#1 R&B Song 1969: “Everyday People,” Sly & the Family Stone
Born: Harry Belafonte, 1027; Norman Connors, 1948
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1957 Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers received $7,500 to perform at a carnival in Panama, a huge sum at the time.
1960 Saxman supreme, Red Prysock and his band performed at the Surf Club in Baltimore. Red was one of the great honkin’ sax players of the day, playing on a variety of rock ‘n’ roll records while recording numerous albums for Mercury.He’s best known for his rocking original, “Hand Clappin” which had been the theme song for several radio shows over the decades.
1975 Aretha Franklin won her tenth Grammy Awards with “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing” for Best R&B Vocal Performance. It was her eighth win in a row in that category. Unexpectedly, the Pointer Sisters won Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group for their hit, “Fairytale.”
1986 James Brown’s “Living In America” peaked at #4 on the Top 100 charts, becoming the second-biggest pop hit of his career. It was his ninety-eighth pop charter over thrity years and his first million seller in more than thireteen years. The song was the theme from the film Rocky IV.
1990 Janet Jackson began her first tour, the now famous Rhythm Nation World Tour 1990 at the Miami Arena, Miami, FL.
1992 Barry White performed at London’s Nottingham Royal Center at the beginning of a tour of Britain.
1994 Curits Mayfield received a Grammy Legend Award and Toni Braxton was awarded the Best New Artist and Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female trophy at the thirty-six annual Grammy Awards in New York’s Radio City Music Hall for the song “Another Sad Love Song.” Whitney Houston was also a big winner with three Grammys: Record of the Year, and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female for “I Will Always Love You”; and Album of the Year for The Bodyguard.
1995 Aaron Neville’s duet with Trisha Yearwood on the Patsy Cline classic, “I Fall To Pieces,” won Best Country Vocal Collaboration at the Grammy’s thirty-seventh annual awards ceremony in Los Angeles.
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