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Dion DiMucci continued his hit streak after leaving The Belmonts when “Runaround Sue” went to number one in the US. It reached #11 in the UK. Although he married a girl named Sue, Dion said he was thinking about a girl named Roberta when he wrote the song

The Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations” made its debut on the US singles chart. It was a song that Brian Wilson and Mike Love wrote and Brian spent six months working on. The tracks were recorded in seventeen different sessions in four Los Angeles studios, at a cost of over sixteen thousand dollars. The recording engineer would...

Meat Loaf and composer Jim Steinman release the landmark album, “Bat Out Of Hell”. It would peak at #14 in the US and #9 in the UK, selling over 43 million copies worldwide. It has been certified 14X Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)....

Seventeen years after having hits with some of Rock ‘n’ Roll’s most memorable classics, Chuck Berry had his first US number one record with “My Ding-a-Ling”, a silly novelty song centered on grade-school level, private parts jokes. The tune also went to the top of the UK chart. It was recorded live at Coventry...

Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, his sister Cassie Gaines (one of three backing singers) and manager Dean Kilpatrick were killed in a plane crash en route from Greenville, South Carolina, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The remaining members, Gary Rossington, Allen Collins, Billy Powell and Leon...

The LP “Beach Boys Concert” was released on Capitol Records. Produced by Brian Wilson, the live album was their seventh LP over all, and their third of the year. Recorded at the Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento, California on December 21, 1963, the performance was not augmented by any additional musicians, although it...

I fell way down it seemed into a bottomless pit...