#1 Song 1969: “Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In,” the Fifth Dimension
Born: Alexis Korner (the father of British blues), 1928
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1952 The Clovers’ classic, “One Mint Julep,” charted, rising to #2 R&B. between 1951 and 1954, the Washington, DC, quintet scored fifteen straight R&B Top 10 winners. They hit the Top 10 four more times after their standard “Blue Velvet”only reached #14 R&B in 1955.
1956 Clyde McPhatter of the Drifters was discharged from the Army and began his solo career.
1975 The competition album The Best of the Stylistics reached #1 in England, becoming the top-selling album of the year and the largest seller i Britain by a Black act to date. It spent an amazing sixty-three weeks on the U.K. charts. It reached #13 R&B but only #41 pop stateside.
1980 Michael Jackson’s “She’s Out of My Life” single charted, reaching #10 pop and giving the King of Pop the distinction of becoming the first individual artist to have four hits from the same album, though he would later break his own record.
1991 Whitney Houston was accused of “terrorist threatening” and allegedly punching a man in the eye when the man tried to break up a fight between her brother Michael and a third man at a Radisson Hotel in Lexington, KY. The charges were later dismissed.
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