Music History for
December 21
Today's:
1810 - Composer Ludwig Schuncke was born.
1850 - Composer Zdenek Fibich was born.
1956 - LaVern Baker recorded the song "Jim Dandy."
1960 - Elvis Presley was inducted into the Los Angeles Indian Tribal Council coinciding with the opening with his movie Flaming Star.
1968 - Crosby, Stills and Nash performed together in public for the first time.
1968 - Janis Joplin gave her first solo performance in Memphis, TN.
1969 - Diana Ross gave her last television performance as a member of the Supremes on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1970 - Elvis Presley went to the White House to volunteer his services to U.S. President Nixon on fighting the nation's drug problems. He gave Nixon a chrome-plated Colt .45 and Tricky Dick gave Elvis a Narcotics Bureau badge.
1972 - Martha Reeves & the Vandellas gave their farewell performance in Detroit, MI.
1976 - Barry Manilow on Broadway opened for a two-week run in New York.
1992 - David Crosby was a guest on ABC-TV's Roseanne.
1996 - Tony Bennett was rushed to a hospital for an emergency operation for an erupted hernia. Bennett was just arriving at the White House for a holiday dinner with U.S. President and Mrs. Clinton when he fell ill.
1993 - Shaquille O'Neal's "I Know I Got Skillz" single was certified Gold by the RIAA.
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