#1 R&B Song 1979: “Don’t Stop Til’ You Get Enough,” Michael Jackson
Born: Blues singer James “Snooky” Pryor, 1921; Bobby Short, 1924; Julian “Cannonball” Adderly, 1928
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1956 The Dells’ standard “Oh, What a Nite” (Vee Jay, #4 R&B, $120) was released.
1956 The Cadets, who were on the charts with their hit “Stranded in the Jungle,” sang backup in Los Angeles on the ballad “I Confess.” The lead singer and writer was a White Canadian teenager named Paul Anka.
1968 Martha & the Vandellas performed on the debut episode of NBC-TV’s music show Soul with Lou Rawls.
1989 Natalie Cole hosted a forerunner of American Idol with her weekly show Big Break.
1991 Whitney Houston spoke at London’s Hyde Park at the Reach Out and Touch People with HIV and AIDS Rally.
1991 The mayor of San Francisco presented B.B. King with the keys to the city on his sixty-sixth birthday (actually a day early) at the annual San Francisco Blues Festival. Members of B;B.’s band on that joyous occasion included Bobby McFerrin, Robert Cray, and Boz Scaggs.
1995 James Brown performed “I Got You (I Feel Good)” and “It’s A Man’s, Man’s, Man’s World” at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
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BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS 