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Fw: Music History f0r May 16

 

From: Jackie Schmitt






Music History for
May 16


1946 - The Irving Berlin musical?Annie Get Your Gun?opened at New York¡¯s Imperial Theatre for the first of 1,147 performances.?

1965 - The Rolling Stones appeared with Chuck Berry on the television show?Hollywood A-GO-GO.?

1965 - The Beach Boys appeared on the "The Ed Sullivan Show"?and performed "Help Me Rhonda."?

1966 - The Beach Boys album?Pet Sounds?was released.?

1968 - Tony Joe White recorded "Polk Salad Annie."?

1969 - Jack Casady (Jefferson Airplane) was arrested for possession of marijuana at the Royal Orleans Hotel in New Orleans.?

1969 - Pete Townshend (Who) was arrested onstage after mistakenly kicking a New York police officer.?

1970 - Randy Bachman left the Guess Who.?

1970 - Marty Balin (Jefferson Airplane) was arrested for marijuana possession and for contributing to the delinquency of minors in Bloomington, MN.?

1980 - Dr. George C. Nichopoulos was indicted in Memphis on 14 counts of overprescribing drugs to Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and nine other patients.?

1981 - Martin Chambers (Pretenders) married Tracy Atkinson.?

1983 - The television special?Motown 25: Yesterday, Today and Forever?aired. It was a taping of the first time that Michael Jackson performed the moonwalk for a live audience.?

1984 - Prince's song "When Doves Cry" was released.?

1986 - Caitlin O'Riordan (Pogues) and Elvis Costello were married.?

1991 - Ray Charles was inducted into the Atlanta Celebrity Walk.?

1992 - Weird Al Yankovic's "Smells Like Nirvana" hit #35 in the U.S.?

1998 - Keith Richards (The Rolling Stones) fell off a chair while reaching for a book in his Connecticut home and injured his chest and ribs. A few concert dates were cancelled.?

1999 - Paul Brandt and Claudia Church leave for Bosnia to entertain U.S. troops there.?

2000 -?The Artist?announced that he was reclaiming the name "Prince" since his contract with Warner-Chappell had expired. The contract officially ended on December 31, 1999.?

2000 - The "What My Heart Has Seen" exhibition opened at the Catto Gallery in London. The art is the work of Tony Bennett.?

2000 - The Britney Spears album?Oops!..I Did It Again?was released.?

Mary
Live long and?prosper

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