The song "Ain’t That a Shame" was written by Fats Domino and Dave
Bartholomew. released by Imperial Records. I became a hit, eventually
selling a million copies. It reached number 1 on the Billboard R&B chart
and number 10 on the pop chart. The song is ranked number 438 on
Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Antoine "Fats" Domino, Jr. turned 89 on
February 26.
SANDY KOZEL
On this day in 1865
Occurred on this day in 1912.
The Ampex Design Team with the first broadcast videotape
recorder on this day in 1956
.
The Ampex Mark IV prototype Quad Videotape Recorder is seen
here being demonstrated to CBS television network affiliate representatives.
Loretta Lynn (Webb) is 85 today.
Loretta Lynn released a new album called Full Circle on March 4,
2016, marking her first studio album in more than 10 years.
Loretta focused on raising a family until receiving a guitar for an anniversary
gift. After teaching herself to play, she went on to play with the Pen Brothers’
band The Westerners.
The song “Rock Around the Clock” by Bill Haley & His Coments was a number
one single on both the US and UK charts and also re-entered the UK Singles
Chart in the 1960s and 1970s. It is ranked No. 158 on the Rolling Stone
magazine’s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
William John Clifton "Bill" Haley (July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981)
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.
