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Musical News past- what happened this month in musical history?
Jan Birthdays in Music- Who do u share a birthday with?
Musical Deaths- Who died this month in Musical history?
Dj Spotlight - Dj Doug Fresh
What Movies are hot this month.. Jan
Jokes of the month- provided by Yadida
Januaries Computing introducing the Readius
Update on James Brown

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Viewpoint-NY Emceeing is Dead

Blood Manor - NYC's Haunted sensation

Women On Wax - Some of the Worlds Women Dj Awards in NYC.. check it out and read about contestants.

Record pools, what are they?. how do you break into the music biz?

Word on the Street-Africa B brokers Peace

Musical Warnings - Save Internet Radio
Urgent Call to Dj's in April

Red Zone Blog News

March Warnings - Save Internet Radio
Urgent Call to Dj's in April

Music Charts for April Music Countdown for what is hot in the streets.

Do you want to get into the Music Business?  Check what's happening in the Circle this month?

Sure's Musical news: Week 1, Week 2, Week 3

The One day Scoop-find out about the Music Industry

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Historical facts about the Chopsticks and History of Asian eating

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Computers - What is it that you should look for?

What is the craziest website?  Well how about this one!!

Printers - 3-D printing, is it the new move for printing.

 Double Layer DVD Drives

Laptop Security - some tips for Laptops.

Laptops - Are they the new addition to today's Dj's?

The iPhone is out now, for news, for specs click.

Watch out i-Phone, introducing Readius

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What is Lightscribe technology?  What does it do?  Does it work on CD/DVD?
 

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1945, The Andrews Sisters' "Rum & Coca Cola" is the #1 pop hit and will become the biggest seller of the year …

1956, Buddy Holly records for the first time for Decca at a session in Nashville …

1958, in a continuation of the nation's fascination with tropical hooch, the Champs release "Tequila" which promptly rises to the top of the pop chart … two band members Jim Seals and Dash Crofts will later form the duo Seals & Crofts and score big hits in the '70s with "Hummingbird" and "Summer Breeze" … Little Richard announces that he is retiring from music at the peak of his popularity to become a minister … the pomaded rocker will flip-flop between his sacred and profane predilections in the coming years …

1960, Jimmie Jones' hit "Handy Man" enters the pop chart ultimately rising to the #3 slot … 17 years later James Taylor will resuscitate the tune and take it to #4 …

1961, husband-and-wife writing team Carole King and Jerry Goffin score their first of many #1 hits with The Shirelles' "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" … King plays drum on the session … it's nearly 10 years later that she scores her own solo #1 hit with "It's Too Late," a single from her monster album, Tapestry …

1963, Skeeter Davis makes it to 99 on the Top 100 with "The End of the World" …

1964, Indiana's governor declares that the party-favorite single "Louie Louie" by The Kingsmen includes pornographic lyrics … the FCC launches an investigation and finds "the record is unintelligible at any speed we played it" …

1965, Brit rocker P.J. Proby splits his pants during a London show … the incident gets a big reaction from the crowd and Proby makes the ripping riff a permanent part of his act …

1967, Aretha Franklin lays down her first tracks for Atlantic at FAME studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama … she waxes the steaming ballad "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" … the Muscle Shoals sessions are the first to fully exploit Franklin's soulful vocal skills … at her former label, Columbia, she had been given syrupy, string-laden ballads to sing … while browsing in a London antique shop, John Lennon comes across a 19th century circus poster that incorporates most of what will become the lyrics of "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" …

1969, The Beatles perform their famous rooftop concert atop the Apple corporate headquarters for the film Let it Be … it turns out to be the band's last live appearance … after playing a set that includes "Don't Let Me Down" and "Get Back," John Lennon announces, "I'd like to say thank you in behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we passed the audition" …

1970, John Lennon and Phil Spector write and record the single "Instant Karma" in a single day … the record will eventually rise to #3 on the pop chart …

1973, KISS performs their first live show at the Coventry Club in Queens … they have yet to develop their trademark look … Paul Stanley will later characterize the band's appearance as a "New York Dolls look" …

1977, Fleetwood Mac guitarist Peter Green is dispatched to the funny farm following an incident in which he attacked an accountant attempting to deliver a royalty check for $30,000 … turns out Green didn't want the green …

1978, workers at the EMI record plant in Britain take offense at the title of a Buzzcocks' single and refuse to press it … the offending title is "Oh S**t" … the record eventually does get pressed and the flip side, "What Do I Get?" becomes a #1 smash hit in the U.K. …

1979, The Cars are voted the Best New Band of the Year in the Rolling Stone annual reader’s poll …

1980, the original Ants separate from Adam …

1984, Michael Jackson's hair is ignited by pyrotechnics while filming a commercial for Pepsi … he suffers scalp and neck burns requiring hospitalization … Jackson will recover and the commercial will eventually be aired but sans footage of Michael in flames … the event is later parodied in Neil Young's video "This Note's for You" and in Eminem's clip "Just Lose It" …

1985, the single "We Are The World" is recorded in L.A. by 46 rock stars to raise money for hunger relief worldwide …

1988, The Cars reach the end of the road …

1992, modern blues titan, Willie Dixon, dies of heart failure … he worked as a producer, talent scout, and house bassist for the Chess brothers in Chicago and wrote some of the great songs of the electric-blues era including "Hoochie Coochie Man" and "Little Red Rooster," his tunes were often covered by British bands such as The Stones and Led Zep who revered his work … Nirvana's Nevermind ascends for the second time to the top of the Billboard album chart …

1993, Willie Nelson reaches a settlement with the IRS in which the feds keep $3.6 million worth of previously seized assets and the singer agrees to kick in another $5.4 million … that will settle what the government reckons is a $13.1 million tax bill … Warner Brothers announces that rapper Ice-T has been released from his recording contract … this comes in the wake of the furor over his song "Cop Killer" …

1995, Ken Jensen, drummer for the ominously named Vancouver hardcore punk outfit D.O.A., is incinerated in a house fire that also destroys much of the band's gear … he was D.O.A.'s fifth drummer and had worked on the album 13 Flavors of Doom before his demise …

1998, The Capeman, Paul Simon's Broadway musical about a 1950s Spanish Harlem murder, opens two weeks late and is universally loathed by the critics … though they like the musical's mélange of doo-wop and Latin-tinged tunes, they hate the story and the show quickly folds …

1999, Pat Boone announces the formation of his Gold Records label … he will only sign artists 45 and older …

2000, rapper Jay-Z is indicted on two assault charges following the stabbing of Lance "Un" Rivera, a record executive … he is later exonerated and goes on to become a record executive himself …

2001, a 15-year-old girl dies of a heart attack at a Sydney, Australia, concert when Limp Bizkit takes the stage and the crowd surges forward …

2004, James Brown is arrested on charges of domestic violence … this arrest follows a number of scrapes with the law including a 2-1/2-year prison term he served after a 1988 arrest on drug and assault charges and a conviction on a drug-related offense in 1998 for which he received a pardon …

2005, New York hip-hop station Hot 97 fires producer Rick Delgado for creating and airing a parody of the 1985 single "We Are the World" named "The Tsunami Song" … peppered with racially charged lyrics and trivializing the Asian disaster, the song is aired by radio personality Todd Lynn who is also fired while host Miss Jones and two staff members are suspended for two weeks … the station’s corporate parent company announces that it will donate $1 million to tsunami relief …

2006, a letter written by Don Law, the producer of Robert Johnson’s 1936 and 1937 San Antonio recording sessions, is unearthed providing and confirming valuable details of the enigmatic blues pioneer’s sessions …

1957, Johnny Cash hits network TV for the first time as a guest on The Jackie Gleason Show . . .

1959, armed with naught but an acoustic guitar and a tape recorder, Buddy Holly holes up in his New York apartment to lay down the last tracks he will ever record . . . tunes include "Crying, Waiting, Hoping" and "Peggy Sue Got Married" . . . Coral Records mixes in backing instrumentation and releases the songs posthumously . . .

1960, Sam Cooke signs his record deal with RCA Records . . .

1966, Nancy Sinatra, the most famous fruit of Frank's loins, enters the Hot 100 for the second time with the timeless cheek and brassy cool of "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" . . .

1970, Dr. Robert Moog introduces the Mini Moog . . .

1973, Jerry Lee Lewis is invited to play the Grand Ole Opry with the proviso that he neither perform rock 'n' roll tunes nor utter profanities . . . The Killer proceeds to belt out "Great Balls of Fire," "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," and "Good Golly Miss Molly" and then announces that he's a "rock and rolling, country and western, rhythm and blues singin' motherf****r" . . .

1974, Bob Dylan and The Band are the cause of a nine-mile-long traffic jam in the sunny state of Florida . . . the queue takes so long to clear up that many fans do not get into the Hollywood Sportatorium, located between Miami and Fort Lauderdale, until the show is halfway over . . .

1980, Saturday Night Live comedian John Belushi busts out his rawest Blues Brothers chops in a post-birthday jam with The Dead Boys at The Whisky A Go Go in Los Angeles . . .

1981, Plasmatics singer and former erotic dancer-porn actress Wendy O. Williams is arrested in Milwaukee for becoming too intimate with a sledge hammer onstage . . . Ms. Williams—who typically performed adorned only in a G-string and two strategically placed strips of electrician's tape—resists arrest valiantly and receives a 12-stitch head wound for her efforts . . .

1982, a highly-soused Ozzy Osbourne gnaws the head off a bat that has been tossed onstage by a fan . . . Ozzy later says he thought it was a fake rubber model . . . legend has it that he is obliged to go through a course of rabies shots just to be safe . . . this same week bluesman and ex-disc jockey B.B. King makes record collectors drool as he donates his entire record collection to the University of Mississippi . . . the veritable audio treasure trove is B.B.'s effort to enrich the university's Center for the Study of Southern Culture and includes about 20,000 rare blues records . . .

1986, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame holds its first induction ceremony in New York City . . . started just three years prior, it will be nine more years before the Hall has a proper building . . .

1988, Nirvana records a ten-song demo tape with producer Jack Endino and with The Melvin's Dale Crover holding down the drumming responsibilities as a favor to the band . . . the six-hour session's tracks are never released as a collective album but will be spread across the Nirvana albums Bleach, Incesticide, From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah, With the Lights Out, and numerous bootleg CDs . . .

1991, he rocks his peers and the cash register at record stores: the L.L. Cool J album Mama Said Knock You Out is certified Platinum by the RIAA . . .

1993, the U.S. Supreme Court decides Tom Waits can keep the $2.6 million judgment awarded him in a lawsuit against Frito-Lay . . . the snack food company had asked to use Waits' song "Step Right Up" in an advertisement, but he declined the offer . . . in a moment of overwhelming stupidity, Frito-Lay hired a Tom Waits-soundalike to record a song strikingly similar to "Step Right Up" and used it in the commercial . . . ironically, Waits wrote and recorded the song as "an indictment of advertising" and it contains the lyric "What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away" . . .

1998, James Brown gets out of the hospital . . . he has been undergoing treatment for addiction to painkillers . . .

2001, Bob Dylan takes the Best Original Song award at the Golden Globes . . . this same week Nelly Furtado makes a splash with her debut album Whoa, Nelly! which is nominated for five Juno Awards . . .

2002, it is announced by Virgin Records that they are going to fork out 28 million smackers to be free of Mariah Carey and her $80 million contract for several albums . . . Carey has undergone a woeful personal and professional collapse with rambling suicidal missives on her website, a laughably bad movie, and a poor-selling soundtrack—her first record with Virgin . . .

2003, Phil Spector is arrested on suspicion of murdering his girlfiend Lana Clarkson . . .

2005, Camper Van Beethoven is robbed again . . . just three months after having their equipment stolen in Montreal, their gear disappears once more, this time from a hotel parking lot in Dallas . . . the trailer was backed up against a parking deck wall so the doors would not open . . . the thieves cut through the side of the trailer and helped themselves . . . the band even had a security guard . . . a $1,000 reward is offered for information leading to the recovery of their gear . . .

2006, soul man Wilson Pickett dies of a heart attack . . .

1940. Major E.H. Armstrong demonstrated his invention of the "FM" radio before the U. S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). One year later, in 1941, the first commericial FM transmitter went into operation.

1959, Berry Gordy borrows $800 to found the Motown record empire . . .

1964, Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire becomes the first country LP to top the Billboard pop chart . . . rumors that the song was written after a weeklong binge on Cajun cuisine and Louisiana Hot Sauce are completely unfounded . . . The Beatles perform at the opulent Olympia Theater in Paris . . . the age-old music hall is not prepared for rock 'n' roll and its electrical system blows out three times during the concert . . . a backstage argument involving a French photographer adds to the turmoil, resulting in an onstage fistfight that nearly claims George’s guitar as a victim - at least that’s the story as it’s been told (and improved upon through the years) . . . the truth is that in the face of icy reviews, Brian Somerville, the Beatles’ new press officer, creates a fistfight backstage to generate extra publicity . . . George’s unscathed guitar, obviously traumatized by the near thrashing it might have received, remains close-mouthed on the subject, but was reported to have "gently wept" years later . . .

1966, British popster and future glam rocker David Jones changes his name to David Bowie in an effort to avoid confusion with The Monkees’ Davy Jones. For those uncertain, Jones is "the cute one," whereas Jones is "the pretty one. . ."

1967, The Rolling Stones appear on TV’s Ed Sullivan Show and are forced to change the lyrics of "Let’s Spend the Night Together" to "Let’s Spend Some Time Together" during the performance . . . even though the rebellious Jim Morrison of The Doors didn’t cave in to Sullivan’s puritanical demands, it may be argued that the more sage and financially astute Mick Jagger, a former scholarship student at the London School of Economics was not actually selling out - he was, in fact, buying in . . .

1967, in an unlikely bit of casting, Roy Orbison and Sheb Wooley (of "Purple People Eater" fame) are featured in the movie The Fastest Guitar Alive . . . Orbison plays a gold-smuggling Confederate spy who totes a bullet-spewing guitar . . . the movie also features seven of Orbison’s songs on the soundtrack . . .

1977, Rolling Stone Keith Richards is tried in London for possession of cocaine, found in his car after an accident, and fined £750 . . . apparently, drug-related auto accidents were much cheaper in those days . . . later in Canada, he will again be arrested for possession of heroin and cocaine and convicted of drug trafficking . . . bringing new meaning to the phrase, "let the punishment fit the crime," Richards is cruelly forced to play a benefit concert . . . to a pot-smoking audience no less . . . the inhumanity. . .

1978, The Sex Pistols squeeze off one last shot playing their final show at San Francisco’s Winterland . . .

1980, Paul McCartney gets popped in Japan for possession of grass . . . after spending 10 days in the slam, the Land of the Rising Sun sets on Paul’s sorry behind by deporting him . . . Macca later reports that he spent his time singing Beatles songs with fellow inmates . . . said the benighted Sir Paul, "I knew I wouldn’t be able to get anything to smoke over there. This stuff was too good to flush down the toilet, so I thought I’d take it with me."

1987, Frankie Goes to Hollywood - never to return again - begins what would be the band’s final tour in Manchester, England . . .

1991, country singer Johnny Paycheck is released from an Ohio prison after serving only two years of a seven to nine-year sentence for aggravated assault . . . Paycheck took his career and shoved it when he shot a man in the head in a bar in 1985 . . . before leaving office, a compassionate and forgiving Ohio governor Richard Celeste commutes Paycheck’s sentence (apparently after Johnny had cooled down a bit) . . . we have it on good but unsubstantiated authority that Mr. Paycheck really did feel bad about it for a spell . . .

1993, Bobby Brown is arrested in Augusta, GA, for simulating a sex act onstage . . . it’s his second arrest for the same offense . . .

1995, Michael Jackson, the self-proclaimed "King of Pop," prompted by unsubstantiated rumors of a video depicting him fooling around with a young boy, releases the following statement: "I will no longer stand by and watch reckless members of the media try to destroy my reputation" . . . proving once again that if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself . . . meanwhile, members of the press be warned: recklessness will no longer be tolerated . . . it takes focus and discipline to ruin a reputation . . . as Yoda says, "Do, or do not! There is no try." . . .

1999, Sean "Puffy" Combs and Dwight "Heavy D" Myers, along with the City University of New York (CUNY), are found negligent in a 1991 celebrity basketball game that killed nine people and injured 29 after angry, locked-out ticket holders charged the gym’s doors . . . Heavy D, who has paid out $791,899 in damages to the victims of the stampede over the years, is currently suing the National Union Fire Insurance Coinsurance Company for $1.5 mil for failing to pick up his considerable "freight" . . . Metallica files suit against lingerie company Victoria’s Secret claiming that its "Metallica" line of lip pencils constitutes trademark infringement . . . it seems that just as celebrities now wear their time in rehab at the Betty Ford Clinic as a badge of honor, being sued by Metallica holds similar status, thereby proving that you’ve arrived. . . on the planet . . . others named in lawsuits by the band include the French perfume company Guerlain, Napster, Amazon.com, tuxedo manufacturer West Mill (a licensee of Pierre Cardin), department stores Neiman-Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman, the University of Southern California, Indiana University, Yale University, and a manufacturer of alloy wheels . . . litigious Lars and his bandmates have also threatened legal action against the Swedish steelworkers union Metall over the rights to the Internet domain name Metallica.st . . . until this is resolved, we urge you not to write the word Metal and LICA, (the acronym for Long Island Contractors Association) too close together in public until we’ve had a chance to speak with our lawyers . . . just Musician’s Friend looking out for you, as ever . . .

2000, Sharon Osbourne announces she’ll no longer manage the Smashing Pumpkins . . . in a statement, the "Wizard of Ozzy" says, "It was with great pride and enthusiasm that I took on management of the Pumpkins back in October, but unfortunately I must resign today due to medical reasons - Billy Corgan (the Pumpkins’ frontman) was making me sick!" . . . one can only imagine what it would take to upset the gentle constitution of the wife of Black Sabbath’s singer and connoisseur of fresh fowl Ozzy Osbourne, whose reputation for interesting and amusing personal habits is proverbial . . . and yes, it was a very fresh bird . . . while going through airport security in Hawaii, Whitney Houston is caught with more than a half-ounce of pot in her purse . . . she hands the purse over to security personnel and then promptly marches off to catch her flight to San Francisco - no charges are filed . . . whether or not this proves that celebrities receive preferential treatment is irrelevant . . . Ms. Houston was clearly demonstrating that law or no law, the show must go on! . . . hats off to Whitney, a trouper in Hollywood’s finest tradition . . .

2002, in the tradition of Johnny Paycheck, Adam Ant (Stuart Goddard) is arrested at the Prince of Wales club in London and charged with possession of a firearm, criminal damage, and assault . . .

2003, Friday the 13th came on a Monday in ’03 for Pete Townshend, when as part of a sting on users of an Internet child porn site, Townshend is arrested at his home and his computer is seized ... the irony is that Townshend is an activist against child pornography and foolishly used his credit card to access the site merely to see how bad it was ... no child porn is found on Townshend’s computer or in his house ... he is given a reprimand and released . . .

1950, Sam Phillips opens the recording facility in Memphis that will later be named Sun Studio . . . considered by many to be the birthplace of rock 'n' roll, the studio will be the site of sessions by Elvis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Howlin’ Wolf and dozens of other rock and blues luminaries . . .

1953, Hank Williams dies on New Year’s Day of a drug and alcohol overdose . . . he was only 29 years old . . .

1961, at a New Year's Eve Ritchie Valens Memorial Concert in Long Beach, California, the Beach Boys play for the first time under that name . . . they previously had gone under the names Kenny and the Cadets, The Pendletons, and Carl and the Passions . . .

1962, Brenda Lee has a narrow escape from the flames, dashing into her burning Nashville home in an attempt to rescue her poodle Cee Cee . . . Lee is slightly injured, Cee Cee dies from smoke inhalation, and the home is destroyed . . .

1965, Leo Fender sells Fender Guitars to CBS for $13 million . . . he will continue as a consultant to CBS for several years before going on to form Music-Man and G&L . . .

1969, a shipment of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s album Two Virgins is seized by authorities in New Jersey because the jacket sports a picture of the pair in the buff showing everything . . .

1974, Time in a Bottle goes gold . . . it is Jim Croce's second gold record in a row since his death in a plane crash months earlier . . . "Time in a Bottle," "Operator," "I Got a Name," "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song," and "Workin' At The Car Wash Blues" will all be posthumous Top Ten hits . . .

1975, a whacked-out fan levels a loaded .44 at super-hunter Ted Nugent, but is brought down without incident by a combined force of security guards and fans . . .

1977, The Roxy opens in London's Covent Garden with The Clash as headliners going against a general ban on punk music in London clubs . . . The Roxy will soon become the place for punk . . .

1978, Bruce Springsteen plays Cleveland on New Year's Eve and gets his cheek torn open when someone—obviously not a big fan—throws a firecracker at the stage . . .

1982, Steven Van Zandt marries Maureen Santora in Asbury Park . . . Bruce Springsteen is the best man, and Percy Sledge and Little Richard duet on "When a Man Loves a Woman" at the reception . . .

1984, Rick Allen, drummer for Def Leppard, loses his left arm in an auto accident in England but keeps his place in the band . . . once he recovers, he adapts his kit and keeps on rockin' . . .

1989, Marion Keisker loses her battle with lung cancer . . . the Memphis native was a popular radio personality at WREC who left to help Sam Phillips set up and operate Sun Records . . . Marion was working alone the day Elvis Presley came in to record a few songs for his Mom . . . she recorded him singing two songs and wrote a note to Sam, "Good ballad singer - hold" . . . she also recommended Elvis for several sessions afterwards, jump-starting his career . . . Elvis would repeatedly thank her over the years, informing friends, "Without her I wouldn't even be here." . . . . Marion also helped Sam set up WHER . . . the first all-girl radio station in the world, it used the slogan "1000 Beautiful Watts" . . . all the announcers, sales staff, management, record librarians, and copywriters were women . . .

1994, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes pleads guilty to an arson charge for setting fire to and destroying the million-dollar Atlanta mansion of her boyfriend, Atlanta Falcon Andre Rison . . . Lopes is sentenced to five years probation and a $10,000 fine . . . she and Rison will reconcile and fall out several times following the incident . . .

1997, Townes Van Zandt dies on New Year’s Day of a heart attack induced by a blood clot . . . he fell on Christmas Eve and injured his hip but didn’t visit a doctor until New Year’s Eve when it was discovered the hip was broken . . . he returned home after surgery to set the bone and insert a pin but didn’t make it through the day . . . Townes passed 44 years after his idol, country icon Hank Williams . . .

1999, George Harrison and wife Olivia manage to subdue an intruder who has invaded their home . . . Harrison is stabbed several times during the attack but will recover after a short visit to the hospital . . .

2000, country music legend Kitty Wells, along with her husband Johnny Wright, perform a farewell show before a capacity crowd at the Nashville Night Life Club . . . Wells is 81, Wright 86 . . . in the house are such Nashville notables as Ricky Skaggs, Connie Smith, and Marty Stuart . . .

2004, inspired by the $28,000 winning bid on a grilled cheese sandwich bearing the likeness of the Virgin Mary, Elvis fan Wade Jones auctions off about three tablespoons of water taken from a cup The King drank from during a 1977 concert . . . Jones received the cup from a policeman following the show and saved it in his freezer for years . . . the water proves not to be as valuable as the Madonna grilled cheese and fetches only $455 . . . also this week Quantegy, the last U.S. company to make magnetic recording tape, shuts down operations . . . in the wake of the announcement, eBay lists a sudden spate of tape offerings . . . panicky producers start hoarding the stuff . . .

2005, singer Tom Jones is knighted and thus joins the ranks of Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Elton John, and Sir Mick Jagger . . .

1966, The caped Crusader and his ward Robin came crashing into our living rooms with the premier of the TV show "Batman".

1940. Major E.H. Armstrong demonstrated his invention of the "FM" radio before the U. S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). One year later, in 1941, the first commericial FM transmitter went into operation.
1959. Austin Allen, Singer, Banjo, Guitar, Tenor Banjo, died. Age: 57 (Member of the Allen Brothers, a duo of "Austin" né: Austin Ambrose Allen, and Lee William Allen, Singer, Guitar, Kazoo, Piano, b. June 1, 1906 , both brothers born Sewanee, Tennessee, USA.)

1964. Cecil Scott, tenor sax, died in New York, NY, USA. Age: 58

1979. Charles Mingus, bass, died in Cuernavaca, Mexico

1996. Danny White, vocals, died in Capitol Heights, MD, USA. Age: 64

1998. Sonny Bono died in South Lake Tahoe, CA, USA. Age: 62.

1971, "All in the Family", debuted on January 12th, it would not get past today's censors.

1936, Billboard magazine, which began publishing news about circuses in 1894, publishes the first record sales chart … Joe Venuti’s jazz number "Stop! Look! Listen!" is the first record to occupy the #1 slot …

1950, Sam Phillips opens the recording facility in Memphis that will later be named Sun Studio … considered by many to be the birthplace of rock 'n' roll, the studio will be the site of sessions by Elvis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Howlin’ Wolf, and dozens of other rock and blues luminaries …

1957, Joe Louis, the former heavyweight boxing champion, appears on The Steve Allen Show to introduce Solomon Burke who sings "You Can Run, but You Can’t Hide," a song written by Louis …

1958, Gibson obtains a patent for its Flying V guitar … the instrument doesn’t sell well at first and is discontinued only to be revived later … it eventually becomes associated with many great blues and rock players including Albert King … the futuristic design will be emulated by many other manufacturers over the years …

1959, Coral Records issues Buddy Holly’s single, "It Doesn’t Matter Anymore" … it is the last release by the bespectacled rocker before his death, and unlike most of his hits that were self-penned, it is written by Paul Anka …

1964, The Rolling Stones embark on their first British tour as headliners … the opening act is the American girl group, The Ronettes …

1965, CBS pays $13 million for Fender Guitars, the makers of the mighty Stratocaster and Telecaster, founded in 1947 by Leo Fender … many Fender customers come to prefer what they call "pre-CBS" instruments and amps … Leo goes on to MusicMan and G&L …

1969, A shipment of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s album Two Virgins is seized by authorities in New Jersey because the jacket sports a picture of the pair in the buff showing everything …

1970, Max Yasgur, whose farm was the site of the Woodstock Festival, is sued for $35,000 by neighbors charging property damage …

1975, 1,000 ticket-seeking Led Zeppelin fans who have camped out overnight in the lobby of the Boston Gardens go on a rampage causing $30,000 in damage … Boston mayor Kevin White promptly pulls the plug on the show …

1993, the U.S. Postal Service releases a first-class stamp bearing the likeness of the 1950s-era Elvis … the USPS had asked the public to choose between that image and a portrait of an older, plumper King … the younger, svelter version won hands down …

1994, Nirvana plays its last U.S. date at the Seattle Arena …

2000, the renowned Chicago club Lounge Axe goes out in a blaze of glory with a surprise appearance by Wilco … the alt-country quartet plays a two-and-a-half-hour set before a standing-room-only crowd … fans had queued up for over seven hours to catch the band …

2004, Britney Spears marries childhood friend Jason Alexander in Las Vegas’s Little White Wedding Chapel after a weekend of courtship … 55 hours later the marriage is annulled …

2004, Ray Davies of The Kinks is shot in the thigh after he gives chase to a pair of muggers who snatched his female companion's purse while they stroll on a quiet New Orleans street … some media report the story with the headline "You Really Shot Me" …

2005, Beatles guitarist George Harrison is added to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Britain's definitive record of the great and the good …

2006, Apple introduces the iPhone … tightly integrated with Apple’s iTunes software, the new device dispenses with micro touch buttons in favor of a large touch screen that simplifies all the phone’s music, camera, messaging, and web surfing capabilities … Apple’s stock shoots up in anticipation of the iPhone becoming a category killer …

2007, "Sneaky" Pete Kleinow, pedal steel guitarist who came to prominence playing with the Flying Burrito Brothers as well as on many studio sessions, dies from complications of Alzheimer’s disease … Kleinow was also a highly accomplished stop-motion effects specialist whose work appeared in many films including Terminator 2

1960, Johnny Cash plays the first of many free shows he will perform at San Quentin Prison … in the audience is a convict by the name of Merle Haggard … Merle credits the concert with helping him turn his life around … upon his release from prison, Haggard dedicates his life to music instead of crime …

1961, what’s in a name? … at a New Year’s Eve memorial concert for Ritchie Valens in Long Beach, California, a band previously known as Kenny and the Cadets, The Pendletons, and Carl and the Passions, settles on the name The Beach Boys … apparently the name sticks … Janis Joplin makes her first public singing engagement at the Halfway House in Beaumont, Texas …

1962, Dick Rowe of Decca records turns down a group of four unknowns from Liverpool, explaining to their manager, Brian Epstein, "Groups of guitars are on the way out. You should really stick to selling records in Liverpool." … fate is kind to the maker of what could have been rock’s greatest blunder … still smarting from not signing The Beatles, Rowe signs The Rolling Stones … according to Andrew Loog Oldham, who is credited with their discovery and pairing Richards and Jagger as The Stones’ principal writing team, "You just had to go to the person who turned down The Beatles. It was logical. Dick Rowe should be remembered not as the man who turned down The Beatles, but the man who signed The Rolling Stones." … narrowly escaping death, Brenda Lee dashes into her burning Nashville home in an attempt to rescue her poodle Cee Cee … Lee is slightly injured, but sadly Cee Cee dies from smoke inhalation and the home is destroyed …

1964, British singer Cleo Sylvestre covers the 1958 Teddy Bears’ hit "To Know Him is to Love Him" penned by Phil Spector … though the record sinks without a trace at the time, it has come to be highly collectible in recent years … the backing band is an unruly outfit called The Rolling Stones …

1966, while goofing around in the studio The Beach Boys cut a raucous, practically a cappella version of "Barbara Ann," a minor hit for the Regents in 1961 … oddly enough, the lead is sung by Dean Torrance of Jan and Dean …

1970, possibly inspired by his passion for Indian food, George Harrison hits the post-Beatles' chart with his song, "All Things Must Pass" … perhaps the real inspiration for Harrison’s aforementioned song, the worst-kept secret in rock and roll is finally revealed … The Beatles officially announce their breakup … Paul McCartney files in the London High Court for dissolution of The Beatles Co. partnership …

1973, Pink Floyd finishes recording Dark Side of the Moon at Abbey Road Studios in London … the influential album began as a musical piece "Eclipse: A Piece for Assorted Lunatics" with its first live performance nearly a year earlier in Brighton, U.K. …

1975, Elvis Presley gives a rare New Year’s Eve performance at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan … the show earns him the largest one-night gross ever received by a solo artist, $800,000 … after the gig, he flies home to Memphis to ring in the new year watching Monty Python episodes in his bedroom with his entourage … a whacked-out fan levels a loaded .44 at super-hunter Ted Nugent, but is brought down without incident by a combined force of security guards and fans …

1977, the Roxy opens on this first day of the year in London’s Covent Garden with The Clash as headliners, going against a general club ban on punk music … it will soon be the place for punk …

1978, Bruce Springsteen plays Cleveland on New Year’s Eve and gets his cheek torn open when someone, obviously not a big fan, throws a firecracker at the stage …

1982, Steve Van Zandt marries Maureen Santora in Asbury Park, NJ … Bruce Springsteen is the best man and Percy Sledge and Little Richard sing a duet of "When a Man Loves a Woman" at the reception …

1983, in a tragic case of life imitating art, Walter Scott, lead vocalist for Bob Kuban and the In Men, whose big hit was "The Cheater," mysteriously disappears … his car is found abandoned at a local airport … four years later his remains are discovered in a neighbor’s concrete cistern … an investigation revealed that Scott’s wife had been involved in an affair with the neighbor, James H. Williams Sr. (whom she married in 1986), and that Williams had murdered Scott along with his own wife Sharon Williams … Beach Boy Dennis Wilson, the only real surfer in the group, drowns while swimming off his boat moored in Marina Del Rey, California …

1984, Rick Allen takes a knocking and keeps on rocking … in an auto accident in England, the indomitable drummer for Def Leppard loses his left arm … his admirable and loyal bandmates refuse to replace their fallen comrade … upon recovery, in an inspiring display of determination and will, Allen adapts his kit and later rejoins the band …

1985, rock music suffers another loss at the hands of aviation, when a plane crash takes the lives of former teen idol Rick Nelson and the members of his Stone Canyon Band … Andy Chapin, bassist with a later incarnation of Steppenwolf is also lost in the crash …

1989, Marion Keisker passes away … while her name is not well known in the annals of rock and pop, as an assistant at Sun Records, she played a pivotal role in the very course of rock itself … after a young truck driver cut a vanity record at Sun’s studio, it was Marion who urged Sam Philips to record the future star Elvis Presley … a former cook in the restaurant owned by Chuck Berry takes her erstwhile boss to court for allegedly placing a camera in the ladies' room …

1992, high-caliber crooner Harry Connick Jr. is arrested at New York’s JFK Airport for carrying a 9mm pistol in his carry-on bag … with the 9mm being the gun of choice for so many talented rap artists, speculation has surfaced that Connick is pioneering a new style of music called "gangsta swing" … perhaps we can look forward to an album entitled, Connick is the Chronic or The Wrath of Con …

1994, after turning up the heat for her boyfriend, Atlanta Falcon Andre Rison, hot-tempered Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopes pleads guilty to an arson charge for having set fire to and destroying Rison’s million-dollar Atlanta mansion … Lopes is sentenced to five years probation and a $10,000 fine … she and Rison will get back together several times following the incident … apparently their hot- and cold-running relationship passed the test of fire …

1997, while vacationing at his mother’s home at Molokai, Hawaii, rock guitarist Randy Wolfe, better known as Randy California, is lost in the ocean after heroically rescuing his son … according to witnesses, California was swimming with his 12-year-old son, Quinn, when they were caught in a riptide … California shoved his son into a wave that propelled the boy safely to shore before being dragged in himself … moving to New York at age 15 from California, the talented guitarist found himself a gig in a band called Jimmy James and the Blue Flames … the Jimmy James in question was none other than Jimi Hendrix, who gave California his stage name as means of differentiating him from another Randy in the band (dubbed Randy Texas by Hendrix) … his parents, unwilling to let him travel to England with Hendrix and Chas Chandler, caused Randy to miss out on being part of the Jimi Hendrix Experience … together with his stepfather, jazz drummer Ed "Cass" Cassidy, he founded the influential band Spirit in 1967 and wrote their two biggest hits, "I Got a Line on You" and "Nature’s Way" …

1998, after cops spot rapper Busta Rhymes making three successive lane changes without signaling, they pull him over and discover a loaded, unregistered handgun leading to his arrest … like the man said, "don’t do the crime if you wanna get paid to rhyme" … or something like that …

1999, "dressed to the nines" took on new meaning for rap mogul-turned-fashionista, Sean "Puffy" Combs … after leaving a nightclub where three people have just been shot, he is arrested and charged with possession of a 9mm pistol that was found in the front of his car and another stolen 9mm that was reportedly thrown from the vehicle … Combs will later be cleared of all charges … George Harrison and wife Olivia manage to subdue an intruder who has invaded their home … Harrison is stabbed several times in the process but will be released from the hospital two days later …

2000, country music legend Kitty Wells, along with her husband Johnny Wright, perform a farewell show before a capacity crowd at the Nashville Night Life Club … Wells is 81, Wright 86 … in the house are such Nashville notables as Ricky Skaggs, Connie Smith, and Marty Stuart …

2004, alleged Elvis water is sold on eBay … Wade Jones of North Carolina says he snared a plastic cup from which Elvis Presley drank at a concert in 1977 and kept the cup and the water for 27 years before selling the remaining few tablespoons of water on eBay … the winning bid for the water is $455, but Jones says he won't sell the cup … according to the 40-year-old resident of Belmont, North Carolina, he was 13 when he attended a Presley concert at the Charlotte Coliseum in February 1977, six months before the death of the rock 'n' roll icon … after the concert, Jones went to the stage looking for a souvenir … a policeman gave him the plastic foam cup, from which he had seen Elvis drinking earlier, he said … Jones said he kept the cup and water in his freezer until 1985, when he transferred the water to a vial and sealed it … over the years, he said, he acquired a photograph of Elvis holding the cup at that concert as authentication for his claim … proving that the '80s are gone but definitely not forgotten, Pollstar reports that Prince is the top concert draw in 2004 with $87.4 million in ticket sales … when ya’ got it, ya’ got it …

2005, reissue labels have a field day when European copyrights expire on a number of classic pop and rock-and-roll songs recorded in 1954 and earlier, titles include Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" and "Only You" by The Platters … the body of former family-band member Barry Cowsill is found on a wharf in New Orleans … it is believed that he died in the wake of Hurricane Katrina … singer Tom Jones is knighted and thus joins the ranks of Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Elton John, and Sir Mick Jagger …

2006, R&B singer Brandy is involved in a four-vehicle freeway crash in L.A. when her 2007 Land Rover plows into a Honda at an estimated 65 mph … one of the drivers involved is killed while Brandy emerges unscathed … the California Highway Patrol says alcohol and drugs are not involved and is continuing an investigation … the following month she is sued for wrongful death by the family of the deceased and the CHP recommends that she be charged with vehicular manslaughter … Kid Rock gets to play DJ at Jet in Las Vegas on New Year’s Eve … commenting on the gig, he chortles, "It was $200,000 to act crazy and go out of my f***ing mind."

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