From the MCRFB music calendar:
Events on this date: APRIL 5
1955: Ray Charles marries his second wife, Della Beatrice Howard, in Houston, Texas.
1958: Johnny Mathis’ compilation album Johnny’s Greatest Hits, the first “greatest hits” LP, enters the Billboard charts, where it will stay for almost nine and a half years. Its a record that would only be broken in 1982 by Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon LP.
1964: The Beatles film the famous opening scene from their first movie, A Hard Day’s Night, running away from several rabid female fans in pursuit of the Fab Four while at London’s Marylebone train station.
1964: The Searchers make their U.S. television debut, singing “Needles And Pins” and “Ain’t That Just Like Me” on the Ed Sullivan Show on CBS-TV.
1967: Monkees fans march in London in protest of band member Davy Jones’ announced induction into the Army. The teen heartthrob is eventually exempted from duty for being his family’s main provider.
1967: Elvis Presley’s 24th movie, Double Trouble, premieres in Hollywood.
1982: Marvin Gaye’s funeral takes place at Forest Lawn cemetery in Los Angeles, drawing some very notable mourners, including Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, and Berry Gordy. Gaye had been shot to death three days earlier by his father after he intervened in an argument between his parents.
1987: Buddy Rich’s funeral in Los Angeles also draws some very notable mourners, including Frank Sinatra, Artie Shaw, and Johnny Carson, just to name a few.
1990: After serving months of his sentence for drug possession, resisting arrest, and other related charges, James Brown is put on a work-release program. Brown is moved from his jail to South Carolina’s Lower Savannah Work Center, where he provides counseling for drug addicts. For his services there, James Brown is paid four dollars an hour.
Deaths: Bob “The Bear” Hite, member of Canned Heat; 1981; Cozy Powell, Black Sabbath, Rainbow; 1998; Gene Pitney; 2006.
And that’s just a few of the events which took place in pop music history, on this day…. 
