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Fw: Music History for April 14

Mary Landers All Messages By This Member #13387 From: Jackie Schmitt Music History for April 14 1955 - Fats Domino's "Ain't That a Shame" was released. 1958 - Van Cliburn won the International Tchaikovsky piano competition. 1958 - Van Cliburn appeared on national TV for the first time. He was on NBC's?The Tonight Show?with Jack Paar. 1960 - The musical?Bye Bye Birdie?opened in New York City. 1963 - The Beatles met the Rolling Stones after a Stones concert in Richmond, England. 1965 - Millie Small appeared on ABC-TV's?Shindig!?and performed her song "My Boy Lollipop." 1967 - The Bee Gees released their first English single. It was "New York Mining Disaster 1941." 1967 - The final?Where the Action Is?aired on ABC-TV. 1969 - The?33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee?TV special aired on NBC. 1970 - Stephen Stills broke his wrist in an auto accident. 1976 - Motown Records and Stevie Wonder held a news conference to announce he had signed a "$13 million-plus" contract with the label. 1976 - Bay City Roller singer Eric Faulkner almost died after swallowing Seconal and Valium tablets. 1980 - A New Jersey state assemblyman introduced a resolution to make Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" the official state song. 1980 - Iron Maiden's self-titled debut album was released. 1980 - Gary Numan released?The Touring Principle, a 45-minute concert video. It was the first commercially available home rock videocassette. 1983 - Pete Farndon (Pretenders) died of a drug overdose at the age of 29. He had been fired from the band the year before due to his drug problem. 1989 - Tom Petty released his first solo album?Full Moon Fever. 1999 - Tammy Wynette's body was exhumed and an autopsy performed in Nashville at the request of her husband, George Richey. She was exhumed in an attempt to settle a dispute over how she had died. 1999 - It was reported that Prince intended to re-record the entire catalog of his music and re-release it. Mary Live long and prosper

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