Tenn, singer (See the USA in a Chevrolet)
1927 - Harry Belafonte, Harlem NYC, calypso singer (Banana Boat Song, Buck and the Preacher)
1929 - Sonny James, singer (Young Love, Running Bear)
1930 - Pierre Max Dubois, composer
1932 - Jacques Leduc, composer
1933 - Istvan Lang, composer
1934 - Jim "Ed" Brown, Sparkman Ark, country singer (Nashville on the Road)
1939 - Leo Brouwer, composer
1939 - Warren Davis, rocker (Monotones)
1940 - Ralph Towner, rocker (Oregon)
1942 - Jerry Fischer, rocker (Blood, Sweat and Tears)
1943 - Piet Veerman, Dutch rock vocalist/guitarist (Cats-Sailin' Home)
1944 - Roger Daltry, (The Who)
1944 - Mike D'Abo, rock vocalist (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn)
1945 - Burning Spear, [Winston Rodney], Jamaican reggae singer
1946 - Tony Ashton, Blackburn England, rocker (Ashton, Gardner and Dyke)
1948 - Norman Connors, singer (You Are My Starship)
1954 - Janis Gill, Torrance Cal, singer (Sweethearts of Rodeo-Midnight Girl)
1955 - Jimmy Fortune, Newport News Va, singer (Statler Bros-Class of '57)
1957 - Jon Carroll, Wash DC, vocalist (Starland Vocal Band-Afternoon Delight)
1961 - Davis Daniel, Arlington Heights Ill, country singer
1962 - Bill Leen, rocker (Gin Blossoms)
1963 - Robert James Affuso, Newburgh NY, rock drummer (Skid Row-Psycho Love)
1964 - Jennifer McCarters, Sevierville Tn, singer (McCarters-The Gift)
1966 - Clinton Gregory, singer
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