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Today In Music History: Happy Birthday Johnny, We Miss You

Posted at 6:28 AM on February 26, 2010 by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History

Birthdays:

Singer Fats Domino is 82.
Singer Mitch Ryder is 65.
Keyboardist Jonathan Cain of Journey is 60.
Singer Michael Bolton is 57.

Today in:

1955 - R&B singer LaVern Baker appealed to Congress to revise the Copyright Act of 1909 that black recording artists be protected from note-for-note copying of previously recorded R&B tunes and arrangements by white artists. Yes, this used to be legal.
1970 - The Beatles album "Hey Jude" was released in the U.S. and Canada. It was made up of singles that were previously unavailable in the U.S.
1980, Island Records reps offered U2 a recording contract after witnessing their performance at Dublin's National Boxing Stadium before an audience of 2,400.
1993 - Police in Augusta, Ga. fined singer Bobby Brown $580 for pretending to have sex with one of his backup singers during a concert. She also was fined $580.

Birthday Highlight:

We celebrate Johnny Cash's birthday today; he was born on this date in 1932 (passing away in September of 2003). What can be written or said about Johnny that hasn't already been said? He's practically like the Beatles in that sense. So we simply honor Johnny today with a track of his last album, the new - and second pothsumously-released album - American 6, Ain't No Grave ... the title track

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