In 1941, Anita O'Day recorded "Let Me Off Uptown" with Roy Eldridge and Gene Krupa & His Orchestra.
In 1955, Tony Bennett was at #1 on the UK singles chart with "Stranger In Paradise." Based on a theme from Borodin's 1888 opera - 'Prince Igor.' The song was a hit in the 1953 Broadway show 'Kismet.'
In 1956, at Universal Recording in Chicago, Pat Boone recorded Ivory Joe Hunter's "I Almost Lost My Mind."
In 1959, in Los Angeles, Frank Sinatra recorded "High Hopes." The song featured a children's chorus and was included in a 1961 Sinatra album, 'All the Way.' The tune reached #30 on the Billboard Hot 100. The track peaked at #6 in the UK Singles Chart.
In 1960, the Browns performed "The Old Lamplighter" on CBS-TV's "The Ed Sullivan Show."
In 1961, Elvis Presley released the single "I Feel So Bad."
In 1962, Beatles manager Brian Epstein had a chance meeting with engineer Ted Huntly at a London record store. After Epstein related his discouragement about the Decca label rejecting the band, Huntly suggested he send a demo recording of the Beatles to EMI and, in particular, to one of their producers, George Martin.
In 1963, Major Lance recorded Curtis Mayfield's "The Monkey Time."
In 1964, the Beatles had held the #1 position on the US singles chart for 14 weeks with three #1s in succession: “I Want to Hold Your Hand” for seven weeks, “She Loves You” for two weeks and “Can't Buy Me Love” for five weeks.
In 1967, Al Martino released the single "Mary In The Morning."
In 1967, singer Laverne Andrews of the Andrews Sisters died of cancer at age 55.
In 1967, Gerry And The Pacemakers announced that they were splitting up, recognizing that they could "no longer keep pace with the rapidly changing UK Rock scene."
In 1969, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr signed a management agreement with Gary Klein of ABKCO.
In 1972, Billy Preston became the first rock performer to headline at Radio City Music Hall.
In 1974, UK keyboard player Graham Bond committed suicide after throwing himself under a London tube train at Finsbury Park station. He was 36. It took police two days to identify his body which was crushed beyond all recognition. He was briefly a member of Blues Incorporated, a group led by Alexis Korner, before forming the Graham Bond Quartet, with a lineup of Bond on vocals and organ, Ginger Baker on drums and Jack Bruce on bass.
In 1976, John Sebastian, who had left the Lovin' Spoonful for a solo career in 1968, hit the top of Billboard Magazine's Hot 100 chart with the theme to the TV show, Welcome Back Kotter. John would later say that he wrote the song in 15 minutes. Oddly enough, it even reached #93 on the Billboard Country Chart.
Also in 1976, Willie Nelson visited Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Review when it played Houston, Texas, and joined him for a duet on "Will the Circle Be Unbroken." The concert was a benefit for former boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, who had been wrongfully jailed for murder.
In 1976, BBC Radio 1 DJ Johnny Walker announced he was quitting the station after being told he must pretend to like the Bay City Rollers.
And finally in 1976, ABBA scored their third UK #1 single with “Fernando.” The song went on to become ABBA’s biggest selling single, with sales over 10 million. Also on day, ABBA started a nine-week run at #1 on the UK album chart with their Greatest Hits album.
In 1977, Olivia Newton-John made her New York debut with a concert at the Metropolitan Opera House.
In 1979, Supertramp's album, 'Breakfast in America' turns Platinum and will eventually go to #1. The group would enjoy three Top 15 singles: "The Logical Song,""Goodbye Stranger" and "Take the Long Way Home."
In 1982, a group of seasoned L.A. studio musicians calling themselves Toto, enter the Billboard Pop chart with "Roseanna". The record will climb from #81 all the way to the top and be named Record of the Year at the 1983 Grammy Awards.
In 1982, Neil Bogart died of cancer at the age of 39. Bogart was the founder of Casablanca Records, with Peter Guber, home of Donna Summer, the Village People, Kiss, T.Rex and Joan Jett.
In 1982, Paul McCartney scored his fifth UK #1 album with 'Tug Of War.' The album featured the duet with Stevie Wonder "Ebony & Ivory," which was inspired by McCartney hearing comedian Spike Milligan say "black notes, white notes, and you need to play the two to make harmony, folks!" (the ebony (black) and ivory (white) keys on a piano).
In 1990, Tom Waits was awarded $2.5 million by a Los Angles Court in a case against Frito-Lay over the use of a sound-alike singer.
In 1993, Aerosmith entered the US album chart at #1 with Get a Grip, a #2 hit in the UK. The album went on to sell over 20 million copies worldwide, and won the band two Grammy awards.
In 1993, Mark Knopfler was given an honorary Doctorate of Music by the University of Newcastle on Tyne.
In 1996, a Los Angeles judge ruled against Tommy Lee and wife Pamela Anderson in their bid to keep Penthouse magazine from publishing still photos from an X-rated home movie that was stolen from their home.
In 1998, the three surviving Beatles and John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, won a legal battle to block the CD release of a Beatles recording made at the Star Club in Hamburg in 1962.
In 2001, the manager of the Insane Clown Posse was arrested in Omaha, NB after choking a member of the audience who had on an Eminem t-shirt and was throwing M&M candies at the band on stage.
In 2005, Bruce Springsteen was at #1 on the US album chart with 'Devils and Dust,' his 13th #1 studio album.
In 2006, the Rolling Stones called off their forthcoming European tour after guitarist Keith Richards underwent emergency brain surgery. The 62 year-old guitarist suffered "mild concussion" when he fell out of a coconut tree on holiday in Fiji.
In 2006, Apple Computers won a lengthy legal battle over the right to sell music via the Internet without violating the trademark of the Beatles' record label Apple.
In 2008, singer/songwriter/Country Music Hall of Famer Eddy Arnold died at the age of 89.
In 2009, Bob Dylan led the Billboard Hot 200 album chart for the fifth time when 'Together Through Life' debuted in the #1 spot. It gave the rock 'n' roll icon back-to-back chart toppers as 2006's 'Modern Times' also started in the penthouse.
In 2010, Norm Ezell, guitarist for the Five Americans on their 1967 hit "Western Union," died of cancer at the age of 68.
In 2011, jazz and R&B guitarist Cornell Dupree, who played with King Curtis, Bill Withers, Donny Hathaway, Grover Washington, Jr., Miles Davis, and performed the opening guitar riff on Aretha Franklin's "Respect" and Brook Benton's "Rainy Night In Georgia," died of complications from emphysema at age 78.
In 2013, Ja Rule was released from prison after serving nearly two years on gun and tax evasion charges. The rapper was let out of a prison in Ray Brook, New York, but would remain under house arrest until 28 July. The 37-year-old pleaded guilty to not filing tax returns over a five-year period in 2011 and attempted criminal possession of a weapon the year before. He was sentenced to 28 months in prison after failing to pay $1.1m (£710,319) in taxes between 2004 and 2008. The rapper was also sentenced to two years in prison for possessing a semi-automatic handgun, which police found hidden in his car after a concert in New York in 2007.
In 2013, a painting by Fernand Leger owned by Madonna sold for $7.2 million (£4.7m) in New York. The singer bought the 1921 Cubist work, Three Women at the Red Table, in 1990 for $3.4m (£2.2m). According to Sotheby's, proceeds from the sale "would benefit Madonna's Ray of Light Foundation, supporting girls' education projects in the Middle East and South Asia".
