From the MCRFB music calendar:
Events on this date: MARCH 22
1955: New York’s Coral Records hires deejay Alan Freed for A&R duties. The recording company also gives Freed his own contract to record under his name.
1956: Sammy Davis, Jr., becomes an instant celebrity when he stars in the Broadway play Mr. Wonderful.
1958: The eight-year old Hank Williams, Jr. makes his first stage appearance in Swainsboro, Georgia.
1962: 19-year-old Barbara Streisand becomes an instant celebrity when she stars in the Broadway play I Can Get It For You Wholesale.
1963: EMI releases the Beatles album Please Please Me in the United Kingdom.
1967: Elvis Presley begins filming his 25th movie, Clambake, in Los Angeles.
1967: The Who makes it first U.S. stage debut, performing at the Paramount in New York City.
1971: The Allman Brothers are arrested at a truck stop in Jackson, Alabama, and are charge with possession of marijuana and heroin.
1975: Barry Manilow makes his first U.S. television appearance today. Manilow performs “Mandy” and “It’s A Miracle” on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand on ABC-TV.
1976: While campaigning for the presidency, Jimmy Carter tells the National Association of Records Merchandisers that he listened to Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead, and Led Zeppelin while he was Governor of Georgia.
1977: ABC-TV airs the John Denver special Thank God I’m A Country Boy.
1978: The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, a Beatles parody special that grew out of sketches on the ex-Monty Python member Eric Idol’s show Rutland Weekend Television, get it’s first U.S. airing on ABC-TV.
1979: Chaka Kahn gives birth to her second child, Damien Milton Patrick Holland.
1994: Ted Nugent makes a PSA warning kids of the dangers of abusing inhalants.
1997: Paul McCartney’s original birth certificate is sold to a private Beatles collector for $84, 146.00.
And that’s just a few of the events which took place in pop music history, on this day . . . . M A R C H 2 2
