From the MCRFB music calendar:
Events on this date: AUGUST 15
1956: “Colonel” Tom Parker, actually a dutch immigrant who merely played at being a Southern “aristocrat,” became “special adviser” to Elvis Presley, effectively taking over management duties from Bob Neal, who knew managing the King was about to become a full-time job.
1958: Buddy Holly marries Maria Elena Santiago, a former receptionist at his music publishing company, at a private ceremony held at Holly’s boyhood home in Lubbock, Texas.
1964: After the massive success of the Beatles first film, A Hard Day’s Night by United Artists, Warner Bros. sign up the Dave Clark Five to a film project entitled Catch Us If You Can (which was released in the United States as Having A Wild Weekend).
1965: At 8 PM EST, the Beatles take the stage at Shea Stadium in New York City, marking the very first time a rock band would headline a stadium concert and a major promotion victory for Sid Bernstein, who had arranged the concert after his gamble of booking the then-unknown British band at Carnegie Hall had paid off. Tickets for the show, sold merely by word-of-mouth created by kids who asked Bernstein about the next Beatles show while he strolled through Central Park, sold out in just three weeks, beating the stadium’s old seating record with 56,000 seats sold. Two thousand professionals were pressed into service for security. The concert, filmed for the BBC and the NBC Television Network, also featured openers Brenda Holloway, The King Curtis Band, and Bernstein’s new obsession, The Young Rascals.
1969: Promising “three days of peace, love, and music,” The Woodstock Music and Art Fair begins on Max Yasgur’s sixty-acre farm in Bethel, New York (nearby Woodstock being the original location). Featuring two dozen of the country’s hottest bands, the festival draws over 450,000 hippies to the tiny town, causing unimaginable traffic and logistic problems, but nevertheless impressing the ordinary citizens. Three deaths, two births, four miscarriages, and a wedding are all reported prior as Jimi Hendrix ends the festivities with his legendary rendition of the US national anthem. Also appearing were (in part) Joe Cocker, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Santana, The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, Canned Heat, Joan Baez, Melanie, Ten Years After, Sly and the Family Stone, Johnny Winter, The Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Skankar, Country Joe and the Fish, Blood, Sweat and Tears, and Arlo Guthrie. Among those who elected not to attend were Tommy James and The Shondells, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Byrds, Jethro Tull, and the Moody Blues.
1973: Baltimore, Maryland declares today “Cass Elliot Day” in honor of the native singer for the Mamas and The Papas.
1980: George Harrison’s acclaimed autobiography I Me Mine — the first book by any Beatle — hits the bookshelves all over the UK and the United States.
1980: John Lennon enters the Record Plant Studios in New York to record his “comeback” album, Double Fantasy.
1996: A New York women’s shelter refuses to take money raised by a recent benefit concert when they learn that one of the performers was James Brown, more often than not, accused of emotional and physical abuse towards women.
2007: The Osmonds reunite for the first time in over two decades to perform their 50th anniversary concert for PBS Television.
Deaths: Thomas Wayne; 1971. Norman Petty; 1984. Jackie Edwards; 1992.
Releases: NONE for this date.
Recording: 1966: “If I Were A Carpenter,” Bobby Darin. 1968: “Rocky Raccoon,” The Beatles. 1969: “Golden Slumbers,” “Carry That Weight,” “The End,” “Something,” “Here Comes The Sun,” The Beatles.
Charts: 1953: “No Other Love,” Perry Como; hits No. 1 on the charts. 1960: “It’s Now Or Never,” Elvis Presley; hits No. 1 on the charts. 1964: “Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime,” Dean Martin; hits No. 1 on the charts. 1970: “Looking Out My Back Door,” Creedence Clearwater Revival; enters the charts.
Certifications: 1969: ‘Three Dog Night,” self-titled LP; certified gold by the RIAA.
And that’s just a few of the events which took place in pop music history, on this day…. 
