From the MCRFB music calendar:
Events on this date: APRIL 24
1954: Billboard, taking notice in changes in music trends, publishes an article entitled, “Teenagers Demand Music With A Beat — Spur Rhythm And Blues.”
1959: After running on Saturday nights on radio for twenty-four years and TV for the last nine, the final installment of the musical countdown show Your Hit Parade airs on NBC-TV. The final Top Five: Elvis Presley, “I Need Your Love Tonight” (#5); Brook Benton, “It’s Just A Matter Of Time” (#4); Ricky Nelson, “Never Be Anyone Else But You” (#3); Dodie Stevens, “Pink Shoe Laces” (#2); and the Fleetwoods at No. 1 with: “Come Softly To Me.”
1961: Bob Dylan makes his first recording — playing harmonica on Harry Belafonte’s song “Calypso King.” He’s paid $50.00 — cash — for his efforts.
1961: Del Shannon’s “Runaway” hits No. 1 on the national charts.
1963: An 18 year-old Brenda Lee marries Ronnie Shacklett, one year her senior, in Nashville a mere six months after meeting him at a Jackie Wilson concert. Forty-six years later, the two are still a pair.
1965: Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders’s “Game Of Love” hits No. 1 on the charts.
1968: The newly-formed Apple Records decides not to sign a young audition who goes by the name David Bowie.
1970: Having been invited to a White House dinner by Tricia Nixon, daughter of President Richard Nixon, the Jefferson Airplane’s Grace Slick brings the radical Abbie Hoffman with her, in an attempt to dose Tricia with LSD during the dinner. Hoffman is turned away at the door by the Secret Service and Slick decides to leave with him instead.
1972: Detroit Top 40 radio legend WKNR-AM conducts what will be it’s last 24-hour broadcast day. Unbeknownst to listeners of any immediate changes at the station, WKNR signed off before 8:00 a.m. the following morning and signed on playing an all-instrumental “beautiful music” format as the new WNIC-AM.
1976: In a parody of recent offers, Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels goes on the air and offers the Beatles the whopping sum of $3,000 if they agree to to reunite on the SNL show. And it almost happens: Paul, visiting John at his New York apartment for what would turn out to be his last time, is watching the skit with John, and both consider going across town to the studio live. However, the duo by that time decide they’re too tired.
1984: With questions still lingering about the death of his fifth wife, Shawn Stephens, Jerry Lee Lewis marries his sixth, Kerrie McCarver, the 22 year-old president of his fan club.
1992: The Cleveland Orchestra sues Michael Jackson for $7,000,000 upon discovering the singer used part of their recording of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on his album Dangerous.
1992: In his hometown of Inglewood, New Jersey, Wilson Pickett drives his car through the mayor’s front yard, yelling death threats at the house and accidentally running over an 86 year-old man. He is arrested and found with open containers of brew strewn about inside his car.
2007: President George W. Bush is denied a luxury suite at the Imperial Hotel in Vienna when Mick Jagger, in town with the Stones on a tour, gets the ‘presidential’ treatment instead by booking it first.
And that’s just a few of the events which took place in pop music history, on this day…. 
