May 08 Histori-o-Song-triviality
| 1 February 1964 : Newsmen learn that Indiana Governor Matthew Walsh has banned the Kingsmen's Louie Louie, then sitting at Number Six on Billboard's Hot 100, for allegedly containing obscene lyrics. Claiming it makes his "ears tingle" to listen to it, Walsh requests that the Indiana Broadcasters Association ban the record from airplay on all radio stations in the state. For his part, the song's publisher, Max Firetag, offers $1000 to anyone who can prove that the song contains obscene lyrics. The FBI eventually gets involved, and after extensive study reports that the lyrics of this version of the song, originally recorded by Richard Berry and the Pharoahs, are so garbled as to be unintelligible. 1 users favorited this event! | |
Awards and Honors (1)
1995 : Rick Nelson receives a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. |
Births (16)
Charts (5)
1949 : No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: Vaughn Monroe's Riders in the Sky |
1969 : No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: The 5th Dimension's Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In |
1977 : No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: Leo Sayer's When I Need You |
1988 : No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine's Anything For You |
1993 : Aerosmith’s Get a Grip debuts on the Billboard 200 top pop album chart at No. 1, making it the group’s highest-debuting album and highest-charting album ever. |
Concerts and Festivals (1)
1972 : Billy Preston becomes the first rock star to headline at New York's Radio City Music Hall. |
Deaths (6)
1967 : LaVerne Sophie Andrews (The Andrews Sisters) |
1974 : Graham Bond |
1982 : Neil Bogart |
1991 : Rudolf Serkin |
1999 : Leon Thomas |
2008 : Eddy Arnold |
Legal Issues (1)
2001 : William B. Dial, road manager for Detroit rap act Insane Clown Posse is arrested in Omaha, Nebraska, for allegedly choking an audience member who was ejected from the group’s show for brandishing an Eminem T-shirt and tossing M&M candies on stage. |
Marriages and Breakups (2)
1978 : Donny Osmond gets married at the age of 21 (and he and Debra are still together). |
1992 : Rapper-actor Will Smith (the Fresh Prince) marries songwriter Sheree Zampino, who is pregnant with their first child, in Santa Barbara, CA. |
Movies (1)
Recordings (1)
1963 : Major Lance, "Monkey Time" |
Releases (1)
1970 : The Beatles' Let It Be. |
TV, Radio, Press (1)
1810 : A poem titled "The Lady of the Lake" is published by Sir Walter Scott. The title of the song "Hail to the Chief" is derived from the said poem.
DogmeatLike on Facebook