Wrecking Crew session drummer Hal Blaine (he played on 50 No. 1 hits, over 150 top ten hits, and recorded more than 35,000 pieces of music over 40 years of work).
Music history and highlights that have happened on February 5th… from the birthplace of the blues… and rock n’ roll!
The Glen Miller Orchestra.
1887: Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Othello” opens in La Scala, Italy.
1897: The first showing of a motion picture ever in Hawaii (at the Hawaiian Opera House).
1923: Country singer Claude King (“Wolverton Mountain”) born in Keithville, Louisiana.
1929: Wrecking Crew session drummer Hal Blaine born in Holyoke, Massachusetts (he played with Elvis, The Beach Boys, John Denver, The Ronettes, Simon and Garfunkle… etc. He played on 50 No. 1 hits, over 150 top ten hits, and recorded more than 35,000 pieces of music over 40 years of work).
“Money (That’s What I Want)” writer and singer Barret Strong.
1940: Glen Miller and his Orchestra record “Tuxedo Junction”.
1941: “Money, That’s What I Want” vocalist and songwriter Barret Strong born in Detroit.
1942: Three Dog Night singer (“Joy to the World”) Cory Wells (Emil Lewandowski) born in Buffalo, NY.
1944: Rock singer and keyboard player Al Kooper born in New York City.
1949: Elton John drummer Nigel Olsson born in Wallasey, Cheshire, England.
1957: Bill Haley and the Comets arrives in Southhampton for his first rock and roll tour of England.
1964: Guns & Roses bass player Duff McKagan born in Seattle.
1969: Singer Bobby Brown born in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Mississippi bluesman Kenneth “Buddy” Scott.
1981: Joni Mitchell inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame.
1994: Mississippi blues singer and guitarist Kenneth “Buddy” Scott passes away.
2004: Janet Jackson has “wardrobe malfunction” at the Super Bowl.
2006: The Rolling Stones play the Super Bowl (they didn’t like it much).
2012: Flavor Flav and Elton John appear in a Pepsi commercial during Super Bowl XLVI.
2017: Black Sabbath plays its last concert in their home town Birmingham, England.