The song “Strangers In the Night” reached number one on both the Billboard
Hot 100 chart and the Easy Listening chart, it was the title song for Sinatra’s
1966 album “Strangers in the Night”, which became his most commercially
successful album. The song also reached number one on the UK Singles
Chart.

Sinatra’s recording won him the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal
Performance and the Grammy Award for Record of the Year, as well as a
Grammy Award for Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist or
Instrumentalist for Ernie Freeman at the Grammy Awards of 1967.

The album cover of the Beatles‘ "Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club
Band" was staged and photographed on this day. The concept for
the cover was called "people we like” and was created by Jann
Haworth and Peter Blake. They won the Grammy Award for Best
Album Cover, Graphic Arts in 1967 for their work.

ROSS SIMPSON

In an attempt to lift the state out of the hard times of the Great Depression,
the Nevada state legislature voted to legalize gambling on this day in 1931.

James Orsen "Jim" Bakker turned 77 in January.

Bob Dylan’s debut album released by Columbia on this day in 1962.

Destroyer is the fourth studio album by rock band Kiss. It was the third
successive Kiss album to reach the top 40 in the US, as well as the first
to chart in Germany and New Zealand. The album was certified gold by
the RIAA on April 22, 1976, and platinum on November 11 of the same
year, the first Kiss album to achieve platinum.

KISS, America’s #1 Gold Record Award winning group of all
time have announced a series of Arena shows across Europe
in May 2017.

SANDY KOZEL

On Sunday, February 28, a fierce two-hour gun battle took place
leaving six Davidians and four ATF agents dead.

            
             1953