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Today In Music History: Jackie Wilson Debuts

Posted at 6:35 AM on November 4, 2009 by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History

Birthdays:

Singer-guitarist Chris Difford of Squeeze is 55.
Rapper-producer Diddy (Sean Combs) is 40.

Today in:

1963 - The Beatles performed for the Queen Mother in London. This is when John Lennon commented that people in the cheap seats could clap and the rest could rattle their jewelry.
1976 - A Bruce Springsteen concert in New York was interrupted by a bomb threat. Springsteen joked that the threat could have come from his former manager, with whom he was involved in a legal battle.
1978 - The band Boston played the city of Boston for the first time, in a sold-out show.
1984 - Prince launched his Purple Rain tour in (wait for it) Detroit.
1986 - Country singer Tammy Wynette checked in to the Betty Ford Clinic for addiction to painkillers.

Today's history highlight: On this day in 1957, Jackie Wilson made his US chart debut with "Reet Petite", (it made No.1 in the UK in 1986, 29 years after its first release).

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