Today in 1957, 15-year-old James Marshall Hendrix went to Sicks Stadium in Seattle to watch Elvis Presley.
Seeing Presley inspired Hendrix to learn to play, one note at a time on a junked ukelele with one string, “Hound Dog.”
One year later, Hendrix purchased his first acoustic guitar, for $5, and taught himself to play the theme from the TV series “Peter Gunn.”
(Sicks Stadium, by the way, was the home of the Seattle Pilots, which after going backrupt during their first season became the Milwaukee Brewers.)
The number one song today in 1962:
The number one song today in 1984 announced quite a comeback:
Birthdays start with Tommy Evans of (the 139 iterations of) the Drifters:
Who is Harold Jenkins? You knew him as Conway Twitty:
Archie Bell of the Drells:
Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees:
Greg Errico played drums for Sly and the Family Stone:
Gloria Estefan:
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